The first table below looks at the demand for Web Services 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 Web Services 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
Web Services
Rank 33 48 54
Rank change year-on-year
+15 +6
Contract jobs citing Web Services 40 27 24
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 5.006% 2.676% 2.277%
As % of the Application Development category 19.23% 13.99% 10.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 12 6
Average daily rate £425 £300 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+41.66% +9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £212 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £510 £360 £316
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
-7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £62.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £32.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year
-3.07% -18.75%
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%
Web Services
South East

Web Services
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire Web Services Hourly Rate Trend

Web Services
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Web Services 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 +9 22 £500 +66.66%
High Wycombe - 9 £260 -
Beaconsfield - 1 £260 -
Web Services
South East

Web Services
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 25 (45.45%) XML
2 24 (43.64%) .NET
3 21 (38.18%) CSS
4 20 (36.36%) Oracle
4 20 (36.36%) C#
4 20 (36.36%) JavaScript
5 19 (34.55%) HTML
6 18 (32.73%) SOAP
6 18 (32.73%) jQuery
6 18 (32.73%) REST
7 17 (30.91%) SOA
8 15 (27.27%) WSDL
8 15 (27.27%) BPEL
9 14 (25.45%) Java
9 14 (25.45%) ASP.NET
10 13 (23.64%) Middleware
11 12 (21.82%) SQL Server
11 12 (21.82%) UML
12 11 (20.00%) SQL
12 11 (20.00%) MVC
12 11 (20.00%) JSON
13 10 (18.18%) Oracle 11g
13 10 (18.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 10 (18.18%) Agile Software Development
14 9 (16.36%) Scrum
14 9 (16.36%) JMS
14 9 (16.36%) Oracle Service Bus
15 8 (14.55%) WCF
16 7 (12.73%) XPath
16 7 (12.73%) Unit Testing

Web Services
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 25 (45.45%) XML
2 24 (43.64%) .NET
3 21 (38.18%) CSS
4 19 (34.55%) HTML
5 18 (32.73%) SOAP
5 18 (32.73%) jQuery
5 18 (32.73%) REST
6 15 (27.27%) WSDL
7 14 (25.45%) ASP.NET
8 13 (23.64%) Middleware
9 11 (20.00%) JSON
10 9 (16.36%) JMS
11 8 (14.55%) WCF
12 7 (12.73%) WebSphere
12 7 (12.73%) XSLT
13 6 (10.91%) Ajax
13 6 (10.91%) BPEL4WS
14 5 (9.091%) XSD
15 4 (7.273%) XML Schema
15 4 (7.273%) LINQ
Application Platforms
1 10 (18.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 9 (16.36%) Oracle Service Bus
3 6 (10.91%) CMS
3 6 (10.91%) Oracle Workflow
4 5 (9.091%) Drupal
5 4 (7.273%) ESB
6 3 (5.455%) WebSphere Application Server
6 3 (5.455%) WebLogic
6 3 (5.455%) Joomla!
7 2 (3.636%) NetWeaver
7 2 (3.636%) Umbraco
7 2 (3.636%) IIS
7 2 (3.636%) Apache
7 2 (3.636%) Oracle BPEL
8 1 (1.818%) TYPO3
8 1 (1.818%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (1.818%) Tomcat
8 1 (1.818%) SharePoint
8 1 (1.818%) Apache Solr
8 1 (1.818%) Kentico
Applications
1 1 (1.818%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (3.636%) SAP CRM
1 2 (3.636%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.455%) HTTP
2 2 (3.636%) TCP/IP
2 2 (3.636%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (21.82%) SQL Server
2 10 (18.18%) Oracle 11g
3 5 (9.091%) Oracle 8/8i
3 5 (9.091%) SQL Server 2005
3 5 (9.091%) MySQL
4 4 (7.273%) SQL Server 2008
5 2 (3.636%) DTS
6 1 (1.818%) Data Mining
6 1 (1.818%) Oracle Discoverer
6 1 (1.818%) Oracle 10g
6 1 (1.818%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (1.818%) SQL Server 2000
6 1 (1.818%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 1 (1.818%) BODI
6 1 (1.818%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.818%) OLAP
6 1 (1.818%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (1.818%) BusinessObjects XI
6 1 (1.818%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
6 1 (1.818%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 7 (12.73%) Eclipse
1 7 (12.73%) Team Foundation Server
2 6 (10.91%) Ant
3 5 (9.091%) JDeveloper
4 2 (3.636%) Visual Studio
4 2 (3.636%) Subversion
4 2 (3.636%) Git (software)
5 1 (1.818%) WebDriver
5 1 (1.818%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.818%) Maven
5 1 (1.818%) Selenium
5 1 (1.818%) Visual Studio Team System
5 1 (1.818%) VSS/SourceSafe
5 1 (1.818%) QuickTest Pro
General
1 7 (12.73%) Marketing
2 3 (5.455%) Finance
3 2 (3.636%) Banking
3 2 (3.636%) Spanish Language
3 2 (3.636%) Investment Banking
4 1 (1.818%) Retail
4 1 (1.818%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 34 (61.82%) Developer
2 12 (21.82%) Architect
3 9 (16.36%) Oracle Developer
3 9 (16.36%) UI Developer
3 9 (16.36%) UI Programmer
4 7 (12.73%) Oracle SOA Developer
4 7 (12.73%) SOA Developer
4 7 (12.73%) Lead Developer
4 7 (12.73%) .NET Developer
5 5 (9.091%) Front-End Developer
6 4 (7.273%) Applications Developer
6 4 (7.273%) Technical Architect
7 3 (5.455%) Web Developer
7 3 (5.455%) Integration Architect
7 3 (5.455%) Analyst
8 2 (3.636%) Senior Developer
8 2 (3.636%) Data Architect
8 2 (3.636%) Java Developer
8 2 (3.636%) Deployment Analyst
8 2 (3.636%) Lead Architect
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.091%) Web 2.0
2 3 (5.455%) Open Source
2 3 (5.455%) Social Media
3 2 (3.636%) SaaS
4 1 (1.818%) Statistics
4 1 (1.818%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.818%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.818%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.455%) Linux
2 2 (3.636%) UNIX
2 2 (3.636%) Windows
3 1 (1.818%) AIX
3 1 (1.818%) Solaris
3 1 (1.818%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (30.91%) SOA
2 15 (27.27%) BPEL
3 12 (21.82%) UML
4 11 (20.00%) MVC
5 10 (18.18%) Agile Software Development
6 9 (16.36%) Scrum
7 7 (12.73%) Workflow
7 7 (12.73%) OO
7 7 (12.73%) Unit Testing
8 6 (10.91%) Data Modelling
8 6 (10.91%) Stakeholder Management
9 5 (9.091%) Enterprise Architecture
9 5 (9.091%) Web Development
9 5 (9.091%) ITIL
9 5 (9.091%) CRM
10 3 (5.455%) Migration
10 3 (5.455%) Use Case
10 3 (5.455%) Data Migration
10 3 (5.455%) Data Architecture
11 2 (3.636%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 20 (36.36%) C#
1 20 (36.36%) JavaScript
2 14 (25.45%) Java
3 11 (20.00%) SQL
4 7 (12.73%) XPath
5 6 (10.91%) PHP
6 5 (9.091%) XQuery
7 4 (7.273%) ActionScript
7 4 (7.273%) ActionScript 2.0
8 3 (5.455%) PL/SQL
9 2 (3.636%) T-SQL
9 2 (3.636%) VB.NET
9 2 (3.636%) ABAP
10 1 (1.818%) VB6
10 1 (1.818%) Groovy
10 1 (1.818%) VB
10 1 (1.818%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (1.818%) MCP
1 1 (1.818%) MCAD
1 1 (1.818%) ISEB
1 1 (1.818%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (1.818%) ISEB Practitioner
1 1 (1.818%) MCITP
1 1 (1.818%) ISTQB
1 1 (1.818%) MCPD
1 1 (1.818%) Degree
1 1 (1.818%) SC Cleared
1 1 (1.818%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.273%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (1.818%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.818%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (1.818%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 2 (3.636%) CA SiteMinder
Vendors
1 20 (36.36%) Oracle
2 6 (10.91%) IBM
3 4 (7.273%) Microsoft
4 3 (5.455%) Zend
5 2 (3.636%) Facebook
5 2 (3.636%) Twitter
5 2 (3.636%) Business Objects
5 2 (3.636%) SAP
6 1 (1.818%) JBoss
6 1 (1.818%) Sun
6 1 (1.818%) HP
6 1 (1.818%) ATG
6 1 (1.818%) VMware
6 1 (1.818%) Omniture
6 1 (1.818%) Ektron
High Wycombe, Thames Valley
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Rate: £320 - £350 per day
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Rate: Market Rate
Posted: 26 April 2013
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