The first table below looks at the demand for SOAP skills in IT contracts advertised for the County Antrim region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SOAP over the 3 months to 17 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 County Antrim 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
Rank 29 25 -
Rank change year-on-year
-4 -
Contract jobs citing SOAP 3 3 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in County Antrim 1.429% 1.887% -
As % of the Application Development category 2.857% 6.122% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £325 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £333
% change year-on-year
- +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £32.25 £36.00
% change year-on-year
-6.97% -10.41%
All Application Development
County Antrim
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
105 49 110
As % of all contract IT jobs located in County Antrim 50.00% 30.82% 32.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 14 28
Average daily rate £325 £280 £335
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.07% -16.41%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £256 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £400 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Average hourly rate - £36.50 £37.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -2.66%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
SOAP
Northern Ireland

SOAP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

County Antrim SOAP Jobs Demand Trend

SOAP
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SOAP across the County Antrim region.

County Antrim SOAP Daily Rate Trend

SOAP
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOAP within the County Antrim region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Belfast -4 3 £325 -
SOAP
Northern Ireland

SOAP
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the County Antrim 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 7 (100.00%) Java
2 4 (57.14%) XML
2 4 (57.14%) soapUI
3 3 (42.86%) ABAP
3 3 (42.86%) SAP
3 3 (42.86%) XSLT
3 3 (42.86%) JMS
3 3 (42.86%) B2B
3 3 (42.86%) SAP PI
4 2 (28.57%) C#
4 2 (28.57%) .NET
4 2 (28.57%) J2EE
4 2 (28.57%) JUnit
4 2 (28.57%) Web Services
4 2 (28.57%) OO
4 2 (28.57%) Eclipse
4 2 (28.57%) IBM
4 2 (28.57%) HP
4 2 (28.57%) TDD
4 2 (28.57%) Ruby
4 2 (28.57%) Ajax
4 2 (28.57%) WebSphere
4 2 (28.57%) JSON
4 2 (28.57%) Selenium
4 2 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (28.57%) Groovy
4 2 (28.57%) REST

SOAP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the County Antrim 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 4 (57.14%) XML
1 4 (57.14%) soapUI
2 3 (42.86%) XSLT
2 3 (42.86%) JMS
2 3 (42.86%) SAP PI
3 2 (28.57%) Ajax
3 2 (28.57%) WebSphere
3 2 (28.57%) JSON
3 2 (28.57%) REST
3 2 (28.57%) .NET
3 2 (28.57%) J2EE
3 2 (28.57%) Web Services
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) JUnit
1 2 (28.57%) Eclipse
1 2 (28.57%) Selenium
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Consultant
2 2 (28.57%) Java Developer
2 2 (28.57%) SAP Consultant
2 2 (28.57%) SAP PI Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Tools Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) B2B
2 2 (28.57%) TDD
2 2 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (28.57%) OO
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (42.86%) ABAP
3 2 (28.57%) Ruby
3 2 (28.57%) Groovy
3 2 (28.57%) C#
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) SAP
2 2 (28.57%) IBM
2 2 (28.57%) HP