The first table below looks at the demand for Servlets 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 Servlets over the 3 months to 20 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java Servlet
Rank 311 307 302
Rank change year-on-year
-4 -5
Contract jobs citing Servlets 70 96 134
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.323% 0.358% 0.437%
As % of the Application Development category 1.113% 1.279% 1.431%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 58 81
Average daily rate £450 £400 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.50% -11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £378 £325 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £558 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £319 £350 £355
% change year-on-year
-8.85% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £42.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £42.50 £26.75 £45.00
% change year-on-year
+58.87% -40.55%
All Application Development
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
6292 7507 9363
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 29.00% 27.96% 30.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 4553 4947 6282
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 £285 £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 90 103 136
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 £15.20 £17.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £54.00 £47.50 £55.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Servlets
England

Servlets
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London 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 London region.

London 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 London region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

London 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 London region.

London 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 London region over the 3 months to 20 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 +25 20 £425 +6.25%
Canary Wharf -9 1 £500 -4.76%
Docklands, London - 1 - -
Servlets
England

Servlets
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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.

1 118 (96.72%) Java
2 77 (63.11%) JSP
3 67 (54.92%) Spring
4 63 (51.64%) JavaScript
5 61 (50.00%) HTML
5 61 (50.00%) XML
6 53 (43.44%) Oracle
7 51 (41.80%) CSS
8 50 (40.98%) jQuery
9 49 (40.16%) J2EE
10 48 (39.34%) Tomcat
11 42 (34.43%) Maven
12 38 (31.15%) Web Services
13 36 (29.51%) E-Commerce
13 36 (29.51%) JUnit
14 34 (27.87%) WebLogic
15 33 (27.05%) SOAP
15 33 (27.05%) Hibernate
16 32 (26.23%) Apache
16 32 (26.23%) Agile Software Development
17 31 (25.41%) SQL
18 29 (23.77%) Ajax
19 26 (21.31%) TDD
20 24 (19.67%) Content Management
20 24 (19.67%) XSLT
20 24 (19.67%) UNIX
21 23 (18.85%) CMS
21 23 (18.85%) MVC
22 22 (18.03%) Struts
22 22 (18.03%) JDBC

Servlets
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 77 (63.11%) JSP
2 67 (54.92%) Spring
3 61 (50.00%) HTML
3 61 (50.00%) XML
4 51 (41.80%) CSS
5 50 (40.98%) jQuery
6 49 (40.16%) J2EE
7 38 (31.15%) Web Services
8 33 (27.05%) SOAP
8 33 (27.05%) Hibernate
9 29 (23.77%) Ajax
10 24 (19.67%) XSLT
11 22 (18.03%) Struts
11 22 (18.03%) JDBC
12 20 (16.39%) EJB
13 18 (14.75%) XHTML
14 16 (13.11%) REST
15 13 (10.66%) Spring MVC
15 13 (10.66%) JMS
16 11 (9.016%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 48 (39.34%) Tomcat
2 34 (27.87%) WebLogic
3 32 (26.23%) Apache
4 23 (18.85%) CMS
5 11 (9.016%) Jetty
6 9 (7.377%) Oracle Workflow
7 7 (5.738%) Adobe CQ
8 6 (4.918%) ESB
8 6 (4.918%) Lotus Domino
8 6 (4.918%) Mule
9 4 (3.279%) LiveSite
9 4 (3.279%) TeamSite
10 3 (2.459%) Drupal
10 3 (2.459%) WebSphere Application Server
10 3 (2.459%) Confluence
11 2 (1.639%) Amazon AWS
11 2 (1.639%) Lotus Notes
11 2 (1.639%) Oracle Coherence
11 2 (1.639%) GlassFish
11 2 (1.639%) Commerce Server
Applications
1 1 (0.820%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 11 (9.016%) Internet
2 10 (8.197%) HTTP
3 4 (3.279%) SSL
4 3 (2.459%) TCP/IP
4 3 (2.459%) HTTPS
4 3 (2.459%) LDAP
5 2 (1.639%) Intranet
5 2 (1.639%) OpenLDAP
6 1 (0.820%) AMQP
6 1 (0.820%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (15.57%) SQL Server
2 15 (12.30%) MySQL
2 15 (12.30%) RDBMS
3 5 (4.098%) Oracle Reports
3 5 (4.098%) Oracle 11g
3 5 (4.098%) MongoDB
4 4 (3.279%) Hazelcast
4 4 (3.279%) Crystal Reports
5 3 (2.459%) Oracle 8/8i
6 2 (1.639%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.639%) DB2
7 1 (0.820%) Oracle 10g
7 1 (0.820%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.820%) QlikView
7 1 (0.820%) Oracle 9i
7 1 (0.820%) BusinessObjects XI
7 1 (0.820%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
Development Applications
1 42 (34.43%) Maven
2 36 (29.51%) JUnit
3 18 (14.75%) Eclipse
4 15 (12.30%) Git (software)
5 10 (8.197%) JIRA
6 9 (7.377%) Subversion
7 8 (6.557%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 8 (6.557%) Jenkins
8 5 (4.098%) EasyMock
8 5 (4.098%) Spring Roo
8 5 (4.098%) Ant
9 4 (3.279%) jMock
9 4 (3.279%) Mockito
10 3 (2.459%) ClearCase
11 2 (1.639%) TeamCity
11 2 (1.639%) Selenium
11 2 (1.639%) Cucumber
11 2 (1.639%) Hudson
12 1 (0.820%) Rational Application Developer
12 1 (0.820%) PhoneGap
General
1 14 (11.48%) Finance
2 12 (9.836%) Banking
3 8 (6.557%) Retail
4 7 (5.738%) Publishing
5 5 (4.098%) Investment Banking
6 4 (3.279%) Front Office
6 4 (3.279%) Marketing
7 2 (1.639%) Games
7 2 (1.639%) Advertising
7 2 (1.639%) Music
8 1 (0.820%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.820%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 83 (68.03%) Developer
2 44 (36.07%) Java Developer
3 20 (16.39%) Senior Developer
4 18 (14.75%) Senior Java Developer
5 14 (11.48%) Architect
6 7 (5.738%) Web Developer
7 6 (4.918%) Configuration Manager
7 6 (4.918%) Solutions Designer
7 6 (4.918%) Designer
8 5 (4.098%) Java Architect
9 4 (3.279%) Java/J2EE Developer
9 4 (3.279%) Programmer
9 4 (3.279%) Domino Developer
10 3 (2.459%) Java Programmer
10 3 (2.459%) J2EE Developer
10 3 (2.459%) Release Manager
10 3 (2.459%) Consultant
10 3 (2.459%) Software Manager
10 3 (2.459%) Software Configuration Manager
10 3 (2.459%) CMS Developer
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.66%) Open Source
2 11 (9.016%) Blackberry
3 10 (8.197%) W3C
3 10 (8.197%) iPhone
4 8 (6.557%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (3.279%) Client/Server
5 4 (3.279%) Credit Derivative
5 4 (3.279%) Web 2.0
5 4 (3.279%) Derivative
6 3 (2.459%) Clustering
6 3 (2.459%) FMCG
6 3 (2.459%) iPad
6 3 (2.459%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.639%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.820%) Digital Media
8 1 (0.820%) Inversion of Control
8 1 (0.820%) Graphic Design
8 1 (0.820%) Computer Science
8 1 (0.820%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 24 (19.67%) UNIX
2 19 (15.57%) Linux
3 11 (9.016%) Windows
4 6 (4.918%) Solaris
5 2 (1.639%) Android
5 2 (1.639%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (1.639%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.639%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.820%) Windows Mobile
6 1 (0.820%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (29.51%) E-Commerce
2 32 (26.23%) Agile Software Development
3 26 (21.31%) TDD
4 24 (19.67%) Content Management
5 23 (18.85%) MVC
6 18 (14.75%) OO
7 17 (13.93%) SOA
8 15 (12.30%) Continuous Integration
9 13 (10.66%) Scrum
10 12 (9.836%) Workflow
11 10 (8.197%) Web Development
12 9 (7.377%) Configuration Management
12 9 (7.377%) UML
13 8 (6.557%) Unit Testing
14 7 (5.738%) BDD
14 7 (5.738%) Project Management
15 6 (4.918%) OOD
15 6 (4.918%) Multithreading
16 5 (4.098%) Analytics
16 5 (4.098%) B2C
Programming Languages
1 118 (96.72%) Java
2 63 (51.64%) JavaScript
3 31 (25.41%) SQL
4 13 (10.66%) PL/SQL
5 10 (8.197%) C#
5 10 (8.197%) Shell Script
6 9 (7.377%) Groovy
7 8 (6.557%) Python
8 6 (4.918%) Perl
9 4 (3.279%) PHP
9 4 (3.279%) LotusScript
10 3 (2.459%) PHP5
11 2 (1.639%) C++
11 2 (1.639%) C
11 2 (1.639%) Bash shell
12 1 (0.820%) Scala
12 1 (0.820%) C-shell
12 1 (0.820%) Erlang
12 1 (0.820%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.820%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 10 (8.197%) Degree
2 2 (1.639%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.820%) IBM Certification
3 1 (0.820%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.098%) QA
System Software
1 1 (0.820%) Xen
1 1 (0.820%) Shibboleth
Systems Management
1 7 (5.738%) Puppet
Vendors
1 53 (43.44%) Oracle
2 20 (16.39%) JBoss
3 9 (7.377%) FatWire
4 7 (5.738%) Sybase
5 6 (4.918%) Adobe
5 6 (4.918%) Lotus
6 5 (4.098%) IBM
7 4 (3.279%) ATG
8 3 (2.459%) Sun
9 2 (1.639%) HP
9 2 (1.639%) BEA
9 2 (1.639%) Rackspace
10 1 (0.820%) Perforce
10 1 (0.820%) Vitria
10 1 (0.820%) Business Objects
10 1 (0.820%) SAP
10 1 (0.820%) Ab Initio
10 1 (0.820%) Blue Martini
10 1 (0.820%) Endeca
10 1 (0.820%) Google
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