The first table below looks at the demand for EJB skills in IT contracts advertised for the Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited EJB over the 3 months to 24 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB)
Rank 108 109 97
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -12
Contract jobs citing EJB 2 3 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 0.108% 0.134% 0.055%
As % of the Application Development category 0.375% 0.581% 0.211%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £375 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £355 £350
% change year-on-year
-1.40% +1.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £40.00 -
All Application Development
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
534 516 473
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 28.74% 23.10% 25.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 298 315 254
Average daily rate £300 £300 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £211 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £380 £388
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 7 21
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%
EJB
England

EJB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Yorkshire EJB Jobs Demand Trend

EJB
Daily Rate Trend

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

Yorkshire EJB Daily Rate Trend

EJB
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Yorkshire EJB Hourly Rate Trend

EJB
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing EJB within the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
West Yorkshire +4 2 - -
EJB
England

EJB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire region citing EJB 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 EJB.

1 6 (100.00%) Java
1 6 (100.00%) JDBC
1 6 (100.00%) XML
2 4 (66.67%) XSLT
2 4 (66.67%) Struts
2 4 (66.67%) JSP
2 4 (66.67%) Servlets
2 4 (66.67%) SQL
2 4 (66.67%) J2EE
2 4 (66.67%) Apache
3 3 (50.00%) Spring
3 3 (50.00%) Apache FOP
3 3 (50.00%) OpenSSO
3 3 (50.00%) JavaBeans
3 3 (50.00%) Hibernate
3 3 (50.00%) JBoss
3 3 (50.00%) Web Design
3 3 (50.00%) Tomcat
3 3 (50.00%) UNIX
3 3 (50.00%) JMS
3 3 (50.00%) N-Tier
3 3 (50.00%) Oracle
3 3 (50.00%) SOAP
3 3 (50.00%) HTML
4 2 (33.33%) ITIL
4 2 (33.33%) WebLogic
4 2 (33.33%) Clustering
4 2 (33.33%) Oracle Service Bus
4 2 (33.33%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
4 2 (33.33%) ESB

EJB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire region citing EJB 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 EJB. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (100.00%) JDBC
1 6 (100.00%) XML
2 4 (66.67%) XSLT
2 4 (66.67%) Struts
2 4 (66.67%) JSP
2 4 (66.67%) Servlets
2 4 (66.67%) J2EE
3 3 (50.00%) Spring
3 3 (50.00%) Apache FOP
3 3 (50.00%) JavaBeans
3 3 (50.00%) Hibernate
3 3 (50.00%) JMS
3 3 (50.00%) SOAP
3 3 (50.00%) HTML
4 1 (16.67%) JSF
4 1 (16.67%) WebSphere
4 1 (16.67%) XHTML
4 1 (16.67%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 4 (66.67%) Apache
2 3 (50.00%) Tomcat
3 2 (33.33%) WebLogic
3 2 (33.33%) Oracle Service Bus
3 2 (33.33%) ESB
3 2 (33.33%) Mule
4 1 (16.67%) MQSeries
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle 11g
2 1 (16.67%) RDBMS
2 1 (16.67%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Eclipse
1 1 (16.67%) JUnit
General
1 1 (16.67%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Developer
1 4 (66.67%) Java Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) N-Tier
2 2 (33.33%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) UNIX
2 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Web Design
2 2 (33.33%) ITIL
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (16.67%) System Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
2 4 (66.67%) SQL
3 2 (33.33%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
4 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) OpenSSO
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) JBoss
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle