The first table below looks at the demand for JSP 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 JSP over the 3 months to 21 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
JavaServer Pages (JSP)
Rank 97 99 107
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +8
Contract jobs citing JSP 22 36 23
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.932% 1.141% 0.764%
As % of the Application Development category 3.454% 3.922% 3.142%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 28 11
Average daily rate £350 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £270 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £382 £365
UK excluding London average daily rate £353 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
+8.46% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year
+1.85% -28.94%
All Application Development
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
637 918 732
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 26.98% 29.11% 24.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 335 504 424
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 £226 £238 £233
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £450 £408
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 32 22
Average hourly rate £29.96 £18.51 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+61.90% -32.70%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.61 £13.50 £17.60
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.37 £33.31 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
JSP
England

JSP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West 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 North West region.

North West 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 North West region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

North West 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 North West region.

North West JSP Hourly Rate Trend

JSP
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JSP within the North West region over the 3 months to 21 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
Manchester +18 12 £291 -10.38%
Cheshire +4 7 £375 +50.00%
Lancashire +4 3 £350 -6.66%
JSP
England

JSP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 42 (93.33%) Java
2 35 (77.78%) JavaScript
3 33 (73.33%) Servlets
4 32 (71.11%) J2EE
5 30 (66.67%) SQL
6 27 (60.00%) Ajax
7 26 (57.78%) jQuery
8 21 (46.67%) WebSphere
8 21 (46.67%) Subversion
8 21 (46.67%) HTML
9 20 (44.44%) Struts
9 20 (44.44%) XML
9 20 (44.44%) Eclipse
10 19 (42.22%) CSS
10 19 (42.22%) Spring
10 19 (42.22%) JSTL
11 18 (40.00%) Finance
12 17 (37.78%) Hibernate
12 17 (37.78%) Web Services
12 17 (37.78%) DB2
12 17 (37.78%) OO
13 16 (35.56%) JMS
13 16 (35.56%) EJB
14 15 (33.33%) Oracle
14 15 (33.33%) E-Commerce
14 15 (33.33%) IBM
14 15 (33.33%) MVC
14 15 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
15 14 (31.11%) XHTML
15 14 (31.11%) JUnit

JSP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 33 (73.33%) Servlets
2 32 (71.11%) J2EE
3 27 (60.00%) Ajax
4 26 (57.78%) jQuery
5 21 (46.67%) WebSphere
5 21 (46.67%) HTML
6 20 (44.44%) Struts
6 20 (44.44%) XML
7 19 (42.22%) CSS
7 19 (42.22%) Spring
7 19 (42.22%) JSTL
8 17 (37.78%) Hibernate
8 17 (37.78%) Web Services
9 16 (35.56%) JMS
9 16 (35.56%) EJB
10 14 (31.11%) XHTML
11 13 (28.89%) JDBC
12 12 (26.67%) XSLT
13 10 (22.22%) CSS3
14 9 (20.00%) WSDL
Application Platforms
1 10 (22.22%) WebSphere Application Server
2 8 (17.78%) MQSeries
3 6 (13.33%) WebLogic
4 4 (8.889%) Apache
5 3 (6.667%) JCAPS
5 3 (6.667%) SharePoint
6 1 (2.222%) Mule
6 1 (2.222%) ESB
6 1 (2.222%) Apache Solr
6 1 (2.222%) Amazon AWS
6 1 (2.222%) Adobe CQ
6 1 (2.222%) Tomcat
6 1 (2.222%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (2.222%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 8 (17.78%) Tridion
Communications & Networking
1 9 (20.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (37.78%) DB2
2 12 (26.67%) RDBMS
3 3 (6.667%) SQL Server
3 3 (6.667%) MySQL
3 3 (6.667%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.222%) Oracle 11g
4 1 (2.222%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.222%) Oracle Discoverer
4 1 (2.222%) Oracle 10g
4 1 (2.222%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 21 (46.67%) Subversion
2 20 (44.44%) Eclipse
3 14 (31.11%) JUnit
4 10 (22.22%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
5 8 (17.78%) Log4j
5 8 (17.78%) NetBeans
5 8 (17.78%) Ant
6 6 (13.33%) JIRA
7 5 (11.11%) ClearCase
8 4 (8.889%) Visual Studio
9 3 (6.667%) Git (software)
9 3 (6.667%) Gradle
9 3 (6.667%) VSS/SourceSafe
10 1 (2.222%) Hudson
10 1 (2.222%) Jenkins
General
1 18 (40.00%) Finance
2 8 (17.78%) Retail
3 7 (15.56%) Games
4 5 (11.11%) Banking
5 2 (4.444%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 38 (84.44%) Developer
2 30 (66.67%) Java Developer
3 10 (22.22%) Java/J2EE Developer
4 9 (20.00%) J2EE Developer
5 7 (15.56%) Web Developer
6 5 (11.11%) Senior Java Developer
6 5 (11.11%) Senior Developer
7 4 (8.889%) Architect
7 4 (8.889%) Applications Developer
7 4 (8.889%) Web Applications Developer
7 4 (8.889%) Java Web Developer
8 3 (6.667%) Java Applications Developer
8 3 (6.667%) WebSphere Developer
9 2 (4.444%) Software Architect
9 2 (4.444%) Enterprise Architect
9 2 (4.444%) Security Architect
10 1 (2.222%) Front-End Developer
10 1 (2.222%) JavaScript Developer
10 1 (2.222%) Team Leader
10 1 (2.222%) WebSphere Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 12 (26.67%) Web 2.0
2 5 (11.11%) PMI
3 4 (8.889%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (6.667%) Replication
4 3 (6.667%) E-Learning
4 3 (6.667%) NHS
5 2 (4.444%) RMADS
6 1 (2.222%) RIA
6 1 (2.222%) PKI
6 1 (2.222%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.222%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 11 (24.44%) Linux
2 9 (20.00%) UNIX
3 8 (17.78%) HPUX
3 8 (17.78%) Solaris
4 3 (6.667%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (37.78%) OO
2 15 (33.33%) E-Commerce
2 15 (33.33%) MVC
2 15 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
3 13 (28.89%) Content Management
4 10 (22.22%) UML
4 10 (22.22%) RAD
5 9 (20.00%) Waterfall
6 7 (15.56%) BDD
7 6 (13.33%) TDD
8 5 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
8 5 (11.11%) RUP
8 5 (11.11%) PRINCE2
8 5 (11.11%) PRINCE
8 5 (11.11%) CMMI
8 5 (11.11%) Project Management
9 4 (8.889%) Web Design
9 4 (8.889%) Web Development
10 3 (6.667%) Integration Testing
10 3 (6.667%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 42 (93.33%) Java
2 35 (77.78%) JavaScript
3 30 (66.67%) SQL
4 12 (26.67%) XPath
5 9 (20.00%) Bash shell
5 9 (20.00%) Perl
6 4 (8.889%) PL/SQL
7 3 (6.667%) Groovy
7 3 (6.667%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (11.11%) PMI Certification
2 2 (4.444%) CISSP
2 2 (4.444%) SC Cleared
2 2 (4.444%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.222%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.667%) HL7
2 2 (4.444%) JSP 440
3 1 (2.222%) QA
System Software
1 3 (6.667%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (2.222%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (6.667%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 15 (33.33%) Oracle
1 15 (33.33%) IBM
2 8 (17.78%) Blue Martini
2 8 (17.78%) Interwoven
2 8 (17.78%) ATG
2 8 (17.78%) Elastic Path
3 5 (11.11%) JBoss
3 5 (11.11%) Chordiant
4 3 (6.667%) Microsoft
4 3 (6.667%) Perforce
5 2 (4.444%) Endeca
6 1 (2.222%) TippingPoint
6 1 (2.222%) ArcSight
6 1 (2.222%) Facebook
6 1 (2.222%) Twitter
6 1 (2.222%) Sun
6 1 (2.222%) Citrix
6 1 (2.222%) Adobe
6 1 (2.222%) Alterian
Greater Manchester
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Rate: £300 - £400 per day
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Rate: £350 - £400 per day
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