Manchester WebServices Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Web Services skills within the Manchester 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 last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Clapham Cobham Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dundee East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Falkirk Farnborough Farnham Feltham Glasgow Gloucestershire Grangemouth Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highland Home Counties Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kenilworth Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Potters Bar Preston Reading Redhill Rickmansworth Romford Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport St Neots Staines Stevenage Stockport Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Thames Valley Torquay Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Whyteleafe Wilmslow Wiltshire Woking Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	45	32
Rank change on same period last year	-13
Matching contract IT job ads	38	36
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.049 %	0.040 %
As % of the category below	9.383 %	12.41 %
Daily rates quoted	10	1
Average minimum daily rate	£328	£300
Average daily rate	£352	£300
% change on same period last year	+17.16 %
Average maximum daily rate	£375	£300
UK excluding London average daily rate	£364	£345
% change on same period last year	+5.48 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	13
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.50	£31.92
Average hourly rate	£33.75	£35.35
% change on same period last year	-4.51 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.00	£38.77
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£36.90	£32.52
% change on same period last year	+13.47 %
Application Development Manchester
Matching contract IT job ads	405	290
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.520 %	0.326 %
Daily rates quoted	76	47
Average minimum daily rate	£334	£243
Average daily rate	£354	£264
% change on same period last year	+34.17 %
Average maximum daily rate	£373	£285
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£335
% change on same period last year	+5.30 %
Hourly rates quoted	58	36
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.96	£32.16
Average hourly rate	£29.41	£34.32
% change on same period last year	-14.33 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.85	£36.49
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.42	£31.87
% change on same period last year	+1.71 %
WebServices North West

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 starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing WebServices across the Manchester 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 contract IT jobs ads citing WebServices across the Manchester 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 Manchester region over the past 3 months.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing WebServices across the Manchester region.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WebServices within the Manchester region over the past 3 months.

Rank	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
1	Bury	-	2	£463	-
1	Stockport	-6	2	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Manchester region citing WebServices also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing WebServices.

1 65 (86.67 %) .NET 2 52 (69.33 %) XML 3 49 (65.33 %) C# 4 48 (64.00 %) SQL Server 5 47 (62.67 %) ASP.NET 6 34 (45.33 %) SQL Server 2005 7 30 (40.00 %) SQL 8 21 (28.00 %) VB.NET 9 20 (26.67 %) JavaScript 10 19 (25.33 %) AJAX 11 18 (24.00 %) HTML 11 18 (24.00 %) Microsoft 12 17 (22.67 %) CSS 13 15 (20.00 %) .NET Framework 14 14 (18.67 %) ASP.NET 2.0

15 12 (16.00 %) Windows 15 12 (16.00 %) XHTML 16 11 (14.67 %) XSLT 17 10 (13.33 %) Oracle 17 10 (13.33 %) UML 17 10 (13.33 %) jQuery 18 9 (12.00 %) N-Tier 19 8 (10.67 %) C++ 19 8 (10.67 %) ASP 19 8 (10.67 %) SQL Server 2000 20 7 (9.333 %) SQL Server 7 20 7 (9.333 %) Java 21 6 (8.000 %) J2EE 21 6 (8.000 %) SOA 21 6 (8.000 %) Client/Server

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Manchester region citing WebServices also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing WebServices. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 65 (86.67 %) .NET 2 52 (69.33 %) XML 3 47 (62.67 %) ASP.NET 4 19 (25.33 %) AJAX 5 18 (24.00 %) HTML 6 17 (22.67 %) CSS 7 15 (20.00 %) .NET Framework 8 14 (18.67 %) ASP.NET 2.0 9 12 (16.00 %) XHTML 10 11 (14.67 %) XSLT 11 10 (13.33 %) jQuery 12 8 (10.67 %) ASP 13 6 (8.000 %) J2EE 13 6 (8.000 %) XSL 14 5 (6.667 %) SOAP 15 4 (5.333 %) XML Schema 16 3 (4.000 %) WinForms 16 3 (4.000 %) Microsoft Enterprise Library 17 2 (2.667 %) Spring 17 2 (2.667 %) LAMP	Application Platforms 1 5 (6.667 %) BizTalk Server 2 4 (5.333 %) SharePoint 3 3 (4.000 %) MS Exchange 3 3 (4.000 %) IIS 4 2 (2.667 %) CMS 5 1 (1.333 %) Oracle BPEL 5 1 (1.333 %) SharePoint Server 2007 5 1 (1.333 %) Umbraco 5 1 (1.333 %) JBoss 5 1 (1.333 %) Apache 5 1 (1.333 %) Tomcat 5 1 (1.333 %) JRun 5 1 (1.333 %) ColdFusion 5 1 (1.333 %) WebLogic
Applications 1 5 (6.667 %) MS Excel 2 3 (4.000 %) MS Office 3 2 (2.667 %) Doxygen	Business Applications 1 1 (1.333 %) Cognos Business Intelligence
Communications & Networking 1 4 (5.333 %) Internet 2 3 (4.000 %) SSL 3 2 (2.667 %) CTI 3 2 (2.667 %) TETRA 4 1 (1.333 %) LDAP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 48 (64.00 %) SQL Server 2 34 (45.33 %) SQL Server 2005 3 8 (10.67 %) SQL Server 2000 4 7 (9.333 %) SQL Server 7 5 2 (2.667 %) MySQL 5 2 (2.667 %) MS Access 6 1 (1.333 %) RDBMS 6 1 (1.333 %) Oracle Reports 6 1 (1.333 %) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications 1 5 (6.667 %) Visual Studio 2 4 (5.333 %) VSS/SourceSafe 3 3 (4.000 %) NUnit 4 2 (2.667 %) Oracle APEX 4 2 (2.667 %) Selenium 4 2 (2.667 %) Eclipse 4 2 (2.667 %) Oracle Forms 5 1 (1.333 %) Flash 5 1 (1.333 %) JUnit	General 1 2 (2.667 %) Finance 2 1 (1.333 %) Government 2 1 (1.333 %) Publishing 2 1 (1.333 %) Graphic Design
Job Titles 1 65 (86.67 %) Developer 2 38 (50.67 %) .NET Developer 3 21 (28.00 %) ASP.NET Developer 4 17 (22.67 %) C# Developer 5 15 (20.00 %) Web Developer 6 12 (16.00 %) VB.NET Developer 7 11 (14.67 %) .NET Web Developer 8 10 (13.33 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 9 8 (10.67 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 10 6 (8.000 %) SQL Developer 11 5 (6.667 %) SQL Server Developer 11 5 (6.667 %) Senior Developer 12 4 (5.333 %) Java Developer 12 4 (5.333 %) J2EE Developer 13 3 (4.000 %) Software Developer 14 2 (2.667 %) Software Engineer 14 2 (2.667 %) Java/J2EE Developer 14 2 (2.667 %) C# Web Developer 15 1 (1.333 %) WinForms Developer 15 1 (1.333 %) Junior Programmer	Miscellaneous 1 9 (12.00 %) N-Tier 2 6 (8.000 %) Client/Server 3 2 (2.667 %) RIA 3 2 (2.667 %) W3C 3 2 (2.667 %) Replication 4 1 (1.333 %) Psychology 4 1 (1.333 %) Ergonomics 4 1 (1.333 %) Human Factors 4 1 (1.333 %) CMDB
Operating Systems 1 12 (16.00 %) Windows 2 1 (1.333 %) Linux 2 1 (1.333 %) Windows Server 2003	Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (13.33 %) UML 2 6 (8.000 %) SOA 3 5 (6.667 %) OO 3 5 (6.667 %) Web Development 4 3 (4.000 %) Web Design 4 3 (4.000 %) OOP 4 3 (4.000 %) Unit Testing 5 2 (2.667 %) OOD 5 2 (2.667 %) Configuration Management 5 2 (2.667 %) Workflow 6 1 (1.333 %) Validation 6 1 (1.333 %) User Acceptance Testing 6 1 (1.333 %) Agile Software Development 6 1 (1.333 %) TDD 6 1 (1.333 %) Content Management 6 1 (1.333 %) BPEL 6 1 (1.333 %) Automated Testing 6 1 (1.333 %) Software Testing 6 1 (1.333 %) ITIL 6 1 (1.333 %) PRINCE2
Programming Languages 1 49 (65.33 %) C# 2 30 (40.00 %) SQL 3 21 (28.00 %) VB.NET 4 20 (26.67 %) JavaScript 5 8 (10.67 %) C++ 6 7 (9.333 %) Java 7 5 (6.667 %) Transact-SQL 8 4 (5.333 %) VB 9 3 (4.000 %) PL/SQL 9 3 (4.000 %) DHTML 10 2 (2.667 %) Perl 10 2 (2.667 %) PHP 11 1 (1.333 %) VBA 11 1 (1.333 %) VB6 11 1 (1.333 %) XPath 11 1 (1.333 %) PHP5	Qualifications 1 6 (8.000 %) Degree
System Software 1 1 (1.333 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 18 (24.00 %) Microsoft 2 10 (13.33 %) Oracle 3 1 (1.333 %) Cognos 3 1 (1.333 %) Adobe 3 1 (1.333 %) Zend