The first table below looks at the demand for Web Services skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridgeshire 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 June 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 Cambridgeshire 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 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Web Services
Rank 35 31 20
Rank change year-on-year
-4 -11
Contract jobs citing Web Services 16 31 40
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 2.773% 4.441% 6.579%
As % of the Application Development category 10.53% 13.30% 17.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 14 16
Average daily rate £375 £306 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+22.44% -12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £318 £253 £266
10% offered a daily rate of more than £538 £450 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £344
% change year-on-year
- -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Average hourly rate - £35.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year
-7.69% -18.75%
All Application Development
Cambridgeshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
152 233 231
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 26.34% 33.38% 37.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 119 114
Average daily rate £350 £300 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £414 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 15 21
Average hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+1.42% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £31.75 £35.00 £19.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.60 £60.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.00 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+12.90% -13.16%
Web Services
East of England

Web Services
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 17 June 2013.

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 17 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Peterborough - 7 £450 - 1
Cambridge -7 6 £425 +40.49% 8
Ely - - - -
Huntingdon - - - -
Web Services
East of England

Web Services
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 13 (41.94%) C#
2 12 (38.71%) CSS
2 12 (38.71%) Agile Software Development
3 11 (35.48%) TDD
3 11 (35.48%) Linux
3 11 (35.48%) Apache
3 11 (35.48%) Java
3 11 (35.48%) Oracle
3 11 (35.48%) .NET
4 10 (32.26%) HTML
4 10 (32.26%) SQL
4 10 (32.26%) Unit Testing
5 8 (25.81%) MVC
5 8 (25.81%) VMware
5 8 (25.81%) Perl
5 8 (25.81%) SQL Server
5 8 (25.81%) MySQL
6 7 (22.58%) Middleware
6 7 (22.58%) Tomcat
6 7 (22.58%) Subversion
6 7 (22.58%) VMware Infrastructure
6 7 (22.58%) Git (software)
6 7 (22.58%) JSON
7 6 (19.35%) RESTful
7 6 (19.35%) Spring
7 6 (19.35%) Hibernate
7 6 (19.35%) J2EE
7 6 (19.35%) JavaScript
7 6 (19.35%) SharePoint
8 5 (16.13%) Microsoft

Web Services
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 12 (38.71%) CSS
2 11 (35.48%) .NET
3 10 (32.26%) HTML
4 7 (22.58%) JSON
4 7 (22.58%) Middleware
5 6 (19.35%) Hibernate
5 6 (19.35%) Spring
5 6 (19.35%) J2EE
5 6 (19.35%) RESTful
6 5 (16.13%) Ruby on Rails
6 5 (16.13%) WCF
7 4 (12.90%) Swing
7 4 (12.90%) ASP.NET
7 4 (12.90%) XML
7 4 (12.90%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (12.90%) JAX-RS
8 3 (9.677%) Memcached
8 3 (9.677%) Symfony
9 2 (6.452%) jQuery
9 2 (6.452%) SAP PI
Application Platforms
1 11 (35.48%) Apache
2 7 (22.58%) Tomcat
3 6 (19.35%) SharePoint
4 5 (16.13%) IIS
5 4 (12.90%) Amazon AWS
6 3 (9.677%) SharePoint 2010
6 3 (9.677%) nginx
7 2 (6.452%) IBM Notes
7 2 (6.452%) SharePoint Foundation
7 2 (6.452%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (3.226%) SharePoint 2013
8 1 (3.226%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (3.226%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 4 (12.90%) MS Excel
2 3 (9.677%) MS Office
3 2 (6.452%) InfoPath
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.90%) TCP/IP
1 4 (12.90%) DNS
2 3 (9.677%) SAN
2 3 (9.677%) DHCP
2 3 (9.677%) BIG-IP
2 3 (9.677%) NAS
3 2 (6.452%) Internet
4 1 (3.226%) Extranet
4 1 (3.226%) Firewall
4 1 (3.226%) CTI
4 1 (3.226%) FTP
4 1 (3.226%) HTTP
4 1 (3.226%) VPN
4 1 (3.226%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (25.81%) MySQL
1 8 (25.81%) SQL Server
2 4 (12.90%) Oracle 8/8i
3 3 (9.677%) SQL Server 2005
3 3 (9.677%) Redis
4 2 (6.452%) SQL Server 2008
5 1 (3.226%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (3.226%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (22.58%) Subversion
1 7 (22.58%) Git (software)
2 4 (12.90%) Maven
3 1 (3.226%) Talend Open Studio
General
1 5 (16.13%) Finance
2 3 (9.677%) Back Office
3 2 (6.452%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (3.226%) Telecoms
4 1 (3.226%) Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (48.39%) Developer
2 6 (19.35%) Java Developer
3 5 (16.13%) .NET Developer
4 4 (12.90%) Systems Administrator
4 4 (12.90%) Applications Developer
5 3 (9.677%) Programme Manager
5 3 (9.677%) Software Engineer
5 3 (9.677%) Senior Software Engineer
5 3 (9.677%) SharePoint Developer
5 3 (9.677%) Test Manager
5 3 (9.677%) Administrator
5 3 (9.677%) Test Programme Manager
6 2 (6.452%) Agile .NET Developer
6 2 (6.452%) Architect
7 1 (3.226%) Integration Architect
7 1 (3.226%) Tester
7 1 (3.226%) Senior Developer
7 1 (3.226%) Support Engineer
7 1 (3.226%) Applications Support
7 1 (3.226%) Applications Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.90%) Informatics
1 4 (12.90%) Computer Science
2 3 (9.677%) Wiki
3 2 (6.452%) Biology
3 2 (6.452%) LIMS
4 1 (3.226%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 11 (35.48%) Linux
2 5 (16.13%) UNIX
3 1 (3.226%) Windows
3 1 (3.226%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (38.71%) Agile Software Development
2 11 (35.48%) TDD
3 10 (32.26%) Unit Testing
4 8 (25.81%) MVC
5 4 (12.90%) Scrum
5 4 (12.90%) Information Management
5 4 (12.90%) Test Strategy
6 3 (9.677%) Non-Functional Testing
6 3 (9.677%) Infrastructure Management
6 3 (9.677%) Configuration Management
6 3 (9.677%) User Acceptance Testing
6 3 (9.677%) Integration Testing
6 3 (9.677%) Test Management
6 3 (9.677%) System Testing
6 3 (9.677%) Time Management
6 3 (9.677%) OO
7 2 (6.452%) MVVM
8 1 (3.226%) E-Commerce
8 1 (3.226%) ETL
8 1 (3.226%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 13 (41.94%) C#
2 11 (35.48%) Java
3 10 (32.26%) SQL
4 8 (25.81%) Perl
5 6 (19.35%) JavaScript
6 5 (16.13%) Python
6 5 (16.13%) Ruby
7 4 (12.90%) Lisp
7 4 (12.90%) PHP
8 3 (9.677%) Shell Script
9 1 (3.226%) T-SQL
9 1 (3.226%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 5 (16.13%) Degree
2 4 (12.90%) PhD
3 1 (3.226%) CCNP
3 1 (3.226%) CCNA
3 1 (3.226%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (3.226%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (3.226%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.452%) QA
2 1 (3.226%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (22.58%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.226%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (3.226%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 3 (9.677%) HP Quality Center
1 3 (9.677%) Puppet
2 1 (3.226%) Nagios
Vendors
1 11 (35.48%) Oracle
2 8 (25.81%) VMware
3 5 (16.13%) Microsoft
4 3 (9.677%) HP
4 3 (9.677%) JBoss
4 3 (9.677%) Akamai
5 2 (6.452%) SAP
5 2 (6.452%) Lotus
6 1 (3.226%) TIBCO
6 1 (3.226%) Ab Initio
6 1 (3.226%) Informatica
6 1 (3.226%) Cisco
6 1 (3.226%) Talend
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