Wales JSP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for JavaServer Pages (JSP) skills within the Wales region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited JSP over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

JavaServer Pages (JSP)
Location Altrincham Andover Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheshire Chester City of London Conwy County Antrim Coventry Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Glasgow Hampshire Harrogate Hertfordshire Home Counties Hull Isle of Man Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewisham Liverpool Llandudno London Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Peterborough Reading Rickmansworth Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark St Neots Staffordshire Stockport Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Watford Wellingborough West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	55	41
Rank change on same period last year	-14
Matching contract IT job ads	10	18
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.013 %	0.019 %
As % of the category below	5.236 %	12.86 %
Daily rates quoted	4	6
Average minimum daily rate	£335	£262
Average daily rate	£355	£278
% change on same period last year	+27.45 %
Average maximum daily rate	£375	£295
UK excluding London average daily rate	£363	£320
% change on same period last year	+13.36 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£40.34	£36.80
% change on same period last year	+9.61 %
Application Development Wales
Matching contract IT job ads	191	140
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.252 %	0.149 %
Daily rates quoted	47	21
Average minimum daily rate	£350	£285
Average daily rate	£375	£307
% change on same period last year	+22.10 %
Average maximum daily rate	£399	£329
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£336
% change on same period last year	+3.94 %
Hourly rates quoted	23	8
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.59	£28.39
Average hourly rate	£27.37	£29.50
% change on same period last year	-7.20 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.16	£30.61
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.44	£33.08
% change on same period last year	-1.93 %
JSP UK

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 beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing JSP across the Wales 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 IT contract jobs citing JSP across the Wales region.

JSP
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing JSP across the Wales region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

JSP
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing JSP across the Wales region.

JSP
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing JSP within the Wales region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

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
West Wales	-	5	£355	-
South Wales	-18	3	-	-
North Wales	-6	1	-	-

JSP UK

JSP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Wales region citing JSP 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 JSP.

1 12 (92.31 %) HTML 1 12 (92.31 %) Java 2 8 (61.54 %) XML 2 8 (61.54 %) J2EE 3 7 (53.85 %) Security Cleared 4 6 (46.15 %) SC Cleared 4 6 (46.15 %) Oracle 4 6 (46.15 %) SQL 5 5 (38.46 %) JavaScript 5 5 (38.46 %) WebLogic 5 5 (38.46 %) Unix 5 5 (38.46 %) ClearCase 5 5 (38.46 %) Oracle 10g 5 5 (38.46 %) TestDirector 6 3 (23.08 %) Government

6 3 (23.08 %) EJB 7 2 (15.38 %) Servlets 7 2 (15.38 %) Windows 7 2 (15.38 %) Tomcat 7 2 (15.38 %) Health 7 2 (15.38 %) RDBMS 7 2 (15.38 %) BC Cleared 8 1 (7.692 %) XDoclet 8 1 (7.692 %) JSF 8 1 (7.692 %) JSP 440 8 1 (7.692 %) C 8 1 (7.692 %) Microsoft 8 1 (7.692 %) Project Management 8 1 (7.692 %) SOA 8 1 (7.692 %) LAN

JSP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Wales region citing JSP 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 JSP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 12 (92.31 %) HTML 2 8 (61.54 %) J2EE 2 8 (61.54 %) XML 3 3 (23.08 %) EJB 4 2 (15.38 %) Servlets 5 1 (7.692 %) Struts 5 1 (7.692 %) JavaBeans 5 1 (7.692 %) Hibernate 5 1 (7.692 %) JSF	Application Platforms 1 5 (38.46 %) WebLogic 2 2 (15.38 %) Tomcat 3 1 (7.692 %) Apache
Communications & Networking 1 1 (7.692 %) LAN 1 1 (7.692 %) Firewall	Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (38.46 %) Oracle 10g 2 2 (15.38 %) RDBMS 3 1 (7.692 %) SQL Server 3 1 (7.692 %) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications 1 5 (38.46 %) ClearCase 1 5 (38.46 %) TestDirector 2 1 (7.692 %) XDoclet	General 1 3 (23.08 %) Government 2 2 (15.38 %) Health 3 1 (7.692 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 10 (76.92 %) Developer 2 7 (53.85 %) Java Developer 3 3 (23.08 %) Applications Developer 3 3 (23.08 %) Support Engineer 4 2 (15.38 %) Applications Support 4 2 (15.38 %) Applications Support Engineer 4 2 (15.38 %) JavaScript Developer 5 1 (7.692 %) Java Applications Developer 5 1 (7.692 %) Senior Network Engineer 5 1 (7.692 %) Web Developer 5 1 (7.692 %) Network Engineer	Operating Systems 1 5 (38.46 %) Unix 2 2 (15.38 %) Windows 3 1 (7.692 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (53.85 %) Security Cleared 2 6 (46.15 %) SC Cleared 3 2 (15.38 %) BC Cleared 4 1 (7.692 %) SOA 4 1 (7.692 %) Project Management	Programming Languages 1 12 (92.31 %) Java 2 6 (46.15 %) SQL 3 5 (38.46 %) JavaScript 4 1 (7.692 %) VB 4 1 (7.692 %) C
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (7.692 %) JSP 440	Vendors 1 6 (46.15 %) Oracle 2 1 (7.692 %) Microsoft