The first table below looks at the demand for WSDL 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 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 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 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Web Services Description Language (WSDL)
Rank 49 61 45
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -16
Contract jobs citing WSDL 1 1 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 0.182% 0.145% 1.145%
As % of the Application Development category 0.763% 0.398% 3.390%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 3
Average daily rate £550 £450 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+22.22% -
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
Cambridgeshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
131 251 177
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 23.86% 36.32% 33.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 128 78
Average daily rate £350 £300 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £266
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 22 16
Average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +40.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
WSDL
East of England

WSDL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire WSDL Daily Rate Trend

WSDL
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 9 (100.00%) Java
1 9 (100.00%) .NET
1 9 (100.00%) Oracle
1 9 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 9 (100.00%) SAP
1 9 (100.00%) XML
1 9 (100.00%) N-Tier
1 9 (100.00%) SOA
1 9 (100.00%) XML Schema
1 9 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 9 (100.00%) VLDB
1 9 (100.00%) BizTalk Server
1 9 (100.00%) Finance
1 9 (100.00%) Validation
1 9 (100.00%) TDD
1 9 (100.00%) Systems Analysis
1 9 (100.00%) ESB
1 9 (100.00%) Contract for Difference
1 9 (100.00%) Multithreading
1 9 (100.00%) SAP PI
1 9 (100.00%) Windows Azure
2 5 (55.56%) E-business

WSDL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 9 (100.00%) .NET
1 9 (100.00%) XML
1 9 (100.00%) XML Schema
1 9 (100.00%) SAP PI
Application Platforms
1 9 (100.00%) BizTalk Server
1 9 (100.00%) ESB
1 9 (100.00%) Windows Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 9 (100.00%) VLDB
General
1 9 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (100.00%) Architect
1 9 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 9 (100.00%) N-Tier
1 9 (100.00%) Contract for Difference
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Validation
1 9 (100.00%) TDD
1 9 (100.00%) Systems Analysis
1 9 (100.00%) Multithreading
1 9 (100.00%) SOA
1 9 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (55.56%) E-business
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) Java
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) Oracle
1 9 (100.00%) SAP