The first table below looks at the demand for SOAP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Glasgow region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SOAP over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Glasgow 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
Rank 43 46 28
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -18
Contract jobs citing SOAP 32 14 35
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 3.544% 1.731% 4.587%
As % of the Application Development category 8.142% 6.931% 12.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 25
Average daily rate £338 £258 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+31.06% -26.42%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £344 £338
% change year-on-year
+1.81% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £17.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.75 £35.00 £36.00
% change year-on-year
-12.14% -2.77%
All Application Development
Glasgow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
393 202 278
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 43.52% 24.97% 36.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 89 165
Average daily rate £350 £308 £348
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.82% -11.51%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £240 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £400 £409
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
Average hourly rate - £22.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +28.57%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.00 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+12.90% -13.16%
SOAP
Scotland

SOAP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region.

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region.

Glasgow SOAP Hourly Rate Trend

SOAP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 41 (83.67%) Java
2 35 (71.43%) XML
3 23 (46.94%) SQL
4 19 (38.78%) Spring
5 18 (36.73%) CSS
6 17 (34.69%) JMS
6 17 (34.69%) Hibernate
7 16 (32.65%) Web Services
7 16 (32.65%) JavaScript
8 15 (30.61%) OO
8 15 (30.61%) Agile Software Development
9 13 (26.53%) Finance
9 13 (26.53%) JSP
9 13 (26.53%) C#
10 12 (24.49%) Oracle
10 12 (24.49%) SOA
10 12 (24.49%) jQuery
11 11 (22.45%) Tomcat
11 11 (22.45%) Perl
12 10 (20.41%) Apache
12 10 (20.41%) Data Integration
12 10 (20.41%) HTML5
12 10 (20.41%) CSS3
13 9 (18.37%) Sencha
13 9 (18.37%) REST
13 9 (18.37%) Linux
13 9 (18.37%) UNIX
13 9 (18.37%) Sybase
13 9 (18.37%) HTTP
13 9 (18.37%) JSON

SOAP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 35 (71.43%) XML
2 19 (38.78%) Spring
3 18 (36.73%) CSS
4 17 (34.69%) JMS
4 17 (34.69%) Hibernate
5 16 (32.65%) Web Services
6 13 (26.53%) JSP
7 12 (24.49%) jQuery
8 10 (20.41%) HTML5
8 10 (20.41%) CSS3
9 9 (18.37%) REST
9 9 (18.37%) JSON
10 8 (16.33%) HTML
11 7 (14.29%) XML Schema
12 6 (12.24%) .NET
12 6 (12.24%) WPF
12 6 (12.24%) Ruby on Rails
12 6 (12.24%) soapUI
13 5 (10.20%) COM+
14 4 (8.163%) EJB
Application Platforms
1 11 (22.45%) Tomcat
2 10 (20.41%) Apache
3 7 (14.29%) ESB
4 6 (12.24%) Oracle Coherence
5 1 (2.041%) Mule
Applications
1 1 (2.041%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 9 (18.37%) HTTP
2 2 (4.082%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (12.24%) RDBMS
2 5 (10.20%) SQL Server
3 3 (6.122%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (4.082%) NoSQL
4 2 (4.082%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.041%) MySQL
5 1 (2.041%) DB2
5 1 (2.041%) Oracle 10g
5 1 (2.041%) SQL Server 2005
5 1 (2.041%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 6 (12.24%) Maven
2 4 (8.163%) JUnit
3 3 (6.122%) Subversion
4 2 (4.082%) JIRA
4 2 (4.082%) JBehave
4 2 (4.082%) Eclipse
5 1 (2.041%) CruiseControl
5 1 (2.041%) PVCS
General
1 13 (26.53%) Finance
2 6 (12.24%) Banking
3 2 (4.082%) Retail
3 2 (4.082%) Investment Banking
3 2 (4.082%) Front Office
3 2 (4.082%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.041%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 40 (81.63%) Developer
2 20 (40.82%) Java Developer
3 4 (8.163%) Analyst
3 4 (8.163%) Test Analyst
3 4 (8.163%) Junior
3 4 (8.163%) Junior Developer
4 3 (6.122%) .NET Developer
4 3 (6.122%) C# Developer
4 3 (6.122%) C# .NET Developer
5 2 (4.082%) Automation Analyst
5 2 (4.082%) Microsoft Developer
5 2 (4.082%) Automation Test Analyst
6 1 (2.041%) C# ASP.NET Developer
6 1 (2.041%) Designer
6 1 (2.041%) Automation Tester
6 1 (2.041%) PHP Developer
6 1 (2.041%) Tester
6 1 (2.041%) ASP.NET Developer
6 1 (2.041%) Applications Developer
6 1 (2.041%) Solutions Designer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (20.41%) Data Integration
2 4 (8.163%) N-Tier
3 2 (4.082%) W3C
3 2 (4.082%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (4.082%) Derivative
3 2 (4.082%) Equity Derivative
4 1 (2.041%) Open Source
4 1 (2.041%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.041%) Grid Computing
4 1 (2.041%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 9 (18.37%) Linux
1 9 (18.37%) UNIX
2 4 (8.163%) Windows
3 1 (2.041%) Android
3 1 (2.041%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.041%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (30.61%) OO
1 15 (30.61%) Agile Software Development
2 12 (24.49%) SOA
3 8 (16.33%) Multithreading
4 7 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
4 7 (14.29%) TDD
5 6 (12.24%) Scrum
6 5 (10.20%) Unit Testing
7 4 (8.163%) User Acceptance Testing
7 4 (8.163%) BDD
7 4 (8.163%) MVC
7 4 (8.163%) UML
8 2 (4.082%) Workflow
8 2 (4.082%) ETL
8 2 (4.082%) Business Intelligence
8 2 (4.082%) Code Coverage
8 2 (4.082%) Disaster Recovery
8 2 (4.082%) Release Management
8 2 (4.082%) Web Design
8 2 (4.082%) Automated Testing
Programming Languages
1 41 (83.67%) Java
2 23 (46.94%) SQL
3 16 (32.65%) JavaScript
4 13 (26.53%) C#
5 11 (22.45%) Perl
6 8 (16.33%) Ruby
7 6 (12.24%) Python
8 4 (8.163%) PL/SQL
9 3 (6.122%) VB
9 3 (6.122%) VB6
10 2 (4.082%) Shell Script
10 2 (4.082%) Jython
10 2 (4.082%) Korn
10 2 (4.082%) Groovy
10 2 (4.082%) Bash shell
10 2 (4.082%) VBScript
11 1 (2.041%) C++
11 1 (2.041%) PHP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.082%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (2.041%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 12 (24.49%) Oracle
2 9 (18.37%) Sybase
2 9 (18.37%) Sencha
3 6 (12.24%) Informatica
4 5 (10.20%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.041%) HP
5 1 (2.041%) IBM
5 1 (2.041%) TIBCO
Glasgow, Scotland
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