Essex JSP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for JavaServer Pages (JSP) skills within the Essex region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited JSP over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

JavaServer Pages (JSP)
Location Altrincham Andover Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheshire Chester City of London Conwy County Antrim Coventry Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Glasgow Hampshire Harrogate Hertfordshire Home Counties Hull Isle of Man Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewisham Liverpool Llandudno London Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Peterborough Reading Rickmansworth Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark St Neots Staffordshire Stockport Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Watford Wellingborough West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	43	54
Rank change on same period last year	+11
Matching contract IT job ads	18	5
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.024 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	9.326 %	2.451 %
Daily rates quoted	5	2
Average minimum daily rate	£332	£350
Average daily rate	£356	£369
% change on same period last year	-3.45 %
Average maximum daily rate	£380	£388
UK excluding London average daily rate	£363	£320
% change on same period last year	+13.36 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£34.50	£30.00
Average hourly rate	£35.38	£30.00
% change on same period last year	+17.91 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£36.25	£30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£40.34	£36.80
% change on same period last year	+9.61 %
Application Development Essex
Matching contract IT job ads	193	204
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.254 %	0.216 %
Daily rates quoted	65	66
Average minimum daily rate	£321	£416
Average daily rate	£340	£447
% change on same period last year	-24.01 %
Average maximum daily rate	£358	£479
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£336
% change on same period last year	+3.94 %
Hourly rates quoted	33	56
Average minimum hourly rate	£34.66	£30.78
Average hourly rate	£37.39	£31.78
% change on same period last year	+17.65 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.13	£32.78
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.44	£33.08
% change on same period last year	-1.93 %
JSP East of 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 beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing JSP across the Essex 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 IT contract jobs citing JSP across the Essex region.

JSP
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing JSP across the Essex region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

JSP
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing JSP across the Essex region.

JSP
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing JSP across the Essex region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

JSP
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing JSP within the Essex region over the 3 months to 4 July 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
Basildon	+12	9	£285	-28.75 %
Chelmsford	+2	1	£350	-

JSP East of England

JSP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex region citing JSP 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 JSP.

1 20 (95.24 %) J2EE 2 18 (85.71 %) Java 3 16 (76.19 %) Linux 4 15 (71.43 %) SQL 5 13 (61.90 %) OO 5 13 (61.90 %) Servlets 5 13 (61.90 %) Marketing 6 12 (57.14 %) XML 6 12 (57.14 %) Unix 7 10 (47.62 %) Oracle 8 9 (42.86 %) HTML 8 9 (42.86 %) Oracle 9i 8 9 (42.86 %) WebSphere 8 9 (42.86 %) JRules 8 9 (42.86 %) ILOG

8 9 (42.86 %) Windows NT 8 9 (42.86 %) N-Tier 8 9 (42.86 %) JavaBeans 9 8 (38.10 %) IBM 9 8 (38.10 %) HTTP 9 8 (38.10 %) Oracle 10g 9 8 (38.10 %) FatWire 9 8 (38.10 %) IBM HTTP Server 9 8 (38.10 %) Perl 10 7 (33.33 %) JavaScript 10 7 (33.33 %) Finance 10 7 (33.33 %) Oracle HTTP Server 10 7 (33.33 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 10 7 (33.33 %) CSS 11 6 (28.57 %) Content Management

JSP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex region citing JSP 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 JSP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 20 (95.24 %) J2EE 2 13 (61.90 %) Servlets 3 12 (57.14 %) XML 4 9 (42.86 %) HTML 4 9 (42.86 %) JavaBeans 4 9 (42.86 %) JRules 4 9 (42.86 %) WebSphere 5 7 (33.33 %) CSS 6 6 (28.57 %) Struts 7 4 (19.05 %) .NET 7 4 (19.05 %) ASP.NET 8 2 (9.524 %) XSLT 8 2 (9.524 %) JMS 8 2 (9.524 %) XML Schema 8 2 (9.524 %) EDIFACT	Application Platforms 1 8 (38.10 %) IBM HTTP Server 2 7 (33.33 %) Oracle HTTP Server 3 5 (23.81 %) CMS 4 3 (14.29 %) WebLogic 5 2 (9.524 %) Tuxedo 5 2 (9.524 %) MQSeries 6 1 (4.762 %) Oracle Application Server
Communications & Networking 1 8 (38.10 %) HTTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 9 (42.86 %) Oracle 9i 2 8 (38.10 %) Oracle 10g 3 4 (19.05 %) Crystal Reports 3 4 (19.05 %) Oracle Reports 4 3 (14.29 %) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications 1 6 (28.57 %) Ant 2 1 (4.762 %) PVCS 2 1 (4.762 %) VSS/SourceSafe	General 1 13 (61.90 %) Marketing 2 7 (33.33 %) Finance 3 1 (4.762 %) Automotive
Job Titles 1 16 (76.19 %) Developer 2 4 (19.05 %) Trainer 3 3 (14.29 %) Technical Designer 3 3 (14.29 %) Analyst 4 1 (4.762 %) Web Developer 4 1 (4.762 %) Applications Support 4 1 (4.762 %) Java Developer 4 1 (4.762 %) Oracle Developer 4 1 (4.762 %) J2EE Developer 4 1 (4.762 %) Analyst Developer 4 1 (4.762 %) Developer Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 9 (42.86 %) N-Tier 2 1 (4.762 %) Client/Server
Operating Systems 1 16 (76.19 %) Linux 2 12 (57.14 %) Unix 3 9 (42.86 %) Windows NT 4 6 (28.57 %) Windows 5 1 (4.762 %) AIX 5 1 (4.762 %) Solaris	Processes & Methodologies 1 13 (61.90 %) OO 2 6 (28.57 %) Content Management 3 3 (14.29 %) RUP 3 3 (14.29 %) UML 4 1 (4.762 %) Enterprise Architecture 4 1 (4.762 %) Security Cleared
Programming Languages 1 18 (85.71 %) Java 2 15 (71.43 %) SQL 3 8 (38.10 %) Perl 4 7 (33.33 %) JavaScript 5 4 (19.05 %) VB 5 4 (19.05 %) VB.NET 5 4 (19.05 %) VB6 6 3 (14.29 %) C 7 2 (9.524 %) C# 8 1 (4.762 %) PL/SQL	Qualifications 1 2 (9.524 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 7 (33.33 %) Sarbanes-Oxley	Vendors 1 10 (47.62 %) Oracle 2 9 (42.86 %) ILOG 3 8 (38.10 %) FatWire 3 8 (38.10 %) IBM 4 3 (14.29 %) BEA 5 1 (4.762 %) Microsoft