The first table below looks at the demand for SOAP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bristol region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SOAP 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 Bristol 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
Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
Rank 47 54 46
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -8
Contract jobs citing SOAP 3 10 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 0.581% 1.196% 0.619%
As % of the Application Development category 2.727% 4.926% 3.846%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 1
Average daily rate £315 £380 £200
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-17.10% +90.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £333
% change year-on-year
- +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Average hourly rate - £25.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
-14.28% -4.10%
All Application Development
Bristol
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
110 203 104
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 21.32% 24.28% 16.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 139 40
Average daily rate £300 £325 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% +18.18%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £405 £372
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 8
Average hourly rate £42.50 £25.00 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+70.00% -37.50%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
SOAP
South West

SOAP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bristol 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 Bristol region.

Bristol 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 Bristol region.

Bristol SOAP Hourly Rate Trend

SOAP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) Eclipse
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) JDeveloper
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle ADF
2 2 (50.00%) NetBeans
2 2 (50.00%) Ajax
2 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) REST
3 1 (25.00%) DataPower
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle Service Bus
3 1 (25.00%) Kentico
3 1 (25.00%) WebSphere
3 1 (25.00%) ESB
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle 11g
3 1 (25.00%) WebSphere Message Broker
3 1 (25.00%) WordPress
3 1 (25.00%) Wall Street Systems
3 1 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (25.00%) WebSphere Process Server
3 1 (25.00%) ILOG
3 1 (25.00%) Middleware
3 1 (25.00%) Mercator
3 1 (25.00%) .NET

SOAP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 (50.00%) Oracle ADF
1 2 (50.00%) Ajax
1 2 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (25.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (25.00%) Middleware
2 1 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (25.00%) XML
2 1 (25.00%) JMS
2 1 (25.00%) WSDL
2 1 (25.00%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Service Bus
1 1 (25.00%) Kentico
1 1 (25.00%) ESB
1 1 (25.00%) WebSphere Message Broker
1 1 (25.00%) WordPress
1 1 (25.00%) WebSphere Process Server
1 1 (25.00%) CMS
1 1 (25.00%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) HTTP
1 1 (25.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle 11g
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Eclipse
1 2 (50.00%) JDeveloper
1 2 (50.00%) NetBeans
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle APEX
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Forms
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (25.00%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (25.00%) C# ASP.NET Developer
3 1 (25.00%) .NET Developer
3 1 (25.00%) C# Developer
3 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET Developer
3 1 (25.00%) WebSphere Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) DataPower
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (25.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (25.00%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (25.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Wall Street Systems
2 1 (25.00%) ILOG
2 1 (25.00%) Mercator
2 1 (25.00%) IBM