The first table below looks at the demand for BREW skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited BREW over the 3 months to 19 June 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 for the West Yorkshire region.

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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless (BREW)
Rank 92 - 82
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing BREW 3 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 0.219% - 0.083%
As % of the Application Development category 0.815% - 0.322%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - £300 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Development
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
368 461 311
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 26.82% 26.49% 25.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 210 267 170
Average daily rate £288 £300 £280
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.16% +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £363 £375 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 7
Average hourly rate £38.00 £18.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+111.11% -20.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
BREW
Yorkshire

BREW
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing BREW across the West Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

West Yorkshire BREW Jobs Demand Trend

BREW
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing BREW 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 BREW.

1 3 (60.00%) VC++
1 3 (60.00%) Java
1 3 (60.00%) .NET
1 3 (60.00%) J2EE
1 3 (60.00%) J2ME
2 2 (40.00%) ISAPI
2 2 (40.00%) MAPI
2 2 (40.00%) RDBMS
2 2 (40.00%) Internet
2 2 (40.00%) Configuration Management
2 2 (40.00%) OLE
2 2 (40.00%) OLE DB
2 2 (40.00%) MFC
2 2 (40.00%) MySQL
2 2 (40.00%) Oracle
2 2 (40.00%) ODBC
2 2 (40.00%) UNIX
2 2 (40.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) HTML
2 2 (40.00%) ActiveX
2 2 (40.00%) Change Management
2 2 (40.00%) Wireless
2 2 (40.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (40.00%) Handset
2 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (40.00%) DAO
2 2 (40.00%) Ruby

BREW
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing BREW 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 BREW. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (60.00%) .NET
1 3 (60.00%) J2EE
1 3 (60.00%) J2ME
2 2 (40.00%) ISAPI
2 2 (40.00%) MAPI
2 2 (40.00%) OLE
2 2 (40.00%) OLE DB
2 2 (40.00%) MFC
2 2 (40.00%) ODBC
2 2 (40.00%) HTML
2 2 (40.00%) ActiveX
2 2 (40.00%) DAO
2 2 (40.00%) Ruby on Rails
2 2 (40.00%) jQuery
3 1 (20.00%) Java EE
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Internet
1 2 (40.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (40.00%) MySQL
1 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (40.00%) CouchDB
1 2 (40.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git (software)
1 2 (40.00%) Capistrano
General
1 2 (40.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Ruby on Rails Developer
2 2 (40.00%) UI Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Mobile Developer
2 2 (40.00%) UI Programmer
3 1 (20.00%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Handset
1 2 (40.00%) Animation
1 2 (40.00%) iPhone
1 2 (40.00%) Heroku
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) UNIX
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (40.00%) Change Management
1 2 (40.00%) Refactoring
2 1 (20.00%) Requirements Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) VC++
1 3 (60.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) Ruby
3 1 (20.00%) C++
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle
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