Farnborough WAP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) skills within the Farnborough region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited WAP over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Wireless Application Protocol (WAP)
Location Berkshire Bristol Cambridge Cambridgeshire City of London East of England England Farnborough Hertfordshire London M4 Corridor Scotland Slough South East South West Thames Valley UK	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
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Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
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UK excluding London average daily rate	£314	£317
% change on same period last year	-1.01 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
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Application Development Farnborough
Matching contract IT job ads	32	27
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.043 %	0.027 %
Daily rates quoted	20	9
Average minimum daily rate	£352	£386
Average daily rate	£371	£388
% change on same period last year	-4.54 %
Average maximum daily rate	£389	£390
UK excluding London average daily rate	£338	£337
% change on same period last year	+0.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	4
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£36.25
Average hourly rate	-	£38.33
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£40.42
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.55	£33.03
% change on same period last year	-1.44 %
WAP Hampshire

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.

WAP
Demand Trend

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

WAP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

WAP
Top 5 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Farnborough region citing WAP 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 WAP.

1 1 (100.00 %) GPRS 1 1 (100.00 %) GSM 1 1 (100.00 %) UMTS 1 1 (100.00 %) Handset 1 1 (100.00 %) Multimedia

WAP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Farnborough region citing WAP 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 WAP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking 1 1 (100.00 %) GPRS 1 1 (100.00 %) GSM 1 1 (100.00 %) UMTS	General 1 1 (100.00 %) Multimedia
Job Titles 1 1 (100.00 %) Test Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 1 (100.00 %) Handset