The first table below looks at the demand for JSF skills in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited JSF over the 3 months to 17 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 Edinburgh 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
JavaServer Faces (JSF)
Rank 48 62 -
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -
Contract jobs citing JSF 8 3 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.988% 0.271% -
As % of the Application Development category 4.545% 2.344% -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 0
Average daily rate £400 £318 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.98% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £335 £338
% change year-on-year
-4.47% -0.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year
+6.25% -5.88%
All Application Development
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
176 128 139
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 21.73% 11.57% 10.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 59 61
Average daily rate £314 £310 £330
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.20% -6.06%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £150 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £350 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Average hourly rate £30.00 £16.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+87.50% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
JSF
Scotland

JSF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh JSF Jobs Demand Trend

JSF
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing JSF across the Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh JSF Daily Rate Trend

JSF
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing JSF across the Edinburgh region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Edinburgh JSF Daily Rate Histogram

JSF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 13 (76.47%) Java
2 12 (70.59%) WebSphere Application Server
2 12 (70.59%) WebSphere
2 12 (70.59%) WebSphere Portal
3 10 (58.82%) jQuery
4 9 (52.94%) Web Services
5 8 (47.06%) IBM
5 8 (47.06%) JSR 286
6 6 (35.29%) SOAP
6 6 (35.29%) J2EE
6 6 (35.29%) Content Management
7 5 (29.41%) Ajax
7 5 (29.41%) XML
7 5 (29.41%) IBM Certification
8 4 (23.53%) CSS
8 4 (23.53%) JSP
8 4 (23.53%) Servlets
8 4 (23.53%) JavaScript
8 4 (23.53%) JSON
8 4 (23.53%) Spring
8 4 (23.53%) Hibernate
8 4 (23.53%) Rational Application Developer
9 3 (17.65%) REST
9 3 (17.65%) HTML5
9 3 (17.65%) Worklight
9 3 (17.65%) Scrum
9 3 (17.65%) Finance
9 3 (17.65%) Agile Software Development
9 3 (17.65%) Unit Testing
9 3 (17.65%) PL/SQL

JSF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 12 (70.59%) WebSphere
2 10 (58.82%) jQuery
3 9 (52.94%) Web Services
4 8 (47.06%) JSR 286
5 6 (35.29%) J2EE
5 6 (35.29%) SOAP
6 5 (29.41%) Ajax
6 5 (29.41%) XML
7 4 (23.53%) CSS
7 4 (23.53%) JSP
7 4 (23.53%) Servlets
7 4 (23.53%) Hibernate
7 4 (23.53%) Spring
7 4 (23.53%) JSON
8 3 (17.65%) JavaBeans
8 3 (17.65%) .NET
8 3 (17.65%) HTML5
8 3 (17.65%) REST
8 3 (17.65%) Worklight
9 2 (11.76%) JAX-WS
Application Platforms
1 12 (70.59%) WebSphere Application Server
1 12 (70.59%) WebSphere Portal
2 2 (11.76%) FileNet
2 2 (11.76%) WebSphere Process Server
Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) LDAP
1 2 (11.76%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) DB2
2 1 (5.882%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (5.882%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) Rational Application Developer
2 3 (17.65%) Eclipse
3 2 (11.76%) JUnit
3 2 (11.76%) Selenium
4 1 (5.882%) FitNesse
4 1 (5.882%) Eclipse RCP
4 1 (5.882%) Jenkins
4 1 (5.882%) Visual Studio
4 1 (5.882%) Subversion
4 1 (5.882%) Maven
General
1 3 (17.65%) Finance
2 2 (11.76%) Banking
2 2 (11.76%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (76.47%) Developer
2 9 (52.94%) WebSphere Developer
3 6 (35.29%) WebSphere Portal Developer
3 6 (35.29%) Portal Developer
4 3 (17.65%) Java Developer
4 3 (17.65%) Architect
5 1 (5.882%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.882%) Technical Architect
5 1 (5.882%) .NET Developer
5 1 (5.882%) WebSphere Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Web 2.0
1 2 (11.76%) Graphic Design
1 2 (11.76%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Linux
1 2 (11.76%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) Content Management
2 3 (17.65%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (17.65%) UML
2 3 (17.65%) Scrum
2 3 (17.65%) Unit Testing
3 2 (11.76%) Dependency Injection
3 2 (11.76%) Extreme Programming
3 2 (11.76%) Web Design
3 2 (11.76%) OO
3 2 (11.76%) RAD
3 2 (11.76%) Asset Management
4 1 (5.882%) Software Engineering
4 1 (5.882%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 13 (76.47%) Java
2 4 (23.53%) JavaScript
3 3 (17.65%) PL/SQL
3 3 (17.65%) SQL
4 1 (5.882%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) IBM Certification
2 1 (5.882%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 8 (47.06%) IBM
2 3 (17.65%) Oracle
3 2 (11.76%) Lotus
4 1 (5.882%) JBoss
4 1 (5.882%) Microsoft
Edinburgh, Midlothian
JSF 1.2... JSP... Experience of JavaScript frameworks such as DOJO and jQuery. Knowledge of WebSphere Portal Administration (preferably candidates will be IBM certified). Experience of IBM Web...
Sanderson
Rate: £300 - £400 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013