The first table below looks at the demand for Web Services 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 Web Services 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
Web Services
Rank 18 24 34
Rank change year-on-year
+6 +10
Contract jobs citing Web Services 14 11 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 7.143% 4.135% 2.734%
As % of the Application Development category 26.92% 25.58% 9.859%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 3
Average daily rate £375 £350 £403
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -13.04%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £280 £240 £305
10% offered a daily rate of more than £433 £396 £541
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year
-7.69% -18.75%
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%
Web Services
East of England

Web Services
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bedfordshire 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 Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire 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 Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Bedfordshire 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 Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire Web Services Hourly Rate Trend

Web Services
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Web Services 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
Luton 0 10 £350 - 5
Bedford - 1 £413 - 5
Dunstable - - - -
Web Services
East of England

Web Services
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 12 (50.00%) .NET
2 10 (41.67%) C#
2 10 (41.67%) XML
2 10 (41.67%) Microsoft
3 9 (37.50%) SQL Server
4 8 (33.33%) SQL
5 7 (29.17%) SharePoint
5 7 (29.17%) .NET Framework
6 6 (25.00%) Web Development
6 6 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
6 6 (25.00%) MS Excel
6 6 (25.00%) Windows
7 5 (20.83%) ASP.NET
7 5 (20.83%) HTML
7 5 (20.83%) Internet
7 5 (20.83%) SOA
7 5 (20.83%) ISEB
7 5 (20.83%) TDD
8 4 (16.67%) jQuery
8 4 (16.67%) QA
8 4 (16.67%) WCF
8 4 (16.67%) MVC
8 4 (16.67%) JavaScript
8 4 (16.67%) CSS
8 4 (16.67%) E-Commerce
9 3 (12.50%) Client/Server
9 3 (12.50%) N-Tier
9 3 (12.50%) OO
9 3 (12.50%) IIS
9 3 (12.50%) MySQL

Web Services
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 12 (50.00%) .NET
2 10 (41.67%) XML
3 7 (29.17%) .NET Framework
4 5 (20.83%) ASP.NET
4 5 (20.83%) HTML
5 4 (16.67%) CSS
5 4 (16.67%) WCF
5 4 (16.67%) jQuery
6 3 (12.50%) Ajax
6 3 (12.50%) HTML5
7 2 (8.333%) CSS3
7 2 (8.333%) Ruby on Rails
7 2 (8.333%) RESTful
7 2 (8.333%) MSMQ
8 1 (4.167%) J2ME
8 1 (4.167%) XSLT
8 1 (4.167%) SOAP
8 1 (4.167%) J2EE
8 1 (4.167%) ASP.NET MVC
8 1 (4.167%) WF
Application Platforms
1 7 (29.17%) SharePoint
2 3 (12.50%) IIS
2 3 (12.50%) Windows Azure
2 3 (12.50%) SharePoint 2010
3 2 (8.333%) nginx
3 2 (8.333%) NServiceBus
3 2 (8.333%) Apache
3 2 (8.333%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (4.167%) CMS
4 1 (4.167%) Exchange Server 2003
4 1 (4.167%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (4.167%) MS Exchange
4 1 (4.167%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (4.167%) Amazon AWS
4 1 (4.167%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (25.00%) MS Excel
2 2 (8.333%) DOC1
2 2 (8.333%) PrintSoft PReS
2 2 (8.333%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (8.333%) Exstream
2 1 (4.167%) Dynamics GP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (20.83%) Internet
2 1 (4.167%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (37.50%) SQL Server
2 3 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 3 (12.50%) SQL Server 2005
2 3 (12.50%) SQL Server 2008
2 3 (12.50%) MySQL
3 2 (8.333%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (8.333%) RDBMS
4 1 (4.167%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (4.167%) SQL Server 2012
4 1 (4.167%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Bugzilla
1 3 (12.50%) Subversion
1 3 (12.50%) Git (software)
1 3 (12.50%) Team Foundation Server
1 3 (12.50%) FogBugz
2 2 (8.333%) NUnit
2 2 (8.333%) JIRA
2 2 (8.333%) Visual Studio
3 1 (4.167%) Eclipse
3 1 (4.167%) Log4Net
3 1 (4.167%) Xcode
3 1 (4.167%) Selenium
3 1 (4.167%) TeamCity
3 1 (4.167%) WebDriver
3 1 (4.167%) FinalBuilder
3 1 (4.167%) PhoneGap
3 1 (4.167%) Appcelerator Titanium
General
1 2 (8.333%) Games
2 1 (4.167%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 7 (29.17%) Developer
2 6 (25.00%) Architect
3 5 (20.83%) Solutions Architect
4 4 (16.67%) Analyst
4 4 (16.67%) Test Analyst
5 3 (12.50%) .NET Developer
6 2 (8.333%) C# Developer
6 2 (8.333%) QA Analyst
6 2 (8.333%) Ruby on Rails Developer
6 2 (8.333%) C# .NET Developer
7 1 (4.167%) Change Project Manager
7 1 (4.167%) SharePoint Architect
7 1 (4.167%) Agile .NET Developer
7 1 (4.167%) Mobile Developer
7 1 (4.167%) Business Change Project Manager
7 1 (4.167%) Software Manager
7 1 (4.167%) Project Manager
7 1 (4.167%) Tester
7 1 (4.167%) ASP.NET Developer
7 1 (4.167%) Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Client/Server
1 3 (12.50%) N-Tier
1 3 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (8.333%) W3C
2 2 (8.333%) Computer Science
2 2 (8.333%) Online Games
3 1 (4.167%) Social Media
3 1 (4.167%) Digital Media
3 1 (4.167%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (25.00%) Windows
2 2 (8.333%) Linux
3 1 (4.167%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (4.167%) Android
3 1 (4.167%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (4.167%) Apple iOS
3 1 (4.167%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (25.00%) Web Development
1 6 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
2 5 (20.83%) SOA
2 5 (20.83%) TDD
3 4 (16.67%) E-Commerce
3 4 (16.67%) MVC
4 3 (12.50%) Change Management
4 3 (12.50%) OO
4 3 (12.50%) Scrum
4 3 (12.50%) Content Management
4 3 (12.50%) Test Scripting
4 3 (12.50%) Refactoring
4 3 (12.50%) AOP
4 3 (12.50%) Unit Testing
5 2 (8.333%) Enterprise Architecture
5 2 (8.333%) Risk Analysis
5 2 (8.333%) Test Automation
5 2 (8.333%) Project Management
5 2 (8.333%) Business Analysis
5 2 (8.333%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 10 (41.67%) C#
2 8 (33.33%) SQL
3 4 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 2 (8.333%) T-SQL
4 2 (8.333%) VB
4 2 (8.333%) Ruby
5 1 (4.167%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.167%) VBA
5 1 (4.167%) VB6
5 1 (4.167%) PHP
5 1 (4.167%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (20.83%) ISEB
2 3 (12.50%) ISTQB
3 2 (8.333%) Degree
4 1 (4.167%) VCP4
4 1 (4.167%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (4.167%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (4.167%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 2 (8.333%) Varnish
2 1 (4.167%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.167%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (4.167%) NetBackup
1 1 (4.167%) WSUS
1 1 (4.167%) Puppet
1 1 (4.167%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
Vendors
1 10 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.50%) HP
2 3 (12.50%) Oracle
3 1 (4.167%) Symantec
3 1 (4.167%) VMware
3 1 (4.167%) Google
3 1 (4.167%) SolarWinds