J2EE Contracts in Watford
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for J2EE skills in IT contracts advertised for the Watford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited J2EE over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category for the Watford region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
 3 months to
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE)
Rank 10 10 7
Rank change year-on-year
0 -3
Contract jobs citing J2EE 5 12 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Watford 6.757% 11.43% 17.57%
As % of the Application Development category 26.32% 38.71% 52.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 3
Average daily rate - - £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £365 £360
% change year-on-year
-4.10% +1.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.00 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year
+1.53% -23.52%
All Application Development
Watford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category		 19 31 25
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Watford 25.68% 29.52% 33.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 13 8
Average daily rate £325 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £275 £268
10% offered a daily rate of more than £460 £380 £488
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Average hourly rate £20.00 - £11.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
J2EE
Hertfordshire

J2EE
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing J2EE across the Watford region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Watford J2EE Jobs Demand Trend

J2EE
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing J2EE across the Watford region.

Watford J2EE Daily Rate Trend

J2EE
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing J2EE across the Watford region.

Watford J2EE Hourly Rate Trend

J2EE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Watford region citing J2EE also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited J2EE.

1 26 (100.00%) Java
2 24 (92.31%) E-Commerce
2 24 (92.31%) IBM
2 24 (92.31%) Retail
2 24 (92.31%) WebSphere
3 22 (84.62%) Finance
4 16 (61.54%) Games
5 15 (57.69%) Project Management
5 15 (57.69%) Waterfall
6 12 (46.15%) Time Management
6 12 (46.15%) Continuous Improvement
6 12 (46.15%) Change Control
7 10 (38.46%) JavaScript
8 9 (34.62%) SQL
8 9 (34.62%) DB2
8 9 (34.62%) UNIX
8 9 (34.62%) XML
8 9 (34.62%) HTML
8 9 (34.62%) MQSeries
9 7 (26.92%) Ajax
9 7 (26.92%) JUnit
10 6 (23.08%) XMLBeans
10 6 (23.08%) Bash shell
10 6 (23.08%) Elastic Path
10 6 (23.08%) WebSphere Application Server
10 6 (23.08%) EJB
10 6 (23.08%) JDBC
10 6 (23.08%) JSP
10 6 (23.08%) Servlets
10 6 (23.08%) Ant

J2EE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Watford region citing J2EE also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited J2EE. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 24 (92.31%) WebSphere
2 9 (34.62%) XML
2 9 (34.62%) HTML
3 7 (26.92%) Ajax
4 6 (23.08%) XMLBeans
4 6 (23.08%) EJB
4 6 (23.08%) JDBC
4 6 (23.08%) JSP
4 6 (23.08%) Servlets
4 6 (23.08%) XHTML
4 6 (23.08%) XSLT
4 6 (23.08%) Struts
4 6 (23.08%) JMS
4 6 (23.08%) JSTL
5 3 (11.54%) Flash
6 1 (3.846%) REST
6 1 (3.846%) Grails
6 1 (3.846%) jQuery
6 1 (3.846%) Apache CXF
6 1 (3.846%) Vaadin
Application Platforms
1 9 (34.62%) MQSeries
2 6 (23.08%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (3.846%) Liferay
3 1 (3.846%) Apache
Business Applications
1 6 (23.08%) Tridion
Communications & Networking
1 6 (23.08%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (34.62%) DB2
2 6 (23.08%) RDBMS
3 3 (11.54%) DbVisualizer
Development Applications
1 7 (26.92%) JUnit
2 6 (23.08%) Ant
2 6 (23.08%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
2 6 (23.08%) Eclipse
2 6 (23.08%) Subversion
2 6 (23.08%) Log4j
3 4 (15.38%) LoadRunner
4 3 (11.54%) QuickTest Pro
5 1 (3.846%) WebDriver
5 1 (3.846%) JProfiler
5 1 (3.846%) Cucumber
5 1 (3.846%) FitNesse
5 1 (3.846%) Gradle
5 1 (3.846%) Jenkins
5 1 (3.846%) Checkstyle
5 1 (3.846%) Maven
General
1 24 (92.31%) Retail
2 22 (84.62%) Finance
3 16 (61.54%) Games
4 3 (11.54%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 15 (57.69%) Project Manager
2 12 (46.15%) E-Commerce Project Manager
2 12 (46.15%) E-Commerce Manager
3 8 (30.77%) Java Developer
3 8 (30.77%) Developer
4 7 (26.92%) J2EE Developer
4 7 (26.92%) Java/J2EE Developer
5 3 (11.54%) Tester
5 3 (11.54%) Agile Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 6 (23.08%) Web 2.0
Operating Systems
1 9 (34.62%) UNIX
2 6 (23.08%) HPUX
2 6 (23.08%) Solaris
2 6 (23.08%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (92.31%) E-Commerce
2 15 (57.69%) Project Management
2 15 (57.69%) Waterfall
3 12 (46.15%) Time Management
3 12 (46.15%) Continuous Improvement
3 12 (46.15%) Change Control
4 6 (23.08%) UML
4 6 (23.08%) OO
4 6 (23.08%) RAD
4 6 (23.08%) Content Management
5 3 (11.54%) Regression Testing
5 3 (11.54%) Automated Testing
5 3 (11.54%) System Testing
6 1 (3.846%) BDD
6 1 (3.846%) Load Testing
6 1 (3.846%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (3.846%) Test Automation
6 1 (3.846%) Document Management
6 1 (3.846%) Penetration Testing
6 1 (3.846%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 26 (100.00%) Java
2 10 (38.46%) JavaScript
3 9 (34.62%) SQL
4 6 (23.08%) Bash shell
4 6 (23.08%) Perl
4 6 (23.08%) XPath
5 1 (3.846%) Groovy
Vendors
1 24 (92.31%) IBM
2 6 (23.08%) Elastic Path
2 6 (23.08%) Interwoven
2 6 (23.08%) Blue Martini
2 6 (23.08%) ATG
3 3 (11.54%) HP
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