The first table below looks at the demand for JSF skills in IT contracts advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited JSF over the 3 months to 20 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 North West 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
JavaServer Faces (JSF)
Rank 114 132 127
Rank change year-on-year
+18 -5
Contract jobs citing JSF 5 4 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.216% 0.126% 0.166%
As % of the Application Development category 0.797% 0.425% 0.679%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 4
Average daily rate £375 £378 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.66% +11.76%
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £330 £351
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year
+6.25% -5.88%
All Application Development
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
627 942 736
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 27.06% 29.67% 24.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 328 522 427
Average daily rate £300 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £238 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £450 £407
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 28 23
Average hourly rate £29.96 £19.50 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+53.64% -29.09%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.61 £13.50 £16.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.37 £33.32 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
JSF
England

JSF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West JSF Jobs Demand Trend

JSF
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing JSF across the North West region.

North West JSF Daily Rate Trend

JSF
Hourly Rate Trend

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

North West JSF Hourly Rate Trend

JSF
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JSF within the North West region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Cheshire +11 4 £375 -
Manchester - 1 - -
JSF
England

JSF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing JSF 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 JSF.

1 6 (100.00%) Java
2 5 (83.33%) JavaScript
2 5 (83.33%) SQL
2 5 (83.33%) J2EE
2 5 (83.33%) Oracle
2 5 (83.33%) CSS
2 5 (83.33%) Web Services
2 5 (83.33%) XSLT
2 5 (83.33%) Eclipse
2 5 (83.33%) Spring
2 5 (83.33%) Ajax
3 4 (66.67%) XPath
3 4 (66.67%) JIRA
3 4 (66.67%) Subversion
3 4 (66.67%) jQuery
3 4 (66.67%) WSDL
3 4 (66.67%) Finance
3 4 (66.67%) Hibernate
3 4 (66.67%) XHTML
3 4 (66.67%) Apache
3 4 (66.67%) JUnit
3 4 (66.67%) SOAP
3 4 (66.67%) PL/SQL
4 3 (50.00%) JSP
4 3 (50.00%) Servlets
4 3 (50.00%) IBM
4 3 (50.00%) JAX-RPC
4 3 (50.00%) Perforce
4 3 (50.00%) Apache Axis
4 3 (50.00%) Continuous Integration

JSF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing JSF 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 JSF. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (83.33%) J2EE
1 5 (83.33%) CSS
1 5 (83.33%) Web Services
1 5 (83.33%) XSLT
1 5 (83.33%) Spring
1 5 (83.33%) Ajax
2 4 (66.67%) Hibernate
2 4 (66.67%) jQuery
2 4 (66.67%) WSDL
2 4 (66.67%) XHTML
2 4 (66.67%) SOAP
3 3 (50.00%) DOM
3 3 (50.00%) JAX-RPC
3 3 (50.00%) JSP
3 3 (50.00%) Servlets
3 3 (50.00%) Apache Axis
3 3 (50.00%) WebSphere
3 3 (50.00%) ICEfaces
3 3 (50.00%) RichFaces
3 3 (50.00%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 4 (66.67%) Apache
2 2 (33.33%) ESB
2 2 (33.33%) Mule
3 1 (16.67%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
1 1 (16.67%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Eclipse
2 4 (66.67%) Subversion
2 4 (66.67%) JIRA
2 4 (66.67%) JUnit
3 1 (16.67%) TestNG
General
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Developer
2 3 (50.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (16.67%) J2EE Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Java Web Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Java/J2EE Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Web Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Software Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Web 2.0
2 1 (16.67%) RIA
2 1 (16.67%) Client/Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
1 3 (50.00%) TDD
1 3 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
1 3 (50.00%) Waterfall
2 2 (33.33%) Integration Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Wealth Management
3 1 (16.67%) Dependency Injection
3 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
3 1 (16.67%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
2 5 (83.33%) JavaScript
2 5 (83.33%) SQL
3 4 (66.67%) XPath
3 4 (66.67%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Oracle
2 3 (50.00%) IBM
2 3 (50.00%) Perforce
Chester, North West
Required: * Extensive (minimum 5yrs + commercial) experience of Web 2.0 technologies i.e AJAX, XHTML, JavaScript, XPATH, CSS, XSLT, DOM, JSP, Servlets * Minimum 2yrs + JSF experience * Minimum 5yrs...
Computer Futures
Rate: £350 - £400 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013
Chester, North West
Required Skills:SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:Essential:-Extensive experience of Web 2.0 technologies i.e AJAX, XHTML, JavaScript, XPATH, CSS, XSLT, DOM, JSP, Servlets-Minimum 2yrs + JSF...
Rate: £350 - £400 per day
Posted: 11 May 2013