The first table below looks at the demand for SOAP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SOAP over the 3 months to 18 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 Bedfordshire 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
Rank - 34 40
Contract jobs citing SOAP 0 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire - 0.376% 0.391%
As % of the Application Development category - 2.326% 1.408%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 1
Average daily rate - £263 £575
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -54.34%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £344 £338
% change year-on-year
+1.81% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.75 £35.00 £36.00
% change year-on-year
-12.14% -2.77%
All Application Development
Bedfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
52 43 71
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 26.53% 16.17% 27.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 25 33
Average daily rate £350 £350 £213
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +64.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £250 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £460 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 5
Average hourly rate - £190.00 £47.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +300.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.00 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+12.90% -13.16%
SOAP
East of England

SOAP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bedfordshire SOAP Jobs Demand Trend

SOAP
Daily Rate Trend

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

Bedfordshire SOAP Daily Rate Trend

SOAP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Bedfordshire SOAP Hourly Rate Trend

SOAP
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOAP within the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Bedford - - - -
Luton - - - - 2
SOAP
East of England

SOAP
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing SOAP 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 SOAP.

1 2 (100.00%) PHP
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) HTML5
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) Web Services
2 1 (50.00%) Social Media
2 1 (50.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (50.00%) iOS SDK
2 1 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) CSS3
2 1 (50.00%) PhoneGap
2 1 (50.00%) Appcelerator Titanium
2 1 (50.00%) OOP
2 1 (50.00%) OO
2 1 (50.00%) J2ME
2 1 (50.00%) Eclipse
2 1 (50.00%) J2EE
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) Xcode
2 1 (50.00%) Subversion
2 1 (50.00%) Ajax
2 1 (50.00%) Google
2 1 (50.00%) Web Development
2 1 (50.00%) JSON
2 1 (50.00%) SQLite
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) Android

SOAP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing SOAP 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 SOAP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) HTML5
2 1 (50.00%) iOS SDK
2 1 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) CSS3
2 1 (50.00%) J2ME
2 1 (50.00%) Ajax
2 1 (50.00%) JSON
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) J2EE
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) Web Services
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
2 1 (50.00%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (50.00%) Xcode
1 1 (50.00%) Subversion
1 1 (50.00%) PhoneGap
1 1 (50.00%) Appcelerator Titanium
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Programmer
2 1 (50.00%) PHP Developer
2 1 (50.00%) MySQL Developer
2 1 (50.00%) PHP Programmer
2 1 (50.00%) Mobile Developer
2 1 (50.00%) XML Developer
2 1 (50.00%) CSS Developer
2 1 (50.00%) PHP MySQL Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Android
1 1 (50.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) OOP
1 1 (50.00%) OO
1 1 (50.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PHP
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google