Poole Middleware Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Middleware skills within the Poole 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 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Ascot Basildon Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Borehamwood Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cardigan Ceredigion Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Glamorgan Glasgow Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Lewisham Liverpool Livingston London M4 Corridor Manchester Marlow Merseyside Mid Wales Midlands Newcastle Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Plymouth Poole Reading Rickmansworth Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Surrey Swindon Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	18
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	4
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	10.81 %
Daily rates quoted	0	3
Average minimum daily rate	-	£267
Average daily rate	-	£292
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£317
UK excluding London average daily rate	£403	£418
% change on same period last year	-3.61 %
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	£39.03	£37.71
% change on same period last year	+3.50 %
Application Development Poole
Matching contract IT job ads	12	37
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.017 %	0.037 %
Daily rates quoted	6	15
Average minimum daily rate	£263	£311
Average daily rate	£277	£334
% change on same period last year	-17.03 %
Average maximum daily rate	£292	£358
UK excluding London average daily rate	£329	£333
% change on same period last year	-1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.10	£37.50
Average hourly rate	£20.55	£40.00
% change on same period last year	-48.62 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.00	£42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.93	£31.98
% change on same period last year	-3.29 %
Middleware Dorset

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 Poole 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 Poole region.

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Top 5 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Poole 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 2 (100.00 %) Finance 1 2 (100.00 %) Banking 1 2 (100.00 %) ITIL 2 1 (50.00 %) UNIX 2 1 (50.00 %) Windows

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Poole 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.

General 1 2 (100.00 %) Finance 1 2 (100.00 %) Banking	Job Titles 1 2 (100.00 %) Systems Manager 1 2 (100.00 %) Performance Manager 1 2 (100.00 %) Capacity Manager
Operating Systems 1 1 (50.00 %) UNIX 1 1 (50.00 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (100.00 %) ITIL