The first table below looks at the demand for WSDL 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 WSDL over the 3 months to 23 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Web Services Description Language (WSDL)
Rank 190 208 242
Rank change year-on-year
+18 +34
Contract jobs citing WSDL 9 11 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.142% 0.140% 0.030%
As % of the Application Development category 0.497% 0.545% 0.107%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 1
Average daily rate £500 £450 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.11% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £380 £375
% change year-on-year
+5.26% +1.33%
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
1810 2018 2793
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 28.49% 25.64% 28.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1434 1499 2176
Average daily rate £413 £425 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.94% -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 27 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 £45.50 £119.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
WSDL
London

WSDL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London WSDL Jobs Demand Trend

WSDL
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London WSDL Daily Rate Trend

WSDL
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WSDL across the City of London region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

City of London WSDL Daily Rate Histogram

WSDL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing WSDL 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 WSDL.

1 15 (68.18%) SOAP
2 13 (59.09%) XML
3 11 (50.00%) Web Services
4 10 (45.45%) J2EE
5 9 (40.91%) JavaScript
5 9 (40.91%) SQL
5 9 (40.91%) Oracle
5 9 (40.91%) Banking
5 9 (40.91%) Pega
6 8 (36.36%) Java
7 7 (31.82%) .NET
7 7 (31.82%) HTTP
7 7 (31.82%) Internet
8 6 (27.27%) WebSphere
8 6 (27.27%) Microsoft
8 6 (27.27%) MS Visio
8 6 (27.27%) XSD
8 6 (27.27%) JBoss
9 5 (22.73%) Windows
9 5 (22.73%) XSL
9 5 (22.73%) MySQL
9 5 (22.73%) IIS
9 5 (22.73%) SharePoint
9 5 (22.73%) Unit Testing
9 5 (22.73%) WebSphere MQ
9 5 (22.73%) Finance
10 4 (18.18%) Service Management
10 4 (18.18%) Windows Server 2003
10 4 (18.18%) MVC
10 4 (18.18%) Middleware

WSDL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing WSDL 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 WSDL. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 15 (68.18%) SOAP
2 13 (59.09%) XML
3 11 (50.00%) Web Services
4 10 (45.45%) J2EE
5 7 (31.82%) .NET
6 6 (27.27%) WebSphere
6 6 (27.27%) XSD
7 5 (22.73%) XSL
8 4 (18.18%) Middleware
8 4 (18.18%) FIXML
8 4 (18.18%) OLE DB
8 4 (18.18%) jQuery
8 4 (18.18%) .NET Framework
8 4 (18.18%) Application Packaging
8 4 (18.18%) Ajax
8 4 (18.18%) ODBC
8 4 (18.18%) JSP
8 4 (18.18%) ASP
8 4 (18.18%) HTML
8 4 (18.18%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 5 (22.73%) IIS
1 5 (22.73%) SharePoint
1 5 (22.73%) WebSphere MQ
2 4 (18.18%) Alfresco
2 4 (18.18%) Apache
2 4 (18.18%) Tomcat
3 2 (9.091%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (9.091%) WebLogic
3 2 (9.091%) BizTalk Server
3 2 (9.091%) MQSeries
4 1 (4.545%) MS Exchange
4 1 (4.545%) MSMQ
4 1 (4.545%) TIBCO EMS
Applications
1 6 (27.27%) MS Visio
2 4 (18.18%) MS Excel
2 4 (18.18%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (4.545%) BusinessWorks
Communications & Networking
1 7 (31.82%) HTTP
1 7 (31.82%) Internet
2 1 (4.545%) SMTP
2 1 (4.545%) LDAP
2 1 (4.545%) SSL
2 1 (4.545%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (22.73%) MySQL
2 4 (18.18%) MS Access
3 2 (9.091%) SQL Server
4 1 (4.545%) Big Data
4 1 (4.545%) NoSQL
4 1 (4.545%) Siebel EIM
Development Applications
1 4 (18.18%) WinDbg
2 1 (4.545%) Capybara
2 1 (4.545%) Git (software)
2 1 (4.545%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (4.545%) RSpec
2 1 (4.545%) Axure RP
2 1 (4.545%) TestDirector
2 1 (4.545%) QuickTest Pro
2 1 (4.545%) LoadRunner
2 1 (4.545%) Visual Studio
2 1 (4.545%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (4.545%) Selenium
2 1 (4.545%) CruiseControl
2 1 (4.545%) JMeter
General
1 9 (40.91%) Banking
2 5 (22.73%) Finance
3 3 (13.64%) Telecoms
4 2 (9.091%) Publishing
4 2 (9.091%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 7 (31.82%) Developer
1 7 (31.82%) Architect
2 4 (18.18%) Analyst
3 3 (13.64%) Senior Architect
3 3 (13.64%) Senior Systems Architect
3 3 (13.64%) Applications Support Analyst
3 3 (13.64%) JavaScript Developer
3 3 (13.64%) Support Analyst
3 3 (13.64%) Applications Support
3 3 (13.64%) Systems Architect
4 1 (4.545%) Middleware Analyst
4 1 (4.545%) Middleware Specialist
4 1 (4.545%) Ruby on Rails Developer
4 1 (4.545%) BizTalk Developer
4 1 (4.545%) Siebel Developer
4 1 (4.545%) Senior Siebel Developer
4 1 (4.545%) Technical Consultant
4 1 (4.545%) Tester
4 1 (4.545%) Consultant
4 1 (4.545%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Open Source
1 4 (18.18%) SWIFT
2 3 (13.64%) Mobile App
2 3 (13.64%) RIA
3 2 (9.091%) Mainframe
4 1 (4.545%) Social Media
4 1 (4.545%) DataPower
4 1 (4.545%) Statistics
4 1 (4.545%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 5 (22.73%) Windows
2 4 (18.18%) Windows Server 2003
2 4 (18.18%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (13.64%) Linux
4 1 (4.545%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (22.73%) Unit Testing
2 4 (18.18%) Service Management
2 4 (18.18%) MVC
2 4 (18.18%) Document Management
2 4 (18.18%) SOA
2 4 (18.18%) ITIL
2 4 (18.18%) Data Mapping
3 3 (13.64%) Process Management
4 2 (9.091%) BPEL
5 1 (4.545%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (4.545%) Change Control
5 1 (4.545%) Analytics
5 1 (4.545%) BDD
5 1 (4.545%) Data Modelling
5 1 (4.545%) CRM
5 1 (4.545%) OOA/OOD
5 1 (4.545%) OO
5 1 (4.545%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (4.545%) Refactoring
5 1 (4.545%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 9 (40.91%) JavaScript
1 9 (40.91%) SQL
2 8 (36.36%) Java
3 4 (18.18%) VBScript
4 2 (9.091%) Ada
5 1 (4.545%) C#
5 1 (4.545%) XPath
5 1 (4.545%) Ruby
5 1 (4.545%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (4.545%) SC Cleared
1 1 (4.545%) Security Cleared
1 1 (4.545%) ISEB
1 1 (4.545%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.545%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.545%) OpenSSO
1 1 (4.545%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 9 (40.91%) Oracle
1 9 (40.91%) Pega
2 6 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 6 (27.27%) JBoss
3 4 (18.18%) Lotus
3 4 (18.18%) Plumtree
3 4 (18.18%) IBM
4 2 (9.091%) Sun
4 2 (9.091%) Unisys
5 1 (4.545%) Facebook
5 1 (4.545%) Siebel
5 1 (4.545%) Omniture
5 1 (4.545%) Google
5 1 (4.545%) webMethods
5 1 (4.545%) TIBCO