The first table below looks at the demand for WAP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WAP over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category for the Reading region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Wireless Application Protocol (WAP)
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing WAP 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading - - -
As % of the Application Development category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £450 £350
% change year-on-year
-33.33% +28.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £40.00
All Application Development
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
200 160 242
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 23.95% 14.35% 23.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 59 115
Average daily rate £375 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £250 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £426 £488 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 9
Average hourly rate £15.00 £15.00 £19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -23.07%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
WAP
Berkshire

WAP
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing WAP across the Reading region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Reading WAP Jobs Demand Trend

WAP
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing WAP across the Reading region.

Reading WAP Daily Rate Trend

WAP
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing WAP across the Reading region.

Reading WAP Hourly Rate Trend

WAP
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing WAP 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 WAP.

1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) WebLogic
1 1 (100.00%) JDBC
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Flash
1 1 (100.00%) J2ME
1 1 (100.00%) N-Tier
1 1 (100.00%) GSM
1 1 (100.00%) SMS
1 1 (100.00%) Windows CE
1 1 (100.00%) Mapinfo
1 1 (100.00%) RTCP
1 1 (100.00%) RTP
1 1 (100.00%) SyncML
1 1 (100.00%) RFID
1 1 (100.00%) GIS
1 1 (100.00%) ESRI
1 1 (100.00%) E-business
1 1 (100.00%) Device Driver
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 1 (100.00%) KML
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (100.00%) JTAG

WAP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing WAP 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 WAP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) JDBC
1 1 (100.00%) Flash
1 1 (100.00%) J2ME
1 1 (100.00%) SyncML
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 1 (100.00%) KML
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) WebLogic
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) GSM
1 1 (100.00%) SMS
1 1 (100.00%) RTCP
1 1 (100.00%) RTP
1 1 (100.00%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) GIS
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leader
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) N-Tier
1 1 (100.00%) Device Driver
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows CE
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) E-business
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) JTAG
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Mapinfo
1 1 (100.00%) ESRI