The first table below looks at the demand for J2SE skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited J2SE 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 West Yorkshire 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, Standard Edition (J2SE)
Rank - 89 68
Contract jobs citing J2SE 0 1 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire - 0.062% 0.271%
As % of the Application Development category - 0.275% 1.261%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £325
UK excluding London average daily rate £448 £350 £275
% change year-on-year
+27.85% +27.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £39.00 - £40.00
All Application Development
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
365 363 238
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 28.67% 22.44% 21.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 214 126
Average daily rate £300 £300 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £213 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £380 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 10 5
Average hourly rate £33.00 £17.00 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+94.11% -60.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
J2SE
Yorkshire

J2SE
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing J2SE across the West Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

West Yorkshire J2SE Jobs Demand Trend

J2SE
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing J2SE across the West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire J2SE Daily Rate Trend

J2SE
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing J2SE across the West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire J2SE Hourly Rate Trend

J2SE
Top 10 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing J2SE 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 J2SE.

1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) CRM
1 1 (100.00%) JMS
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Hudson

J2SE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing J2SE 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 J2SE. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) JMS
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Hudson
General
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java/J2EE Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CRM
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java