The first table below looks at the demand for Servlets 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 Servlets over the 3 months to 19 June 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java Servlet
Rank 94 103 110
Rank change year-on-year
+9 +7
Contract jobs citing Servlets 23 31 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.964% 1.020% 0.496%
As % of the Application Development category 3.583% 3.483% 1.992%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 22 8
Average daily rate £350 £344 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.81% +5.76%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £330
% change year-on-year
- +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £42.50 £26.75 £42.50
% change year-on-year
+58.87% -37.05%
All Application Development
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
642 890 753
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 26.90% 29.30% 24.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 482 428
Average daily rate £313 £325 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.84% -3.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £240 £217
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 24 33 32
Average hourly rate £33.00 £17.51 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+88.46% -41.63%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.61 £13.50 £17.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £121.65 £33.30 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
Servlets
England

Servlets
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West Servlets Jobs Demand Trend

Servlets
Daily Rate Trend

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

North West Servlets Daily Rate Trend

Servlets
Hourly Rate Trend

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

North West Servlets Hourly Rate Trend

Servlets
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Servlets within the North West region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Manchester +8 11 £295 -9.23% 2
Cheshire +3 11 £375 +7.14% 1
Lancashire +3 1 £350 -7.28% 4
Servlets
England

Servlets
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing Servlets 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 Servlets.

1 36 (97.30%) Java
2 35 (94.59%) JavaScript
3 31 (83.78%) JSP
4 28 (75.68%) Ajax
5 27 (72.97%) SQL
5 27 (72.97%) jQuery
6 24 (64.86%) J2EE
6 24 (64.86%) CSS
7 22 (59.46%) Web Services
8 20 (54.05%) Hibernate
9 19 (51.35%) Spring
9 19 (51.35%) Agile Software Development
10 17 (45.95%) Subversion
10 17 (45.95%) Eclipse
11 16 (43.24%) WebSphere
11 16 (43.24%) MVC
12 15 (40.54%) Finance
12 15 (40.54%) Oracle
13 14 (37.84%) XML
13 14 (37.84%) XSLT
13 14 (37.84%) XPath
14 13 (35.14%) XHTML
15 12 (32.43%) OO
15 12 (32.43%) WSDL
15 12 (32.43%) DB2
15 12 (32.43%) HTML
15 12 (32.43%) JSTL
16 11 (29.73%) SOAP
16 11 (29.73%) EJB
16 11 (29.73%) JUnit

Servlets
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing Servlets 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 Servlets. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 31 (83.78%) JSP
2 28 (75.68%) Ajax
3 27 (72.97%) jQuery
4 24 (64.86%) J2EE
4 24 (64.86%) CSS
5 22 (59.46%) Web Services
6 20 (54.05%) Hibernate
7 19 (51.35%) Spring
8 16 (43.24%) WebSphere
9 14 (37.84%) XML
9 14 (37.84%) XSLT
10 13 (35.14%) XHTML
11 12 (32.43%) WSDL
11 12 (32.43%) HTML
11 12 (32.43%) JSTL
12 11 (29.73%) SOAP
12 11 (29.73%) EJB
13 10 (27.03%) Struts
13 10 (27.03%) HTML5
13 10 (27.03%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 6 (16.22%) WebSphere Application Server
1 6 (16.22%) Apache
2 5 (13.51%) WebLogic
3 3 (8.108%) MQSeries
4 1 (2.703%) Mule
4 1 (2.703%) JCAPS
4 1 (2.703%) Apache Solr
4 1 (2.703%) ESB
4 1 (2.703%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (8.108%) Tridion
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.81%) Internet
2 1 (2.703%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (32.43%) DB2
2 6 (16.22%) RDBMS
3 3 (8.108%) SQLite
4 2 (5.405%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.703%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.703%) Oracle 8/8i
5 1 (2.703%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.703%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 17 (45.95%) Subversion
1 17 (45.95%) Eclipse
2 11 (29.73%) JUnit
3 8 (21.62%) JIRA
4 7 (18.92%) NetBeans
5 6 (16.22%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
6 5 (13.51%) ClearCase
7 4 (10.81%) Git (software)
8 3 (8.108%) Gradle
8 3 (8.108%) Log4j
8 3 (8.108%) Ant
9 1 (2.703%) Jenkins
9 1 (2.703%) Hudson
9 1 (2.703%) Visual Studio
9 1 (2.703%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 15 (40.54%) Finance
2 5 (13.51%) Banking
3 3 (8.108%) Retail
3 3 (8.108%) Games
4 2 (5.405%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (91.89%) Developer
2 24 (64.86%) Java Developer
3 9 (24.32%) Web Developer
4 8 (21.62%) Applications Developer
4 8 (21.62%) Web Applications Developer
5 7 (18.92%) Senior Java Developer
5 7 (18.92%) Senior Developer
6 6 (16.22%) Java/J2EE Developer
7 4 (10.81%) Java Web Developer
7 4 (10.81%) Java Applications Developer
8 3 (8.108%) .NET Applications Developer
8 3 (8.108%) .NET Web Developer
8 3 (8.108%) J2EE Developer
8 3 (8.108%) .NET Developer
9 2 (5.405%) Software Developer
9 2 (5.405%) WebSphere Developer
10 1 (2.703%) C++/C# Developer
10 1 (2.703%) C# Web Developer
10 1 (2.703%) C Developer
10 1 (2.703%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 10 (27.03%) Web 2.0
2 5 (13.51%) PMI
3 4 (10.81%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.703%) RIA
4 1 (2.703%) Computer Science
4 1 (2.703%) Replication
4 1 (2.703%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.51%) UNIX
2 4 (10.81%) Windows
2 4 (10.81%) Linux
3 3 (8.108%) HPUX
3 3 (8.108%) Solaris
3 3 (8.108%) Windows CE
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (51.35%) Agile Software Development
2 16 (43.24%) MVC
3 12 (32.43%) OO
4 10 (27.03%) Waterfall
5 8 (21.62%) E-Commerce
5 8 (21.62%) Web Application Development
6 7 (18.92%) Continuous Integration
6 7 (18.92%) TDD
7 6 (16.22%) RAD
7 6 (16.22%) UML
7 6 (16.22%) Content Management
7 6 (16.22%) Integration Testing
8 5 (13.51%) BDD
8 5 (13.51%) Web Development
8 5 (13.51%) CMMI
8 5 (13.51%) PRINCE
8 5 (13.51%) Project Management
8 5 (13.51%) Web Design
8 5 (13.51%) RUP
8 5 (13.51%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 36 (97.30%) Java
2 35 (94.59%) JavaScript
3 27 (72.97%) SQL
4 14 (37.84%) XPath
5 5 (13.51%) Bash shell
5 5 (13.51%) C#
5 5 (13.51%) Perl
5 5 (13.51%) PL/SQL
6 4 (10.81%) C++
6 4 (10.81%) C
7 3 (8.108%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 5 (13.51%) PMI Certification
2 4 (10.81%) PhD
3 2 (5.405%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.703%) HL7
1 1 (2.703%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.703%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (2.703%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (2.703%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 15 (40.54%) Oracle
2 10 (27.03%) IBM
3 6 (16.22%) JBoss
4 5 (13.51%) Chordiant
5 4 (10.81%) Perforce
6 3 (8.108%) Elastic Path
6 3 (8.108%) Blue Martini
6 3 (8.108%) ATG
6 3 (8.108%) Interwoven
7 2 (5.405%) Sun
7 2 (5.405%) Facebook
7 2 (5.405%) Twitter
8 1 (2.703%) VMware
8 1 (2.703%) Microsoft
8 1 (2.703%) Sybase
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