The first table below looks at the demand for Web Services skills in IT contracts advertised for the Fife region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Web Services over the 3 months to 24 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 Fife 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Web Services
Rank 8 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Web Services 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Fife 2.857% - -
As % of the Application Development category 25.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £350 £345
% change year-on-year
-7.14% +1.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.75 £32.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year
-5.38% -18.75%
All Application Development
Fife
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
4 2 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Fife 11.43% 5.405% 22.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £280 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £28.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Web Services
Scotland

Web Services
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Fife Web Services Jobs Demand Trend

Web Services
Daily Rate Trend

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

Fife Web Services Daily Rate Trend

Web Services
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Fife region citing Web Services 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 Web Services.

1 2 (66.67%) HTML
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 2 (66.67%) PL/SQL
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
1 2 (66.67%) JUnit
1 2 (66.67%) CSS
1 2 (66.67%) UML
1 2 (66.67%) JBoss
1 2 (66.67%) Eclipse
1 2 (66.67%) JavaBeans
1 2 (66.67%) Hibernate
1 2 (66.67%) Subversion
1 2 (66.67%) JSF
1 2 (66.67%) Selenium
1 2 (66.67%) RESTful
1 2 (66.67%) RichFaces
1 2 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (66.67%) Eclipse RCP
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) Retail
2 1 (33.33%) CruiseControl
2 1 (33.33%) Dependency Injection
2 1 (33.33%) JBoss Seam
2 1 (33.33%) JPA
2 1 (33.33%) Facelets
2 1 (33.33%) Maven
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Degree

Web Services
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Fife region citing Web Services 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 Web Services. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (66.67%) HTML
1 2 (66.67%) CSS
1 2 (66.67%) JavaBeans
1 2 (66.67%) Hibernate
1 2 (66.67%) JSF
1 2 (66.67%) RESTful
1 2 (66.67%) RichFaces
2 1 (33.33%) JBoss Seam
2 1 (33.33%) JPA
2 1 (33.33%) Facelets
2 1 (33.33%) JSP
2 1 (33.33%) Servlets
2 1 (33.33%) EJB
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JUnit
1 2 (66.67%) Eclipse
1 2 (66.67%) Subversion
1 2 (66.67%) Selenium
1 2 (66.67%) Eclipse RCP
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) CruiseControl
2 1 (33.33%) Maven
2 1 (33.33%) Ant
General
1 1 (33.33%) Retail
1 1 (33.33%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Development Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Development Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Support Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows CE
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) UML
1 2 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (33.33%) Dependency Injection
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Extreme Programming
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 2 (66.67%) PL/SQL
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) C
2 1 (33.33%) C++
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) HND
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
1 2 (66.67%) JBoss