The first table below looks at the demand for Web Services skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bradford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Web Services over the 3 months to 23 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 Bradford 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Web Services
Rank 21 23 22
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -1
Contract jobs citing Web Services 3 4 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bradford 1.899% 2.649% 2.500%
As % of the Application Development category 8.333% 25.00% 13.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
Average daily rate £293 - £225
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £350 £340
% change year-on-year
-7.14% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.75 £32.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year
-5.38% -18.75%
All Application Development
Bradford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
36 16 23
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bradford 22.78% 10.60% 19.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 4 12
Average daily rate £325 £160 £225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+103.12% -28.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £150 £196
10% offered a daily rate of more than £330 £174 £275
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £12.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Web Services
West Yorkshire

Web Services
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bradford 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 Bradford region.

Bradford Web Services Daily Rate Trend

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 Bradford region.

Bradford Web Services Hourly Rate Trend

Web Services
Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bradford 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 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET
1 2 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) Visual Studio
2 1 (33.33%) MVC
2 1 (33.33%) Ajax
2 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
2 1 (33.33%) QA
2 1 (33.33%) jQuery
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Waterfall
2 1 (33.33%) soapUI
2 1 (33.33%) CSS
2 1 (33.33%) XML
2 1 (33.33%) HP
2 1 (33.33%) ISEB
2 1 (33.33%) QuickTest Pro
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) HTML
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) VBScript
2 1 (33.33%) VB
2 1 (33.33%) VB.NET

Web Services
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bradford 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 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) Ajax
2 1 (33.33%) jQuery
2 1 (33.33%) soapUI
2 1 (33.33%) CSS
2 1 (33.33%) XML
2 1 (33.33%) HTML
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Visual Studio
1 1 (33.33%) QuickTest Pro
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Test Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Web Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Web Test Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (33.33%) MVC
2 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
1 1 (33.33%) VBScript
1 1 (33.33%) VB
1 1 (33.33%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) HP