South West JSP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for JavaServer Pages (JSP) skills within the South West 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	111	94
Rank change on same period last year	-17
Matching contract IT job ads	31	60
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.040 %	0.067 %
As % of the category below	3.753 %	5.343 %
Daily rates quoted	8	11
Average minimum daily rate	£443	£350
Average daily rate	£489	£366
% change on same period last year	+33.82 %
Average maximum daily rate	£536	£381
UK excluding London average daily rate	£382	£333
% change on same period last year	+14.93 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	7
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£35.43
Average hourly rate	-	£36.86
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£38.29
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£38.23	£38.29
% change on same period last year	-0.17 %
Application Development South West
Matching contract IT job ads	826	1123
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.060 %	1.262 %
Daily rates quoted	166	249
Average minimum daily rate	£295	£318
Average daily rate	£317	£332
% change on same period last year	-4.47 %
Average maximum daily rate	£340	£346
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£334
% change on same period last year	+5.58 %
Hourly rates quoted	103	117
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.46	£27.13
Average hourly rate	£33.22	£29.61
% change on same period last year	+12.17 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.98	£32.09
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.40	£31.83
% change on same period last year	+1.80 %
JSP 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.

JSP
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing JSP across the South West 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 South West region.

JSP
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing JSP across the South West 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 South West region.

JSP
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JSP within the South West region over the past 3 months.

Rank	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
1	Wiltshire	+3	9	£388	-3.60 %
2	Bristol	-6	5	-	-
3	Somerset	-2	4	£850	+183.33 %
4	Devon	+3	3	-	-

JSP England

JSP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the South West 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 67 (70.53 %) Java 2 50 (52.63 %) J2EE 3 35 (36.84 %) Spring 4 31 (32.63 %) EJB 4 31 (32.63 %) Struts 5 30 (31.58 %) XML 5 30 (31.58 %) Oracle 6 26 (27.37 %) Hibernate 7 19 (20.00 %) SQL 8 18 (18.95 %) Tomcat 9 16 (16.84 %) E-Commerce 9 16 (16.84 %) Eclipse 9 16 (16.84 %) PL/SQL 10 15 (15.79 %) Servlets 11 13 (13.68 %) JSP 440

12 12 (12.63 %) QA 12 12 (12.63 %) UML 12 12 (12.63 %) JavaScript 12 12 (12.63 %) Swing 12 12 (12.63 %) JBoss 12 12 (12.63 %) Government 13 11 (11.58 %) JUnit 13 11 (11.58 %) WebLogic 14 10 (10.53 %) Delphi 15 9 (9.474 %) Telecoms 16 7 (7.368 %) Subversion 16 7 (7.368 %) Ant 17 6 (6.316 %) HTML 17 6 (6.316 %) WebServices 17 6 (6.316 %) OO

JSP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the South West 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 50 (52.63 %) J2EE 2 35 (36.84 %) Spring 3 31 (32.63 %) EJB 3 31 (32.63 %) Struts 4 30 (31.58 %) XML 5 26 (27.37 %) Hibernate 6 15 (15.79 %) Servlets 7 12 (12.63 %) Swing 8 6 (6.316 %) WebServices 8 6 (6.316 %) HTML 9 5 (5.263 %) JDBC 10 4 (4.211 %) SOAP 10 4 (4.211 %) WebSphere 11 3 (3.158 %) AJAX 11 3 (3.158 %) CSS 11 3 (3.158 %) XHTML 11 3 (3.158 %) JMS 12 2 (2.105 %) J2SE 12 2 (2.105 %) ASP 12 2 (2.105 %) JSF	Application Platforms 1 18 (18.95 %) Tomcat 2 12 (12.63 %) JBoss 3 11 (11.58 %) WebLogic 4 5 (5.263 %) Apache 5 3 (3.158 %) IIS 5 3 (3.158 %) Oracle HTTP Server 5 3 (3.158 %) iPlanet 5 3 (3.158 %) IBM HTTP Server 6 2 (2.105 %) CMS 7 1 (1.053 %) ATG Dynamo 7 1 (1.053 %) WebSphere Application Server 7 1 (1.053 %) WebLogic Portal 7 1 (1.053 %) ColdFusion
Applications 1 1 (1.053 %) MS Office 1 1 (1.053 %) AutoCAD 1 1 (1.053 %) MATLAB 1 1 (1.053 %) Simulink	Business Applications 1 1 (1.053 %) MAXIMO
Communications & Networking 1 3 (3.158 %) HTTP 2 2 (2.105 %) LDAP 3 1 (1.053 %) LAN 3 1 (1.053 %) WAN 3 1 (1.053 %) DHCP 3 1 (1.053 %) DNS 3 1 (1.053 %) BGP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (4.211 %) RDBMS 2 3 (3.158 %) Oracle 9i 3 1 (1.053 %) Oracle OLAP 3 1 (1.053 %) MySQL 3 1 (1.053 %) SQL Server 3 1 (1.053 %) OLAP 3 1 (1.053 %) Oracle Reports
Development Applications 1 16 (16.84 %) Eclipse 2 11 (11.58 %) JUnit 3 7 (7.368 %) Ant 3 7 (7.368 %) Subversion 4 2 (2.105 %) OptimalJ 5 1 (1.053 %) Oracle APEX 5 1 (1.053 %) jMock 5 1 (1.053 %) Flash 5 1 (1.053 %) Dreamweaver 5 1 (1.053 %) WebLogic Workshop	General 1 12 (12.63 %) Government 2 9 (9.474 %) Telecoms 3 5 (5.263 %) Banking 4 4 (4.211 %) Finance 5 2 (2.105 %) Electric 5 2 (2.105 %) Investment Banking 6 1 (1.053 %) Retail 6 1 (1.053 %) Military
Job Titles 1 62 (65.26 %) Developer 2 50 (52.63 %) Java Developer 3 27 (28.42 %) Java/J2EE Developer 4 20 (21.05 %) J2EE Developer 5 10 (10.53 %) Java Swing Developer 6 5 (5.263 %) Project Manager 6 5 (5.263 %) Applications Support 7 4 (4.211 %) Author 7 4 (4.211 %) Technical Author 8 3 (3.158 %) Administrator 8 3 (3.158 %) Solutions Architect 8 3 (3.158 %) Architect 8 3 (3.158 %) Web Administrator 9 2 (2.105 %) Oracle Developer 9 2 (2.105 %) Senior Developer 9 2 (2.105 %) Design Engineer 9 2 (2.105 %) Consultant 9 2 (2.105 %) Network Specialist 10 1 (1.053 %) Technical Lead 10 1 (1.053 %) WebSphere Developer	Miscellaneous 1 3 (3.158 %) Management Information System 2 1 (1.053 %) CESG 2 1 (1.053 %) N-Tier
Operating Systems 1 5 (5.263 %) Unix 2 3 (3.158 %) Linux 3 1 (1.053 %) Windows NT	Processes & Methodologies 1 16 (16.84 %) E-Commerce 2 12 (12.63 %) UML 3 6 (6.316 %) OO 4 5 (5.263 %) Agile Software Development 4 5 (5.263 %) TDD 4 5 (5.263 %) PRINCE2 5 4 (4.211 %) ITIL 5 4 (4.211 %) Validation 5 4 (4.211 %) Web Design 5 4 (4.211 %) Web Development 6 3 (3.158 %) Load Testing 6 3 (3.158 %) Software Engineering 6 3 (3.158 %) AOP 6 3 (3.158 %) Service Delivery 6 3 (3.158 %) OOD 6 3 (3.158 %) SOA 6 3 (3.158 %) B2B 7 2 (2.105 %) OOA/OOD 7 2 (2.105 %) Information Security 7 2 (2.105 %) Unit Testing
Programming Languages 1 67 (70.53 %) Java 2 19 (20.00 %) SQL 3 16 (16.84 %) PL/SQL 4 12 (12.63 %) JavaScript 5 10 (10.53 %) Delphi 6 3 (3.158 %) C 7 2 (2.105 %) PHP 8 1 (1.053 %) RPG 8 1 (1.053 %) VBScript	Qualifications 1 1 (1.053 %) CCIE 1 1 (1.053 %) ISEB 1 1 (1.053 %) Cisco Certification 1 1 (1.053 %) Degree 1 1 (1.053 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 13 (13.68 %) JSP 440 2 12 (12.63 %) QA 3 1 (1.053 %) CESG Infosec 3 1 (1.053 %) JSP 525 3 1 (1.053 %) BS7799 3 1 (1.053 %) ISO27001	System Software 1 3 (3.158 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 30 (31.58 %) Oracle 2 1 (1.053 %) Cisco 2 1 (1.053 %) IBM 2 1 (1.053 %) Microsoft 2 1 (1.053 %) Macromedia 2 1 (1.053 %) BEA 2 1 (1.053 %) Actuate 2 1 (1.053 %) ATG 2 1 (1.053 %) Brio