Surrey WAP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) skills within the Surrey region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited WAP over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Wireless Application Protocol (WAP)
Location Berkshire Bristol Cambridge Cambridgeshire City of London East of England England Glasgow Ipswich London Newbury Scotland Slough South East South West Suffolk Surrey UK	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	109	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	3	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.533 %	0.000 %
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	£291	£324
% change on same period last year	-10.19 %
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	-	£24.00
% change on same period last year	-
Application Development Surrey
Matching contract IT job ads	563	649
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.750 %	0.657 %
Daily rates quoted	195	174
Average minimum daily rate	£279	£298
Average daily rate	£296	£322
% change on same period last year	-7.97 %
Average maximum daily rate	£314	£346
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£336
% change on same period last year	+1.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	21	47
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.41	£32.91
Average hourly rate	£29.56	£34.48
% change on same period last year	-14.24 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.72	£36.04
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.78	£33.23
% change on same period last year	-1.32 %
WAP South East

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.

WAP
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing WAP across the Surrey region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

WAP
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey region citing WAP 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 WAP.

1 7 (87.50 %) HTML 2 6 (75.00 %) Photoshop 3 4 (50.00 %) Electronics 3 4 (50.00 %) CMS 3 4 (50.00 %) Marketing 4 3 (37.50 %) Internet Marketing 4 3 (37.50 %) AJAX 4 3 (37.50 %) Web 2.0 4 3 (37.50 %) Pay per click 4 3 (37.50 %) SEO 4 3 (37.50 %) JavaScript 4 3 (37.50 %) PHP 4 3 (37.50 %) ActionScript 4 3 (37.50 %) .NET 4 3 (37.50 %) J2EE

4 3 (37.50 %) MySQL 4 3 (37.50 %) IIS 4 3 (37.50 %) ASP 4 3 (37.50 %) CSS 4 3 (37.50 %) XML 4 3 (37.50 %) Linux 4 3 (37.50 %) Apache 4 3 (37.50 %) Flash 4 3 (37.50 %) CRM 5 1 (12.50 %) SMS 5 1 (12.50 %) Thunderhead 5 1 (12.50 %) Insurance

WAP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey region citing WAP 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 WAP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 7 (87.50 %) HTML 2 3 (37.50 %) .NET 2 3 (37.50 %) J2EE 2 3 (37.50 %) ASP 2 3 (37.50 %) CSS 2 3 (37.50 %) XML 2 3 (37.50 %) AJAX	Application Platforms 1 4 (50.00 %) CMS 2 3 (37.50 %) IIS 2 3 (37.50 %) Apache
Applications 1 6 (75.00 %) Photoshop	Communications & Networking 1 1 (12.50 %) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (37.50 %) MySQL	Development Applications 1 3 (37.50 %) Flash
General 1 4 (50.00 %) Electronics 1 4 (50.00 %) Marketing 2 1 (12.50 %) Insurance	Job Titles 1 3 (37.50 %) Developer 1 3 (37.50 %) Web Developer 1 3 (37.50 %) Marketing Executive 2 1 (12.50 %) Analyst 2 1 (12.50 %) Business Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 3 (37.50 %) Web 2.0	Operating Systems 1 3 (37.50 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (37.50 %) CRM 1 3 (37.50 %) SEO 1 3 (37.50 %) Pay per click 1 3 (37.50 %) Internet Marketing	Programming Languages 1 3 (37.50 %) JavaScript 1 3 (37.50 %) PHP 1 3 (37.50 %) ActionScript
Vendors 1 1 (12.50 %) Thunderhead