The first table below looks at the demand for Middleware skills in IT contracts advertised for the Basingstoke region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Middleware 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 Basingstoke 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
Middleware
Rank 39 23 28
Rank change year-on-year
-16 +5
Contract jobs citing Middleware 1 5 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Basingstoke 0.493% 2.703% 1.613%
As % of the Application Development category 1.087% 6.329% 5.479%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 1
Average daily rate - £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +7.14%
UK excluding London average daily rate £408 £410 £400
% change year-on-year
-0.60% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £39.00 £37.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year
+5.40% -8.64%
All Application Development
Basingstoke
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
92 79 73
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Basingstoke 45.32% 42.70% 29.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 26 26
Average daily rate £350 £363 £385
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.44% -5.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £320 £275 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £500 £432
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 10 12
Average hourly rate £39.00 £20.00 £34.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+95.00% -42.02%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Middleware
Hampshire

Middleware
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Basingstoke Middleware Jobs Demand Trend

Middleware
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Middleware across the Basingstoke region.

Basingstoke Middleware Daily Rate Trend

Middleware
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Basingstoke Middleware Hourly Rate Trend

Middleware
Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Basingstoke region citing Middleware 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 Middleware.

1 3 (75.00%) Oracle
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) UNIX
2 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) BPEL
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (25.00%) Data Guard
3 1 (25.00%) Matrix Management
3 1 (25.00%) Billing
3 1 (25.00%) TOGAF
3 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
3 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (25.00%) DB2
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL
3 1 (25.00%) Change Management
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management

Middleware
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Basingstoke region citing Middleware 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 Middleware. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle EBS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (25.00%) DB2
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Billing
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Functional Consultant
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Consultant
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Consultant
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Functional Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Database Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Architect
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) UNIX
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) BPEL
2 1 (25.00%) Matrix Management
2 1 (25.00%) TOGAF
2 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Change Management
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle