The first table below looks at the demand for Servlets skills in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Servlets over the 3 months to 23 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 Scotland 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java Servlet
Rank 100 100 110
Rank change year-on-year
0 +10
Contract jobs citing Servlets 20 8 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.819% 0.303% 0.213%
As % of the Application Development category 2.472% 1.946% 1.064%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 4 3
Average daily rate £319 £243 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+31.54% -15.65%
UK excluding London average daily rate £319 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
-8.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
Average hourly rate £43.25 £16.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+170.31% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £42.50 £26.75 £45.00
% change year-on-year
+58.87% -40.55%
All Application Development
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
809 411 564
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 33.14% 15.57% 20.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 387 175 292
Average daily rate £350 £300 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £210 £270
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £400 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 15 4
Average hourly rate £43.25 £31.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+39.51% +77.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £28.50 £27.50 £14.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £32.50 £21.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Servlets
UK

Servlets
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland Servlets Daily Rate Trend

Servlets
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Servlets across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Scotland Servlets Daily Rate Histogram

Servlets
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 23 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
Glasgow -17 11 £319 +27.60%
Edinburgh +11 5 £413 +275.00%
Stirling - 1 £401 -
Fife - 1 - -
Servlets
UK

Servlets
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 35 (97.22%) Java
1 35 (97.22%) JSP
2 30 (83.33%) JSF
3 27 (75.00%) HTML
4 26 (72.22%) Hibernate
5 24 (66.67%) Oracle
6 23 (63.89%) JavaScript
7 22 (61.11%) Spring
8 20 (55.56%) J2EE
8 20 (55.56%) XML
9 18 (50.00%) Maven
10 17 (47.22%) Eclipse
11 16 (44.44%) RDBMS
11 16 (44.44%) CSS
12 15 (41.67%) EJB
12 15 (41.67%) SQL
13 14 (38.89%) Struts
14 13 (36.11%) PL/SQL
14 13 (36.11%) Finance
15 12 (33.33%) UML
15 12 (33.33%) JDeveloper
16 11 (30.56%) Scrum
16 11 (30.56%) JSTL
17 10 (27.78%) Agile Software Development
17 10 (27.78%) Sun
17 10 (27.78%) Sun Certification
18 9 (25.00%) OO
19 8 (22.22%) Web Services
19 8 (22.22%) Ant
20 7 (19.44%) JDBC

Servlets
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 35 (97.22%) JSP
2 30 (83.33%) JSF
3 27 (75.00%) HTML
4 26 (72.22%) Hibernate
5 22 (61.11%) Spring
6 20 (55.56%) J2EE
6 20 (55.56%) XML
7 16 (44.44%) CSS
8 15 (41.67%) EJB
9 14 (38.89%) Struts
10 11 (30.56%) JSTL
11 8 (22.22%) Web Services
12 7 (19.44%) JDBC
12 7 (19.44%) JavaBeans
13 6 (16.67%) JPA
13 6 (16.67%) SOAP
14 5 (13.89%) JMS
15 4 (11.11%) XMLBeans
15 4 (11.11%) TopLink
15 4 (11.11%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 4 (11.11%) WebSphere Portal
1 4 (11.11%) WebSphere Application Server
2 3 (8.333%) Tomcat
3 1 (2.778%) Apache
3 1 (2.778%) Documentum
Applications
1 3 (8.333%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.778%) SSL
1 1 (2.778%) HTTP
1 1 (2.778%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (44.44%) RDBMS
2 1 (2.778%) SQLPlus
2 1 (2.778%) Oracle 10g
2 1 (2.778%) TOAD
2 1 (2.778%) Oracle 11g
2 1 (2.778%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 18 (50.00%) Maven
2 17 (47.22%) Eclipse
3 12 (33.33%) JDeveloper
4 8 (22.22%) Ant
5 5 (13.89%) Subversion
6 4 (11.11%) Rational Application Developer
7 3 (8.333%) PVCS
7 3 (8.333%) JUnit
7 3 (8.333%) CruiseControl
8 2 (5.556%) Selenium
9 1 (2.778%) ClearCase
9 1 (2.778%) Hudson
9 1 (2.778%) Concordion
9 1 (2.778%) Eclipse RCP
General
1 13 (36.11%) Finance
2 2 (5.556%) Retail
2 2 (5.556%) Telecoms
3 1 (2.778%) Banking
Job Titles
1 34 (94.44%) Developer
2 29 (80.56%) Java Developer
3 9 (25.00%) Analyst
3 9 (25.00%) Analyst Programmer
3 9 (25.00%) Programmer
3 9 (25.00%) Java Analyst Programmer
3 9 (25.00%) Java Programmer
4 8 (22.22%) Developer Analyst
5 4 (11.11%) WebSphere Developer
5 4 (11.11%) Portal Developer
5 4 (11.11%) WebSphere Portal Developer
6 2 (5.556%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (5.556%) Senior Developer
7 1 (2.778%) Software Engineer
7 1 (2.778%) Java/J2EE Developer
7 1 (2.778%) Documentum Developer
7 1 (2.778%) J2EE Analyst Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.11%) N-Tier
2 3 (8.333%) Graphic Design
2 3 (8.333%) Open Source
2 3 (8.333%) Web 2.0
3 2 (5.556%) W3C
4 1 (2.778%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.778%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.333%) UNIX
2 2 (5.556%) Android
2 2 (5.556%) Windows
2 2 (5.556%) Linux
3 1 (2.778%) Windows CE
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (33.33%) UML
2 11 (30.56%) Scrum
3 10 (27.78%) Agile Software Development
4 9 (25.00%) OO
5 7 (19.44%) MVC
6 5 (13.89%) TDD
6 5 (13.89%) Web Design
7 4 (11.11%) Content Management
7 4 (11.11%) Extreme Programming
7 4 (11.11%) Unit Testing
7 4 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (11.11%) BDD
8 2 (5.556%) Software Engineering
8 2 (5.556%) Test Scripting
8 2 (5.556%) User Acceptance Testing
8 2 (5.556%) Business Intelligence
9 1 (2.778%) CRM
9 1 (2.778%) RAD
9 1 (2.778%) Change Management
9 1 (2.778%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 35 (97.22%) Java
2 23 (63.89%) JavaScript
3 15 (41.67%) SQL
4 13 (36.11%) PL/SQL
5 2 (5.556%) Bash shell
6 1 (2.778%) Perl
6 1 (2.778%) XPath
6 1 (2.778%) AWK
6 1 (2.778%) Korn
Qualifications
1 10 (27.78%) Sun Certification
2 4 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 4 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 4 (11.11%) IBM Certification
3 1 (2.778%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.556%) WCAG
2 1 (2.778%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (2.778%) Control-M
1 1 (2.778%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 24 (66.67%) Oracle
2 10 (27.78%) Sun
3 5 (13.89%) IBM
4 3 (8.333%) JBoss
5 2 (5.556%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.778%) HP
6 1 (2.778%) MKS
Edinburgh, Midlothian
JSF 1.2... JSP... Experience of JavaScript frameworks such as DOJO and jQuery. Knowledge of WebSphere Portal Administration (preferably candidates will be IBM certified). Experience of IBM Web...
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Rate: £300 - £400 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013