The first table below looks at the demand for Web Services 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 Web Services over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Web Services
Rank 36 30 34
Rank change year-on-year
-6 +4
Contract jobs citing Web Services 14 33 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 2.622% 3.882% 2.326%
As % of the Application Development category 12.96% 16.50% 15.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 26 5
Average daily rate £375 £300 £245
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% +22.44%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £285 £243 £222
10% offered a daily rate of more than £535 £393 £320
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
-7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Average hourly rate - £25.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £32.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year
-3.07% -18.75%
All Application Development
Bristol
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
108 200 95
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 20.22% 23.53% 14.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 138 36
Average daily rate £305 £320 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.84% +16.36%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £238 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £368 £405 £372
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 7
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%
Web Services
South West

Web Services
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bristol 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 Bristol region.

Bristol Web Services Daily Rate Trend

Web Services
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Web Services across the Bristol region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Bristol Web Services Daily Rate Histogram

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 Bristol region.

Bristol Web Services Hourly Rate Trend

Web Services
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 16 (43.24%) Java
2 13 (35.14%) .NET
2 13 (35.14%) XML
3 11 (29.73%) SQL Server
3 11 (29.73%) Agile Software Development
4 10 (27.03%) ASP.NET
4 10 (27.03%) RESTful
5 9 (24.32%) CSS
5 9 (24.32%) SQL
5 9 (24.32%) C#
5 9 (24.32%) MVC
5 9 (24.32%) TDD
6 8 (21.62%) WCF
6 8 (21.62%) JavaScript
7 7 (18.92%) Scrum
7 7 (18.92%) Spring
7 7 (18.92%) REST
8 6 (16.22%) Hibernate
8 6 (16.22%) E-Commerce
8 6 (16.22%) HTML
9 5 (13.51%) OO
9 5 (13.51%) Eclipse
9 5 (13.51%) SharePoint
9 5 (13.51%) JSON
9 5 (13.51%) jQuery
9 5 (13.51%) Android
9 5 (13.51%) HTML5
9 5 (13.51%) Mobile App
10 4 (10.81%) WebDriver
10 4 (10.81%) Cucumber

Web Services
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 13 (35.14%) .NET
1 13 (35.14%) XML
2 10 (27.03%) ASP.NET
2 10 (27.03%) RESTful
3 9 (24.32%) CSS
4 8 (21.62%) WCF
5 7 (18.92%) Spring
5 7 (18.92%) REST
6 6 (16.22%) Hibernate
6 6 (16.22%) HTML
7 5 (13.51%) jQuery
7 5 (13.51%) JSON
7 5 (13.51%) HTML5
8 4 (10.81%) J2EE
9 3 (8.108%) CSS3
9 3 (8.108%) iOS SDK
10 2 (5.405%) ASP.NET MVC
10 2 (5.405%) SOAP
10 2 (5.405%) WinForms
10 2 (5.405%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 5 (13.51%) SharePoint
2 3 (8.108%) SharePoint 2010
3 2 (5.405%) IIS
3 2 (5.405%) Apache
3 2 (5.405%) CMS
3 2 (5.405%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (2.703%) ESB
4 1 (2.703%) Mule
4 1 (2.703%) WordPress
4 1 (2.703%) Magento
4 1 (2.703%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (5.405%) Photoshop
1 2 (5.405%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.703%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.703%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (29.73%) SQL Server
2 4 (10.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (8.108%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (5.405%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (5.405%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 2 (5.405%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (5.405%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (13.51%) Eclipse
2 4 (10.81%) WATIR
2 4 (10.81%) Selenium
2 4 (10.81%) FitNesse
2 4 (10.81%) WebDriver
2 4 (10.81%) Cucumber
3 3 (8.108%) Team Foundation Server
3 3 (8.108%) Subversion
4 2 (5.405%) Maven
4 2 (5.405%) JIRA
4 2 (5.405%) Hudson
4 2 (5.405%) SpecFlow
4 2 (5.405%) Jenkins
5 1 (2.703%) JUnit
5 1 (2.703%) NUnit
General
1 3 (8.108%) Finance
2 2 (5.405%) Telecoms
2 2 (5.405%) Banking
3 1 (2.703%) Retail
3 1 (2.703%) Marketing
3 1 (2.703%) Back Office
3 1 (2.703%) Law
Job Titles
1 28 (75.68%) Developer
2 9 (24.32%) Java Developer
3 6 (16.22%) .NET Developer
4 5 (13.51%) Android Developer
5 3 (8.108%) iOS Developer
5 3 (8.108%) Senior Developer
6 2 (5.405%) Architect
6 2 (5.405%) Project Manager
6 2 (5.405%) Tester
6 2 (5.405%) Software Engineer
6 2 (5.405%) Java Software Engineer
6 2 (5.405%) QA Engineer
6 2 (5.405%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (5.405%) SharePoint Developer
7 1 (2.703%) PRINCE2 Project Manager
7 1 (2.703%) Java/J2EE Developer
7 1 (2.703%) PHP Developer
7 1 (2.703%) VB.NET Developer
7 1 (2.703%) Software Developer
7 1 (2.703%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.51%) Mobile App
2 4 (10.81%) Computer Science
3 2 (5.405%) Blog
3 2 (5.405%) Social Network
3 2 (5.405%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (5.405%) SaaS
4 1 (2.703%) NHS
4 1 (2.703%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.51%) Android
2 3 (8.108%) Windows
2 3 (8.108%) Apple iOS
3 2 (5.405%) Linux
3 2 (5.405%) Mac OS X
4 1 (2.703%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (29.73%) Agile Software Development
2 9 (24.32%) TDD
2 9 (24.32%) MVC
3 7 (18.92%) Scrum
4 6 (16.22%) E-Commerce
5 5 (13.51%) OO
6 4 (10.81%) Workflow
6 4 (10.81%) BDD
7 3 (8.108%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (8.108%) Memory Management
7 3 (8.108%) SOA
8 2 (5.405%) PRINCE2
8 2 (5.405%) Migration
8 2 (5.405%) Stakeholder Management
8 2 (5.405%) Web Testing
8 2 (5.405%) Programme Management
8 2 (5.405%) Web Development
8 2 (5.405%) User Stories
8 2 (5.405%) Automation Testing
8 2 (5.405%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 16 (43.24%) Java
2 9 (24.32%) SQL
2 9 (24.32%) C#
3 8 (21.62%) JavaScript
4 4 (10.81%) PHP
4 4 (10.81%) T-SQL
4 4 (10.81%) C++
4 4 (10.81%) Ruby
5 3 (8.108%) C
5 3 (8.108%) Objective-C
6 2 (5.405%) VB.NET
7 1 (2.703%) VBA
7 1 (2.703%) PL/SQL
7 1 (2.703%) PHP5
7 1 (2.703%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 3 (8.108%) Degree
2 1 (2.703%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 1 (2.703%) ISEB
2 1 (2.703%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.405%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (8.108%) Oracle
1 3 (8.108%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.405%) Infragistics
2 2 (5.405%) Telerik
2 2 (5.405%) Ektron
3 1 (2.703%) Google
3 1 (2.703%) ATG
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