East of England Windows Mobile Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows Mobile skills within the East of England region with a comparison to our Operating Systems category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Windows Mobile over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows Mobile
Location Banbury Basingstoke Berkshire Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Dorset East of England Edinburgh England Glasgow Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Lancashire Leeds London Manchester Middlesex Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North West Oxfordshire Poole Reading Rotherham Scotland Shropshire Slough South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stoke-on-Trent Surrey Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales West Midlands West Yorkshire Winchester Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	128	137
Rank change on same period last year	+9
Matching contract IT job ads	23	7
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.030 %	0.007 %
As % of the category below	2.237 %	0.616 %
Daily rates quoted	12	6
Average minimum daily rate	£338	£270
Average daily rate	£373	£279
% change on same period last year	+33.78 %
Average maximum daily rate	£408	£288
UK excluding London average daily rate	£326	£282
% change on same period last year	+15.50 %
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	£31.58	£34.63
% change on same period last year	-8.79 %
Operating Systems East of England
Matching contract IT job ads	1028	1137
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.356 %	1.206 %
Daily rates quoted	255	291
Average minimum daily rate	£282	£326
Average daily rate	£300	£345
% change on same period last year	-13.10 %
Average maximum daily rate	£318	£364
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£334
% change on same period last year	+1.57 %
Hourly rates quoted	182	215
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.36	£20.93
Average hourly rate	£22.73	£22.06
% change on same period last year	+3.04 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.10	£23.19
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.83	£23.75
% change on same period last year	-8.06 %
Windows Mobile England

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.

Windows Mobile
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Windows Mobile across the East of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Windows Mobile
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Windows Mobile across the East of England region.

Windows Mobile
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows Mobile across the East of England region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

Windows Mobile
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Windows Mobile across the East of England region.

Windows Mobile
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing Windows Mobile within the East of England region over the 3 months to 4 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
Hertfordshire	-	22	£373	-
Cambridgeshire	-10	1	-	-

Windows Mobile England

Windows Mobile
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing Windows Mobile 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 Windows Mobile.

1 23 (100.00 %) Windows 2 15 (65.22 %) J2ME 3 14 (60.87 %) Java 3 14 (60.87 %) .NET 3 14 (60.87 %) Symbian 4 10 (43.48 %) C++ 5 9 (39.13 %) C 5 9 (39.13 %) J2SE 5 9 (39.13 %) Handset 5 9 (39.13 %) UIQ 5 9 (39.13 %) Series 60 6 8 (34.78 %) NetBeans 6 8 (34.78 %) Eclipse 7 7 (30.43 %) C# 7 7 (30.43 %) Retail

8 6 (26.09 %) SQL 8 6 (26.09 %) Unix 8 6 (26.09 %) MIDP 8 6 (26.09 %) Telecoms 9 5 (21.74 %) Service Management 9 5 (21.74 %) Cisco 9 5 (21.74 %) Games 9 5 (21.74 %) .NET Framework 10 4 (17.39 %) Multithreading 10 4 (17.39 %) Microsoft 10 4 (17.39 %) CLDC 10 4 (17.39 %) Mobile Games 10 4 (17.39 %) Wireless 11 3 (13.04 %) MS Excel 12 1 (4.348 %) Degree

Windows Mobile
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing Windows Mobile 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 Windows Mobile. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 15 (65.22 %) J2ME 2 14 (60.87 %) .NET 3 9 (39.13 %) UIQ 3 9 (39.13 %) Series 60 3 9 (39.13 %) J2SE 4 8 (34.78 %) NetBeans 5 6 (26.09 %) MIDP 6 5 (21.74 %) .NET Framework 7 4 (17.39 %) CLDC 8 1 (4.348 %) WinForms	Applications 1 3 (13.04 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 4 (17.39 %) Wireless	Development Applications 1 8 (34.78 %) Eclipse
General 1 7 (30.43 %) Retail 2 6 (26.09 %) Telecoms 3 5 (21.74 %) Games 4 4 (17.39 %) Mobile Games	Job Titles 1 12 (52.17 %) Developer 2 6 (26.09 %) Solutions Designer 3 5 (21.74 %) Java Developer 4 4 (17.39 %) Architect 5 3 (13.04 %) Applications Developer 6 2 (8.696 %) Technical Designer 7 1 (4.348 %) Java Applications Developer 7 1 (4.348 %) Systems Engineer 7 1 (4.348 %) Solutions Architect 7 1 (4.348 %) .NET Developer 7 1 (4.348 %) C# Developer
Miscellaneous 1 9 (39.13 %) Handset 2 4 (17.39 %) Multithreading	Operating Systems 1 23 (100.00 %) Windows 2 6 (26.09 %) Unix 3 1 (4.348 %) Windows CE 3 1 (4.348 %) Symbian OS
Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (21.74 %) Service Management	Programming Languages 1 14 (60.87 %) Java 2 10 (43.48 %) C++ 3 9 (39.13 %) C 4 7 (30.43 %) C# 5 6 (26.09 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 1 (4.348 %) Degree	Vendors 1 14 (60.87 %) Symbian 2 5 (21.74 %) Cisco 3 4 (17.39 %) Microsoft