The first table below looks at the demand for Servlets 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 Servlets 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java Servlet
Rank 52 60 66
Rank change year-on-year
+8 +6
Contract jobs citing Servlets 5 3 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.600% 0.276% 0.154%
As % of the Application Development category 2.841% 2.459% 1.379%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
Average daily rate £413 £110 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+275.00% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £319 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
-8.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £16.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £42.50 £26.75 £45.00
% change year-on-year
+58.87% -40.55%
All Application Development
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
176 122 145
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 21.13% 11.22% 11.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 55 59
Average daily rate £343 £305 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.29% -12.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £210 £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 0 2 0
Average hourly rate - £16.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Servlets
Scotland

Servlets
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh Servlets Jobs Demand Trend

Servlets
Daily Rate Trend

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

Edinburgh Servlets Daily Rate Trend

Servlets
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Servlets across the Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Servlets Hourly Rate Trend

Servlets
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Servlets 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 Servlets.

1 7 (100.00%) Java
1 7 (100.00%) JSP
2 5 (71.43%) Spring
2 5 (71.43%) JSF
3 4 (57.14%) WebSphere
3 4 (57.14%) jQuery
3 4 (57.14%) WebSphere Portal
3 4 (57.14%) Content Management
3 4 (57.14%) IBM Certification
3 4 (57.14%) IBM
3 4 (57.14%) WebSphere Application Server
3 4 (57.14%) CSS
3 4 (57.14%) J2EE
4 3 (42.86%) JavaScript
4 3 (42.86%) OO
4 3 (42.86%) Eclipse
4 3 (42.86%) Photoshop
4 3 (42.86%) Web Design
4 3 (42.86%) Rational Application Developer
4 3 (42.86%) Open Source
4 3 (42.86%) Dojo
4 3 (42.86%) Graphic Design
4 3 (42.86%) Web 2.0
5 2 (28.57%) Hibernate
5 2 (28.57%) Scrum
5 2 (28.57%) JAXB
5 2 (28.57%) HTML
5 2 (28.57%) SQL
5 2 (28.57%) SOAP
5 2 (28.57%) Web Services

Servlets
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Servlets 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 Servlets. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (100.00%) JSP
2 5 (71.43%) Spring
2 5 (71.43%) JSF
3 4 (57.14%) WebSphere
3 4 (57.14%) jQuery
3 4 (57.14%) CSS
3 4 (57.14%) J2EE
4 3 (42.86%) Dojo
5 2 (28.57%) Hibernate
5 2 (28.57%) JAXB
5 2 (28.57%) HTML
5 2 (28.57%) SOAP
5 2 (28.57%) Web Services
6 1 (14.29%) XML
6 1 (14.29%) Struts
6 1 (14.29%) JDBC
6 1 (14.29%) CGI
6 1 (14.29%) JavaBeans
6 1 (14.29%) Ajax
6 1 (14.29%) JPA
Application Platforms
1 4 (57.14%) WebSphere Portal
1 4 (57.14%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (14.29%) Apache
2 1 (14.29%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Photoshop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Eclipse
1 3 (42.86%) Rational Application Developer
General
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Developer
2 4 (57.14%) WebSphere Developer
2 4 (57.14%) WebSphere Portal Developer
2 4 (57.14%) Portal Developer
3 3 (42.86%) Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Open Source
1 3 (42.86%) Graphic Design
1 3 (42.86%) Web 2.0
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Content Management
2 3 (42.86%) OO
2 3 (42.86%) Web Design
3 2 (28.57%) Scrum
4 1 (14.29%) UML
4 1 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (42.86%) JavaScript
3 2 (28.57%) SQL
4 1 (14.29%) Perl
4 1 (14.29%) PL/SQL
4 1 (14.29%) Korn
4 1 (14.29%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) IBM Certification
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) IBM
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle