Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the 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 22 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category.

LinkJava Servlet
Location
3 months to
22 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank316318314
Rank change year-on-year
Up+2Down-4
Matching contract IT job ads168132349
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK0.346 %0.333 %0.426 %
As % of the Application Development category1.295 %1.498 %1.761 %
Daily rates quoted8346106
Average daily rate£425£375£375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.33 %-
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£277£248£270
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£600£500£600
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£300£320
% change year-on-year
--6.250 %
Hourly rates quoted1126
Average hourly rate£35.00£36.00£41.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.770 %-13.25 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£19.00£33.60£31.25
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£42.00£38.40£45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£33.50£33.00£38.50
% change year-on-year
+1.510 %-14.28 %
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryAll Application Development
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
12975880919822
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK26.70 %22.20 %24.17 %
Daily rates quoted663330866471
Average daily rate£375£350£363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.140 %-3.440 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£225£220£250
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£600£500£550
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£300£325
% change year-on-year
--7.690 %
Hourly rates quoted4234961249
Average hourly rate£30.00£28.50£32.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.260 %-10.93 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£16.30£14.00£20.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£42.50£41.50£45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£28.50£27.50£32.50
% change year-on-year
+3.630 %-15.38 %

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.

Servlets
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Servlets within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Servlets Demand Trend

Servlets
Daily Rate Trend

The 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

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Servlets within the UK over the 3 months to 22 March 2010.

Servlets Daily Rate Histogram

Servlets
Hourly Rate Trend

The 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

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Servlets within the UK over the 3 months to 22 March 2010.

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 22 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
EnglandUp+9164£425+13.33 %
LondonDown-5390£440+10.00 %
City of LondonDown-5138£440+51.72 %
South EastUp+625£300-37.50 %
North WestUp+217£300-29.41 %
East of EnglandUp+2616£275-8.33 %
BerkshireUp+99£275-47.11 %
CambridgeshireUp+89£275-6.77 %
South WestUp+58£225-
CambridgeUp+48£275-6.77 %
HertfordshireUp+167--
CheshireDown-97£300-14.28 %
WatfordNew entry-6--
West SussexNew entry-5--
West MidlandsUp+54£240-12.72 %
ReadingNo change04£200-61.53 %
SurreyDown-134£388-
BirminghamUp+33£240-12.72 %
HampshireUp+13--
BristolNew entry-3--
MerseysideNew entry-3£315-
BuckinghamshireDown-92£200-
ScotlandDown-222--
CrawleyNew entry-2--
ExeterNew entry-2£150-
Milton KeynesNew entry-2£200-
WorthingNew entry-2--
DevonNew entry-2£150-
South YorkshireUp+61--
SheffieldUp+41--

Servlets
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 March 2010, 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.

1284 (94.67 %)Java
2188 (62.67 %)JSP
3175 (58.33 %)J2EE
4144 (48.00 %)SQL
5129 (43.00 %)Spring
6126 (42.00 %)XML
7116 (38.67 %)Hibernate
8110 (36.67 %)JavaScript
996 (32.00 %)Oracle
1095 (31.67 %)HTML
1190 (30.00 %)Struts
1286 (28.67 %)JDBC
1380 (26.67 %)Tomcat
1474 (24.67 %)EJB
1572 (24.00 %)AJAX
1671 (23.67 %)CSS
1671 (23.67 %)Web Services
1767 (22.33 %)Apache
1857 (19.00 %)WebSphere
1956 (18.67 %)Banking
2052 (17.33 %)Ant
2150 (16.67 %)UNIX
2150 (16.67 %)Eclipse
2249 (16.33 %)Linux
2348 (16.00 %)UML
2348 (16.00 %)XSLT
2444 (14.67 %)WebLogic
2543 (14.33 %)SOAP
2642 (14.00 %)Subversion
2738 (12.67 %)JUnit

Servlets
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 March 2010, 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.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1188 (62.67 %)JSP
2175 (58.33 %)J2EE
3129 (43.00 %)Spring
4126 (42.00 %)XML
5116 (38.67 %)Hibernate
695 (31.67 %)HTML
790 (30.00 %)Struts
886 (28.67 %)JDBC
974 (24.67 %)EJB
1072 (24.00 %)AJAX
1171 (23.67 %)CSS
1171 (23.67 %)Web Services
1257 (19.00 %)WebSphere
1348 (16.00 %)XSLT
1443 (14.33 %)SOAP
1530 (10.00 %)Java EE
1628 (9.333 %)JSF
1628 (9.333 %)JMS
1628 (9.333 %)JSTL
1727 (9.000 %)XHTML
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
180 (26.67 %)Tomcat
267 (22.33 %)Apache
344 (14.67 %)WebLogic
419 (6.333 %)IIS
514 (4.667 %)WebSphere Application Server
610 (3.333 %)GlassFish
610 (3.333 %)WebLogic Portal
610 (3.333 %)AquaLogic
79 (3.000 %)Oracle Application Server
79 (3.000 %)ESB
88 (2.667 %)Jetty
88 (2.667 %)SAS
88 (2.667 %)CMS
97 (2.333 %)WebSphere Portal
104 (1.333 %)SAP Portal
104 (1.333 %)TeamSite
104 (1.333 %)NetWeaver
104 (1.333 %)ArcGIS
104 (1.333 %)SAP EP
113 (1.000 %)Documentum
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
16 (2.000 %)MS Excel
24 (1.333 %)Photoshop
24 (1.333 %)Fireworks
33 (1.000 %)MS PowerPoint
33 (1.000 %)MS Office
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
17 (2.333 %)Oracle BPM
25 (1.667 %)Oracle Applications
25 (1.667 %)BusinessWorks
25 (1.667 %)Oracle 11i
25 (1.667 %)Oracle EBS R12
25 (1.667 %)TIBCO iProcess
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
121 (7.000 %)HTTP
219 (6.333 %)Internet
36 (2.000 %)LDAP
43 (1.000 %)SSL
43 (1.000 %)GPRS
52 (0.667 %)Intranet
52 (0.667 %)Extranet
61 (0.333 %)Kerberos
61 (0.333 %)SNMP
61 (0.333 %)Asterisk PBX
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
127 (9.000 %)SQL Server
217 (5.667 %)MySQL
217 (5.667 %)DB2
314 (4.667 %)Oracle 11g
412 (4.000 %)RDBMS
510 (3.333 %)Oracle 8/8i
68 (2.667 %)Oracle 9i
76 (2.000 %)Oracle Reports
76 (2.000 %)Oracle 10g
76 (2.000 %)GIS
85 (1.667 %)Oracle Discoverer
94 (1.333 %)DB2 UDB
103 (1.000 %)SQL Server 2005
112 (0.667 %)SQL Server 2008
112 (0.667 %)TOAD
112 (0.667 %)BusinessObjects
112 (0.667 %)JasperReports
121 (0.333 %)PostgreSQL
121 (0.333 %)SQL Server Integration Services
121 (0.333 %)ETL
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
152 (17.33 %)Ant
250 (16.67 %)Eclipse
342 (14.00 %)Subversion
438 (12.67 %)JUnit
523 (7.667 %)Maven
614 (4.667 %)WebSphere Studio Application Developer
711 (3.667 %)VSS/SourceSafe
89 (3.000 %)IntelliJ
98 (2.667 %)MyEclipse
98 (2.667 %)PVCS
107 (2.333 %)ClearCase
116 (2.000 %)EasyMock
116 (2.000 %)CruiseControl
125 (1.667 %)JDeveloper
134 (1.333 %)Selenium
134 (1.333 %)Dreamweaver
143 (1.000 %)JBuilder
143 (1.000 %)JIRA
152 (0.667 %)Rational Rose
152 (0.667 %)Log4j
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
156 (18.67 %)Banking
229 (9.667 %)Investment Banking
322 (7.333 %)Finance
412 (4.000 %)Government
511 (3.667 %)Law
511 (3.667 %)Telecoms
68 (2.667 %)Back Office
75 (1.667 %)Education
75 (1.667 %)Electronics
75 (1.667 %)Front Office
75 (1.667 %)Retail
84 (1.333 %)Insurance
93 (1.000 %)Automotive
93 (1.000 %)Marketing
102 (0.667 %)Games
111 (0.333 %)Financial Institution
111 (0.333 %)Legal
111 (0.333 %)Music
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1244 (81.33 %)Developer
2170 (56.67 %)Java Developer
352 (17.33 %)J2EE Developer
436 (12.00 %)Java/J2EE Developer
532 (10.67 %)Senior Developer
623 (7.667 %)Senior Java Developer
718 (6.000 %)Web Developer
88 (2.667 %)Portal Developer
88 (2.667 %)WebSphere Developer
88 (2.667 %)Applications Developer
88 (2.667 %)Software Developer
97 (2.333 %)Java Web Developer
97 (2.333 %)Designer
97 (2.333 %)WebSphere Portal Developer
106 (2.000 %)Technical Leader
106 (2.000 %)Architect
106 (2.000 %)Software Engineer
106 (2.000 %)Development Manager
115 (1.667 %)Consultant
115 (1.667 %)WebLogic Developer
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
116 (5.333 %)N-Tier
212 (4.000 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
311 (3.667 %)Open Source
46 (2.000 %)Web 2.0
46 (2.000 %)E-Learning
55 (1.667 %)Fixed Income
55 (1.667 %)Derivative
55 (1.667 %)Mathematics
64 (1.333 %)Visualisation
64 (1.333 %)Equities
72 (0.667 %)Computer Science
72 (0.667 %)Multithreading
72 (0.667 %)Dependency Injection
72 (0.667 %)Client/Server
72 (0.667 %)Clustering
81 (0.333 %)Tandem
81 (0.333 %)Data Integration
81 (0.333 %)Wiki
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
150 (16.67 %)UNIX
249 (16.33 %)Linux
317 (5.667 %)Windows
415 (5.000 %)Solaris
52 (0.667 %)CentOS
52 (0.667 %)HPUX
52 (0.667 %)Windows XP
61 (0.333 %)Windows 2000
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
148 (16.00 %)UML
232 (10.67 %)MVC
331 (10.33 %)OO
421 (7.000 %)Web Development
520 (6.667 %)SOA
520 (6.667 %)Content Management
619 (6.333 %)Agile Software Development
718 (6.000 %)Unit Testing
718 (6.000 %)RAD
816 (5.333 %)E-Commerce
911 (3.667 %)Scrum
911 (3.667 %)TDD
911 (3.667 %)OOD
911 (3.667 %)Integration Testing
1010 (3.333 %)Validation
119 (3.000 %)RUP
128 (2.667 %)Unified Process
137 (2.333 %)Workflow
137 (2.333 %)AOP
137 (2.333 %)BPEL
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1284 (94.67 %)Java
2144 (48.00 %)SQL
3110 (36.67 %)JavaScript
430 (10.00 %)PL/SQL
59 (3.000 %)Shell Script
67 (2.333 %)T-SQL
67 (2.333 %)C
67 (2.333 %)Groovy
76 (2.000 %)XPath
85 (1.667 %)Bash shell
94 (1.333 %)C++
94 (1.333 %)PHP
103 (1.000 %)Perl
103 (1.000 %)C#
103 (1.000 %)VB
111 (0.333 %)LotusScript
111 (0.333 %)Ruby
111 (0.333 %)XQuery
111 (0.333 %)WebLogic Scripting Tool
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
121 (7.000 %)Security Cleared
219 (6.333 %)SC Cleared
311 (3.667 %)Degree
46 (2.000 %)Sun Certification
55 (1.667 %)OCP
55 (1.667 %)OCA
55 (1.667 %)Oracle Certification
63 (1.000 %)SCJP
63 (1.000 %)DV Cleared
63 (1.000 %)SCJA
72 (0.667 %)SCJD
72 (0.667 %)SCDJWS
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
19 (3.000 %)QA
27 (2.333 %)WCAG
32 (0.667 %)GAMP
32 (0.667 %)ISO9001
32 (0.667 %)GxP
41 (0.333 %)SLA
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
12 (0.667 %)Active Directory
21 (0.333 %)MSMQ
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
196 (32.00 %)Oracle
227 (9.000 %)JBoss
320 (6.667 %)IBM
320 (6.667 %)Sybase
415 (5.000 %)Sun
58 (2.667 %)Caplin
66 (2.000 %)TIBCO
75 (1.667 %)Microsoft
75 (1.667 %)BEA
75 (1.667 %)SAP
83 (1.000 %)Mercator
83 (1.000 %)Pega
92 (0.667 %)Business Objects
101 (0.333 %)Serena
101 (0.333 %)Cramer
101 (0.333 %)Ab Initio
101 (0.333 %)Google
101 (0.333 %)HP
101 (0.333 %)Adobe
101 (0.333 %)Informatica