The first table below looks at the demand for Web Services skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cardiff 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 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 Cardiff 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
Rank 23 26 33
Rank change year-on-year
+3 +7
Contract jobs citing Web Services 2 6 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cardiff 1.220% 2.727% 0.873%
As % of the Application Development category 8.333% 14.29% 5.000%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 2
Average daily rate £238 £328 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-27.48% +9.16%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
-7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £17.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £32.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year
-3.07% -18.75%
All Application Development
Cardiff
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
24 42 40
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cardiff 14.63% 19.09% 17.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 21 19
Average daily rate £275 £300 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.33% -7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £350 £388
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
Average hourly rate £26.00 - £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Web Services
South Wales

Web Services
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cardiff 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 Cardiff region.

Cardiff Web Services Daily Rate Trend

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 Cardiff region.

Cardiff Web Services Hourly Rate Trend

Web Services
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cardiff 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 7 (41.18%) SQL
2 6 (35.29%) .NET
2 6 (35.29%) Java
2 6 (35.29%) SQL Server
2 6 (35.29%) RESTful
3 5 (29.41%) TDD
3 5 (29.41%) C#
3 5 (29.41%) Open Text
3 5 (29.41%) SAP
4 4 (23.53%) XML
4 4 (23.53%) UNIX
4 4 (23.53%) Windows
4 4 (23.53%) Spring
4 4 (23.53%) Hibernate
4 4 (23.53%) WCF
4 4 (23.53%) WPF
4 4 (23.53%) .NET Framework
5 3 (17.65%) MVVM
5 3 (17.65%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 3 (17.65%) Agile Software Development
5 3 (17.65%) Content Management
5 3 (17.65%) MySQL
5 3 (17.65%) HTML
5 3 (17.65%) JavaScript
5 3 (17.65%) PHP
5 3 (17.65%) LiveLink
5 3 (17.65%) ASP.NET
5 3 (17.65%) CSS
5 3 (17.65%) ABAP
5 3 (17.65%) OO

Web Services
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cardiff 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 6 (35.29%) .NET
1 6 (35.29%) RESTful
2 4 (23.53%) .NET Framework
2 4 (23.53%) WCF
2 4 (23.53%) WPF
2 4 (23.53%) XML
2 4 (23.53%) Hibernate
2 4 (23.53%) Spring
3 3 (17.65%) ASP.NET
3 3 (17.65%) CSS
3 3 (17.65%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 3 (17.65%) HTML
4 2 (11.76%) jQuery
4 2 (11.76%) Ajax
5 1 (5.882%) Middleware
5 1 (5.882%) J2EE
5 1 (5.882%) JSON
5 1 (5.882%) REST
5 1 (5.882%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 3 (17.65%) LiveLink
2 2 (11.76%) CMS
3 1 (5.882%) IIS
3 1 (5.882%) Kentico
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (35.29%) SQL Server
2 3 (17.65%) MySQL
3 1 (5.882%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (5.882%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Cucumber
1 2 (11.76%) Hudson
2 1 (5.882%) JUnit
2 1 (5.882%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (5.882%) Mockito
Job Titles
1 9 (52.94%) Developer
2 4 (23.53%) Consultant
2 4 (23.53%) C# Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Java Developer
4 2 (11.76%) .NET Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Java Software Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Java Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) C# .NET Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.882%) WPF Developer
5 1 (5.882%) Database Developer
5 1 (5.882%) Junior Developer
5 1 (5.882%) Web Applications Developer
5 1 (5.882%) Junior Software Developer
5 1 (5.882%) C# Web Developer
5 1 (5.882%) C# Application Developer
5 1 (5.882%) Applications Developer
5 1 (5.882%) Lead Developer
5 1 (5.882%) Web Developer
5 1 (5.882%) Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Open Source
2 1 (5.882%) Social Media
2 1 (5.882%) Mobile App
2 1 (5.882%) N-Tier
2 1 (5.882%) Web 2.0
Operating Systems
1 4 (23.53%) UNIX
1 4 (23.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (29.41%) TDD
2 3 (17.65%) Content Management
2 3 (17.65%) Web Development
2 3 (17.65%) OO
2 3 (17.65%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (17.65%) MVVM
3 2 (11.76%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (5.882%) SOA
4 1 (5.882%) Change Management
4 1 (5.882%) MVC
4 1 (5.882%) Mobile Application Development
4 1 (5.882%) UML
Programming Languages
1 7 (41.18%) SQL
2 6 (35.29%) Java
3 5 (29.41%) C#
4 3 (17.65%) ABAP
4 3 (17.65%) JavaScript
4 3 (17.65%) PHP
5 2 (11.76%) Ruby
6 1 (5.882%) XAML
6 1 (5.882%) VB.NET
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) SAP
1 5 (29.41%) Open Text
2 1 (5.882%) Oracle
2 1 (5.882%) Microsoft