The first table below looks at the demand for JSP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Chester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited JSP 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 Chester 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
JavaServer Pages (JSP)
Rank 23 19 22
Rank change year-on-year
-4 +3
Contract jobs citing JSP 2 2 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 1.439% 1.709% 1.227%
As % of the Application Development category 14.29% 12.50% 4.878%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 1
Average daily rate £375 £300 £360
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -16.66%
UK excluding London average daily rate £368 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
+13.07% -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
Chester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
14 16 41
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 10.07% 13.68% 25.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 22
Average daily rate £375 £350 £355
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -1.40%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
JSP
Cheshire

JSP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester JSP Daily Rate Trend

JSP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) J2EE
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) JUnit
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) Servlets
1 2 (100.00%) SOAP
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
1 2 (100.00%) DOM
1 2 (100.00%) XSLT
1 2 (100.00%) Apache
1 2 (100.00%) XHTML
1 2 (100.00%) JAX-RPC
1 2 (100.00%) WSDL
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 2 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) Ajax
1 2 (100.00%) Web 2.0
1 2 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 2 (100.00%) XPath
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Axis
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) Waterfall
2 1 (50.00%) CSS3
2 1 (50.00%) JSF

JSP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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 2 (100.00%) J2EE
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) Servlets
1 2 (100.00%) SOAP
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
1 2 (100.00%) DOM
1 2 (100.00%) XSLT
1 2 (100.00%) XHTML
1 2 (100.00%) JAX-RPC
1 2 (100.00%) WSDL
1 2 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 2 (100.00%) Ajax
1 2 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Axis
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
2 1 (50.00%) CSS3
2 1 (50.00%) JSF
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) ICEfaces
2 1 (50.00%) RichFaces
Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) Apache
2 1 (50.00%) Mule
2 1 (50.00%) ESB
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Internet
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JUnit
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Subversion
2 1 (50.00%) Eclipse
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Web 2.0
2 1 (50.00%) RIA
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) Waterfall
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) XPath
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) Perforce
2 1 (50.00%) IBM
Chester, North West
Required: * Extensive (minimum 5yrs + commercial) experience of Web 2.0 technologies i.e AJAX, XHTML, JavaScript, XPATH, CSS, XSLT, DOM, JSP, Servlets * Minimum 2yrs + JSF experience * Minimum 5yrs...
Computer Futures
Rate: £350 - £400 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
Chester, North West
Required Skills:SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:Essential:-Extensive experience of Web 2.0 technologies i.e AJAX, XHTML, JavaScript, XPATH, CSS, XSLT, DOM, JSP, Servlets-Minimum 2yrs + JSF...
Rate: £350 - £400 per day
Posted: 11 May 2013