The first table below looks at the demand for Java EE 5 skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Java EE 5 over the 3 months to 21 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 West Midlands 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java EE5 (JEE5)
Rank - - 87
Contract jobs citing Java EE 5 0 0 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands - - 0.376%
As % of the Application Development category - - 1.493%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - £308 £350
% change year-on-year
- -12.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £40.00 -
All Application Development
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
411 544 469
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 24.45% 24.21% 25.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 298 254
Average daily rate £300 £300 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £226 £218 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £400 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 14 21
Average hourly rate £28.50 £16.50 £18.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+72.72% -9.58%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.00 £12.50 £11.60
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.00 £37.50 £25.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Java EE 5
England

Java EE 5
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Java EE 5 across the West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

West Midlands Java EE 5 Jobs Demand Trend

Java EE 5
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing Java EE 5 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 Java EE 5.

1 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) VB.NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) SAP
1 1 (100.00%) EJB
1 1 (100.00%) Servlets
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) UML
1 1 (100.00%) OOA/OOD
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
1 1 (100.00%) JMX
1 1 (100.00%) SAP EP
1 1 (100.00%) JSF
1 1 (100.00%) JTA
1 1 (100.00%) Java EE
1 1 (100.00%) JSTL
1 1 (100.00%) JPA
1 1 (100.00%) EJB 3.0
1 1 (100.00%) SAP Portal
1 1 (100.00%) Dependency Injection
1 1 (100.00%) NWDI
1 1 (100.00%) NWDS

Java EE 5
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing Java EE 5 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 Java EE 5. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) EJB
1 1 (100.00%) Servlets
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) JMX
1 1 (100.00%) JSF
1 1 (100.00%) JTA
1 1 (100.00%) Java EE
1 1 (100.00%) JSTL
1 1 (100.00%) JPA
1 1 (100.00%) EJB 3.0
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) SAP EP
1 1 (100.00%) SAP Portal
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) NWDI
1 1 (100.00%) NWDS
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) SAP Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) UML
1 1 (100.00%) OOA/OOD
1 1 (100.00%) Dependency Injection
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) VB.NET
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) SAP