The first table below looks at the demand for WAP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Slough 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 Slough 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 38 - 36
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing WAP 1 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Slough 0.410% - 0.313%
As % of the Application Development category 1.333% - 0.943%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £260
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
Slough
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
75 46 106
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Slough 30.74% 22.55% 33.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 24 52
Average daily rate £325 £350 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% +16.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £290 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £413 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 1 35
Average hourly rate £35.00 £14.40 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+143.05% -66.11%
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 Slough region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Slough 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 Slough region.

Slough WAP Daily Rate Trend

WAP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Slough 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 4 (100.00%) Telecoms
2 3 (75.00%) Redknee
2 3 (75.00%) Java
2 3 (75.00%) Perl
2 3 (75.00%) Solaris
2 3 (75.00%) DNS
2 3 (75.00%) Mobile App
3 2 (50.00%) HTTP
3 2 (50.00%) Fault Management
3 2 (50.00%) Bash shell
3 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 2 (50.00%) Oracle
3 2 (50.00%) SOAP
3 2 (50.00%) Finance
3 2 (50.00%) Sun
3 2 (50.00%) Shell Script
3 2 (50.00%) Project Management
4 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (25.00%) ISEB
4 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (25.00%) TestDirector
4 1 (25.00%) Internet
4 1 (25.00%) Risk Assessment
4 1 (25.00%) Billing
4 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Degree
4 1 (25.00%) Wireshark
4 1 (25.00%) XML
4 1 (25.00%) UNIX
4 1 (25.00%) WML

WAP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Slough 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 2 (50.00%) SOAP
2 1 (25.00%) XML
2 1 (25.00%) WML
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) DNS
2 2 (50.00%) HTTP
3 1 (25.00%) Internet
3 1 (25.00%) Wireshark
3 1 (25.00%) SSL
3 1 (25.00%) GPRS
3 1 (25.00%) GSM
3 1 (25.00%) UMTS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle 8/8i
1 1 (25.00%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) TestDirector
General
1 4 (100.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Billing
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Technical Support
1 1 (25.00%) Applications Support
1 1 (25.00%) 2nd Line Support
1 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Solaris
2 1 (25.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Fault Management
1 2 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (25.00%) Risk Assessment
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
1 3 (75.00%) Perl
2 2 (50.00%) Bash shell
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (25.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) ISEB
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Redknee
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 2 (50.00%) Sun
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco