The first table below looks at the demand for JSP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester 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 Manchester 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 60 73 62
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -11
Contract jobs citing JSP 15 10 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 1.608% 0.774% 0.960%
As % of the Application Development category 5.068% 2.632% 3.472%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 10 3
Average daily rate £295 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.23% +8.33%
UK excluding London average daily rate £368 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
+13.07% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year
+1.85% -28.94%
All Application Development
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
296 380 288
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 31.73% 29.41% 27.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 219 155
Average daily rate £295 £300 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.66% +9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £233 £235 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £375 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 14 12
Average hourly rate £33.00 £17.50 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+88.57% -36.36%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.61 £15.00 £18.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £160.50 £33.32 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
JSP
North West

JSP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester JSP Daily Rate Trend

JSP
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing JSP across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Manchester JSP Daily Rate Histogram

JSP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Manchester JSP Hourly Rate Trend

JSP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 34 (97.14%) Java
2 27 (77.14%) JavaScript
3 26 (74.29%) Servlets
4 22 (62.86%) SQL
4 22 (62.86%) J2EE
5 21 (60.00%) Ajax
5 21 (60.00%) JSTL
6 20 (57.14%) jQuery
6 20 (57.14%) HTML
7 18 (51.43%) OO
7 18 (51.43%) Eclipse
8 17 (48.57%) Spring
9 16 (45.71%) Struts
9 16 (45.71%) XML
10 15 (42.86%) CSS
10 15 (42.86%) MVC
10 15 (42.86%) Subversion
11 14 (40.00%) E-Commerce
12 13 (37.14%) Content Management
13 12 (34.29%) JDBC
14 11 (31.43%) DB2
14 11 (31.43%) JMS
14 11 (31.43%) Linux
14 11 (31.43%) IBM
14 11 (31.43%) WebSphere
15 10 (28.57%) Hibernate
15 10 (28.57%) EJB
15 10 (28.57%) Web Services
16 9 (25.71%) UNIX
16 9 (25.71%) JUnit

JSP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 26 (74.29%) Servlets
2 22 (62.86%) J2EE
3 21 (60.00%) Ajax
3 21 (60.00%) JSTL
4 20 (57.14%) jQuery
4 20 (57.14%) HTML
5 17 (48.57%) Spring
6 16 (45.71%) Struts
6 16 (45.71%) XML
7 15 (42.86%) CSS
8 12 (34.29%) JDBC
9 11 (31.43%) JMS
9 11 (31.43%) WebSphere
10 10 (28.57%) Hibernate
10 10 (28.57%) EJB
10 10 (28.57%) Web Services
11 9 (25.71%) XHTML
12 8 (22.86%) HTML5
12 8 (22.86%) XMLBeans
12 8 (22.86%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 9 (25.71%) WebSphere Application Server
2 8 (22.86%) MQSeries
3 3 (8.571%) SharePoint
3 3 (8.571%) JCAPS
4 1 (2.857%) Tomcat
4 1 (2.857%) CMS
4 1 (2.857%) Adobe CQ
4 1 (2.857%) Apache Solr
4 1 (2.857%) Amazon AWS
Applications
1 1 (2.857%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 8 (22.86%) Tridion
Communications & Networking
1 8 (22.86%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (31.43%) DB2
2 9 (25.71%) RDBMS
3 4 (11.43%) MySQL
4 3 (8.571%) SQL Server
4 3 (8.571%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.857%) Oracle 8/8i
5 1 (2.857%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 18 (51.43%) Eclipse
2 15 (42.86%) Subversion
3 9 (25.71%) JUnit
3 9 (25.71%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
3 9 (25.71%) NetBeans
4 8 (22.86%) Log4j
4 8 (22.86%) Ant
5 4 (11.43%) JIRA
6 3 (8.571%) Visual Studio
6 3 (8.571%) VSS/SourceSafe
7 2 (5.714%) Jenkins
7 2 (5.714%) Hudson
8 1 (2.857%) Git (software)
General
1 9 (25.71%) Finance
2 8 (22.86%) Retail
3 7 (20.00%) Games
4 2 (5.714%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (91.43%) Developer
2 25 (71.43%) Java Developer
3 11 (31.43%) Java/J2EE Developer
4 9 (25.71%) J2EE Developer
5 8 (22.86%) Web Developer
6 5 (14.29%) Applications Developer
6 5 (14.29%) Web Applications Developer
6 5 (14.29%) Java Web Developer
7 4 (11.43%) Java Applications Developer
8 3 (8.571%) WebSphere Developer
9 2 (5.714%) Enterprise Architect
9 2 (5.714%) Architect
9 2 (5.714%) Software Architect
10 1 (2.857%) Team Leader
10 1 (2.857%) Development Team Leader
10 1 (2.857%) JavaScript Developer
10 1 (2.857%) Front-End Developer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (22.86%) Web 2.0
2 6 (17.14%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (8.571%) NHS
3 3 (8.571%) Replication
4 2 (5.714%) E-Learning
5 1 (2.857%) W3C
5 1 (2.857%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 11 (31.43%) Linux
2 9 (25.71%) UNIX
3 8 (22.86%) HPUX
3 8 (22.86%) Solaris
4 3 (8.571%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (51.43%) OO
2 15 (42.86%) MVC
3 14 (40.00%) E-Commerce
4 13 (37.14%) Content Management
5 9 (25.71%) UML
5 9 (25.71%) RAD
6 6 (17.14%) Agile Software Development
7 5 (14.29%) Web Application Development
7 5 (14.29%) Web Design
8 4 (11.43%) Web Development
8 4 (11.43%) ITIL
9 3 (8.571%) OOP
9 3 (8.571%) Disaster Recovery
9 3 (8.571%) Release Management
9 3 (8.571%) Continuous Integration
10 2 (5.714%) BDD
10 2 (5.714%) Scrum
10 2 (5.714%) TDD
10 2 (5.714%) Service Delivery
11 1 (2.857%) OOA/OOD
Programming Languages
1 34 (97.14%) Java
2 27 (77.14%) JavaScript
3 22 (62.86%) SQL
4 9 (25.71%) Perl
4 9 (25.71%) Bash shell
5 8 (22.86%) XPath
6 3 (8.571%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (2.857%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.571%) HL7
2 2 (5.714%) QA
System Software
1 3 (8.571%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (2.857%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (8.571%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 11 (31.43%) IBM
2 8 (22.86%) Elastic Path
2 8 (22.86%) ATG
2 8 (22.86%) Blue Martini
2 8 (22.86%) Interwoven
3 6 (17.14%) Oracle
4 3 (8.571%) Microsoft
5 2 (5.714%) Facebook
5 2 (5.714%) Twitter
5 2 (5.714%) Endeca
6 1 (2.857%) Adobe
6 1 (2.857%) Sun
6 1 (2.857%) Alterian
6 1 (2.857%) VMware
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