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Web Services Contracts in Chester
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Web Services skills in IT contracts advertised for the Chester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Web Services over the 3 months to 19 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 Chester 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
19 Jun 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Web Services
Rank 17 20 17
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -3
Contract jobs citing Web Services 7 2 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 5.426% 1.770% 2.920%
As % of the Application Development category 33.33% 11.11% 12.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 4
Average daily rate £338 £350 £355
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.57% -1.40%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £350 £352
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £350 £404
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £350
% change year-on-year
-1.51% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year
-7.69% -18.75%
All Application Development
Chester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category		 21 18 31
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 16.28% 15.93% 22.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 8 12
Average daily rate £325 £350 £355
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% -1.40%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £225 £340
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £356 £410
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
Web Services
Cheshire

Web Services
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester Web Services Hourly Rate Trend

Web Services
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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 9 (81.82%) SQL
2 8 (72.73%) JavaScript
3 6 (54.55%) HTML
3 6 (54.55%) Java
3 6 (54.55%) J2EE
3 6 (54.55%) CSS
3 6 (54.55%) XML
4 5 (45.45%) Oracle
4 5 (45.45%) C#
4 5 (45.45%) Spring
4 5 (45.45%) SOAP
5 4 (36.36%) WinForms
5 4 (36.36%) Ajax
5 4 (36.36%) SQL Server 2005
5 4 (36.36%) Hibernate
5 4 (36.36%) WSDL
5 4 (36.36%) PL/SQL
5 4 (36.36%) .NET
5 4 (36.36%) SQL Server
5 4 (36.36%) IIS
5 4 (36.36%) ASP.NET
5 4 (36.36%) Windows
5 4 (36.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (36.36%) .NET Framework
5 4 (36.36%) WCF
5 4 (36.36%) LINQ
5 4 (36.36%) SQL Server 2008
5 4 (36.36%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 4 (36.36%) LINQ to SQL
6 3 (27.27%) Continuous Integration

Web Services
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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 (54.55%) HTML
1 6 (54.55%) J2EE
1 6 (54.55%) CSS
1 6 (54.55%) XML
2 5 (45.45%) Spring
2 5 (45.45%) SOAP
3 4 (36.36%) WinForms
3 4 (36.36%) Ajax
3 4 (36.36%) Hibernate
3 4 (36.36%) WSDL
3 4 (36.36%) .NET
3 4 (36.36%) ASP.NET
3 4 (36.36%) .NET Framework
3 4 (36.36%) WCF
3 4 (36.36%) LINQ
3 4 (36.36%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 4 (36.36%) LINQ to SQL
4 3 (27.27%) WebSphere
4 3 (27.27%) Apache Axis
4 3 (27.27%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 4 (36.36%) IIS
2 3 (27.27%) Apache
3 2 (18.18%) ESB
4 1 (9.091%) Mule
4 1 (9.091%) iPlanet
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) Internet
2 1 (9.091%) HTTP
2 1 (9.091%) SNMP
2 1 (9.091%) TCP/IP
2 1 (9.091%) TELNET
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) SQL Server 2005
1 4 (36.36%) SQL Server
1 4 (36.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 4 (36.36%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (9.091%) Oracle 10g
2 1 (9.091%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) JUnit
2 2 (18.18%) Eclipse
2 2 (18.18%) JIRA
3 1 (9.091%) Jenkins
3 1 (9.091%) TestNG
3 1 (9.091%) MyEclipse
3 1 (9.091%) Mercurial
3 1 (9.091%) Selenium
3 1 (9.091%) CruiseControl
3 1 (9.091%) Subversion
General
1 3 (27.27%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (90.91%) Developer
2 5 (45.45%) Java Developer
3 4 (36.36%) .NET Developer
3 4 (36.36%) Senior .NET Developer
3 4 (36.36%) Senior Developer
4 1 (9.091%) Java/J2EE Developer
4 1 (9.091%) Software Engineer
4 1 (9.091%) Web Developer
4 1 (9.091%) C# Web Developer
4 1 (9.091%) C# Developer
4 1 (9.091%) J2EE Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Web 2.0
1 2 (18.18%) Client/Server
2 1 (9.091%) Mobile App
2 1 (9.091%) RIA
2 1 (9.091%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Windows
2 1 (9.091%) Apple iOS
2 1 (9.091%) Android
2 1 (9.091%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (27.27%) Continuous Integration
1 3 (27.27%) Agile Software Development
1 3 (27.27%) TDD
2 2 (18.18%) Waterfall
3 1 (9.091%) Unit Testing
3 1 (9.091%) Integration Testing
3 1 (9.091%) B2B
3 1 (9.091%) B2C
3 1 (9.091%) Scrum
3 1 (9.091%) Extreme Programming
3 1 (9.091%) Change Management
3 1 (9.091%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) SQL
2 8 (72.73%) JavaScript
3 6 (54.55%) Java
4 5 (45.45%) C#
5 4 (36.36%) PL/SQL
6 2 (18.18%) XPath
7 1 (9.091%) C++
Qualifications
1 1 (9.091%) Degree
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Oracle
2 1 (9.091%) JBoss
2 1 (9.091%) IBM
2 1 (9.091%) Adobe
2 1 (9.091%) Perforce
Software Test Analyst - Contract - Near Chester
Chester, North West
skills/attributes for this position include: - - 3-5 year's recent relevant software test experience of Web based Client / Server applications, especially Rich Internet Applications (RIA) using Adobe...
Computer Futures
Rate: £30 - £35 per hour
Posted: 31 May 2013
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