Yorkshire JSP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for JavaServer Pages (JSP) skills within the Yorkshire region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited JSP over the last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

JavaServer Pages (JSP)
Location Aberdeen Altrincham Aylesbury Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Chelmsford Cheshire Chester City of London Clapham Conwy County Antrim Coventry Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Farnborough Gatwick Glasgow Guildford Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hove Ipswich Isle of Man Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicestershire Lewisham Lincolnshire Liverpool Llandudno London Luton Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Scotland Sheffield Sleaford Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Neots Staffordshire Stockport Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	79	89
Rank change on same period last year	+10
Matching contract IT job ads	46	38
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.059 %	0.043 %
As % of the category below	6.093 %	5.101 %
Daily rates quoted	4	7
Average minimum daily rate	£325	£341
Average daily rate	£368	£348
% change on same period last year	+5.82 %
Average maximum daily rate	£411	£355
UK excluding London average daily rate	£381	£335
% change on same period last year	+13.88 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£45.00	£30.00
Average hourly rate	£47.50	£40.00
% change on same period last year	+18.75 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£50.00	£50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£37.12	£38.12
% change on same period last year	-2.60 %
Application Development Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	755	745
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.969 %	0.837 %
Daily rates quoted	133	89
Average minimum daily rate	£296	£298
Average daily rate	£309	£308
% change on same period last year	+0.07 %
Average maximum daily rate	£321	£319
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£335
% change on same period last year	+5.30 %
Hourly rates quoted	73	33
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.65	£23.06
Average hourly rate	£26.88	£24.70
% change on same period last year	+8.83 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.12	£26.34
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.42	£31.87
% change on same period last year	+1.71 %
JSP England

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 starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing JSP across the Yorkshire 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 contract IT jobs ads citing JSP across the Yorkshire region.

JSP
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing JSP across the Yorkshire region over the past 3 months.

JSP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

JSP
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing JSP across the Yorkshire region over the past 3 months.

JSP
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JSP within the Yorkshire region over the past 3 months.

Rank	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
1	West Yorkshire	+5	24	£311	-12.32 %
2	South Yorkshire	-9	9	-	-
3	North Yorkshire	-	7	-	-

JSP England

JSP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Yorkshire region citing JSP also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing JSP.

1 65 (97.01 %) Java 2 40 (59.70 %) J2EE 3 26 (38.81 %) Oracle 4 25 (37.31 %) Spring 5 24 (35.82 %) Hibernate 6 22 (32.84 %) XML 7 18 (26.87 %) HTML 8 16 (23.88 %) Struts 9 15 (22.39 %) Servlets 10 13 (19.40 %) WebSphere 11 12 (17.91 %) EJB 11 12 (17.91 %) CSS 11 12 (17.91 %) JavaScript 12 10 (14.93 %) UML 13 9 (13.43 %) Content Management

14 8 (11.94 %) Agile Software Development 14 8 (11.94 %) Finance 14 8 (11.94 %) Oracle 8/8i 15 7 (10.45 %) E-Commerce 15 7 (10.45 %) Internet 15 7 (10.45 %) MySQL 15 7 (10.45 %) Photoshop 15 7 (10.45 %) ATG 16 6 (8.955 %) XSLT 16 6 (8.955 %) Unix 17 5 (7.463 %) XSL 17 5 (7.463 %) SQL 17 5 (7.463 %) Linux 17 5 (7.463 %) Tomcat 17 5 (7.463 %) W3C

JSP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Yorkshire region citing JSP also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing JSP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 40 (59.70 %) J2EE 2 25 (37.31 %) Spring 3 24 (35.82 %) Hibernate 4 22 (32.84 %) XML 5 18 (26.87 %) HTML 6 16 (23.88 %) Struts 7 15 (22.39 %) Servlets 8 13 (19.40 %) WebSphere 9 12 (17.91 %) EJB 9 12 (17.91 %) CSS 10 6 (8.955 %) XSLT 11 5 (7.463 %) XSL 11 5 (7.463 %) JMS 12 4 (5.970 %) WebServices 13 3 (4.478 %) SOAP 13 3 (4.478 %) .NET 13 3 (4.478 %) JSF 13 3 (4.478 %) JSTL 14 2 (2.985 %) Velocity 14 2 (2.985 %) .NET Framework	Application Platforms 1 5 (7.463 %) Tomcat 1 5 (7.463 %) ATG Dynamo 2 4 (5.970 %) OpenCms 2 4 (5.970 %) Content Management Server 3 3 (4.478 %) WebSphere Application Server 3 3 (4.478 %) JBoss 4 2 (2.985 %) Apache 4 2 (2.985 %) CMS 4 2 (2.985 %) Commerce Server 5 1 (1.493 %) WebLogic 5 1 (1.493 %) Oracle 10gAS 5 1 (1.493 %) Jetty
Applications 1 7 (10.45 %) Photoshop 2 5 (7.463 %) Fireworks 3 1 (1.493 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 7 (10.45 %) Internet 2 4 (5.970 %) LDAP 3 1 (1.493 %) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 8 (11.94 %) Oracle 8/8i 2 7 (10.45 %) MySQL 3 2 (2.985 %) SQL Server 3 2 (2.985 %) Oracle 9i 3 2 (2.985 %) Oracle 10g	Development Applications 1 3 (4.478 %) JUnit 2 2 (2.985 %) Eclipse 3 1 (1.493 %) Dreamweaver 3 1 (1.493 %) Log4j 3 1 (1.493 %) HttpUnit 3 1 (1.493 %) Flash 3 1 (1.493 %) Ant
General 1 8 (11.94 %) Finance 2 3 (4.478 %) Financial Institution 3 1 (1.493 %) Education 3 1 (1.493 %) Retail	Job Titles 1 60 (89.55 %) Developer 2 36 (53.73 %) Java Developer 3 23 (34.33 %) J2EE Developer 4 13 (19.40 %) Web Developer 4 13 (19.40 %) Java/J2EE Developer 5 4 (5.970 %) Consultant 5 4 (5.970 %) Web Designer 5 4 (5.970 %) Vignette Developer 6 3 (4.478 %) Java Web Developer 7 2 (2.985 %) Architect 7 2 (2.985 %) Senior J2EE Developer 7 2 (2.985 %) Solutions Architect 7 2 (2.985 %) Senior Developer 7 2 (2.985 %) Programmer 7 2 (2.985 %) Applications Support 8 1 (1.493 %) Technical Consultant 8 1 (1.493 %) Senior Java Developer 8 1 (1.493 %) MySQL Developer 8 1 (1.493 %) PHP Web Developer 8 1 (1.493 %) JSP Developer
Miscellaneous 1 5 (7.463 %) W3C 1 5 (7.463 %) Computer Science	Operating Systems 1 6 (8.955 %) Unix 2 5 (7.463 %) Linux 3 3 (4.478 %) Windows 4 1 (1.493 %) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (14.93 %) UML 2 9 (13.43 %) Content Management 3 8 (11.94 %) Agile Software Development 4 7 (10.45 %) E-Commerce 5 4 (5.970 %) Web Development 6 3 (4.478 %) Identity Management 7 1 (1.493 %) OO 7 1 (1.493 %) RUP 7 1 (1.493 %) Unit Testing 7 1 (1.493 %) TDD	Programming Languages 1 65 (97.01 %) Java 2 12 (17.91 %) JavaScript 3 5 (7.463 %) SQL 4 3 (4.478 %) PHP 4 3 (4.478 %) Shell Script 5 2 (2.985 %) Perl 6 1 (1.493 %) ActionScript
Qualifications 1 5 (7.463 %) Degree	Vendors 1 26 (38.81 %) Oracle 2 7 (10.45 %) ATG 3 5 (7.463 %) Microsoft 4 4 (5.970 %) Vignette 5 3 (4.478 %) Stellent 6 1 (1.493 %) Sun 6 1 (1.493 %) BEA