City of London JSP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for JavaServer Pages (JSP) skills within the City of London 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	100	71
Rank change on same period last year	-29
Matching contract IT job ads	138	159
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.177 %	0.179 %
As % of the category below	6.069 %	8.819 %
Daily rates quoted	77	101
Average minimum daily rate	£409	£459
Average daily rate	£445	£483
% change on same period last year	-7.94 %
Average maximum daily rate	£481	£508
UK excluding London average daily rate	£381	£335
% change on same period last year	+13.88 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£40.00
Average hourly rate	-	£42.50
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£37.12	£38.12
% change on same period last year	-2.60 %
Application Development City of London
Matching contract IT job ads	2274	1803
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.918 %	2.026 %
Daily rates quoted	1189	839
Average minimum daily rate	£412	£461
Average daily rate	£446	£490
% change on same period last year	-8.91 %
Average maximum daily rate	£480	£519
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£335
% change on same period last year	+5.30 %
Hourly rates quoted	33	26
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.14	£30.94
Average hourly rate	£34.25	£33.86
% change on same period last year	+1.15 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.36	£36.77
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.42	£31.87
% change on same period last year	+1.71 %
JSP London

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 City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

JSP
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing JSP across the City of London 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 City of London region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the City of London 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.

1 177 (85.10 %) Java 2 100 (48.08 %) J2EE 3 99 (47.60 %) SQL 4 92 (44.23 %) Banking 5 90 (43.27 %) XML 6 85 (40.87 %) HTML 7 82 (39.42 %) Struts 8 74 (35.58 %) Hibernate 9 56 (26.92 %) JavaScript 10 53 (25.48 %) CSS 11 51 (24.52 %) Servlets 12 48 (23.08 %) Sybase 12 48 (23.08 %) Spring 13 47 (22.60 %) Oracle 13 47 (22.60 %) Unix

14 45 (21.63 %) Tomcat 14 45 (21.63 %) Finance 15 43 (20.67 %) .NET 16 42 (20.19 %) Investment Banking 17 38 (18.27 %) Ant 18 37 (17.79 %) JDBC 19 36 (17.31 %) Linux 20 32 (15.38 %) JMS 20 32 (15.38 %) WebLogic 21 29 (13.94 %) OO 21 29 (13.94 %) XSLT 22 26 (12.50 %) Eclipse 23 25 (12.02 %) RDBMS 23 25 (12.02 %) Perl 23 25 (12.02 %) AJAX

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the City of London 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 1 100 (48.08 %) J2EE 2 90 (43.27 %) XML 3 85 (40.87 %) HTML 4 82 (39.42 %) Struts 5 74 (35.58 %) Hibernate 6 53 (25.48 %) CSS 7 51 (24.52 %) Servlets 8 48 (23.08 %) Spring 9 43 (20.67 %) .NET 10 37 (17.79 %) JDBC 11 32 (15.38 %) JMS 12 29 (13.94 %) XSLT 13 25 (12.02 %) AJAX 14 24 (11.54 %) WebSphere 15 22 (10.58 %) WebServices 16 21 (10.10 %) EJB 17 20 (9.615 %) JSF 18 18 (8.654 %) Taglibs 19 17 (8.173 %) ASP 20 15 (7.212 %) Java RMI	Application Platforms 1 45 (21.63 %) Tomcat 2 32 (15.38 %) WebLogic 3 24 (11.54 %) JBoss 4 15 (7.212 %) Apache 5 10 (4.808 %) TeamSite 6 7 (3.365 %) WebSphere Application Server 7 5 (2.404 %) IIS 7 5 (2.404 %) CMS 8 4 (1.923 %) JRun 9 3 (1.442 %) ColdFusion 9 3 (1.442 %) ATG Dynamo 9 3 (1.442 %) WebLogic Portal 9 3 (1.442 %) TIBCO EMS 9 3 (1.442 %) ESB 10 2 (0.962 %) Alfresco 11 1 (0.481 %) GlassFish 11 1 (0.481 %) WebLogic Integration 11 1 (0.481 %) iPlanet 11 1 (0.481 %) WebSphere MQ 11 1 (0.481 %) Oracle Workflow
Applications 1 21 (10.10 %) Photoshop 2 3 (1.442 %) Paint Shop Pro 3 1 (0.481 %) Fireworks	Business Applications 1 4 (1.923 %) MarketView 2 3 (1.442 %) BusinessWorks 3 2 (0.962 %) TIBCO iProcess 4 1 (0.481 %) Oracle Applications 4 1 (0.481 %) RMDS
Communications & Networking 1 13 (6.250 %) HTTP 2 11 (5.288 %) Intranet 2 11 (5.288 %) Internet 3 5 (2.404 %) HTTPS 4 3 (1.442 %) LDAP 5 2 (0.962 %) TCP/IP 6 1 (0.481 %) LAN 6 1 (0.481 %) WAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 25 (12.02 %) RDBMS 2 15 (7.212 %) SQL Server 3 8 (3.846 %) Oracle 10g 4 4 (1.923 %) SQL Server 2000 4 4 (1.923 %) Oracle 9i 4 4 (1.923 %) Reference Data 5 3 (1.442 %) MySQL 6 2 (0.962 %) Datawarehouse 6 2 (0.962 %) SQL Server 2005 7 1 (0.481 %) MS Access 7 1 (0.481 %) DB2 7 1 (0.481 %) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications 1 38 (18.27 %) Ant 2 26 (12.50 %) Eclipse 3 14 (6.731 %) Log4j 4 8 (3.846 %) PowerBuilder 5 7 (3.365 %) JUnit 5 7 (3.365 %) Flash 6 5 (2.404 %) Subversion 7 4 (1.923 %) VSS/SourceSafe 8 3 (1.442 %) Visual Studio 9 2 (0.962 %) PVCS 9 2 (0.962 %) ClearCase 9 2 (0.962 %) WebLogic Workshop 10 1 (0.481 %) Bugzilla 10 1 (0.481 %) Dreamweaver 10 1 (0.481 %) XDoclet 10 1 (0.481 %) CruiseControl 10 1 (0.481 %) Rational Rose 10 1 (0.481 %) Oracle Forms	General 1 92 (44.23 %) Banking 2 45 (21.63 %) Finance 3 42 (20.19 %) Investment Banking 4 10 (4.808 %) Retail 5 9 (4.327 %) Back Office 6 6 (2.885 %) Retail Banking 7 3 (1.442 %) Financial Institution 7 3 (1.442 %) Government 8 2 (0.962 %) Front Office 8 2 (0.962 %) Telecoms 8 2 (0.962 %) Marketing 9 1 (0.481 %) Corporate Banking 9 1 (0.481 %) General Ledger 9 1 (0.481 %) Insurance 9 1 (0.481 %) Games 9 1 (0.481 %) Billing
Job Titles 1 191 (91.83 %) Developer 2 124 (59.62 %) Java Developer 3 41 (19.71 %) J2EE Developer 4 35 (16.83 %) Web Developer 5 32 (15.38 %) Java/J2EE Developer 6 16 (7.692 %) Senior Developer 7 14 (6.731 %) Senior Java Developer 8 6 (2.885 %) Vignette Developer 9 5 (2.404 %) Penetration Tester 9 5 (2.404 %) Tester 10 4 (1.923 %) Team Leader 10 4 (1.923 %) Java Team Leader 10 4 (1.923 %) Java Web Developer 11 3 (1.442 %) WebLogic Developer 11 3 (1.442 %) Senior J2EE Developer 11 3 (1.442 %) ColdFusion Developer 11 3 (1.442 %) Applications Developer 11 3 (1.442 %) Analyst 11 3 (1.442 %) Web Designer 11 3 (1.442 %) Oracle Developer	Miscellaneous 1 13 (6.250 %) Derivative 2 12 (5.769 %) N-Tier 3 9 (4.327 %) Fixed Income 4 8 (3.846 %) Multithreading 5 7 (3.365 %) Credit Risk 6 6 (2.885 %) Equities 6 6 (2.885 %) Asset Management 7 4 (1.923 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 8 2 (0.962 %) W3C 8 2 (0.962 %) Equity Derivative 8 2 (0.962 %) German Language 9 1 (0.481 %) Handset 9 1 (0.481 %) Client/Server
Operating Systems 1 47 (22.60 %) Unix 2 36 (17.31 %) Linux 3 12 (5.769 %) Windows 4 5 (2.404 %) Solaris 5 3 (1.442 %) Windows NT 5 3 (1.442 %) Windows Server 2003 6 1 (0.481 %) Symbian OS 6 1 (0.481 %) Windows Mobile	Processes & Methodologies 1 29 (13.94 %) OO 2 21 (10.10 %) UML 2 21 (10.10 %) Content Management 3 18 (8.654 %) Web Development 4 16 (7.692 %) E-Commerce 5 8 (3.846 %) CRM 5 8 (3.846 %) OOD 5 8 (3.846 %) Time Management 6 7 (3.365 %) Investment Management 6 7 (3.365 %) Data Modelling 7 6 (2.885 %) Risk Management 7 6 (2.885 %) Workflow 8 5 (2.404 %) Web Design 8 5 (2.404 %) Agile Software Development 8 5 (2.404 %) Penetration Testing 9 4 (1.923 %) E-business 9 4 (1.923 %) Unit Testing 10 3 (1.442 %) MVC 11 2 (0.962 %) Project Management 11 2 (0.962 %) DSDM
Programming Languages 1 177 (85.10 %) Java 2 99 (47.60 %) SQL 3 56 (26.92 %) JavaScript 4 25 (12.02 %) Perl 5 11 (5.288 %) C# 5 11 (5.288 %) Shell Script 6 10 (4.808 %) PL/SQL 7 9 (4.327 %) C++ 8 8 (3.846 %) DHTML 9 4 (1.923 %) C 9 4 (1.923 %) PHP 9 4 (1.923 %) Transact-SQL 10 2 (0.962 %) Korn 11 1 (0.481 %) JCL 11 1 (0.481 %) VBScript 11 1 (0.481 %) XQuery	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (0.962 %) IAS 39 1 2 (0.962 %) QA 2 1 (0.481 %) WAI
System Software 1 5 (2.404 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 48 (23.08 %) Sybase 2 47 (22.60 %) Oracle 3 6 (2.885 %) Vignette 4 4 (1.923 %) BEA 4 4 (1.923 %) ATG 5 3 (1.442 %) TIBCO 5 3 (1.442 %) Sun 5 3 (1.442 %) IBM 6 2 (0.962 %) Microsoft 6 2 (0.962 %) Thunderhead 7 1 (0.481 %) Macromedia 7 1 (0.481 %) Symbian 7 1 (0.481 %) Calypso 7 1 (0.481 %) Tridion 7 1 (0.481 %) ILOG