The first table below looks at the demand for SOAP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Gloucestershire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SOAP over the 3 months to 17 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 Gloucestershire 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
Rank 37 62 -
Rank change year-on-year
+25 -
Contract jobs citing SOAP 2 5 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 0.730% 0.720% -
As % of the Application Development category 2.703% 2.825% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £500 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £333
% change year-on-year
- +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Average hourly rate £24.50 £21.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £32.25 £36.00
% change year-on-year
-6.97% -10.41%
All Application Development
Gloucestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
74 177 106
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 27.01% 25.50% 24.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 101 55
Average daily rate £394 £425 £293
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.35% +45.29%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £288 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £480 £713 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 6
Average hourly rate £24.50 £21.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% +20.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.50 £21.00 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £54.50 £37.00 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
SOAP
South West

SOAP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region.

Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region.

Gloucestershire SOAP Hourly Rate Trend

SOAP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 7 (87.50%) JavaBeans
1 7 (87.50%) Agile Software Development
1 7 (87.50%) TDD
1 7 (87.50%) C
1 7 (87.50%) Java
1 7 (87.50%) JUnit
1 7 (87.50%) EJB
1 7 (87.50%) Linux
1 7 (87.50%) JBoss
1 7 (87.50%) DV Cleared
1 7 (87.50%) Security Cleared
1 7 (87.50%) REST
2 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (12.50%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (12.50%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (12.50%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (12.50%) MVC
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (12.50%) Internet
2 1 (12.50%) Content Management
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (12.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (12.50%) .NET Framework
2 1 (12.50%) WCF
2 1 (12.50%) jQuery
2 1 (12.50%) CRM

SOAP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 7 (87.50%) EJB
1 7 (87.50%) JavaBeans
1 7 (87.50%) REST
2 1 (12.50%) .NET Framework
2 1 (12.50%) WCF
2 1 (12.50%) jQuery
2 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (12.50%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 1 (12.50%) CSS
2 1 (12.50%) Web Services
2 1 (12.50%) XML
2 1 (12.50%) HTML
2 1 (12.50%) .NET
2 1 (12.50%) ASP
2 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) IIS
1 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
1 1 (12.50%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (12.50%) SharePoint 2010
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 7 (87.50%) JUnit
2 1 (12.50%) Visual Studio
2 1 (12.50%) Team Foundation Server
Job Titles
1 8 (100.00%) Developer
2 7 (87.50%) Senior Developer
3 4 (50.00%) Architect
3 4 (50.00%) Senior Architect
4 2 (25.00%) Software Developer
4 2 (25.00%) Senior Software Developer
5 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Developer
Operating Systems
1 7 (87.50%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Agile Software Development
1 7 (87.50%) TDD
2 1 (12.50%) Content Management
2 1 (12.50%) CRM
2 1 (12.50%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) C
1 7 (87.50%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) C#
Qualifications
1 7 (87.50%) DV Cleared
1 7 (87.50%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) JBoss
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft