Wiltshire WebServices Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Web Services skills within the Wiltshire 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 24 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 Paddington Peterborough Preston Reading Redhill Rickmansworth 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 24 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	61	45
Rank change on same period last year	-16
Matching contract IT job ads	6	31
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.031 %
As % of the category below	5.769 %	16.67 %
Daily rates quoted	1	12
Average minimum daily rate	£400	£300
Average daily rate	£425	£322
% change on same period last year	+31.86 %
Average maximum daily rate	£450	£345
UK excluding London average daily rate	£346	£346
% change on same period last year	-0.04 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£60.00	£30.00
Average hourly rate	£60.50	£32.50
% change on same period last year	+86.15 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£61.00	£35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£36.24	£32.53
% change on same period last year	+11.40 %
Application Development Wiltshire
Matching contract IT job ads	104	186
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.138 %	0.189 %
Daily rates quoted	22	50
Average minimum daily rate	£347	£321
Average daily rate	£377	£338
% change on same period last year	+11.54 %
Average maximum daily rate	£407	£354
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£335
% change on same period last year	+1.50 %
Hourly rates quoted	18	20
Average minimum hourly rate	£34.71	£26.62
Average hourly rate	£36.61	£29.82
% change on same period last year	+22.78 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£38.52	£33.02
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.66	£33.10
% change on same period last year	-1.32 %
WebServices South West

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 Wiltshire 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 Wiltshire 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 Wiltshire 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 Wiltshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Swindon	-10	6	£425	+42.85 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Wiltshire 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 17 (58.62 %) .NET 2 10 (34.48 %) Windows 2 10 (34.48 %) C# 2 10 (34.48 %) SQL Server 3 8 (27.59 %) XML 4 7 (24.14 %) ASP.NET 4 7 (24.14 %) SharePoint 4 7 (24.14 %) Microsoft 4 7 (24.14 %) Internet 4 7 (24.14 %) Finance 4 7 (24.14 %) WinForms 5 6 (20.69 %) SQL Server 2000 5 6 (20.69 %) Oracle 5 6 (20.69 %) UML 5 6 (20.69 %) VB.NET

6 5 (17.24 %) SQL 6 5 (17.24 %) OO 6 5 (17.24 %) XSLT 6 5 (17.24 %) SharePoint Server 2007 6 5 (17.24 %) SQL Server 2005 6 5 (17.24 %) Security Cleared 7 4 (13.79 %) JavaScript 7 4 (13.79 %) VBScript 7 4 (13.79 %) SOA 8 3 (10.34 %) Mainframe 8 3 (10.34 %) MS Excel 8 3 (10.34 %) VB 8 3 (10.34 %) C 8 3 (10.34 %) IIS 8 3 (10.34 %) MS Office

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Wiltshire 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 17 (58.62 %) .NET 2 8 (27.59 %) XML 3 7 (24.14 %) ASP.NET 3 7 (24.14 %) WinForms 4 5 (17.24 %) XSLT 5 3 (10.34 %) Windows SharePoint Services 5 3 (10.34 %) COM 5 3 (10.34 %) CSS 5 3 (10.34 %) ADO.NET 5 3 (10.34 %) ASP 5 3 (10.34 %) HTML 6 2 (6.897 %) STL 6 2 (6.897 %) WCF 7 1 (3.448 %) WF 7 1 (3.448 %) WSE 7 1 (3.448 %) WSDL 7 1 (3.448 %) XSD 7 1 (3.448 %) SOAP 7 1 (3.448 %) AJAX	Application Platforms 1 7 (24.14 %) SharePoint 2 5 (17.24 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 3 (10.34 %) IIS 4 1 (3.448 %) Documentum 4 1 (3.448 %) BizTalk Server
Applications 1 3 (10.34 %) MS Office 1 3 (10.34 %) MS Excel 2 2 (6.897 %) MS Visio	Communications & Networking 1 7 (24.14 %) Internet 2 2 (6.897 %) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 10 (34.48 %) SQL Server 2 6 (20.69 %) SQL Server 2000 3 5 (17.24 %) SQL Server 2005 4 2 (6.897 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 4 2 (6.897 %) SQL Server 7 5 1 (3.448 %) EDRMS 5 1 (3.448 %) SQL Server Integration Services	Development Applications 1 2 (6.897 %) Visual Studio 1 2 (6.897 %) VSS/SourceSafe 1 2 (6.897 %) Subversion 2 1 (3.448 %) Oracle Forms
General 1 7 (24.14 %) Finance 2 3 (10.34 %) Government 2 3 (10.34 %) Banking 2 3 (10.34 %) Online Banking 3 2 (6.897 %) Insurance 4 1 (3.448 %) Military 4 1 (3.448 %) Marketing	Job Titles 1 14 (48.28 %) Developer 2 7 (24.14 %) Architect 3 6 (20.69 %) C# Developer 4 4 (13.79 %) Enterprise Architect 4 4 (13.79 %) Analyst 5 3 (10.34 %) Software Engineer 5 3 (10.34 %) Consultant 6 2 (6.897 %) Applications Developer 6 2 (6.897 %) .NET Developer 6 2 (6.897 %) Technical Architect 6 2 (6.897 %) Business Analyst 6 2 (6.897 %) ASP.NET Developer 6 2 (6.897 %) SharePoint Developer 6 2 (6.897 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 7 1 (3.448 %) Documentum Architect 7 1 (3.448 %) Senior Technical Architect 7 1 (3.448 %) C++ Software Engineer 7 1 (3.448 %) Analyst Developer 7 1 (3.448 %) Applications Architect 7 1 (3.448 %) Developer Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 3 (10.34 %) Mainframe 1 3 (10.34 %) Replication 2 1 (3.448 %) N-Tier	Operating Systems 1 10 (34.48 %) Windows 2 1 (3.448 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (20.69 %) UML 2 5 (17.24 %) OO 2 5 (17.24 %) Security Cleared 3 4 (13.79 %) SOA 4 3 (10.34 %) SC Cleared 4 3 (10.34 %) Enterprise Architecture 4 3 (10.34 %) Content Management 5 2 (6.897 %) Project Management 5 2 (6.897 %) Migration 6 1 (3.448 %) Agile Software Development 6 1 (3.448 %) Risk Management 6 1 (3.448 %) Workflow 6 1 (3.448 %) Business Intelligence 6 1 (3.448 %) ERP 6 1 (3.448 %) Data Analysis 6 1 (3.448 %) Software Engineering 6 1 (3.448 %) Systems Analysis 6 1 (3.448 %) Project Planning 6 1 (3.448 %) System Testing	Programming Languages 1 10 (34.48 %) C# 2 6 (20.69 %) VB.NET 3 5 (17.24 %) SQL 4 4 (13.79 %) VBScript 4 4 (13.79 %) JavaScript 5 3 (10.34 %) C++ 5 3 (10.34 %) Java 5 3 (10.34 %) VB 5 3 (10.34 %) C 6 2 (6.897 %) VB6 7 1 (3.448 %) Transact-SQL 7 1 (3.448 %) PL/SQL
System Software 1 1 (3.448 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 7 (24.14 %) Microsoft 2 6 (20.69 %) Oracle 3 2 (6.897 %) SAP