Buckinghamshire WebServices Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Web Services skills within the Buckinghamshire 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 6 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chatham Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Colchester County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dundee Durham East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fife Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Hendon Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Lanarkshire Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Potters Bar Reading Rickmansworth Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark St Albans Staffordshire Stevenage Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Teesside Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Wirral Wolverhampton York Yorkshire	3 months to 6 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	64	71
Rank change on same period last year	+7
Matching contract IT job ads	16	27
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.022 %	0.027 %
As % of the category below	9.877 %	6.784 %
Daily rates quoted	6	3
Average minimum daily rate	£302	£317
Average daily rate	£320	£329
% change on same period last year	-2.65 %
Average maximum daily rate	£339	£342
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£347
% change on same period last year	+1.87 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	£36.50
Average hourly rate	£40.00	£38.25
% change on same period last year	+4.57 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£50.00	£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.68	£31.92
% change on same period last year	+2.37 %
Application Development Buckinghamshire
Matching contract IT job ads	162	398
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.226 %	0.400 %
Daily rates quoted	44	98
Average minimum daily rate	£370	£269
Average daily rate	£387	£285
% change on same period last year	+35.60 %
Average maximum daily rate	£404	£302
UK excluding London average daily rate	£331	£333
% change on same period last year	-0.71 %
Hourly rates quoted	14	47
Average minimum hourly rate	£34.55	£32.31
Average hourly rate	£39.32	£33.38
% change on same period last year	+17.77 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£44.09	£34.46
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.32	£32.24
% change on same period last year	-2.87 %
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 Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 6 October 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 Buckinghamshire region.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WebServices within the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 6 October 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
Milton Keynes	+1	3	£313	+4.16 %
Marlow	-1	2	£380	-
High Wycombe	-10	1	-	-

WebServices South East

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 20 (58.82 %) C# 2 17 (50.00 %) XML 3 16 (47.06 %) .NET 4 12 (35.29 %) SQL Server 5 11 (32.35 %) SQL 5 11 (32.35 %) SOAP 6 9 (26.47 %) ASP.NET 7 8 (23.53 %) Oracle 8 7 (20.59 %) HTML 8 7 (20.59 %) Microsoft 9 6 (17.65 %) Java 10 5 (14.71 %) SQL Server 2005 10 5 (14.71 %) AJAX 10 5 (14.71 %) GIS 10 5 (14.71 %) ArcGIS

10 5 (14.71 %) VB.NET 10 5 (14.71 %) MySQL 10 5 (14.71 %) CSS 11 4 (11.76 %) JSP 11 4 (11.76 %) Transact-SQL 11 4 (11.76 %) J2EE 11 4 (11.76 %) PHP 11 4 (11.76 %) Agile Software Development 12 3 (8.824 %) WinForms 12 3 (8.824 %) Finance 12 3 (8.824 %) C 12 3 (8.824 %) JavaScript 12 3 (8.824 %) Servlets 12 3 (8.824 %) ColdFusion MX 12 3 (8.824 %) Visual Studio

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 (50.00 %) XML 2 16 (47.06 %) .NET 3 11 (32.35 %) SOAP 4 9 (26.47 %) ASP.NET 5 7 (20.59 %) HTML 6 5 (14.71 %) CSS 6 5 (14.71 %) AJAX 7 4 (11.76 %) J2EE 7 4 (11.76 %) JSP 8 3 (8.824 %) Servlets 8 3 (8.824 %) ADO.NET 8 3 (8.824 %) XML Schema 8 3 (8.824 %) WinForms 9 2 (5.882 %) JNI 9 2 (5.882 %) JCE 9 2 (5.882 %) ArcObjects 9 2 (5.882 %) WCF 9 2 (5.882 %) Fusebox 9 2 (5.882 %) ASP 9 2 (5.882 %) Java RMI	Application Platforms 1 5 (14.71 %) ArcGIS 2 3 (8.824 %) ColdFusion 2 3 (8.824 %) ColdFusion MX 3 2 (5.882 %) WebLogic 3 2 (5.882 %) ESB 4 1 (2.941 %) Oracle BPEL 4 1 (2.941 %) WebLogic Portal 4 1 (2.941 %) IIS 4 1 (2.941 %) MQSeries 4 1 (2.941 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 1 (2.941 %) MS Excel	Database & Business Intelligence 1 12 (35.29 %) SQL Server 2 5 (14.71 %) MySQL 2 5 (14.71 %) GIS 2 5 (14.71 %) SQL Server 2005 3 3 (8.824 %) SQL Server 2000 4 2 (5.882 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 4 2 (5.882 %) Crystal Reports 5 1 (2.941 %) Informix 5 1 (2.941 %) Oracle 10g 5 1 (2.941 %) Oracle 11g 5 1 (2.941 %) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications 1 3 (8.824 %) Visual Studio 2 1 (2.941 %) VSS/SourceSafe 2 1 (2.941 %) NUnit 2 1 (2.941 %) JUnit	General 1 3 (8.824 %) Finance 2 2 (5.882 %) Retail 3 1 (2.941 %) Back Office 3 1 (2.941 %) Health 3 1 (2.941 %) Publishing
Job Titles 1 27 (79.41 %) Developer 2 11 (32.35 %) .NET Developer 3 10 (29.41 %) C# Developer 4 6 (17.65 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 5 5 (14.71 %) ASP.NET Developer 6 3 (8.824 %) ColdFusion Developer 6 3 (8.824 %) Java Developer 6 3 (8.824 %) GIS Developer 7 2 (5.882 %) Report Developer 7 2 (5.882 %) SQL Server Developer 7 2 (5.882 %) SQL Developer 7 2 (5.882 %) Crystal Reports Developer 7 2 (5.882 %) Software Developer 7 2 (5.882 %) Architect 7 2 (5.882 %) Software Engineer 7 2 (5.882 %) Senior Developer 7 2 (5.882 %) Programmer 8 1 (2.941 %) Lead Developer 8 1 (2.941 %) Web Developer 8 1 (2.941 %) Consultant	Miscellaneous 1 2 (5.882 %) PDA 2 1 (2.941 %) EMV 2 1 (2.941 %) Smartcard 2 1 (2.941 %) PKI
Operating Systems 1 3 (8.824 %) Windows 2 1 (2.941 %) Solaris 2 1 (2.941 %) Linux 2 1 (2.941 %) SUSE 2 1 (2.941 %) Windows 2000 Server	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (11.76 %) Agile Software Development 2 3 (8.824 %) SOA 3 2 (5.882 %) Project Management 3 2 (5.882 %) E-Commerce 4 1 (2.941 %) EAI 4 1 (2.941 %) OOD 4 1 (2.941 %) UML 4 1 (2.941 %) OOP 4 1 (2.941 %) OO 4 1 (2.941 %) Content Management 4 1 (2.941 %) BPEL 4 1 (2.941 %) Knowledge Management 4 1 (2.941 %) Web Development
Programming Languages 1 20 (58.82 %) C# 2 11 (32.35 %) SQL 3 6 (17.65 %) Java 4 5 (14.71 %) VB.NET 5 4 (11.76 %) Transact-SQL 5 4 (11.76 %) PHP 6 3 (8.824 %) C 6 3 (8.824 %) JavaScript 7 2 (5.882 %) C++ 7 2 (5.882 %) VB 8 1 (2.941 %) Perl 8 1 (2.941 %) Embedded C 8 1 (2.941 %) VB6	Qualifications 1 2 (5.882 %) Degree 2 1 (2.941 %) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (2.941 %) QA	System Software 1 1 (2.941 %) AquaLogic
Vendors 1 8 (23.53 %) Oracle 2 7 (20.59 %) Microsoft 3 1 (2.941 %) Ericsson 3 1 (2.941 %) Nokia 3 1 (2.941 %) Sony 3 1 (2.941 %) Google