The first table below looks at the demand for SOAP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Canary Wharf region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SOAP over the 3 months to 18 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 Canary Wharf 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
Rank 41 50 60
Rank change year-on-year
+9 +10
Contract jobs citing SOAP 5 3 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 1.462% 0.773% 0.191%
As % of the Application Development category 4.808% 2.362% 0.625%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 0
Average daily rate £650 £467 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+39.18% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £344 £338
% change year-on-year
+1.81% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.75 £35.00 £36.00
% change year-on-year
-12.14% -2.77%
All Application Development
Canary Wharf
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
104 127 160
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 30.41% 32.73% 30.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 78 134
Average daily rate £600 £525 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% -4.54%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £375 £418
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £650 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.00 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+12.90% -13.16%
SOAP
London

SOAP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Canary Wharf 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 Canary Wharf region.

Canary Wharf SOAP Daily Rate Trend

SOAP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 5 (83.33%) Java
1 5 (83.33%) UML
1 5 (83.33%) OO
1 5 (83.33%) Data Modelling
1 5 (83.33%) JIRA
2 4 (66.67%) Spanish Language
2 4 (66.67%) Multithreading
2 4 (66.67%) RESTful
2 4 (66.67%) 29West
2 4 (66.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (66.67%) E-Commerce
2 4 (66.67%) Scrum
2 4 (66.67%) TDD
3 2 (33.33%) Web Services
3 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
4 1 (16.67%) Sybase
4 1 (16.67%) C#
4 1 (16.67%) C++
4 1 (16.67%) SQL
4 1 (16.67%) VBA
4 1 (16.67%) .NET
4 1 (16.67%) Oracle
4 1 (16.67%) SOA
4 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
4 1 (16.67%) WSDL
4 1 (16.67%) RDBMS
4 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
4 1 (16.67%) Apache
4 1 (16.67%) MS Excel
4 1 (16.67%) ClearCase

SOAP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 4 (66.67%) RESTful
2 2 (33.33%) Web Services
3 1 (16.67%) WSDL
3 1 (16.67%) Spring
3 1 (16.67%) JSON
3 1 (16.67%) Apache CXF
3 1 (16.67%) REST
3 1 (16.67%) Spring Batch
3 1 (16.67%) Guava
3 1 (16.67%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Apache
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Coherence
1 1 (16.67%) GemFire
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (16.67%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) JIRA
2 1 (16.67%) ClearCase
2 1 (16.67%) Subversion
General
1 4 (66.67%) Spanish Language
2 1 (16.67%) Front Office
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
2 5 (83.33%) Java Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Analyst Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Front Office Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (16.67%) Grid Computing
2 1 (16.67%) Derivative
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) UML
1 5 (83.33%) OO
1 5 (83.33%) Data Modelling
2 4 (66.67%) E-Commerce
2 4 (66.67%) Scrum
2 4 (66.67%) TDD
2 4 (66.67%) Multithreading
3 1 (16.67%) Monte Carlo Method
3 1 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (16.67%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) VBA
2 1 (16.67%) C#
2 1 (16.67%) C++
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) 29West
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Sybase
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Perforce
2 1 (16.67%) Endeca
2 1 (16.67%) Google
2 1 (16.67%) DataSynapse