The first table below looks at the demand for JSTL 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 JSTL over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
JavaServer Pages Standard Tag Library (JSTL)
Rank 109 130 124
Rank change year-on-year
+21 -6
Contract jobs citing JSTL 9 2 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.386% 0.064% 0.066%
As % of the Application Development category 1.411% 0.225% 0.267%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 2 2
Average daily rate £290 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.76% -7.14%
UK excluding London average daily rate £388 £250 £330
% change year-on-year
+55.00% -24.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.00 - £40.00
All Application Development
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
638 889 748
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 27.37% 28.58% 24.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 342 476 428
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 £235 £238 £228
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £450 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 33 21
Average hourly rate £33.00 £17.51 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+88.46% -36.32%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.61 £13.50 £17.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £160.50 £33.31 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
JSTL
England

JSTL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West JSTL Jobs Demand Trend

JSTL
Daily Rate Trend

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

North West JSTL Daily Rate Trend

JSTL
Hourly Rate Trend

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

North West JSTL Hourly Rate Trend

JSTL
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JSTL within the North West region over the 3 months to 24 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 +16 9 £290 -10.76%
JSTL
England

JSTL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing JSTL 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 JSTL.

1 21 (100.00%) Java
1 21 (100.00%) JSP
2 19 (90.48%) JavaScript
3 18 (85.71%) Servlets
4 17 (80.95%) SQL
4 17 (80.95%) Ajax
5 16 (76.19%) Eclipse
6 13 (61.90%) Subversion
6 13 (61.90%) HTML
7 12 (57.14%) MVC
7 12 (57.14%) XML
8 11 (52.38%) J2EE
8 11 (52.38%) Struts
8 11 (52.38%) CSS
8 11 (52.38%) Spring
9 10 (47.62%) DB2
9 10 (47.62%) OO
9 10 (47.62%) IBM
9 10 (47.62%) WebSphere
9 10 (47.62%) jQuery
10 9 (42.86%) E-Commerce
10 9 (42.86%) Finance
11 8 (38.10%) ATG
11 8 (38.10%) Log4j
11 8 (38.10%) RDBMS
11 8 (38.10%) Content Management
11 8 (38.10%) Blue Martini
11 8 (38.10%) JMS
11 8 (38.10%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
11 8 (38.10%) XHTML

JSTL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing JSTL 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 JSTL. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 21 (100.00%) JSP
2 18 (85.71%) Servlets
3 17 (80.95%) Ajax
4 13 (61.90%) HTML
5 12 (57.14%) XML
6 11 (52.38%) J2EE
6 11 (52.38%) Struts
6 11 (52.38%) CSS
6 11 (52.38%) Spring
7 10 (47.62%) WebSphere
7 10 (47.62%) jQuery
8 8 (38.10%) JMS
8 8 (38.10%) XHTML
8 8 (38.10%) XSLT
8 8 (38.10%) EJB
8 8 (38.10%) JDBC
8 8 (38.10%) Web Services
8 8 (38.10%) XMLBeans
9 7 (33.33%) JSR 286
9 7 (33.33%) JSR 168
Application Platforms
1 8 (38.10%) MQSeries
1 8 (38.10%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (4.762%) Amazon AWS
Business Applications
1 8 (38.10%) Tridion
Communications & Networking
1 8 (38.10%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (47.62%) DB2
2 8 (38.10%) RDBMS
3 3 (14.29%) MySQL
4 1 (4.762%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (4.762%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 16 (76.19%) Eclipse
2 13 (61.90%) Subversion
3 8 (38.10%) Log4j
3 8 (38.10%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
3 8 (38.10%) Ant
3 8 (38.10%) JUnit
4 6 (28.57%) NetBeans
5 4 (19.05%) JIRA
6 1 (4.762%) Jenkins
6 1 (4.762%) Hudson
6 1 (4.762%) Git (software)
General
1 9 (42.86%) Finance
2 7 (33.33%) Retail
2 7 (33.33%) Games
3 2 (9.524%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (100.00%) Developer
2 17 (80.95%) Java Developer
3 8 (38.10%) J2EE Developer
4 7 (33.33%) Java/J2EE Developer
5 6 (28.57%) Web Developer
6 5 (23.81%) Web Applications Developer
6 5 (23.81%) Applications Developer
7 4 (19.05%) Java Web Developer
7 4 (19.05%) Java Applications Developer
8 2 (9.524%) WebSphere Developer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (38.10%) Web 2.0
2 1 (4.762%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (4.762%) Computer Science
2 1 (4.762%) E-Learning
Operating Systems
1 8 (38.10%) UNIX
1 8 (38.10%) HPUX
1 8 (38.10%) Solaris
1 8 (38.10%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (57.14%) MVC
2 10 (47.62%) OO
3 9 (42.86%) E-Commerce
4 8 (38.10%) Content Management
4 8 (38.10%) RAD
4 8 (38.10%) UML
5 5 (23.81%) Web Design
6 4 (19.05%) ITIL
6 4 (19.05%) Web Development
7 3 (14.29%) Release Management
8 2 (9.524%) Service Delivery
9 1 (4.762%) Web Application Development
9 1 (4.762%) Continuous Integration
9 1 (4.762%) Scrum
9 1 (4.762%) TDD
9 1 (4.762%) OOA/OOD
Programming Languages
1 21 (100.00%) Java
2 19 (90.48%) JavaScript
3 17 (80.95%) SQL
4 8 (38.10%) Perl
4 8 (38.10%) XPath
4 8 (38.10%) Bash shell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.762%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.762%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 10 (47.62%) IBM
2 8 (38.10%) ATG
2 8 (38.10%) Blue Martini
2 8 (38.10%) Interwoven
2 8 (38.10%) Elastic Path
3 2 (9.524%) Oracle
3 2 (9.524%) Endeca
3 2 (9.524%) Facebook
3 2 (9.524%) Twitter
4 1 (4.762%) VMware
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