Tyne and Wear WebServices Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Web Services skills within the Tyne and Wear 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 6 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chatham Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Colchester County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dundee Durham East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fife Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Hendon Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Lanarkshire Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton Maidenhead 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 Potters Bar Reading Rickmansworth Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark St Albans Staffordshire Stevenage Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Teesside Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Wirral Wolverhampton York Yorkshire	3 months to 6 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	24	43
Rank change on same period last year	+19
Matching contract IT job ads	10	7
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.014 %	0.007 %
As % of the category below	10.75 %	5.109 %
Daily rates quoted	1	3
Average minimum daily rate	£350	£375
Average daily rate	£400	£425
% change on same period last year	-5.88 %
Average maximum daily rate	£450	£475
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£347
% change on same period last year	+1.87 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	£7.00
Average hourly rate	£32.50	£7.00
% change on same period last year	+364.28 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.00	£7.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.68	£31.92
% change on same period last year	+2.37 %
Application Development Tyne and Wear
Matching contract IT job ads	93	137
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.130 %	0.138 %
Daily rates quoted	12	30
Average minimum daily rate	£311	£302
Average daily rate	£320	£317
% change on same period last year	+1.20 %
Average maximum daily rate	£330	£331
UK excluding London average daily rate	£331	£333
% change on same period last year	-0.71 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	20
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.88	£29.76
Average hourly rate	£33.03	£30.15
% change on same period last year	+9.52 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.18	£30.54
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.32	£32.24
% change on same period last year	-2.87 %
WebServices North 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.

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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 Tyne and Wear 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 Tyne and Wear 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 Tyne and Wear region.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WebServices within the Tyne and Wear region over the 3 months to 6 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

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
Newcastle	+6	7	-	-
Newcastle Upon Tyne	-	3	£400	-
Sunderland	+1	1	-	-

WebServices North East

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Tyne and Wear 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 12 (70.59 %) .NET 2 11 (64.71 %) ASP.NET 3 10 (58.82 %) C# 3 10 (58.82 %) SQL Server 4 8 (47.06 %) XML 5 7 (41.18 %) HTML 6 6 (35.29 %) XSL 6 6 (35.29 %) UML 7 5 (29.41 %) SQL 7 5 (29.41 %) CSS 8 4 (23.53 %) Finance 8 4 (23.53 %) Microsoft 8 4 (23.53 %) Middleware 8 4 (23.53 %) E-Commerce 8 4 (23.53 %) Windows

8 4 (23.53 %) .NET Framework 9 3 (17.65 %) WebSphere 9 3 (17.65 %) OO 9 3 (17.65 %) Oracle 9 3 (17.65 %) SQL Server 2005 9 3 (17.65 %) Systems Analysis 9 3 (17.65 %) Workflow 10 2 (11.76 %) OOD 10 2 (11.76 %) QuickTest Pro 10 2 (11.76 %) LoadRunner 10 2 (11.76 %) MySQL 10 2 (11.76 %) JSP 10 2 (11.76 %) Servlets 10 2 (11.76 %) SOAP 10 2 (11.76 %) Java

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Tyne and Wear 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 12 (70.59 %) .NET 2 11 (64.71 %) ASP.NET 3 8 (47.06 %) XML 4 7 (41.18 %) HTML 5 6 (35.29 %) XSL 6 5 (29.41 %) CSS 7 4 (23.53 %) Middleware 7 4 (23.53 %) .NET Framework 8 3 (17.65 %) WebSphere 9 2 (11.76 %) JSP 9 2 (11.76 %) Servlets 9 2 (11.76 %) SOAP 10 1 (5.882 %) XSLT 10 1 (5.882 %) WSDL 10 1 (5.882 %) .NET Remoting 10 1 (5.882 %) ASP.NET 2.0 10 1 (5.882 %) WinForms 10 1 (5.882 %) AJAX 10 1 (5.882 %) Windows SharePoint Services	Application Platforms 1 2 (11.76 %) JBoss 1 2 (11.76 %) SharePoint 2 1 (5.882 %) SharePoint Server 2007
Communications & Networking 1 1 (5.882 %) Extranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 10 (58.82 %) SQL Server 2 3 (17.65 %) SQL Server 2005 3 2 (11.76 %) DB2 3 2 (11.76 %) MySQL 3 2 (11.76 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 4 1 (5.882 %) Datawarehouse 4 1 (5.882 %) SQL Server Integration Services 4 1 (5.882 %) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications 1 2 (11.76 %) QuickTest Pro 1 2 (11.76 %) LoadRunner 2 1 (5.882 %) Visual Studio	General 1 4 (23.53 %) Finance 2 1 (5.882 %) Multimedia
Job Titles 1 10 (58.82 %) Developer 2 5 (29.41 %) C# Developer 3 4 (23.53 %) ASP.NET Developer 3 4 (23.53 %) .NET Developer 4 3 (17.65 %) Web Developer 4 3 (17.65 %) .NET Web Developer 4 3 (17.65 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 5 2 (11.76 %) C# Web Developer 5 2 (11.76 %) SQL Developer 5 2 (11.76 %) Test Manager 5 2 (11.76 %) Architect 5 2 (11.76 %) Quality Manager 5 2 (11.76 %) QA Manager 6 1 (5.882 %) Solutions Architect 6 1 (5.882 %) Applications Developer 6 1 (5.882 %) VB Developer 6 1 (5.882 %) SharePoint Developer	Miscellaneous 1 1 (5.882 %) N-Tier 1 1 (5.882 %) DataPower
Operating Systems 1 4 (23.53 %) Windows 2 2 (11.76 %) AIX 2 2 (11.76 %) Linux 2 2 (11.76 %) Windows 2000 2 2 (11.76 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (35.29 %) UML 2 4 (23.53 %) E-Commerce 3 3 (17.65 %) OO 3 3 (17.65 %) Workflow 3 3 (17.65 %) Systems Analysis 4 2 (11.76 %) PRINCE2 4 2 (11.76 %) OOD 5 1 (5.882 %) SOA 5 1 (5.882 %) Risk Management 5 1 (5.882 %) TOGAF 5 1 (5.882 %) Supplier Management 5 1 (5.882 %) Web Development
Programming Languages 1 10 (58.82 %) C# 2 5 (29.41 %) SQL 3 2 (11.76 %) Java 4 1 (5.882 %) JavaScript 4 1 (5.882 %) PHP 4 1 (5.882 %) COBOL 4 1 (5.882 %) Transact-SQL 4 1 (5.882 %) VB 4 1 (5.882 %) VB6 4 1 (5.882 %) C	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (11.76 %) QA
Vendors 1 4 (23.53 %) Microsoft 2 3 (17.65 %) Oracle 3 2 (11.76 %) Atlassian