The first table below looks at the demand for Windows Phone 8 skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Windows Phone 8 over the 3 months to 18 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Operating Systems category for the England region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows Phone 8 (WinPhone8, WP8)
Rank 519 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Windows Phone 8 16 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.037% - -
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.166% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 13 0 0
Average daily rate £425 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Operating Systems
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
9665 11011 12170
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 22.08% 20.77% 21.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 5308 5551 6157
Average daily rate £361 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.21% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £194 £195 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 945 1154 1189
Average hourly rate £17.50 £17.87 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.04% +5.08%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.50 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £40.00 £36.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.50 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-8.57% +8.02%
Windows Phone 8
UK

Windows Phone 8
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Windows Phone 8 across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

England Windows Phone 8 Jobs Demand Trend

Windows Phone 8
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Windows Phone 8 across the England region.

England Windows Phone 8 Daily Rate Trend

Windows Phone 8
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows Phone 8 across the England region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

England Windows Phone 8 Daily Rate Histogram

Windows Phone 8
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Phone 8 within the England region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
London - 8 £400 - 7
South West - 4 £363 -
North West - 1 - - 1
West Midlands - - - - 1
Yorkshire - - - -
East Midlands - - - -
Windows Phone 8
UK

Windows Phone 8
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Windows Phone 8 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 Phone 8.

1 31 (100.00%) Windows
1 31 (100.00%) Windows Phone
2 18 (58.06%) C#
3 16 (51.61%) Windows Phone 7
4 12 (38.71%) Apple iOS
4 12 (38.71%) Android
4 12 (38.71%) .NET
5 11 (35.48%) Blackberry
6 10 (32.26%) JavaScript
6 10 (32.26%) HTML
6 10 (32.26%) Silverlight
7 8 (25.81%) CSS
7 8 (25.81%) HTML5
7 8 (25.81%) Mobile App
8 7 (22.58%) Windows 8
8 7 (22.58%) Visual Studio
9 6 (19.35%) OO
9 6 (19.35%) jQuery
9 6 (19.35%) CSS3
9 6 (19.35%) iPhone
10 5 (16.13%) iPad
10 5 (16.13%) Web Application Development
10 5 (16.13%) Agile Software Development
11 4 (12.90%) XAML
11 4 (12.90%) Windows Mobile
11 4 (12.90%) Degree
11 4 (12.90%) XML
11 4 (12.90%) Adobe
11 4 (12.90%) ASP.NET
11 4 (12.90%) Team Foundation Server

Windows Phone 8
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Windows Phone 8 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 Phone 8. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 12 (38.71%) .NET
2 10 (32.26%) HTML
2 10 (32.26%) Silverlight
3 8 (25.81%) CSS
3 8 (25.81%) HTML5
4 6 (19.35%) CSS3
4 6 (19.35%) jQuery
5 4 (12.90%) ASP.NET
5 4 (12.90%) XML
6 3 (9.677%) Web Services
7 2 (6.452%) XSLT
7 2 (6.452%) Google Maps API
7 2 (6.452%) JSON
7 2 (6.452%) WCF
8 1 (3.226%) SOAP
8 1 (3.226%) RESTful
8 1 (3.226%) LINQ
8 1 (3.226%) SAML
8 1 (3.226%) LAMP
8 1 (3.226%) Ruby on Rails
Application Platforms
1 2 (6.452%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 3 (9.677%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.226%) VPN
1 1 (3.226%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.452%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (22.58%) Visual Studio
2 4 (12.90%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (6.452%) Selenium
4 1 (3.226%) PhoneGap
General
1 3 (9.677%) Telecoms
2 2 (6.452%) Banking
3 1 (3.226%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (70.97%) Developer
2 6 (19.35%) Mobile Developer
3 4 (12.90%) Senior Developer
4 3 (9.677%) Architect
4 3 (9.677%) Tester
4 3 (9.677%) Front-End Developer
4 3 (9.677%) Senior Front-End Developer
5 2 (6.452%) Applications Architect
5 2 (6.452%) .NET Developer
5 2 (6.452%) Windows Mobile Developer
5 2 (6.452%) Mobile Applications Developer
6 1 (3.226%) iOS Developer
6 1 (3.226%) Windows 8 Developer
6 1 (3.226%) Senior Mobile Applications Developer
6 1 (3.226%) PHP Developer
6 1 (3.226%) Analyst
6 1 (3.226%) Test Analyst
6 1 (3.226%) Web Developer
6 1 (3.226%) Applications Developer
6 1 (3.226%) Senior Applications Developer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (35.48%) Blackberry
2 8 (25.81%) Mobile App
3 6 (19.35%) iPhone
4 5 (16.13%) iPad
5 3 (9.677%) Digital Media
5 3 (9.677%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (9.677%) Computer Science
6 2 (6.452%) Streaming Video
6 2 (6.452%) Replication
7 1 (3.226%) PKI
7 1 (3.226%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 31 (100.00%) Windows
1 31 (100.00%) Windows Phone
2 16 (51.61%) Windows Phone 7
3 12 (38.71%) Apple iOS
3 12 (38.71%) Android
4 7 (22.58%) Windows 8
5 4 (12.90%) Windows Mobile
6 2 (6.452%) BlackBerry OS
7 1 (3.226%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (19.35%) OO
2 5 (16.13%) Agile Software Development
2 5 (16.13%) Web Application Development
3 4 (12.90%) Mobile Application Development
4 3 (9.677%) Multithreading
4 3 (9.677%) TDD
4 3 (9.677%) MVC
5 2 (6.452%) Stress Testing
5 2 (6.452%) Web Development
5 2 (6.452%) MVVM
5 2 (6.452%) Test Strategy
5 2 (6.452%) Mobile Device Management
6 1 (3.226%) Automation Testing
6 1 (3.226%) Information Architecture
6 1 (3.226%) Performance Testing
6 1 (3.226%) Technical Architecture
6 1 (3.226%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (3.226%) Process Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (58.06%) C#
2 10 (32.26%) JavaScript
3 4 (12.90%) XAML
4 3 (9.677%) C++
5 2 (6.452%) Java
5 2 (6.452%) Objective-C
5 2 (6.452%) VB
6 1 (3.226%) Ruby
6 1 (3.226%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (12.90%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.452%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.226%) OpenSSO
Vendors
1 4 (12.90%) Adobe
2 3 (9.677%) Oracle
3 2 (6.452%) Google
3 2 (6.452%) Facebook
4 1 (3.226%) Sencha
4 1 (3.226%) IBM
4 1 (3.226%) Microsoft
London
They provide Content and Video Delivery to a broad range of devices such as the Web / Browser, Video Players, Smart TV, Xbox, PlayStation, iOS, Android, Windows Phone 8...
Hofmann Recruitment
Rate: Unspecified
Posted: 13 June 2013
City, London
The role will comprise end-to-end solutions for mobile devices (iOS, Android, Blackberry and Windows Phone 8 platforms) including development of the services that provide the data.
Bloomberg LP
Rate: Competitive Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
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