South East WebServices Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Web Services skills within the South East region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited WebServices over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Alderley Edge Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dundee Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastbourne Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnham Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrow Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire Highlands Huddersfield Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Kenilworth Kent Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Preston Reading Redhill Rickmansworth Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport St Neots Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stroud Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Whyteleafe Wilmslow Wiltshire Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	56	45
Rank change on same period last year	-11
Matching contract IT job ads	321	527
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.423 %	0.559 %
As % of the category below	11.11 %	12.93 %
Daily rates quoted	73	150
Average minimum daily rate	£343	£314
Average daily rate	£370	£329
% change on same period last year	+12.44 %
Average maximum daily rate	£397	£343
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£347
% change on same period last year	+2.75 %
Hourly rates quoted	21	17
Average minimum hourly rate	£32.24	£34.06
Average hourly rate	£35.76	£39.18
% change on same period last year	-8.71 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£39.29	£44.29
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£36.64	£33.72
% change on same period last year	+8.66 %
Application Development South East
Matching contract IT job ads	2888	4077
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	3.808 %	4.325 %
Daily rates quoted	716	965
Average minimum daily rate	£327	£312
Average daily rate	£347	£329
% change on same period last year	+5.35 %
Average maximum daily rate	£367	£346
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£336
% change on same period last year	+3.94 %
Hourly rates quoted	281	435
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.77	£34.31
Average hourly rate	£33.78	£36.32
% change on same period last year	-6.98 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.79	£38.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.44	£33.08
% change on same period last year	-1.93 %
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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 WebServices across the South East 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 WebServices across the South East region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WebServices across the South East region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing WebServices across the South East region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WebServices across the South East region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing WebServices within the South East region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Surrey	+17	88	£369	+9.46 %
Hampshire	+15	83	£381	+13.19 %
Berkshire	-22	54	£366	+7.08 %
Oxfordshire	-2	27	£313	-2.34 %
Buckinghamshire	-15	18	£325	-5.01 %
Kent	+14	17	£280	+27.80 %
Thames Valley	-11	12	-	-
Middlesex	-4	7	£424	-
West Sussex	-14	6	£450	+43.26 %
East Sussex	-2	6	£317	+4.21 %
Sussex	+13	3	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing WebServices 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 WebServices.

1 360 (49.45 %) .NET 2 341 (46.84 %) C# 2 341 (46.84 %) XML 3 245 (33.65 %) SQL Server 4 201 (27.61 %) ASP.NET 5 165 (22.66 %) Java 6 134 (18.41 %) Windows 7 132 (18.13 %) Oracle 8 129 (17.72 %) Microsoft 9 118 (16.21 %) SQL 10 108 (14.84 %) J2EE 11 106 (14.56 %) HTML 11 106 (14.56 %) JavaScript 12 99 (13.60 %) OO 12 99 (13.60 %) SQL Server 2005

13 92 (12.64 %) UML 14 90 (12.36 %) SOAP 15 88 (12.09 %) Security Cleared 16 85 (11.68 %) Unix 17 75 (10.30 %) SOA 18 66 (9.066 %) CSS 18 66 (9.066 %) ASP 19 59 (8.104 %) VB.NET 20 58 (7.967 %) Visual Studio 20 58 (7.967 %) XSLT 21 55 (7.555 %) WebSphere 22 53 (7.280 %) AJAX 23 52 (7.143 %) WinForms 23 52 (7.143 %) SC Cleared 24 49 (6.731 %) SharePoint

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing WebServices 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 WebServices. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 360 (49.45 %) .NET 2 341 (46.84 %) XML 3 201 (27.61 %) ASP.NET 4 108 (14.84 %) J2EE 5 106 (14.56 %) HTML 6 90 (12.36 %) SOAP 7 66 (9.066 %) CSS 7 66 (9.066 %) ASP 8 58 (7.967 %) XSLT 9 55 (7.555 %) WebSphere 10 53 (7.280 %) AJAX 11 52 (7.143 %) WinForms 12 48 (6.593 %) XHTML 13 38 (5.220 %) JSP 14 34 (4.670 %) JDBC 15 33 (4.533 %) ASP.NET 2.0 16 32 (4.396 %) WSDL 17 28 (3.846 %) Spring 18 26 (3.571 %) .NET Framework 19 25 (3.434 %) WCF	Application Platforms 1 49 (6.731 %) SharePoint 2 46 (6.319 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 44 (6.044 %) BizTalk Server 4 28 (3.846 %) ESB 5 26 (3.571 %) WebLogic 6 23 (3.159 %) Apache 7 19 (2.610 %) IIS 8 15 (2.060 %) CMS 9 14 (1.923 %) JBoss 9 14 (1.923 %) WebSphere MQ 10 12 (1.648 %) ArcIMS 10 12 (1.648 %) ColdFusion 10 12 (1.648 %) Tomcat 11 8 (1.099 %) WebSphere Application Server 11 8 (1.099 %) ColdFusion MX 12 7 (0.962 %) MS Exchange 13 5 (0.687 %) MQSeries 13 5 (0.687 %) Exchange Server 2003 13 5 (0.687 %) TIBCO EMS 13 5 (0.687 %) WebSphere Message Broker
Applications 1 25 (3.434 %) MS Excel 2 6 (0.824 %) MS PowerPoint 2 6 (0.824 %) InfoPath 3 5 (0.687 %) Photoshop 4 1 (0.137 %) MS Office 4 1 (0.137 %) Acrobat	Business Applications 1 24 (3.297 %) Microsoft CRM 2 5 (0.687 %) BusinessWorks 3 3 (0.412 %) Summit 4 2 (0.275 %) SAP Oil and Gas 4 2 (0.275 %) Dynamics CRM 4 2 (0.275 %) Oracle 11i 4 2 (0.275 %) Oracle Applications 4 2 (0.275 %) Siebel Analytics 5 1 (0.137 %) SoftGrid 5 1 (0.137 %) Oracle Financials 5 1 (0.137 %) Oracle EBS 5 1 (0.137 %) SAP SRM
Communications & Networking 1 46 (6.319 %) Internet 2 35 (4.808 %) Intranet 3 22 (3.022 %) HTTP 4 15 (2.060 %) TCP/IP 5 10 (1.374 %) LDAP 6 9 (1.236 %) Firewall 7 5 (0.687 %) CTI 8 4 (0.549 %) DNS 9 3 (0.412 %) DHCP 10 2 (0.275 %) SAN 11 1 (0.137 %) SSL 11 1 (0.137 %) SSH 11 1 (0.137 %) Extranet 11 1 (0.137 %) FTP 11 1 (0.137 %) LAN 11 1 (0.137 %) WAN 11 1 (0.137 %) VPN 11 1 (0.137 %) WINS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 245 (33.65 %) SQL Server 2 99 (13.60 %) SQL Server 2005 3 42 (5.769 %) BusinessObjects 4 27 (3.709 %) SQL Server 2000 5 25 (3.434 %) GIS 6 17 (2.335 %) MySQL 7 14 (1.923 %) DB2 8 7 (0.962 %) RDBMS 8 7 (0.962 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 9 6 (0.824 %) Oracle 10g 9 6 (0.824 %) Datawarehouse 10 5 (0.687 %) SQL Server 7 11 4 (0.549 %) Oracle 9i 11 4 (0.549 %) Crystal Reports 12 3 (0.412 %) BusinessObjects XI 13 2 (0.275 %) Data Cleansing 13 2 (0.275 %) SQL Server Integration Services 13 2 (0.275 %) Oracle 8/8i 14 1 (0.137 %) MS Access 14 1 (0.137 %) DTS
Development Applications 1 58 (7.967 %) Visual Studio 2 26 (3.571 %) NUnit 3 21 (2.885 %) ClearCase 3 21 (2.885 %) JDeveloper 4 18 (2.473 %) ClearQuest 5 15 (2.060 %) Subversion 5 15 (2.060 %) FrontPage 6 13 (1.786 %) JUnit 7 12 (1.648 %) VSS/SourceSafe 8 7 (0.962 %) Ant 9 6 (0.824 %) Eclipse 10 5 (0.687 %) Flash 10 5 (0.687 %) Log4j 11 3 (0.412 %) Dreamweaver 12 2 (0.275 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer 12 2 (0.275 %) MSI 12 2 (0.275 %) RequisitePro 12 2 (0.275 %) PowerBuilder 12 2 (0.275 %) WebLogic Workshop 12 2 (0.275 %) TestDirector	General 1 46 (6.319 %) Government 2 45 (6.181 %) Finance 3 24 (3.297 %) Retail 4 22 (3.022 %) Insurance 5 20 (2.747 %) Marketing 5 20 (2.747 %) Telecoms 6 13 (1.786 %) Publishing 7 7 (0.962 %) Back Office 8 6 (0.824 %) Banking 9 5 (0.687 %) Retail Banking 9 5 (0.687 %) Local Government 9 5 (0.687 %) Billing 10 4 (0.549 %) Pharmaceutical 10 4 (0.549 %) Construction 11 3 (0.412 %) Automotive 12 2 (0.275 %) Education 12 2 (0.275 %) Electric 12 2 (0.275 %) Health 12 2 (0.275 %) Pensions 13 1 (0.137 %) General Ledger
Job Titles 1 493 (67.72 %) Developer 2 169 (23.21 %) .NET Developer 3 164 (22.53 %) C# Developer 4 65 (8.929 %) ASP.NET Developer 5 61 (8.379 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 6 58 (7.967 %) Web Developer 7 51 (7.005 %) Java Developer 8 41 (5.632 %) Analyst 9 40 (5.495 %) Architect 10 31 (4.258 %) Consultant 11 29 (3.984 %) J2EE Developer 12 27 (3.709 %) Senior Developer 12 27 (3.709 %) WebSphere Developer 13 25 (3.434 %) SQL Developer 14 22 (3.022 %) SQL Server Developer 15 20 (2.747 %) VB.NET Developer 15 20 (2.747 %) .NET Web Developer 16 19 (2.610 %) Programmer 17 17 (2.335 %) Web Analyst 18 15 (2.060 %) Applications Developer	Miscellaneous 1 14 (1.923 %) N-Tier 2 11 (1.511 %) Web 2.0 3 10 (1.374 %) Management Information System 4 8 (1.099 %) W3C 4 8 (1.099 %) Multithreading 5 7 (0.962 %) Client/Server 6 6 (0.824 %) Clustering 6 6 (0.824 %) Taxonomies 7 4 (0.549 %) PDA 8 3 (0.412 %) E-Learning 8 3 (0.412 %) Replication 8 3 (0.412 %) Handset 9 2 (0.275 %) Streaming Video 9 2 (0.275 %) PMI 9 2 (0.275 %) PKI 9 2 (0.275 %) RIA 10 1 (0.137 %) Data Extraction 10 1 (0.137 %) Computer Science 10 1 (0.137 %) German Language 10 1 (0.137 %) Spanish Language
Operating Systems 1 134 (18.41 %) Windows 2 85 (11.68 %) Unix 3 30 (4.121 %) Linux 4 17 (2.335 %) AIX 5 13 (1.786 %) Windows Server 2003 6 12 (1.648 %) Windows NT 7 10 (1.374 %) Solaris 8 3 (0.412 %) SUSE 9 2 (0.275 %) Windows CE 9 2 (0.275 %) HPUX 9 2 (0.275 %) Windows 2000 10 1 (0.137 %) Mac OS X 10 1 (0.137 %) Windows Mobile	Processes & Methodologies 1 99 (13.60 %) OO 2 92 (12.64 %) UML 3 88 (12.09 %) Security Cleared 4 75 (10.30 %) SOA 5 52 (7.143 %) SC Cleared 6 42 (5.769 %) Migration 7 37 (5.082 %) E-Commerce 8 36 (4.945 %) Content Management 9 34 (4.670 %) OOP 10 33 (4.533 %) CRM 11 27 (3.709 %) Web Development 12 25 (3.434 %) OOD 13 23 (3.159 %) Workflow 14 22 (3.022 %) Data Migration 15 20 (2.747 %) TDD 15 20 (2.747 %) EAI 16 19 (2.610 %) Unit Testing 17 18 (2.473 %) Agile Software Development 18 17 (2.335 %) Incident Management 19 15 (2.060 %) Service Management
Programming Languages 1 341 (46.84 %) C# 2 165 (22.66 %) Java 3 118 (16.21 %) SQL 4 106 (14.56 %) JavaScript 5 59 (8.104 %) VB.NET 6 40 (5.495 %) VB 7 26 (3.571 %) PHP 8 25 (3.434 %) VBScript 9 23 (3.159 %) C++ 10 20 (2.747 %) Transact-SQL 11 17 (2.335 %) Perl 12 14 (1.923 %) ActionScript 13 13 (1.786 %) PL/SQL 13 13 (1.786 %) DHTML 14 12 (1.648 %) VB6 15 11 (1.511 %) C 16 10 (1.374 %) PHP5 17 6 (0.824 %) PHP4 18 5 (0.687 %) VBA 19 3 (0.412 %) C++/CLI	Qualifications 1 21 (2.885 %) Microsoft Certification 2 8 (1.099 %) Degree 3 4 (0.549 %) MCAD 3 4 (0.549 %) MCSD 4 2 (0.275 %) ISEB 4 2 (0.275 %) PMP 4 2 (0.275 %) PMI Certification 5 1 (0.137 %) MOS 5 1 (0.137 %) ISTQB 5 1 (0.137 %) Cisco Certification 5 1 (0.137 %) CCNA 5 1 (0.137 %) PRINCE2 Certification 5 1 (0.137 %) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (0.275 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 2 1 (0.137 %) GAAP 2 1 (0.137 %) TickIT 2 1 (0.137 %) QA 2 1 (0.137 %) ISO9001	System Software 1 15 (2.060 %) Active Directory 2 14 (1.923 %) AquaLogic 3 4 (0.549 %) MSMQ 4 3 (0.412 %) Backup Exec 5 1 (0.137 %) Terminal Services
Systems Management 1 4 (0.549 %) WSUS 2 2 (0.275 %) MOM 3 1 (0.137 %) Tivoli	Vendors 1 132 (18.13 %) Oracle 2 129 (17.72 %) Microsoft 3 42 (5.769 %) Business Objects 4 36 (4.945 %) IBM 5 35 (4.808 %) SAP 6 26 (3.571 %) Siebel 7 23 (3.159 %) BEA 8 17 (2.335 %) ESRI 9 10 (1.374 %) Sun 10 8 (1.099 %) ILOG 11 7 (0.962 %) Actuate 12 6 (0.824 %) Adobe 12 6 (0.824 %) Red Hat 12 6 (0.824 %) VMware 13 5 (0.687 %) TIBCO 13 5 (0.687 %) CA 14 4 (0.549 %) HP 14 4 (0.549 %) Amdocs 14 4 (0.549 %) Symantec 14 4 (0.549 %) Genesys