The first table below looks at the demand for Web Services skills in IT contracts advertised for the Basingstoke region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Web Services over the 3 months to 22 May 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 Basingstoke 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Web Services
Rank 9 17 19
Rank change year-on-year
+8 +2
Contract jobs citing Web Services 35 11 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Basingstoke 17.24% 5.946% 5.242%
As % of the Application Development category 38.04% 13.92% 17.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 2 5
Average daily rate £350 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £321 £295 £256
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £355 £380
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
-7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
Average hourly rate £31.06 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.25 £32.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year
-0.76% -18.75%
All Application Development
Basingstoke
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
92 79 73
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Basingstoke 45.32% 42.70% 29.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 26 26
Average daily rate £350 £363 £385
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.44% -5.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £320 £275 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £500 £432
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 10 12
Average hourly rate £39.00 £20.00 £34.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+95.00% -42.02%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Web Services
Hampshire

Web Services
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Basingstoke Web Services Jobs Demand Trend

Web Services
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Web Services across the Basingstoke region.

Basingstoke Web Services Daily Rate Trend

Web Services
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Web Services across the Basingstoke region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Basingstoke Web Services Daily Rate Histogram

Web Services
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Web Services across the Basingstoke region.

Basingstoke Web Services Hourly Rate Trend

Web Services
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Web Services across the Basingstoke region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Basingstoke Web Services Hourly Rate Histogram

Web Services
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Basingstoke region citing Web Services 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 Web Services.

1 59 (75.64%) Java
2 56 (71.79%) SQL Server
2 56 (71.79%) Hibernate
3 52 (66.67%) MVC
3 52 (66.67%) BDD
4 50 (64.10%) SQL
5 49 (62.82%) Spring
6 47 (60.26%) SOAP
7 46 (58.97%) Git (software)
8 44 (56.41%) REST
8 44 (56.41%) JUnit
8 44 (56.41%) Spring MVC
9 42 (53.85%) jQuery
9 42 (53.85%) Java EE
9 42 (53.85%) EJB
9 42 (53.85%) CSS
9 42 (53.85%) JMS
10 41 (52.56%) JAXB
10 41 (52.56%) JSON
10 41 (52.56%) Web Development
10 41 (52.56%) JTA
10 41 (52.56%) Spring Security
10 41 (52.56%) Spring Web Flow
10 41 (52.56%) JPA
11 40 (51.28%) JavaScript
12 38 (48.72%) HTML
12 38 (48.72%) Maven
13 36 (46.15%) OOD
14 35 (44.87%) Software Architecture
15 34 (43.59%) Mockito

Web Services
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Basingstoke region citing Web Services 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 Web Services. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 56 (71.79%) Hibernate
2 49 (62.82%) Spring
3 47 (60.26%) SOAP
4 44 (56.41%) REST
4 44 (56.41%) Spring MVC
5 42 (53.85%) jQuery
5 42 (53.85%) Java EE
5 42 (53.85%) EJB
5 42 (53.85%) CSS
5 42 (53.85%) JMS
6 41 (52.56%) JAXB
6 41 (52.56%) JSON
6 41 (52.56%) JTA
6 41 (52.56%) Spring Security
6 41 (52.56%) Spring Web Flow
6 41 (52.56%) JPA
7 38 (48.72%) HTML
8 31 (39.74%) Apache CXF
9 30 (38.46%) JSP
10 22 (28.21%) WCF
Application Platforms
1 26 (33.33%) BizTalk Server
2 10 (12.82%) ESB
3 3 (3.846%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.846%) WebSphere Application Server
3 3 (3.846%) SharePoint Server
3 3 (3.846%) WebSphere Process Server
3 3 (3.846%) WebSphere Message Broker
4 1 (1.282%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (6.410%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.282%) SAP Oil and Gas
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (71.79%) SQL Server
2 34 (43.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 34 (43.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 18 (23.08%) SQL Server 2008
4 14 (17.95%) NoSQL
5 11 (14.10%) SQL Server 2005
6 8 (10.26%) SQL Server 2000
6 8 (10.26%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 46 (58.97%) Git (software)
2 44 (56.41%) JUnit
3 38 (48.72%) Maven
4 34 (43.59%) Mockito
5 28 (35.90%) Selenium
6 15 (19.23%) Subversion
7 12 (15.38%) JBehave
8 11 (14.10%) SpecFlow
9 9 (11.54%) Eclipse
10 8 (10.26%) ReSharper
11 3 (3.846%) Rational Application Developer
11 3 (3.846%) WebDriver
11 3 (3.846%) Visual Studio
12 2 (2.564%) WATIR
12 2 (2.564%) FitNesse
13 1 (1.282%) JMeter
13 1 (1.282%) NUnit
13 1 (1.282%) Firebug
13 1 (1.282%) Fiddler
13 1 (1.282%) Hudson
General
1 5 (6.410%) Finance
2 1 (1.282%) Electronics
2 1 (1.282%) Telecoms
2 1 (1.282%) Manufacturing
2 1 (1.282%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 66 (84.62%) Developer
2 48 (61.54%) Java Developer
3 13 (16.67%) .NET Developer
4 11 (14.10%) C# .NET Developer
4 11 (14.10%) C# Developer
5 10 (12.82%) Technical Leader
6 8 (10.26%) C# ASP.NET Developer
6 8 (10.26%) ASP.NET Developer
6 8 (10.26%) Agile .NET Developer
6 8 (10.26%) Agile C# Developer
7 7 (8.974%) Software Architect
7 7 (8.974%) Architect
8 6 (7.692%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (6.410%) Java Swing Developer
10 4 (5.128%) Java Architect
10 4 (5.128%) Lead Developer
10 4 (5.128%) Java Solutions Architect
11 3 (3.846%) Technical Developer
11 3 (3.846%) Team Leader
11 3 (3.846%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.26%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (1.282%) Smartcard
2 1 (1.282%) DTV
2 1 (1.282%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.26%) Linux
2 7 (8.974%) Windows
3 1 (1.282%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (66.67%) MVC
1 52 (66.67%) BDD
2 41 (52.56%) Web Development
3 36 (46.15%) OOD
4 35 (44.87%) Software Architecture
5 32 (41.03%) UML
6 31 (39.74%) TDD
7 29 (37.18%) Pair Programming
8 24 (30.77%) Agile Software Development
9 20 (25.64%) Scrum
10 18 (23.08%) Continuous Integration
10 18 (23.08%) SOA
11 16 (20.51%) OO
12 14 (17.95%) Dependency Injection
13 9 (11.54%) Kanban
14 6 (7.692%) Unit Testing
15 2 (2.564%) Manual Testing
16 1 (1.282%) Business Intelligence
16 1 (1.282%) E-Commerce
16 1 (1.282%) Automated Testing
Programming Languages
1 59 (75.64%) Java
2 50 (64.10%) SQL
3 40 (51.28%) JavaScript
4 25 (32.05%) C#
5 8 (10.26%) T-SQL
6 2 (2.564%) Perl
6 2 (2.564%) C++
6 2 (2.564%) C
6 2 (2.564%) Python
7 1 (1.282%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 5 (6.410%) Degree
2 3 (3.846%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.282%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.410%) HL7
2 1 (1.282%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (3.846%) Tivoli
1 3 (3.846%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 29 (37.18%) JBoss
2 12 (15.38%) Twitter
3 7 (8.974%) Oracle
3 7 (8.974%) Software AG
3 7 (8.974%) webMethods
4 5 (6.410%) Google
5 3 (3.846%) IBM
5 3 (3.846%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.282%) SAP
6 1 (1.282%) Fujitsu