The first table below looks at the demand for JSTL skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited JSTL 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 London 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 Pages Standard Tag Library (JSTL)
Rank 368 391 374
Rank change year-on-year
+23 -17
Contract jobs citing JSTL 19 27 59
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.086% 0.099% 0.193%
As % of the Application Development category 0.297% 0.353% 0.629%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 19 43
Average daily rate £354 £400 £455
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.56% -12.08%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £335 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £420 £400 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £345 £250 £330
% change year-on-year
+37.80% -24.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £42.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.00 - £40.00
All Application Development
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
6387 7659 9377
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 29.04% 28.01% 30.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 4619 5048 6312
Average daily rate £405 £400 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.25% -11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £280 £280 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 106 136
Average hourly rate £41.50 £34.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+22.05% -2.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.00 £15.90 £17.55
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £54.00 £47.50 £57.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
JSTL
England

JSTL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London JSTL Jobs Demand Trend

JSTL
Daily Rate Trend

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

London JSTL Daily Rate Trend

JSTL
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing JSTL across the London region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

London JSTL Daily Rate Histogram

JSTL
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London JSTL Hourly Rate Trend

JSTL
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JSTL within the London region over the 3 months to 22 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
City of London +8 5 £325 -6.81%
JSTL
England

JSTL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing JSTL 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 JSTL.

1 42 (97.67%) JSP
2 35 (81.40%) HTML
3 34 (79.07%) CSS
4 30 (69.77%) Java
5 29 (67.44%) JavaScript
6 22 (51.16%) J2EE
6 22 (51.16%) jQuery
7 19 (44.19%) JMS
8 18 (41.86%) Spring
9 17 (39.53%) Web Services
10 16 (37.21%) MVC
10 16 (37.21%) Spring MVC
11 15 (34.88%) Ajax
12 14 (32.56%) RESTful
13 13 (30.23%) Publishing
13 13 (30.23%) XQuery
13 13 (30.23%) TDD
13 13 (30.23%) MySQL
14 12 (27.91%) SQL Server
15 11 (25.58%) SQL
16 10 (23.26%) Struts
16 10 (23.26%) Agile Software Development
17 9 (20.93%) CMS
17 9 (20.93%) Adobe
17 9 (20.93%) XML
17 9 (20.93%) Apache
18 8 (18.60%) XSLT
18 8 (18.60%) Oracle
18 8 (18.60%) JUnit
18 8 (18.60%) MarkLogic

JSTL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing JSTL 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 JSTL. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 42 (97.67%) JSP
2 35 (81.40%) HTML
3 34 (79.07%) CSS
4 22 (51.16%) J2EE
4 22 (51.16%) jQuery
5 19 (44.19%) JMS
6 18 (41.86%) Spring
7 17 (39.53%) Web Services
8 16 (37.21%) Spring MVC
9 15 (34.88%) Ajax
10 14 (32.56%) RESTful
11 10 (23.26%) Struts
12 9 (20.93%) XML
13 8 (18.60%) XSLT
14 7 (16.28%) Servlets
14 7 (16.28%) EJB
15 6 (13.95%) WebSphere
16 5 (11.63%) Java EE
16 5 (11.63%) XHTML
17 4 (9.302%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 9 (20.93%) CMS
1 9 (20.93%) Apache
2 6 (13.95%) Tomcat
3 5 (11.63%) Adobe CQ
4 4 (9.302%) Commerce Server
5 2 (4.651%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (2.326%) Amazon AWS
6 1 (2.326%) WebSphere Application Server
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.326%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (30.23%) MySQL
2 12 (27.91%) SQL Server
3 8 (18.60%) MarkLogic
4 2 (4.651%) DB2
4 2 (4.651%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 8 (18.60%) JUnit
2 5 (11.63%) Subversion
3 3 (6.977%) Maven
3 3 (6.977%) Selenium
3 3 (6.977%) Eclipse
4 1 (2.326%) Firebug
4 1 (2.326%) Hudson
General
1 13 (30.23%) Publishing
2 2 (4.651%) Retail
3 1 (2.326%) Banking
3 1 (2.326%) Games
Job Titles
1 40 (93.02%) Developer
2 19 (44.19%) Java Developer
3 10 (23.26%) Front-End Developer
4 5 (11.63%) Java/J2EE Developer
4 5 (11.63%) J2EE Developer
5 4 (9.302%) WebSphere Developer
6 3 (6.977%) CMS Developer
6 3 (6.977%) HTML Developer
7 2 (4.651%) Senior Java Developer
7 2 (4.651%) Java Programmer
7 2 (4.651%) Senior Developer
7 2 (4.651%) Programmer
8 1 (2.326%) Technical Leader
8 1 (2.326%) Front-End Web Developer
8 1 (2.326%) Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (18.60%) Semantic Web
2 4 (9.302%) Graphic Design
3 1 (2.326%) Web 2.0
3 1 (2.326%) Smartphone
3 1 (2.326%) Social Network
3 1 (2.326%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.651%) Linux
1 2 (4.651%) UNIX
2 1 (2.326%) HPUX
2 1 (2.326%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (37.21%) MVC
2 13 (30.23%) TDD
3 10 (23.26%) Agile Software Development
4 6 (13.95%) E-Commerce
5 5 (11.63%) Web Development
5 5 (11.63%) Software Testing
6 4 (9.302%) OO
6 4 (9.302%) Performance Testing
6 4 (9.302%) Automated Testing
7 2 (4.651%) RAD
8 1 (2.326%) Unit Testing
8 1 (2.326%) Graceful Degradation
8 1 (2.326%) Dependency Injection
8 1 (2.326%) Progressive Enhancement
8 1 (2.326%) B2C
8 1 (2.326%) Content Management
8 1 (2.326%) UML
8 1 (2.326%) OOP
8 1 (2.326%) OOD
8 1 (2.326%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 30 (69.77%) Java
2 29 (67.44%) JavaScript
3 13 (30.23%) XQuery
4 11 (25.58%) SQL
5 1 (2.326%) ActionScript 3.0
5 1 (2.326%) Bash shell
5 1 (2.326%) ActionScript
5 1 (2.326%) Perl
Qualifications
1 6 (13.95%) CIPD
2 1 (2.326%) Degree
2 1 (2.326%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 7 (16.28%) Squid
Vendors
1 9 (20.93%) Adobe
2 8 (18.60%) Oracle
3 5 (11.63%) IBM
4 2 (4.651%) JBoss
5 1 (2.326%) Blue Martini
5 1 (2.326%) ATG