West Yorkshire J2EE Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) skills within the West Yorkshire region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited J2EE over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE)
Location Andover Ascot Basildon Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Borehamwood Bracknell Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crewe Croydon Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dover East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hull Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewisham Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Reading Redhill Rickmansworth Salford Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark St Ives Staines Stevenage Stockport Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	42	23
Rank change on same period last year	-19
Matching contract IT job ads	51	97
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.067 %	0.097 %
As % of the category below	9.751 %	19.32 %
Daily rates quoted	6	24
Average minimum daily rate	£337	£357
Average daily rate	£353	£377
% change on same period last year	-6.37 %
Average maximum daily rate	£370	£398
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£365
% change on same period last year	+3.99 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	£50.00
Average hourly rate	£35.00	£50.00
% change on same period last year	-30.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.00	£50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£40.51	£37.65
% change on same period last year	+7.59 %
Application Development West Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	523	502
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.690 %	0.500 %
Daily rates quoted	102	76
Average minimum daily rate	£292	£330
Average daily rate	£313	£354
% change on same period last year	-11.56 %
Average maximum daily rate	£334	£378
UK excluding London average daily rate	£338	£337
% change on same period last year	+0.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	43	44
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.65	£28.77
Average hourly rate	£30.71	£29.81
% change on same period last year	+3.02 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.77	£30.85
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.72	£33.29
% change on same period last year	-1.69 %
J2EE Yorkshire

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

J2EE
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing J2EE across the West Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

J2EE
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing J2EE across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing J2EE across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing J2EE within the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Leeds	-8	43	£364	-5.49 %

J2EE Yorkshire

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 93 (87.74 %) Java 2 43 (40.57 %) Hibernate 3 39 (36.79 %) Spring 3 39 (36.79 %) Oracle 4 31 (29.25 %) JSP 5 29 (27.36 %) XML 6 26 (24.53 %) WebSphere 7 25 (23.58 %) Agile Software Development 8 22 (20.75 %) E-Commerce 9 18 (16.98 %) UML 10 17 (16.04 %) ATG 11 16 (15.09 %) .NET 11 16 (15.09 %) Oracle 8/8i 12 15 (14.15 %) OO 12 15 (14.15 %) Finance

13 14 (13.21 %) Solaris 13 14 (13.21 %) Ant 13 14 (13.21 %) Computer Science 13 14 (13.21 %) Degree 14 13 (12.26 %) SQL 14 13 (12.26 %) Struts 14 13 (12.26 %) HTML 14 13 (12.26 %) ATG Dynamo 15 11 (10.38 %) UNIX 16 10 (9.434 %) EJB 17 9 (8.491 %) HTTP 17 9 (8.491 %) Sun Certification 17 9 (8.491 %) Sun 17 9 (8.491 %) Shell Script 18 8 (7.547 %) Internet

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 43 (40.57 %) Hibernate 2 39 (36.79 %) Spring 3 31 (29.25 %) JSP 4 29 (27.36 %) XML 5 26 (24.53 %) WebSphere 6 16 (15.09 %) .NET 7 13 (12.26 %) Struts 7 13 (12.26 %) HTML 8 10 (9.434 %) EJB 9 7 (6.604 %) WebServices 10 5 (4.717 %) Servlets 11 4 (3.774 %) JSF 11 4 (3.774 %) JMS 11 4 (3.774 %) JDBC 12 2 (1.887 %) Middleware 12 2 (1.887 %) Java EE 12 2 (1.887 %) AJAX 13 1 (0.943 %) YUI 13 1 (0.943 %) jQuery 13 1 (0.943 %) CSS	Application Platforms 1 13 (12.26 %) ATG Dynamo 2 4 (3.774 %) WebSphere Application Server 2 4 (3.774 %) WebLogic 3 3 (2.830 %) IIS 3 3 (2.830 %) JBoss 3 3 (2.830 %) Apache 3 3 (2.830 %) Tomcat 4 2 (1.887 %) WebSphere MQ 4 2 (1.887 %) TIBCO EMS 5 1 (0.943 %) Jetty 5 1 (0.943 %) Resin 5 1 (0.943 %) Oracle 10gAS 5 1 (0.943 %) Lotus Notes 5 1 (0.943 %) Lotus Domino 5 1 (0.943 %) Tuxedo
Applications 1 2 (1.887 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 9 (8.491 %) HTTP 2 8 (7.547 %) Internet 2 8 (7.547 %) Extranet 3 1 (0.943 %) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 16 (15.09 %) Oracle 8/8i 2 7 (6.604 %) RDBMS 3 6 (5.660 %) SQL Server 4 3 (2.830 %) MySQL 4 3 (2.830 %) Oracle 9i 4 3 (2.830 %) Oracle 10g 5 1 (0.943 %) SAP BW 5 1 (0.943 %) SAP BI	Development Applications 1 14 (13.21 %) Ant 2 8 (7.547 %) JUnit 3 3 (2.830 %) Eclipse 4 2 (1.887 %) ClearCase 5 1 (0.943 %) TestDirector
General 1 15 (14.15 %) Finance 2 7 (6.604 %) Retail 3 4 (3.774 %) Banking 3 4 (3.774 %) Telecoms 3 4 (3.774 %) Government 4 3 (2.830 %) Financial Institution 5 2 (1.887 %) Billing 5 2 (1.887 %) Auditing 6 1 (0.943 %) Pensions 6 1 (0.943 %) Health 6 1 (0.943 %) Insurance	Job Titles 1 70 (66.04 %) Developer 2 48 (45.28 %) Java Developer 3 44 (41.51 %) J2EE Developer 4 37 (34.91 %) Java/J2EE Developer 5 20 (18.87 %) Architect 6 12 (11.32 %) Project Manager 7 9 (8.491 %) Lead Developer 8 7 (6.604 %) Applications Architect 9 6 (5.660 %) Java Architect 10 5 (4.717 %) Solutions Architect 10 5 (4.717 %) J2EE Architect 11 4 (3.774 %) Senior Developer 11 4 (3.774 %) Technical Architect 12 3 (2.830 %) Web Developer 12 3 (2.830 %) Consultant 12 3 (2.830 %) Technical Project Manager 12 3 (2.830 %) Technical Manager 12 3 (2.830 %) Technical Designer 13 2 (1.887 %) Programmer 13 2 (1.887 %) C# Software Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 14 (13.21 %) Computer Science 2 2 (1.887 %) N-Tier 3 1 (0.943 %) RIA 3 1 (0.943 %) Client/Server	Operating Systems 1 14 (13.21 %) Solaris 2 11 (10.38 %) UNIX 3 5 (4.717 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 25 (23.58 %) Agile Software Development 2 22 (20.75 %) E-Commerce 3 18 (16.98 %) UML 4 15 (14.15 %) OO 5 8 (7.547 %) SOA 6 6 (5.660 %) Project Management 7 5 (4.717 %) RUP 7 5 (4.717 %) Scrum 8 4 (3.774 %) PRINCE 8 4 (3.774 %) PRINCE2 8 4 (3.774 %) SC Cleared 8 4 (3.774 %) Security Cleared 9 3 (2.830 %) Service Management 9 3 (2.830 %) Software Engineering 10 2 (1.887 %) Automated Testing 10 2 (1.887 %) Information Management 10 2 (1.887 %) Zachman Framework 10 2 (1.887 %) TOGAF 10 2 (1.887 %) RAD 10 2 (1.887 %) EAI	Programming Languages 1 93 (87.74 %) Java 2 13 (12.26 %) SQL 3 9 (8.491 %) Shell Script 4 5 (4.717 %) JavaScript 4 5 (4.717 %) C 5 3 (2.830 %) C# 5 3 (2.830 %) PL/SQL 6 2 (1.887 %) C++ 7 1 (0.943 %) DHTML 7 1 (0.943 %) VB 7 1 (0.943 %) VB6
Qualifications 1 14 (13.21 %) Degree 2 9 (8.491 %) Sun Certification 3 1 (0.943 %) PRINCE2 Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (1.887 %) QA
Vendors 1 39 (36.79 %) Oracle 2 17 (16.04 %) ATG 3 9 (8.491 %) Sun 4 3 (2.830 %) BEA 4 3 (2.830 %) webMethods 5 2 (1.887 %) TIBCO 5 2 (1.887 %) Cisco 5 2 (1.887 %) IBM 6 1 (0.943 %) Intershop 6 1 (0.943 %) Vignette 6 1 (0.943 %) SAP 6 1 (0.943 %) Microsoft 6 1 (0.943 %) Lotus 6 1 (0.943 %) HP