North West JSR 168 Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Java Portlet Specification (JSR 168) skills within the North West region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited JSR 168 over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Java Portlet Specification (JSR 168)
Location Ashby-de-la-Zouch East Midlands England Farnborough Hampshire Leicestershire London Middlesex North West North Yorkshire South East UK West Midlands York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
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Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£363	£349
% change on same period last year	+3.98 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
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UK excluding London average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Application Development North West
Matching contract IT job ads	895	1008
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.260 %	1.019 %
Daily rates quoted	156	145
Average minimum daily rate	£288	£310
Average daily rate	£305	£332
% change on same period last year	-8.17 %
Average maximum daily rate	£322	£354
UK excluding London average daily rate	£329	£333
% change on same period last year	-1.25 %
Hourly rates quoted	88	88
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.11	£25.61
Average hourly rate	£27.83	£28.02
% change on same period last year	-0.67 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.55	£30.42
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.10	£32.14
% change on same period last year	-3.23 %
JSR 168 England

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.

JSR 168
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing JSR 168 across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

JSR 168
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing JSR 168 across the North West region.