The first table below looks at the demand for SOAP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Buckinghamshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SOAP over the 3 months to 20 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 Buckinghamshire 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
Rank 38 66 72
Rank change year-on-year
+28 +6
Contract jobs citing SOAP 31 9 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 3.880% 0.892% 0.569%
As % of the Application Development category 14.90% 4.663% 2.553%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 3 0
Average daily rate £388 £355 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.15% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £336
% change year-on-year
- +4.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £21.94
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £32.25 £36.00
% change year-on-year
-6.97% -10.41%
All Application Development
Buckinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
208 193 235
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 26.03% 19.13% 22.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 103 104
Average daily rate £325 £310 £330
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.83% -6.06%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £425 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 8
Average hourly rate £20.00 £35.00 £21.94
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-42.85% +59.52%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
SOAP
South East

SOAP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire SOAP Daily Rate Trend

SOAP
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SOAP across the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Buckinghamshire SOAP Daily Rate Histogram

SOAP
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SOAP across the Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire SOAP Hourly Rate Trend

SOAP
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOAP within the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Milton Keynes +26 21 £425 -
Bletchley - 1 - -
SOAP
South East

SOAP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 18 (50.00%) Web Services
2 16 (44.44%) Oracle
3 14 (38.89%) HP
4 13 (36.11%) SQL
4 13 (36.11%) Agile Software Development
4 13 (36.11%) WCF
5 12 (33.33%) XML
5 12 (33.33%) WSDL
6 9 (25.00%) Middleware
6 9 (25.00%) Workflow
6 9 (25.00%) BPEL
6 9 (25.00%) Selenium
6 9 (25.00%) soapUI
7 8 (22.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 8 (22.22%) Scrum
7 8 (22.22%) Oracle Workflow
7 8 (22.22%) ISEB
7 8 (22.22%) SOA
7 8 (22.22%) C#
8 7 (19.44%) Java
8 7 (19.44%) .NET
8 7 (19.44%) QuickTest Pro
8 7 (19.44%) REST
8 7 (19.44%) Oracle Service Bus
8 7 (19.44%) Oracle 11g
9 6 (16.67%) Unit Testing
9 6 (16.67%) Team Foundation Server
9 6 (16.67%) MVC
9 6 (16.67%) Eclipse
10 5 (13.89%) Oracle 8/8i

SOAP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 18 (50.00%) Web Services
2 13 (36.11%) WCF
3 12 (33.33%) XML
3 12 (33.33%) WSDL
4 9 (25.00%) Middleware
4 9 (25.00%) soapUI
5 7 (19.44%) REST
5 7 (19.44%) .NET
6 5 (13.89%) XSD
6 5 (13.89%) JMS
7 4 (11.11%) BPEL4WS
7 4 (11.11%) XSLT
8 3 (8.333%) CSS
8 3 (8.333%) WebSphere
9 2 (5.556%) SAP PI
9 2 (5.556%) Oracle Fusion
9 2 (5.556%) SAP ALE
9 2 (5.556%) JDBC
9 2 (5.556%) J2EE
9 2 (5.556%) BAPI
Application Platforms
1 8 (22.22%) Oracle Workflow
1 8 (22.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 7 (19.44%) Oracle Service Bus
3 3 (8.333%) Lync
3 3 (8.333%) ESB
3 3 (8.333%) MS Exchange
4 2 (5.556%) NetWeaver
4 2 (5.556%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (2.778%) Kentico
5 1 (2.778%) CMS
5 1 (2.778%) Adobe CQ
Business Applications
1 2 (5.556%) SAP CRM
2 1 (2.778%) SAP FI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.333%) SAN
1 3 (8.333%) Internet
1 3 (8.333%) Firewall
1 3 (8.333%) iSCSI
1 3 (8.333%) NAS
1 3 (8.333%) SMTP
2 2 (5.556%) HTTP
2 2 (5.556%) LDAP
3 1 (2.778%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (19.44%) Oracle 11g
2 5 (13.89%) Oracle 8/8i
3 4 (11.11%) SQL Server
4 3 (8.333%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (8.333%) MySQL
4 3 (8.333%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (8.333%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
4 3 (8.333%) BODI
5 2 (5.556%) DTS
5 2 (5.556%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (2.778%) TOAD
6 1 (2.778%) SQL Server 2005
6 1 (2.778%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 9 (25.00%) Selenium
2 7 (19.44%) QuickTest Pro
3 6 (16.67%) Eclipse
3 6 (16.67%) Team Foundation Server
4 5 (13.89%) WebDriver
4 5 (13.89%) JDeveloper
4 5 (13.89%) Ant
5 1 (2.778%) Subversion
5 1 (2.778%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (13.89%) Finance
2 2 (5.556%) Spanish Language
3 1 (2.778%) Financial Institution
3 1 (2.778%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 12 (33.33%) Developer
2 7 (19.44%) Analyst
2 7 (19.44%) Oracle Developer
3 6 (16.67%) Lead Developer
3 6 (16.67%) Oracle SOA Developer
3 6 (16.67%) SOA Developer
4 5 (13.89%) Tester
4 5 (13.89%) Test Analyst
5 4 (11.11%) Architect
5 4 (11.11%) Test Leader
5 4 (11.11%) Automated Tester
6 3 (8.333%) Technical Architect
7 2 (5.556%) Test Manager
7 2 (5.556%) Deployment Analyst
7 2 (5.556%) PHP Developer
8 1 (2.778%) Technical Tester
8 1 (2.778%) Senior Java Developer
8 1 (2.778%) Technical Test Analyst
8 1 (2.778%) MySQL Developer
8 1 (2.778%) PHP Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.89%) Web 2.0
2 3 (8.333%) Clustering
2 3 (8.333%) Cryptography
3 2 (5.556%) Fat Client
3 2 (5.556%) Thin Client
4 1 (2.778%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.11%) Windows
2 3 (8.333%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (2.778%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (36.11%) Agile Software Development
2 9 (25.00%) Workflow
2 9 (25.00%) BPEL
3 8 (22.22%) Scrum
3 8 (22.22%) SOA
4 6 (16.67%) MVC
4 6 (16.67%) Unit Testing
5 5 (13.89%) Automated Testing
5 5 (13.89%) Enterprise Architecture
5 5 (13.89%) UML
6 4 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (11.11%) Fault Management
6 4 (11.11%) Test Strategy
7 3 (8.333%) Performance Management
7 3 (8.333%) V-Model
7 3 (8.333%) TOGAF
7 3 (8.333%) ITIL
7 3 (8.333%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (8.333%) CMMI
7 3 (8.333%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 13 (36.11%) SQL
2 8 (22.22%) C#
3 7 (19.44%) Java
4 5 (13.89%) XQuery
4 5 (13.89%) XPath
5 4 (11.11%) JavaScript
6 2 (5.556%) ABAP
6 2 (5.556%) PHP
7 1 (2.778%) Groovy
7 1 (2.778%) Perl
Qualifications
1 8 (22.22%) ISEB
2 4 (11.11%) ISEB Practitioner
3 3 (8.333%) MCTS
3 3 (8.333%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (8.333%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (8.333%) MCP
3 3 (8.333%) MCSE
3 3 (8.333%) CCSP
3 3 (8.333%) CCNA
3 3 (8.333%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.333%) Security Cleared
4 2 (5.556%) ISTQB
5 1 (2.778%) APMP
5 1 (2.778%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.333%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (8.333%) Hyper-V
2 3 (8.333%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 3 (8.333%) OpenView
1 3 (8.333%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 1 (2.778%) SCCM
2 1 (2.778%) SCOM
2 1 (2.778%) SCVMM
2 1 (2.778%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 16 (44.44%) Oracle
2 14 (38.89%) HP
3 4 (11.11%) VMware
4 3 (8.333%) Citrix
4 3 (8.333%) StorageTek
4 3 (8.333%) Business Objects
4 3 (8.333%) SAP
4 3 (8.333%) Microsoft
4 3 (8.333%) Sun
5 1 (2.778%) Adobe
5 1 (2.778%) Ektron
Buckinghamshire, Thames Valley
You will need to have solid Oracle 11g SOA suite 11.1.3 - PS5 experience along with web service technologies (WSDL, REST, SOAP), Fusions middleware suite & SOA suite...
Hudson
Rate: Market Rate
Posted: 26 April 2013