Staffordshire WebServices Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Web Services skills within the Staffordshire 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 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chatham Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dundee Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fife Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrow Hendon Hertfordshire Ipswich Kent Lanarkshire Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Reading Rickmansworth Salford Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark St Albans Staffordshire Stevenage Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	26
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	2.174 %
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	£347	£350
% change on same period last year	-0.93 %
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	£36.19	£33.68
% change on same period last year	+7.45 %
Application Development Staffordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	67	46
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.091 %	0.045 %
Daily rates quoted	19	13
Average minimum daily rate	£359	£335
Average daily rate	£366	£348
% change on same period last year	+5.46 %
Average maximum daily rate	£374	£360
UK excluding London average daily rate	£339	£336
% change on same period last year	+0.73 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.71	£32.86
Average hourly rate	£25.07	£33.57
% change on same period last year	-25.31 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.43	£34.29
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.38	£32.95
% change on same period last year	-1.71 %
WebServices West Midlands

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 Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire region.

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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 Staffordshire region.

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Top 4 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire 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 1 (100.00 %) VB 1 1 (100.00 %) .NET 1 1 (100.00 %) Compaq 1 1 (100.00 %) VB6

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire 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 1 (100.00 %) .NET	Job Titles 1 1 (100.00 %) Developer 1 1 (100.00 %) VB Developer 1 1 (100.00 %) VB6 Developer
Programming Languages 1 1 (100.00 %) VB 1 1 (100.00 %) VB6	Vendors 1 1 (100.00 %) Compaq