The first table below looks at the demand for JSP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited JSP 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 Leeds 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
JavaServer Pages (JSP)
Rank 69 63 50
Rank change year-on-year
-6 -13
Contract jobs citing JSP 5 4 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 0.677% 0.460% 0.629%
As % of the Application Development category 2.024% 1.739% 2.703%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 1
Average daily rate £318 £350 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.28% +12.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £368 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
+13.07% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £33.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year
+1.85% -28.94%
All Application Development
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
247 230 148
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 33.42% 26.47% 23.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 153 81
Average daily rate £290 £325 £285
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.76% +14.03%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £219 £232 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £380 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 5
Average hourly rate £33.00 £17.50 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+88.57% -58.82%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
JSP
West Yorkshire

JSP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds JSP Jobs Demand Trend

JSP
Daily Rate Trend

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

Leeds JSP Daily Rate Trend

JSP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Leeds JSP Hourly Rate Trend

JSP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 11 (100.00%) Java
2 9 (81.82%) J2EE
3 8 (72.73%) SQL
4 6 (54.55%) Servlets
4 6 (54.55%) Web Services
4 6 (54.55%) XML
5 5 (45.45%) HTML
5 5 (45.45%) JavaScript
5 5 (45.45%) UNIX
5 5 (45.45%) Windows
6 4 (36.36%) Struts
7 3 (27.27%) SGML
7 3 (27.27%) JBoss
7 3 (27.27%) Perl
7 3 (27.27%) CSS
7 3 (27.27%) Grails
7 3 (27.27%) Struts2
7 3 (27.27%) Regression Testing
7 3 (27.27%) Groovy
7 3 (27.27%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (18.18%) Adobe CQ
8 2 (18.18%) jQuery
8 2 (18.18%) CMS
8 2 (18.18%) Hibernate
8 2 (18.18%) Agile Software Development
8 2 (18.18%) Ajax
8 2 (18.18%) Spring
8 2 (18.18%) Web Development
8 2 (18.18%) Java EE
8 2 (18.18%) JSTL

JSP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 9 (81.82%) J2EE
2 6 (54.55%) Servlets
2 6 (54.55%) Web Services
2 6 (54.55%) XML
3 5 (45.45%) HTML
4 4 (36.36%) Struts
5 3 (27.27%) SGML
5 3 (27.27%) CSS
5 3 (27.27%) Grails
5 3 (27.27%) Struts2
6 2 (18.18%) jQuery
6 2 (18.18%) Hibernate
6 2 (18.18%) Ajax
6 2 (18.18%) Spring
6 2 (18.18%) Java EE
6 2 (18.18%) JSTL
6 2 (18.18%) SOAP
7 1 (9.091%) JavaBeans
7 1 (9.091%) XSLT
7 1 (9.091%) EJB
Application Platforms
1 2 (18.18%) Adobe CQ
1 2 (18.18%) CMS
1 2 (18.18%) WebLogic
1 2 (18.18%) Tomcat
2 1 (9.091%) Apache
2 1 (9.091%) Oracle Application Server
2 1 (9.091%) Amazon AWS
2 1 (9.091%) Magento
Business Applications
1 1 (9.091%) SiteCatalyst
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.091%) RDBMS
1 1 (9.091%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (9.091%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 1 (9.091%) Oracle Forms
1 1 (9.091%) JUnit
1 1 (9.091%) Maven
1 1 (9.091%) Hudson
1 1 (9.091%) Subversion
General
1 1 (9.091%) Marketing
1 1 (9.091%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (90.91%) Developer
2 8 (72.73%) Java Developer
3 6 (54.55%) Java/J2EE Developer
4 3 (27.27%) J2EE Developer
5 2 (18.18%) CMS Developer
6 1 (9.091%) Analyst
6 1 (9.091%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.091%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 5 (45.45%) UNIX
1 5 (45.45%) Windows
2 3 (27.27%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (9.091%) Solaris
3 1 (9.091%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (27.27%) Regression Testing
2 2 (18.18%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (18.18%) Web Development
3 1 (9.091%) E-Commerce
3 1 (9.091%) SOA
3 1 (9.091%) Configuration Management
3 1 (9.091%) OO
3 1 (9.091%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (9.091%) Change Control
3 1 (9.091%) Web Design
3 1 (9.091%) Service Delivery
3 1 (9.091%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) Java
2 8 (72.73%) SQL
3 5 (45.45%) JavaScript
4 3 (27.27%) Perl
4 3 (27.27%) Groovy
5 1 (9.091%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (9.091%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (9.091%) OpenSSO
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) JBoss
2 2 (18.18%) Adobe
3 1 (9.091%) Oracle
3 1 (9.091%) Omniture