The first table below looks at the demand for Web Services skills in IT contracts advertised for the Derbyshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Web Services 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 Derbyshire 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
Rank 14 21 34
Rank change year-on-year
+7 +13
Contract jobs citing Web Services 5 12 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Derbyshire 3.788% 5.505% 1.320%
As % of the Application Development category 15.63% 20.34% 11.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 0
Average daily rate £260 £441 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-40.97% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £350 £340
% change year-on-year
-7.14% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.75 £32.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year
-5.38% -18.75%
All Application Development
Derbyshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
32 59 34
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Derbyshire 24.24% 27.06% 11.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 23 11
Average daily rate £275 £250 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -23.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £236 £225 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £400 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 6
Average hourly rate £20.50 £8.50 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+141.17% -59.52%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Web Services
East Midlands

Web Services
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Derbyshire Web Services Jobs Demand Trend

Web Services
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Web Services across the Derbyshire region.

Derbyshire Web Services Daily Rate Trend

Web Services
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Web Services across the Derbyshire region.

Derbyshire Web Services Hourly Rate Trend

Web Services
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Web Services within the Derbyshire region over the 3 months to 23 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
Derby +9 2 £260 -42.85%
Chesterfield - 1 - -
Web Services
East Midlands

Web Services
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Derbyshire region citing Web Services 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 Web Services.

1 4 (50.00%) HTML
1 4 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (50.00%) .NET
1 4 (50.00%) ASP.NET
1 4 (50.00%) CSS
1 4 (50.00%) Windows
1 4 (50.00%) WinForms
2 3 (37.50%) SQL Server 2005
2 3 (37.50%) jQuery
2 3 (37.50%) Umbraco
2 3 (37.50%) Kentico
2 3 (37.50%) SQL Server 2008
2 3 (37.50%) OO
2 3 (37.50%) E-Commerce
2 3 (37.50%) OOD
2 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
2 3 (37.50%) E-business
2 3 (37.50%) Internet
3 2 (25.00%) CMS
3 2 (25.00%) Hibernate
3 2 (25.00%) Scrum
3 2 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (25.00%) Content Management
3 2 (25.00%) J2EE
3 2 (25.00%) Java
3 2 (25.00%) Eclipse
3 2 (25.00%) J2SE
3 2 (25.00%) XML
3 2 (25.00%) Ajax
3 2 (25.00%) Spring

Web Services
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Derbyshire region citing Web Services 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 Web Services. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (50.00%) HTML
1 4 (50.00%) .NET
1 4 (50.00%) ASP.NET
1 4 (50.00%) CSS
1 4 (50.00%) WinForms
2 3 (37.50%) jQuery
3 2 (25.00%) Hibernate
3 2 (25.00%) J2EE
3 2 (25.00%) J2SE
3 2 (25.00%) XML
3 2 (25.00%) Ajax
3 2 (25.00%) Spring
4 1 (12.50%) WCF
4 1 (12.50%) LINQ
4 1 (12.50%) .NET Framework
4 1 (12.50%) soapUI
4 1 (12.50%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 1 (12.50%) LINQ to SQL
4 1 (12.50%) XSD
4 1 (12.50%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 3 (37.50%) Umbraco
1 3 (37.50%) Kentico
2 2 (25.00%) CMS
3 1 (12.50%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) SQL Server 2005
1 3 (37.50%) SQL Server 2008
1 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Eclipse
General
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Developer
2 4 (50.00%) .NET Developer
2 4 (50.00%) ASP.NET Developer
3 3 (37.50%) .NET Web Developer
3 3 (37.50%) Web Developer
4 2 (25.00%) Java/J2EE Developer
4 2 (25.00%) Java Developer
5 1 (12.50%) .NET Programmer
5 1 (12.50%) Web Programmer
5 1 (12.50%) Oracle Developer
5 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET Programmer
5 1 (12.50%) .NET Software Developer
5 1 (12.50%) Performance Analyst
5 1 (12.50%) Programmer
5 1 (12.50%) Service Analyst
5 1 (12.50%) Software Developer
5 1 (12.50%) Analyst
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) OO
1 3 (37.50%) E-Commerce
1 3 (37.50%) OOD
1 3 (37.50%) E-business
2 2 (25.00%) Scrum
2 2 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (25.00%) Content Management
3 1 (12.50%) Logistics
3 1 (12.50%) Performance Management
3 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (12.50%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (12.50%) C#
3 1 (12.50%) Groovy
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle