Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for WSE skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WSE over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category.

LinkWeb Services Enhancements (WSE)
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank468439586
Rank change year-on-year
Down-29Up+147
Matching contract IT job ads25214
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK0.052 %0.005 %0.017 %
As % of the Application Development category0.194 %0.023 %0.070 %
Daily rates quoted1811
Average daily rate£380£550£325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-30.90 %+69.23 %
UK excluding London average daily rate£250--
Hourly rates quoted000
Average hourly rate---
UK excluding London average hourly rate---
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryAll Application Development
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
12893871819870
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK26.69 %22.10 %24.17 %
Daily rates quoted657530396466
Average daily rate£375£350£363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.140 %-3.440 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£225£220£250
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£600£500£550
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£300£325
% change year-on-year
--7.690 %
Hourly rates quoted4254911255
Average hourly rate£30.00£29.70£32.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+1.010 %-7.180 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£16.30£14.50£20.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£42.50£41.50£45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£28.50£27.50£32.50
% change year-on-year
+3.630 %-15.38 %

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.

WSE
Demand Trend

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

WSE Demand Trend

WSE
Daily Rate Trend

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

WSE Daily Rate Trend

WSE
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WSE within the UK over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

WSE Daily Rate Histogram

WSE
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing WSE within the UK.

WSE Hourly Rate Trend

WSE
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WSE within the UK over the 3 months to 19 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
EnglandDown-2520£385-30.00 %
LondonDown-4916£390-29.09 %
City of LondonDown-5414£385-30.00 %
ScotlandDown-105£235-
GlasgowNew entry-5£235-
South EastNew entry-4£375-
SurreyNew entry-4£375-
StainesNew entry-4£375-

WSE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing WSE 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 WSE.

130 (100.00 %).NET
229 (96.67 %)C#
325 (83.33 %)XML
325 (83.33 %)WCF
422 (73.33 %)SQL Server
521 (70.00 %)TDD
521 (70.00 %)SQL Server 2005
521 (70.00 %)Unit Testing
620 (66.67 %)NUnit
620 (66.67 %)Web Services
620 (66.67 %)ASP.NET
719 (63.33 %)Microsoft
719 (63.33 %)NHibernate
719 (63.33 %)WPF
818 (60.00 %).NET Framework
818 (60.00 %)SharePoint
917 (56.67 %)HTML
917 (56.67 %)JavaScript
917 (56.67 %)VSS/SourceSafe
1016 (53.33 %)OO
1016 (53.33 %)Continuous Integration
1016 (53.33 %)csUnit
1115 (50.00 %)WF
1115 (50.00 %)UML
1115 (50.00 %)Subversion
1214 (46.67 %)BizTalk Server
1214 (46.67 %)SQL Server 2000
1214 (46.67 %)iBATIS
1313 (43.33 %)Team Foundation Server
1313 (43.33 %)NCover

WSE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing WSE 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 WSE. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
130 (100.00 %).NET
225 (83.33 %)XML
225 (83.33 %)WCF
320 (66.67 %)Web Services
320 (66.67 %)ASP.NET
419 (63.33 %)NHibernate
419 (63.33 %)WPF
518 (60.00 %).NET Framework
617 (56.67 %)HTML
715 (50.00 %)WF
814 (46.67 %)iBATIS
912 (40.00 %)Spring
1010 (33.33 %)Spring.NET
119 (30.00 %)Silverlight
128 (26.67 %)AJAX
137 (23.33 %)jQuery
145 (16.67 %)ASP.NET 2.0
145 (16.67 %)CSS
145 (16.67 %)SOAP
145 (16.67 %)XSD
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
118 (60.00 %)SharePoint
214 (46.67 %)BizTalk Server
35 (16.67 %)IIS
35 (16.67 %)ActiveMQ
43 (10.00 %)ESB
43 (10.00 %)SharePoint Server 2007
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
13 (10.00 %)MS Visio
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
122 (73.33 %)SQL Server
221 (70.00 %)SQL Server 2005
314 (46.67 %)SQL Server 2000
410 (33.33 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
410 (33.33 %)Crystal Reports
56 (20.00 %)SQL Server 2008
61 (3.333 %)ETL
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
120 (66.67 %)NUnit
217 (56.67 %)VSS/SourceSafe
316 (53.33 %)csUnit
415 (50.00 %)Subversion
513 (43.33 %)Team Foundation Server
513 (43.33 %)NCover
612 (40.00 %)ReSharper
710 (33.33 %)Selenium
710 (33.33 %)FitNesse
89 (30.00 %)OpenSTA
97 (23.33 %)TeamCity
105 (16.67 %)Visual Studio
114 (13.33 %)CruiseControl
114 (13.33 %)Ant
123 (10.00 %)NDepend
131 (3.333 %)RSpec
131 (3.333 %)WatiN
131 (3.333 %)WATIR
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
12 (6.667 %)Music
12 (6.667 %)Music Industry
21 (3.333 %)Finance
21 (3.333 %)Banking
21 (3.333 %)Investment Banking
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
126 (86.67 %)Developer
219 (63.33 %)C# Developer
39 (30.00 %)Agile C# Developer
39 (30.00 %).NET Developer
45 (16.67 %)Silverlight Developer
54 (13.33 %)Architect
62 (6.667 %)Solutions Architect
71 (3.333 %)Agile .NET Developer
71 (3.333 %)Technical Architect
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
110 (33.33 %)Open Source
29 (30.00 %)Dependency Injection
34 (13.33 %)SaaS
43 (10.00 %)Client/Server
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
14 (13.33 %)Windows
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
121 (70.00 %)TDD
121 (70.00 %)Unit Testing
216 (53.33 %)OO
216 (53.33 %)Continuous Integration
315 (50.00 %)UML
412 (40.00 %)Refactoring
510 (33.33 %)OOD
69 (30.00 %)Load Testing
69 (30.00 %)Automated Testing
69 (30.00 %)Pair Programming
69 (30.00 %)Scrum
69 (30.00 %)MVC
78 (26.67 %)Agile Software Development
78 (26.67 %)SOA
86 (20.00 %)Business Desktop Deployment
95 (16.67 %)Web Development
95 (16.67 %)CRM
104 (13.33 %)Extreme Programming
104 (13.33 %)OOP
104 (13.33 %)OOA/OOD
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
129 (96.67 %)C#
217 (56.67 %)JavaScript
31 (3.333 %)VB6
31 (3.333 %)Ruby
31 (3.333 %)VB
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
15 (16.67 %)MSMQ
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
119 (63.33 %)Microsoft
24 (13.33 %)Perforce
24 (13.33 %)SAP
24 (13.33 %)Oracle
24 (13.33 %)Siebel
33 (10.00 %)IBM