The first table below looks at the demand for soapUI 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 soapUI 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
Eviware soapUI
Rank 199 215 242
Rank change year-on-year
+16 +27
Contract jobs citing soapUI 4 3 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.063% 0.038% 0.031%
As % of the Application Development category 0.220% 0.149% 0.109%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 3
Average daily rate £363 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.53% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £325 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £393 £325 £385
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £388
% change year-on-year
- -9.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £32.25 -
% change year-on-year
-6.97% -
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%
soapUI
London

soapUI
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London soapUI Jobs Demand Trend

soapUI
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London soapUI Daily Rate Trend

soapUI
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 6 (75.00%) SOAP
2 5 (62.50%) Selenium
3 4 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
3 4 (50.00%) SQL
3 4 (50.00%) JMeter
4 3 (37.50%) C#
4 3 (37.50%) Java
4 3 (37.50%) Linux
4 3 (37.50%) WebDriver
4 3 (37.50%) QA
5 2 (25.00%) Automation Testing
5 2 (25.00%) SpecFlow
5 2 (25.00%) Build Automation
5 2 (25.00%) Open Source
5 2 (25.00%) BDD
5 2 (25.00%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (25.00%) Hudson
5 2 (25.00%) Finance
5 2 (25.00%) Ajax
5 2 (25.00%) TDD
5 2 (25.00%) NUnit
5 2 (25.00%) Stress Testing
5 2 (25.00%) Security Testing
5 2 (25.00%) RESTful
5 2 (25.00%) Visual Studio
5 2 (25.00%) XML
5 2 (25.00%) UNIX
5 2 (25.00%) Windows
5 2 (25.00%) Oracle
5 2 (25.00%) Middleware

soapUI
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 6 (75.00%) SOAP
2 2 (25.00%) Ajax
2 2 (25.00%) RESTful
2 2 (25.00%) XML
2 2 (25.00%) Middleware
3 1 (12.50%) HTML
3 1 (12.50%) ADO
3 1 (12.50%) JSP
3 1 (12.50%) Visualforce
3 1 (12.50%) WCF
3 1 (12.50%) Silverlight
3 1 (12.50%) Google Maps API
3 1 (12.50%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 1 (12.50%) Bing Maps
Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Force.com
1 1 (12.50%) ActiveMQ
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) HTTP
1 2 (25.00%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) RDBMS
1 1 (12.50%) DB2
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) Selenium
2 4 (50.00%) JMeter
3 3 (37.50%) WebDriver
4 2 (25.00%) SpecFlow
4 2 (25.00%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (25.00%) Hudson
4 2 (25.00%) NUnit
4 2 (25.00%) Visual Studio
5 1 (12.50%) ClearCase
5 1 (12.50%) Ant
5 1 (12.50%) OpenSTA
5 1 (12.50%) JBehave
5 1 (12.50%) Maven
5 1 (12.50%) SilkTest
5 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Tester
1 3 (37.50%) QA Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Non-Functional Tester
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Test Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Salesforce.com Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Development Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Performance Tester
3 1 (12.50%) Automation Tester
3 1 (12.50%) Mobile Tester
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Open Source
2 1 (12.50%) Client/Server
2 1 (12.50%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
2 2 (25.00%) UNIX
2 2 (25.00%) Windows
3 1 (12.50%) AIX
3 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (25.00%) Automation Testing
2 2 (25.00%) Build Automation
2 2 (25.00%) BDD
2 2 (25.00%) TDD
2 2 (25.00%) Stress Testing
2 2 (25.00%) Security Testing
3 1 (12.50%) E-Commerce
3 1 (12.50%) SOA
3 1 (12.50%) Configuration Management
3 1 (12.50%) Test Scripting
3 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (12.50%) Performance Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Content Management
3 1 (12.50%) Automated Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Software Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Architecture
3 1 (12.50%) Scrum
3 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
3 1 (12.50%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) SQL
2 3 (37.50%) C#
2 3 (37.50%) Java
3 2 (25.00%) Python
4 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 1 (12.50%) Perl
4 1 (12.50%) Apex Code
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Salesforce.com
2 1 (12.50%) Atlassian
2 1 (12.50%) Telerik
2 1 (12.50%) Google