City of London SOAP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) skills within the City of London region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited SOAP over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
Location Aylesbury Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bridgend Brighton Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Coventry Croydon Devon Docklands, London East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Hendon Hertfordshire Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Reading Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stevenage Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Woking Worthing Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	188	170
Rank change on same period last year	-18
Matching contract IT job ads	27	25
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.036 %	0.025 %
As % of the category below	1.253 %	1.459 %
Daily rates quoted	18	19
Average minimum daily rate	£461	£505
Average daily rate	£492	£538
% change on same period last year	-8.63 %
Average maximum daily rate	£522	£571
UK excluding London average daily rate	£383	£357
% change on same period last year	+7.40 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.09	£30.73
% change on same period last year	+4.44 %
Application Development City of London
Matching contract IT job ads	2155	1713
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.872 %	1.733 %
Daily rates quoted	1252	755
Average minimum daily rate	£395	£454
Average daily rate	£432	£489
% change on same period last year	-11.59 %
Average maximum daily rate	£469	£524
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£336
% change on same period last year	+1.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	60	27
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.90	£24.24
Average hourly rate	£32.85	£27.46
% change on same period last year	+19.61 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.80	£30.69
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.78	£33.23
% change on same period last year	-1.32 %
SOAP London

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

SOAP
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing SOAP across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

SOAP
Daily Rate Trend

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

SOAP
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SOAP across the City of London region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

SOAP
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SOAP across the City of London region.

SOAP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 42 (66.67 %) XML 2 35 (55.56 %) WebServices 3 30 (47.62 %) Banking 4 26 (41.27 %) Java 5 23 (36.51 %) .NET 6 19 (30.16 %) J2EE 6 19 (30.16 %) XSLT 7 18 (28.57 %) SQL 7 18 (28.57 %) WebLogic 8 17 (26.98 %) Investment Banking 9 16 (25.40 %) UNIX 10 14 (22.22 %) OO 10 14 (22.22 %) HTML 10 14 (22.22 %) JavaScript 10 14 (22.22 %) C#

10 14 (22.22 %) Oracle 11 13 (20.63 %) SQL Server 11 13 (20.63 %) Apache 12 12 (19.05 %) JSP 12 12 (19.05 %) Internet 13 11 (17.46 %) JBoss 13 11 (17.46 %) Linux 14 10 (15.87 %) E-Commerce 14 10 (15.87 %) Perl 15 9 (14.29 %) Intranet 15 9 (14.29 %) Windows 15 9 (14.29 %) Derivative 16 8 (12.70 %) Penetration Testing 16 8 (12.70 %) AJAX 16 8 (12.70 %) TDD

SOAP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 42 (66.67 %) XML 2 35 (55.56 %) WebServices 3 23 (36.51 %) .NET 4 19 (30.16 %) J2EE 4 19 (30.16 %) XSLT 5 14 (22.22 %) HTML 6 12 (19.05 %) JSP 7 8 (12.70 %) CSS 7 8 (12.70 %) ASP.NET 7 8 (12.70 %) AJAX 8 7 (11.11 %) Spring 9 5 (7.937 %) COM+ 10 4 (6.349 %) Hibernate 10 4 (6.349 %) Apache Axis 11 3 (4.762 %) CORBA 11 3 (4.762 %) XHTML 11 3 (4.762 %) J2SE 11 3 (4.762 %) JMS 11 3 (4.762 %) Struts 12 2 (3.175 %) JDBC	Application Platforms 1 18 (28.57 %) WebLogic 2 13 (20.63 %) Apache 3 11 (17.46 %) JBoss 4 7 (11.11 %) Tomcat 4 7 (11.11 %) IIS 5 5 (7.937 %) CMS 5 5 (7.937 %) TIBCO EMS 6 2 (3.175 %) WebLogic Portal 6 2 (3.175 %) WebLogic Integration 7 1 (1.587 %) ESB 7 1 (1.587 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 2 (3.175 %) Photoshop 1 2 (3.175 %) MS Office 2 1 (1.587 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 12 (19.05 %) Internet 2 9 (14.29 %) Intranet 3 8 (12.70 %) HTTP 4 5 (7.937 %) FTP 4 5 (7.937 %) HTTPS 5 3 (4.762 %) SSL 5 3 (4.762 %) DMZ 5 3 (4.762 %) Firewall 5 3 (4.762 %) TCP/IP 6 1 (1.587 %) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 13 (20.63 %) SQL Server 2 3 (4.762 %) MySQL 2 3 (4.762 %) SQL Server 2005 3 2 (3.175 %) SQL Server 7 4 1 (1.587 %) SQL Server 2000 4 1 (1.587 %) Crystal Reports 4 1 (1.587 %) Oracle 10g	Development Applications 1 5 (7.937 %) TestDirector 1 5 (7.937 %) LoadRunner 2 4 (6.349 %) Subversion 3 3 (4.762 %) Ant 3 3 (4.762 %) Visual Studio 4 2 (3.175 %) JUnit 4 2 (3.175 %) ClearCase 4 2 (3.175 %) Dreamweaver 5 1 (1.587 %) Oracle Forms 5 1 (1.587 %) Bugzilla 5 1 (1.587 %) NUnit
General 1 30 (47.62 %) Banking 2 17 (26.98 %) Investment Banking 3 8 (12.70 %) Finance 4 7 (11.11 %) Front Office 5 3 (4.762 %) Back Office 6 2 (3.175 %) Health 6 2 (3.175 %) Insurance 6 2 (3.175 %) Financial Institution 7 1 (1.587 %) Billing 7 1 (1.587 %) Corporate Banking 7 1 (1.587 %) Auditing	Job Titles 1 36 (57.14 %) Developer 2 14 (22.22 %) Analyst 3 11 (17.46 %) Web Developer 4 10 (15.87 %) Support Analyst 4 10 (15.87 %) Java Developer 5 9 (14.29 %) E-Commerce Support Analyst 6 6 (9.524 %) Tester 6 6 (9.524 %) Perl Developer 6 6 (9.524 %) C# Developer 7 5 (7.937 %) Consultant 7 5 (7.937 %) Senior Developer 7 5 (7.937 %) Penetration Tester 8 4 (6.349 %) Systems Developer 8 4 (6.349 %) Perl Web Developer 8 4 (6.349 %) .NET Developer 9 3 (4.762 %) J2EE Developer 9 3 (4.762 %) Test Analyst 10 2 (3.175 %) Technical Analyst 10 2 (3.175 %) Senior Analyst 10 2 (3.175 %) Functional Consultant
Miscellaneous 1 9 (14.29 %) Derivative 2 5 (7.937 %) Fixed Income 3 4 (6.349 %) PKI 4 3 (4.762 %) Web 2.0 4 3 (4.762 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 4 3 (4.762 %) Interest Rate Derivative 5 2 (3.175 %) Equity Derivative 5 2 (3.175 %) Credit Risk 5 2 (3.175 %) Mainframe 6 1 (1.587 %) N-Tier 6 1 (1.587 %) NHS 6 1 (1.587 %) Clustering	Operating Systems 1 16 (25.40 %) UNIX 2 11 (17.46 %) Linux 3 9 (14.29 %) Windows 4 6 (9.524 %) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies 1 14 (22.22 %) OO 2 10 (15.87 %) E-Commerce 3 8 (12.70 %) TDD 3 8 (12.70 %) Penetration Testing 4 6 (9.524 %) Web Development 5 5 (7.937 %) Content Management 5 5 (7.937 %) Unit Testing 5 5 (7.937 %) Integration Testing 5 5 (7.937 %) Agile Software Development 6 4 (6.349 %) B2B 6 4 (6.349 %) Configuration Management 7 3 (4.762 %) Project Management 7 3 (4.762 %) Process Management 7 3 (4.762 %) Workflow 7 3 (4.762 %) Validation 7 3 (4.762 %) Stress Testing 8 2 (3.175 %) Enterprise Architecture 8 2 (3.175 %) Scrum 8 2 (3.175 %) UML 8 2 (3.175 %) Service Management	Programming Languages 1 26 (41.27 %) Java 2 18 (28.57 %) SQL 3 14 (22.22 %) JavaScript 3 14 (22.22 %) C# 4 10 (15.87 %) Perl 5 4 (6.349 %) PHP 5 4 (6.349 %) C++ 6 3 (4.762 %) Shell Script 7 2 (3.175 %) PL/SQL 7 2 (3.175 %) Transact-SQL 7 2 (3.175 %) VBScript 8 1 (1.587 %) VB.NET 8 1 (1.587 %) VBA 8 1 (1.587 %) Ruby 8 1 (1.587 %) XPath 8 1 (1.587 %) DHTML
Qualifications 1 1 (1.587 %) CISSP	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (3.175 %) WAI
System Software 1 2 (3.175 %) Active Directory 1 2 (3.175 %) AquaLogic	Systems Management 1 1 (1.587 %) AutoSys
Vendors 1 14 (22.22 %) Oracle 2 7 (11.11 %) BEA 3 6 (9.524 %) Red Hat 3 6 (9.524 %) TIBCO 4 5 (7.937 %) RedDot 5 4 (6.349 %) Sybase 5 4 (6.349 %) Microsoft 6 3 (4.762 %) BT 6 3 (4.762 %) Blue Coat 7 2 (3.175 %) Thunderhead 7 2 (3.175 %) Adobe 8 1 (1.587 %) Calypso 8 1 (1.587 %) Infragistics 8 1 (1.587 %) Tangosol