The first table below looks at the demand for JSR 286 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 JSR 286 over the 3 months to 23 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java Portlet Specification v2.0 (JSR 286)
Rank 66 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing JSR 286 7 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.749% - -
As % of the Application Development category 2.389% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 0
Average daily rate £285 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £290 - £305
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Development
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
293 386 295
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 31.34% 29.83% 27.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 224 161
Average daily rate £293 £300 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.50% +9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £230 £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%
JSR 286
North West

JSR 286
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing JSR 286 across the Manchester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Manchester JSR 286 Jobs Demand Trend

JSR 286
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing JSR 286 across the Manchester region.

Manchester JSR 286 Daily Rate Trend

JSR 286
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing JSR 286 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 JSR 286.

1 9 (100.00%) Java
1 9 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 9 (100.00%) Spring
1 9 (100.00%) JSR 168
2 8 (88.89%) CSS
3 7 (77.78%) JSP
3 7 (77.78%) Servlets
3 7 (77.78%) Ajax
3 7 (77.78%) JSTL
3 7 (77.78%) jQuery
4 6 (66.67%) Spring Web Flow
4 6 (66.67%) Hibernate
4 6 (66.67%) MVC
5 5 (55.56%) Eclipse
5 5 (55.56%) NetBeans
5 5 (55.56%) HTML5
5 5 (55.56%) CSS3
5 5 (55.56%) JSON
6 4 (44.44%) REST
6 4 (44.44%) JPA
6 4 (44.44%) JIRA
6 4 (44.44%) Web Design
6 4 (44.44%) Subversion
6 4 (44.44%) SOAP
6 4 (44.44%) Web Services
6 4 (44.44%) SQL
6 4 (44.44%) HTML
6 4 (44.44%) ITIL
7 3 (33.33%) Release Management
8 2 (22.22%) Web Development

JSR 286
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing JSR 286 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 JSR 286. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (100.00%) Spring
1 9 (100.00%) JSR 168
2 8 (88.89%) CSS
3 7 (77.78%) JSP
3 7 (77.78%) Servlets
3 7 (77.78%) Ajax
3 7 (77.78%) JSTL
3 7 (77.78%) jQuery
4 6 (66.67%) Spring Web Flow
4 6 (66.67%) Hibernate
5 5 (55.56%) HTML5
5 5 (55.56%) CSS3
5 5 (55.56%) JSON
6 4 (44.44%) REST
6 4 (44.44%) JPA
6 4 (44.44%) SOAP
6 4 (44.44%) Web Services
6 4 (44.44%) HTML
7 2 (22.22%) XML
7 2 (22.22%) Middleware
Development Applications
1 5 (55.56%) Eclipse
1 5 (55.56%) NetBeans
2 4 (44.44%) JIRA
2 4 (44.44%) Subversion
General
1 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
1 1 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (100.00%) Developer
2 8 (88.89%) Java Developer
3 4 (44.44%) Web Applications Developer
3 4 (44.44%) Web Developer
3 4 (44.44%) Applications Developer
4 3 (33.33%) Java Applications Developer
4 3 (33.33%) Java Web Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) MVC
2 4 (44.44%) Web Design
2 4 (44.44%) ITIL
3 3 (33.33%) Release Management
4 2 (22.22%) Web Development
4 2 (22.22%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) Java
1 9 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (44.44%) SQL
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Facebook
1 2 (22.22%) Twitter