West Midlands WebServices Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Web Services skills within the West Midlands 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Alderley Edge Aylesbury Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dundee Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Farnham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrow Hendon Hertfordshire Highlands Huddersfield Inverness Ipswich Kent Lanarkshire Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Preston Reading Redhill Rickmansworth Salford Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stroud Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Whyteleafe Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	30	65
Rank change on same period last year	+35
Matching contract IT job ads	123	71
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.164 %	0.072 %
As % of the category below	16.42 %	10.29 %
Daily rates quoted	37	9
Average minimum daily rate	£302	£339
Average daily rate	£317	£347
% change on same period last year	-8.57 %
Average maximum daily rate	£333	£356
UK excluding London average daily rate	£346	£347
% change on same period last year	-0.38 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	12
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.00	£30.77
Average hourly rate	£27.50	£32.15
% change on same period last year	-14.47 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.00	£33.54
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£36.47	£32.67
% change on same period last year	+11.62 %
Application Development West Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	749	690
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.998 %	0.698 %
Daily rates quoted	162	127
Average minimum daily rate	£298	£298
Average daily rate	£316	£313
% change on same period last year	+0.98 %
Average maximum daily rate	£334	£328
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£336
% change on same period last year	+1.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	23	52
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.20	£31.18
Average hourly rate	£30.04	£33.56
% change on same period last year	-10.49 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.88	£35.93
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.78	£33.23
% change on same period last year	-1.32 %
WebServices England

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 West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WebServices across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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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 West Midlands region.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WebServices within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 25 July 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
Birmingham	+28	28	£349	-
Coventry	-4	26	£301	-7.25 %
Warwickshire	+18	17	£360	+10.76 %
Solihull	-	4	-	-
Shropshire	-6	3	-	-
Wolverhampton	-4	3	-	-
Staffordshire	-	1	-	-
Worcestershire	-5	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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.

1 114 (63.69 %) .NET 2 103 (57.54 %) XML 3 94 (52.51 %) ASP.NET 4 73 (40.78 %) C# 5 70 (39.11 %) SQL Server 6 59 (32.96 %) SOAP 7 57 (31.84 %) JavaScript 8 53 (29.61 %) SQL 9 50 (27.93 %) Java 10 47 (26.26 %) CSS 11 42 (23.46 %) OO 12 34 (18.99 %) ASP.NET 2.0 13 33 (18.44 %) WebSphere 13 33 (18.44 %) VB.NET 14 31 (17.32 %) HTML

14 31 (17.32 %) UML 15 29 (16.20 %) Web Development 16 28 (15.64 %) AJAX 16 28 (15.64 %) Agile Software Development 16 28 (15.64 %) W3C 17 27 (15.08 %) XHTML 18 26 (14.53 %) Microsoft 19 25 (13.97 %) WebSphere Message Broker 20 24 (13.41 %) SQL Server 2005 21 23 (12.85 %) SOA 22 22 (12.29 %) XSLT 22 22 (12.29 %) J2EE 22 22 (12.29 %) Oracle 23 21 (11.73 %) Web Design 24 20 (11.17 %) Web 2.0

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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 1 114 (63.69 %) .NET 2 103 (57.54 %) XML 3 94 (52.51 %) ASP.NET 4 59 (32.96 %) SOAP 5 47 (26.26 %) CSS 6 34 (18.99 %) ASP.NET 2.0 7 33 (18.44 %) WebSphere 8 31 (17.32 %) HTML 9 28 (15.64 %) AJAX 10 27 (15.08 %) XHTML 11 22 (12.29 %) J2EE 11 22 (12.29 %) XSLT 12 20 (11.17 %) XSL 13 14 (7.821 %) XSD 14 13 (7.263 %) JMS 15 12 (6.704 %) .NET Framework 16 10 (5.587 %) .NET Remoting 17 9 (5.028 %) WinForms 17 9 (5.028 %) WSDL 18 8 (4.469 %) Spring	Application Platforms 1 25 (13.97 %) WebSphere Message Broker 2 17 (9.497 %) MQSeries 3 13 (7.263 %) IIS 4 9 (5.028 %) BizTalk Server 5 8 (4.469 %) Lotus Domino 6 6 (3.352 %) CMS 7 5 (2.793 %) Lotus Notes 7 5 (2.793 %) ESB 8 4 (2.235 %) MQSI 8 4 (2.235 %) WebSphere MQ 8 4 (2.235 %) ColdFusion 9 2 (1.117 %) NetWeaver 9 2 (1.117 %) SharePoint 9 2 (1.117 %) Oracle HTTP Server 9 2 (1.117 %) JBoss 9 2 (1.117 %) Mule 10 1 (0.559 %) Oracle 10gAS 10 1 (0.559 %) SharePoint Server 2007 10 1 (0.559 %) WebSphere Application Server 10 1 (0.559 %) WebLogic
Applications 1 17 (9.497 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 9 (5.028 %) HTTP 2 6 (3.352 %) SSL 3 4 (2.235 %) Intranet 4 3 (1.676 %) LDAP 5 2 (1.117 %) FTP 5 2 (1.117 %) HTTPS 6 1 (0.559 %) Bluetooth 6 1 (0.559 %) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 70 (39.11 %) SQL Server 2 24 (13.41 %) SQL Server 2005 3 17 (9.497 %) SQL Server 2000 4 6 (3.352 %) MySQL 5 5 (2.793 %) RDBMS 5 5 (2.793 %) Oracle 10g 5 5 (2.793 %) SQL Server 7 6 3 (1.676 %) Oracle 8/8i 6 3 (1.676 %) Datawarehouse 7 2 (1.117 %) Crystal Reports 7 2 (1.117 %) Oracle Reports 7 2 (1.117 %) SQLPlus 7 2 (1.117 %) Oracle 11g 8 1 (0.559 %) GIS 8 1 (0.559 %) InterBase 8 1 (0.559 %) InterSystems Cache	Development Applications 1 20 (11.17 %) Visual Studio 2 5 (2.793 %) Subversion 3 4 (2.235 %) ClearQuest 3 4 (2.235 %) NUnit 3 4 (2.235 %) Rational Rose 3 4 (2.235 %) Eclipse 4 2 (1.117 %) JDeveloper 4 2 (1.117 %) XMLSpy 4 2 (1.117 %) Oracle Forms 4 2 (1.117 %) ClearCase 4 2 (1.117 %) CruiseControl 5 1 (0.559 %) WebSpeed 5 1 (0.559 %) Visual Studio Team System 5 1 (0.559 %) Ant 5 1 (0.559 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer 5 1 (0.559 %) PVCS
General 1 19 (10.61 %) Finance 2 8 (4.469 %) Health 3 7 (3.911 %) Government 4 4 (2.235 %) Advertising 5 3 (1.676 %) Pensions 5 3 (1.676 %) Manufacturing 6 1 (0.559 %) Pharmaceutical 6 1 (0.559 %) Back Office 6 1 (0.559 %) Automotive 6 1 (0.559 %) Construction 6 1 (0.559 %) Education 6 1 (0.559 %) Publishing 6 1 (0.559 %) Games 6 1 (0.559 %) Local Government	Job Titles 1 148 (82.68 %) Developer 2 49 (27.37 %) .NET Developer 3 37 (20.67 %) Web Developer 4 27 (15.08 %) WebSphere Developer 5 21 (11.73 %) C# Developer 6 19 (10.61 %) ASP.NET Developer 7 15 (8.380 %) Java Developer 8 14 (7.821 %) VB.NET Developer 9 11 (6.145 %) Consultant 10 9 (5.028 %) Lead Developer 11 8 (4.469 %) Analyst 11 8 (4.469 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 11 8 (4.469 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 12 6 (3.352 %) Java/J2EE Developer 12 6 (3.352 %) C# Web Developer 12 6 (3.352 %) SQL Developer 13 5 (2.793 %) Systems Analyst 13 5 (2.793 %) Senior Developer 13 5 (2.793 %) Lotus Notes Developer 13 5 (2.793 %) BizTalk Developer
Miscellaneous 1 28 (15.64 %) W3C 2 20 (11.17 %) Web 2.0 3 16 (8.939 %) NHS 4 5 (2.793 %) Replication 5 3 (1.676 %) Computer Science 6 1 (0.559 %) Wiki 6 1 (0.559 %) Mathematics 6 1 (0.559 %) N-Tier 6 1 (0.559 %) Device Driver	Operating Systems 1 11 (6.145 %) Linux 2 10 (5.587 %) Windows 3 4 (2.235 %) Solaris 3 4 (2.235 %) zOS 4 1 (0.559 %) Windows CE 4 1 (0.559 %) SUSE 4 1 (0.559 %) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies 1 42 (23.46 %) OO 2 31 (17.32 %) UML 3 29 (16.20 %) Web Development 4 28 (15.64 %) Agile Software Development 5 23 (12.85 %) SOA 6 21 (11.73 %) Web Design 7 18 (10.06 %) Content Management 8 17 (9.497 %) Online Security 9 14 (7.821 %) Scrum 10 12 (6.704 %) OOP 11 9 (5.028 %) OOD 12 8 (4.469 %) TDD 12 8 (4.469 %) EAI 12 8 (4.469 %) Change Management 13 6 (3.352 %) RAD 14 5 (2.793 %) Unit Testing 15 4 (2.235 %) Identity Management 15 4 (2.235 %) Business Intelligence 15 4 (2.235 %) Enterprise Architecture 16 3 (1.676 %) RUP	Programming Languages 1 73 (40.78 %) C# 2 57 (31.84 %) JavaScript 3 53 (29.61 %) SQL 4 50 (27.93 %) Java 5 33 (18.44 %) VB.NET 6 9 (5.028 %) Transact-SQL 7 8 (4.469 %) PL/SQL 7 8 (4.469 %) COBOL 8 7 (3.911 %) VB 9 5 (2.793 %) LotusScript 10 4 (2.235 %) VBScript 10 4 (2.235 %) C++ 10 4 (2.235 %) PHP 11 2 (1.117 %) VB6 11 2 (1.117 %) XAML 12 1 (0.559 %) C++/CLI 12 1 (0.559 %) C 12 1 (0.559 %) Delphi
Qualifications 1 7 (3.911 %) Degree 2 3 (1.676 %) Microsoft Certification 3 2 (1.117 %) MCAD 3 2 (1.117 %) MCSD 4 1 (0.559 %) MCDST	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (2.793 %) WAI
Systems Management 1 3 (1.676 %) MIIS	Vendors 1 26 (14.53 %) Microsoft 2 22 (12.29 %) Oracle 3 5 (2.793 %) Lotus 4 4 (2.235 %) Red Hat 5 3 (1.676 %) SAP 5 3 (1.676 %) IBM 6 2 (1.117 %) Progress 6 2 (1.117 %) FatWire 7 1 (0.559 %) Northgate 7 1 (0.559 %) SeeBeyond 7 1 (0.559 %) Sun 7 1 (0.559 %) Compaq