Manchester JSP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for JavaServer Pages (JSP) skills within the Manchester region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited JSP over the last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

JavaServer Pages (JSP)
Location Aberdeen Altrincham Aylesbury Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Chelmsford Cheshire Chester City of London Clapham Conwy County Antrim Coventry Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Farnborough Gatwick Glasgow Guildford Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hove Ipswich Isle of Man Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicestershire Lewisham Lincolnshire Liverpool Llandudno London Luton Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Scotland Sheffield Sleaford Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Neots Staffordshire Stockport Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	48	61
Rank change on same period last year	+13
Matching contract IT job ads	35	5
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.045 %	0.006 %
As % of the category below	8.642 %	1.724 %
Daily rates quoted	7	0
Average minimum daily rate	£379	-
Average daily rate	£413	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£447	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£381	£335
% change on same period last year	+13.88 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£36.67	-
Average hourly rate	£39.17	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£41.67	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£37.12	£38.12
% change on same period last year	-2.60 %
Application Development Manchester
Matching contract IT job ads	405	290
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.520 %	0.326 %
Daily rates quoted	76	47
Average minimum daily rate	£334	£243
Average daily rate	£354	£264
% change on same period last year	+34.17 %
Average maximum daily rate	£373	£285
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£335
% change on same period last year	+5.30 %
Hourly rates quoted	58	36
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.96	£32.16
Average hourly rate	£29.41	£34.32
% change on same period last year	-14.33 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.85	£36.49
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.42	£31.87
% change on same period last year	+1.71 %
JSP North West

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 starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing JSP across the Manchester 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 contract IT jobs ads citing JSP across the Manchester region.

JSP
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing JSP across the Manchester region over the past 3 months.

JSP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

JSP
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JSP within the Manchester region over the past 3 months.

Rank	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
1	Stockport	-	3	-	-
2	Altrincham	-	2	-	-
3	Bury	-	1	£350	-

JSP North West

JSP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Manchester region citing JSP also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing JSP.

1 45 (91.84 %) Java 2 28 (57.14 %) J2EE 3 25 (51.02 %) Oracle 4 23 (46.94 %) SQL 5 22 (44.90 %) HTML 6 16 (32.65 %) PL/SQL 6 16 (32.65 %) Struts 7 15 (30.61 %) JavaScript 8 14 (28.57 %) UML 8 14 (28.57 %) WebSphere 9 12 (24.49 %) JUnit 10 11 (22.45 %) AJAX 11 10 (20.41 %) XML 12 7 (14.29 %) Oracle 10g 12 7 (14.29 %) Spring

13 6 (12.24 %) Hibernate 13 6 (12.24 %) Eclipse 13 6 (12.24 %) EJB 14 5 (10.20 %) Servlets 14 5 (10.20 %) Unix 14 5 (10.20 %) WebLogic 14 5 (10.20 %) MySQL 14 5 (10.20 %) Internet 14 5 (10.20 %) Finance 14 5 (10.20 %) Banking 15 4 (8.163 %) Telecoms 15 4 (8.163 %) PHP 15 4 (8.163 %) JBoss 16 3 (6.122 %) Tomcat 16 3 (6.122 %) WebSphere Application Server

JSP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Manchester region citing JSP also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing JSP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 28 (57.14 %) J2EE 2 22 (44.90 %) HTML 3 16 (32.65 %) Struts 4 14 (28.57 %) WebSphere 5 11 (22.45 %) AJAX 6 10 (20.41 %) XML 7 7 (14.29 %) Spring 8 6 (12.24 %) Hibernate 8 6 (12.24 %) EJB 9 5 (10.20 %) Servlets 10 3 (6.122 %) XHTML 11 2 (4.082 %) XSLT 11 2 (4.082 %) .NET 11 2 (4.082 %) CSS 11 2 (4.082 %) ASP 11 2 (4.082 %) JMS 12 1 (2.041 %) WAP 12 1 (2.041 %) XML Schema 12 1 (2.041 %) JSF 12 1 (2.041 %) JNDI	Application Platforms 1 5 (10.20 %) WebLogic 2 4 (8.163 %) JBoss 3 3 (6.122 %) Tomcat 3 3 (6.122 %) WebSphere Application Server 4 2 (4.082 %) Jetty 5 1 (2.041 %) JRun 5 1 (2.041 %) Apache
Communications & Networking 1 5 (10.20 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 7 (14.29 %) Oracle 10g 2 5 (10.20 %) MySQL 3 2 (4.082 %) SQL Server 4 1 (2.041 %) Oracle 8/8i 4 1 (2.041 %) RDBMS
Development Applications 1 12 (24.49 %) JUnit 2 6 (12.24 %) Eclipse 3 2 (4.082 %) ClearQuest 3 2 (4.082 %) ClearCase 3 2 (4.082 %) Ant	General 1 5 (10.20 %) Finance 1 5 (10.20 %) Banking 2 4 (8.163 %) Telecoms 3 2 (4.082 %) Pharmaceutical 3 2 (4.082 %) Government 3 2 (4.082 %) Retail 3 2 (4.082 %) Insurance 3 2 (4.082 %) Corporate Banking 4 1 (2.041 %) Retail Banking 4 1 (2.041 %) Games
Job Titles 1 40 (81.63 %) Developer 2 38 (77.55 %) Java Developer 3 14 (28.57 %) Java/J2EE Developer 4 13 (26.53 %) J2EE Developer 5 4 (8.163 %) Software Engineer 5 4 (8.163 %) Software Development Engineer 6 3 (6.122 %) Programmer 6 3 (6.122 %) Java Programmer 7 2 (4.082 %) Author 7 2 (4.082 %) Web Developer 7 2 (4.082 %) Senior Developer 7 2 (4.082 %) Senior Java Developer 8 1 (2.041 %) Java Web Developer 8 1 (2.041 %) UNIX Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 2 (4.082 %) Asset Management
Operating Systems 1 5 (10.20 %) Unix 2 1 (2.041 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 14 (28.57 %) UML 2 3 (6.122 %) Web Development 3 2 (4.082 %) Wealth Management 3 2 (4.082 %) Project Planning 3 2 (4.082 %) Test Scripting 3 2 (4.082 %) E-Commerce 3 2 (4.082 %) Scrum 4 1 (2.041 %) Agile Software Development 4 1 (2.041 %) Automated Testing 4 1 (2.041 %) OOD 4 1 (2.041 %) Unit Testing
Programming Languages 1 45 (91.84 %) Java 2 23 (46.94 %) SQL 3 16 (32.65 %) PL/SQL 4 15 (30.61 %) JavaScript 5 4 (8.163 %) PHP 6 2 (4.082 %) C# 7 1 (2.041 %) DHTML 7 1 (2.041 %) Ruby	Qualifications 1 2 (4.082 %) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (4.082 %) QA	Vendors 1 25 (51.02 %) Oracle 2 2 (4.082 %) VMware 3 1 (2.041 %) Chordiant 3 1 (2.041 %) Symbian 3 1 (2.041 %) IBM