Essex WebServices Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Web Services skills within the Essex 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 last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Clapham Cobham Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dundee East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Falkirk Farnborough Farnham Feltham Glasgow Gloucestershire Grangemouth Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highland Home Counties Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kenilworth Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Potters Bar Preston Reading Redhill Rickmansworth Romford Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport St Neots Staines Stevenage Stockport Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Thames Valley Torquay Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Whyteleafe Wilmslow Wiltshire Woking Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	22	31
Rank change on same period last year	+9
Matching contract IT job ads	45	20
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.058 %	0.022 %
As % of the category below	20.83 %	12.66 %
Daily rates quoted	12	9
Average minimum daily rate	£338	£344
Average daily rate	£360	£399
% change on same period last year	-9.82 %
Average maximum daily rate	£382	£454
UK excluding London average daily rate	£364	£345
% change on same period last year	+5.48 %
Hourly rates quoted	8	6
Average minimum hourly rate	£40.75	£30.67
Average hourly rate	£40.94	£31.50
% change on same period last year	+29.96 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£41.13	£32.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£36.90	£32.52
% change on same period last year	+13.47 %
Application Development Essex
Matching contract IT job ads	216	158
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.277 %	0.178 %
Daily rates quoted	70	48
Average minimum daily rate	£298	£362
Average daily rate	£314	£398
% change on same period last year	-21.18 %
Average maximum daily rate	£330	£434
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£335
% change on same period last year	+5.30 %
Hourly rates quoted	51	33
Average minimum hourly rate	£32.95	£28.48
Average hourly rate	£35.26	£29.71
% change on same period last year	+18.66 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.57	£30.95
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.42	£31.87
% change on same period last year	+1.71 %
WebServices East of 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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing WebServices across the Essex 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 contract IT jobs ads citing WebServices across the Essex 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 Essex region over the past 3 months.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WebServices across the Essex region over the past 3 months.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WebServices within the Essex region over the past 3 months.

Rank	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
1	Basildon	+7	9	£315	-
2	Brentwood	+2	6	£338	-
3	Colchester	-	5	£270	-
4	Chelmsford	0	2	£350	-5.08 %
5	Harlow	-	1	-	-

WebServices East of England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Essex region citing WebServices also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing WebServices.

1 34 (58.62 %) J2EE 2 29 (50.00 %) SQL 3 28 (48.28 %) Java 3 28 (48.28 %) XML 4 27 (46.55 %) WebSphere 5 22 (37.93 %) SOA 6 18 (31.03 %) SOAP 7 17 (29.31 %) C# 7 17 (29.31 %) OO 8 15 (25.86 %) .NET 9 14 (24.14 %) SQL Server 10 13 (22.41 %) Unix 10 13 (22.41 %) Zachman Framework 11 12 (20.69 %) Construction 11 12 (20.69 %) Struts

11 12 (20.69 %) Oracle 12 11 (18.97 %) ASP.NET 12 11 (18.97 %) HTTP 13 10 (17.24 %) Log4j 14 9 (15.52 %) Finance 15 8 (13.79 %) Automotive 15 8 (13.79 %) N-Tier 15 8 (13.79 %) UML 15 8 (13.79 %) XSLT 15 8 (13.79 %) Transact-SQL 16 7 (12.07 %) WebSphere Application Server 16 7 (12.07 %) JDBC 16 7 (12.07 %) RAD 16 7 (12.07 %) Microsoft 16 7 (12.07 %) Shell Script

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Essex region citing WebServices also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing WebServices. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 34 (58.62 %) J2EE 2 28 (48.28 %) XML 3 27 (46.55 %) WebSphere 4 18 (31.03 %) SOAP 5 15 (25.86 %) .NET 6 12 (20.69 %) Struts 7 11 (18.97 %) ASP.NET 8 8 (13.79 %) XSLT 9 7 (12.07 %) JDBC 9 7 (12.07 %) AJAX 10 6 (10.34 %) WSDL 11 5 (8.621 %) XML Schema 11 5 (8.621 %) JRules 11 5 (8.621 %) JSF 12 3 (5.172 %) Ruby on Rails 12 3 (5.172 %) .NET Remoting 12 3 (5.172 %) .NET Framework 12 3 (5.172 %) WCF 12 3 (5.172 %) CSS 13 2 (3.448 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 7 (12.07 %) WebSphere Application Server 2 5 (8.621 %) JBoss 3 2 (3.448 %) SharePoint 3 2 (3.448 %) BizTalk Server 3 2 (3.448 %) CMS 3 2 (3.448 %) DotNetNuke
Applications 1 3 (5.172 %) MS Visio 2 1 (1.724 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 11 (18.97 %) HTTP 2 1 (1.724 %) Intranet 2 1 (1.724 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 14 (24.14 %) SQL Server 2 6 (10.34 %) SQL Server 2005	Development Applications 1 10 (17.24 %) Log4j 2 5 (8.621 %) JUnit 2 5 (8.621 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer 3 4 (6.897 %) Eclipse 3 4 (6.897 %) Ant 3 4 (6.897 %) FitNesse 4 3 (5.172 %) Visual Studio 5 2 (3.448 %) Subversion 6 1 (1.724 %) Flash
General 1 12 (20.69 %) Construction 2 9 (15.52 %) Finance 3 8 (13.79 %) Automotive 4 3 (5.172 %) Pharmaceutical 4 3 (5.172 %) Education 5 2 (3.448 %) Marketing 6 1 (1.724 %) Publishing 6 1 (1.724 %) Insurance	Job Titles 1 36 (62.07 %) Developer 2 21 (36.21 %) Architect 3 13 (22.41 %) Solutions Architect 3 13 (22.41 %) C# Developer 4 12 (20.69 %) .NET Developer 5 8 (13.79 %) J2EE Developer 6 7 (12.07 %) Java Developer 6 7 (12.07 %) ASP.NET Developer 6 7 (12.07 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 7 6 (10.34 %) SQL Developer 8 5 (8.621 %) Web Developer 9 4 (6.897 %) J2EE Architect 10 3 (5.172 %) Technical Architect 11 2 (3.448 %) Analyst Programmer 11 2 (3.448 %) Programmer 11 2 (3.448 %) Delphi Developer 11 2 (3.448 %) C++ Developer 11 2 (3.448 %) Analyst 11 2 (3.448 %) Applications Architect 11 2 (3.448 %) .NET Web Developer
Miscellaneous 1 8 (13.79 %) N-Tier 2 5 (8.621 %) Client/Server 3 3 (5.172 %) Computer Science 4 1 (1.724 %) German Language 4 1 (1.724 %) Social Network 4 1 (1.724 %) Web 2.0	Operating Systems 1 13 (22.41 %) Unix 2 1 (1.724 %) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies 1 22 (37.93 %) SOA 2 17 (29.31 %) OO 3 13 (22.41 %) Zachman Framework 4 8 (13.79 %) UML 5 7 (12.07 %) RAD 6 6 (10.34 %) RUP 6 6 (10.34 %) Unified Process 6 6 (10.34 %) BPEL 7 5 (8.621 %) Agile Software Development 7 5 (8.621 %) Validation 8 4 (6.897 %) Extreme Programming 9 3 (5.172 %) OOD 10 2 (3.448 %) TDD 10 2 (3.448 %) CRM 10 2 (3.448 %) Configuration Management 10 2 (3.448 %) Process Management 10 2 (3.448 %) BPM 10 2 (3.448 %) Internet Marketing 10 2 (3.448 %) Unit Testing 11 1 (1.724 %) E-Commerce	Programming Languages 1 29 (50.00 %) SQL 2 28 (48.28 %) Java 3 17 (29.31 %) C# 4 8 (13.79 %) Transact-SQL 5 7 (12.07 %) Shell Script 6 5 (8.621 %) Korn 6 5 (8.621 %) PL/SQL 7 4 (6.897 %) Delphi 8 3 (5.172 %) DHTML 8 3 (5.172 %) Ruby 8 3 (5.172 %) VB.NET 9 2 (3.448 %) ECMAScript 9 2 (3.448 %) C++ 9 2 (3.448 %) C 10 1 (1.724 %) JavaScript 10 1 (1.724 %) ActionScript
Qualifications 1 3 (5.172 %) Degree 2 1 (1.724 %) MCSD 2 1 (1.724 %) Microsoft Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (3.448 %) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors 1 12 (20.69 %) Oracle 2 7 (12.07 %) Microsoft 3 6 (10.34 %) ILOG 4 1 (1.724 %) Sybase