The first table below looks at the demand for JSR 168 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited JSR 168 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 Berkshire 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
Java Portlet Specification (JSR 168)
Rank - - 128
Contract jobs citing JSR 168 0 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire - - 0.034%
As % of the Application Development category - - 0.137%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £285 £380 £350
% change year-on-year
-25.00% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Development
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
519 541 731
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 21.67% 17.20% 24.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 247 310
Average daily rate £388 £340 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.97% +6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £250 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 11 64
Average hourly rate £35.00 £21.50 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+62.79% -49.41%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
JSR 168
South East

JSR 168
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing JSR 168 across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Berkshire JSR 168 Jobs Demand Trend

JSR 168
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing JSR 168 across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire JSR 168 Daily Rate Trend

JSR 168
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing JSR 168 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 JSR 168.

1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Servlets
1 1 (100.00%) Struts
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) XSLT
1 1 (100.00%) Solaris
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (100.00%) XHTML
1 1 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (100.00%) IntelliJ
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Subversion
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) GigaSpaces
1 1 (100.00%) Velocity
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Alfresco
1 1 (100.00%) Groovy
1 1 (100.00%) Liferay
1 1 (100.00%) Scala
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub

JSR 168
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing JSR 168 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 JSR 168. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) Servlets
1 1 (100.00%) Struts
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) XSLT
1 1 (100.00%) XHTML
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Velocity
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (100.00%) Alfresco
1 1 (100.00%) Liferay
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (100.00%) IntelliJ
1 1 (100.00%) Subversion
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Groovy
1 1 (100.00%) Scala
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) GigaSpaces