Berkshire WebServices Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Web Services skills within the Berkshire region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited WebServices over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Alderley Edge Aylesbury Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dundee Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Farnham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrow Hendon Hertfordshire Highlands Huddersfield Inverness Ipswich Kent Lanarkshire Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Preston Reading Redhill Rickmansworth Salford Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stroud Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Whyteleafe Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	68	37
Rank change on same period last year	-31
Matching contract IT job ads	60	178
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.080 %	0.180 %
As % of the category below	8.403 %	16.89 %
Daily rates quoted	22	44
Average minimum daily rate	£335	£331
Average daily rate	£364	£347
% change on same period last year	+4.93 %
Average maximum daily rate	£393	£363
UK excluding London average daily rate	£346	£347
% change on same period last year	-0.38 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	9
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.50	£35.67
Average hourly rate	£28.00	£38.56
% change on same period last year	-27.37 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£36.50	£41.44
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£36.47	£32.67
% change on same period last year	+11.62 %
Application Development Berkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	714	1054
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.952 %	1.066 %
Daily rates quoted	193	276
Average minimum daily rate	£296	£324
Average daily rate	£317	£339
% change on same period last year	-6.45 %
Average maximum daily rate	£338	£354
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£336
% change on same period last year	+1.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	58	94
Average minimum hourly rate	£35.55	£36.15
Average hourly rate	£37.39	£37.68
% change on same period last year	-0.75 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£39.24	£39.21
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.78	£33.23
% change on same period last year	-1.32 %
WebServices South East

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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WebServices within the Berkshire 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
Reading	+15	30	£336	-11.43 %
Newbury	+12	3	-	-
Maidenhead	+15	2	£500	+42.85 %
Slough	-12	1	-	-
Bracknell	+9	1	£360	+2.85 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing WebServices 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 WebServices.

1 90 (56.25 %) C# 2 78 (48.75 %) XML 3 75 (46.88 %) .NET 4 62 (38.75 %) SQL Server 5 55 (34.38 %) ASP.NET 6 45 (28.13 %) Microsoft 7 26 (16.25 %) Migration 7 26 (16.25 %) SQL Server 2005 7 26 (16.25 %) SQL 8 25 (15.63 %) JavaScript 8 25 (15.63 %) OO 8 25 (15.63 %) Security Cleared 9 23 (14.38 %) HTML 9 23 (14.38 %) Java 10 22 (13.75 %) Data Migration

11 21 (13.13 %) SharePoint Server 2007 11 21 (13.13 %) Windows 11 21 (13.13 %) SharePoint 12 18 (11.25 %) Oracle 12 18 (11.25 %) SOA 12 18 (11.25 %) BizTalk Server 13 17 (10.63 %) CSS 13 17 (10.63 %) OOP 14 16 (10.00 %) Content Management 14 16 (10.00 %) Service Management 15 15 (9.375 %) J2EE 16 14 (8.750 %) XSLT 16 14 (8.750 %) SC Cleared 17 13 (8.125 %) Web Development 17 13 (8.125 %) E-Commerce

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing WebServices 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 WebServices. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 78 (48.75 %) XML 2 75 (46.88 %) .NET 3 55 (34.38 %) ASP.NET 4 23 (14.38 %) HTML 5 17 (10.63 %) CSS 6 15 (9.375 %) J2EE 7 14 (8.750 %) XSLT 8 12 (7.500 %) SOAP 9 11 (6.875 %) WinForms 10 9 (5.625 %) AJAX 10 9 (5.625 %) JSP 11 7 (4.375 %) XHTML 12 6 (3.750 %) LAMP 12 6 (3.750 %) Hibernate 12 6 (3.750 %) Windows SharePoint Services 12 6 (3.750 %) Drupal 13 5 (3.125 %) ASP 13 5 (3.125 %) .NET Remoting 13 5 (3.125 %) Spring 13 5 (3.125 %) Struts	Application Platforms 1 21 (13.13 %) SharePoint 1 21 (13.13 %) SharePoint Server 2007 2 18 (11.25 %) BizTalk Server 3 9 (5.625 %) WebLogic 4 8 (5.000 %) IIS 5 7 (4.375 %) Apache 5 7 (4.375 %) Tomcat 6 6 (3.750 %) CMS 7 5 (3.125 %) TIBCO EMS 8 4 (2.500 %) MS Exchange 9 3 (1.875 %) ESB 9 3 (1.875 %) Commerce Server 10 2 (1.250 %) Content Management Server 10 2 (1.250 %) WebLogic Portal 10 2 (1.250 %) Oracle Application Server 10 2 (1.250 %) Exchange Server 2003 10 2 (1.250 %) Commerce Server 2007 11 1 (0.625 %) Exchange Server 2007 11 1 (0.625 %) Office Communications Server 11 1 (0.625 %) SharePoint Portal Server
Applications 1 4 (2.500 %) MS Excel 2 1 (0.625 %) InfoPath 2 1 (0.625 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 8 (5.000 %) Microsoft CRM 2 5 (3.125 %) BusinessWorks 3 2 (1.250 %) Dynamics CRM 4 1 (0.625 %) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking 1 7 (4.375 %) HTTP 2 4 (2.500 %) Intranet 2 4 (2.500 %) Firewall 3 3 (1.875 %) TCP/IP 3 3 (1.875 %) DNS 3 3 (1.875 %) DHCP 4 2 (1.250 %) Internet 5 1 (0.625 %) TELNET 5 1 (0.625 %) FTP 5 1 (0.625 %) LDAP 5 1 (0.625 %) LAN 5 1 (0.625 %) WAN 5 1 (0.625 %) HTTPS 5 1 (0.625 %) CTI 5 1 (0.625 %) VPN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 62 (38.75 %) SQL Server 2 26 (16.25 %) SQL Server 2005 3 9 (5.625 %) SQL Server 2000 4 7 (4.375 %) MySQL 5 3 (1.875 %) SQL Server 7 6 1 (0.625 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 6 1 (0.625 %) DB2 6 1 (0.625 %) OLAP 6 1 (0.625 %) Crystal Reports 6 1 (0.625 %) Datawarehouse
Development Applications 1 7 (4.375 %) Visual Studio 2 6 (3.750 %) Subversion 3 3 (1.875 %) FrontPage 4 2 (1.250 %) VSS/SourceSafe 4 2 (1.250 %) Eclipse 4 2 (1.250 %) PowerBuilder 5 1 (0.625 %) NUnit 5 1 (0.625 %) Rational Rose 5 1 (0.625 %) JUnit	General 1 12 (7.500 %) Government 2 11 (6.875 %) Finance 3 7 (4.375 %) Telecoms 4 3 (1.875 %) Marketing 4 3 (1.875 %) Automotive 4 3 (1.875 %) Construction 5 2 (1.250 %) Retail 5 2 (1.250 %) Billing 6 1 (0.625 %) Insurance 6 1 (0.625 %) Police 6 1 (0.625 %) Military
Job Titles 1 93 (58.13 %) Developer 2 29 (18.13 %) .NET Developer 3 25 (15.63 %) C# Developer 4 15 (9.375 %) Architect 4 15 (9.375 %) Web Developer 5 13 (8.125 %) Consultant 6 11 (6.875 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 7 10 (6.250 %) ASP.NET Developer 8 6 (3.750 %) Senior Developer 8 6 (3.750 %) Author 9 5 (3.125 %) Programmer 9 5 (3.125 %) SQL Developer 9 5 (3.125 %) SQL Server Developer 9 5 (3.125 %) Website Manager 9 5 (3.125 %) Content Editor 9 5 (3.125 %) SOA Architect 10 4 (2.500 %) Java Developer 10 4 (2.500 %) J2EE Developer 10 4 (2.500 %) Analyst 11 3 (1.875 %) Systems Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 7 (4.375 %) N-Tier 2 6 (3.750 %) Clustering 2 6 (3.750 %) Taxonomies 3 4 (2.500 %) Replication 4 3 (1.875 %) E-Learning 4 3 (1.875 %) Web 2.0 5 2 (1.250 %) PMI 6 1 (0.625 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 6 1 (0.625 %) Handset 6 1 (0.625 %) PKI 6 1 (0.625 %) Client/Server 6 1 (0.625 %) Data Extraction
Operating Systems 1 21 (13.13 %) Windows 2 9 (5.625 %) Windows Server 2003 3 8 (5.000 %) Linux 4 5 (3.125 %) UNIX 5 1 (0.625 %) Windows NT 5 1 (0.625 %) Solaris	Processes & Methodologies 1 26 (16.25 %) Migration 2 25 (15.63 %) OO 2 25 (15.63 %) Security Cleared 3 22 (13.75 %) Data Migration 4 18 (11.25 %) SOA 5 17 (10.63 %) OOP 6 16 (10.00 %) Service Management 6 16 (10.00 %) Content Management 7 14 (8.750 %) SC Cleared 8 13 (8.125 %) Web Development 8 13 (8.125 %) E-Commerce 9 11 (6.875 %) CRM 10 7 (4.375 %) EAI 11 5 (3.125 %) B2B 11 5 (3.125 %) Technical Architecture 12 4 (2.500 %) UML 12 4 (2.500 %) ITIL 12 4 (2.500 %) Load Balancing 12 4 (2.500 %) Agile Software Development 13 3 (1.875 %) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages 1 90 (56.25 %) C# 2 26 (16.25 %) SQL 3 25 (15.63 %) JavaScript 4 23 (14.38 %) Java 5 13 (8.125 %) VB.NET 6 10 (6.250 %) VB 7 8 (5.000 %) PHP 7 8 (5.000 %) Transact-SQL 8 6 (3.750 %) Python 8 6 (3.750 %) PHP5 9 3 (1.875 %) VB6 9 3 (1.875 %) Perl 10 2 (1.250 %) C++ 11 1 (0.625 %) C	Qualifications 1 4 (2.500 %) Microsoft Certification 2 3 (1.875 %) MCAD 2 3 (1.875 %) MCSD 3 2 (1.250 %) PMP 3 2 (1.250 %) PMI Certification 4 1 (0.625 %) MOS 4 1 (0.625 %) CCNA 4 1 (0.625 %) Cisco Certification
System Software 1 7 (4.375 %) AquaLogic 2 3 (1.875 %) Active Directory 2 3 (1.875 %) Backup Exec 3 2 (1.250 %) MSMQ 4 1 (0.625 %) Terminal Services	Systems Management 1 2 (1.250 %) MOM 2 1 (0.625 %) WSUS
Vendors 1 45 (28.13 %) Microsoft 2 18 (11.25 %) Oracle 3 6 (3.750 %) IBM 4 5 (3.125 %) BEA 4 5 (3.125 %) TIBCO 5 3 (1.875 %) VMware 5 3 (1.875 %) Red Hat 5 3 (1.875 %) CA 6 2 (1.250 %) Informatica 6 2 (1.250 %) Dundas 6 2 (1.250 %) ATG 6 2 (1.250 %) FatWire 7 1 (0.625 %) Symantec 7 1 (0.625 %) Sun 7 1 (0.625 %) HP 7 1 (0.625 %) Dell