The first table below looks at the demand for Servlets skills in IT contracts advertised for the South East 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 South East 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 217 196 205
Rank change year-on-year
-21 +9
Contract jobs citing Servlets 6 46 54
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.077% 0.452% 0.512%
As % of the Application Development category 0.317% 2.008% 1.956%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 18 23
Average daily rate - £400 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -11.11%
UK excluding London average daily rate £319 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
-8.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
Average hourly rate - - £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £42.50 £26.75 £45.00
% change year-on-year
+58.87% -40.55%
All Application Development
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
1895 2291 2761
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 24.35% 22.53% 26.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1008 1137 1282
Average daily rate £350 £330 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.06% +1.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £240 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 106 200
Average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £38.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -7.89%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.33 £17.65 £29.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.50 £41.35 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Servlets
England

Servlets
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East 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 South East region.

South East 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 South East region.

South East 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 South East 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
Buckinghamshire +1 2 - -
Oxfordshire +1 2 - -
Berkshire +16 1 - -
Surrey -2 1 - -
Servlets
England

Servlets
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, 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 35 (97.22%) Java
2 26 (72.22%) JSP
3 25 (69.44%) XML
3 25 (69.44%) J2EE
4 22 (61.11%) Spring
5 19 (52.78%) Hibernate
5 19 (52.78%) Ajax
6 17 (47.22%) Oracle
7 16 (44.44%) JUnit
7 16 (44.44%) JavaScript
7 16 (44.44%) JDBC
7 16 (44.44%) Maven
8 15 (41.67%) CSS
8 15 (41.67%) Web Services
8 15 (41.67%) Eclipse
9 14 (38.89%) OO
10 13 (36.11%) HTML
11 12 (33.33%) Struts
11 12 (33.33%) UML
12 11 (30.56%) EJB
12 11 (30.56%) Apache
12 11 (30.56%) TDD
12 11 (30.56%) JSON
12 11 (30.56%) jQuery
13 10 (27.78%) SOAP
13 10 (27.78%) SQL
14 9 (25.00%) JPA
15 8 (22.22%) PL/SQL
15 8 (22.22%) Tomcat
15 8 (22.22%) JMS

Servlets
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, 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 26 (72.22%) JSP
2 25 (69.44%) XML
2 25 (69.44%) J2EE
3 22 (61.11%) Spring
4 19 (52.78%) Hibernate
4 19 (52.78%) Ajax
5 16 (44.44%) JDBC
6 15 (41.67%) CSS
6 15 (41.67%) Web Services
7 13 (36.11%) HTML
8 12 (33.33%) Struts
9 11 (30.56%) EJB
9 11 (30.56%) JSON
9 11 (30.56%) jQuery
10 10 (27.78%) SOAP
11 9 (25.00%) JPA
12 8 (22.22%) JMS
13 7 (19.44%) RESTful
13 7 (19.44%) WebSphere
13 7 (19.44%) OSGi
Application Platforms
1 11 (30.56%) Apache
2 8 (22.22%) Tomcat
3 7 (19.44%) Adobe CQ
4 6 (16.67%) WebSphere Application Server
4 6 (16.67%) WebLogic
5 2 (5.556%) Windows Azure
5 2 (5.556%) ArcGIS
6 1 (2.778%) ArcIMS
6 1 (2.778%) Liferay
6 1 (2.778%) Alfresco
Applications
1 1 (2.778%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.778%) BASE24
Communications & Networking
1 6 (16.67%) Internet
2 5 (13.89%) HTTP
2 5 (13.89%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.89%) TOAD
1 5 (13.89%) SQL Server
2 3 (8.333%) RDBMS
3 2 (5.556%) GIS
3 2 (5.556%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (2.778%) MySQL
4 1 (2.778%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 16 (44.44%) JUnit
1 16 (44.44%) Maven
2 15 (41.67%) Eclipse
3 7 (19.44%) Ant
4 6 (16.67%) Jenkins
4 6 (16.67%) Subversion
5 4 (11.11%) EasyMock
5 4 (11.11%) jMock
6 3 (8.333%) Log4j
6 3 (8.333%) FitNesse
7 2 (5.556%) Git (software)
7 2 (5.556%) CruiseControl
8 1 (2.778%) Visual Studio
8 1 (2.778%) Rational Rose
8 1 (2.778%) IntelliJ
8 1 (2.778%) GitHub
General
1 7 (19.44%) Finance
2 2 (5.556%) Retail
3 1 (2.778%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 34 (94.44%) Developer
2 20 (55.56%) Java Developer
3 9 (25.00%) Programmer
4 5 (13.89%) Java/J2EE Developer
5 4 (11.11%) JavaScript Developer
5 4 (11.11%) Senior Developer
5 4 (11.11%) J2EE Developer
6 3 (8.333%) Java Programmer
7 2 (5.556%) Senior Java/J2EE Developer
7 2 (5.556%) Senior J2EE Developer
7 2 (5.556%) Senior Java Developer
7 2 (5.556%) GIS Developer
7 2 (5.556%) Consultant
8 1 (2.778%) Software Developer
8 1 (2.778%) Senior Programmer
8 1 (2.778%) Senior Java Programmer
8 1 (2.778%) Java Consultant
8 1 (2.778%) Senior Software Developer
8 1 (2.778%) Security Consultant
8 1 (2.778%) Data Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.89%) Open Source
2 1 (2.778%) EPoS
2 1 (2.778%) EMV
2 1 (2.778%) EFT
2 1 (2.778%) EFTPOS
2 1 (2.778%) Smartcard
2 1 (2.778%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 6 (16.67%) UNIX
2 5 (13.89%) Linux
3 4 (11.11%) Windows
4 2 (5.556%) Solaris
5 1 (2.778%) AIX
5 1 (2.778%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (2.778%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.778%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (38.89%) OO
2 12 (33.33%) UML
3 11 (30.56%) TDD
4 7 (19.44%) Content Management
5 6 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
6 5 (13.89%) MVC
6 5 (13.89%) OOA/OOD
6 5 (13.89%) Use Case
6 5 (13.89%) Software Architecture
7 2 (5.556%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (5.556%) Data Modelling
7 2 (5.556%) OOD
8 1 (2.778%) OOP
8 1 (2.778%) Mobile Commerce
8 1 (2.778%) DRM
8 1 (2.778%) E-Commerce
8 1 (2.778%) Data Management
8 1 (2.778%) Pair Programming
8 1 (2.778%) Data Security
8 1 (2.778%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 35 (97.22%) Java
2 16 (44.44%) JavaScript
3 10 (27.78%) SQL
4 8 (22.22%) PL/SQL
5 3 (8.333%) Shell Script
5 3 (8.333%) Python
6 1 (2.778%) T-SQL
6 1 (2.778%) C#
6 1 (2.778%) Scala
6 1 (2.778%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 2 (5.556%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.778%) ISO 8583
Vendors
1 17 (47.22%) Oracle
2 7 (19.44%) Adobe
2 7 (19.44%) Omniture
3 6 (16.67%) IBM
4 5 (13.89%) JBoss
5 4 (11.11%) Microsoft
6 3 (8.333%) Jaspersoft
7 2 (5.556%) ESRI
7 2 (5.556%) Sun
7 2 (5.556%) BEA
8 1 (2.778%) Red Hat
8 1 (2.778%) GigaSpaces
8 1 (2.778%) Wincor Nixdorf
8 1 (2.778%) VeriFone