The first table below looks at the demand for JSP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited JSP over the 3 months to 23 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 Cheshire 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
JavaServer Pages (JSP)
Rank 55 60 66
Rank change year-on-year
+5 +6
Contract jobs citing JSP 7 6 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 0.958% 0.752% 0.606%
As % of the Application Development category 4.242% 2.542% 2.256%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 5
Average daily rate £375 £250 £360
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+50.00% -30.55%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -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
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
165 236 266
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 22.57% 29.57% 26.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 127 176
Average daily rate £350 £336 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.32% -4.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £273 £315
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £488 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 3
Average hourly rate £30.00 £16.50 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+81.81% -13.15%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
JSP
North West

JSP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire JSP Daily Rate Trend

JSP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cheshire JSP Hourly Rate Trend

JSP
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JSP within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 23 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
Chester -3 2 £375 +25.00%
JSP
North West

JSP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 10 (100.00%) Java
1 10 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 10 (100.00%) J2EE
1 10 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
2 9 (90.00%) Finance
2 9 (90.00%) Hibernate
2 9 (90.00%) Ajax
2 9 (90.00%) WebSphere
2 9 (90.00%) jQuery
2 9 (90.00%) Oracle
2 9 (90.00%) SQL
2 9 (90.00%) Web Services
2 9 (90.00%) Servlets
2 9 (90.00%) WSDL
2 9 (90.00%) Waterfall
3 8 (80.00%) Subversion
4 5 (50.00%) Spring
4 5 (50.00%) TDD
4 5 (50.00%) CMMI
4 5 (50.00%) Struts2
4 5 (50.00%) Banking
4 5 (50.00%) RUP
4 5 (50.00%) ClearCase
4 5 (50.00%) JMS
4 5 (50.00%) Chordiant
4 5 (50.00%) PMI
4 5 (50.00%) PMI Certification
4 5 (50.00%) PRINCE
4 5 (50.00%) Struts
4 5 (50.00%) Project Management

JSP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 10 (100.00%) J2EE
2 9 (90.00%) Hibernate
2 9 (90.00%) Ajax
2 9 (90.00%) WebSphere
2 9 (90.00%) jQuery
2 9 (90.00%) Web Services
2 9 (90.00%) Servlets
2 9 (90.00%) WSDL
3 5 (50.00%) Spring
3 5 (50.00%) Struts2
3 5 (50.00%) JMS
3 5 (50.00%) Struts
3 5 (50.00%) XML
3 5 (50.00%) XSD
3 5 (50.00%) EJB
3 5 (50.00%) CSS
4 4 (40.00%) DOM
4 4 (40.00%) XSLT
4 4 (40.00%) SOAP
4 4 (40.00%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 5 (50.00%) WebLogic
2 4 (40.00%) Apache
3 1 (10.00%) Mule
3 1 (10.00%) ESB
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) DB2
2 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (10.00%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 8 (80.00%) Subversion
2 5 (50.00%) ClearCase
2 5 (50.00%) JUnit
3 3 (30.00%) Git (software)
3 3 (30.00%) Eclipse
3 3 (30.00%) Gradle
3 3 (30.00%) JIRA
General
1 9 (90.00%) Finance
2 5 (50.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (90.00%) Developer
2 8 (80.00%) Java Developer
3 5 (50.00%) Senior Java Developer
3 5 (50.00%) Senior Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) PMI
2 4 (40.00%) Web 2.0
3 1 (10.00%) E-Learning
3 1 (10.00%) RIA
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
2 9 (90.00%) Waterfall
3 5 (50.00%) TDD
3 5 (50.00%) CMMI
3 5 (50.00%) RUP
3 5 (50.00%) PRINCE
3 5 (50.00%) Project Management
3 5 (50.00%) PRINCE2
3 5 (50.00%) BDD
4 3 (30.00%) Integration Testing
4 3 (30.00%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (30.00%) Software Engineering
5 1 (10.00%) Pair Programming
5 1 (10.00%) Scrum
5 1 (10.00%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Java
1 10 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 9 (90.00%) SQL
3 4 (40.00%) PL/SQL
3 4 (40.00%) XPath
4 3 (30.00%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) PMI Certification
Vendors
1 9 (90.00%) Oracle
2 5 (50.00%) Chordiant
2 5 (50.00%) JBoss
3 3 (30.00%) Perforce
3 3 (30.00%) IBM
Chester, North West
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Posted: 21 May 2013
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Posted: 11 May 2013