The first table below looks at the demand for WSDL skills in IT contracts advertised for the East Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WSDL over the 3 months to 21 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 East Midlands 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Web Services Description Language (WSDL)
Rank 77 82 -
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -
Contract jobs citing WSDL 7 3 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 0.551% 0.219% -
As % of the Application Development category 2.102% 0.838% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £394 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £383 £375
% change year-on-year
+4.57% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £42.50
All Application Development
East Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
333 358 317
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 26.20% 26.19% 23.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 191 109
Average daily rate £310 £275 £305
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.72% -9.83%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £242 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £375 £410
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 12 38
Average hourly rate £35.00 £8.50 £33.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+311.76% -74.62%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
WSDL
England

WSDL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region.

East Midlands WSDL Daily Rate Trend

WSDL
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing WSDL across the East Midlands region.

East Midlands WSDL Hourly Rate Trend

WSDL
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WSDL within the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 21 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
Nottinghamshire - 4 £394 -
WSDL
England

WSDL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 12 (100.00%) XML
2 11 (91.67%) SOAP
2 11 (91.67%) XPath
3 9 (75.00%) WebSphere
3 9 (75.00%) Web Services
3 9 (75.00%) WebSphere MQ
4 8 (66.67%) XML Schema
4 8 (66.67%) SSL
4 8 (66.67%) HTML
4 8 (66.67%) XSD
4 8 (66.67%) XSLT
4 8 (66.67%) HTTP
4 8 (66.67%) DataPower
5 6 (50.00%) SOA
6 5 (41.67%) BPEL
6 5 (41.67%) Finance
6 5 (41.67%) Project Management
7 4 (33.33%) Middleware
8 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (25.00%) Time Management
8 3 (25.00%) IBM
8 3 (25.00%) WS-I
8 3 (25.00%) HP
8 3 (25.00%) QuickTest Pro
8 3 (25.00%) LoadRunner
8 3 (25.00%) JMS
8 3 (25.00%) UNIX
9 2 (16.67%) Java
9 2 (16.67%) WebLogic
9 2 (16.67%) Hudson

WSDL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 12 (100.00%) XML
2 11 (91.67%) SOAP
3 9 (75.00%) WebSphere
3 9 (75.00%) Web Services
4 8 (66.67%) XML Schema
4 8 (66.67%) HTML
4 8 (66.67%) XSD
4 8 (66.67%) XSLT
5 4 (33.33%) Middleware
6 3 (25.00%) WS-I
6 3 (25.00%) JMS
7 1 (8.333%) soapUI
Application Platforms
1 9 (75.00%) WebSphere MQ
2 2 (16.67%) WebLogic
3 1 (8.333%) WebSphere Message Broker
3 1 (8.333%) MQSeries
Communications & Networking
1 8 (66.67%) SSL
1 8 (66.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.333%) DB2
1 1 (8.333%) TOAD
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) QuickTest Pro
1 3 (25.00%) LoadRunner
2 2 (16.67%) Hudson
2 2 (16.67%) Maven
General
1 5 (41.67%) Finance
2 1 (8.333%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Administrator
2 4 (33.33%) WebSphere Administrator
3 3 (25.00%) Test Architect
3 3 (25.00%) Architect
4 2 (16.67%) WebSphere Specialist
5 1 (8.333%) Middleware Engineer
5 1 (8.333%) Developer
5 1 (8.333%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 8 (66.67%) DataPower
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) UNIX
2 1 (8.333%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (8.333%) Windows
2 1 (8.333%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) SOA
2 5 (41.67%) BPEL
2 5 (41.67%) Project Management
3 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (25.00%) Time Management
4 1 (8.333%) EAI
Programming Languages
1 11 (91.67%) XPath
2 2 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (8.333%) SQL
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) IBM
1 3 (25.00%) HP
2 1 (8.333%) SAP
2 1 (8.333%) Oracle
2 1 (8.333%) Red Hat