The first table below looks at the demand for DWR skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited DWR 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 Application Development category.

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
Direct Web Remoting (DWR)
Rank 525 560 579
Rank change year-on-year
+35 +19
Contract jobs citing DWR 5 18 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.011% 0.031% 0.015%
As % of the Application Development category 0.039% 0.121% 0.053%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 6 8
Average daily rate - £325 £369
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -11.86%
UK excluding London average daily rate - £325 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Development
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
12713 14910 16863
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 27.40% 25.58% 27.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 7958 8755 9793
Average daily rate £375 £350 £393
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -10.82%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 375 374 576
Average hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -9.72%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.33 £15.00 £19.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £42.10 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%

DWR
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing DWR within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

DWR Jobs Demand Trend

DWR
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing DWR within the UK.

DWR Daily Rate Trend

DWR
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DWR within the UK over the 3 months to 17 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
England +37 3 - -
North West +15 2 - -
Lancashire - 2 - -
Nelson - 2 - -
Midlands -1 1 - -

DWR
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing DWR 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 DWR.

1 6 (60.00%) Java
2 5 (50.00%) Servlets
2 5 (50.00%) XML
2 5 (50.00%) Spring
3 4 (40.00%) Java EE
4 3 (30.00%) JPA
4 3 (30.00%) SAP
4 3 (30.00%) GIS
4 3 (30.00%) Service Delivery
4 3 (30.00%) Management Information System
5 2 (20.00%) Hibernate
5 2 (20.00%) MVC
5 2 (20.00%) Publishing
5 2 (20.00%) Eclipse
5 2 (20.00%) Adobe
5 2 (20.00%) JSP
5 2 (20.00%) SOAP
5 2 (20.00%) Web Services
5 2 (20.00%) OO
5 2 (20.00%) Tomcat
5 2 (20.00%) Flash
5 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
5 2 (20.00%) Oracle
5 2 (20.00%) HTML
5 2 (20.00%) JUnit
5 2 (20.00%) Selenium
5 2 (20.00%) Flash Builder
5 2 (20.00%) REST
5 2 (20.00%) Spring Security
5 2 (20.00%) Oracle 11g

DWR
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing DWR 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 DWR. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (50.00%) Spring
1 5 (50.00%) Servlets
1 5 (50.00%) XML
2 4 (40.00%) Java EE
3 3 (30.00%) JPA
4 2 (20.00%) REST
4 2 (20.00%) Spring Batch
4 2 (20.00%) Flash
4 2 (20.00%) Hibernate
4 2 (20.00%) SOAP
4 2 (20.00%) Web Services
4 2 (20.00%) HTML
4 2 (20.00%) JSP
4 2 (20.00%) JSTL
4 2 (20.00%) Spring MVC
4 2 (20.00%) Apache Flex
4 2 (20.00%) Spring Security
4 2 (20.00%) YUI
4 2 (20.00%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 2 (20.00%) Tomcat
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) MS Office
1 1 (10.00%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) SAP ERP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) GIS
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle 11g
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (10.00%) SAP Data Services
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (10.00%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) JUnit
1 2 (20.00%) Eclipse
1 2 (20.00%) Maven
1 2 (20.00%) Selenium
1 2 (20.00%) Flash Builder
General
1 2 (20.00%) Publishing
1 2 (20.00%) Welsh Language
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Billing
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Java Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Java Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Flex Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Applications Specialist
4 1 (10.00%) Analyst Developer
4 1 (10.00%) ETL Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (10.00%) Statistics
2 1 (10.00%) Data Extraction
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) Service Delivery
2 2 (20.00%) MVC
2 2 (20.00%) OO
2 2 (20.00%) TOGAF
2 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (20.00%) Technical Architecture
3 1 (10.00%) Problem Management
3 1 (10.00%) Data Migration
3 1 (10.00%) Data Cleansing
3 1 (10.00%) Data Mapping
3 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (10.00%) Supplier Management
3 1 (10.00%) Knowledge Management
3 1 (10.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (10.00%) ERP
3 1 (10.00%) ETL
3 1 (10.00%) Quality Management
3 1 (10.00%) Migration
3 1 (10.00%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Java
2 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (10.00%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) SAP
2 2 (20.00%) Adobe
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle
3 1 (10.00%) Business Objects