The first table below looks at the demand for Windows Phone 7 skills in IT contracts advertised for the South West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Windows Phone 7 over the 3 months to 17 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 Operating Systems category for the South West 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows Phone 7 (WinPhone7, WP7)
Rank 113 134 -
Rank change year-on-year
+21 -
Contract jobs citing Windows Phone 7 2 5 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 0.098% 0.151% -
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.396% 0.693% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 0
Average daily rate £301 £325 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.53% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £301 £325 £363
% change year-on-year
-7.53% -10.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Operating Systems
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
505 722 569
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 24.66% 21.79% 20.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 265 354 238
Average daily rate £325 £450 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-27.77% +28.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £288 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 69 95
Average hourly rate £15.00 £21.00 £19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-28.57% +7.69%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.90 £13.00 £12.42
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.40 £41.50 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +4.93%
Windows Phone 7
England

Windows Phone 7
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Windows Phone 7 across the South West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

South West Windows Phone 7 Jobs Demand Trend

Windows Phone 7
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Windows Phone 7 across the South West region.

South West Windows Phone 7 Daily Rate Trend

Windows Phone 7
Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing Windows Phone 7 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 Windows Phone 7.

1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) XSLT
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) MVC
1 2 (100.00%) XAML
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Mobile
1 2 (100.00%) Web Development
1 2 (100.00%) WCF
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Phone 8
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Phone

Windows Phone 7
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing Windows Phone 7 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 Windows Phone 7. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) XSLT
1 2 (100.00%) WCF
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Mobile Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Mobile Developer
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Mobile
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Phone 8
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) MVC
1 2 (100.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) XAML