Leeds Middleware Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Middleware skills within the Leeds 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 Middleware over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Abingdon Basildon Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Borehamwood Bournemouth Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Channel Islands Cheadle Chelmsford Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Colchester County Antrim Croydon Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Glasgow Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Isle of Man Jersey Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewisham Lincolnshire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peel Peterborough Poole Reading Rickmansworth Scotland Sheffield Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staines Surrey Swansea Swindon Thame Thames Valley UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Watford West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	65
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 %	1.024 %
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	£424	£398
% change on same period last year	+6.59 %
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	£37.79	£33.53
% change on same period last year	+12.68 %
Application Development Leeds
Matching contract IT job ads	298	293
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.393 %	0.311 %
Daily rates quoted	49	33
Average minimum daily rate	£286	£326
Average daily rate	£303	£346
% change on same period last year	-12.30 %
Average maximum daily rate	£321	£365
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£336
% change on same period last year	+3.94 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	12
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.11	£24.38
Average hourly rate	£32.92	£25.87
% change on same period last year	+27.25 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.73	£27.36
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.44	£33.08
% change on same period last year	-1.93 %
Middleware 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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Middleware across the Leeds 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 Middleware across the Leeds 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 Leeds region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds region citing Middleware 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 Middleware.

1 5 (71.43 %) Unix 1 5 (71.43 %) Windows 1 5 (71.43 %) Linux 1 5 (71.43 %) Windows 2000 1 5 (71.43 %) VPN 1 5 (71.43 %) Smartcard 1 5 (71.43 %) Firewall 2 4 (57.14 %) LAN 2 4 (57.14 %) WAN 3 3 (42.86 %) DNS 3 3 (42.86 %) Project Management 3 3 (42.86 %) Microsoft 3 3 (42.86 %) Health 3 3 (42.86 %) PKI 4 2 (28.57 %) Degree

4 2 (28.57 %) Workflow 4 2 (28.57 %) NHS 4 2 (28.57 %) Internet 4 2 (28.57 %) webMethods 4 2 (28.57 %) J2EE 4 2 (28.57 %) Data Modelling 4 2 (28.57 %) SOA 4 2 (28.57 %) OO 4 2 (28.57 %) CORBA 4 2 (28.57 %) Tuxedo 5 1 (14.29 %) MS Excel 5 1 (14.29 %) PRINCE2 5 1 (14.29 %) Business Intelligence 5 1 (14.29 %) Government 5 1 (14.29 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds region citing Middleware 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 Middleware. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2 (28.57 %) J2EE 1 2 (28.57 %) CORBA	Application Platforms 1 2 (28.57 %) Tuxedo
Applications 1 1 (14.29 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 5 (71.43 %) VPN 1 5 (71.43 %) Firewall 2 4 (57.14 %) LAN 2 4 (57.14 %) WAN 3 3 (42.86 %) DNS 4 2 (28.57 %) Internet
General 1 3 (42.86 %) Health 2 1 (14.29 %) Government	Job Titles 1 4 (57.14 %) Analyst 2 3 (42.86 %) Deployment Analyst 3 2 (28.57 %) Project Manager 4 1 (14.29 %) Business Analyst 4 1 (14.29 %) Architect 4 1 (14.29 %) Network Consultant 4 1 (14.29 %) Consultant 4 1 (14.29 %) Technical Project Manager 4 1 (14.29 %) Solutions Architect 4 1 (14.29 %) Senior Analyst 4 1 (14.29 %) Network Analyst 4 1 (14.29 %) Technical Analyst 4 1 (14.29 %) Network Manager 4 1 (14.29 %) Technical Manager 4 1 (14.29 %) Senior Technical Analyst 4 1 (14.29 %) Business Intelligence Analyst 4 1 (14.29 %) Network Project Manager 4 1 (14.29 %) Deployment Project Manager
Miscellaneous 1 5 (71.43 %) Smartcard 2 3 (42.86 %) PKI 3 2 (28.57 %) NHS	Operating Systems 1 5 (71.43 %) Unix 1 5 (71.43 %) Windows 1 5 (71.43 %) Linux 1 5 (71.43 %) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (42.86 %) Project Management 2 2 (28.57 %) Workflow 2 2 (28.57 %) OO 2 2 (28.57 %) Data Modelling 2 2 (28.57 %) SOA 3 1 (14.29 %) Business Intelligence 3 1 (14.29 %) PRINCE2	Qualifications 1 2 (28.57 %) Degree 2 1 (14.29 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Vendors 1 3 (42.86 %) Microsoft 2 2 (28.57 %) webMethods