WURFL Contracts in Staffordshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term WURFL in IT contracts advertised for the Staffordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WURFL over the 3 months to 21 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 terms in our Miscellaneous category for the Staffordshire 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Wireless Universal Resource File (WURFL)
Rank 17 27 -
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -
Contract jobs citing WURFL 3 6 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Staffordshire 3.529% 2.765% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 12.50% 18.18% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 0
Average daily rate £330 £325 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.53% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 -
% change year-on-year
+1.53% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Staffordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category		 24 33 35
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Staffordshire 28.24% 15.21% 15.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 22 14
Average daily rate £330 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.53% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £229 £275 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £366 £468
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 3
Average hourly rate £15.21 £40.00 £14.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-61.98% +175.86%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £23.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-4.34% -13.20%
WURFL
West Midlands

WURFL
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing WURFL across the Staffordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Staffordshire WURFL Jobs Demand Trend

WURFL
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing WURFL across the Staffordshire region.

Staffordshire WURFL Daily Rate Trend

WURFL
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WURFL within the Staffordshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Stoke-on-Trent +5 3 £330 +1.53%
WURFL
West Midlands

WURFL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire region citing WURFL 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 WURFL.

1 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) VB.NET
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (100.00%) CSS
1 3 (100.00%) XML
1 3 (100.00%) XSLT
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) XHTML
1 3 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 3 (100.00%) N-Tier
1 3 (100.00%) SOA
1 3 (100.00%) Blackberry
1 3 (100.00%) SEO
1 3 (100.00%) Games
1 3 (100.00%) TDD
1 3 (100.00%) Document Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ajax
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Mobile
1 3 (100.00%) Degree
1 3 (100.00%) JIRA
1 3 (100.00%) jQuery
1 3 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Android
1 3 (100.00%) AccuRev
1 3 (100.00%) HTML5
1 3 (100.00%) Apple iOS

WURFL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire region citing WURFL 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 WURFL. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (100.00%) CSS
1 3 (100.00%) XML
1 3 (100.00%) XSLT
1 3 (100.00%) XHTML
1 3 (100.00%) Ajax
1 3 (100.00%) jQuery
1 3 (100.00%) HTML5
1 3 (100.00%) CSS3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (100.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Web Developer
1 3 (100.00%) .NET Developer
1 3 (100.00%) VB.NET Developer
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET Developer
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Developer
1 3 (100.00%) .NET Web Developer
1 3 (100.00%) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer
2 1 (33.33%) C# .NET Developer
2 1 (33.33%) C# ASP.NET Developer
2 1 (33.33%) C# Web Developer
2 1 (33.33%) C# Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) N-Tier
1 3 (100.00%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Mobile
1 3 (100.00%) Android
1 3 (100.00%) Apple iOS
1 3 (100.00%) BlackBerry OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 3 (100.00%) SOA
1 3 (100.00%) SEO
1 3 (100.00%) TDD
1 3 (100.00%) Document Management
1 3 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) AccuRev
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