The first table below looks at the demand for Windows Mobile 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 Windows Mobile over the 3 months to 17 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 Operating Systems 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows Mobile
Rank - - 79
Contract jobs citing Windows Mobile 0 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading - - 0.095%
As % of the Operating Systems category - - 0.305%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £325 £250
% change year-on-year
-1.53% +30.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.75 £31.00 £27.25
% change year-on-year
-13.70% +13.76%
All Operating Systems
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
190 245 328
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 22.89% 23.03% 31.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 94 121
Average daily rate £335 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.28% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £140 £225 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 21 10
Average hourly rate £20.25 £15.13 £13.13
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+33.88% +15.23%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £14.50 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £22.25 £23.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +4.93%
Windows Mobile
Berkshire

Windows Mobile
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Windows Mobile across the Reading region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Reading Windows Mobile Jobs Demand Trend

Windows Mobile
Daily Rate Trend

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

Reading Windows Mobile Daily Rate Trend

Windows Mobile
Top 11 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing Windows Mobile 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 Windows Mobile.

1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) SQLite
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Phone

Windows Mobile
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing Windows Mobile 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 Windows Mobile. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQLite
General
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Applications Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Phone
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
Reading, Berkshire
The project is of critical importance and will need someone within extensive Windows mobile application experience... To be applicable this role you must have the following experience; -Windows...
Rullion IT Plus
Posted: 16 May 2013