The first table below looks at the demand for Servlets skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Servlets over the 3 months to 22 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 for the West Midlands region.

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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java Servlet
Rank - 101 93
Contract jobs citing Servlets 0 9 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands - 0.394% 0.325%
As % of the Application Development category - 1.613% 1.310%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 3
Average daily rate - £300 £285
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +5.26%
UK excluding London average daily rate £319 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
-8.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £37.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £42.50 £26.75 £45.00
% change year-on-year
+58.87% -40.55%
All Application Development
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
405 558 458
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 24.15% 24.42% 24.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 304 247
Average daily rate £300 £300 £315
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -4.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £218 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £400 £430
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 13 22
Average hourly rate £28.50 £16.50 £18.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+72.72% -9.58%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.00 £12.50 £11.63
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.00 £37.50 £25.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Servlets
England

Servlets
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands 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 across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands Servlets Daily Rate Trend

Servlets
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Servlets across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands Servlets Hourly Rate Trend

Servlets
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region 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 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) VB.NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) SAP
1 1 (100.00%) EJB
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) UML
1 1 (100.00%) OOA/OOD
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
1 1 (100.00%) JMX
1 1 (100.00%) SAP EP
1 1 (100.00%) JSF
1 1 (100.00%) JTA
1 1 (100.00%) Java EE
1 1 (100.00%) JSTL
1 1 (100.00%) Java EE 5
1 1 (100.00%) JPA
1 1 (100.00%) EJB 3.0
1 1 (100.00%) SAP Portal
1 1 (100.00%) Dependency Injection
1 1 (100.00%) NWDI
1 1 (100.00%) NWDS

Servlets
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region 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 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) EJB
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) JMX
1 1 (100.00%) JSF
1 1 (100.00%) JTA
1 1 (100.00%) Java EE
1 1 (100.00%) JSTL
1 1 (100.00%) Java EE 5
1 1 (100.00%) JPA
1 1 (100.00%) EJB 3.0
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) SAP EP
1 1 (100.00%) SAP Portal
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) NWDI
1 1 (100.00%) NWDS
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) SAP Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) UML
1 1 (100.00%) OOA/OOD
1 1 (100.00%) Dependency Injection
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) VB.NET
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) SAP