The first table below looks at the demand for Web Services skills in IT contracts advertised for the Guildford 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 Guildford 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 27 17 17
Rank change year-on-year
-10 0
Contract jobs citing Web Services 5 5 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 2.294% 4.132% 3.008%
As % of the Application Development category 6.173% 18.52% 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 2
Average daily rate £488 £425 £266
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.70% +59.62%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £418 £390 £247
10% offered a daily rate of more than £558 £425 £285
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £350 £345
% change year-on-year
-7.14% +1.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £54.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.75 £32.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year
-5.38% -18.75%
All Application Development
Guildford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
81 27 36
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 37.16% 22.31% 27.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 13 20
Average daily rate £320 £400 £280
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.00% +42.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £240 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £425 £300
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 2
Average hourly rate £43.50 £31.50 £37.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+38.09% -16.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Web Services
Surrey

Web Services
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Guildford 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 Guildford region.

Guildford Web Services Daily Rate Trend

Web Services
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Web Services across the Guildford region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Guildford Web Services Daily Rate Histogram

Web Services
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Guildford Web Services Hourly Rate Trend

Web Services
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford 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 5 (71.43%) SQL
2 4 (57.14%) REST
3 3 (42.86%) WCF
3 3 (42.86%) C#
4 2 (28.57%) C++
4 2 (28.57%) Java
4 2 (28.57%) VB
4 2 (28.57%) J2EE
4 2 (28.57%) Oracle
4 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
4 2 (28.57%) C
4 2 (28.57%) PL/SQL
4 2 (28.57%) IIS
4 2 (28.57%) Visual Studio
4 2 (28.57%) SOAP
4 2 (28.57%) XML
4 2 (28.57%) MS Excel
4 2 (28.57%) MS Visio
4 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
4 2 (28.57%) Load Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Spring
4 2 (28.57%) Automated Testing
4 2 (28.57%) ISTQB
4 2 (28.57%) Games
4 2 (28.57%) Code Coverage
4 2 (28.57%) Data Mining
4 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (28.57%) Test Strategy
4 2 (28.57%) Degree
4 2 (28.57%) Game Development

Web Services
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford 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 4 (57.14%) REST
2 3 (42.86%) WCF
3 2 (28.57%) J2EE
3 2 (28.57%) SOAP
3 2 (28.57%) XML
3 2 (28.57%) Spring
4 1 (14.29%) RESTful
4 1 (14.29%) WSDL
4 1 (14.29%) Middleware
4 1 (14.29%) WinForms
4 1 (14.29%) WebSphere
4 1 (14.29%) Java EE
4 1 (14.29%) jQuery
4 1 (14.29%) JMS
4 1 (14.29%) ASP
4 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET
4 1 (14.29%) EJB
4 1 (14.29%) CSS
4 1 (14.29%) .NET
4 1 (14.29%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) IIS
2 1 (14.29%) Adobe CQ
2 1 (14.29%) WebSphere MQ
2 1 (14.29%) WebSphere Message Broker
2 1 (14.29%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (28.57%) MS Excel
1 2 (28.57%) MS Visio
2 1 (14.29%) MS Project
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
1 2 (28.57%) Data Mining
2 1 (14.29%) Hadoop
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle 11g
2 1 (14.29%) Adabas
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Visual Studio
2 1 (14.29%) NUnit
2 1 (14.29%) RequisitePro
2 1 (14.29%) ClearCase
2 1 (14.29%) Ant
2 1 (14.29%) JUnit
General
1 2 (28.57%) Games
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Software Development Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Software Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Development Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead Architect
3 1 (14.29%) iOS Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior iOS Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle Developer
3 1 (14.29%) .NET Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Kinect
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Apple iOS
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Load Testing
1 2 (28.57%) Automated Testing
1 2 (28.57%) Code Coverage
1 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (28.57%) Test Strategy
1 2 (28.57%) Game Development
1 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
1 2 (28.57%) Software Architecture
1 2 (28.57%) Process Architecture
2 1 (14.29%) Waterfall
2 1 (14.29%) MVC
2 1 (14.29%) Project Planning
2 1 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (14.29%) TDD
2 1 (14.29%) Unit Testing
2 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (14.29%) UML
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) SQL
2 3 (42.86%) C#
3 2 (28.57%) C++
3 2 (28.57%) Java
3 2 (28.57%) VB
3 2 (28.57%) C
3 2 (28.57%) PL/SQL
4 1 (14.29%) NATURAL
4 1 (14.29%) Objective-C
4 1 (14.29%) VB6
4 1 (14.29%) VB.NET
4 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) ISTQB
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) SCJP
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) ISEB
2 1 (14.29%) Sun Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Adobe
2 1 (14.29%) Sun
Guildford, South East
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Rate: negotiable
Posted: 8 May 2013