Cheshire JSP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for JavaServer Pages (JSP) skills within the Cheshire region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited JSP over the last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

JavaServer Pages (JSP)
Location Aberdeen Altrincham Aylesbury Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Chelmsford Cheshire Chester City of London Clapham Conwy County Antrim Coventry Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Farnborough Gatwick Glasgow Guildford Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hove Ipswich Isle of Man Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicestershire Lewisham Lincolnshire Liverpool Llandudno London Luton Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Scotland Sheffield Sleaford Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Neots Staffordshire Stockport Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	60	48
Rank change on same period last year	-12
Matching contract IT job ads	21	10
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.027 %	0.011 %
As % of the category below	5.866 %	4.292 %
Daily rates quoted	10	1
Average minimum daily rate	£299	£300
Average daily rate	£325	£300
% change on same period last year	+8.33 %
Average maximum daily rate	£351	£300
UK excluding London average daily rate	£381	£335
% change on same period last year	+13.88 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.00	£45.00
Average hourly rate	£25.00	£45.00
% change on same period last year	-44.44 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.00	£45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£37.12	£38.12
% change on same period last year	-2.60 %
Application Development Cheshire
Matching contract IT job ads	358	233
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.459 %	0.262 %
Daily rates quoted	80	42
Average minimum daily rate	£345	£277
Average daily rate	£368	£285
% change on same period last year	+29.30 %
Average maximum daily rate	£391	£292
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£335
% change on same period last year	+5.30 %
Hourly rates quoted	40	24
Average minimum hourly rate	£33.52	£28.99
Average hourly rate	£36.26	£30.63
% change on same period last year	+18.40 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£39.01	£32.27
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.42	£31.87
% change on same period last year	+1.71 %
JSP North West

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.

JSP
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing JSP across the Cheshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

JSP
Daily Rate Trend

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

JSP
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing JSP across the Cheshire region over the past 3 months.

JSP
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing JSP across the Cheshire region.

JSP
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JSP within the Cheshire region over the past 3 months.

Rank	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
1	Warrington	+4	11	£315	-
2	Chester	-6	5	£345	-
3	Northwich	-	2	£320	-

JSP North West

JSP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Cheshire region citing JSP also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing JSP.

1 28 (93.33 %) Java 2 23 (76.67 %) Oracle 2 23 (76.67 %) Hibernate 3 20 (66.67 %) CSS 3 20 (66.67 %) Spring 4 19 (63.33 %) J2EE 5 18 (60.00 %) XML 5 18 (60.00 %) HTML 6 14 (46.67 %) WebServices 7 13 (43.33 %) Finance 8 11 (36.67 %) C++ 8 11 (36.67 %) SOAP 9 10 (33.33 %) AJAX 10 9 (30.00 %) Oracle 10g 11 8 (26.67 %) Swing

11 8 (26.67 %) WebSphere 12 7 (23.33 %) Servlets 12 7 (23.33 %) JavaScript 13 6 (20.00 %) ASP 13 6 (20.00 %) Struts 13 6 (20.00 %) JAX-RPC 13 6 (20.00 %) WSDL 13 6 (20.00 %) Middleware 14 5 (16.67 %) Agile Software Development 14 5 (16.67 %) UML 15 4 (13.33 %) Tomcat 15 4 (13.33 %) EJB 15 4 (13.33 %) VB 15 4 (13.33 %) Banking 15 4 (13.33 %) XHTML

JSP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Cheshire region citing JSP also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing JSP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 23 (76.67 %) Hibernate 2 20 (66.67 %) Spring 2 20 (66.67 %) CSS 3 19 (63.33 %) J2EE 4 18 (60.00 %) HTML 4 18 (60.00 %) XML 5 14 (46.67 %) WebServices 6 11 (36.67 %) SOAP 7 10 (33.33 %) AJAX 8 8 (26.67 %) WebSphere 8 8 (26.67 %) Swing 9 7 (23.33 %) Servlets 10 6 (20.00 %) WSDL 10 6 (20.00 %) Struts 10 6 (20.00 %) ASP 10 6 (20.00 %) JAX-RPC 10 6 (20.00 %) Middleware 11 4 (13.33 %) EJB 11 4 (13.33 %) XHTML 12 3 (10.00 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 4 (13.33 %) Tomcat 2 2 (6.667 %) Tuxedo 2 2 (6.667 %) WebSphere Application Server 2 2 (6.667 %) WebLogic 2 2 (6.667 %) JBoss 2 2 (6.667 %) Jetty 3 1 (3.333 %) iPlanet
Communications & Networking 1 2 (6.667 %) HTTP 2 1 (3.333 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 9 (30.00 %) Oracle 10g 2 3 (10.00 %) Oracle 9i 3 2 (6.667 %) RDBMS 3 2 (6.667 %) SQL Server
Development Applications 1 2 (6.667 %) Ant 1 2 (6.667 %) JIRA 2 1 (3.333 %) Eclipse	General 1 13 (43.33 %) Finance 2 4 (13.33 %) Banking 3 3 (10.00 %) Online Banking 4 1 (3.333 %) International Banking 4 1 (3.333 %) Advertising
Job Titles 1 22 (73.33 %) Developer 2 18 (60.00 %) Java Developer 3 10 (33.33 %) J2EE Developer 3 10 (33.33 %) Java/J2EE Developer 4 8 (26.67 %) Software Engineer 5 4 (13.33 %) Web Developer 6 2 (6.667 %) Web Designer 7 1 (3.333 %) Senior J2EE Developer 7 1 (3.333 %) Senior Java Developer 7 1 (3.333 %) Senior Java/J2EE Developer 7 1 (3.333 %) Senior Developer	Miscellaneous 1 1 (3.333 %) Client/Server 1 1 (3.333 %) N-Tier
Operating Systems 1 3 (10.00 %) Unix	Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (16.67 %) UML 1 5 (16.67 %) Agile Software Development 2 2 (6.667 %) OOA/OOD 2 2 (6.667 %) RUP 2 2 (6.667 %) E-Commerce 3 1 (3.333 %) Extreme Programming 3 1 (3.333 %) Web Design 3 1 (3.333 %) OO 3 1 (3.333 %) TDD
Programming Languages 1 28 (93.33 %) Java 2 11 (36.67 %) C++ 3 7 (23.33 %) JavaScript 4 4 (13.33 %) VB 5 3 (10.00 %) VB6 5 3 (10.00 %) COBOL 5 3 (10.00 %) PHP 5 3 (10.00 %) C# 6 2 (6.667 %) SQL 6 2 (6.667 %) XPath 7 1 (3.333 %) VBScript	Vendors 1 23 (76.67 %) Oracle