The first table below looks at the demand for WSDL skills in IT contracts advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WSDL 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 East of England 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
Web Services Description Language (WSDL)
Rank 113 114 121
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +7
Contract jobs citing WSDL 2 15 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 0.093% 0.509% 0.419%
As % of the Application Development category 0.332% 1.818% 1.423%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 8
Average daily rate £400 £394 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.58% -17.10%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £280 £251 £450
10% offered a daily rate of more than £520 £415 £600
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
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
603 825 773
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 27.99% 27.99% 29.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 341 438 349
Average daily rate £325 £325 £325
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 55 65
Average hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-21.42% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.66 £27.50 £22.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.20 £42.50 £47.50
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 of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

East of England 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 of England region.

East of England 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 East of England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

East of England WSDL Daily Rate Histogram

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 of England region.

East of England 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 of England 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
Cambridgeshire +12 1 £550 +22.22%
Essex - 1 £250 -
WSDL
England

WSDL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 10 (100.00%) .NET
1 10 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 10 (100.00%) XML
1 10 (100.00%) BizTalk Server
2 9 (90.00%) N-Tier
2 9 (90.00%) SOA
2 9 (90.00%) XML Schema
2 9 (90.00%) Business Intelligence
2 9 (90.00%) VLDB
2 9 (90.00%) SAP
2 9 (90.00%) Oracle
2 9 (90.00%) Java
2 9 (90.00%) Finance
2 9 (90.00%) Validation
2 9 (90.00%) TDD
2 9 (90.00%) Systems Analysis
2 9 (90.00%) ESB
2 9 (90.00%) Contract for Difference
2 9 (90.00%) Multithreading
2 9 (90.00%) SAP PI
2 9 (90.00%) Windows Azure
3 5 (50.00%) E-business
4 1 (10.00%) WCF
4 1 (10.00%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (10.00%) XPath
4 1 (10.00%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (10.00%) C#
4 1 (10.00%) SQL
4 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET
4 1 (10.00%) Web Services

WSDL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 10 (100.00%) .NET
1 10 (100.00%) XML
2 9 (90.00%) XML Schema
2 9 (90.00%) SAP PI
3 1 (10.00%) WCF
3 1 (10.00%) XSLT
3 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET
3 1 (10.00%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 10 (100.00%) BizTalk Server
2 9 (90.00%) ESB
2 9 (90.00%) Windows Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 9 (90.00%) VLDB
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 9 (90.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (90.00%) Architect
1 9 (90.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (10.00%) BizTalk Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (90.00%) N-Tier
1 9 (90.00%) Contract for Difference
2 1 (10.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Validation
1 9 (90.00%) TDD
1 9 (90.00%) Systems Analysis
1 9 (90.00%) Multithreading
1 9 (90.00%) SOA
1 9 (90.00%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (50.00%) E-business
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) Java
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) XPath
2 1 (10.00%) C#
Vendors
1 9 (90.00%) Oracle
1 9 (90.00%) SAP