The first table below looks at the demand for WSRP skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WSRP over the 3 months to 20 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 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP)
Rank 495 543 -
Rank change year-on-year
+48 -
Contract jobs citing WSRP 8 23 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.019% 0.043% -
As % of the Application Development category 0.070% 0.164% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 0
Average daily rate £425 £454 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.33% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £228 £445 -
% change year-on-year
-48.87% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Development
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
11374 14051 15578
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 27.27% 26.32% 28.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 7269 8447 9194
Average daily rate £375 £350 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 356 355 548
Average hourly rate £35.00 £33.00 £35.70
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.06% -7.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.33 £15.00 £19.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £42.50 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
WSRP
UK

WSRP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England WSRP Jobs Demand Trend

WSRP
Daily Rate Trend

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

England WSRP Daily Rate Trend

WSRP
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WSRP across the England region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

England WSRP Daily Rate Histogram

WSRP
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WSRP within the England region over the 3 months to 20 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
London +24 4 £444 -26.04%
East of England - 4 £228 -
WSRP
UK

WSRP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing WSRP 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 WSRP.

1 18 (100.00%) Java
1 18 (100.00%) J2EE
1 18 (100.00%) SOAP
2 14 (77.78%) JavaScript
2 14 (77.78%) Ajax
2 14 (77.78%) JSR 168
2 14 (77.78%) REST
3 12 (66.67%) Redis
3 12 (66.67%) Rackspace
3 12 (66.67%) Jenkins
3 12 (66.67%) Information Architecture
3 12 (66.67%) HTML5
3 12 (66.67%) MongoDB
3 12 (66.67%) NoSQL
3 12 (66.67%) Hudson
3 12 (66.67%) Git (software)
3 12 (66.67%) NAS
3 12 (66.67%) CouchDB
3 12 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
3 12 (66.67%) Amazon AWS
3 12 (66.67%) Selenium
3 12 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
3 12 (66.67%) Network Security
3 12 (66.67%) Load Balancing
3 12 (66.67%) Maven
3 12 (66.67%) Java EE
3 12 (66.67%) Taxonomies
3 12 (66.67%) Ontologies
3 12 (66.67%) JIRA
3 12 (66.67%) Firewall

WSRP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing WSRP 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 WSRP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 18 (100.00%) J2EE
1 18 (100.00%) SOAP
2 14 (77.78%) Ajax
2 14 (77.78%) JSR 168
2 14 (77.78%) REST
3 12 (66.67%) HTML5
3 12 (66.67%) Java EE
3 12 (66.67%) XML
3 12 (66.67%) Flash
3 12 (66.67%) DHTML
3 12 (66.67%) HTML
4 11 (61.11%) .NET
5 6 (33.33%) Web Services
5 6 (33.33%) Spring
6 4 (22.22%) JSF
6 4 (22.22%) LAMP
6 4 (22.22%) JPA
6 4 (22.22%) JSR 286
6 4 (22.22%) RESTful
7 2 (11.11%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 12 (66.67%) Apache
1 12 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
1 12 (66.67%) Amazon AWS
2 8 (44.44%) Tomcat
3 4 (22.22%) CMS
3 4 (22.22%) Liferay
4 2 (11.11%) WebSphere Portal
5 1 (5.556%) LiveSite
Communications & Networking
1 12 (66.67%) HTTP
1 12 (66.67%) DNS
1 12 (66.67%) SSL
1 12 (66.67%) SAN
1 12 (66.67%) RTP
1 12 (66.67%) Firewall
1 12 (66.67%) RTSP
1 12 (66.67%) Network Security
1 12 (66.67%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (66.67%) MySQL
1 12 (66.67%) SQL Server
1 12 (66.67%) Oracle 8/8i
1 12 (66.67%) RDBMS
1 12 (66.67%) CouchDB
1 12 (66.67%) MongoDB
1 12 (66.67%) NoSQL
1 12 (66.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 12 (66.67%) Maven
1 12 (66.67%) JIRA
1 12 (66.67%) Selenium
1 12 (66.67%) Git (software)
1 12 (66.67%) Hudson
1 12 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (11.11%) Rational Application Developer
General
1 4 (22.22%) Finance
1 4 (22.22%) Banking
1 4 (22.22%) Retail
1 4 (22.22%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Web Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) Portal Developer
2 5 (27.78%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) Developer
2 5 (27.78%) Systems Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Linux Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Senior Linux Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Senior Web Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) J2EE Developer
5 1 (5.556%) Team Leader
5 1 (5.556%) Development Team Leader
5 1 (5.556%) WebSphere Developer
5 1 (5.556%) WebSphere Portal Developer
5 1 (5.556%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 12 (66.67%) Taxonomies
1 12 (66.67%) Ontologies
2 4 (22.22%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 12 (66.67%) Linux
2 8 (44.44%) UNIX
3 1 (5.556%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (66.67%) SOA
1 12 (66.67%) DRM
1 12 (66.67%) Penetration Testing
1 12 (66.67%) Load Balancing
1 12 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
1 12 (66.67%) Information Architecture
2 7 (38.89%) E-Commerce
3 6 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
3 6 (33.33%) Content Management
4 4 (22.22%) BDD
4 4 (22.22%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 18 (100.00%) Java
2 14 (77.78%) JavaScript
3 12 (66.67%) Perl
4 11 (61.11%) PHP
System Software
1 12 (66.67%) Samba
Systems Management
1 8 (44.44%) OpenView
1 8 (44.44%) Nagios
1 8 (44.44%) ZABBIX
1 8 (44.44%) Puppet
Vendors
1 12 (66.67%) Oracle
1 12 (66.67%) JBoss
1 12 (66.67%) Rackspace
2 8 (44.44%) RightScale
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