The first table below looks at the demand for JSF skills in IT contracts advertised for the Glasgow region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited JSF over the 3 months to 22 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 Glasgow 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
JavaServer Faces (JSF)
Rank 63 57 58
Rank change year-on-year
-6 +1
Contract jobs citing JSF 14 3 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 1.460% 0.382% 0.146%
As % of the Application Development category 3.175% 1.554% 0.388%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 3 0
Average daily rate £317 £270 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+17.58% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £321 £350 £355
% change year-on-year
-8.28% -1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £41.25 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year
+3.12% -5.88%
All Application Development
Glasgow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
441 193 258
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 45.99% 24.59% 37.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 81 149
Average daily rate £338 £285 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+18.42% -18.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £235 £251
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £400 £430
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
Average hourly rate £45.00 £22.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+100.00% +28.57%
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 Glasgow region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region.

Glasgow JSF Daily Rate Trend

JSF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 40 (100.00%) Java
2 37 (92.50%) J2EE
3 35 (87.50%) Hibernate
3 35 (87.50%) Spring
4 25 (62.50%) XML
5 24 (60.00%) HTML
6 23 (57.50%) Oracle
6 23 (57.50%) JSP
7 22 (55.00%) Maven
8 21 (52.50%) Struts
8 21 (52.50%) RDBMS
9 19 (47.50%) EJB
10 18 (45.00%) Servlets
11 17 (42.50%) JavaScript
11 17 (42.50%) JDeveloper
11 17 (42.50%) Tapestry
12 16 (40.00%) Eclipse
13 15 (37.50%) Finance
14 12 (30.00%) JSTL
15 11 (27.50%) Sun Certification
15 11 (27.50%) Sun
16 10 (25.00%) Ant
16 10 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
17 8 (20.00%) Unit Testing
18 7 (17.50%) MVC
19 6 (15.00%) QA
19 6 (15.00%) Change Management
19 6 (15.00%) Test Scripting
20 5 (12.50%) BDD
20 5 (12.50%) Hudson

JSF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 37 (92.50%) J2EE
2 35 (87.50%) Hibernate
2 35 (87.50%) Spring
3 25 (62.50%) XML
4 24 (60.00%) HTML
5 23 (57.50%) JSP
6 21 (52.50%) Struts
7 19 (47.50%) EJB
8 18 (45.00%) Servlets
9 17 (42.50%) Tapestry
10 12 (30.00%) JSTL
11 5 (12.50%) JMS
11 5 (12.50%) CSS
11 5 (12.50%) Web Services
12 4 (10.00%) TopLink
12 4 (10.00%) XMLBeans
12 4 (10.00%) JDBC
12 4 (10.00%) SOAP
12 4 (10.00%) JPA
13 3 (7.500%) Swing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (52.50%) RDBMS
2 1 (2.500%) Oracle 10g
2 1 (2.500%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 22 (55.00%) Maven
2 17 (42.50%) JDeveloper
3 16 (40.00%) Eclipse
4 10 (25.00%) Ant
5 5 (12.50%) Hudson
6 3 (7.500%) PVCS
7 2 (5.000%) Subversion
8 1 (2.500%) CruiseControl
8 1 (2.500%) Selenium
General
1 15 (37.50%) Finance
2 3 (7.500%) Banking
3 2 (5.000%) Retail
3 2 (5.000%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (80.00%) Developer
2 30 (75.00%) Java Developer
3 17 (42.50%) Analyst
3 17 (42.50%) Analyst Programmer
3 17 (42.50%) Programmer
3 17 (42.50%) Java Analyst Programmer
3 17 (42.50%) Java Programmer
4 9 (22.50%) Developer Analyst
5 1 (2.500%) Java/J2EE Developer
5 1 (2.500%) Designer
5 1 (2.500%) J2EE Analyst Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.00%) N-Tier
2 2 (5.000%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.500%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
2 8 (20.00%) Unit Testing
3 7 (17.50%) MVC
4 6 (15.00%) Change Management
4 6 (15.00%) Test Scripting
5 5 (12.50%) BDD
5 5 (12.50%) Scrum
5 5 (12.50%) TDD
6 4 (10.00%) UML
6 4 (10.00%) OO
6 4 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (5.000%) Web Design
7 2 (5.000%) Business Intelligence
7 2 (5.000%) Database Tuning
7 2 (5.000%) User Acceptance Testing
8 1 (2.500%) Kanban
8 1 (2.500%) CRM
8 1 (2.500%) Data Modelling
8 1 (2.500%) Pair Programming
8 1 (2.500%) Automated Testing
Programming Languages
1 40 (100.00%) Java
2 17 (42.50%) JavaScript
3 5 (12.50%) SQL
4 4 (10.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (27.50%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.00%) QA
2 2 (5.000%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (2.500%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 23 (57.50%) Oracle
2 11 (27.50%) Sun
3 2 (5.000%) JBoss
3 2 (5.000%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.500%) HP