Merseyside JSP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for JavaServer Pages (JSP) skills within the Merseyside 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	23	29
Rank change on same period last year	+6
Matching contract IT job ads	16	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.021 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	14.04 %	3.846 %
Daily rates quoted	4	1
Average minimum daily rate	£450	£280
Average daily rate	£471	£280
% change on same period last year	+68.30 %
Average maximum daily rate	£493	£280
UK excluding London average daily rate	£381	£335
% change on same period last year	+13.88 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£37.12	£38.12
% change on same period last year	-2.60 %
Application Development Merseyside
Matching contract IT job ads	114	52
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.146 %	0.058 %
Daily rates quoted	33	14
Average minimum daily rate	£349	£285
Average daily rate	£370	£291
% change on same period last year	+27.36 %
Average maximum daily rate	£391	£297
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£335
% change on same period last year	+5.30 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	6
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.89	£20.50
Average hourly rate	£28.16	£22.97
% change on same period last year	+22.59 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.42	£25.44
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 Merseyside 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 Merseyside region.

JSP
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing JSP across the Merseyside 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 Merseyside 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 Merseyside 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	Liverpool	-	12	£512	-

JSP North West

JSP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Merseyside 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 20 (95.24 %) Java 2 10 (47.62 %) JavaScript 2 10 (47.62 %) SQL 2 10 (47.62 %) Oracle 2 10 (47.62 %) HTML 2 10 (47.62 %) Struts 3 9 (42.86 %) OO 3 9 (42.86 %) JSF 4 8 (38.10 %) Chordiant 4 8 (38.10 %) CSS 5 7 (33.33 %) J2EE 6 6 (28.57 %) XML 7 5 (23.81 %) JUnit 7 5 (23.81 %) WebServices 7 5 (23.81 %) Servlets

7 5 (23.81 %) UML 7 5 (23.81 %) Oracle 10g 8 4 (19.05 %) RDBMS 8 4 (19.05 %) Spring 8 4 (19.05 %) JSTL 8 4 (19.05 %) System Testing 8 4 (19.05 %) E-Commerce 8 4 (19.05 %) Ant 9 3 (14.29 %) EJB 9 3 (14.29 %) Sun 9 3 (14.29 %) Sun Certification 9 3 (14.29 %) iBATIS 9 3 (14.29 %) Retail 10 2 (9.524 %) Government 11 1 (4.762 %) Degree

JSP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Merseyside 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 10 (47.62 %) HTML 1 10 (47.62 %) Struts 2 9 (42.86 %) JSF 3 8 (38.10 %) CSS 4 7 (33.33 %) J2EE 5 6 (28.57 %) XML 6 5 (23.81 %) WebServices 6 5 (23.81 %) Servlets 7 4 (19.05 %) JSTL 7 4 (19.05 %) Spring 8 3 (14.29 %) EJB 8 3 (14.29 %) iBATIS 9 1 (4.762 %) MyFaces 9 1 (4.762 %) JDBC	Application Platforms 1 1 (4.762 %) WebLogic 1 1 (4.762 %) Oracle Application Server 1 1 (4.762 %) Oracle 10gAS
Applications 1 1 (4.762 %) Photoshop 1 1 (4.762 %) Fireworks	Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (23.81 %) Oracle 10g 2 4 (19.05 %) RDBMS 3 1 (4.762 %) Oracle 8/8i 3 1 (4.762 %) Oracle 9i
Development Applications 1 5 (23.81 %) JUnit 2 4 (19.05 %) Ant 3 1 (4.762 %) Flash 3 1 (4.762 %) Eclipse 3 1 (4.762 %) Dreamweaver 3 1 (4.762 %) JDeveloper 3 1 (4.762 %) WebLogic Workshop 3 1 (4.762 %) HttpUnit	General 1 3 (14.29 %) Retail 2 2 (9.524 %) Government 3 1 (4.762 %) Graphic Design
Job Titles 1 20 (95.24 %) Developer 2 19 (90.48 %) Java Developer 3 2 (9.524 %) Applications Developer 3 2 (9.524 %) Java Applications Developer 4 1 (4.762 %) Senior Java Applications Developer 4 1 (4.762 %) Java/J2EE Developer 4 1 (4.762 %) Senior Developer 4 1 (4.762 %) Web Developer 4 1 (4.762 %) J2EE Developer 4 1 (4.762 %) Web Designer 4 1 (4.762 %) Senior Java Developer 4 1 (4.762 %) Senior Applications Developer 4 1 (4.762 %) Java Web Developer	Miscellaneous 1 1 (4.762 %) Client/Server
Operating Systems 1 1 (4.762 %) Unix	Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (42.86 %) OO 2 5 (23.81 %) UML 3 4 (19.05 %) System Testing 3 4 (19.05 %) E-Commerce 4 1 (4.762 %) SOA 4 1 (4.762 %) TDD 4 1 (4.762 %) ITIL
Programming Languages 1 20 (95.24 %) Java 2 10 (47.62 %) JavaScript 2 10 (47.62 %) SQL 3 1 (4.762 %) PL/SQL	Qualifications 1 3 (14.29 %) Sun Certification 2 1 (4.762 %) Degree 2 1 (4.762 %) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (4.762 %) QA	Vendors 1 10 (47.62 %) Oracle 2 8 (38.10 %) Chordiant 3 3 (14.29 %) Sun