South West WebServices Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Web Services skills within the South West region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited WebServices over the last 3 months to 22 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Clapham Cobham Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crewe Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dundee East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Falkirk Farnborough Farnham Feltham Glasgow Gloucestershire Grangemouth Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highland Home Counties Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kenilworth Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Potters Bar Preston Reading Redhill Rickmansworth Romford Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport St Neots Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Thames Valley Torquay Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Whyteleafe Wilmslow Wiltshire Woking Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 22 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	66	62
Rank change on same period last year	-4
Matching contract IT job ads	75	111
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.097 %	0.125 %
As % of the category below	9.328 %	10.10 %
Daily rates quoted	18	31
Average minimum daily rate	£262	£305
Average daily rate	£286	£318
% change on same period last year	-9.94 %
Average maximum daily rate	£311	£331
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£343
% change on same period last year	+5.25 %
Hourly rates quoted	8	8
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.89	£29.38
Average hourly rate	£32.28	£31.50
% change on same period last year	+2.46 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.67	£33.63
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£36.40	£32.80
% change on same period last year	+10.99 %
Application Development South West
Matching contract IT job ads	804	1099
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.042 %	1.235 %
Daily rates quoted	156	244
Average minimum daily rate	£288	£318
Average daily rate	£311	£331
% change on same period last year	-6.05 %
Average maximum daily rate	£333	£344
UK excluding London average daily rate	£351	£334
% change on same period last year	+4.95 %
Hourly rates quoted	101	112
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.56	£27.55
Average hourly rate	£33.45	£30.21
% change on same period last year	+10.72 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£36.34	£32.87
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.36	£32.22
% change on same period last year	+0.43 %
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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 starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing WebServices across the South West 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 contract IT jobs ads citing WebServices across the South West 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 West region over the past 3 months.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing WebServices across the South West 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 West region over the past 3 months.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WebServices within the South West region over the past 3 months.

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
Devon	+19	16	£262	-3.97 %
Wiltshire	-7	13	£306	-10.80 %
Somerset	-2	9	£220	-22.35 %
Bristol	-28	6	£247	-18.27 %
Dorset	+1	4	£160	-66.60 %
Gloucestershire	+12	2	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the South West region citing WebServices also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing WebServices.

1 104 (49.06 %) .NET 2 103 (48.58 %) XML 3 86 (40.57 %) SQL Server 4 79 (37.26 %) C# 5 58 (27.36 %) Java 5 58 (27.36 %) Oracle 6 56 (26.42 %) ASP.NET 7 43 (20.28 %) JavaScript 7 43 (20.28 %) SQL 8 40 (18.87 %) Windows 9 34 (16.04 %) SQL Server 2005 10 32 (15.09 %) AJAX 10 32 (15.09 %) WinForms 11 31 (14.62 %) HTML 12 28 (13.21 %) J2EE

13 26 (12.26 %) VB.NET 14 25 (11.79 %) SQL Server 2000 14 25 (11.79 %) Security Cleared 15 22 (10.38 %) UML 16 20 (9.434 %) CSS 16 20 (9.434 %) Microsoft 17 19 (8.962 %) XSLT 17 19 (8.962 %) Government 18 18 (8.491 %) SOAP 18 18 (8.491 %) C 18 18 (8.491 %) SC Cleared 19 17 (8.019 %) OO 20 16 (7.547 %) Unix 21 15 (7.075 %) ADO.NET 21 15 (7.075 %) Finance

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the South West region citing WebServices also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing WebServices. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 104 (49.06 %) .NET 2 103 (48.58 %) XML 3 56 (26.42 %) ASP.NET 4 32 (15.09 %) AJAX 4 32 (15.09 %) WinForms 5 31 (14.62 %) HTML 6 28 (13.21 %) J2EE 7 20 (9.434 %) CSS 8 19 (8.962 %) XSLT 9 18 (8.491 %) SOAP 10 15 (7.075 %) ADO.NET 11 14 (6.604 %) Hibernate 11 14 (6.604 %) .NET Framework 12 11 (5.189 %) JNI 12 11 (5.189 %) WSDL 13 10 (4.717 %) JDBC 14 6 (2.830 %) Spring 14 6 (2.830 %) XForms 14 6 (2.830 %) JSP 15 5 (2.358 %) Struts	Application Platforms 1 13 (6.132 %) Apache 2 11 (5.189 %) SharePoint 2 11 (5.189 %) Tomcat 3 10 (4.717 %) IIS 4 9 (4.245 %) WebLogic 4 9 (4.245 %) SharePoint Server 2007 5 8 (3.774 %) WebLogic Portal 6 3 (1.415 %) ColdFusion 6 3 (1.415 %) Oracle HTTP Server 6 3 (1.415 %) CMS 7 2 (0.943 %) ESB 7 2 (0.943 %) ArcSDE 7 2 (0.943 %) ArcGIS 7 2 (0.943 %) ArcIMS 7 2 (0.943 %) LiveLink 7 2 (0.943 %) JBoss 8 1 (0.472 %) BizTalk Server 8 1 (0.472 %) Content Management Server 8 1 (0.472 %) ATG Dynamo
Applications 1 11 (5.189 %) MS Office 2 8 (3.774 %) MS Excel 3 1 (0.472 %) MS Project 3 1 (0.472 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 2 (0.943 %) Summit
Communications & Networking 1 8 (3.774 %) Firewall 1 8 (3.774 %) SAN 1 8 (3.774 %) Internet 2 6 (2.830 %) VLAN 2 6 (2.830 %) Intrusion Detection 2 6 (2.830 %) HTTP 3 4 (1.887 %) Intranet 4 3 (1.415 %) TCP/IP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 86 (40.57 %) SQL Server 2 34 (16.04 %) SQL Server 2005 3 25 (11.79 %) SQL Server 2000 4 10 (4.717 %) RDBMS 5 5 (2.358 %) MySQL 5 5 (2.358 %) DTS 6 4 (1.887 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 7 3 (1.415 %) Oracle 9i 7 3 (1.415 %) SQL Server 7 8 2 (0.943 %) GIS 8 2 (0.943 %) ETL 8 2 (0.943 %) MS Access 8 2 (0.943 %) OLAP 8 2 (0.943 %) Oracle 8/8i 9 1 (0.472 %) DB2 9 1 (0.472 %) EDRMS 9 1 (0.472 %) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications 1 10 (4.717 %) Visual Studio 2 6 (2.830 %) Eclipse 2 6 (2.830 %) JUnit 3 5 (2.358 %) Ant 4 4 (1.887 %) VSS/SourceSafe 5 3 (1.415 %) Subversion 6 2 (0.943 %) NUnit 6 2 (0.943 %) Flash 6 2 (0.943 %) Oracle Forms 7 1 (0.472 %) PVCS 7 1 (0.472 %) WebLogic Workshop 7 1 (0.472 %) jMock	General 1 19 (8.962 %) Government 2 15 (7.075 %) Finance 3 5 (2.358 %) Telecoms 4 4 (1.887 %) Pensions 5 3 (1.415 %) Advertising 5 3 (1.415 %) Insurance 6 2 (0.943 %) Retail 6 2 (0.943 %) Back Office 7 1 (0.472 %) Games 7 1 (0.472 %) Military 7 1 (0.472 %) Front Office 7 1 (0.472 %) Publishing 7 1 (0.472 %) Education 7 1 (0.472 %) Billing 7 1 (0.472 %) Local Government
Job Titles 1 133 (62.74 %) Developer 2 49 (23.11 %) .NET Developer 3 30 (14.15 %) C# Developer 4 19 (8.962 %) Programmer 5 18 (8.491 %) ASP.NET Developer 5 18 (8.491 %) Analyst 6 15 (7.075 %) Web Developer 7 13 (6.132 %) Software Developer 8 10 (4.717 %) Consultant 9 9 (4.245 %) VB.NET Developer 9 9 (4.245 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 10 7 (3.302 %) Test Analyst 10 7 (3.302 %) Network Consultant 10 7 (3.302 %) Software Engineer 10 7 (3.302 %) C Programmer 10 7 (3.302 %) WebLogic Developer 11 6 (2.830 %) SharePoint Developer 11 6 (2.830 %) Applications Developer 11 6 (2.830 %) Senior Developer 11 6 (2.830 %) .NET Web Developer	Miscellaneous 1 3 (1.415 %) N-Tier 1 3 (1.415 %) Replication 1 3 (1.415 %) Management Information System 2 2 (0.943 %) Mainframe 3 1 (0.472 %) W3C 3 1 (0.472 %) Client/Server 3 1 (0.472 %) Human Factors 3 1 (0.472 %) Computer Science
Operating Systems 1 40 (18.87 %) Windows 2 16 (7.547 %) Unix 3 13 (6.132 %) Linux 4 7 (3.302 %) Windows Server 2003 5 6 (2.830 %) Solaris 6 4 (1.887 %) zOS 7 1 (0.472 %) Windows NT	Processes & Methodologies 1 25 (11.79 %) Security Cleared 2 22 (10.38 %) UML 3 18 (8.491 %) SC Cleared 4 17 (8.019 %) OO 5 12 (5.660 %) SOA 5 12 (5.660 %) Agile Software Development 6 9 (4.245 %) Test Scripting 7 8 (3.774 %) Network Design 7 8 (3.774 %) Requirements Analysis 7 8 (3.774 %) CRM 8 7 (3.302 %) Unit Testing 9 6 (2.830 %) Stress Testing 9 6 (2.830 %) Content Management 9 6 (2.830 %) Project Management 10 5 (2.358 %) E-Commerce 10 5 (2.358 %) Service Management 10 5 (2.358 %) Web Development 10 5 (2.358 %) Network Load Balancing 11 4 (1.887 %) Load Testing 11 4 (1.887 %) Test Management
Programming Languages 1 79 (37.26 %) C# 2 58 (27.36 %) Java 3 43 (20.28 %) JavaScript 3 43 (20.28 %) SQL 4 26 (12.26 %) VB.NET 5 18 (8.491 %) C 6 6 (2.830 %) XQuery 6 6 (2.830 %) Transact-SQL 6 6 (2.830 %) VBScript 6 6 (2.830 %) VB 6 6 (2.830 %) PHP 6 6 (2.830 %) C++ 7 3 (1.415 %) PL/SQL 7 3 (1.415 %) VB6 8 2 (0.943 %) PHP5 8 2 (0.943 %) PHP4 9 1 (0.472 %) COBOL 9 1 (0.472 %) DHTML 9 1 (0.472 %) ActionScript 9 1 (0.472 %) XPath	Qualifications 1 8 (3.774 %) CCIE 1 8 (3.774 %) Cisco Certification 2 7 (3.302 %) Degree 3 3 (1.415 %) MCAD 3 3 (1.415 %) MCSD 3 3 (1.415 %) Microsoft Certification 3 3 (1.415 %) MCTS 4 2 (0.943 %) ISEB 5 1 (0.472 %) ACCA 5 1 (0.472 %) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 13 (6.132 %) QA 2 4 (1.887 %) ISO9001	System Software 1 2 (0.943 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 1 (0.472 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)	Vendors 1 58 (27.36 %) Oracle 2 20 (9.434 %) Microsoft 3 9 (4.245 %) BEA 4 8 (3.774 %) CheckPoint 4 8 (3.774 %) Cisco 5 6 (2.830 %) Sun 6 2 (0.943 %) ICL 6 2 (0.943 %) ESRI 7 1 (0.472 %) TIBCO 7 1 (0.472 %) Agresso 7 1 (0.472 %) FileNet 7 1 (0.472 %) ATG