Rickmansworth Middleware Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Middleware skills within the Rickmansworth 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 15 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 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 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 Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 15 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
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Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
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UK excluding London average daily rate	£400	£420
% change on same period last year	-4.77 %
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	£38.91	£38.60
% change on same period last year	+0.80 %
Application Development Rickmansworth
Matching contract IT job ads	7	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.010 %	0.002 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£225	-
Average daily rate	£240	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£255	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£331	£334
% change on same period last year	-0.92 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
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UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.79	£32.03
% change on same period last year	-3.85 %
Middleware Hertfordshire

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 Rickmansworth 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 Rickmansworth region.

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Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Rickmansworth 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 10 (90.91 %) Solaris 2 7 (63.64 %) WebLogic 2 7 (63.64 %) UNIX 3 6 (54.55 %) Oracle 3 6 (54.55 %) Project Management 3 6 (54.55 %) Finance 4 5 (45.45 %) MQSeries 4 5 (45.45 %) IBM 4 5 (45.45 %) Shell Script 4 5 (45.45 %) J2EE 4 5 (45.45 %) Banking 5 4 (36.36 %) Time Management 5 4 (36.36 %) PRINCE2 6 3 (27.27 %) Apache 6 3 (27.27 %) Ant

6 3 (27.27 %) WebSphere 7 2 (18.18 %) Configuration Management 7 2 (18.18 %) SLA 8 1 (9.091 %) MS Project 8 1 (9.091 %) Supplier Management

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Rickmansworth 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.

Application Development 1 5 (45.45 %) J2EE 2 3 (27.27 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 7 (63.64 %) WebLogic 2 5 (45.45 %) MQSeries 3 3 (27.27 %) Apache
Applications 1 1 (9.091 %) MS Project	Development Applications 1 3 (27.27 %) Ant
General 1 6 (54.55 %) Finance 2 5 (45.45 %) Banking	Job Titles 1 6 (54.55 %) Project Manager 2 3 (27.27 %) Infrastructure Project Manager 2 3 (27.27 %) Infrastructure Manager
Operating Systems 1 10 (90.91 %) Solaris 2 7 (63.64 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (54.55 %) Project Management 2 4 (36.36 %) PRINCE2 2 4 (36.36 %) Time Management 3 2 (18.18 %) Configuration Management 4 1 (9.091 %) Supplier Management
Programming Languages 1 5 (45.45 %) Shell Script	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (18.18 %) SLA
Vendors 1 6 (54.55 %) Oracle 2 5 (45.45 %) IBM