Bath WSDL Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Web Services Description Language (WSDL) skills within the Bath region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited WSDL over the 3 months to 24 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Web Services Description Language (WSDL)
Location Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bridgend Cheshire Chester Derby Derbyshire East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Hampshire Hendon Hertfordshire Ipswich Leeds London Middlesex North West Reading Scotland Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West Southampton Stevenage Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swansea UK Wales West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Yorkshire	3 months to 24 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£370	£339
% change on same period last year	+9.00 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.75	£32.00
% change on same period last year	-0.78 %
Application Development Bath
Matching contract IT job ads	22	11
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.029 %	0.011 %
Daily rates quoted	6	0
Average minimum daily rate	£264	-
Average daily rate	£303	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£342	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£335
% change on same period last year	+1.50 %
Hourly rates quoted	8	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	£26.50
Average hourly rate	£31.88	£28.25
% change on same period last year	+12.83 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.75	£30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.66	£33.10
% change on same period last year	-1.32 %
WSDL Somerset

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.