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The table below looks at the demand for Web Services skills within the Chester 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 14 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkWeb Services
Location
3 months to
14 Oct 2008
Same period last year
Rank1030
Rank change on same period last yearUp+20
Matching contract IT job ads203
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.029 %0.003 %
As % of the category below46.51 %6.818 %
Daily rates quoted70
Average minimum daily rate£344-
Average daily rate£354-
% change on same period last year-
Average maximum daily rate£364-
UK excluding London average daily rate£358£349
% change on same period last year+2.51 %
Hourly rates quoted10
Average minimum hourly rate£25.00-
Average hourly rate£29.00-
% change on same period last year-
Average maximum hourly rate£33.00-
UK excluding London average hourly rate£32.99£31.79
% change on same period last year+3.80 %
Chester IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
Chester
Matching contract IT job ads4344
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.062 %0.045 %
Daily rates quoted82
Average minimum daily rate£348£325
Average daily rate£355£325
% change on same period last year+9.27 %
Average maximum daily rate£363£325
UK excluding London average daily rate£331£334
% change on same period last year-0.96 %
Hourly rates quoted32
Average minimum hourly rate£32.25£21.00
Average hourly rate£36.38£24.21
% change on same period last year+50.22 %
Average maximum hourly rate£40.50£27.43
UK excluding London average hourly rate£30.88£32.08
% change on same period last year-3.74 %
WebServices CheshireWebServices
Cheshire

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.

WebServices
Demand Trend

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

Chester WebServices Demand Trend

WebServices
Daily Rate Trend

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

Chester WebServices Daily Rate Trend

WebServices
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WebServices across the Chester region over the 3 months to 14 October 2008.

Chester WebServices Daily Rate Histogram

WebServices
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Chester WebServices Hourly Rate Trend

WebServices
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 14 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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.

124 (85.71 %)SOAP
219 (67.86 %)XML
316 (57.14 %)Java
415 (53.57 %)HTML
513 (46.43 %)JSP
513 (46.43 %)WSDL
513 (46.43 %)JAX-RPC
612 (42.86 %).NET
612 (42.86 %)Oracle
612 (42.86 %)CSS
612 (42.86 %)Hibernate
711 (39.29 %)Finance
711 (39.29 %)C#
810 (35.71 %)C++
810 (35.71 %)Swing
99 (32.14 %)Spring
99 (32.14 %)ASP.NET
108 (28.57 %)Tuxedo
108 (28.57 %)Middleware
116 (21.43 %)AJAX
116 (21.43 %)Agile Software Development
116 (21.43 %)XPath
116 (21.43 %)JIRA
116 (21.43 %)German Language
116 (21.43 %)SQL Server
125 (17.86 %)Microsoft
134 (14.29 %)OOD
134 (14.29 %)OOP
134 (14.29 %)OOA/OOD
134 (14.29 %)OO

WebServices
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 14 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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.

Chester IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
124 (85.71 %)SOAP
219 (67.86 %)XML
315 (53.57 %)HTML
413 (46.43 %)WSDL
413 (46.43 %)JAX-RPC
413 (46.43 %)JSP
512 (42.86 %)Hibernate
512 (42.86 %).NET
512 (42.86 %)CSS
610 (35.71 %)Swing
79 (32.14 %)Spring
79 (32.14 %)ASP.NET
88 (28.57 %)Middleware
96 (21.43 %)AJAX
104 (14.29 %)Apache Axis
113 (10.71 %)J2EE
113 (10.71 %)JDBC
122 (7.143 %)XSL
122 (7.143 %)EJB
122 (7.143 %).NET Framework
Chester IT Contractor Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
18 (28.57 %)Tuxedo
21 (3.571 %)SharePoint
21 (3.571 %)BizTalk Server
21 (3.571 %)SharePoint Server 2007
Chester IT Contractor Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
11 (3.571 %)InfoPath
Chester IT Contractor Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
12 (7.143 %)Microsoft CRM
12 (7.143 %)Oracle EBS
12 (7.143 %)Dynamics CRM
Chester IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
13 (10.71 %)HTTP
Chester IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
16 (21.43 %)SQL Server
22 (7.143 %)SQL Server 2005
Chester IT Contractor Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
16 (21.43 %)JIRA
23 (10.71 %)Visual Studio
Chester IT Contractor Job Market, GeneralGeneral
111 (39.29 %)Finance
23 (10.71 %)Banking
32 (7.143 %)Local Government
32 (7.143 %)Government
41 (3.571 %)International Banking
Chester IT Contractor Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
114 (50.00 %)Developer
210 (35.71 %)Software Engineer
36 (21.43 %)Java Developer
44 (14.29 %).NET Developer
44 (14.29 %)C# Developer
44 (14.29 %)Java Software Engineer
53 (10.71 %)ASP.NET Developer
53 (10.71 %)C#/ASP.NET Developer
53 (10.71 %)Analyst
53 (10.71 %)Senior Developer
53 (10.71 %)Analyst Programmer
53 (10.71 %)Programmer
61 (3.571 %)Lead Developer
61 (3.571 %)Web Developer
61 (3.571 %)Solutions Architect
61 (3.571 %)Architect
61 (3.571 %).NET Web Developer
61 (3.571 %)C# Web Developer
Chester IT Contractor Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
16 (21.43 %)German Language
24 (14.29 %)Dutch Language
33 (10.71 %)N-Tier
Chester IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
16 (21.43 %)Agile Software Development
24 (14.29 %)OOD
24 (14.29 %)OOP
24 (14.29 %)OOA/OOD
24 (14.29 %)OO
32 (7.143 %)CRM
41 (3.571 %)E-Commerce
41 (3.571 %)Change Management
41 (3.571 %)Integration Testing
Chester IT Contractor Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
116 (57.14 %)Java
211 (39.29 %)C#
310 (35.71 %)C++
46 (21.43 %)XPath
54 (14.29 %)SQL
63 (10.71 %)Transact-SQL
71 (3.571 %)C
71 (3.571 %)JavaScript
Chester IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
11 (3.571 %)QA
Chester IT Contractor Job Market, VendorsVendors
112 (42.86 %)Oracle
25 (17.86 %)Microsoft
32 (7.143 %)Perforce