The first table below looks at the demand for JAX-WS skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited JAX-WS over the 3 months to 24 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 City of London 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java API for XML Web Services (JAX-WS)
Rank 201 216 241
Rank change year-on-year
+15 +25
Contract jobs citing JAX-WS 2 2 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.031% 0.025% 0.041%
As % of the Application Development category 0.110% 0.099% 0.146%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 3
Average daily rate £463 £525 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.90% +16.66%
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £350 £325
% change year-on-year
+7.14% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £42.50
All Application Development
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
1821 2016 2741
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 28.55% 25.63% 27.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1439 1499 2137
Average daily rate £405 £425 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.70% -15.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £288 £313
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 28 22
Average hourly rate £41.50 £25.00 £43.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+66.00% -42.52%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.58 £15.00 £16.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £75.00 £45.00 £119.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
JAX-WS
London

JAX-WS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London JAX-WS Jobs Demand Trend

JAX-WS
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing JAX-WS across the City of London region.

City of London JAX-WS Daily Rate Trend

JAX-WS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing JAX-WS 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 JAX-WS.

1 2 (100.00%) JUnit
1 2 (100.00%) WebLogic
1 2 (100.00%) JSP
1 2 (100.00%) SOAP
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) XSL
1 2 (100.00%) LDAP
1 2 (100.00%) JMS
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 2 (100.00%) MVC
1 2 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) ClearTrust
1 2 (100.00%) Spring MVC
1 2 (100.00%) Release Management
1 2 (100.00%) Multithreading
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
2 1 (50.00%) FishEye
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Maven
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (50.00%) Subversion
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Ant
2 1 (50.00%) SSL
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle 10g

JAX-WS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing JAX-WS 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 JAX-WS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (100.00%) JSP
1 2 (100.00%) SOAP
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) XSL
1 2 (100.00%) JMS
1 2 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) Spring MVC
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) WebLogic
2 1 (50.00%) Apache
2 1 (50.00%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) LDAP
2 1 (50.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JUnit
2 1 (50.00%) FishEye
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Maven
2 1 (50.00%) Subversion
2 1 (50.00%) Ant
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Web Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 2 (100.00%) MVC
1 2 (100.00%) Release Management
1 2 (100.00%) Multithreading
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) ClearTrust
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle