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 28 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 28 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	431	324	321
Rank change year-on-year	-107	-3
Contract jobs citing JSP	181	370	368
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK	0.38%	0.69%	0.67%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category	1.20%	2.41%	2.42%
Number of daily rates quoted	117	252	234
Median daily rate	£413	£425	£375
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	-2.94%	+13.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£315	£325	£257
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£560	£575	£533
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£425	£373
% change year-on-year	-5.88%	+14.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted	0	1	23
Median hourly rate	-	£44.50	£37.45
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-	+18.82%
UK excluding London median hourly rate	-	£44.50	£37.45
% change year-on-year	-	+18.82%

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	15073	15351	15194
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	32.00%	28.50%	27.55%
Number of daily rates quoted	10419	10809	10150
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	£588	£553	£550
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£375	£350
% change year-on-year	+6.66%	+7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted	198	192	210
Median hourly rate	£42.50	£36.00	£37.80
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+18.05%	-4.76%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£21.05	£18.80	£18.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£55.00	£47.50	£55.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£42.50	£36.00	£40.00
% change year-on-year	+18.05%	-10.00%

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 28 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 28 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	-119	160	£403	-5.84%	45
London	-53	77	£413	-4.34%	11
East of England	+12	27	£350	-8.19%	7
North West	+8	16	£450	+20.00%	9
South East	-30	15	£350	-26.31%	6
Hertfordshire	+9	13	£425	-15.00%	2
Scotland	+33	12	£400	+17.64%	4
East Midlands	-19	12	£420	+34.40%	1
City of London	-2	10	£500	+11.11%	1
Watford	+1	8	£350	-39.13%	1
Northern Ireland	-	8	£413	-
County Antrim	-	8	£413	-
Bedfordshire	-	8	£288	-
Edinburgh	+18	7	£425	+25.00%	4
Cheshire	+8	7	£450	-1.36%	6
Milton Keynes	-15	7	£350	+19.14%	1
Buckinghamshire	-21	7	£350	+37.93%	1
Belfast	-	7	£413	-
Berkshire	+16	6	£475	-2.56%	2
Yorkshire	+11	6	£375	-11.76%	1
Luton	-	6	£288	-
Manchester	+9	5	£488	+30.00%	3
Glasgow	-3	5	£388	+6.16%
South West	-6	5	£350	+2.56%	8
West Yorkshire	+14	4	£369	-10.60%	1
Northamptonshire	+1	4	£410	+8.60%
Essex	-9	4	£265	-33.75%	3
Hemel Hempstead	-	4	£450	-
Halifax	+8	3	£375	-16.66%
Liverpool	-2	3	£375	+3.44%

JSP
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 28 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	401 (91.14%)	Java
2	255 (57.95%)	JavaScript
3	253 (57.50%)	Spring
4	234 (53.18%)	Agile Software Development
4	234 (53.18%)	HTML
5	214 (48.64%)	CSS
6	209 (47.50%)	SQL
7	206 (46.82%)	XML
8	205 (46.59%)	J2EE
9	200 (45.45%)	Servlets
10	172 (39.09%)	Oracle
11	159 (36.14%)	Web Services
12	153 (34.77%)	Hibernate
13	127 (28.86%)	MVC
14	119 (27.05%)	WebSphere

15	115 (26.14%)	Struts
16	107 (24.32%)	SOAP
17	104 (23.64%)	jQuery
18	99 (22.50%)	JSON
18	99 (22.50%)	Scrum
19	97 (22.05%)	Finance
19	97 (22.05%)	Ajax
20	93 (21.14%)	Java EE
20	93 (21.14%)	REST
21	91 (20.68%)	TDD
22	86 (19.55%)	EJB
23	85 (19.32%)	Maven
24	84 (19.09%)	JBoss
25	83 (18.86%)	Spring MVC
26	81 (18.41%)	Linux

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	119 (27.05%)	WebSphere
2	84 (19.09%)	JBoss
3	79 (17.95%)	WebLogic
4	68 (15.45%)	Tomcat
5	63 (14.32%)	Apache
6	51 (11.59%)	CMS
7	44 (10.00%)	Adobe Experience Manager
8	40 (9.09%)	WebSphere Application Server
9	28 (6.36%)	Confluence
10	27 (6.14%)	Apache Solr
11	14 (3.18%)	Elasticsearch
12	13 (2.95%)	Oracle SOA Suite
13	11 (2.50%)	ATG Dynamo
13	11 (2.50%)	WebSphere Portal
14	10 (2.27%)	Mule
15	8 (1.82%)	CoreMedia CMS
16	6 (1.36%)	nginx
17	5 (1.14%)	Commerce Server
17	5 (1.14%)	GlassFish
18	4 (0.91%)	Liferay

Applications
1	6 (1.36%)	Microsoft Excel
2	1 (0.23%)	Adobe Creative Suite
2	1 (0.23%)	HipChat

Business Applications
1	21 (4.77%)	SAP Hybris
2	8 (1.82%)	Pega PRPC
3	4 (0.91%)	Salesforce.com CRM
4	3 (0.68%)	Siebel CRM
5	2 (0.45%)	ION MarketView
5	2 (0.45%)	Oracle BPM
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	30 (6.82%)	Amazon AWS
2	10 (2.27%)	Cloud Computing
3	8 (1.82%)	GitHub
3	8 (1.82%)	Microsoft Azure
4	7 (1.59%)	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 (6.82%)	Internet
2	21 (4.77%)	HTTP
3	8 (1.82%)	LDAP
4	6 (1.36%)	SMS
5	5 (1.14%)	SSL
6	4 (0.91%)	Network Security
7	3 (0.68%)	TCP/IP
8	2 (0.45%)	Firewall
8	2 (0.45%)	Intranet
9	1 (0.23%)	DNS
9	1 (0.23%)	FTP
9	1 (0.23%)	HTTPS
9	1 (0.23%)	Skype
9	1 (0.23%)	SNMP
9	1 (0.23%)	VPN

Database & Business Intelligence
1	45 (10.23%)	Oracle Database
2	38 (8.64%)	MongoDB
3	35 (7.95%)	Relational Database
4	34 (7.73%)	SQL Server
5	28 (6.36%)	MySQL
6	24 (5.45%)	DB2
7	14 (3.18%)	Endeca
8	13 (2.95%)	RDBMS
9	11 (2.50%)	Jackrabbit
9	11 (2.50%)	Oracle Database 10g
9	11 (2.50%)	PostgreSQL
10	10 (2.27%)	Oracle Reports
11	9 (2.05%)	Oracle Database 11g
11	9 (2.05%)	Sybase ASE
12	8 (1.82%)	Crystal Reports
13	7 (1.59%)	NoSQL
13	7 (1.59%)	Oracle BI Publisher
14	5 (1.14%)	DataStax
14	5 (1.14%)	Hadoop
14	5 (1.14%)	MS Access

Development Applications
1	85 (19.32%)	Maven
2	76 (17.27%)	Git (software)
3	72 (16.36%)	JIRA
4	69 (15.68%)	Ant
5	68 (15.45%)	Jenkins
6	61 (13.86%)	Eclipse
7	59 (13.41%)	Subversion
8	53 (12.05%)	JUnit
9	26 (5.91%)	Mockito
10	25 (5.68%)	Gradle
11	22 (5.00%)	Selenium
12	18 (4.09%)	IntelliJ
13	14 (3.18%)	Cucumber
14	10 (2.27%)	jMock
14	10 (2.27%)	Log4j
14	10 (2.27%)	NetBeans
14	10 (2.27%)	TeamCity
15	9 (2.05%)	ClearCase
15	9 (2.05%)	ERwin
15	9 (2.05%)	Mercurial

General
1	97 (22.05%)	Finance
2	55 (12.50%)	Banking
3	12 (2.73%)	Retail
4	10 (2.27%)	Investment Banking
5	9 (2.05%)	Telecoms
6	8 (1.82%)	Front Office
7	6 (1.36%)	Advertising
7	6 (1.36%)	Law
7	6 (1.36%)	Publishing
8	5 (1.14%)	Aerospace
9	4 (0.91%)	Billing
9	4 (0.91%)	Games
9	4 (0.91%)	Marketing
10	3 (0.68%)	French Language
11	2 (0.45%)	Back Office
11	2 (0.45%)	Dutch Language
11	2 (0.45%)	Financial Institution
11	2 (0.45%)	Manufacturing
11	2 (0.45%)	Military
12	1 (0.23%)	Multimedia

Job Titles
1	318 (72.27%)	Developer
2	224 (50.91%)	Java Developer
3	56 (12.73%)	Architect
4	41 (9.32%)	Senior Developer
5	34 (7.73%)	Senior Java Developer
6	28 (6.36%)	Hybris Developer
7	18 (4.09%)	Technical Architect
8	17 (3.86%)	Full Stack Developer
9	15 (3.41%)	Consultant
10	14 (3.18%)	J2EE Developer
11	13 (2.95%)	Applications Developer
11	13 (2.95%)	Java/J2EE Developer
11	13 (2.95%)	JavaScript Developer
11	13 (2.95%)	JSP Developer
12	12 (2.73%)	Java Engineer
13	10 (2.27%)	Digital Architect
13	10 (2.27%)	Front End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13	10 (2.27%)	HTML CSS Developer
13	10 (2.27%)	Software Engineer
13	10 (2.27%)	Web Developer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	253 (57.50%)	Spring
2	234 (53.18%)	HTML
3	214 (48.64%)	CSS
4	206 (46.82%)	XML
5	205 (46.59%)	J2EE
6	200 (45.45%)	Servlets
7	159 (36.14%)	Web Services
8	153 (34.77%)	Hibernate
9	115 (26.14%)	Struts
10	107 (24.32%)	SOAP
11	104 (23.64%)	jQuery
12	99 (22.50%)	JSON
13	97 (22.05%)	Ajax
14	93 (21.14%)	Java EE
14	93 (21.14%)	REST
15	86 (19.55%)	EJB
16	83 (18.86%)	Spring MVC
17	81 (18.41%)	AngularJS
18	75 (17.05%)	HTML5
19	70 (15.91%)	JMS

Miscellaneous
1	43 (9.77%)	Analytical Skills
2	26 (5.91%)	Virtual Team
3	25 (5.68%)	Enterprise Software
4	23 (5.23%)	User Experience
5	16 (3.64%)	iPad
5	16 (3.64%)	Web 2.0
6	14 (3.18%)	Computer Science
7	13 (2.95%)	Mobile App
8	9 (2.05%)	Mainframe
9	8 (1.82%)	Animation
9	8 (1.82%)	Client/Server
10	7 (1.59%)	RIA
11	6 (1.36%)	Data Structures
11	6 (1.36%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
12	5 (1.14%)	Distributed Denial-of-Service
12	5 (1.14%)	Fixed Income
13	4 (0.91%)	Data Centre
13	4 (0.91%)	Fintech
13	4 (0.91%)	PlayStation
13	4 (0.91%)	Private Cloud

Operating Systems
1	81 (18.41%)	Linux
2	53 (12.05%)	Unix
3	21 (4.77%)	Windows
4	9 (2.05%)	Solaris
5	6 (1.36%)	VME
6	5 (1.14%)	Apple iOS
7	4 (0.91%)	Android
7	4 (0.91%)	HPUX
8	3 (0.68%)	Windows Server
8	3 (0.68%)	Windows Server 2012
9	2 (0.45%)	AIX
10	1 (0.23%)	Windows Server 2003

Processes & Methodologies
1	234 (53.18%)	Agile Software Development
2	127 (28.86%)	MVC
3	99 (22.50%)	Scrum
4	91 (20.68%)	TDD
5	65 (14.77%)	E-Commerce
6	60 (13.64%)	OO
7	53 (12.05%)	Waterfall
7	53 (12.05%)	Web Development
8	52 (11.82%)	Unit Testing
9	44 (10.00%)	Content Management
10	42 (9.55%)	UML
11	38 (8.64%)	SDLC
12	35 (7.95%)	Continuous Integration
13	33 (7.50%)	SOA
14	31 (7.05%)	DevOps
15	28 (6.36%)	Data Modelling
16	25 (5.68%)	Software Engineering
17	24 (5.45%)	Refactoring
18	23 (5.23%)	Front End Development
18	23 (5.23%)	OOP

Programming Languages
1	401 (91.14%)	Java
2	255 (57.95%)	JavaScript
3	209 (47.50%)	SQL
4	39 (8.86%)	PL/SQL
5	28 (6.36%)	Shell Script
6	20 (4.55%)	C#
7	15 (3.41%)	Bash Shell
7	15 (3.41%)	C
7	15 (3.41%)	C++
8	13 (2.95%)	TypeScript
9	10 (2.27%)	T-SQL
10	9 (2.05%)	Python
11	7 (1.59%)	ActionScript
11	7 (1.59%)	Scala
11	7 (1.59%)	VB
12	6 (1.36%)	Groovy
12	6 (1.36%)	Korn
12	6 (1.36%)	PHP
13	5 (1.14%)	Perl
13	5 (1.14%)	VC++

Qualifications
1	18 (4.09%)	Degree
2	9 (2.05%)	OCPJP
3	8 (1.82%)	Security Cleared
4	7 (1.59%)	CISA
4	7 (1.59%)	CISSP
4	7 (1.59%)	Sun Certification
5	5 (1.14%)	CISM
5	5 (1.14%)	SC Cleared
6	3 (0.68%)	Computer Science Degree
6	3 (0.68%)	Master's Degree
7	2 (0.45%)	CSSLP
7	2 (0.45%)	HND
7	2 (0.45%)	MCSE
7	2 (0.45%)	Microsoft Certification
7	2 (0.45%)	Oracle Certification
7	2 (0.45%)	PMI Certification
7	2 (0.45%)	RHCE
8	1 (0.23%)	IBM Certification
8	1 (0.23%)	OCA
8	1 (0.23%)	OCPJWCD

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	26 (5.91%)	QA
2	7 (1.59%)	PCI DSS
3	6 (1.36%)	SLA
4	5 (1.14%)	FedRAMP
5	3 (0.68%)	Disclosure Scotland
5	3 (0.68%)	ISO 9001
6	2 (0.45%)	FATCA
7	1 (0.23%)	Data Quality

System Software
1	12 (2.73%)	Docker
2	8 (1.82%)	Oracle RAC
2	8 (1.82%)	Virtual Machines
3	5 (1.14%)	Apache Flume
4	4 (0.91%)	HDFS
5	3 (0.68%)	Active Directory
6	1 (0.23%)	NDS
6	1 (0.23%)	NetIQ eDirectory
6	1 (0.23%)	VirtualBox

Systems Management
1	14 (3.18%)	Ansible
2	7 (1.59%)	Opscode Chef
3	5 (1.14%)	Kibana
3	5 (1.14%)	logstash
3	5 (1.14%)	Oracle Identity Management
4	3 (0.68%)	Oracle Identity Manager
4	3 (0.68%)	Puppet
5	2 (0.45%)	CA Service Virtualization
5	2 (0.45%)	CA Single Sign-On
6	1 (0.23%)	Business Desktop Deployment
6	1 (0.23%)	Data Guard
6	1 (0.23%)	Oracle Enterprise Manager

Vendors
1	172 (39.09%)	Oracle
2	45 (10.23%)	Adobe
3	38 (8.64%)	ATG
4	36 (8.18%)	IBM
5	31 (7.05%)	hybris
6	29 (6.59%)	SAP
7	18 (4.09%)	Sybase
8	11 (2.50%)	Pega
9	10 (2.27%)	Sun
10	9 (2.05%)	Google
11	8 (1.82%)	Microsoft
11	8 (1.82%)	Solace
12	6 (1.36%)	BEA
12	6 (1.36%)	FatWire
12	6 (1.36%)	Salesforce.com
13	5 (1.14%)	Cloudera
13	5 (1.14%)	Fujitsu
13	5 (1.14%)	Omniture
13	5 (1.14%)	Talend
14	4 (0.91%)	Alterian