The first table below looks at the demand for JSP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Belfast region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited JSP 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 Belfast 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
JavaServer Pages (JSP)
Rank 31 24 40
Rank change year-on-year
-7 +16
Contract jobs citing JSP 2 3 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Belfast 0.939% 1.840% 1.250%
As % of the Application Development category 1.905% 5.882% 4.000%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
Average daily rate £300 £280 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £353 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
+8.46% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year
+1.85% -28.94%
All Application Development
Belfast
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
105 51 100
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Belfast 49.30% 31.29% 31.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 16 21
Average daily rate £325 £280 £335
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.07% -16.41%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £250 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £400 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Average hourly rate - £36.50 £37.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -2.66%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
JSP
County Antrim

JSP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Belfast JSP Jobs Demand Trend

JSP
Daily Rate Trend

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

Belfast JSP Daily Rate Trend

JSP
Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Belfast region citing JSP 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 JSP.

1 3 (100.00%) DHTML
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) J2EE
1 3 (100.00%) CSS
1 3 (100.00%) JDBC
1 3 (100.00%) Servlets
1 3 (100.00%) XML
1 3 (100.00%) OOA/OOD
1 3 (100.00%) OO
1 3 (100.00%) JMS
1 3 (100.00%) HTTP
1 3 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 3 (100.00%) Ajax
1 3 (100.00%) JSON
1 3 (100.00%) Dojo

JSP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Belfast region citing JSP 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 JSP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (100.00%) DHTML
1 3 (100.00%) J2EE
1 3 (100.00%) CSS
1 3 (100.00%) JDBC
1 3 (100.00%) Servlets
1 3 (100.00%) XML
1 3 (100.00%) JMS
1 3 (100.00%) Ajax
1 3 (100.00%) JSON
1 3 (100.00%) Dojo
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) HTTP
1 3 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) OOA/OOD
1 3 (100.00%) OO
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript