East of England JSP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for JavaServer Pages (JSP) 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 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	86	70
Rank change on same period last year	-16
Matching contract IT job ads	73	79
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.094 %	0.089 %
As % of the category below	5.340 %	7.830 %
Daily rates quoted	15	18
Average minimum daily rate	£335	£322
Average daily rate	£349	£339
% change on same period last year	+2.85 %
Average maximum daily rate	£363	£356
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	-	£30.00
Average hourly rate	-	£30.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£37.12	£38.12
% change on same period last year	-2.60 %
Application Development East of England
Matching contract IT job ads	1367	1009
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.754 %	1.134 %
Daily rates quoted	451	281
Average minimum daily rate	£336	£321
Average daily rate	£363	£347
% change on same period last year	+4.72 %
Average maximum daily rate	£391	£373
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£335
% change on same period last year	+5.30 %
Hourly rates quoted	122	100
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.15	£27.98
Average hourly rate	£34.18	£29.61
% change on same period last year	+15.44 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.22	£31.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.42	£31.87
% change on same period last year	+1.71 %
JSP 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.

JSP
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing JSP across the East of England 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 East of England region.

JSP
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing JSP across the East of England 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 East of England 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 East of England 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	Cambridgeshire	+9	36	£335	+4.68 %
2	Hertfordshire	-9	26	£375	+17.18 %
3	Norfolk	+19	5	-	-
4	East Anglia	+2	4	-	-
5	Essex	-13	1	£350	-
5	Suffolk	-8	1	£250	-31.03 %

JSP England

JSP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the East of England 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.

1 100 (74.07 %) HTML 2 92 (68.15 %) Java 3 59 (43.70 %) CSS 4 56 (41.48 %) JavaScript 5 55 (40.74 %) J2EE 6 47 (34.81 %) Oracle 6 47 (34.81 %) Servlets 6 47 (34.81 %) XML 7 40 (29.63 %) WebSphere 8 37 (27.41 %) Struts 8 37 (27.41 %) SQL 9 32 (23.70 %) XHTML 10 31 (22.96 %) JSF 11 27 (20.00 %) UML 12 26 (19.26 %) JDeveloper

13 25 (18.52 %) Oracle 10g 13 25 (18.52 %) Oracle EBS 13 25 (18.52 %) Oracle 9i 14 23 (17.04 %) EJB 15 22 (16.30 %) Oracle ADF 16 21 (15.56 %) Spring 17 20 (14.81 %) E-Commerce 18 19 (14.07 %) AJAX 19 15 (11.11 %) SQL Server 20 13 (9.630 %) JDBC 20 13 (9.630 %) PHP 20 13 (9.630 %) Hibernate 21 12 (8.889 %) WebLogic 21 12 (8.889 %) OO 21 12 (8.889 %) W3C

JSP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the East of England 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 (74.07 %) HTML 2 59 (43.70 %) CSS 3 55 (40.74 %) J2EE 4 47 (34.81 %) Servlets 4 47 (34.81 %) XML 5 40 (29.63 %) WebSphere 6 37 (27.41 %) Struts 7 32 (23.70 %) XHTML 8 31 (22.96 %) JSF 9 23 (17.04 %) EJB 10 22 (16.30 %) Oracle ADF 11 21 (15.56 %) Spring 12 19 (14.07 %) AJAX 13 13 (9.630 %) Hibernate 13 13 (9.630 %) JDBC 14 11 (8.148 %) Middleware 15 9 (6.667 %) JMS 15 9 (6.667 %) XSLT 16 8 (5.926 %) ASP 17 7 (5.185 %) XSL	Application Platforms 1 12 (8.889 %) WebLogic 2 11 (8.148 %) Apache 3 10 (7.407 %) Tomcat 4 7 (5.185 %) IIS 4 7 (5.185 %) JBoss 4 7 (5.185 %) MQSeries 4 7 (5.185 %) WebSphere Application Server 5 3 (2.222 %) Tuxedo 6 2 (1.481 %) TeamSite 6 2 (1.481 %) Oracle Application Server 7 1 (0.741 %) Jetty 7 1 (0.741 %) Resin 7 1 (0.741 %) JRun 7 1 (0.741 %) Commerce Server 7 1 (0.741 %) WebSphere MQ 7 1 (0.741 %) WebLogic Portal 7 1 (0.741 %) CMS
Applications 1 9 (6.667 %) Photoshop 2 2 (1.481 %) Adobe Illustrator 3 1 (0.741 %) MS Excel 3 1 (0.741 %) Acrobat 3 1 (0.741 %) Fireworks 3 1 (0.741 %) AutoCAD	Business Applications 1 25 (18.52 %) Oracle EBS 2 1 (0.741 %) TIBCO iProcess
Communications & Networking 1 10 (7.407 %) Internet 2 6 (4.444 %) HTTP 3 3 (2.222 %) TCP/IP 3 3 (2.222 %) SMTP 3 3 (2.222 %) FTP 3 3 (2.222 %) SSH	Database & Business Intelligence 1 25 (18.52 %) Oracle 9i 1 25 (18.52 %) Oracle 10g 2 15 (11.11 %) SQL Server 3 9 (6.667 %) DB2 4 8 (5.926 %) MySQL 5 4 (2.963 %) RDBMS 6 2 (1.481 %) SQL Server 2000 7 1 (0.741 %) JasperReports 7 1 (0.741 %) Datawarehouse 7 1 (0.741 %) Ingres 7 1 (0.741 %) Oracle Reports 7 1 (0.741 %) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications 1 26 (19.26 %) JDeveloper 2 9 (6.667 %) JUnit 3 6 (4.444 %) Eclipse 4 5 (3.704 %) IntelliJ 4 5 (3.704 %) Ant 5 4 (2.963 %) Flash 6 3 (2.222 %) JBuilder 6 3 (2.222 %) Oracle Forms 6 3 (2.222 %) Subversion 7 1 (0.741 %) StarTeam 7 1 (0.741 %) Dreamweaver 7 1 (0.741 %) Log4j 7 1 (0.741 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer 7 1 (0.741 %) Visual Studio 7 1 (0.741 %) PVCS 7 1 (0.741 %) VSS/SourceSafe	General 1 11 (8.148 %) Telecoms 2 7 (5.185 %) Retail 3 6 (4.444 %) Marketing 4 4 (2.963 %) Banking 4 4 (2.963 %) Finance 5 3 (2.222 %) Back Office 5 3 (2.222 %) Retail Banking 5 3 (2.222 %) Graphic Design 6 2 (1.481 %) Insurance 6 2 (1.481 %) Front Office 6 2 (1.481 %) Education 7 1 (0.741 %) Electric 7 1 (0.741 %) Government 7 1 (0.741 %) Publishing 7 1 (0.741 %) Police 7 1 (0.741 %) Billing 7 1 (0.741 %) Local Government
Job Titles 1 94 (69.63 %) Developer 2 48 (35.56 %) Java Developer 3 22 (16.30 %) Java/J2EE Developer 4 14 (10.37 %) Consultant 5 13 (9.630 %) Oracle Consultant 5 13 (9.630 %) Java Consultant 6 12 (8.889 %) J2EE Developer 6 12 (8.889 %) Web Developer 7 6 (4.444 %) Web Designer 7 6 (4.444 %) WebSphere Developer 8 4 (2.963 %) Java Architect 8 4 (2.963 %) Architect 8 4 (2.963 %) Senior Developer 8 4 (2.963 %) Oracle Developer 9 3 (2.222 %) Analyst 9 3 (2.222 %) Technical Designer 10 2 (1.481 %) CRM Project Manager 10 2 (1.481 %) J2EE Architect 10 2 (1.481 %) Configuration Analyst 10 2 (1.481 %) Senior J2EE Developer	Miscellaneous 1 12 (8.889 %) W3C 2 6 (4.444 %) Web 2.0 3 3 (2.222 %) Replication 4 2 (1.481 %) N-Tier 4 2 (1.481 %) IVR 5 1 (0.741 %) Client/Server 5 1 (0.741 %) Handset 5 1 (0.741 %) Clustering 5 1 (0.741 %) Mathematics 5 1 (0.741 %) Blog
Operating Systems 1 8 (5.926 %) Unix 1 8 (5.926 %) Windows 2 6 (4.444 %) Linux 3 2 (1.481 %) Windows 2000 3 2 (1.481 %) Solaris 4 1 (0.741 %) AIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 27 (20.00 %) UML 2 20 (14.81 %) E-Commerce 3 12 (8.889 %) OO 4 10 (7.407 %) MVC 5 9 (6.667 %) Agile Software Development 5 9 (6.667 %) OOD 5 9 (6.667 %) Web Development 6 7 (5.185 %) CRM 7 6 (4.444 %) RAD 8 5 (3.704 %) Web Design 8 5 (3.704 %) Business Analysis 8 5 (3.704 %) Unit Testing 8 5 (3.704 %) Continuous Integration 9 4 (2.963 %) OOA/OOD 10 3 (2.222 %) RUP 10 3 (2.222 %) Use Case 11 2 (1.481 %) Project Planning 11 2 (1.481 %) SOA 11 2 (1.481 %) Workflow 12 1 (0.741 %) Migration
Programming Languages 1 92 (68.15 %) Java 2 56 (41.48 %) JavaScript 3 37 (27.41 %) SQL 4 13 (9.630 %) PHP 5 9 (6.667 %) DHTML 6 6 (4.444 %) Perl 6 6 (4.444 %) C 7 5 (3.704 %) VB 8 4 (2.963 %) C# 9 3 (2.222 %) C++ 9 3 (2.222 %) XPath 9 3 (2.222 %) ActionScript 10 2 (1.481 %) PL/SQL 11 1 (0.741 %) VB.NET 11 1 (0.741 %) Python	Qualifications 1 6 (4.444 %) Sun Certification 2 4 (2.963 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (3.704 %) WAI 2 3 (2.222 %) WCAG 3 1 (0.741 %) QA	Vendors 1 47 (34.81 %) Oracle 2 11 (8.148 %) IBM 3 8 (5.926 %) BEA 4 4 (2.963 %) Microsoft 4 4 (2.963 %) Adobe 4 4 (2.963 %) Sun 5 3 (2.222 %) SAP 5 3 (2.222 %) Borland 5 3 (2.222 %) webMethods 5 3 (2.222 %) Northgate 6 2 (1.481 %) BT 7 1 (0.741 %) Sony 7 1 (0.741 %) TIBCO 7 1 (0.741 %) Ericsson 7 1 (0.741 %) Nokia 7 1 (0.741 %) Symbian 7 1 (0.741 %) Sybase