The first table below looks at the demand for Web Services 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 Web Services over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Web Services
Rank 25 26 13
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -13
Contract jobs citing Web Services 3 9 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Brighton 2.027% 3.516% 7.299%
As % of the Application Development category 4.412% 11.84% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 3
Average daily rate £343 £315 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.73% +5.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £337 £303 £160
10% offered a daily rate of more than £349 £573 £360
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £350 £345
% change year-on-year
-7.14% +1.44%
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
Brighton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
68 76 50
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Brighton 45.95% 29.69% 36.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 24 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 2 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%
Web Services
East Sussex

Web Services
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Brighton 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 Brighton region.

Brighton Web Services Daily Rate Trend

Web Services
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Brighton 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 5 (50.00%) C#
1 5 (50.00%) .NET
1 5 (50.00%) FitNesse
2 4 (40.00%) Performance Testing
2 4 (40.00%) Penetration Testing
2 4 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (40.00%) SQL
2 4 (40.00%) Scrum
2 4 (40.00%) Cucumber
2 4 (40.00%) User Stories
3 3 (30.00%) Open Source
3 3 (30.00%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (30.00%) Workflow
3 3 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (30.00%) ISEB
3 3 (30.00%) HTML
3 3 (30.00%) TDD
3 3 (30.00%) Data Integration
3 3 (30.00%) Sitecore CMS
3 3 (30.00%) Sitecore
3 3 (30.00%) ISEB Practitioner
3 3 (30.00%) Content Management
4 2 (20.00%) jQuery
4 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET
4 2 (20.00%) SOAP
4 2 (20.00%) Windows
4 2 (20.00%) Finance
4 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (20.00%) RESTful
4 2 (20.00%) WebDriver

Web Services
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Brighton 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 5 (50.00%) .NET
2 3 (30.00%) HTML
3 2 (20.00%) jQuery
3 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET
3 2 (20.00%) SOAP
3 2 (20.00%) RESTful
3 2 (20.00%) REST
3 2 (20.00%) ServiceStack
4 1 (10.00%) Gherkin
4 1 (10.00%) Bing Maps
4 1 (10.00%) soapUI
4 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (10.00%) Hibernate
4 1 (10.00%) XML
4 1 (10.00%) CSS
4 1 (10.00%) J2EE
4 1 (10.00%) Spring
4 1 (10.00%) Ajax
4 1 (10.00%) Grails
4 1 (10.00%) Apache CXF
Application Platforms
1 3 (30.00%) Sitecore CMS
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Azure
2 1 (10.00%) Apache
2 1 (10.00%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) FitNesse
2 4 (40.00%) Cucumber
3 2 (20.00%) WebDriver
4 1 (10.00%) SpecFlow
4 1 (10.00%) Gradle
4 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (10.00%) StyleCop
4 1 (10.00%) MSTest
4 1 (10.00%) JProfiler
4 1 (10.00%) LoadRunner
4 1 (10.00%) JUnit
4 1 (10.00%) NUnit
4 1 (10.00%) Subversion
4 1 (10.00%) Maven
4 1 (10.00%) Checkstyle
4 1 (10.00%) JIRA
4 1 (10.00%) Selenium
4 1 (10.00%) Fiddler
4 1 (10.00%) TeamCity
General
1 2 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Games
2 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (10.00%) Billing
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Developer
2 4 (40.00%) .NET Developer
3 2 (20.00%) C# Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Test Leader
3 2 (20.00%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Test Team Leader
4 1 (10.00%) Java Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Web Developer
4 1 (10.00%) J2EE Developer
4 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Team Leader
4 1 (10.00%) Java/J2EE Developer
4 1 (10.00%) C# ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Open Source
1 3 (30.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (10.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (10.00%) Inversion of Control
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Performance Testing
1 4 (40.00%) Penetration Testing
1 4 (40.00%) Scrum
1 4 (40.00%) User Stories
2 3 (30.00%) Workflow
2 3 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (30.00%) TDD
2 3 (30.00%) Content Management
3 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (20.00%) BDD
4 1 (10.00%) ATDD
4 1 (10.00%) E-Commerce
4 1 (10.00%) Project Management
4 1 (10.00%) MVC
4 1 (10.00%) OOP
4 1 (10.00%) OO
4 1 (10.00%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (10.00%) Business Analysis
4 1 (10.00%) Use Case
4 1 (10.00%) Load Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) C#
2 4 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (40.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) Java
3 1 (10.00%) VB.NET
3 1 (10.00%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) ISEB
1 3 (30.00%) ISEB Practitioner
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Sitecore