Leeds WebServices Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Web Services skills within the Leeds 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	26	36
Rank change on same period last year	+10
Matching contract IT job ads	64	38
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.085 %	0.038 %
As % of the category below	20.45 %	12.71 %
Daily rates quoted	8	3
Average minimum daily rate	£301	£325
Average daily rate	£309	£338
% change on same period last year	-8.55 %
Average maximum daily rate	£318	£352
UK excluding London average daily rate	£346	£347
% change on same period last year	-0.38 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	£30.50
Average hourly rate	£35.00	£31.50
% change on same period last year	+11.11 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.00	£32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£36.47	£32.67
% change on same period last year	+11.62 %
Application Development Leeds
Matching contract IT job ads	313	299
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.417 %	0.303 %
Daily rates quoted	54	44
Average minimum daily rate	£279	£331
Average daily rate	£297	£354
% change on same period last year	-16.09 %
Average maximum daily rate	£314	£376
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£336
% change on same period last year	+1.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	16	18
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.55	£23.78
Average hourly rate	£32.51	£25.08
% change on same period last year	+29.62 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.47	£26.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.78	£33.23
% change on same period last year	-1.32 %
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.

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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 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 WebServices across the Leeds 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 Leeds 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 Leeds region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WebServices across the Leeds region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 70 (78.65 %) .NET 2 53 (59.55 %) XML 3 52 (58.43 %) C# 4 38 (42.70 %) Windows 5 36 (40.45 %) SQL Server 6 34 (38.20 %) ASP.NET 7 30 (33.71 %) HTML 8 27 (30.34 %) SQL Server 2005 9 23 (25.84 %) CSS 10 21 (23.60 %) JavaScript 11 18 (20.22 %) Visual Studio 11 18 (20.22 %) XSLT 12 17 (19.10 %) SQL 13 16 (17.98 %) Microsoft 14 13 (14.61 %) Finance

14 13 (14.61 %) Visual Studio Team System 15 12 (13.48 %) Firewall 15 12 (13.48 %) Oracle 16 11 (12.36 %) VB.NET 16 11 (12.36 %) NHS 16 11 (12.36 %) WCF 16 11 (12.36 %) Microsoft Enterprise Library 17 10 (11.24 %) .NET Framework 17 10 (11.24 %) DNS 18 9 (10.11 %) Smartcard 18 9 (10.11 %) PKI 19 8 (8.989 %) ASP.NET 2.0 19 8 (8.989 %) WinForms 19 8 (8.989 %) SOA 20 7 (7.865 %) PRINCE2

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 70 (78.65 %) .NET 2 53 (59.55 %) XML 3 34 (38.20 %) ASP.NET 4 30 (33.71 %) HTML 5 23 (25.84 %) CSS 6 18 (20.22 %) XSLT 7 11 (12.36 %) Microsoft Enterprise Library 7 11 (12.36 %) WCF 8 10 (11.24 %) .NET Framework 9 8 (8.989 %) ASP.NET 2.0 9 8 (8.989 %) WinForms 10 7 (7.865 %) AJAX 11 5 (5.618 %) WF 12 4 (4.494 %) XSD 12 4 (4.494 %) SOAP 13 3 (3.371 %) WSDL 13 3 (3.371 %) Middleware 14 2 (2.247 %) Spring 14 2 (2.247 %) J2EE 15 1 (1.124 %) ADO	Application Platforms 1 7 (7.865 %) SharePoint 2 3 (3.371 %) IIS 3 1 (1.124 %) Lotus Notes 3 1 (1.124 %) Lotus Domino 3 1 (1.124 %) BizTalk Server 3 1 (1.124 %) CMS
Applications 1 2 (2.247 %) MS Project 2 1 (1.124 %) Fireworks 2 1 (1.124 %) Adobe Illustrator 2 1 (1.124 %) Photoshop	Business Applications 1 1 (1.124 %) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking 1 12 (13.48 %) Firewall 2 10 (11.24 %) DNS 3 4 (4.494 %) Internet 4 2 (2.247 %) X.509 4 2 (2.247 %) SSL 4 2 (2.247 %) WAN 4 2 (2.247 %) Kerberos 4 2 (2.247 %) TCP/IP 5 1 (1.124 %) SSH	Database & Business Intelligence 1 36 (40.45 %) SQL Server 2 27 (30.34 %) SQL Server 2005 3 5 (5.618 %) SQL Server 2000 4 4 (4.494 %) SQL Server 7 5 3 (3.371 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 5 3 (3.371 %) SQL Server Integration Services 6 2 (2.247 %) MySQL 7 1 (1.124 %) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications 1 18 (20.22 %) Visual Studio 2 13 (14.61 %) Visual Studio Team System 3 5 (5.618 %) NUnit 4 2 (2.247 %) VSS/SourceSafe 5 1 (1.124 %) Oracle Forms 5 1 (1.124 %) Flash 5 1 (1.124 %) Dreamweaver	General 1 13 (14.61 %) Finance 2 7 (7.865 %) Health 3 2 (2.247 %) Legal 3 2 (2.247 %) Government 4 1 (1.124 %) Back Office 4 1 (1.124 %) Banking 4 1 (1.124 %) Investment Banking 4 1 (1.124 %) Insurance
Job Titles 1 64 (71.91 %) Developer 2 41 (46.07 %) .NET Developer 3 19 (21.35 %) C# Developer 4 9 (10.11 %) VB.NET Developer 5 8 (8.989 %) ASP.NET Developer 6 6 (6.742 %) Architect 6 6 (6.742 %) Analyst 6 6 (6.742 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 7 5 (5.618 %) Team Leader 8 4 (4.494 %) Technical Architect 8 4 (4.494 %) Web Developer 8 4 (4.494 %) Senior Developer 9 3 (3.371 %) Consultant 9 3 (3.371 %) Senior .NET Developer 10 2 (2.247 %) .NET Web Developer 10 2 (2.247 %) .NET Analyst Programmer 10 2 (2.247 %) .NET Programmer 10 2 (2.247 %) VB.NET Analyst Programmer 10 2 (2.247 %) .NET Team Leader 10 2 (2.247 %) VB.NET Programmer	Miscellaneous 1 11 (12.36 %) NHS 2 9 (10.11 %) Smartcard 2 9 (10.11 %) PKI 3 2 (2.247 %) Computer Science 4 1 (1.124 %) Fat Client 4 1 (1.124 %) NPfIT 4 1 (1.124 %) Thin Client 4 1 (1.124 %) Client/Server 4 1 (1.124 %) N-Tier
Operating Systems 1 38 (42.70 %) Windows 2 7 (7.865 %) Linux 2 7 (7.865 %) UNIX 3 2 (2.247 %) Windows NT 4 1 (1.124 %) Windows 2000	Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (8.989 %) SOA 2 7 (7.865 %) PRINCE2 3 6 (6.742 %) OO 3 6 (6.742 %) Configuration Management 3 6 (6.742 %) Agile Software Development 3 6 (6.742 %) Software Testing 3 6 (6.742 %) Unit Testing 3 6 (6.742 %) Time Management 4 5 (5.618 %) Regression Testing 4 5 (5.618 %) Workflow 5 4 (4.494 %) ITIL 5 4 (4.494 %) Test Management 6 3 (3.371 %) Performance Testing 6 3 (3.371 %) Enterprise Architecture 6 3 (3.371 %) E-Commerce 7 2 (2.247 %) Network Design 7 2 (2.247 %) Software Engineering 8 1 (1.124 %) TDD 8 1 (1.124 %) Pair Programming 8 1 (1.124 %) Project Management
Programming Languages 1 52 (58.43 %) C# 2 21 (23.60 %) JavaScript 3 17 (19.10 %) SQL 4 11 (12.36 %) VB.NET 5 5 (5.618 %) Transact-SQL 6 3 (3.371 %) PL/SQL 7 2 (2.247 %) VB6 7 2 (2.247 %) VB 7 2 (2.247 %) PHP 7 2 (2.247 %) C++ 7 2 (2.247 %) Java 8 1 (1.124 %) C 8 1 (1.124 %) DHTML	Qualifications 1 2 (2.247 %) Degree 1 2 (2.247 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 2 1 (1.124 %) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 6 (6.742 %) QA	System Software 1 6 (6.742 %) MetaFrame 2 3 (3.371 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 16 (17.98 %) Microsoft 2 12 (13.48 %) Oracle 3 6 (6.742 %) Citrix 4 1 (1.124 %) Lotus 4 1 (1.124 %) RedDot 4 1 (1.124 %) Adobe