Hertfordshire WebServices Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Web Services skills within the Hertfordshire region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited WebServices over the 3 months to 8 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Alderley Edge Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff 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 Eastbourne Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrow Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire Highlands Huddersfield Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Kenilworth Kent Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside 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 Paddington Peterborough Preston Reading Redhill Rickmansworth Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport St Neots Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stroud Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon 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 Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	32	65
Rank change on same period last year	+33
Matching contract IT job ads	75	29
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.099 %	0.030 %
As % of the category below	14.02 %	7.360 %
Daily rates quoted	26	17
Average minimum daily rate	£343	£388
Average daily rate	£378	£412
% change on same period last year	-8.15 %
Average maximum daily rate	£414	£435
UK excluding London average daily rate	£354	£348
% change on same period last year	+1.92 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	£32.00
Average hourly rate	£42.50	£34.67
% change on same period last year	+22.59 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£55.00	£37.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£37.23	£33.62
% change on same period last year	+10.71 %
Application Development Hertfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	535	394
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.705 %	0.412 %
Daily rates quoted	240	159
Average minimum daily rate	£358	£298
Average daily rate	£394	£321
% change on same period last year	+22.48 %
Average maximum daily rate	£430	£345
UK excluding London average daily rate	£350	£336
% change on same period last year	+4.10 %
Hourly rates quoted	17	28
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.38	£28.08
Average hourly rate	£32.39	£29.89
% change on same period last year	+8.37 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.41	£31.69
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.55	£33.14
% change on same period last year	-1.77 %
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 beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing WebServices across the Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 8 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 Hertfordshire 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 job ads citing WebServices within the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 8 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
Stevenage	-	19	£254	-
Rickmansworth	-	4	-	-
Watford	+2	2	-	-

WebServices East of England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 86 (55.48 %) XML 2 75 (48.39 %) SQL 2 75 (48.39 %) .NET 3 72 (46.45 %) Java 4 58 (37.42 %) C# 5 55 (35.48 %) SQL Server 6 54 (34.84 %) Spring 7 52 (33.55 %) Hibernate 8 50 (32.26 %) UML 9 49 (31.61 %) J2EE 10 48 (30.97 %) Oracle 10 48 (30.97 %) ASP.NET 11 45 (29.03 %) Finance 12 41 (26.45 %) SOA 13 37 (23.87 %) JUnit

13 37 (23.87 %) OO 14 35 (22.58 %) PL/SQL 15 34 (21.94 %) SQL Server 2005 16 32 (20.65 %) Java EE 16 32 (20.65 %) XSL 17 31 (20.00 %) Eclipse 18 29 (18.71 %) Back Office 19 28 (18.06 %) WebLogic 20 26 (16.77 %) Banking 21 25 (16.13 %) AJAX 22 23 (14.84 %) SQL Server Integration Services 23 22 (14.19 %) SOAP 24 21 (13.55 %) C++ 24 21 (13.55 %) Retail 24 21 (13.55 %) Agile Software Development

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 86 (55.48 %) XML 2 75 (48.39 %) .NET 3 54 (34.84 %) Spring 4 52 (33.55 %) Hibernate 5 49 (31.61 %) J2EE 6 48 (30.97 %) ASP.NET 7 32 (20.65 %) Java EE 7 32 (20.65 %) XSL 8 25 (16.13 %) AJAX 9 22 (14.19 %) SOAP 10 19 (12.26 %) HTML 11 14 (9.032 %) XSLT 12 11 (7.097 %) LAMP 12 11 (7.097 %) JSF 12 11 (7.097 %) XSD 13 10 (6.452 %) Struts 14 9 (5.806 %) ADO.NET 15 8 (5.161 %) COM 16 7 (4.516 %) Apache Beehive 16 7 (4.516 %) CSS	Application Platforms 1 28 (18.06 %) WebLogic 2 17 (10.97 %) BizTalk Server 3 13 (8.387 %) IIS 4 8 (5.161 %) WebLogic Portal 5 7 (4.516 %) Apache 6 6 (3.871 %) Tomcat 7 4 (2.581 %) Commerce Server 8 3 (1.935 %) Commerce Server 2007 8 3 (1.935 %) Resin 8 3 (1.935 %) SharePoint 8 3 (1.935 %) JBoss 9 1 (0.645 %) ESB 9 1 (0.645 %) CMS 9 1 (0.645 %) ArcGIS 9 1 (0.645 %) Tuxedo
Applications 1 3 (1.935 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 1 (0.645 %) SAP CRM
Communications & Networking 1 11 (7.097 %) HTTP 2 8 (5.161 %) TCP/IP 3 3 (1.935 %) SMPP 3 3 (1.935 %) CTI 3 3 (1.935 %) LDAP 4 1 (0.645 %) SMS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 55 (35.48 %) SQL Server 2 34 (21.94 %) SQL Server 2005 3 23 (14.84 %) SQL Server Integration Services 4 18 (11.61 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 5 14 (9.032 %) SQL Server 2000 6 6 (3.871 %) MySQL 7 2 (1.290 %) DTS 7 2 (1.290 %) ETL 7 2 (1.290 %) RDBMS 8 1 (0.645 %) JasperReports 8 1 (0.645 %) GIS 8 1 (0.645 %) SQL Server 7 8 1 (0.645 %) DB2 8 1 (0.645 %) MS Access 8 1 (0.645 %) Oracle Reports
Development Applications 1 37 (23.87 %) JUnit 2 31 (20.00 %) Eclipse 3 12 (7.742 %) Subversion 4 11 (7.097 %) JIRA 5 6 (3.871 %) VSS/SourceSafe 6 5 (3.226 %) Visual Studio 7 1 (0.645 %) NUnit 7 1 (0.645 %) Log4j 7 1 (0.645 %) ClearQuest 7 1 (0.645 %) Ant 7 1 (0.645 %) ClearCase	General 1 45 (29.03 %) Finance 2 29 (18.71 %) Back Office 3 26 (16.77 %) Banking 4 21 (13.55 %) Retail 5 15 (9.677 %) Telecoms 6 9 (5.806 %) Financial Institution 7 2 (1.290 %) Pharmaceutical 8 1 (0.645 %) Marketing 8 1 (0.645 %) Insurance 8 1 (0.645 %) Billing 8 1 (0.645 %) Education 8 1 (0.645 %) Health
Job Titles 1 110 (70.97 %) Developer 2 42 (27.10 %) Java Developer 3 36 (23.23 %) .NET Developer 4 29 (18.71 %) Architect 5 28 (18.06 %) Senior Developer 6 21 (13.55 %) Senior Java Developer 7 18 (11.61 %) C# Developer 8 16 (10.32 %) Solutions Architect 9 12 (7.742 %) Java/J2EE Developer 9 12 (7.742 %) J2EE Developer 10 11 (7.097 %) C++ Developer 11 9 (5.806 %) Web Developer 11 9 (5.806 %) Applications Developer 12 8 (5.161 %) C# Web Developer 12 8 (5.161 %) C# Application Developer 12 8 (5.161 %) .NET Applications Developer 12 8 (5.161 %) .NET Web Developer 13 7 (4.516 %) Java Architect 13 7 (4.516 %) BizTalk Developer 14 6 (3.871 %) Software Developer	Miscellaneous 1 2 (1.290 %) N-Tier 1 2 (1.290 %) LIMS 1 2 (1.290 %) Streaming Media 2 1 (0.645 %) Multithreading 2 1 (0.645 %) Web 2.0
Operating Systems 1 13 (8.387 %) Linux 2 11 (7.097 %) Windows 3 4 (2.581 %) Unix 4 3 (1.935 %) Ubuntu 5 2 (1.290 %) Solaris 5 2 (1.290 %) Windows XP 5 2 (1.290 %) VMS 6 1 (0.645 %) Windows 2000	Processes & Methodologies 1 50 (32.26 %) UML 2 41 (26.45 %) SOA 3 37 (23.87 %) OO 4 21 (13.55 %) Agile Software Development 5 17 (10.97 %) E-Commerce 6 16 (10.32 %) RAD 7 12 (7.742 %) OOD 8 11 (7.097 %) Web Development 9 9 (5.806 %) E-business 10 8 (5.161 %) RUP 11 6 (3.871 %) OOA/OOD 11 6 (3.871 %) Load Balancing 12 5 (3.226 %) Workflow 12 5 (3.226 %) B2B 12 5 (3.226 %) CRM 13 4 (2.581 %) Content Management 13 4 (2.581 %) Security Cleared 14 3 (1.935 %) User Acceptance Testing 14 3 (1.935 %) BC Cleared 14 3 (1.935 %) Data Management
Programming Languages 1 75 (48.39 %) SQL 2 72 (46.45 %) Java 3 58 (37.42 %) C# 4 35 (22.58 %) PL/SQL 5 21 (13.55 %) C++ 6 14 (9.032 %) VC++ 6 14 (9.032 %) JavaScript 7 11 (7.097 %) VB.NET 8 7 (4.516 %) Transact-SQL 9 6 (3.871 %) XPath 10 4 (2.581 %) VB 10 4 (2.581 %) C 10 4 (2.581 %) VB6 11 3 (1.935 %) Shell Script 11 3 (1.935 %) Perl 11 3 (1.935 %) PHP 12 2 (1.290 %) VBScript 12 2 (1.290 %) XAML 13 1 (0.645 %) Embedded C 13 1 (0.645 %) Embedded C++	Qualifications 1 3 (1.935 %) Microsoft Certification 1 3 (1.935 %) PhD 1 3 (1.935 %) MCAD 2 2 (1.290 %) MCSD 3 1 (0.645 %) Degree
System Software 1 2 (1.290 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 3 (1.935 %) ServiceCenter
Vendors 1 48 (30.97 %) Oracle 2 20 (12.90 %) Microsoft 3 12 (7.742 %) BEA 4 5 (3.226 %) Remedy 5 3 (1.935 %) Amdocs 5 3 (1.935 %) HP 6 2 (1.290 %) SAP 6 2 (1.290 %) Genesys 6 2 (1.290 %) Sun 6 2 (1.290 %) Lombardi 7 1 (0.645 %) IBM 7 1 (0.645 %) Mercator 7 1 (0.645 %) Siebel