The first table below looks at the demand for Servlets 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 Servlets 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 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java Servlet
Rank 64 79 66
Rank change year-on-year
+15 -13
Contract jobs citing Servlets 11 9 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 1.168% 0.685% 0.293%
As % of the Application Development category 3.780% 2.296% 1.045%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 9 1
Average daily rate £291 £325 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.38% -18.75%
UK excluding London average daily rate £319 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
-8.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £42.50 £26.75 £45.00
% change year-on-year
+58.87% -40.55%
All Application Development
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
291 392 287
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 30.89% 29.86% 28.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 230 156
Average daily rate £290 £300 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.33% +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 20 14 12
Average hourly rate £21.00 £17.50 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -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%
Servlets
North West

Servlets
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester Servlets Daily Rate Trend

Servlets
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Manchester Servlets Hourly Rate Trend

Servlets
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 24 (100.00%) Java
1 24 (100.00%) JSP
2 21 (87.50%) JavaScript
3 19 (79.17%) Ajax
4 17 (70.83%) OO
4 17 (70.83%) SQL
5 16 (66.67%) J2EE
5 16 (66.67%) JSTL
6 15 (62.50%) HTML
6 15 (62.50%) Eclipse
7 13 (54.17%) XML
8 12 (50.00%) JDBC
8 12 (50.00%) jQuery
8 12 (50.00%) Content Management
8 12 (50.00%) Spring
9 11 (45.83%) Subversion
9 11 (45.83%) Struts
9 11 (45.83%) Linux
9 11 (45.83%) JMS
10 9 (37.50%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
10 9 (37.50%) RDBMS
10 9 (37.50%) IBM
10 9 (37.50%) RAD
10 9 (37.50%) XHTML
10 9 (37.50%) E-Commerce
10 9 (37.50%) Finance
10 9 (37.50%) UML
10 9 (37.50%) UNIX
10 9 (37.50%) EJB
10 9 (37.50%) CSS

Servlets
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 24 (100.00%) JSP
2 19 (79.17%) Ajax
3 16 (66.67%) J2EE
3 16 (66.67%) JSTL
4 15 (62.50%) HTML
5 13 (54.17%) XML
6 12 (50.00%) JDBC
6 12 (50.00%) jQuery
6 12 (50.00%) Spring
7 11 (45.83%) Struts
7 11 (45.83%) JMS
8 9 (37.50%) XHTML
8 9 (37.50%) EJB
8 9 (37.50%) CSS
8 9 (37.50%) WebSphere
9 8 (33.33%) XMLBeans
9 8 (33.33%) XSLT
10 7 (29.17%) Hibernate
11 6 (25.00%) JSR 168
11 6 (25.00%) JSR 286
Application Platforms
1 9 (37.50%) WebSphere Application Server
2 8 (33.33%) MQSeries
3 3 (12.50%) JCAPS
3 3 (12.50%) SharePoint
4 1 (4.167%) Apache Solr
Business Applications
1 8 (33.33%) Tridion
Communications & Networking
1 8 (33.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (37.50%) RDBMS
1 9 (37.50%) DB2
2 3 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (12.50%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.167%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 15 (62.50%) Eclipse
2 11 (45.83%) Subversion
3 9 (37.50%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
3 9 (37.50%) JUnit
4 8 (33.33%) Ant
4 8 (33.33%) Log4j
4 8 (33.33%) NetBeans
5 3 (12.50%) JIRA
5 3 (12.50%) Visual Studio
5 3 (12.50%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 9 (37.50%) Finance
2 7 (29.17%) Games
2 7 (29.17%) Retail
3 2 (8.333%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (87.50%) Developer
2 19 (79.17%) Java Developer
3 11 (45.83%) Java/J2EE Developer
4 7 (29.17%) J2EE Developer
5 4 (16.67%) Applications Developer
5 4 (16.67%) Web Developer
5 4 (16.67%) Web Applications Developer
6 3 (12.50%) Java Web Developer
6 3 (12.50%) Java Applications Developer
7 2 (8.333%) Software Architect
7 2 (8.333%) Architect
7 2 (8.333%) Enterprise Architect
8 1 (4.167%) WebSphere Developer
8 1 (4.167%) Team Leader
8 1 (4.167%) Development Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 8 (33.33%) Web 2.0
2 4 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (12.50%) NHS
3 3 (12.50%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 11 (45.83%) Linux
2 9 (37.50%) UNIX
3 8 (33.33%) HPUX
3 8 (33.33%) Solaris
4 3 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (70.83%) OO
2 12 (50.00%) Content Management
3 9 (37.50%) RAD
3 9 (37.50%) E-Commerce
3 9 (37.50%) UML
4 8 (33.33%) MVC
5 4 (16.67%) Web Design
5 4 (16.67%) Web Application Development
5 4 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
6 3 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (12.50%) OOP
6 3 (12.50%) ITIL
7 2 (8.333%) Release Management
7 2 (8.333%) Web Development
8 1 (4.167%) Continuous Integration
8 1 (4.167%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 24 (100.00%) Java
2 21 (87.50%) JavaScript
3 17 (70.83%) SQL
4 9 (37.50%) Perl
4 9 (37.50%) Bash shell
5 8 (33.33%) XPath
6 3 (12.50%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (4.167%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) HL7
System Software
1 3 (12.50%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 3 (12.50%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 9 (37.50%) IBM
2 8 (33.33%) Elastic Path
2 8 (33.33%) Blue Martini
2 8 (33.33%) ATG
2 8 (33.33%) Interwoven
3 5 (20.83%) Oracle
4 3 (12.50%) Microsoft
5 1 (4.167%) Facebook
5 1 (4.167%) Twitter
5 1 (4.167%) Sun
Manchester, Lancashire
Main skills: Java/J2EE, web applications (Spring/Servlets/JavaScript), Agile... You will be working on enterprise scale web application development using J2EE and the spring Framework and be...
Applause IT Innovation
Rate: £340 - £360 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
Manchester, North West
Tasks & Responsibilities: Design, development and testing of web applications and web services Review and refactor code and advise/mentor more junior developers Deploy and support solutions through testing...
Computer Futures
Rate: £300 - £400 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013