The first table below looks at the demand for SOAP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Brighton region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SOAP 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 Brighton 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
Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
Rank 27 37 16
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -21
Contract jobs citing SOAP 1 1 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Brighton 0.690% 0.386% 5.072%
As % of the Application Development category 1.471% 1.316% 13.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
Average daily rate £350 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% +8.33%
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
Brighton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
68 76 51
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Brighton 46.90% 29.34% 36.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 25 26
Average daily rate £315 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.00% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £183 £200 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £400 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Average hourly rate - £30.00 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +122.22%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
SOAP
East Sussex

SOAP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Brighton 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 Brighton region.

Brighton 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 Brighton region.

Brighton SOAP Hourly Rate Trend

SOAP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Brighton 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%) Web Services
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) FitNesse
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) WebDriver
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (50.00%) Games
2 1 (50.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (50.00%) soapUI
2 1 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) SpecFlow
2 1 (50.00%) Gherkin
2 1 (50.00%) ATDD
2 1 (50.00%) Gradle
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) User Stories
2 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (50.00%) Inversion of Control
2 1 (50.00%) StyleCop
2 1 (50.00%) MSTest
2 1 (50.00%) JProfiler
2 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (50.00%) Grails
2 1 (50.00%) Use Case
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) Fiddler

SOAP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Brighton 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%) Web Services
2 1 (50.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (50.00%) soapUI
2 1 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) Gherkin
2 1 (50.00%) Grails
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) Apache CXF
2 1 (50.00%) Spring
2 1 (50.00%) Ajax
2 1 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) FitNesse
1 2 (100.00%) WebDriver
2 1 (50.00%) SpecFlow
2 1 (50.00%) Gradle
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) StyleCop
2 1 (50.00%) MSTest
2 1 (50.00%) JProfiler
2 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (50.00%) Fiddler
2 1 (50.00%) TeamCity
2 1 (50.00%) NUnit
2 1 (50.00%) Subversion
2 1 (50.00%) Maven
2 1 (50.00%) Checkstyle
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) LoadRunner
2 1 (50.00%) JUnit
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (50.00%) Games
2 1 (50.00%) Billing
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (50.00%) J2EE Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Java/J2EE Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (50.00%) Open Source
1 1 (50.00%) Inversion of Control
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (50.00%) ATDD
2 1 (50.00%) User Stories
2 1 (50.00%) Use Case
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Load Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Groovy
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) SQL