The first table below looks at the demand for WSDL 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 WSDL 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 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Web Services Description Language (WSDL)
Rank 45 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing WSDL 20 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 2.538% - -
As % of the Application Development category 9.569% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 18 0 0
Average daily rate £500 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £380 £375
% change year-on-year
+5.26% +1.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £42.50
All Application Development
Buckinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
209 194 237
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 26.52% 19.09% 22.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 104 104
Average daily rate £325 £308 £330
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.69% -6.81%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £400 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 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%
WSDL
South East

WSDL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Buckinghamshire WSDL Jobs Demand Trend

WSDL
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing WSDL across the Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire WSDL Daily Rate Trend

WSDL
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Buckinghamshire WSDL Daily Rate Histogram

WSDL
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WSDL within the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 17 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 - 15 £500 -
WSDL
South East

WSDL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire region citing WSDL 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 WSDL.

1 17 (85.00%) Oracle
2 15 (75.00%) Web Services
3 14 (70.00%) BPEL
4 12 (60.00%) SOAP
5 11 (55.00%) Middleware
5 11 (55.00%) XML
5 11 (55.00%) UML
6 9 (45.00%) SOA
6 9 (45.00%) BPEL4WS
6 9 (45.00%) Oracle 11g
6 9 (45.00%) Oracle Service Bus
6 9 (45.00%) REST
6 9 (45.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 8 (40.00%) Workflow
7 8 (40.00%) Oracle Workflow
7 8 (40.00%) ITIL
8 7 (35.00%) Agile Software Development
8 7 (35.00%) XPath
9 6 (30.00%) Data Quality
9 6 (30.00%) WCF
9 6 (30.00%) MVC
9 6 (30.00%) C#
9 6 (30.00%) .NET
9 6 (30.00%) IBM
10 5 (25.00%) JDeveloper
10 5 (25.00%) XQuery
10 5 (25.00%) HP
10 5 (25.00%) Data Modelling
10 5 (25.00%) Eclipse
10 5 (25.00%) XML Schema

WSDL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire region citing WSDL 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 WSDL. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 15 (75.00%) Web Services
2 12 (60.00%) SOAP
3 11 (55.00%) Middleware
3 11 (55.00%) XML
4 9 (45.00%) BPEL4WS
4 9 (45.00%) REST
5 6 (30.00%) WCF
5 6 (30.00%) .NET
6 5 (25.00%) WebSphere
6 5 (25.00%) XSD
6 5 (25.00%) XML Schema
7 3 (15.00%) Oracle Fusion
8 2 (10.00%) XSLT
8 2 (10.00%) JMS
Application Platforms
1 9 (45.00%) Oracle Service Bus
1 9 (45.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 8 (40.00%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (10.00%) ESB
3 2 (10.00%) Oracle BPEL
3 2 (10.00%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Oracle BPM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (45.00%) Oracle 11g
2 5 (25.00%) Oracle 8/8i
3 3 (15.00%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (15.00%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (15.00%) BODI
3 3 (15.00%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
4 2 (10.00%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 5 (25.00%) Ant
1 5 (25.00%) Eclipse
1 5 (25.00%) JDeveloper
1 5 (25.00%) Team Foundation Server
Job Titles
1 12 (60.00%) Developer
2 9 (45.00%) Oracle Developer
3 7 (35.00%) Lead Developer
3 7 (35.00%) Oracle SOA Developer
3 7 (35.00%) SOA Developer
4 3 (15.00%) Architect
4 3 (15.00%) Test Leader
4 3 (15.00%) Analyst
4 3 (15.00%) Data Architect
4 3 (15.00%) Applications Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Test Analyst
6 1 (5.000%) Data Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Web 2.0
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (70.00%) BPEL
2 11 (55.00%) UML
3 9 (45.00%) SOA
4 8 (40.00%) ITIL
4 8 (40.00%) Workflow
5 7 (35.00%) Agile Software Development
6 6 (30.00%) MVC
7 5 (25.00%) CRM
7 5 (25.00%) Data Modelling
7 5 (25.00%) Scrum
7 5 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
7 5 (25.00%) Unit Testing
8 4 (20.00%) Test Strategy
8 4 (20.00%) Fault Management
8 4 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
9 3 (15.00%) CMMI
9 3 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
9 3 (15.00%) Data Architecture
9 3 (15.00%) Performance Management
10 2 (10.00%) BPMN
Programming Languages
1 7 (35.00%) XPath
2 6 (30.00%) C#
3 5 (25.00%) Java
3 5 (25.00%) XQuery
4 4 (20.00%) SQL
5 3 (15.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (25.00%) ISEB
2 4 (20.00%) ISEB Practitioner
3 2 (10.00%) ISTQB
4 1 (5.000%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (30.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 17 (85.00%) Oracle
2 6 (30.00%) IBM
3 5 (25.00%) HP
4 3 (15.00%) Business Objects
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