Hampshire WebServices Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Web Services skills within the Hampshire 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Alderley Edge Aylesbury Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dundee Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Farnham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrow Hendon Hertfordshire Highlands Huddersfield Inverness Ipswich Kent Lanarkshire Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Preston Reading Redhill Rickmansworth Salford Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stroud Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Whyteleafe Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	35	56
Rank change on same period last year	+21
Matching contract IT job ads	84	77
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.112 %	0.078 %
As % of the category below	16.09 %	9.112 %
Daily rates quoted	14	23
Average minimum daily rate	£320	£317
Average daily rate	£342	£335
% change on same period last year	+1.97 %
Average maximum daily rate	£363	£354
UK excluding London average daily rate	£346	£347
% change on same period last year	-0.38 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	8
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.00	£33.75
Average hourly rate	£30.25	£39.88
% change on same period last year	-24.13 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.50	£46.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£36.47	£32.67
% change on same period last year	+11.62 %
Application Development Hampshire
Matching contract IT job ads	522	845
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.696 %	0.855 %
Daily rates quoted	94	200
Average minimum daily rate	£333	£300
Average daily rate	£356	£318
% change on same period last year	+12.11 %
Average maximum daily rate	£379	£336
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£336
% change on same period last year	+1.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	103	160
Average minimum hourly rate	£33.96	£34.09
Average hourly rate	£36.02	£36.03
% change on same period last year	-0.01 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£38.08	£37.97
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.78	£33.23
% change on same period last year	-1.32 %
WebServices South East

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 beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing WebServices across the Hampshire 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 IT contract jobs citing WebServices across the Hampshire 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 Hampshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WebServices within the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 25 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
Southampton	+14	9	£250	-
Basingstoke	+21	9	£349	-0.35 %
Eastleigh	-	3	-	-
Winchester	-6	2	-	-
Farnborough	+7	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 69 (49.64 %) .NET 2 65 (46.76 %) XML 3 60 (43.17 %) C# 4 40 (28.78 %) Java 4 40 (28.78 %) SQL Server 5 39 (28.06 %) ASP.NET 6 36 (25.90 %) WebSphere 7 29 (20.86 %) JDBC 7 29 (20.86 %) Business Objects 7 29 (20.86 %) BusinessObjects 8 28 (20.14 %) SAP 9 27 (19.42 %) UNIX 9 27 (19.42 %) SQL Server 2005 10 24 (17.27 %) J2EE 11 22 (15.83 %) UML

12 20 (14.39 %) SQL 13 18 (12.95 %) IBM 14 17 (12.23 %) XHTML 15 16 (11.51 %) SharePoint 15 16 (11.51 %) E-Commerce 15 16 (11.51 %) ASP 15 16 (11.51 %) Workflow 16 14 (10.07 %) Visual Studio 16 14 (10.07 %) HTML 17 13 (9.353 %) Oracle 17 13 (9.353 %) CSS 18 12 (8.633 %) OO 18 12 (8.633 %) WSDL 19 11 (7.914 %) VB 19 11 (7.914 %) Retail

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 69 (49.64 %) .NET 2 65 (46.76 %) XML 3 39 (28.06 %) ASP.NET 4 36 (25.90 %) WebSphere 5 29 (20.86 %) JDBC 6 24 (17.27 %) J2EE 7 17 (12.23 %) XHTML 8 16 (11.51 %) ASP 9 14 (10.07 %) HTML 10 13 (9.353 %) CSS 11 12 (8.633 %) WSDL 12 10 (7.194 %) XSLT 13 7 (5.036 %) XML Schema 13 7 (5.036 %) ASP.NET 2.0 14 6 (4.317 %) WinForms 14 6 (4.317 %) Windows SharePoint Services 14 6 (4.317 %) .NET Framework 15 5 (3.597 %) Adobe Flex 16 4 (2.878 %) EJB 17 3 (2.158 %) JSP	Application Platforms 1 16 (11.51 %) SharePoint 2 10 (7.194 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 9 (6.475 %) WebSphere MQ 4 5 (3.597 %) ColdFusion 5 4 (2.878 %) WebSphere Application Server 5 4 (2.878 %) IIS 5 4 (2.878 %) CMS 5 4 (2.878 %) BizTalk Server 6 3 (2.158 %) Tomcat 6 3 (2.158 %) Apache 6 3 (2.158 %) WPS 6 3 (2.158 %) CICS 7 2 (1.439 %) JBoss 8 1 (0.719 %) ColdFusion MX 8 1 (0.719 %) NetWeaver 8 1 (0.719 %) MTS
Applications 1 4 (2.878 %) Photoshop 2 2 (1.439 %) MS Excel 3 1 (0.719 %) Acrobat 3 1 (0.719 %) MS Project 3 1 (0.719 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 1 (0.719 %) SoftGrid 1 1 (0.719 %) SAP SRM
Communications & Networking 1 4 (2.878 %) Intranet 1 4 (2.878 %) Internet 2 3 (2.158 %) Extranet 3 1 (0.719 %) TELNET 3 1 (0.719 %) FTP 3 1 (0.719 %) HTTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 40 (28.78 %) SQL Server 2 29 (20.86 %) BusinessObjects 3 27 (19.42 %) SQL Server 2005 4 3 (2.158 %) SQL Server 2000 5 2 (1.439 %) DB2 5 2 (1.439 %) RDBMS 5 2 (1.439 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 6 1 (0.719 %) Oracle 10g 6 1 (0.719 %) Oracle 9i 6 1 (0.719 %) UniData 6 1 (0.719 %) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications 1 14 (10.07 %) Visual Studio 2 2 (1.439 %) NUnit 3 1 (0.719 %) Subversion 3 1 (0.719 %) JUnit 3 1 (0.719 %) ClearCase 3 1 (0.719 %) MSI 3 1 (0.719 %) InstallShield	General 1 11 (7.914 %) Retail 2 8 (5.755 %) Insurance 3 4 (2.878 %) Finance 3 4 (2.878 %) Marketing 4 1 (0.719 %) Online Games 4 1 (0.719 %) Games 4 1 (0.719 %) Pensions
Job Titles 1 100 (71.94 %) Developer 2 30 (21.58 %) WebSphere Developer 3 27 (19.42 %) .NET Developer 4 24 (17.27 %) C# Developer 5 11 (7.914 %) ASP.NET Developer 6 10 (7.194 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 7 9 (6.475 %) SharePoint Developer 7 9 (6.475 %) Consultant 8 6 (4.317 %) Web Developer 9 5 (3.597 %) ColdFusion Developer 9 5 (3.597 %) Analyst 10 4 (2.878 %) Architect 10 4 (2.878 %) Solutions Architect 10 4 (2.878 %) Senior Developer 10 4 (2.878 %) VB Developer 10 4 (2.878 %) Oracle Developer 10 4 (2.878 %) VB6 Developer 11 3 (2.158 %) C# Web Developer 11 3 (2.158 %) SOA Architect 11 3 (2.158 %) VB.NET Developer	Miscellaneous 1 3 (2.158 %) N-Tier 2 1 (0.719 %) Computer Science
Operating Systems 1 27 (19.42 %) UNIX 2 9 (6.475 %) Windows 3 3 (2.158 %) AIX 4 2 (1.439 %) Solaris 4 2 (1.439 %) Linux 4 2 (1.439 %) Windows 2000 4 2 (1.439 %) zOS 4 2 (1.439 %) SUSE	Processes & Methodologies 1 22 (15.83 %) UML 2 16 (11.51 %) E-Commerce 2 16 (11.51 %) Workflow 3 12 (8.633 %) OO 4 10 (7.194 %) SOA 5 8 (5.755 %) OOD 6 4 (2.878 %) Security Cleared 7 3 (2.158 %) Unit Testing 7 3 (2.158 %) TDD 7 3 (2.158 %) Content Management 7 3 (2.158 %) Web Development 7 3 (2.158 %) Validation 8 2 (1.439 %) B2C 8 2 (1.439 %) Project Management 8 2 (1.439 %) CRM 8 2 (1.439 %) EAI 8 2 (1.439 %) OOP 8 2 (1.439 %) Digital Marketing 8 2 (1.439 %) Data Analysis 8 2 (1.439 %) Systems Analysis
Programming Languages 1 60 (43.17 %) C# 2 40 (28.78 %) Java 3 20 (14.39 %) SQL 4 11 (7.914 %) VB 5 8 (5.755 %) VB.NET 6 6 (4.317 %) VB6 7 3 (2.158 %) JavaScript 8 2 (1.439 %) Perl 8 2 (1.439 %) Transact-SQL 9 1 (0.719 %) VBScript 9 1 (0.719 %) C++ 9 1 (0.719 %) PHP 9 1 (0.719 %) PL/SQL 9 1 (0.719 %) Ruby 9 1 (0.719 %) UniBasic 9 1 (0.719 %) C	Qualifications 1 2 (1.439 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (0.719 %) Degree
System Software 1 3 (2.158 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 1 (0.719 %) Tivoli
Vendors 1 29 (20.86 %) Business Objects 2 28 (20.14 %) SAP 3 18 (12.95 %) IBM 4 13 (9.353 %) Oracle 5 9 (6.475 %) Microsoft 6 6 (4.317 %) Adobe 7 2 (1.439 %) Red Hat 8 1 (0.719 %) SeeBeyond 8 1 (0.719 %) Redback 8 1 (0.719 %) Lagan 8 1 (0.719 %) Google 8 1 (0.719 %) Sun 8 1 (0.719 %) Tridion 8 1 (0.719 %) Siebel