Halifax WebServices Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Web Services skills within the Halifax 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 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Web Services
Location Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chatham Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Colchester County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dundee Durham East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fife Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Hendon Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Lanarkshire Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Potters Bar Reading Rickmansworth Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark St Albans Staffordshire Stevenage Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swindon Teesside Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Wirral Wolverhampton York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	17	6
Rank change on same period last year	-11
Matching contract IT job ads	1	7
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.007 %
As % of the category below	3.333 %	38.89 %
Daily rates quoted	0	7
Average minimum daily rate	-	£300
Average daily rate	-	£325
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£345
% change on same period last year	+2.88 %
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	£32.99	£31.80
% change on same period last year	+3.74 %
Application Development Halifax
Matching contract IT job ads	30	18
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.042 %	0.018 %
Daily rates quoted	15	12
Average minimum daily rate	£329	£284
Average daily rate	£353	£312
% change on same period last year	+13.30 %
Average maximum daily rate	£377	£339
UK excluding London average daily rate	£329	£333
% change on same period last year	-1.25 %
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	£31.10	£32.14
% change on same period last year	-3.23 %
WebServices West Yorkshire

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 Halifax region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

WebServices
Daily Rate Trend

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

WebServices
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Halifax 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.

1 3 (100.00 %) .NET 1 3 (100.00 %) SQL Server 1 3 (100.00 %) C# 2 1 (33.33 %) VB6 2 1 (33.33 %) AJAX 2 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2005 2 1 (33.33 %) Web Development 2 1 (33.33 %) User Acceptance Testing 2 1 (33.33 %) Unit Testing 2 1 (33.33 %) Integration Testing 2 1 (33.33 %) System Testing 2 1 (33.33 %) HTML 2 1 (33.33 %) JavaScript 2 1 (33.33 %) SQL 2 1 (33.33 %) VB

2 1 (33.33 %) IIS 2 1 (33.33 %) VSS/SourceSafe 2 1 (33.33 %) ASP.NET 2 1 (33.33 %) CSS 2 1 (33.33 %) XML 2 1 (33.33 %) XSLT 2 1 (33.33 %) OO 2 1 (33.33 %) Lotus Notes 2 1 (33.33 %) Lotus Domino 2 1 (33.33 %) Client/Server 2 1 (33.33 %) OOD 2 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft 2 1 (33.33 %) Active Directory 2 1 (33.33 %) Lotus 2 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2000

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Halifax 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.

Application Development 1 3 (100.00 %) .NET 2 1 (33.33 %) ASP.NET 2 1 (33.33 %) CSS 2 1 (33.33 %) XML 2 1 (33.33 %) XSLT 2 1 (33.33 %) AJAX 2 1 (33.33 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 1 (33.33 %) IIS 1 1 (33.33 %) Lotus Notes 1 1 (33.33 %) Lotus Domino
Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2000 2 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2005	Development Applications 1 1 (33.33 %) VSS/SourceSafe
Job Titles 1 3 (100.00 %) Developer 2 2 (66.67 %) .NET Developer 3 1 (33.33 %) C# Developer 3 1 (33.33 %) ASP.NET Developer	Miscellaneous 1 1 (33.33 %) Client/Server
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) OO 1 1 (33.33 %) OOD 1 1 (33.33 %) Web Development 1 1 (33.33 %) User Acceptance Testing 1 1 (33.33 %) Unit Testing 1 1 (33.33 %) Integration Testing 1 1 (33.33 %) System Testing	Programming Languages 1 3 (100.00 %) C# 2 1 (33.33 %) JavaScript 2 1 (33.33 %) SQL 2 1 (33.33 %) VB 2 1 (33.33 %) VB6
System Software 1 1 (33.33 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft 1 1 (33.33 %) Lotus