Bristol WebServices Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Web Services skills within the Bristol 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 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Banbury Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Bournemouth Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chatham Cheadle Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Farnham Fife Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrow Hendon Hertfordshire Kent Lanarkshire Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London Luton 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 Plymouth Poole Preston Reading Rickmansworth Salford Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Stevenage Street Stroud Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wiltshire Winchester Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	49	22
Rank change on same period last year	-27
Matching contract IT job ads	13	56
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.017 %	0.056 %
As % of the category below	6.468 %	23.05 %
Daily rates quoted	4	19
Average minimum daily rate	£288	£315
Average daily rate	£338	£352
% change on same period last year	-4.07 %
Average maximum daily rate	£388	£389
UK excluding London average daily rate	£339	£350
% change on same period last year	-3.07 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	14
Average minimum hourly rate	£37.00	£33.07
Average hourly rate	£41.00	£39.50
% change on same period last year	+3.79 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£45.00	£45.93
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£37.39	£33.82
% change on same period last year	+10.57 %
Application Development Bristol
Matching contract IT job ads	201	243
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.265 %	0.242 %
Daily rates quoted	58	71
Average minimum daily rate	£292	£306
Average daily rate	£329	£340
% change on same period last year	-3.16 %
Average maximum daily rate	£366	£375
UK excluding London average daily rate	£338	£337
% change on same period last year	+0.48 %
Hourly rates quoted	35	42
Average minimum hourly rate	£35.22	£32.23
Average hourly rate	£37.05	£38.09
% change on same period last year	-2.73 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£38.87	£43.96
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.73	£33.29
% change on same period last year	-1.67 %
WebServices South West

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 Bristol 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 Bristol 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 Bristol region over the 3 months to 21 August 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 Bristol region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WebServices across the Bristol region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 17 (89.47 %) .NET 2 14 (73.68 %) C# 3 13 (68.42 %) SQL Server 4 9 (47.37 %) ASP.NET 5 8 (42.11 %) XML 6 7 (36.84 %) SQL 6 7 (36.84 %) .NET Framework 7 6 (31.58 %) AJAX 7 6 (31.58 %) VB 8 5 (26.32 %) ADO.NET 8 5 (26.32 %) SQL Server 2005 9 4 (21.05 %) Government 9 4 (21.05 %) Visual Studio 9 4 (21.05 %) C++ 9 4 (21.05 %) Delphi

9 4 (21.05 %) XSLT 9 4 (21.05 %) GIS 10 3 (15.79 %) SQL Server 2000 10 3 (15.79 %) RUP 10 3 (15.79 %) HTML 10 3 (15.79 %) VB.NET 10 3 (15.79 %) CSS 10 3 (15.79 %) Finance 11 2 (10.53 %) Web Development 11 2 (10.53 %) Unified Process 11 2 (10.53 %) PHP 11 2 (10.53 %) VB6 11 2 (10.53 %) Insurance 11 2 (10.53 %) SOAP 11 2 (10.53 %) ADO

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 17 (89.47 %) .NET 2 9 (47.37 %) ASP.NET 3 8 (42.11 %) XML 4 7 (36.84 %) .NET Framework 5 6 (31.58 %) AJAX 6 5 (26.32 %) ADO.NET 7 4 (21.05 %) XSLT 8 3 (15.79 %) HTML 8 3 (15.79 %) CSS 9 2 (10.53 %) SOAP 9 2 (10.53 %) ADO 10 1 (5.263 %) WSDL 10 1 (5.263 %) XHTML 10 1 (5.263 %) ASP 10 1 (5.263 %) Windows SharePoint Services	Application Platforms 1 1 (5.263 %) SharePoint 1 1 (5.263 %) SharePoint Server 2007
Applications 1 2 (10.53 %) MS Excel	Database & Business Intelligence 1 13 (68.42 %) SQL Server 2 5 (26.32 %) SQL Server 2005 3 4 (21.05 %) GIS 4 3 (15.79 %) SQL Server 2000 5 1 (5.263 %) MySQL
Development Applications 1 4 (21.05 %) Visual Studio 2 1 (5.263 %) Flash	General 1 4 (21.05 %) Government 2 3 (15.79 %) Finance 3 2 (10.53 %) Insurance 4 1 (5.263 %) Front Office 4 1 (5.263 %) Back Office 4 1 (5.263 %) Banking
Job Titles 1 17 (89.47 %) Developer 2 9 (47.37 %) C# Developer 3 8 (42.11 %) .NET Developer 4 3 (15.79 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 5 2 (10.53 %) Lead Developer 5 2 (10.53 %) ASP.NET Developer 6 1 (5.263 %) Software Developer 6 1 (5.263 %) Software Engineer 6 1 (5.263 %) Web Developer 6 1 (5.263 %) C# Web Developer 6 1 (5.263 %) SharePoint Developer 6 1 (5.263 %) SQL Developer 6 1 (5.263 %) PHP Developer 6 1 (5.263 %) GIS Developer 6 1 (5.263 %) .NET Web Developer 6 1 (5.263 %) VB.NET Developer 6 1 (5.263 %) VB Developer 6 1 (5.263 %) Lead Software Developer 6 1 (5.263 %) GUI Developer	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (15.79 %) RUP 2 2 (10.53 %) Web Development 2 2 (10.53 %) Unified Process 3 1 (5.263 %) Regression Testing 3 1 (5.263 %) Data Management 3 1 (5.263 %) Migration 3 1 (5.263 %) Integration Testing 3 1 (5.263 %) Data Migration
Programming Languages 1 14 (73.68 %) C# 2 7 (36.84 %) SQL 3 6 (31.58 %) VB 4 4 (21.05 %) C++ 4 4 (21.05 %) Delphi 5 3 (15.79 %) VB.NET 6 2 (10.53 %) PHP 6 2 (10.53 %) VB6 6 2 (10.53 %) Python 7 1 (5.263 %) ActionScript 7 1 (5.263 %) VBA 7 1 (5.263 %) JavaScript