Yorkshire Servlets Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Java Servlet 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 Servlets over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Java Servlet
Location Alderley Edge Aylesbury Basildon Berkshire Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheshire Chester City of London Coventry Croydon Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Faringdon Glasgow Hampshire Hertfordshire Hull Kent Lancashire Leeds Lewisham Liverpool London Luton Manchester Marlow Merseyside Midlands Newton-le-Willows North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Rickmansworth Scotland Shropshire Slough South East South Wales South West Southend-on-Sea Southwark Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	112	127
Rank change on same period last year	+15
Matching contract IT job ads	10	7
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.013 %	0.007 %
As % of the category below	1.289 %	0.917 %
Daily rates quoted	2	2
Average minimum daily rate	£323	£326
Average daily rate	£323	£342
% change on same period last year	-5.55 %
Average maximum daily rate	£323	£358
UK excluding London average daily rate	£358	£331
% change on same period last year	+8.10 %
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	£43.34	£32.83
% change on same period last year	+32.00 %
Application Development Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	776	763
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.034 %	0.772 %
Daily rates quoted	139	97
Average minimum daily rate	£314	£300
Average daily rate	£330	£318
% change on same period last year	+3.67 %
Average maximum daily rate	£345	£336
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£336
% change on same period last year	+1.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	82	38
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.28	£23.62
Average hourly rate	£30.97	£25.16
% change on same period last year	+23.09 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.66	£26.70
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.78	£33.23
% change on same period last year	-1.32 %
Servlets 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.

Servlets
Demand Trend

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

Servlets
Daily Rate Trend

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

Servlets
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Servlets across the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

Servlets
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Servlets
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Servlets within the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 25 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
North Yorkshire	-	3	£323	-
West Yorkshire	-1	3	-	-
East Yorkshire	-	1	-	-

Servlets England

Servlets
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire 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 15 (93.75 %) Java 2 13 (81.25 %) J2EE 3 10 (62.50 %) JSP 4 9 (56.25 %) Struts 4 9 (56.25 %) Oracle 5 6 (37.50 %) XML 6 5 (31.25 %) Spring 6 5 (31.25 %) EJB 7 4 (25.00 %) UML 7 4 (25.00 %) Hibernate 8 3 (18.75 %) WebSphere 8 3 (18.75 %) JSF 8 3 (18.75 %) Oracle 10g 8 3 (18.75 %) OOA/OOD 8 3 (18.75 %) JMS

8 3 (18.75 %) Linux 8 3 (18.75 %) UNIX 8 3 (18.75 %) JUnit 8 3 (18.75 %) JDBC 8 3 (18.75 %) MySQL 9 2 (12.50 %) Ant 9 2 (12.50 %) WebSphere Application Server 9 2 (12.50 %) WebLogic 9 2 (12.50 %) Solaris 9 2 (12.50 %) XSLT 9 2 (12.50 %) RUP 9 2 (12.50 %) Oracle 8/8i 9 2 (12.50 %) RDBMS 9 2 (12.50 %) SOA 9 2 (12.50 %) XHTML

Servlets
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire 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 13 (81.25 %) J2EE 2 10 (62.50 %) JSP 3 9 (56.25 %) Struts 4 6 (37.50 %) XML 5 5 (31.25 %) EJB 5 5 (31.25 %) Spring 6 4 (25.00 %) Hibernate 7 3 (18.75 %) JSF 7 3 (18.75 %) JMS 7 3 (18.75 %) JDBC 7 3 (18.75 %) WebSphere 8 2 (12.50 %) XSLT 8 2 (12.50 %) XHTML 8 2 (12.50 %) J2SE 9 1 (6.250 %) HTML 9 1 (6.250 %) CSS 9 1 (6.250 %) JAAS 9 1 (6.250 %) LAMP 9 1 (6.250 %) WebServices 9 1 (6.250 %) JNDI	Application Platforms 1 2 (12.50 %) WebSphere Application Server 1 2 (12.50 %) WebLogic 2 1 (6.250 %) Apache
Communications & Networking 1 1 (6.250 %) LDAP 1 1 (6.250 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (18.75 %) MySQL 1 3 (18.75 %) Oracle 10g 2 2 (12.50 %) RDBMS 2 2 (12.50 %) Oracle 8/8i 3 1 (6.250 %) Oracle 9i
Development Applications 1 3 (18.75 %) JUnit 2 2 (12.50 %) Ant 2 2 (12.50 %) JDeveloper 3 1 (6.250 %) Flash 3 1 (6.250 %) Rational Rose	General 1 2 (12.50 %) Finance 1 2 (12.50 %) Publishing
Job Titles 1 15 (93.75 %) Developer 2 11 (68.75 %) Java Developer 3 6 (37.50 %) J2EE Developer 4 5 (31.25 %) Java/J2EE Developer 5 2 (12.50 %) Web Developer 5 2 (12.50 %) Senior Developer 6 1 (6.250 %) Programmer 6 1 (6.250 %) Analyst 6 1 (6.250 %) Software Developer 6 1 (6.250 %) Java Programmer 6 1 (6.250 %) Senior J2EE Developer 6 1 (6.250 %) Senior Java Developer 6 1 (6.250 %) JSP Developer 6 1 (6.250 %) WebLogic Developer 6 1 (6.250 %) Java Software Developer	Miscellaneous 1 1 (6.250 %) Computer Science
Operating Systems 1 3 (18.75 %) UNIX 1 3 (18.75 %) Linux 2 2 (12.50 %) Solaris	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (25.00 %) UML 2 3 (18.75 %) OOA/OOD 3 2 (12.50 %) RUP 3 2 (12.50 %) SOA 3 2 (12.50 %) Security Cleared
Programming Languages 1 15 (93.75 %) Java 2 1 (6.250 %) JavaScript 2 1 (6.250 %) PHP 2 1 (6.250 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 1 (6.250 %) Degree
Vendors 1 9 (56.25 %) Oracle