The first table below looks at the demand for SOAP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SOAP over the 3 months to 22 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 Cheshire 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
Rank 53 57 58
Rank change year-on-year
+4 +1
Contract jobs citing SOAP 10 8 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 1.361% 0.988% 1.354%
As % of the Application Development category 6.098% 3.333% 5.058%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 11
Average daily rate £375 £285 £360
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+31.57% -20.83%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £363 £270 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £430 £350 £365
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £330
% change year-on-year
- +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £36.25
% change year-on-year
-14.28% -3.44%
All Application Development
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
164 240 257
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 22.31% 29.63% 26.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 130 171
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £274 £315
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £488 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 3
Average hourly rate £30.00 £16.50 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+81.81% -13.15%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
SOAP
North West

SOAP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire SOAP Daily Rate Trend

SOAP
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SOAP across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Cheshire SOAP Daily Rate Histogram

SOAP
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SOAP across the Cheshire region.

Cheshire SOAP Hourly Rate Trend

SOAP
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOAP within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 22 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
Chester -3 2 £375 +7.14%
Knutsford - 2 £425 -
Crewe - 1 £315 -
SOAP
North West

SOAP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 13 (68.42%) Web Services
2 12 (63.16%) Java
3 9 (47.37%) Oracle
3 9 (47.37%) Retail
3 9 (47.37%) Subversion
4 8 (42.11%) Spring
4 8 (42.11%) SQL
4 8 (42.11%) J2EE
4 8 (42.11%) E-Commerce
5 7 (36.84%) OO
5 7 (36.84%) Agile Software Development
5 7 (36.84%) Hibernate
6 6 (31.58%) PHP5
6 6 (31.58%) Magento
6 6 (31.58%) RESTful
6 6 (31.58%) Eclipse
6 6 (31.58%) MySQL
6 6 (31.58%) JavaScript
6 6 (31.58%) PHP
6 6 (31.58%) JUnit
6 6 (31.58%) CMS
7 5 (26.32%) Finance
7 5 (26.32%) WSDL
7 5 (26.32%) CSS
7 5 (26.32%) PL/SQL
7 5 (26.32%) HTML
7 5 (26.32%) Continuous Integration
7 5 (26.32%) WebSphere
7 5 (26.32%) JIRA
8 4 (21.05%) XPath

SOAP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 13 (68.42%) Web Services
2 8 (42.11%) Spring
2 8 (42.11%) J2EE
3 7 (36.84%) Hibernate
4 6 (31.58%) RESTful
5 5 (26.32%) WSDL
5 5 (26.32%) CSS
5 5 (26.32%) HTML
5 5 (26.32%) WebSphere
6 4 (21.05%) Apache Axis
6 4 (21.05%) JSF
6 4 (21.05%) Ajax
6 4 (21.05%) XHTML
6 4 (21.05%) JSP
6 4 (21.05%) Servlets
6 4 (21.05%) DOM
6 4 (21.05%) XSLT
6 4 (21.05%) JAX-RPC
7 3 (15.79%) ICEfaces
7 3 (15.79%) RichFaces
Application Platforms
1 6 (31.58%) Magento
1 6 (31.58%) CMS
2 4 (21.05%) Apache
3 2 (10.53%) ESB
3 2 (10.53%) Mule
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.79%) TCP/IP
2 2 (10.53%) HTTP
2 2 (10.53%) SNMP
2 2 (10.53%) SMTP
2 2 (10.53%) Internet
2 2 (10.53%) TELNET
2 2 (10.53%) DNS
3 1 (5.263%) SSL
3 1 (5.263%) Firewall
3 1 (5.263%) TACACS
3 1 (5.263%) LDAP
3 1 (5.263%) DHCP
3 1 (5.263%) FTP
3 1 (5.263%) LAN
3 1 (5.263%) WAN
3 1 (5.263%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (31.58%) MySQL
2 2 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (47.37%) Subversion
2 6 (31.58%) Eclipse
2 6 (31.58%) JUnit
3 5 (26.32%) JIRA
4 2 (10.53%) Selenium
4 2 (10.53%) Jenkins
4 2 (10.53%) TestNG
4 2 (10.53%) MyEclipse
4 2 (10.53%) Mercurial
5 1 (5.263%) FitNesse
General
1 9 (47.37%) Retail
2 5 (26.32%) Finance
3 2 (10.53%) Retail Banking
3 2 (10.53%) Banking
4 1 (5.263%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.263%) Publishing
4 1 (5.263%) Games
4 1 (5.263%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (68.42%) Developer
2 6 (31.58%) Java Developer
3 3 (15.79%) Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Technical Analyst
5 1 (5.263%) Test Analyst
5 1 (5.263%) Web Developer
5 1 (5.263%) Consultant
5 1 (5.263%) Network Engineer
5 1 (5.263%) Senior Developer
5 1 (5.263%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.263%) Agile Test Analyst
5 1 (5.263%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (5.263%) webMethods Consultant
5 1 (5.263%) Java Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Web 2.0
2 2 (10.53%) Mobile App
2 2 (10.53%) Client/Server
3 1 (5.263%) RIA
3 1 (5.263%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Apple iOS
1 2 (10.53%) Android
2 1 (5.263%) UNIX
2 1 (5.263%) Windows
2 1 (5.263%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (42.11%) E-Commerce
2 7 (36.84%) OO
2 7 (36.84%) Agile Software Development
3 5 (26.32%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (21.05%) TDD
4 4 (21.05%) Integration Testing
4 4 (21.05%) Waterfall
5 3 (15.79%) Unit Testing
5 3 (15.79%) Software Engineering
6 2 (10.53%) Business Analysis
6 2 (10.53%) Scrum
6 2 (10.53%) Change Management
7 1 (5.263%) B2B
7 1 (5.263%) B2C
7 1 (5.263%) Service Management
7 1 (5.263%) ITSM
7 1 (5.263%) ITIL
7 1 (5.263%) EAI
7 1 (5.263%) Network Management
7 1 (5.263%) Capacity Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (63.16%) Java
2 8 (42.11%) SQL
3 6 (31.58%) PHP5
3 6 (31.58%) JavaScript
3 6 (31.58%) PHP
4 5 (26.32%) PL/SQL
5 4 (21.05%) XPath
Systems Management
1 1 (5.263%) CiscoWorks
1 1 (5.263%) HP NNM
Vendors
1 9 (47.37%) Oracle
2 3 (15.79%) Perforce
2 3 (15.79%) IBM
3 2 (10.53%) Adobe
4 1 (5.263%) Cisco
4 1 (5.263%) HP
4 1 (5.263%) webMethods
4 1 (5.263%) SAP
4 1 (5.263%) F5
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