Docklands, London SOAP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) skills within the Docklands, London region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited SOAP over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
Location Aldershot Aylesbury Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Brentford 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 Hendon Hertfordshire Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire London Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Preston Reading Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Neots Stevenage Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Woking Worthing Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	55	89
Rank change on same period last year	+34
Matching contract IT job ads	16	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.021 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	7.547 %	0.824 %
Daily rates quoted	16	2
Average minimum daily rate	£302	£260
Average daily rate	£302	£260
% change on same period last year	+16.22 %
Average maximum daily rate	£302	£260
UK excluding London average daily rate	£386	£366
% change on same period last year	+5.46 %
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	£35.86	£31.34
% change on same period last year	+14.41 %
Application Development Docklands, London
Matching contract IT job ads	212	364
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.280 %	0.386 %
Daily rates quoted	151	207
Average minimum daily rate	£389	£414
Average daily rate	£407	£443
% change on same period last year	-8.07 %
Average maximum daily rate	£425	£471
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£336
% change on same period last year	+3.94 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.20	£24.67
Average hourly rate	£27.40	£24.67
% change on same period last year	+11.08 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.60	£24.67
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.44	£33.08
% change on same period last year	-1.93 %
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 Docklands, 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 Docklands, London region.

SOAP
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SOAP across the Docklands, London region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

SOAP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Docklands, 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 23 (100.00 %) Java 2 22 (95.65 %) SQL 2 22 (95.65 %) Oracle 2 22 (95.65 %) XML 2 22 (95.65 %) XSL 2 22 (95.65 %) RUP 2 22 (95.65 %) Oracle 10g 3 21 (91.30 %) PL/SQL 4 20 (86.96 %) OOA/OOD 5 19 (82.61 %) MS Project 6 18 (78.26 %) Unified Process 6 18 (78.26 %) Altova 7 16 (69.57 %) OO 8 15 (65.22 %) JUnit 8 15 (65.22 %) RequisitePro

8 15 (65.22 %) Rational Rose 8 15 (65.22 %) IBM 8 15 (65.22 %) Oracle Application Server 9 14 (60.87 %) Hibernate 10 13 (56.52 %) Use Case 10 13 (56.52 %) Oracle 10gAS 10 13 (56.52 %) JavaBeans 10 13 (56.52 %) PRINCE2 11 12 (52.17 %) MS Office 12 9 (39.13 %) EJB 12 9 (39.13 %) J2EE 12 9 (39.13 %) JDBC 12 9 (39.13 %) JSP 12 9 (39.13 %) Struts 12 9 (39.13 %) WebServices

SOAP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Docklands, 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 22 (95.65 %) XML 1 22 (95.65 %) XSL 2 14 (60.87 %) Hibernate 3 13 (56.52 %) JavaBeans 4 9 (39.13 %) J2EE 4 9 (39.13 %) EJB 4 9 (39.13 %) JDBC 4 9 (39.13 %) JSP 4 9 (39.13 %) Struts 4 9 (39.13 %) WebServices 5 8 (34.78 %) HTML 6 7 (30.43 %) CSS 7 6 (26.09 %) ODBC 7 6 (26.09 %) CORBA 7 6 (26.09 %) Swing 7 6 (26.09 %) CGI 8 2 (8.696 %) Spring 8 2 (8.696 %) JSTL	Application Platforms 1 15 (65.22 %) Oracle Application Server 2 13 (56.52 %) Oracle 10gAS 3 6 (26.09 %) IIS 3 6 (26.09 %) Apache 3 6 (26.09 %) Tomcat 4 2 (8.696 %) Oracle 9iAS
Applications 1 19 (82.61 %) MS Project 2 12 (52.17 %) MS Office 3 5 (21.74 %) MS Visio	Communications & Networking 1 6 (26.09 %) TCP/IP 1 6 (26.09 %) IIOP 2 3 (13.04 %) HTTP 3 1 (4.348 %) LDAP 3 1 (4.348 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 22 (95.65 %) Oracle 10g 2 8 (34.78 %) Oracle 9i 3 6 (26.09 %) MS Access 3 6 (26.09 %) TOAD 4 1 (4.348 %) RDBMS	Development Applications 1 15 (65.22 %) JUnit 1 15 (65.22 %) Rational Rose 1 15 (65.22 %) RequisitePro 2 6 (26.09 %) PowerBuilder 2 6 (26.09 %) Eclipse 3 2 (8.696 %) JDeveloper 3 2 (8.696 %) ClearQuest 3 2 (8.696 %) Ant
General 1 1 (4.348 %) Front Office 1 1 (4.348 %) Banking 1 1 (4.348 %) Investment Banking	Job Titles 1 19 (82.61 %) Project Manager 2 4 (17.39 %) Developer 2 4 (17.39 %) Java Developer 3 3 (13.04 %) J2EE Developer 3 3 (13.04 %) Java/J2EE Developer
Miscellaneous 1 6 (26.09 %) W3C	Operating Systems 1 6 (26.09 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 22 (95.65 %) RUP 2 20 (86.96 %) OOA/OOD 3 18 (78.26 %) Unified Process 4 16 (69.57 %) OO 5 13 (56.52 %) PRINCE2 5 13 (56.52 %) Use Case 6 9 (39.13 %) UML 7 4 (17.39 %) Project Management 8 3 (13.04 %) Web Development 9 2 (8.696 %) OOD	Programming Languages 1 23 (100.00 %) Java 2 22 (95.65 %) SQL 3 21 (91.30 %) PL/SQL 4 8 (34.78 %) VBA 5 6 (26.09 %) VB6 5 6 (26.09 %) VB 5 6 (26.09 %) JavaScript 5 6 (26.09 %) Perl 5 6 (26.09 %) C 5 6 (26.09 %) C++
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 6 (26.09 %) ISO9001	Vendors 1 22 (95.65 %) Oracle 2 18 (78.26 %) Altova 3 15 (65.22 %) IBM 4 6 (26.09 %) Macromedia