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This section looks at the demand for Web Services skills within the Bedford region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WebServices over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkWeb Services
Location
3 months to
20 Aug 2008
Same period last year
Rank2221
Rank change on same period last yearDown-1
Matching permanent IT job ads2315
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled0.012 %0.006 %
As % of the category below11.98 %15.31 %
Salaries quoted2214
Average minimum salary£33,636£27,571
Average salary£34,727£30,750
% change on same period last year+12.93 %
Average maximum salary£35,818£33,929
UK excluding London average salary£37,530£38,773
% change on same period last year-3.20 %
Bedford IT Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
Bedford
Matching permanent IT job ads19298
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled0.103 %0.041 %
Salaries quoted18793
Average minimum salary£32,106£29,603
Average salary£35,384£32,294
% change on same period last year+9.56 %
Average maximum salary£38,662£34,984
UK excluding London average salary£35,926£36,840
% change on same period last year-2.48 %
WebServices BedfordshireWebServices
Bedfordshire

WebServices
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing WebServices across the Bedford region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Bedford WebServices Demand Trend

WebServices
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing WebServices across the Bedford region.

Bedford WebServices Salary Trend

WebServices
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing WebServices across the Bedford region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

Bedford WebServices Salary Histogram

WebServices
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT jobs across the Bedford 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 IT job ads sampled that cited WebServices.

123 (71.88 %)Oracle
221 (65.63 %)SQL
316 (50.00 %)IIS
316 (50.00 %)XML
316 (50.00 %)Windows
414 (43.75 %).NET
512 (37.50 %)C#
611 (34.38 %)SQL Server
611 (34.38 %)MS Excel
79 (28.13 %)SOAP
88 (25.00 %)PL/SQL
97 (21.88 %)HTML
97 (21.88 %)CSS
106 (18.75 %)ITIL
106 (18.75 %)PHP
106 (18.75 %)RDBMS
106 (18.75 %)Microsoft
115 (15.63 %)WinForms
115 (15.63 %)Transact-SQL
115 (15.63 %)MySQL
115 (15.63 %)ASP.NET
115 (15.63 %)XHTML
115 (15.63 %)Oracle Forms
124 (12.50 %)Marketing
133 (9.375 %)Web Development
133 (9.375 %)AJAX
133 (9.375 %)Degree
133 (9.375 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
133 (9.375 %)XML-RPC
133 (9.375 %)XSLT

WebServices
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT jobs across the Bedford 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 IT job ads sampled that cited WebServices. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Bedford IT Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
116 (50.00 %)XML
214 (43.75 %).NET
39 (28.13 %)SOAP
47 (21.88 %)CSS
47 (21.88 %)HTML
55 (15.63 %)ASP.NET
55 (15.63 %)WinForms
55 (15.63 %)XHTML
63 (9.375 %)XML-RPC
63 (9.375 %)AJAX
63 (9.375 %)XSLT
71 (3.125 %)J2EE
71 (3.125 %).NET Framework
71 (3.125 %)Adobe Flex
71 (3.125 %)Silverlight
71 (3.125 %)WSDL
71 (3.125 %)Middleware
Bedford IT Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
116 (50.00 %)IIS
21 (3.125 %)Apache
21 (3.125 %)SharePoint
21 (3.125 %)BizTalk Server
Bedford IT Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
111 (34.38 %)MS Excel
Bedford IT Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
111 (34.38 %)SQL Server
26 (18.75 %)RDBMS
35 (15.63 %)MySQL
43 (9.375 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
51 (3.125 %)SQL Server 2005
51 (3.125 %)SQL Server 2000
Bedford IT Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
15 (15.63 %)Oracle Forms
22 (6.250 %)NUnit
31 (3.125 %)Visual Studio
31 (3.125 %)ClearCase
Bedford IT Job Market, GeneralGeneral
14 (12.50 %)Marketing
21 (3.125 %)Government
21 (3.125 %)Pensions
Bedford IT Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
115 (46.88 %)Developer
26 (18.75 %)Server Support
26 (18.75 %)C# Developer
35 (15.63 %)PHP Developer
35 (15.63 %)Administrator
44 (12.50 %)Consultant
44 (12.50 %)Systems Administrator
44 (12.50 %).NET Developer
44 (12.50 %)Senior Systems Administrator
52 (6.250 %)Server Support Engineer
52 (6.250 %)Installations Engineer
52 (6.250 %)Server Engineer
52 (6.250 %)Team Leader
52 (6.250 %)Support Consultant
52 (6.250 %)Senior Developer
52 (6.250 %)Support Analyst
52 (6.250 %)Support Engineer
52 (6.250 %)Analyst
52 (6.250 %)Web Developer
52 (6.250 %)PHP Web Developer
Bedford IT Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
12 (6.250 %)N-Tier
12 (6.250 %)Replication
Bedford IT Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
116 (50.00 %)Windows
21 (3.125 %)UNIX
Bedford IT Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
16 (18.75 %)ITIL
23 (9.375 %)Web Development
32 (6.250 %)OO
32 (6.250 %)Service Delivery
41 (3.125 %)Agile Software Development
41 (3.125 %)Configuration Management
Bedford IT Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
121 (65.63 %)SQL
212 (37.50 %)C#
38 (25.00 %)PL/SQL
46 (18.75 %)PHP
55 (15.63 %)Transact-SQL
62 (6.250 %)VB.NET
71 (3.125 %)PHP5
71 (3.125 %)PHP4
71 (3.125 %)C
71 (3.125 %)Java
71 (3.125 %)JavaScript
Bedford IT Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
13 (9.375 %)Degree
Bedford IT Job Market, VendorsVendors
123 (71.88 %)Oracle
26 (18.75 %)Microsoft
31 (3.125 %)Mapinfo
31 (3.125 %)Google