The first table below looks at the demand for JSR 168 skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited JSR 168 over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java Portlet Specification (JSR 168)
Rank 518 568 580
Rank change year-on-year
+50 +12
Contract jobs citing JSR 168 12 10 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.026% 0.017% 0.013%
As % of the Application Development category 0.094% 0.067% 0.047%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 8 5
Average daily rate £293 £380 £305
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-23.02% +24.59%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £294
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £475 £380
UK excluding London average daily rate £280 £380 £328
% change year-on-year
-26.31% +16.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Development
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
12713 14910 16863
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 27.40% 25.58% 27.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 7958 8755 9793
Average daily rate £375 £350 £393
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -10.82%
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 375 374 576
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 £17.33 £15.00 £19.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £42.10 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%

JSR 168
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing JSR 168 within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

JSR 168 Jobs Demand Trend

JSR 168
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing JSR 168 within the UK.

JSR 168 Daily Rate Trend

JSR 168
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing JSR 168 within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

JSR 168 Daily Rate Histogram

JSR 168
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing JSR 168 within the UK.

JSR 168 Hourly Rate Trend

JSR 168
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JSR 168 within the UK over the 3 months to 17 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 +50 12 £293 -23.02%
North West - 7 £280 -
Manchester - 7 £280 -
London +17 4 £444 +12.69%
South East +23 1 - -
Berkshire - 1 - -
Slough - 1 - -

JSR 168
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing JSR 168 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 JSR 168.

1 23 (95.83%) Java
1 23 (95.83%) JavaScript
2 20 (83.33%) Ajax
3 18 (75.00%) SOAP
4 17 (70.83%) HTML
4 17 (70.83%) REST
5 16 (66.67%) HTML5
6 15 (62.50%) JIRA
6 15 (62.50%) WSRP
7 14 (58.33%) XML
7 14 (58.33%) J2EE
8 13 (54.17%) Apache
8 13 (54.17%) Continuous Integration
8 13 (54.17%) MongoDB
9 12 (50.00%) NoSQL
9 12 (50.00%) Hudson
9 12 (50.00%) CouchDB
9 12 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
9 12 (50.00%) Amazon AWS
9 12 (50.00%) Git (software)
9 12 (50.00%) NAS
9 12 (50.00%) Redis
9 12 (50.00%) Rackspace
9 12 (50.00%) Jenkins
9 12 (50.00%) Information Architecture
9 12 (50.00%) Network Security
9 12 (50.00%) Selenium
9 12 (50.00%) Load Balancing
9 12 (50.00%) Java EE
9 12 (50.00%) Taxonomies

JSR 168
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing JSR 168 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 JSR 168. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 20 (83.33%) Ajax
2 18 (75.00%) SOAP
3 17 (70.83%) HTML
3 17 (70.83%) REST
4 16 (66.67%) HTML5
5 15 (62.50%) WSRP
6 14 (58.33%) J2EE
6 14 (58.33%) XML
7 12 (50.00%) Flash
7 12 (50.00%) DHTML
7 12 (50.00%) Java EE
8 11 (45.83%) Spring
8 11 (45.83%) .NET
9 9 (37.50%) CSS
10 8 (33.33%) Servlets
10 8 (33.33%) jQuery
10 8 (33.33%) JSR 286
11 7 (29.17%) JSP
12 6 (25.00%) Web Services
12 6 (25.00%) JSTL
Application Platforms
1 13 (54.17%) Apache
2 12 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 12 (50.00%) Amazon AWS
3 9 (37.50%) Tomcat
4 3 (12.50%) WebSphere Portal
5 1 (4.167%) Liferay
5 1 (4.167%) LiveSite
5 1 (4.167%) Alfresco
Communications & Networking
1 12 (50.00%) HTTP
1 12 (50.00%) DNS
1 12 (50.00%) SSL
1 12 (50.00%) SAN
1 12 (50.00%) RTP
1 12 (50.00%) Firewall
1 12 (50.00%) RTSP
1 12 (50.00%) Network Security
1 12 (50.00%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (54.17%) MongoDB
2 12 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 12 (50.00%) Redis
2 12 (50.00%) MySQL
2 12 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 12 (50.00%) Oracle 8/8i
2 12 (50.00%) RDBMS
2 12 (50.00%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 15 (62.50%) JIRA
2 12 (50.00%) Selenium
2 12 (50.00%) Git (software)
2 12 (50.00%) Hudson
2 12 (50.00%) Maven
2 12 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 6 (25.00%) Eclipse
4 4 (16.67%) NetBeans
4 4 (16.67%) Subversion
5 2 (8.333%) Rational Application Developer
6 1 (4.167%) GitHub
6 1 (4.167%) IntelliJ
General
1 1 (4.167%) Telecoms
1 1 (4.167%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (41.67%) Developer
2 8 (33.33%) Java Developer
3 7 (29.17%) Web Engineer
4 5 (20.83%) Systems Engineer
4 5 (20.83%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (16.67%) Senior Web Engineer
5 4 (16.67%) Linux Engineer
5 4 (16.67%) Senior Linux Engineer
6 3 (12.50%) Applications Developer
6 3 (12.50%) Web Developer
6 3 (12.50%) Web Applications Developer
7 2 (8.333%) Java Applications Developer
7 2 (8.333%) Java Web Developer
8 1 (4.167%) WebSphere Portal Developer
8 1 (4.167%) Portal Developer
8 1 (4.167%) WebSphere Portal Consultant
8 1 (4.167%) WebSphere Consultant
8 1 (4.167%) WebSphere Developer
8 1 (4.167%) Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 12 (50.00%) Taxonomies
1 12 (50.00%) Ontologies
2 5 (20.83%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 12 (50.00%) Linux
2 8 (33.33%) UNIX
3 1 (4.167%) Solaris
3 1 (4.167%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (54.17%) Continuous Integration
2 12 (50.00%) Information Architecture
2 12 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 12 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
2 12 (50.00%) SOA
2 12 (50.00%) DRM
3 7 (29.17%) E-Commerce
4 6 (25.00%) MVC
5 3 (12.50%) Web Design
5 3 (12.50%) ITIL
6 2 (8.333%) Agile Software Development
6 2 (8.333%) Content Management
6 2 (8.333%) Web Development
6 2 (8.333%) Release Management
7 1 (4.167%) Functional Testing
7 1 (4.167%) TDD
7 1 (4.167%) RAD
7 1 (4.167%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 23 (95.83%) Java
1 23 (95.83%) JavaScript
2 12 (50.00%) Perl
3 11 (45.83%) PHP
4 3 (12.50%) SQL
5 1 (4.167%) Groovy
5 1 (4.167%) Scala
System Software
1 12 (50.00%) Samba
Systems Management
1 8 (33.33%) OpenView
1 8 (33.33%) Nagios
1 8 (33.33%) ZABBIX
1 8 (33.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 12 (50.00%) Oracle
1 12 (50.00%) JBoss
1 12 (50.00%) Rackspace
2 8 (33.33%) RightScale
3 1 (4.167%) Facebook
3 1 (4.167%) Twitter
3 1 (4.167%) IBM
3 1 (4.167%) GigaSpaces
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