The first table below looks at the demand for Servlets skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Servlets 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 England 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
Java Servlet
Rank 388 357 356
Rank change year-on-year
-31 -1
Contract jobs citing Servlets 122 205 228
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.293% 0.384% 0.404%
As % of the Application Development category 1.074% 1.461% 1.436%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 109 125
Average daily rate £400 £381 £415
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.91% -8.13%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £286 £300 £291
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £573 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £319 £350 £355
% change year-on-year
-8.85% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 7
Average hourly rate £37.75 £37.50 £45.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+0.66% -16.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.95 £37.50 £44.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.55 £37.50 £50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £42.50 £26.75 £45.00
% change year-on-year
+58.87% -40.55%
All Application Development
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
11360 14029 15876
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 27.33% 26.29% 28.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 7272 8431 9356
Average daily rate £375 £350 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 351 353 555
Average hourly rate £35.00 £33.00 £35.70
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.06% -7.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.50 £15.00 £18.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £42.50 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Servlets
UK

Servlets
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England 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 England region.

England Servlets Daily Rate Trend

Servlets
Daily Rate Histogram

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

England Servlets Daily Rate Histogram

Servlets
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Servlets Hourly Rate Trend

Servlets
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Servlets within the England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
London -6 69 £450 +12.50%
North West +11 22 £294 -11.32%
South East -12 10 £403 +5.22%
South West +23 8 £350 +12.90%
East Midlands +7 7 - -
East of England +9 3 £400 -12.56%
Yorkshire 0 2 - -
Midlands -1 1 - -
Servlets
UK

Servlets
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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.

1 243 (97.59%) Java
2 170 (68.27%) JSP
3 147 (59.04%) XML
4 146 (58.63%) J2EE
5 145 (58.23%) JavaScript
6 125 (50.20%) HTML
7 115 (46.18%) Spring
8 109 (43.78%) CSS
9 103 (41.37%) SQL
10 102 (40.96%) Ajax
11 101 (40.56%) jQuery
12 99 (39.76%) Oracle
13 90 (36.14%) Web Services
14 88 (35.34%) JUnit
15 79 (31.73%) Hibernate
16 75 (30.12%) JDBC
17 72 (28.92%) OO
18 71 (28.51%) EJB
19 68 (27.31%) Eclipse
20 67 (26.91%) Struts
21 62 (24.90%) Tomcat
22 60 (24.10%) Maven
23 59 (23.69%) UNIX
24 58 (23.29%) Content Management
25 57 (22.89%) Agile Software Development
25 57 (22.89%) Apache
25 57 (22.89%) SOAP
26 54 (21.69%) UML
26 54 (21.69%) E-Commerce
27 53 (21.29%) XSLT

Servlets
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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
1 170 (68.27%) JSP
2 147 (59.04%) XML
3 146 (58.63%) J2EE
4 125 (50.20%) HTML
5 115 (46.18%) Spring
6 109 (43.78%) CSS
7 102 (40.96%) Ajax
8 101 (40.56%) jQuery
9 90 (36.14%) Web Services
10 79 (31.73%) Hibernate
11 75 (30.12%) JDBC
12 71 (28.51%) EJB
13 67 (26.91%) Struts
14 57 (22.89%) SOAP
15 53 (21.29%) XSLT
15 53 (21.29%) WebSphere
16 50 (20.08%) JMS
17 48 (19.28%) XHTML
18 33 (13.25%) JSTL
19 32 (12.85%) JSON
Application Platforms
1 62 (24.90%) Tomcat
2 57 (22.89%) Apache
3 51 (20.48%) WebLogic
4 35 (14.06%) WebSphere Application Server
5 24 (9.639%) CMS
6 17 (6.827%) Adobe CQ
7 15 (6.024%) MQSeries
8 11 (4.418%) Jetty
9 9 (3.614%) ESB
9 9 (3.614%) Mule
9 9 (3.614%) Oracle Workflow
10 8 (3.213%) ArcGIS
11 6 (2.410%) Lotus Domino
11 6 (2.410%) ArcSDE
12 4 (1.606%) LiveSite
12 4 (1.606%) TeamSite
12 4 (1.606%) GlassFish
13 3 (1.205%) Commerce Server
13 3 (1.205%) SharePoint
13 3 (1.205%) Amazon AWS
Applications
1 1 (0.402%) Photoshop
1 1 (0.402%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 14 (5.622%) Tridion
2 1 (0.402%) BASE24
2 1 (0.402%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.402%) SiteCatalyst
Communications & Networking
1 32 (12.85%) Internet
2 18 (7.229%) HTTP
3 9 (3.614%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.606%) SSL
4 4 (1.606%) LDAP
5 3 (1.205%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.803%) Intranet
6 2 (0.803%) OpenLDAP
7 1 (0.402%) AMQP
7 1 (0.402%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (18.47%) RDBMS
2 34 (13.65%) DB2
3 30 (12.05%) SQL Server
4 18 (7.229%) MySQL
5 13 (5.221%) GIS
6 6 (2.410%) MongoDB
7 5 (2.008%) Oracle 11g
7 5 (2.008%) Oracle Reports
7 5 (2.008%) Oracle 8/8i
7 5 (2.008%) TOAD
8 4 (1.606%) Crystal Reports
8 4 (1.606%) Hazelcast
9 3 (1.205%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.205%) SQLite
10 2 (0.803%) NoSQL
11 1 (0.402%) BusinessObjects XI
11 1 (0.402%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
11 1 (0.402%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (0.402%) QlikView
11 1 (0.402%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 88 (35.34%) JUnit
2 68 (27.31%) Eclipse
3 60 (24.10%) Maven
4 40 (16.06%) Subversion
5 28 (11.24%) Ant
6 25 (10.04%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
7 21 (8.434%) Git (software)
8 18 (7.229%) Log4j
9 16 (6.426%) JIRA
9 16 (6.426%) Jenkins
10 11 (4.418%) Visual Studio
11 9 (3.614%) EasyMock
12 8 (3.213%) jMock
12 8 (3.213%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 8 (3.213%) NetBeans
12 8 (3.213%) ClearCase
13 5 (2.008%) Spring Roo
14 4 (1.606%) Mockito
15 3 (1.205%) FitNesse
15 3 (1.205%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 48 (19.28%) Finance
2 24 (9.639%) Banking
2 24 (9.639%) Retail
3 14 (5.622%) Publishing
3 14 (5.622%) Games
4 11 (4.418%) Investment Banking
5 5 (2.008%) Marketing
6 4 (1.606%) Front Office
7 2 (0.803%) Telecoms
7 2 (0.803%) Advertising
7 2 (0.803%) Music
8 1 (0.402%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.402%) Japanese Language
8 1 (0.402%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.402%) Automotive
8 1 (0.402%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 194 (77.91%) Developer
2 112 (44.98%) Java Developer
3 32 (12.85%) Senior Developer
4 31 (12.45%) Java/J2EE Developer
5 28 (11.24%) Senior Java Developer
6 25 (10.04%) J2EE Developer
7 18 (7.229%) Architect
8 16 (6.426%) Programmer
9 15 (6.024%) Web Developer
10 13 (5.221%) GIS Developer
11 9 (3.614%) WebSphere Developer
12 8 (3.213%) Java Programmer
12 8 (3.213%) Applications Developer
13 7 (2.811%) Web Applications Developer
14 6 (2.410%) Java Web Developer
14 6 (2.410%) Configuration Manager
14 6 (2.410%) Solutions Designer
14 6 (2.410%) Consultant
14 6 (2.410%) Designer
15 5 (2.008%) Senior Java/J2EE Developer
Miscellaneous
1 22 (8.835%) Web 2.0
2 20 (8.032%) Open Source
3 11 (4.418%) Blackberry
4 10 (4.016%) W3C
4 10 (4.016%) iPhone
5 8 (3.213%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 6 (2.410%) Mobile App
7 5 (2.008%) N-Tier
7 5 (2.008%) PMI
8 4 (1.606%) Client/Server
8 4 (1.606%) Credit Derivative
8 4 (1.606%) Derivative
9 3 (1.205%) FMCG
9 3 (1.205%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.205%) iPad
9 3 (1.205%) Replication
9 3 (1.205%) Clustering
9 3 (1.205%) NHS
10 2 (0.803%) Credit Risk
11 1 (0.402%) RIA
Operating Systems
1 59 (23.69%) UNIX
2 48 (19.28%) Linux
3 31 (12.45%) Windows
4 23 (9.237%) Solaris
5 15 (6.024%) HPUX
6 12 (4.819%) Windows Server 2008
7 7 (2.811%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (2.811%) Windows 7
8 3 (1.205%) Windows CE
9 2 (0.803%) Mac OS X
9 2 (0.803%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.803%) Android
10 1 (0.402%) Windows Mobile
10 1 (0.402%) VME
10 1 (0.402%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (28.92%) OO
2 58 (23.29%) Content Management
3 57 (22.89%) Agile Software Development
4 54 (21.69%) E-Commerce
4 54 (21.69%) UML
5 52 (20.88%) MVC
6 43 (17.27%) TDD
7 32 (12.85%) Continuous Integration
8 24 (9.639%) RAD
9 20 (8.032%) SOA
10 16 (6.426%) Web Development
11 15 (6.024%) Scrum
12 14 (5.622%) BDD
13 12 (4.819%) Web Design
13 12 (4.819%) Workflow
13 12 (4.819%) Project Management
14 11 (4.418%) OOA/OOD
14 11 (4.418%) Web Application Development
15 10 (4.016%) Waterfall
15 10 (4.016%) OOD
Programming Languages
1 243 (97.59%) Java
2 145 (58.23%) JavaScript
3 103 (41.37%) SQL
4 33 (13.25%) Perl
5 29 (11.65%) PL/SQL
6 28 (11.24%) C#
7 25 (10.04%) Bash shell
8 22 (8.835%) XPath
9 17 (6.827%) Python
9 17 (6.827%) Groovy
10 13 (5.221%) Shell Script
11 8 (3.213%) C
12 6 (2.410%) C++
13 4 (1.606%) PHP
13 4 (1.606%) LotusScript
14 3 (1.205%) PHP5
15 2 (0.803%) Scala
16 1 (0.402%) C-shell
16 1 (0.402%) Erlang
16 1 (0.402%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 12 (4.819%) Degree
2 11 (4.418%) Sun Certification
3 5 (2.008%) PMI Certification
4 4 (1.606%) PhD
4 4 (1.606%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.402%) IBM Certification
5 1 (0.402%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.402%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.008%) QA
2 3 (1.205%) HL7
3 1 (0.402%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 3 (1.205%) Oracle RAC
1 3 (1.205%) OpenSSO
2 1 (0.402%) Xen
2 1 (0.402%) Shibboleth
2 1 (0.402%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 7 (2.811%) Puppet
2 3 (1.205%) Data Guard
3 1 (0.402%) Tivoli
3 1 (0.402%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 99 (39.76%) Oracle
2 39 (15.66%) IBM
3 37 (14.86%) JBoss
4 18 (7.229%) ATG
5 17 (6.827%) Adobe
6 15 (6.024%) Blue Martini
7 14 (5.622%) Elastic Path
7 14 (5.622%) Sun
7 14 (5.622%) Interwoven
8 13 (5.221%) ESRI
9 9 (3.614%) FatWire
9 9 (3.614%) Omniture
10 8 (3.213%) Microsoft
11 7 (2.811%) Sybase
11 7 (2.811%) Red Hat
12 6 (2.410%) Lotus
13 5 (2.008%) BEA
13 5 (2.008%) Chordiant
14 4 (1.606%) Perforce
15 3 (1.205%) Jaspersoft
Manchester, Lancashire
Main skills: Java/J2EE, web applications (Spring/Servlets/JavaScript), Agile... You will be working on enterprise scale web application development using J2EE and the spring Framework and be...
Applause IT Innovation
Rate: £340 - £360 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
City, London
J2EE Servlets . HTML . CSS ... It would be highly desirable if the Java Developer has experience with C/C++ or Javascript. To be considered for the Java Developer (Java,...
E-synergy Solutions
Rate: £200 - £220 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013
London
My client a leading Media Company is seeking a Java/J2EE developer, to come on board and work alongside a busy team of Javascript and C/C++ developers...
Progressive Recruitment
Posted: 15 May 2013
London
Java J2EE Developer with APIs My client a leading Media Company is seeking a Java/J2EE developer, to come on board and work alongside a busy team of...
Progressive Recruitment
Rate: £150 - £180 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
West Midlands
A Midlands based software house is currently looking to recruit a Java Software Developer to join their team. Main responsibilities: * Design, develop and improve software for a internationally...
Computer Futures
Rate: £250 - £300 per day + DOE
Posted: 15 May 2013
Bournemouth, Dorset
parties - for insurance applications using Java Swing, JSP, Servlets, WebServices, Spring framework.You’ll bejoining a small team of developers who go deep to deliver across a wide...
Ageas 50
Rate: Up to £50,000 per annum Up to £50,000 plus benefits
Posted: 16 May 2013
City of London
Extensive experience in .Net and Java based Frameworks such as Struts, Spring etc Good experience in development methodologies such as Agile and testing tools (eg; Junit) Knowledge and...
Scope AT Ltd
Rate: neg
Posted: 10 May 2013
Bournemouth
You'll be developing applications and interfaces - both internal and 3rd parties - for insurance applications using Java Swing, JSP, Servlets, Web Services, Spring framework. You'll be joining...
Ageas 50
Rate: Up to £50,000 plus benefits
Posted: 18 May 2013
London
Position: Adobe Day CQ5 Developer (CMS, HTML5, CSS3, Javascript) Skills: Adobe Day CQ5 Developer (CMS, HTML5, CSS3, Javascript) Adobe Day CQ5 Developer (CMS, HTML5, CSS3, Javascript) is needed...
ANSON MCCADE
Rate: From £350 to £480 per day
Posted: 13 May 2013
Saffron Walden, Essex
servlets, Java Server Pages or demonstrable experience in an equivalent technology. Experience of an MVC framework such as SpringMVC... Prior experience in bioinformatics, data warehousing, statistical analysis. Experience...
Sanger Institute
Rate: From £29,750 to £37,525 per annum dep on exp plus excellent benefits
Posted: 23 April 2013
West Yorkshire
Experience of working with Adobe (Day) CQ5 is essential. Skills & Experience Five(+) years experience as a web developer Two(+) years experience working implementing, enhancing and troubleshooting Adobe CQ5...
Real Staffing
Rate: £250 - £251 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
Saffron Walden, Essex
servlets, Java Server Pages or demonstrable experience in an equivalent technology. Significant experience of an MVC framework such as SpringMVC... Prior experience in bioinformatics, data warehousing, statistical analysis...
Sanger Institute
Rate: From £29,750 to £37,525 per annum dep on exp plus excellent benefits
Posted: 23 April 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
In addition the Java Server Programmer (Spring, Hibernate, Tomcat, Maven) should be proficient in the development of multi-tier applications and with a solid knowledge of internet tools...
Datascope Recruitment
Rate: From £250 to £310 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
Chester, North West
Required Skills:SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:Essential:-Extensive experience of Web 2.0 technologies i.e AJAX, XHTML, JavaScript, XPATH, CSS, XSLT, DOM, JSP, Servlets-Minimum 2yrs + JSF...
Rate: £350 - £400 per day
Posted: 11 May 2013
Southend-On-Sea, South East
J2EE experience must include experience of Servlets, JSPs and Session Beans delivering transactional web-based applications.*BEA WebLogic at version 9, or later... *development on UNIX environments, preferably...
Capita Resourcing
Posted: 30 April 2013
Fleet, Hampshire
Liferay Portal. Talend integration Suite. Linux RedHat/Git. J2EE/Java/Java Servlet technologies/JPA/JAXB. Spring/Hibernate... Search technologies: SOLR, Lucene. Restful web services: Apache CXF, JSR web...
Experis IT
Rate: Market Rates
Posted: 15 May 2013