East of England JSF Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for JavaServer Faces (JSF) skills within the East of England region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited JSF over the 3 months to 6 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

JavaServer Faces (JSF)
Location Berkshire Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf City of London Devon Docklands, London East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Farnborough Glasgow Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Kent Leeds London Maidstone Manchester Milton Keynes Norfolk North West Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Plymouth Reading Renfrewshire Scotland Sheffield South East South West South Yorkshire Surrey UK Watford West Midlands West Yorkshire Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 6 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	123	133
Rank change on same period last year	+10
Matching contract IT job ads	8	24
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.011 %	0.024 %
As % of the category below	0.967 %	1.700 %
Daily rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum daily rate	£325	£375
Average daily rate	£375	£413
% change on same period last year	-9.09 %
Average maximum daily rate	£425	£450
UK excluding London average daily rate	£375	£330
% change on same period last year	+13.47 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	3
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£38.77
Average hourly rate	-	£38.77
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£38.77
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£35.00	£38.76
% change on same period last year	-9.69 %
Application Development East of England
Matching contract IT job ads	827	1412
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.155 %	1.419 %
Daily rates quoted	268	409
Average minimum daily rate	£324	£321
Average daily rate	£343	£339
% change on same period last year	+0.99 %
Average maximum daily rate	£362	£358
UK excluding London average daily rate	£331	£333
% change on same period last year	-0.71 %
Hourly rates quoted	66	167
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.66	£29.53
Average hourly rate	£32.16	£30.68
% change on same period last year	+4.83 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.66	£31.83
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.32	£32.24
% change on same period last year	-2.87 %
JSF England

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.

JSF
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing JSF across the East of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

JSF
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing JSF across the East of England region.

JSF
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing JSF across the East of England region.

JSF
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JSF within the East of England region over the 3 months to 6 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

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
Hertfordshire	+26	5	-	-
Norfolk	-	2	£375	-
Cambridgeshire	+13	1	-	-

JSF England

JSF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing JSF 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 JSF.

1 59 (95.16 %) Java 2 54 (87.10 %) Oracle 3 36 (58.06 %) HTML 4 34 (54.84 %) JSP 5 29 (46.77 %) SQL 6 28 (45.16 %) JUnit 7 23 (37.10 %) J2EE 7 23 (37.10 %) UML 7 23 (37.10 %) JDeveloper 8 22 (35.48 %) Oracle 10g 8 22 (35.48 %) Oracle EBS 8 22 (35.48 %) Oracle 9i 8 22 (35.48 %) Hibernate 8 22 (35.48 %) Oracle ADF 9 20 (32.26 %) JavaScript

10 19 (30.65 %) OO 10 19 (30.65 %) Struts 11 18 (29.03 %) Eclipse 11 18 (29.03 %) Spring 12 17 (27.42 %) JDBC 13 16 (25.81 %) PL/SQL 13 16 (25.81 %) SOA 14 14 (22.58 %) WebServices 15 13 (20.97 %) CSS 15 13 (20.97 %) Finance 15 13 (20.97 %) Java EE 15 13 (20.97 %) Back Office 16 12 (19.35 %) XML 17 11 (17.74 %) Servlets 17 11 (17.74 %) EJB

JSF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing JSF 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 JSF. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 36 (58.06 %) HTML 2 34 (54.84 %) JSP 3 23 (37.10 %) J2EE 4 22 (35.48 %) Oracle ADF 4 22 (35.48 %) Hibernate 5 19 (30.65 %) Struts 6 18 (29.03 %) Spring 7 17 (27.42 %) JDBC 8 14 (22.58 %) WebServices 9 13 (20.97 %) CSS 9 13 (20.97 %) Java EE 10 12 (19.35 %) XML 11 11 (17.74 %) EJB 11 11 (17.74 %) Servlets 11 11 (17.74 %) WebSphere 12 10 (16.13 %) XHTML 13 9 (14.52 %) AJAX 14 7 (11.29 %) Apache Beehive 14 7 (11.29 %) JMS 15 5 (8.065 %) MVC	Application Platforms 1 8 (12.90 %) WebSphere Application Server 1 8 (12.90 %) WebLogic 2 7 (11.29 %) MQSeries 2 7 (11.29 %) WebLogic Portal 3 3 (4.839 %) JBoss 3 3 (4.839 %) Tomcat 4 1 (1.613 %) CMS
Business Applications 1 22 (35.48 %) Oracle EBS	Communications & Networking 1 1 (1.613 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 22 (35.48 %) Oracle 9i 1 22 (35.48 %) Oracle 10g 2 9 (14.52 %) DB2 3 3 (4.839 %) Oracle Reports 3 3 (4.839 %) ETL 3 3 (4.839 %) SQL Server 3 3 (4.839 %) JasperReports 4 1 (1.613 %) Text Mining	Development Applications 1 28 (45.16 %) JUnit 2 23 (37.10 %) JDeveloper 3 18 (29.03 %) Eclipse 4 2 (3.226 %) FitNesse 4 2 (3.226 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer 5 1 (1.613 %) Ant 5 1 (1.613 %) JBuilder 5 1 (1.613 %) Log4j
General 1 13 (20.97 %) Back Office 1 13 (20.97 %) Finance 2 9 (14.52 %) Banking 3 3 (4.839 %) Pharmaceutical 3 3 (4.839 %) Financial Institution 4 2 (3.226 %) Education 5 1 (1.613 %) Publishing 5 1 (1.613 %) Insurance	Job Titles 1 38 (61.29 %) Developer 2 30 (48.39 %) Java Developer 3 14 (22.58 %) Senior Developer 4 13 (20.97 %) Consultant 4 13 (20.97 %) Oracle Consultant 4 13 (20.97 %) Java Consultant 5 12 (19.35 %) Senior Java Developer 6 10 (16.13 %) Java/J2EE Developer 7 5 (8.065 %) J2EE Developer 8 3 (4.839 %) Senior Java/J2EE Developer 8 3 (4.839 %) Senior J2EE Developer 9 2 (3.226 %) Programmer 10 1 (1.613 %) WebSphere Developer 10 1 (1.613 %) WebLogic Developer 10 1 (1.613 %) Junior Java Developer 10 1 (1.613 %) Junior Developer 10 1 (1.613 %) Analyst Programmer 10 1 (1.613 %) Junior 10 1 (1.613 %) Analyst 10 1 (1.613 %) Junior Java/J2EE Developer
Miscellaneous 1 3 (4.839 %) LIMS 2 2 (3.226 %) Client/Server	Operating Systems 1 2 (3.226 %) UNIX 1 2 (3.226 %) Windows 2 1 (1.613 %) HPUX 2 1 (1.613 %) Solaris 2 1 (1.613 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 23 (37.10 %) UML 2 19 (30.65 %) OO 3 16 (25.81 %) SOA 4 11 (17.74 %) RAD 5 9 (14.52 %) Agile Software Development 5 9 (14.52 %) Continuous Integration 6 7 (11.29 %) Web Development 6 7 (11.29 %) E-Commerce 7 3 (4.839 %) Content Management 7 3 (4.839 %) Software Engineering 8 1 (1.613 %) OOD 8 1 (1.613 %) TDD 8 1 (1.613 %) Extreme Programming	Programming Languages 1 59 (95.16 %) Java 2 29 (46.77 %) SQL 3 20 (32.26 %) JavaScript 4 16 (25.81 %) PL/SQL 5 1 (1.613 %) Delphi 5 1 (1.613 %) Perl 5 1 (1.613 %) Ruby 5 1 (1.613 %) XPath
Qualifications 1 2 (3.226 %) Sun Certification 1 2 (3.226 %) Degree	Vendors 1 54 (87.10 %) Oracle 2 9 (14.52 %) IBM 3 2 (3.226 %) Sun 3 2 (3.226 %) Interwoven 3 2 (3.226 %) Tridion 4 1 (1.613 %) Mercator 4 1 (1.613 %) BEA