South Coast WAP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) skills within the South Coast region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited WAP over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Wireless Application Protocol (WAP)
Location Berkshire Bristol Cambridge Cambridgeshire City of London East of England England Glasgow Ipswich London Newbury Scotland Slough South Coast South East South West Suffolk Surrey UK	3 months to 25 Jul 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
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£291	£324
% change on same period last year	-10.19 %
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	-	£24.00
% change on same period last year	-
Application Development South Coast
Matching contract IT job ads	20	26
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.027 %	0.026 %
Daily rates quoted	0	4
Average minimum daily rate	-	£270
Average daily rate	-	£270
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£270
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£336
% change on same period last year	+1.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.25	£27.75
Average hourly rate	£32.50	£27.75
% change on same period last year	+17.11 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£38.75	£27.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.78	£33.23
% change on same period last year	-1.32 %
WAP England

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.

WAP
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing WAP across the South Coast region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

WAP
Daily Rate Trend

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

WAP
Top 4 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Coast 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 %) SMS 1 1 (100.00 %) Finance 1 1 (100.00 %) Thunderhead 1 1 (100.00 %) Insurance

WAP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Coast 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.

Communications & Networking 1 1 (100.00 %) SMS	General 1 1 (100.00 %) Finance 1 1 (100.00 %) Insurance
Job Titles 1 1 (100.00 %) Business Analyst 1 1 (100.00 %) Analyst	Vendors 1 1 (100.00 %) Thunderhead