The first table below looks at the demand for Servlets skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Servlets over the 3 months to 19 June 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java Servlet
Rank 381 359 351
Rank change year-on-year
-22 -8
Contract jobs citing Servlets 162 222 272
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.337% 0.383% 0.437%
As % of the Application Development category 1.212% 1.486% 1.577%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 122 149
Average daily rate £400 £388 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.22% -3.12%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £278 £300 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £565 £540
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £330
% change year-on-year
- +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 8
Average hourly rate £42.50 £26.75 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+58.87% -37.05%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £42.50 £26.75 £42.50
% change year-on-year
+58.87% -37.05%
All Application Development
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
13369 14943 17245
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 27.79% 25.75% 27.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 8406 8920 10221
Average daily rate £375 £353 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.38% -11.87%
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 342 381 538
Average hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -7.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.00 £17.50 £18.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £42.50 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%

Servlets
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

Servlets Daily Rate Trend

Servlets
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Servlets within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Servlets Daily Rate Histogram

Servlets
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Servlets Hourly Rate Trend

Servlets
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Servlets within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Servlets Hourly Rate Histogram

Servlets
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 Servlets within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
England -42 141 £400 +2.56% 53
London +25 89 £463 +15.62% 25
City of London +12 25 £513 +28.12% 8
North West +9 23 £350 +1.81% 6
Scotland -6 13 £381 +39.65% 5
East Midlands +9 11 - - 3
Manchester +8 11 £295 -9.23% 2
Cheshire +3 11 £375 +7.14%
South East -4 8 £360 -10.00% 1
Edinburgh +4 5 £413 -
Milton Keynes +3 4 £343 +13.78%
Buckinghamshire -7 4 £343 +5.22%
Glasgow -17 4 £275 +0.73% 5
East of England +9 3 £400 -11.11% 14
Nottingham -2 3 - - 1
Nottinghamshire -3 3 - - 1
South West +25 2 £350 +12.00% 3
Dorset 0 2 £350 -22.22%
Bournemouth -1 2 £350 -22.22%
Hampshire -2 2 £380 +38.18%
Fife - 2 - -
Yorkshire - 2 - - 1
Berkshire +16 1 - -
Hertfordshire +10 1 - - 6
Birmingham +6 1 £325 -13.33%
Lancashire +3 1 £350 -7.28% 4
Surrey -2 1 - -
West Midlands -3 1 £325 -3.70%
Hammersmith - 1 - -
Docklands, London - 1 - -

Servlets
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

1 293 (97.02%) Java
2 214 (70.86%) JSP
3 179 (59.27%) JavaScript
4 174 (57.62%) J2EE
5 173 (57.28%) XML
6 156 (51.66%) Spring
7 154 (50.99%) HTML
8 145 (48.01%) CSS
9 132 (43.71%) Oracle
10 117 (38.74%) SQL
11 108 (35.76%) Hibernate
11 108 (35.76%) Ajax
12 103 (34.11%) Web Services
13 100 (33.11%) jQuery
14 98 (32.45%) JDBC
15 88 (29.14%) JUnit
16 87 (28.81%) Eclipse
17 84 (27.81%) EJB
18 78 (25.83%) OO
19 76 (25.17%) Agile Software Development
20 75 (24.83%) Struts
21 74 (24.50%) Maven
22 71 (23.51%) Tomcat
23 69 (22.85%) SOAP
24 68 (22.52%) WebSphere
25 67 (22.19%) Apache
25 67 (22.19%) MVC
26 66 (21.85%) UML
27 65 (21.52%) UNIX
28 63 (20.86%) Content Management

Servlets
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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
1 214 (70.86%) JSP
2 174 (57.62%) J2EE
3 173 (57.28%) XML
4 156 (51.66%) Spring
5 154 (50.99%) HTML
6 145 (48.01%) CSS
7 108 (35.76%) Hibernate
7 108 (35.76%) Ajax
8 103 (34.11%) Web Services
9 100 (33.11%) jQuery
10 98 (32.45%) JDBC
11 84 (27.81%) EJB
12 75 (24.83%) Struts
13 69 (22.85%) SOAP
14 68 (22.52%) WebSphere
15 59 (19.54%) JMS
15 59 (19.54%) XSLT
16 52 (17.22%) XHTML
17 49 (16.23%) JSF
18 44 (14.57%) JPA
Application Platforms
1 71 (23.51%) Tomcat
2 67 (22.19%) Apache
3 59 (19.54%) WebLogic
4 46 (15.23%) WebSphere Application Server
5 26 (8.609%) CMS
6 17 (5.629%) Adobe CQ
7 11 (3.642%) Oracle Workflow
7 11 (3.642%) MQSeries
8 9 (2.980%) ESB
8 9 (2.980%) Mule
8 9 (2.980%) Jetty
9 8 (2.649%) ArcGIS
10 6 (1.987%) ArcSDE
11 5 (1.656%) TeamSite
11 5 (1.656%) LiveSite
11 5 (1.656%) WebSphere Portal
12 4 (1.325%) Apache Solr
12 4 (1.325%) Liferay
12 4 (1.325%) Drupal
13 3 (0.993%) Lotus Domino
Applications
1 4 (1.325%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.331%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 10 (3.311%) Tridion
2 1 (0.331%) SiteCatalyst
2 1 (0.331%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 29 (9.603%) Internet
2 24 (7.947%) HTTP
3 12 (3.974%) TCP/IP
4 7 (2.318%) LDAP
5 4 (1.325%) SSL
6 3 (0.993%) Kerberos
7 2 (0.662%) OpenLDAP
8 1 (0.331%) BIG-IP
8 1 (0.331%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.331%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (19.21%) RDBMS
2 37 (12.25%) DB2
3 31 (10.26%) SQL Server
4 15 (4.967%) MySQL
5 10 (3.311%) GIS
6 7 (2.318%) Oracle 8/8i
7 6 (1.987%) MongoDB
7 6 (1.987%) Oracle 11g
8 5 (1.656%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (1.656%) Oracle Reports
9 4 (1.325%) Hazelcast
9 4 (1.325%) Crystal Reports
10 3 (0.993%) TOAD
10 3 (0.993%) SQLite
11 2 (0.662%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.662%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.662%) Oracle 10g
12 1 (0.331%) InterSystems Cache
12 1 (0.331%) SQLPlus
12 1 (0.331%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 88 (29.14%) JUnit
2 87 (28.81%) Eclipse
3 74 (24.50%) Maven
4 44 (14.57%) Subversion
5 28 (9.272%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
5 28 (9.272%) Ant
6 24 (7.947%) Git (software)
7 19 (6.291%) JIRA
8 17 (5.629%) Log4j
9 15 (4.967%) Jenkins
10 10 (3.311%) JDeveloper
11 9 (2.980%) Visual Studio
11 9 (2.980%) ClearCase
12 8 (2.649%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 7 (2.318%) NetBeans
13 7 (2.318%) EasyMock
13 7 (2.318%) Hudson
14 6 (1.987%) Flash Builder
14 6 (1.987%) jMock
15 5 (1.656%) CruiseControl
General
1 53 (17.55%) Finance
2 38 (12.58%) Banking
3 22 (7.285%) Retail
4 21 (6.954%) Investment Banking
5 13 (4.305%) Publishing
6 11 (3.642%) Games
7 4 (1.325%) Telecoms
7 4 (1.325%) Front Office
8 3 (0.993%) Back Office
8 3 (0.993%) Marketing
9 2 (0.662%) Advertising
10 1 (0.331%) Automotive
10 1 (0.331%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.331%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.331%) Dutch Language
10 1 (0.331%) French Language
10 1 (0.331%) Japanese Language
10 1 (0.331%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 238 (78.81%) Developer
2 132 (43.71%) Java Developer
3 32 (10.60%) Senior Developer
4 28 (9.272%) Senior Java Developer
5 21 (6.954%) Java/J2EE Developer
6 20 (6.623%) WebSphere Developer
7 19 (6.291%) Programmer
7 19 (6.291%) Web Developer
8 18 (5.960%) Architect
9 14 (4.636%) Java Programmer
10 13 (4.305%) J2EE Developer
11 10 (3.311%) Designer
11 10 (3.311%) Solutions Designer
11 10 (3.311%) Analyst
11 10 (3.311%) GIS Developer
12 9 (2.980%) Applications Developer
12 9 (2.980%) Java Web Developer
13 8 (2.649%) Developer Analyst
13 8 (2.649%) Web Applications Developer
14 7 (2.318%) Flex Developer
Miscellaneous
1 23 (7.616%) Open Source
2 21 (6.954%) Web 2.0
3 13 (4.305%) W3C
4 12 (3.974%) iPhone
5 11 (3.642%) Blackberry
5 11 (3.642%) N-Tier
5 11 (3.642%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 6 (1.987%) Mobile App
7 5 (1.656%) PMI
7 5 (1.656%) Client/Server
8 4 (1.325%) iPad
8 4 (1.325%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.325%) Computer Science
8 4 (1.325%) Graphic Design
8 4 (1.325%) Derivative
8 4 (1.325%) Credit Derivative
9 3 (0.993%) Replication
9 3 (0.993%) Clustering
10 2 (0.662%) FMCG
10 2 (0.662%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 65 (21.52%) UNIX
2 56 (18.54%) Linux
3 24 (7.947%) Windows
4 18 (5.960%) Solaris
5 12 (3.974%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (3.311%) Windows Server 2008
6 10 (3.311%) HPUX
7 7 (2.318%) Windows 7
8 5 (1.656%) Windows CE
9 2 (0.662%) Android
10 1 (0.331%) AIX
10 1 (0.331%) VME
10 1 (0.331%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (25.83%) OO
2 76 (25.17%) Agile Software Development
3 67 (22.19%) MVC
4 66 (21.85%) UML
5 63 (20.86%) Content Management
6 61 (20.20%) E-Commerce
7 51 (16.89%) TDD
8 48 (15.89%) Continuous Integration
9 28 (9.272%) RAD
10 24 (7.947%) Scrum
11 22 (7.285%) Unit Testing
12 21 (6.954%) SOA
13 20 (6.623%) BDD
14 18 (5.960%) OOA/OOD
15 17 (5.629%) Web Design
16 16 (5.298%) Web Development
17 14 (4.636%) Web Application Development
17 14 (4.636%) Workflow
18 13 (4.305%) Project Management
19 11 (3.642%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 293 (97.02%) Java
2 179 (59.27%) JavaScript
3 117 (38.74%) SQL
4 40 (13.25%) PL/SQL
5 33 (10.93%) Perl
6 30 (9.934%) Bash shell
7 27 (8.940%) C#
8 21 (6.954%) XPath
9 20 (6.623%) Python
10 14 (4.636%) C++
11 13 (4.305%) C
12 12 (3.974%) Groovy
12 12 (3.974%) Shell Script
13 7 (2.318%) PHP
14 3 (0.993%) PHP5
15 2 (0.662%) Scala
15 2 (0.662%) AWK
15 2 (0.662%) LotusScript
16 1 (0.331%) T-SQL
16 1 (0.331%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 22 (7.285%) Sun Certification
2 14 (4.636%) Degree
3 8 (2.649%) Security Cleared
4 5 (1.656%) PMI Certification
4 5 (1.656%) IBM Certification
4 5 (1.656%) SC Cleared
5 4 (1.325%) PhD
6 1 (0.331%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.636%) QA
2 2 (0.662%) WCAG
3 1 (0.331%) HL7
System Software
1 3 (0.993%) Active Directory
1 3 (0.993%) OpenSSO
2 1 (0.331%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.331%) Xen
2 1 (0.331%) Shibboleth
2 1 (0.331%) Tivoli Directory Server
2 1 (0.331%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (2.318%) Puppet
2 1 (0.331%) Tivoli
2 1 (0.331%) Tivoli Identity Manager
2 1 (0.331%) Control-M
2 1 (0.331%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (0.331%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 132 (43.71%) Oracle
2 50 (16.56%) IBM
3 44 (14.57%) JBoss
4 28 (9.272%) Sun
5 22 (7.285%) Adobe
6 16 (5.298%) ATG
7 12 (3.974%) Red Hat
8 11 (3.642%) FatWire
8 11 (3.642%) Microsoft
9 10 (3.311%) Blue Martini
9 10 (3.311%) Sybase
9 10 (3.311%) ESRI
10 9 (2.980%) Interwoven
10 9 (2.980%) Elastic Path
11 6 (1.987%) Omniture
12 5 (1.656%) Perforce
12 5 (1.656%) Chordiant
13 3 (0.993%) TIBCO
13 3 (0.993%) HP
13 3 (0.993%) Lotus
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