Reading JSP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for JavaServer Pages (JSP) skills within the Reading region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited JSP over the last 3 months to 15 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

JavaServer Pages (JSP)
Location Aberdeen Aylesbury Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Chelmsford Cheshire Chester City of London Clapham Conwy County Antrim Coventry Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Farnborough Gatwick Glasgow Guildford Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hove Ipswich Isle of Man Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicestershire Lewisham Lincolnshire Liverpool Llandudno London Luton Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Scotland Sheffield Sleaford Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Neots Staffordshire Stockport Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 15 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	52	57
Rank change on same period last year	+5
Matching contract IT job ads	17	10
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.022 %	0.011 %
As % of the category below	6.391 %	4.115 %
Daily rates quoted	6	4
Average minimum daily rate	£348	£213
Average daily rate	£358	£219
% change on same period last year	+63.65 %
Average maximum daily rate	£368	£225
UK excluding London average daily rate	£382	£333
% change on same period last year	+14.93 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£38.23	£38.29
% change on same period last year	-0.17 %
Application Development Reading
Matching contract IT job ads	266	243
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.341 %	0.273 %
Daily rates quoted	83	51
Average minimum daily rate	£335	£282
Average daily rate	£357	£312
% change on same period last year	+14.61 %
Average maximum daily rate	£380	£342
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£334
% change on same period last year	+5.58 %
Hourly rates quoted	33	10
Average minimum hourly rate	£35.36	£32.60
Average hourly rate	£39.14	£33.60
% change on same period last year	+16.48 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£42.92	£34.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.40	£31.83
% change on same period last year	+1.80 %
JSP Berkshire

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.

JSP
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing JSP across the Reading region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

JSP
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing JSP across the Reading region.

JSP
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing JSP across the Reading region over the past 3 months.

JSP
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing JSP across the Reading region.

JSP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Reading region citing JSP also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing JSP.

1 15 (68.18 %) Java 2 14 (63.64 %) XML 3 10 (45.45 %) J2EE 4 9 (40.91 %) HTML 5 8 (36.36 %) JavaScript 5 8 (36.36 %) Oracle 5 8 (36.36 %) CSS 6 7 (31.82 %) XHTML 7 6 (27.27 %) Eclipse 7 6 (27.27 %) AJAX 8 5 (22.73 %) WCAG 8 5 (22.73 %) DOM 8 5 (22.73 %) SQL Server 9 4 (18.18 %) Servlets 9 4 (18.18 %) XSLT

9 4 (18.18 %) .NET 10 3 (13.64 %) JAAS 10 3 (13.64 %) FileNet 10 3 (13.64 %) Kofax 10 3 (13.64 %) MVC 10 3 (13.64 %) SLA 10 3 (13.64 %) .NET Framework 10 3 (13.64 %) QA 11 2 (9.091 %) System Testing 11 2 (9.091 %) JSP 440 11 2 (9.091 %) Web Design 11 2 (9.091 %) UML 11 2 (9.091 %) Struts 11 2 (9.091 %) WebServices 11 2 (9.091 %) Ant

JSP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Reading region citing JSP also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing JSP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 14 (63.64 %) XML 2 10 (45.45 %) J2EE 3 9 (40.91 %) HTML 4 8 (36.36 %) CSS 5 7 (31.82 %) XHTML 6 6 (27.27 %) AJAX 7 5 (22.73 %) DOM 8 4 (18.18 %) XSLT 8 4 (18.18 %) Servlets 8 4 (18.18 %) .NET 9 3 (13.64 %) JAAS 9 3 (13.64 %) .NET Framework 10 2 (9.091 %) Hibernate 10 2 (9.091 %) Struts 10 2 (9.091 %) WebServices 11 1 (4.545 %) ASP 11 1 (4.545 %) Spring 11 1 (4.545 %) J2ME 11 1 (4.545 %) Swing 11 1 (4.545 %) JSR 168	Application Platforms 1 1 (4.545 %) WebSphere Application Server 1 1 (4.545 %) Commerce Server 1 1 (4.545 %) WebLogic Portal
Applications 1 1 (4.545 %) Photoshop 1 1 (4.545 %) Adobe Illustrator	Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (22.73 %) SQL Server 2 2 (9.091 %) SQL Server 7 3 1 (4.545 %) InterBase 3 1 (4.545 %) DB2 3 1 (4.545 %) Oracle 8/8i 3 1 (4.545 %) RDBMS
Development Applications 1 6 (27.27 %) Eclipse 2 2 (9.091 %) Ant 3 1 (4.545 %) Rational Rose	General 1 2 (9.091 %) Construction 1 2 (9.091 %) Government 2 1 (4.545 %) Military 2 1 (4.545 %) Insurance 2 1 (4.545 %) Pensions 2 1 (4.545 %) Telecoms 2 1 (4.545 %) Finance
Job Titles 1 17 (77.27 %) Developer 2 8 (36.36 %) Web Developer 3 6 (27.27 %) Java Developer 4 4 (18.18 %) Senior Developer 5 3 (13.64 %) Senior Web Developer 6 1 (4.545 %) Senior Java Developer 6 1 (4.545 %) Java/J2EE Developer 6 1 (4.545 %) Architect 6 1 (4.545 %) Analyst Programmer 6 1 (4.545 %) Programmer 6 1 (4.545 %) J2EE Developer 6 1 (4.545 %) Consultant 6 1 (4.545 %) Analyst	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (13.64 %) MVC 2 2 (9.091 %) PRINCE 2 2 (9.091 %) Project Management 2 2 (9.091 %) UML 2 2 (9.091 %) Web Design 2 2 (9.091 %) System Testing 3 1 (4.545 %) Content Management 3 1 (4.545 %) Project Planning 3 1 (4.545 %) Web Development 3 1 (4.545 %) OO 3 1 (4.545 %) RUP 3 1 (4.545 %) E-Commerce 3 1 (4.545 %) E-business 3 1 (4.545 %) Scrum
Programming Languages 1 15 (68.18 %) Java 2 8 (36.36 %) JavaScript 3 2 (9.091 %) SQL 4 1 (4.545 %) C#	Qualifications 1 2 (9.091 %) PMP 1 2 (9.091 %) PMI Certification 2 1 (4.545 %) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (22.73 %) WCAG 2 3 (13.64 %) QA 2 3 (13.64 %) SLA 3 2 (9.091 %) JSP 440	Vendors 1 8 (36.36 %) Oracle 2 3 (13.64 %) FileNet 2 3 (13.64 %) Kofax 3 2 (9.091 %) ATG 3 2 (9.091 %) FatWire 4 1 (4.545 %) Vignette 4 1 (4.545 %) IBM 4 1 (4.545 %) BEA