The first table below looks at the demand for JSF skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited JSF over the 3 months to 21 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.

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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
JavaServer Faces (JSF)
Rank 444 434 464
Rank change year-on-year
-10 +30
Contract jobs citing JSF 96 149 116
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.203% 0.255% 0.193%
As % of the Application Development category 0.745% 0.996% 0.703%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 83 60
Average daily rate £399 £380 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.86% +8.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £293 £255 £205
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £335 £351
% change year-on-year
-4.47% -4.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 4
Average hourly rate £41.25 £40.00 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+3.12% -5.88%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £41.25 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year
+3.12% -5.88%
All Application Development
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
12893 14967 16509
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 27.31% 25.60% 27.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 8051 8793 9618
Average daily rate £375 £350 £390
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -10.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 384 385 569
Average hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -9.72%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.00 £15.00 £19.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £41.15 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%

JSF
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing JSF within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

JSF Jobs Demand Trend

JSF
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing JSF within the UK.

JSF Daily Rate Trend

JSF
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing JSF within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

JSF Daily Rate Histogram

JSF
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing JSF within the UK.

JSF Hourly Rate Trend

JSF
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing JSF within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

JSF Hourly Rate Histogram

JSF
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JSF within the UK over the 3 months to 21 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
England -46 51 £410 +7.82%
London -27 30 £475 +4.39%
Scotland +11 29 £319 +17.49%
Glasgow -8 14 £317 +17.58%
City of London +16 10 £405 +17.73%
Wales - 9 £325 -
Edinburgh +14 8 £400 +23.07%
Hertfordshire +15 6 £341 -31.75%
East of England +11 6 £341 -28.15%
Craigavon - 6 - -
County Armagh - 6 - -
South Wales - 6 £325 -
Northern Ireland - 6 - -
North West +18 5 £375 -0.66%
South East -14 5 £363 +13.28%
Cheshire - 4 £375 -
Rickmansworth - 4 £228 -
Fife - 3 - -
Cardiff - 3 - -
East Midlands +1 2 £320 +6.66%
Surrey -4 2 £363 +13.28%
Dalkeith - 2 - -
Newport - 2 £325 -
Midlothian - 2 - -
Gloucestershire +30 1 - -
West Midlands +13 1 - -
South West +12 1 - -
East Sussex +7 1 £320 +5.78%
Yorkshire +5 1 £293 +6.36%
Berkshire +4 1 - -

JSF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing JSF 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 JSF.

1 196 (86.34%) Java
2 139 (61.23%) J2EE
3 114 (50.22%) Hibernate
4 112 (49.34%) Spring
5 110 (48.46%) Oracle
6 92 (40.53%) CSS
7 91 (40.09%) HTML
8 88 (38.77%) JSP
9 84 (37.00%) JavaScript
10 76 (33.48%) XML
11 75 (33.04%) SQL
12 68 (29.96%) Eclipse
13 65 (28.63%) Web Services
13 65 (28.63%) Agile Software Development
14 57 (25.11%) Maven
14 57 (25.11%) UML
15 54 (23.79%) PL/SQL
16 49 (21.59%) Servlets
17 45 (19.82%) Ajax
18 43 (18.94%) EJB
18 43 (18.94%) Security Cleared
19 41 (18.06%) JPA
19 41 (18.06%) WebSphere
20 35 (15.42%) Struts
21 34 (14.98%) Unit Testing
22 33 (14.54%) Finance
23 31 (13.66%) XSLT
23 31 (13.66%) IBM
24 30 (13.22%) SC Cleared
25 29 (12.78%) RDBMS

JSF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing JSF 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 JSF. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 139 (61.23%) J2EE
2 114 (50.22%) Hibernate
3 112 (49.34%) Spring
4 92 (40.53%) CSS
5 91 (40.09%) HTML
6 88 (38.77%) JSP
7 76 (33.48%) XML
8 65 (28.63%) Web Services
9 49 (21.59%) Servlets
10 45 (19.82%) Ajax
11 43 (18.94%) EJB
12 41 (18.06%) JPA
12 41 (18.06%) WebSphere
13 35 (15.42%) Struts
14 31 (13.66%) XSLT
15 24 (10.57%) Java EE
16 22 (9.692%) SOAP
17 20 (8.811%) DOM
18 19 (8.370%) Tapestry
19 18 (7.930%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 28 (12.33%) WebSphere Application Server
2 27 (11.89%) Liferay
3 24 (10.57%) WebLogic
4 22 (9.692%) Apache
5 17 (7.489%) WebSphere Portal
5 17 (7.489%) CMS
6 16 (7.048%) WebLogic Portal
7 14 (6.167%) Adobe CQ
8 9 (3.965%) FileNet
9 6 (2.643%) ActiveMQ
10 5 (2.203%) ESB
10 5 (2.203%) Tomcat
11 4 (1.762%) Oracle Workflow
12 3 (1.322%) Mule
13 2 (0.881%) WebSphere Process Server
14 1 (0.441%) SAP EP
14 1 (0.441%) Papyrus
14 1 (0.441%) SharePoint
14 1 (0.441%) MQSeries
14 1 (0.441%) SAP Portal
Applications
1 11 (4.846%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.441%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.881%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.441%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 20 (8.811%) Internet
2 7 (3.084%) LDAP
2 7 (3.084%) HTTP
3 2 (0.881%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.441%) SMS
4 1 (0.441%) SSL
4 1 (0.441%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (12.78%) RDBMS
2 13 (5.727%) SQL Server
3 11 (4.846%) Oracle 10g
4 9 (3.965%) Oracle 11g
5 6 (2.643%) SQL Server 2008
5 6 (2.643%) DB2
6 5 (2.203%) JasperReports
6 5 (2.203%) MySQL
6 5 (2.203%) Oracle Reports
6 5 (2.203%) TOAD
7 4 (1.762%) GIS
8 2 (0.881%) Oracle 8/8i
8 2 (0.881%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.441%) QlikView
9 1 (0.441%) BusinessObjects XI
9 1 (0.441%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
9 1 (0.441%) Oracle 9i
Development Applications
1 68 (29.96%) Eclipse
2 57 (25.11%) Maven
3 28 (12.33%) JDeveloper
4 27 (11.89%) JUnit
4 27 (11.89%) Subversion
5 26 (11.45%) Ant
6 19 (8.370%) ClearCase
6 19 (8.370%) ClearQuest
7 17 (7.489%) Jenkins
8 14 (6.167%) Selenium
9 11 (4.846%) JIRA
10 7 (3.084%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 7 (3.084%) Dreamweaver
10 7 (3.084%) Hudson
10 7 (3.084%) Rational Application Developer
11 6 (2.643%) VisualAge
12 4 (1.762%) EasyMock
12 4 (1.762%) jMock
13 3 (1.322%) CruiseControl
13 3 (1.322%) PVCS
General
1 33 (14.54%) Finance
2 29 (12.78%) Banking
3 12 (5.286%) Retail
4 8 (3.524%) Telecoms
5 6 (2.643%) Pharmaceutical
5 6 (2.643%) Investment Banking
6 4 (1.762%) Retail Banking
7 2 (0.881%) Back Office
8 1 (0.441%) Norwegian Language
8 1 (0.441%) Marketing
8 1 (0.441%) Military
8 1 (0.441%) Automotive
8 1 (0.441%) Advertising
8 1 (0.441%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 182 (80.18%) Developer
2 120 (52.86%) Java Developer
3 21 (9.251%) Architect
3 21 (9.251%) Web Developer
4 19 (8.370%) Analyst
5 17 (7.489%) Analyst Programmer
5 17 (7.489%) Programmer
5 17 (7.489%) Java Analyst Programmer
5 17 (7.489%) Java Programmer
6 16 (7.048%) UI Programmer
6 16 (7.048%) UI Developer
7 15 (6.608%) Senior Developer
8 14 (6.167%) Senior Java Developer
9 13 (5.727%) CMS Developer
10 12 (5.286%) J2EE Developer
10 12 (5.286%) WebSphere Developer
10 12 (5.286%) Portal Developer
11 10 (4.405%) Java/J2EE Developer
11 10 (4.405%) Java Architect
12 9 (3.965%) Developer Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.167%) Open Source
2 9 (3.965%) W3C
3 6 (2.643%) Web 2.0
4 4 (1.762%) N-Tier
5 3 (1.322%) Graphic Design
6 2 (0.881%) Client/Server
6 2 (0.881%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.441%) Human Factors
7 1 (0.441%) Fat Client
7 1 (0.441%) RIA
7 1 (0.441%) Streaming Video
7 1 (0.441%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.286%) Linux
2 9 (3.965%) UNIX
3 7 (3.084%) Windows
4 5 (2.203%) Android
5 1 (0.441%) Solaris
5 1 (0.441%) Windows CE
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (28.63%) Agile Software Development
2 57 (25.11%) UML
3 34 (14.98%) Unit Testing
4 29 (12.78%) Scrum
5 22 (9.692%) TDD
6 21 (9.251%) OO
7 17 (7.489%) Continuous Integration
8 16 (7.048%) Content Management
9 14 (6.167%) Software Engineering
10 13 (5.727%) SOA
11 12 (5.286%) BDD
12 11 (4.846%) MVC
13 10 (4.405%) Multithreading
14 9 (3.965%) Extreme Programming
15 7 (3.084%) Migration
15 7 (3.084%) RUP
16 6 (2.643%) Root Cause Analysis
16 6 (2.643%) Dependency Injection
16 6 (2.643%) Change Management
16 6 (2.643%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 196 (86.34%) Java
2 84 (37.00%) JavaScript
3 75 (33.04%) SQL
4 54 (23.79%) PL/SQL
5 21 (9.251%) XPath
6 3 (1.322%) C
6 3 (1.322%) Groovy
7 2 (0.881%) C++
7 2 (0.881%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.441%) Objective-C
8 1 (0.441%) AWK
8 1 (0.441%) VBScript
8 1 (0.441%) VB
8 1 (0.441%) VB.NET
8 1 (0.441%) VBA
8 1 (0.441%) C#
8 1 (0.441%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.441%) Scala
8 1 (0.441%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 43 (18.94%) Security Cleared
2 30 (13.22%) SC Cleared
3 11 (4.846%) Sun Certification
4 7 (3.084%) Degree
5 6 (2.643%) IBM Certification
6 4 (1.762%) CTC Cleared
7 3 (1.322%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.524%) WAI
2 6 (2.643%) QA
3 2 (0.881%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (1.762%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 4 (1.762%) Tivoli
2 1 (0.441%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (0.441%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 110 (48.46%) Oracle
2 31 (13.66%) IBM
3 18 (7.930%) JBoss
4 12 (5.286%) Sun
5 8 (3.524%) Adobe
6 6 (2.643%) Atlassian
7 5 (2.203%) ILOG
8 4 (1.762%) Lotus
9 3 (1.322%) Perforce
9 3 (1.322%) Microsoft
10 2 (0.881%) Sybase
11 1 (0.441%) SAP
11 1 (0.441%) Business Objects
11 1 (0.441%) HP
West Yorkshire
You need to be an experienced developer with the following skills: - 3+ years Java - JavaScript/JQuery - Html - CSS - Relevant GUI experience - Further relevant front-end development experience: JSP,...
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Rate: £325 - £360 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
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Portal Developer Edinburgh 6 Months contract £400/day My client in Edinburgh is looking to interview Portal Developers this week for a 6 months contract.
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Rate: £400 per day
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Rate: £200 - £250 per day
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Chester, North West
Required: * Extensive (minimum 5yrs + commercial) experience of Web 2.0 technologies i.e AJAX, XHTML, JavaScript, XPATH, CSS, XSLT, DOM, JSP, Servlets * Minimum 2yrs + JSF experience * Minimum 5yrs...
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Rate: £350 - £400 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
Fife
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Rate: £27 - £32 per hour
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Edinburgh, Midlothian
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