Canary Wharf Middleware Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Middleware skills within the Canary Wharf region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Middleware over the 3 months to 18 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Ascot Basildon Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Borehamwood Bournemouth Brentwood Bristol Buckinghamshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cardigan Ceredigion Channel Islands Cheadle Chelmsford Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Colchester County Antrim Croydon Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Glamorgan Glasgow Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Isle of Man Jersey Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Mid Wales Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peel Poole Reading Rickmansworth Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staines Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford Thame Thames Valley UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Watford West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Wokingham Yorkshire	3 months to 18 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	34	39
Rank change on same period last year	+5
Matching contract IT job ads	13	15
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.017 %	0.015 %
As % of the category below	13.54 %	11.03 %
Daily rates quoted	8	3
Average minimum daily rate	£394	£450
Average daily rate	£430	£467
% change on same period last year	-7.92 %
Average maximum daily rate	£466	£483
UK excluding London average daily rate	£426	£408
% change on same period last year	+4.31 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£38.35	£31.92
% change on same period last year	+20.16 %
Application Development Canary Wharf
Matching contract IT job ads	96	136
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.127 %	0.140 %
Daily rates quoted	51	56
Average minimum daily rate	£428	£431
Average daily rate	£446	£447
% change on same period last year	-0.16 %
Average maximum daily rate	£464	£462
UK excluding London average daily rate	£343	£336
% change on same period last year	+2.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£38.00	£27.45
Average hourly rate	£39.00	£30.32
% change on same period last year	+28.63 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.00	£33.18
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.60	£33.11
% change on same period last year	-1.56 %
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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 Middleware across the Canary Wharf 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 Middleware across the Canary Wharf region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Middleware across the Canary Wharf region over the 3 months to 18 July 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 10 (41.67 %) C# 2 9 (37.50 %) Banking 2 9 (37.50 %) Derivative 3 8 (33.33 %) Equity Derivative 3 8 (33.33 %) Investment Banking 3 8 (33.33 %) XML 4 7 (29.17 %) Java 4 7 (29.17 %) TIBCO 5 6 (25.00 %) Finance 5 6 (25.00 %) Oracle 5 6 (25.00 %) .NET 5 6 (25.00 %) WebLogic 5 6 (25.00 %) Solaris 5 6 (25.00 %) WebSphere 6 5 (20.83 %) Windows

6 5 (20.83 %) CORBA 6 5 (20.83 %) C++ 6 5 (20.83 %) Equities 7 4 (16.67 %) Education 7 4 (16.67 %) Risk Management 7 4 (16.67 %) N-Tier 7 4 (16.67 %) WebServices 7 4 (16.67 %) UNIX 7 4 (16.67 %) .NET Remoting 7 4 (16.67 %) Mathematics 7 4 (16.67 %) Computer Science 8 3 (12.50 %) SQL Server 8 3 (12.50 %) Sybase 8 3 (12.50 %) Front Office 8 3 (12.50 %) Back Office

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf 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.

Application Development 1 8 (33.33 %) XML 2 6 (25.00 %) .NET 2 6 (25.00 %) WebSphere 3 5 (20.83 %) CORBA 4 4 (16.67 %) .NET Remoting 4 4 (16.67 %) WebServices 5 2 (8.333 %) Spring 5 2 (8.333 %) J2EE 5 2 (8.333 %) MFC 5 2 (8.333 %) SOAP 6 1 (4.167 %) Swing 6 1 (4.167 %) J2SE 6 1 (4.167 %) JMS 6 1 (4.167 %) BAPI 6 1 (4.167 %) SAP XI 6 1 (4.167 %) SAP ALE 6 1 (4.167 %) WBIMB 6 1 (4.167 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 6 (25.00 %) WebLogic 2 2 (8.333 %) TIBCO EMS 2 2 (8.333 %) WebSphere MQ 3 1 (4.167 %) Rendezvous 3 1 (4.167 %) SmartSockets 3 1 (4.167 %) Gentran 3 1 (4.167 %) WebSphere Application Server 3 1 (4.167 %) MQSeries
Applications 1 2 (8.333 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 1 (4.167 %) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking 1 2 (8.333 %) SSL	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (12.50 %) SQL Server 2 2 (8.333 %) RDBMS 3 1 (4.167 %) DataStage 3 1 (4.167 %) Datawarehouse
Development Applications 1 2 (8.333 %) Ant 1 2 (8.333 %) JUnit 1 2 (8.333 %) Visual Studio	General 1 9 (37.50 %) Banking 2 8 (33.33 %) Investment Banking 3 6 (25.00 %) Finance 4 4 (16.67 %) Education 5 3 (12.50 %) Front Office 5 3 (12.50 %) Back Office 6 2 (8.333 %) Financial Institution 7 1 (4.167 %) Publishing
Job Titles 1 10 (41.67 %) Developer 2 5 (20.83 %) C# Developer 3 4 (16.67 %) Analyst 3 4 (16.67 %) Consultant 3 4 (16.67 %) Senior Developer 3 4 (16.67 %) Senior C# Developer 4 3 (12.50 %) WebSphere Consultant 4 3 (12.50 %) Analyst Programmer 4 3 (12.50 %) Programmer 4 3 (12.50 %) Sun Specialist 5 2 (8.333 %) Project Manager 5 2 (8.333 %) Java Developer 6 1 (4.167 %) C++ Developer 6 1 (4.167 %) Software Developer 6 1 (4.167 %) Architect 6 1 (4.167 %) SAP Support 6 1 (4.167 %) SAP Support Analyst 6 1 (4.167 %) Support Analyst 6 1 (4.167 %) Applications Support 6 1 (4.167 %) Senior Project Manager	Miscellaneous 1 9 (37.50 %) Derivative 2 8 (33.33 %) Equity Derivative 3 5 (20.83 %) Equities 4 4 (16.67 %) Mathematics 4 4 (16.67 %) Computer Science 4 4 (16.67 %) N-Tier 5 2 (8.333 %) Mainframe 5 2 (8.333 %) Multithreading 5 2 (8.333 %) Tandem 6 1 (4.167 %) Asset Management 6 1 (4.167 %) Fixed Income 6 1 (4.167 %) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems 1 6 (25.00 %) Solaris 2 5 (20.83 %) Windows 3 4 (16.67 %) UNIX 4 2 (8.333 %) AIX 4 2 (8.333 %) HPUX 5 1 (4.167 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (16.67 %) Risk Management 2 3 (12.50 %) Change Management 3 2 (8.333 %) Business Analysis 3 2 (8.333 %) Unit Testing 3 2 (8.333 %) UML 3 2 (8.333 %) OOP 4 1 (4.167 %) Project Management 4 1 (4.167 %) ITIL 4 1 (4.167 %) PRINCE2 4 1 (4.167 %) Logistics
Programming Languages 1 10 (41.67 %) C# 2 7 (29.17 %) Java 3 5 (20.83 %) C++ 4 2 (8.333 %) SQL 4 2 (8.333 %) VBA 4 2 (8.333 %) Shell Script 5 1 (4.167 %) C	Qualifications 1 1 (4.167 %) Degree
Systems Management 1 2 (8.333 %) Tivoli 1 2 (8.333 %) OMEGAMON 2 1 (4.167 %) TIBCO Hawk	Vendors 1 7 (29.17 %) TIBCO 2 6 (25.00 %) Oracle 3 3 (12.50 %) Sybase 3 3 (12.50 %) Sun 3 3 (12.50 %) BEA 4 2 (8.333 %) Microsoft 5 1 (4.167 %) SAP 5 1 (4.167 %) Cisco