Kent Middleware Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Middleware skills within the Kent region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Middleware over the 3 months to 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Middleware
Location Amersham Basildon Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Borehamwood Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Midlands Newcastle Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Reading Scarborough Scotland Sheffield Shropshire South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Stevenage Surrey Swindon Telford Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	49
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	2.239 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£395	£414
% change on same period last year	-4.43 %
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	£42.21	£39.69
% change on same period last year	+6.33 %
Application Development Kent
Matching contract IT job ads	110	134
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.177 %	0.144 %
Daily rates quoted	45	36
Average minimum daily rate	£269	£301
Average daily rate	£286	£311
% change on same period last year	-8.01 %
Average maximum daily rate	£304	£322
UK excluding London average daily rate	£323	£334
% change on same period last year	-3.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	9	17
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.73	£22.33
Average hourly rate	£32.89	£23.32
% change on same period last year	+41.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£36.05	£24.31
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.57	£31.61
% change on same period last year	-9.61 %
Middleware 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.

Middleware
Demand Trend

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

Middleware
Daily Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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