Leicestershire WebServices Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Web Services skills within the Leicestershire 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 4 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bolton Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dundee Durham East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Feltham Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Potters Bar Reading Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Teesside Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wigan Wiltshire Wirral Woking Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	14	37
Rank change on same period last year	+23
Matching contract IT job ads	15	7
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.024 %	0.008 %
As % of the category below	26.32 %	8.333 %
Daily rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum daily rate	£400	£400
Average daily rate	£400	£400
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£400	£400
UK excluding London average daily rate	£356	£369
% change on same period last year	-3.57 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£35.00	£30.00
Average hourly rate	£35.00	£30.00
% change on same period last year	+16.66 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.00	£30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.96	£32.49
% change on same period last year	-1.62 %
Application Development Leicestershire
Matching contract IT job ads	57	84
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.092 %	0.092 %
Daily rates quoted	16	14
Average minimum daily rate	£338	£357
Average daily rate	£349	£383
% change on same period last year	-8.90 %
Average maximum daily rate	£359	£408
UK excluding London average daily rate	£322	£334
% change on same period last year	-3.60 %
Hourly rates quoted	17	13
Average minimum hourly rate	£34.66	£27.76
Average hourly rate	£35.25	£31.70
% change on same period last year	+11.19 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.84	£35.64
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.63	£31.53
% change on same period last year	-9.18 %
WebServices East Midlands

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 Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire region over the 3 months to 4 December 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 Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire region over the 3 months to 4 December 2008.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WebServices within the Leicestershire region over the 3 months to 4 December 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
Leicester	+11	9	£400	-

WebServices East Midlands

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire 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 12 (57.14 %) .NET 2 11 (52.38 %) C# 3 10 (47.62 %) SQL Server 2005 3 10 (47.62 %) C++ 3 10 (47.62 %) SQL Server 4 9 (42.86 %) VB 4 9 (42.86 %) XML 4 9 (42.86 %) SQL Server 2000 5 8 (38.10 %) OO 6 7 (33.33 %) Transact-SQL 7 6 (28.57 %) Java 7 6 (28.57 %) MVC 7 6 (28.57 %) Spring 7 6 (28.57 %) JSTL 7 6 (28.57 %) Spring MVC

8 5 (23.81 %) Apache 9 4 (19.05 %) J2EE 9 4 (19.05 %) JSP 10 3 (14.29 %) Agile Software Development 10 3 (14.29 %) WebLogic 10 3 (14.29 %) CA SiteMinder 10 3 (14.29 %) Middleware 10 3 (14.29 %) Tomcat 10 3 (14.29 %) UML 10 3 (14.29 %) BEA 11 2 (9.524 %) MQSeries 11 2 (9.524 %) IBM 11 2 (9.524 %) RUP 11 2 (9.524 %) VC++ 11 2 (9.524 %) Visual Studio

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire 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 12 (57.14 %) .NET 2 9 (42.86 %) XML 3 6 (28.57 %) MVC 3 6 (28.57 %) Spring 3 6 (28.57 %) JSTL 3 6 (28.57 %) Spring MVC 4 4 (19.05 %) JSP 4 4 (19.05 %) J2EE 5 3 (14.29 %) Middleware 6 2 (9.524 %) HTML 6 2 (9.524 %) JDBC 6 2 (9.524 %) SOAP 6 2 (9.524 %) Apache Axis 6 2 (9.524 %) WebSphere 6 2 (9.524 %) Hibernate 7 1 (4.762 %) WinForms 7 1 (4.762 %) .NET Framework 7 1 (4.762 %) WPF 7 1 (4.762 %) Silverlight 7 1 (4.762 %) XSD	Application Platforms 1 5 (23.81 %) Apache 2 3 (14.29 %) Tomcat 2 3 (14.29 %) WebLogic 3 2 (9.524 %) MQSeries 4 1 (4.762 %) CMS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 10 (47.62 %) SQL Server 1 10 (47.62 %) SQL Server 2005 2 9 (42.86 %) SQL Server 2000 3 1 (4.762 %) JasperReports	Development Applications 1 2 (9.524 %) JUnit 1 2 (9.524 %) Visual Studio 1 2 (9.524 %) Log4j
General 1 2 (9.524 %) Finance 1 2 (9.524 %) Banking 1 2 (9.524 %) Insurance	Job Titles 1 16 (76.19 %) Developer 2 11 (52.38 %) C# Developer 3 9 (42.86 %) .NET Developer 4 5 (23.81 %) Architect 5 4 (19.05 %) Java Developer 6 3 (14.29 %) Support Specialist 7 2 (9.524 %) Technical Architect 8 1 (4.762 %) Applications Developer 8 1 (4.762 %) C# Application Developer 8 1 (4.762 %) .NET Applications Developer
Miscellaneous 1 1 (4.762 %) Mathematics 1 1 (4.762 %) Computer Science	Operating Systems 1 1 (4.762 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (38.10 %) OO 2 3 (14.29 %) Agile Software Development 2 3 (14.29 %) UML 3 2 (9.524 %) RUP 3 2 (9.524 %) Workflow 3 2 (9.524 %) Validation 4 1 (4.762 %) Configuration Management 4 1 (4.762 %) TDD 4 1 (4.762 %) Web Development 4 1 (4.762 %) Unit Testing 4 1 (4.762 %) Continuous Integration	Programming Languages 1 11 (52.38 %) C# 2 10 (47.62 %) C++ 3 9 (42.86 %) VB 4 7 (33.33 %) Transact-SQL 5 6 (28.57 %) Java 6 2 (9.524 %) SQL 6 2 (9.524 %) VC++ 6 2 (9.524 %) VB6 7 1 (4.762 %) C++/CLI 7 1 (4.762 %) XAML 7 1 (4.762 %) VB.NET
Qualifications 1 1 (4.762 %) Degree	Systems Management 1 3 (14.29 %) CA SiteMinder
Vendors 1 3 (14.29 %) BEA 2 2 (9.524 %) Oracle 2 2 (9.524 %) IBM 3 1 (4.762 %) Netegrity