JSP Contracts

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for JSP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited JSP over the 3 months to 22 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

JavaServer Pages (JSP) UK
Location	3 months to 22 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	428	323	325
Rank change year-on-year	-105	+2
Contract jobs citing JSP	189	375	375
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK	0.40%	0.70%	0.67%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category	1.25%	2.45%	2.43%
Number of daily rates quoted	125	257	240
Median daily rate	£413	£425	£400
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	-2.94%	+6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£325	£325	£300
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£550	£575	£525
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£425	£375
% change year-on-year	-5.88%	+13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted	0	1	21
Median hourly rate	-	£44.50	£37.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-	+20.27%
UK excluding London median hourly rate	-	£44.50	£37.00
% change year-on-year	-	+20.27%

JSP is in the industry standards, technical specifications and software library and framework skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for industry standards, technical specifications and software library and framework skills.

Contract Software Library & Framework Skills UK
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for industry standards, technical specifications and software library and framework skills	15082	15298	15416
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	32.18%	28.37%	27.42%
Number of daily rates quoted	10422	10796	10312
Median daily rate	£430	£420	£388
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+2.38%	+8.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£315	£300	£285
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£580	£550	£550
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£375	£350
% change year-on-year	+6.66%	+7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted	204	179	206
Median hourly rate	£41.50	£36.00	£35.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+15.27%	+2.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£16.08	£16.00	£17.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£52.50	£50.00	£55.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£42.50	£36.00	£38.89
% change year-on-year	+18.05%	-7.41%

JSP
Job Vacancy Trend

The job posting trend of jobs advertised citing JSP as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category.

JSP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing JSP.

Contractor daily rate trend for JSP in the UK

JSP
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing JSP over the 3 months to 22 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for JSP in the UK

JSP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing JSP.

Contractor hourly rate trend for JSP in the UK

JSP
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JSP within the UK over the 3 months to 22 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
England	-114	166	£413	-4.06%	41
London	-59	75	£419	-4.28%	19
East of England	+5	27	£319	-20.31%	4
North West	+10	17	£450	+20.00%	3
East Midlands	-13	17	£423	+35.20%
South East	-33	16	£350	-26.31%	9
Scotland	+35	14	£400	+17.64%	4
Hertfordshire	+8	12	£425	-2.85%	1
City of London	+4	11	£456	-3.94%	4
Edinburgh	+18	9	£400	+17.64%	4
Cheshire	+21	8	£458	+0.27%	2
Milton Keynes	-9	8	£338	+14.89%	2
Buckinghamshire	-16	8	£338	+33.00%	2
County Antrim	-	8	£413	-
Bedfordshire	-	8	£288	-
Northern Ireland	-	8	£413	-
Northamptonshire	+7	7	£420	+11.25%
Watford	-2	7	£350	-22.22%
Belfast	-	7	£413	-
Yorkshire	+19	6	£375	-11.76%	1
Berkshire	+11	6	£475	-2.56%	3
South West	+10	6	£338	-1.09%	5
Luton	-	6	£288	-
Nottingham	+7	5	£463	-
Glasgow	+7	5	£388	+6.16%
Manchester	+6	5	£488	+30.00%
Nottinghamshire	+1	5	£463	-
Essex	-16	5	£265	-33.75%	2
West Yorkshire	+15	4	£369	-10.60%	1
Hemel Hempstead	-	4	£450	-

JSP
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing JSP also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads with a requirement for JSP.

1	405 (91.42%)	Java
2	257 (58.01%)	JavaScript
3	253 (57.11%)	Spring
4	237 (53.50%)	HTML
5	232 (52.37%)	Agile Software Development
6	219 (49.44%)	CSS
7	210 (47.40%)	J2EE
8	208 (46.95%)	XML
9	203 (45.82%)	SQL
10	200 (45.15%)	Servlets
11	178 (40.18%)	Oracle
12	164 (37.02%)	Web Services
13	159 (35.89%)	Hibernate
14	127 (28.67%)	MVC
15	125 (28.22%)	WebSphere

16	117 (26.41%)	Struts
17	112 (25.28%)	SOAP
18	108 (24.38%)	jQuery
19	100 (22.57%)	Finance
20	99 (22.35%)	Ajax
21	98 (22.12%)	JSON
22	96 (21.67%)	Java EE
22	96 (21.67%)	Scrum
23	94 (21.22%)	REST
24	88 (19.86%)	JBoss
25	87 (19.64%)	TDD
26	86 (19.41%)	Maven
26	86 (19.41%)	Linux
27	85 (19.19%)	EJB
28	83 (18.74%)	WebLogic

JSP
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	125 (28.22%)	WebSphere
2	88 (19.86%)	JBoss
3	83 (18.74%)	WebLogic
4	72 (16.25%)	Tomcat
5	67 (15.12%)	Apache
6	52 (11.74%)	CMS
7	44 (9.93%)	Adobe Experience Manager
8	43 (9.71%)	WebSphere Application Server
9	25 (5.64%)	Apache Solr
10	24 (5.42%)	Confluence
11	15 (3.39%)	Oracle SOA Suite
12	14 (3.16%)	Elasticsearch
13	12 (2.71%)	ATG Dynamo
14	11 (2.48%)	WebSphere Portal
15	10 (2.26%)	Mule
16	7 (1.58%)	CoreMedia CMS
16	7 (1.58%)	GlassFish
17	6 (1.35%)	Commerce Server
17	6 (1.35%)	nginx
17	6 (1.35%)	WebLogic Portal

Applications
1	6 (1.35%)	Microsoft Excel
2	1 (0.23%)	Adobe Creative Suite
2	1 (0.23%)	HipChat

Business Applications
1	17 (3.84%)	SAP Hybris
2	7 (1.58%)	Pega PRPC
3	4 (0.90%)	Oracle BPM
3	4 (0.90%)	Salesforce.com CRM
4	3 (0.68%)	Siebel CRM
5	2 (0.45%)	ION MarketView
5	2 (0.45%)	Oracle Receivables
5	2 (0.45%)	Oracle Utilities
5	2 (0.45%)	Remedy ITSM
6	1 (0.23%)	Infor M3
6	1 (0.23%)	Oracle Cash Management
6	1 (0.23%)	Remedy AR System

Cloud Services
1	28 (6.32%)	Amazon AWS
2	10 (2.26%)	Cloud Computing
3	8 (1.81%)	Microsoft Azure
4	7 (1.58%)	GitHub
4	7 (1.58%)	Google Analytics
5	2 (0.45%)	BrowserStack
5	2 (0.45%)	Google Checkout
5	2 (0.45%)	Sauce Labs
6	1 (0.23%)	Google Cloud Platform
6	1 (0.23%)	OpenShift
6	1 (0.23%)	PaaS
6	1 (0.23%)	Slack

Communications & Networking
1	30 (6.77%)	Internet
2	21 (4.74%)	HTTP
3	9 (2.03%)	LDAP
4	5 (1.13%)	SMS
4	5 (1.13%)	SSL
5	4 (0.90%)	Network Security
6	3 (0.68%)	Firewall
6	3 (0.68%)	TCP/IP
7	2 (0.45%)	FTP
7	2 (0.45%)	Intranet
8	1 (0.23%)	BIG-IP
8	1 (0.23%)	DNS
8	1 (0.23%)	HTTPS
8	1 (0.23%)	NAS
8	1 (0.23%)	SAN
8	1 (0.23%)	Skype
8	1 (0.23%)	SNMP
8	1 (0.23%)	SSH
8	1 (0.23%)	VPN

Database & Business Intelligence
1	49 (11.06%)	Oracle Database
2	37 (8.35%)	MongoDB
2	37 (8.35%)	Relational Database
3	33 (7.45%)	SQL Server
4	29 (6.55%)	DB2
5	27 (6.09%)	MySQL
6	15 (3.39%)	Endeca
6	15 (3.39%)	RDBMS
7	12 (2.71%)	PostgreSQL
8	11 (2.48%)	Jackrabbit
8	11 (2.48%)	Oracle Database 10g
9	10 (2.26%)	Oracle Reports
9	10 (2.26%)	Sybase ASE
10	9 (2.03%)	Crystal Reports
10	9 (2.03%)	Oracle Database 11g
11	7 (1.58%)	NoSQL
11	7 (1.58%)	Oracle BI Publisher
12	6 (1.35%)	Hadoop
13	5 (1.13%)	Data Warehouse
13	5 (1.13%)	DataStax

Development Applications
1	86 (19.41%)	Maven
2	74 (16.70%)	Ant
3	71 (16.03%)	Git (software)
3	71 (16.03%)	JIRA
4	67 (15.12%)	Jenkins
5	60 (13.54%)	Eclipse
5	60 (13.54%)	Subversion
6	54 (12.19%)	JUnit
7	25 (5.64%)	Gradle
8	24 (5.42%)	Mockito
9	19 (4.29%)	Selenium
10	17 (3.84%)	IntelliJ
11	14 (3.16%)	Cucumber
12	10 (2.26%)	jMock
12	10 (2.26%)	Log4j
12	10 (2.26%)	NetBeans
12	10 (2.26%)	TeamCity
13	9 (2.03%)	ClearCase
13	9 (2.03%)	ERwin
13	9 (2.03%)	Hudson

General
1	100 (22.57%)	Finance
2	54 (12.19%)	Banking
3	13 (2.93%)	Retail
4	10 (2.26%)	Investment Banking
5	9 (2.03%)	Telecoms
6	8 (1.81%)	Front Office
7	7 (1.58%)	Publishing
8	6 (1.35%)	Advertising
8	6 (1.35%)	Law
9	5 (1.13%)	Aerospace
10	4 (0.90%)	Billing
10	4 (0.90%)	Marketing
11	3 (0.68%)	French Language
12	2 (0.45%)	Back Office
12	2 (0.45%)	Dutch Language
12	2 (0.45%)	Financial Institution
12	2 (0.45%)	Games
12	2 (0.45%)	Manufacturing
12	2 (0.45%)	Military
12	2 (0.45%)	Prime Brokerage

Job Titles
1	322 (72.69%)	Developer
2	232 (52.37%)	Java Developer
3	57 (12.87%)	Architect
4	44 (9.93%)	Senior Developer
5	36 (8.13%)	Senior Java Developer
6	22 (4.97%)	Hybris Developer
7	18 (4.06%)	Technical Architect
8	15 (3.39%)	Full Stack Developer
9	14 (3.16%)	Applications Developer
9	14 (3.16%)	Consultant
9	14 (3.16%)	J2EE Developer
10	13 (2.93%)	Java Engineer
10	13 (2.93%)	Java/J2EE Developer
10	13 (2.93%)	JavaScript Developer
10	13 (2.93%)	JSP Developer
11	10 (2.26%)	Digital Architect
11	10 (2.26%)	HTML CSS Developer
11	10 (2.26%)	HTML Developer
11	10 (2.26%)	Java Applications Developer
11	10 (2.26%)	Web Developer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	253 (57.11%)	Spring
2	237 (53.50%)	HTML
3	219 (49.44%)	CSS
4	210 (47.40%)	J2EE
5	208 (46.95%)	XML
6	200 (45.15%)	Servlets
7	164 (37.02%)	Web Services
8	159 (35.89%)	Hibernate
9	117 (26.41%)	Struts
10	112 (25.28%)	SOAP
11	108 (24.38%)	jQuery
12	99 (22.35%)	Ajax
13	98 (22.12%)	JSON
14	96 (21.67%)	Java EE
15	94 (21.22%)	REST
16	85 (19.19%)	EJB
17	81 (18.28%)	Spring MVC
18	80 (18.06%)	AngularJS
19	77 (17.38%)	HTML5
20	74 (16.70%)	JMS

Miscellaneous
1	43 (9.71%)	Analytical Skills
2	28 (6.32%)	Virtual Team
3	27 (6.09%)	Enterprise Software
4	23 (5.19%)	User Experience
5	17 (3.84%)	iPad
6	16 (3.61%)	Web 2.0
7	14 (3.16%)	Computer Science
8	11 (2.48%)	Mobile App
9	10 (2.26%)	Client/Server
10	9 (2.03%)	Mainframe
11	8 (1.81%)	Animation
12	7 (1.58%)	RIA
13	6 (1.35%)	Data Structures
13	6 (1.35%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
14	5 (1.13%)	Distributed Denial-of-Service
14	5 (1.13%)	Fixed Income
15	4 (0.90%)	Data Centre
15	4 (0.90%)	DataPower
15	4 (0.90%)	PlayStation
15	4 (0.90%)	Private Cloud

Operating Systems
1	86 (19.41%)	Linux
2	53 (11.96%)	Unix
3	23 (5.19%)	Windows
4	9 (2.03%)	Solaris
5	6 (1.35%)	VME
6	4 (0.90%)	Apple iOS
7	3 (0.68%)	AIX
7	3 (0.68%)	HPUX
7	3 (0.68%)	Windows Server
7	3 (0.68%)	Windows Server 2012
8	2 (0.45%)	Android
9	1 (0.23%)	Oracle Linux
9	1 (0.23%)	Windows Server 2003
9	1 (0.23%)	Windows Server 2008

Processes & Methodologies
1	232 (52.37%)	Agile Software Development
2	127 (28.67%)	MVC
3	96 (21.67%)	Scrum
4	87 (19.64%)	TDD
5	64 (14.45%)	OO
6	63 (14.22%)	E-Commerce
7	56 (12.64%)	Web Development
8	51 (11.51%)	Unit Testing
8	51 (11.51%)	Waterfall
9	46 (10.38%)	UML
10	45 (10.16%)	Content Management
11	38 (8.58%)	SDLC
12	36 (8.13%)	SOA
13	34 (7.67%)	Continuous Integration
14	31 (7.00%)	DevOps
15	28 (6.32%)	Data Modelling
16	26 (5.87%)	Software Engineering
17	24 (5.42%)	OOP
18	23 (5.19%)	High Availability
18	23 (5.19%)	Refactoring

Programming Languages
1	405 (91.42%)	Java
2	257 (58.01%)	JavaScript
3	203 (45.82%)	SQL
4	40 (9.03%)	PL/SQL
5	27 (6.09%)	Shell Script
6	21 (4.74%)	C#
7	16 (3.61%)	C
8	15 (3.39%)	Bash Shell
8	15 (3.39%)	C++
9	13 (2.93%)	TypeScript
10	11 (2.48%)	T-SQL
11	9 (2.03%)	Python
12	7 (1.58%)	ActionScript
12	7 (1.58%)	Perl
12	7 (1.58%)	Scala
12	7 (1.58%)	VB
13	6 (1.35%)	Groovy
13	6 (1.35%)	Korn
13	6 (1.35%)	PHP
14	5 (1.13%)	VC++

Qualifications
1	19 (4.29%)	Degree
2	11 (2.48%)	OCPJP
3	8 (1.81%)	Security Cleared
4	7 (1.58%)	CISA
4	7 (1.58%)	CISSP
4	7 (1.58%)	Sun Certification
5	5 (1.13%)	CISM
5	5 (1.13%)	SC Cleared
6	4 (0.90%)	Computer Science Degree
7	3 (0.68%)	Master's Degree
8	2 (0.45%)	CSSLP
8	2 (0.45%)	HND
8	2 (0.45%)	MCSE
8	2 (0.45%)	Microsoft Certification
8	2 (0.45%)	Oracle Certification
8	2 (0.45%)	PMI Certification
8	2 (0.45%)	RHCE
9	1 (0.23%)	CTC Cleared
9	1 (0.23%)	IBM Certification
9	1 (0.23%)	OCA

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	23 (5.19%)	QA
2	7 (1.58%)	PCI DSS
2	7 (1.58%)	SLA
3	5 (1.13%)	FedRAMP
4	3 (0.68%)	Disclosure Scotland
4	3 (0.68%)	ISO 9001
5	2 (0.45%)	FATCA
6	1 (0.23%)	Data Quality
6	1 (0.23%)	JSP 440

System Software
1	12 (2.71%)	Docker
2	9 (2.03%)	Oracle RAC
3	8 (1.81%)	Virtual Machines
4	5 (1.13%)	Apache Flume
5	4 (0.90%)	HDFS
6	3 (0.68%)	Active Directory
7	1 (0.23%)	NDS
7	1 (0.23%)	NetIQ eDirectory
7	1 (0.23%)	VirtualBox
7	1 (0.23%)	VMware Infrastructure

Systems Management
1	14 (3.16%)	Ansible
2	7 (1.58%)	Opscode Chef
3	5 (1.13%)	Kibana
3	5 (1.13%)	logstash
3	5 (1.13%)	Oracle Identity Management
4	3 (0.68%)	Oracle Identity Manager
5	2 (0.45%)	CA Service Virtualization
5	2 (0.45%)	CA Single Sign-On
5	2 (0.45%)	Puppet
6	1 (0.23%)	BMC PATROL
6	1 (0.23%)	Business Desktop Deployment
6	1 (0.23%)	Data Guard
6	1 (0.23%)	EMC NetWorker
6	1 (0.23%)	HP Data Protector
6	1 (0.23%)	NetBackup
6	1 (0.23%)	OpenView
6	1 (0.23%)	Oracle Enterprise Manager
6	1 (0.23%)	Tivoli Storage Manager

Vendors
1	178 (40.18%)	Oracle
2	45 (10.16%)	Adobe
3	42 (9.48%)	ATG
4	38 (8.58%)	IBM
5	26 (5.87%)	hybris
6	24 (5.42%)	SAP
7	21 (4.74%)	Sybase
8	11 (2.48%)	Google
8	11 (2.48%)	Sun
9	10 (2.26%)	Pega
10	8 (1.81%)	Microsoft
10	8 (1.81%)	Solace
11	7 (1.58%)	BEA
12	6 (1.35%)	FatWire
12	6 (1.35%)	Salesforce.com
13	5 (1.13%)	Cloudera
13	5 (1.13%)	Fujitsu
13	5 (1.13%)	Omniture
14	4 (0.90%)	Alterian
14	4 (0.90%)	Talend