The first table below looks at the demand for SOAP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Essex region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SOAP 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 Essex 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
Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
Rank - 45 44
Contract jobs citing SOAP 0 1 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex - 0.245% 1.020%
As % of the Application Development category - 1.316% 4.082%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 3
Average daily rate - £250 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -50.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £330
% change year-on-year
- +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £36.25
% change year-on-year
-14.28% -3.44%
All Application Development
Essex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
113 76 98
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 26.90% 18.63% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 38 50
Average daily rate £250 £270 £420
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.40% -35.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £190 £175 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £420 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 15 13
Average hourly rate £27.50 £32.25 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-14.72% +17.27%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.66 £26.28 £26.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.00 £35.22 £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
SOAP
East of England

SOAP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Essex SOAP Jobs Demand Trend

SOAP
Daily Rate Trend

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

Essex SOAP Daily Rate Trend

SOAP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Essex SOAP Hourly Rate Trend

SOAP
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, 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 2 (100.00%) OO
2 1 (50.00%) JBoss
2 1 (50.00%) Apache
2 1 (50.00%) Swing
2 1 (50.00%) ClearCase
2 1 (50.00%) SOA
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) LAMP
2 1 (50.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Spring
2 1 (50.00%) Maven
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) ESB
2 1 (50.00%) GWT
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Software Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) PHP
2 1 (50.00%) J2EE
2 1 (50.00%) MySQL
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) JUnit
2 1 (50.00%) Web Services
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) UML

SOAP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, 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 1 (50.00%) Swing
1 1 (50.00%) LAMP
1 1 (50.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) GWT
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) J2EE
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) ESB
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) ClearCase
1 1 (50.00%) Maven
1 1 (50.00%) JUnit
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (50.00%) LAMP Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) OO
2 1 (50.00%) SOA
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Software Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) UML
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) JBoss
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
Essex, South East
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Posted: 20 May 2013