Essex SOAP Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) skills within the Essex region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited SOAP over the 3 months to 15 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
Location Abingdon Basildon Basingstoke Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Coventry Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Glasgow Gloucestershire Hampshire Harlow Hendon Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Reading Renfrewshire Scotland Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staines Stevenage Stockton-on-Tees Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swansea Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 15 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	54	40
Rank change on same period last year	-14
Matching contract IT job ads	3	28
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.029 %
As % of the category below	2.586 %	13.15 %
Daily rates quoted	0	7
Average minimum daily rate	-	£400
Average daily rate	-	£443
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£486
UK excluding London average daily rate	£378	£354
% change on same period last year	+6.70 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	15
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.29	£27.58
Average hourly rate	£31.29	£27.84
% change on same period last year	+12.38 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.29	£28.10
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.70	£31.75
% change on same period last year	+6.14 %
Application Development Essex
Matching contract IT job ads	116	213
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.165 %	0.220 %
Daily rates quoted	41	61
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£374
Average daily rate	£316	£405
% change on same period last year	-21.87 %
Average maximum daily rate	£333	£436
UK excluding London average daily rate	£331	£334
% change on same period last year	-0.92 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	41
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.81	£30.27
Average hourly rate	£32.43	£30.74
% change on same period last year	+5.50 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.04	£31.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.79	£32.03
% change on same period last year	-3.85 %
SOAP East of England

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 Essex 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 Essex region.

SOAP
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SOAP across the Essex region.

SOAP
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOAP within the Essex region over the 3 months to 15 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Harlow	-	2	-	-
Basildon	-1	1	-	-

SOAP East of England

SOAP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 6 (85.71 %) Java 2 5 (71.43 %) J2EE 2 5 (71.43 %) WebServices 2 5 (71.43 %) XML 2 5 (71.43 %) UML 3 4 (57.14 %) WebSphere 3 4 (57.14 %) XSLT 3 4 (57.14 %) Oracle 3 4 (57.14 %) SQL 3 4 (57.14 %) HTTP 3 4 (57.14 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 4 3 (42.86 %) ILOG 4 3 (42.86 %) N-Tier 4 3 (42.86 %) Struts 4 3 (42.86 %) UNIX

4 3 (42.86 %) OO 4 3 (42.86 %) JRules 4 3 (42.86 %) Unit Testing 4 3 (42.86 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer 5 2 (28.57 %) Agile Software Development 5 2 (28.57 %) Extreme Programming 5 2 (28.57 %) Performance Testing 5 2 (28.57 %) Automated Testing 5 2 (28.57 %) OOD 5 2 (28.57 %) Pharmaceutical 5 2 (28.57 %) XML Schema 6 1 (14.29 %) SSL 6 1 (14.29 %) Sun 6 1 (14.29 %) Sun Certification 6 1 (14.29 %) WinRunner

SOAP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 5 (71.43 %) J2EE 1 5 (71.43 %) WebServices 1 5 (71.43 %) XML 2 4 (57.14 %) XSLT 2 4 (57.14 %) WebSphere 3 3 (42.86 %) Struts 3 3 (42.86 %) JRules 4 2 (28.57 %) XML Schema 5 1 (14.29 %) Middleware 5 1 (14.29 %) AJAX 5 1 (14.29 %) XHTML 5 1 (14.29 %) WSDL 5 1 (14.29 %) CSS 5 1 (14.29 %) HTML 5 1 (14.29 %) .NET	Communications & Networking 1 4 (57.14 %) HTTP 2 1 (14.29 %) SSL
Development Applications 1 3 (42.86 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer 2 1 (14.29 %) WinRunner 2 1 (14.29 %) TestDirector 2 1 (14.29 %) QuickTest Pro 2 1 (14.29 %) LoadRunner 2 1 (14.29 %) JMeter 2 1 (14.29 %) Selenium 2 1 (14.29 %) FitNesse	General 1 2 (28.57 %) Pharmaceutical 2 1 (14.29 %) Automotive 2 1 (14.29 %) Construction
Job Titles 1 5 (71.43 %) Developer 2 2 (28.57 %) J2EE Developer 3 1 (14.29 %) Senior J2EE Developer 3 1 (14.29 %) Java/J2EE Developer 3 1 (14.29 %) Tester 3 1 (14.29 %) Analyst 3 1 (14.29 %) Test Analyst 3 1 (14.29 %) Senior Developer 3 1 (14.29 %) Java Developer 3 1 (14.29 %) Systems Tester	Miscellaneous 1 3 (42.86 %) N-Tier 2 1 (14.29 %) Cryptography
Operating Systems 1 3 (42.86 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (71.43 %) UML 2 3 (42.86 %) OO 2 3 (42.86 %) Unit Testing 3 2 (28.57 %) OOD 3 2 (28.57 %) Extreme Programming 3 2 (28.57 %) Agile Software Development 3 2 (28.57 %) Automated Testing 3 2 (28.57 %) Performance Testing 4 1 (14.29 %) Unified Process 4 1 (14.29 %) SOA 4 1 (14.29 %) Scrum 4 1 (14.29 %) RUP 4 1 (14.29 %) Web Testing 4 1 (14.29 %) System Testing
Programming Languages 1 6 (85.71 %) Java 2 4 (57.14 %) SQL 3 1 (14.29 %) JavaScript	Qualifications 1 1 (14.29 %) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (57.14 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 2 1 (14.29 %) QA	Vendors 1 4 (57.14 %) Oracle 2 3 (42.86 %) ILOG 3 1 (14.29 %) Sun