The first table below looks at the demand for SOAP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SOAP 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 Berkshire 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
Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
Rank 111 110 119
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +9
Contract jobs citing SOAP 11 26 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.448% 0.810% 0.376%
As % of the Application Development category 2.018% 4.668% 1.532%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 6
Average daily rate £550 £275 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+100.00% -24.13%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £330
% change year-on-year
- +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £36.25
% change year-on-year
-14.28% -3.44%
All Application Development
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
545 557 718
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 22.22% 17.36% 24.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 228 251 300
Average daily rate £388 £330 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+17.42% +3.12%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £238 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £430
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 11 64
Average hourly rate £35.00 £21.50 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+62.79% -49.41%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
SOAP
South East

SOAP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire 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 Berkshire region.

Berkshire SOAP Daily Rate Trend

SOAP
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Berkshire SOAP Daily Rate Histogram

SOAP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Berkshire 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 Berkshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 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
Reading +9 7 £375 -
SOAP
South East

SOAP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire 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 23 (67.65%) XML
2 22 (64.71%) Web Services
3 18 (52.94%) Java
4 13 (38.24%) jQuery
5 11 (32.35%) JSON
6 10 (29.41%) REST
7 9 (26.47%) Content Management
7 9 (26.47%) Ajax
7 9 (26.47%) Eclipse
8 8 (23.53%) .NET
8 8 (23.53%) Apache
8 8 (23.53%) soapUI
9 7 (20.59%) OSGi
9 7 (20.59%) Adobe CQ
9 7 (20.59%) Apache Sling
9 7 (20.59%) JSP
9 7 (20.59%) Servlets
9 7 (20.59%) JavaScript
9 7 (20.59%) Maven
9 7 (20.59%) Omniture
9 7 (20.59%) Adobe
9 7 (20.59%) RESTful
10 6 (17.65%) Apache Felix
10 6 (17.65%) Jenkins
11 5 (14.71%) Shell Script
11 5 (14.71%) JMS
11 5 (14.71%) HTML
11 5 (14.71%) SAP
11 5 (14.71%) ASP.NET
11 5 (14.71%) Oracle

SOAP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire 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 23 (67.65%) XML
2 22 (64.71%) Web Services
3 13 (38.24%) jQuery
4 11 (32.35%) JSON
5 10 (29.41%) REST
6 9 (26.47%) Ajax
7 8 (23.53%) .NET
7 8 (23.53%) soapUI
8 7 (20.59%) OSGi
8 7 (20.59%) Apache Sling
8 7 (20.59%) JSP
8 7 (20.59%) Servlets
8 7 (20.59%) RESTful
9 6 (17.65%) Apache Felix
10 5 (14.71%) JMS
10 5 (14.71%) HTML
10 5 (14.71%) ASP.NET
10 5 (14.71%) JDBC
10 5 (14.71%) SAP PI
10 5 (14.71%) SAP XI
Application Platforms
1 8 (23.53%) Apache
2 7 (20.59%) Adobe CQ
3 4 (11.76%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (5.882%) CMS
4 2 (5.882%) MSMQ
5 1 (2.941%) WebLogic
5 1 (2.941%) IIS
5 1 (2.941%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (5.882%) MS Excel
2 1 (2.941%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.824%) HTTP
2 2 (5.882%) Wireshark
2 2 (5.882%) DNS
2 2 (5.882%) VoIP
3 1 (2.941%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (14.71%) SQL Server
2 4 (11.76%) DbVisualizer
3 1 (2.941%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (2.941%) MS Access
3 1 (2.941%) TOAD
Development Applications
1 9 (26.47%) Eclipse
2 7 (20.59%) Maven
3 6 (17.65%) Jenkins
4 3 (8.824%) LoadRunner
5 2 (5.882%) Subversion
5 2 (5.882%) Selenium
5 2 (5.882%) SpecFlow
6 1 (2.941%) NuGet
6 1 (2.941%) JProfiler
6 1 (2.941%) Cucumber
General
1 4 (11.76%) Finance
2 3 (8.824%) Telecoms
3 2 (5.882%) Publishing
4 1 (2.941%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 16 (47.06%) Developer
2 8 (23.53%) Programmer
3 6 (17.65%) Consultant
4 4 (11.76%) SAP Consultant
4 4 (11.76%) SAP PI Consultant
5 3 (8.824%) Analyst
5 3 (8.824%) Test Analyst
5 3 (8.824%) .NET Developer
6 2 (5.882%) .NET Programmer
6 2 (5.882%) Test Engineer
6 2 (5.882%) ASP.NET Developer
6 2 (5.882%) Siebel Developer
6 2 (5.882%) Oracle Consultant
6 2 (5.882%) Oracle Architect
6 2 (5.882%) ASP.NET Programmer
6 2 (5.882%) Solutions Consultant
6 2 (5.882%) Web Developer
6 2 (5.882%) Architect
6 2 (5.882%) Tester
6 2 (5.882%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.76%) Handset
1 4 (11.76%) Mobile App
2 3 (8.824%) Smartphone
3 2 (5.882%) Replication
3 2 (5.882%) Blackberry
4 1 (2.941%) Oracle Exalogic
4 1 (2.941%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.941%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.76%) Android
1 4 (11.76%) Apple iOS
2 3 (8.824%) UNIX
2 3 (8.824%) Windows
3 2 (5.882%) Solaris
3 2 (5.882%) Windows 8
4 1 (2.941%) Linux
4 1 (2.941%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (2.941%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (26.47%) Content Management
2 5 (14.71%) Software Testing
3 4 (11.76%) Web Testing
3 4 (11.76%) System Testing
4 3 (8.824%) Web Development
5 2 (5.882%) TDD
5 2 (5.882%) MVC
5 2 (5.882%) Waterfall
5 2 (5.882%) Domain-Driven Design
5 2 (5.882%) Fault Management
5 2 (5.882%) Stress Testing
5 2 (5.882%) Project Management
5 2 (5.882%) EAI
5 2 (5.882%) OO
5 2 (5.882%) Analytics
5 2 (5.882%) Web Application Development
5 2 (5.882%) Data Transformation
5 2 (5.882%) Test Strategy
6 1 (2.941%) Root Cause Analysis
6 1 (2.941%) Mobile Application Development
Programming Languages
1 18 (52.94%) Java
2 7 (20.59%) JavaScript
3 5 (14.71%) Shell Script
4 4 (11.76%) Groovy
4 4 (11.76%) SQL
5 3 (8.824%) C#
6 2 (5.882%) Objective-C
6 2 (5.882%) Bash shell
6 2 (5.882%) C++
6 2 (5.882%) VB
6 2 (5.882%) Perl
7 1 (2.941%) C
Qualifications
1 3 (8.824%) ISEB
1 3 (8.824%) ISTQB
2 2 (5.882%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.824%) QA
2 1 (2.941%) SLA
Systems Management
1 4 (11.76%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 7 (20.59%) Omniture
1 7 (20.59%) Adobe
2 5 (14.71%) SAP
2 5 (14.71%) Oracle
3 2 (5.882%) Redknee
3 2 (5.882%) Sun
3 2 (5.882%) Siebel
3 2 (5.882%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.882%) Sencha
Maidenhead, Thames Valley
Day rate £300 - £450 - depending on experience SKILLS: ASP.NET, C#, XML/XSL, SOAP, SQL Server 2005/2008, JavaScript... DESIRABLE: design best practices, Object Oriented Analysis and design...
Capita Resourcing Ltd
Rate: £300 - £450 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013