South East Servlets Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Java Servlet skills within the South East region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Servlets over the 3 months to 15 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Java Servlet
Location Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire City of London County Antrim Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Faringdon Glasgow Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hull Kent Lancashire Leeds Lewisham London Luton Manchester Marlow Midlands Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Poole Reading Scotland Slough South East South Wales South West St Albans Stevenage Surrey Sussex Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 15 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	227	182
Rank change on same period last year	-45
Matching contract IT job ads	23	111
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.033 %	0.115 %
As % of the category below	0.913 %	2.876 %
Daily rates quoted	2	25
Average minimum daily rate	£430	£363
Average daily rate	£430	£373
% change on same period last year	+15.26 %
Average maximum daily rate	£430	£384
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£360
% change on same period last year	-0.65 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£41.67	£43.00
Average hourly rate	£43.42	£44.00
% change on same period last year	-1.32 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£45.17	£45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£42.21	£32.73
% change on same period last year	+28.98 %
Application Development South East
Matching contract IT job ads	2519	3860
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	3.590 %	3.992 %
Daily rates quoted	676	947
Average minimum daily rate	£311	£316
Average daily rate	£331	£334
% change on same period last year	-0.95 %
Average maximum daily rate	£351	£352
UK excluding London average daily rate	£331	£334
% change on same period last year	-0.92 %
Hourly rates quoted	237	369
Average minimum hourly rate	£32.42	£32.74
Average hourly rate	£34.66	£34.69
% change on same period last year	-0.07 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£36.91	£36.64
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.79	£32.03
% change on same period last year	-3.85 %
Servlets 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.

Servlets
Demand Trend

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

Servlets
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Servlets across the South East region.

Servlets
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Servlets across the South East region over the 3 months to 15 October 2008.

Servlets
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Servlets
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Servlets across the South East region over the 3 months to 15 October 2008.

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 South East region over the 3 months to 15 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Berkshire	+23	9	-	-
Hampshire	+15	3	£430	-
Surrey	-16	3	-	-
Sussex	+8	2	£430	-
Kent	-	1	-	-
Oxfordshire	-9	1	-	-
Buckinghamshire	+5	1	-	-
Thames Valley	+5	1	-	-

Servlets England

Servlets
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 71 (88.75 %) Java 2 65 (81.25 %) JSP 3 51 (63.75 %) J2EE 4 36 (45.00 %) Struts 5 35 (43.75 %) Spring 6 32 (40.00 %) Hibernate 7 31 (38.75 %) Oracle 7 31 (38.75 %) XML 8 30 (37.50 %) WebSphere 9 29 (36.25 %) SQL 9 29 (36.25 %) JavaScript 10 23 (28.75 %) JDBC 10 23 (28.75 %) AJAX 11 20 (25.00 %) IBM 12 19 (23.75 %) EJB

12 19 (23.75 %) WebSphere Application Server 12 19 (23.75 %) HTML 13 18 (22.50 %) JMS 14 16 (20.00 %) WebLogic 14 16 (20.00 %) SOAP 15 15 (18.75 %) JSF 16 14 (17.50 %) Windows 16 14 (17.50 %) JBoss 17 13 (16.25 %) JUnit 18 12 (15.00 %) Degree 18 12 (15.00 %) DB2 19 11 (13.75 %) Ant 19 11 (13.75 %) MySQL 19 11 (13.75 %) E-Commerce 20 10 (12.50 %) WebServices

Servlets
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 65 (81.25 %) JSP 2 51 (63.75 %) J2EE 3 36 (45.00 %) Struts 4 35 (43.75 %) Spring 5 32 (40.00 %) Hibernate 6 31 (38.75 %) XML 7 30 (37.50 %) WebSphere 8 23 (28.75 %) JDBC 8 23 (28.75 %) AJAX 9 19 (23.75 %) EJB 9 19 (23.75 %) HTML 10 18 (22.50 %) JMS 11 16 (20.00 %) SOAP 12 15 (18.75 %) JSF 13 10 (12.50 %) WebServices 14 8 (10.00 %) CSS 15 7 (8.750 %) XHTML 16 6 (7.500 %) Java RMI 17 5 (6.250 %) XSLT 18 4 (5.000 %) Middleware	Application Platforms 1 19 (23.75 %) WebSphere Application Server 2 16 (20.00 %) WebLogic 3 14 (17.50 %) JBoss 4 10 (12.50 %) Tomcat 5 9 (11.25 %) Apache 6 7 (8.750 %) IIS 7 5 (6.250 %) MQSeries 7 5 (6.250 %) BizTalk Server 8 4 (5.000 %) WebSphere MQ 8 4 (5.000 %) ATG Dynamo 9 3 (3.750 %) WPS 9 3 (3.750 %) ESB 10 2 (2.500 %) Oracle Application Server 11 1 (1.250 %) WebLogic Integration 11 1 (1.250 %) CMS 11 1 (1.250 %) Documentum 11 1 (1.250 %) TeamSite
Applications 1 1 (1.250 %) Photoshop 1 1 (1.250 %) ImageReady	Communications & Networking 1 9 (11.25 %) Internet 2 8 (10.00 %) Extranet 3 5 (6.250 %) LDAP 4 2 (2.500 %) HTTP 5 1 (1.250 %) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 12 (15.00 %) DB2 2 11 (13.75 %) MySQL 3 9 (11.25 %) SQL Server 4 7 (8.750 %) SQL Server 2005 4 7 (8.750 %) DB2 UDB 5 6 (7.500 %) RDBMS 6 4 (5.000 %) JasperReports 7 1 (1.250 %) GIS	Development Applications 1 13 (16.25 %) JUnit 2 11 (13.75 %) Ant 3 7 (8.750 %) Eclipse 4 2 (2.500 %) ClearCase 5 1 (1.250 %) Rational Rose 5 1 (1.250 %) Visual Studio 5 1 (1.250 %) VSS/SourceSafe 5 1 (1.250 %) Subversion
General 1 7 (8.750 %) Finance 2 6 (7.500 %) Insurance 3 3 (3.750 %) Retail 3 3 (3.750 %) Construction 4 2 (2.500 %) Government 5 1 (1.250 %) Home Office 5 1 (1.250 %) Automotive 5 1 (1.250 %) Financial Institution 5 1 (1.250 %) Telecoms	Job Titles 1 59 (73.75 %) Developer 2 39 (48.75 %) Java Developer 3 20 (25.00 %) J2EE Developer 4 13 (16.25 %) Java/J2EE Developer 5 6 (7.500 %) Senior Java Developer 5 6 (7.500 %) Senior Developer 6 5 (6.250 %) Architect 7 4 (5.000 %) Consultant 7 4 (5.000 %) Applications Developer 7 4 (5.000 %) Lead Developer 7 4 (5.000 %) Team Leader 7 4 (5.000 %) Java Consultant 7 4 (5.000 %) J2EE Applications Developer 8 3 (3.750 %) Lead Java Developer 8 3 (3.750 %) Java Programmer 8 3 (3.750 %) Project Leader 8 3 (3.750 %) Java Team Leader 8 3 (3.750 %) Programmer 9 2 (2.500 %) Administrator 9 2 (2.500 %) J2EE Architect
Miscellaneous 1 4 (5.000 %) Computer Science 2 3 (3.750 %) N-Tier 3 1 (1.250 %) EMV 3 1 (1.250 %) Smartcard 3 1 (1.250 %) Clustering 3 1 (1.250 %) PKI	Operating Systems 1 14 (17.50 %) Windows 2 6 (7.500 %) Solaris 3 5 (6.250 %) Linux 3 5 (6.250 %) UNIX 4 4 (5.000 %) Nucleus RTOS 4 4 (5.000 %) Red Hat Linux 5 1 (1.250 %) Windows CE 5 1 (1.250 %) MVS
Processes & Methodologies 1 11 (13.75 %) E-Commerce 2 8 (10.00 %) UML 3 7 (8.750 %) OO 4 4 (5.000 %) B2C 4 4 (5.000 %) Continuous Integration 5 3 (3.750 %) SOA 5 3 (3.750 %) RUP 5 3 (3.750 %) Project Management 5 3 (3.750 %) BPEL 6 2 (2.500 %) Software Engineering 6 2 (2.500 %) Web Development 6 2 (2.500 %) E-business 6 2 (2.500 %) PRINCE2 6 2 (2.500 %) SC Cleared 6 2 (2.500 %) Security Cleared 6 2 (2.500 %) Unit Testing 6 2 (2.500 %) Integration Testing 7 1 (1.250 %) Configuration Management 7 1 (1.250 %) Time Management 7 1 (1.250 %) OOD	Programming Languages 1 71 (88.75 %) Java 2 29 (36.25 %) JavaScript 2 29 (36.25 %) SQL 3 8 (10.00 %) PHP 4 5 (6.250 %) DHTML 4 5 (6.250 %) XPath 5 4 (5.000 %) FoxPro (VFP) 5 4 (5.000 %) C 5 4 (5.000 %) C++ 5 4 (5.000 %) Delphi 6 2 (2.500 %) C# 6 2 (2.500 %) Perl 7 1 (1.250 %) PL/SQL 7 1 (1.250 %) Embedded C 7 1 (1.250 %) XQuery 7 1 (1.250 %) Assembly Language 7 1 (1.250 %) Shell Script 7 1 (1.250 %) VB 7 1 (1.250 %) VC++
Qualifications 1 12 (15.00 %) Degree 2 1 (1.250 %) PRINCE2 Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.250 %) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software 1 2 (2.500 %) AquaLogic 2 1 (1.250 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 1 (1.250 %) CA SiteMinder
Vendors 1 31 (38.75 %) Oracle 2 20 (25.00 %) IBM 3 6 (7.500 %) BEA 4 4 (5.000 %) Microsoft 4 4 (5.000 %) ATG 4 4 (5.000 %) Red Hat 5 1 (1.250 %) Mapinfo 5 1 (1.250 %) FatWire 5 1 (1.250 %) VMware 5 1 (1.250 %) Google 5 1 (1.250 %) Adobe 5 1 (1.250 %) Sun 5 1 (1.250 %) CA 5 1 (1.250 %) ILOG 5 1 (1.250 %) Symbian