The first table below looks at the demand for SOAP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Halifax region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SOAP 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 Halifax 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
Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
Rank 16 30 -
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -
Contract jobs citing SOAP 4 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Halifax 3.333% 0.441% -
As % of the Application Development category 44.44% 5.000% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
Average daily rate £313 £325 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.84% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £333
% change year-on-year
- +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
-14.28% -4.10%
All Application Development
Halifax
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
9 20 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Halifax 7.500% 8.811% 8.197%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 13 10
Average daily rate £313 £275 £434
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.63% -36.59%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Average hourly rate - £12.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
SOAP
West Yorkshire

SOAP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Halifax 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 Halifax region.

Halifax SOAP Daily Rate Trend

SOAP
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Halifax 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 12 (92.31%) C#
1 12 (92.31%) SQL
1 12 (92.31%) T-SQL
1 12 (92.31%) .NET
1 12 (92.31%) SQL Server
1 12 (92.31%) XML
1 12 (92.31%) Agile Software Development
1 12 (92.31%) .NET Framework
1 12 (92.31%) WCF
1 12 (92.31%) SQL Server 2008
2 9 (69.23%) ASP.NET MVC
2 9 (69.23%) ASP.NET MVC 3
2 9 (69.23%) Razor View Engine
3 3 (23.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (7.692%) Business Analysis
4 1 (7.692%) VLAN
4 1 (7.692%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (7.692%) Service Management
4 1 (7.692%) Windows
4 1 (7.692%) HTTP
4 1 (7.692%) HP
4 1 (7.692%) Citrix
4 1 (7.692%) Red Hat
4 1 (7.692%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (7.692%) BPR
4 1 (7.692%) HP SiteScope
4 1 (7.692%) Business Process Improvement

SOAP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Halifax 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 12 (92.31%) .NET
1 12 (92.31%) XML
1 12 (92.31%) .NET Framework
1 12 (92.31%) WCF
2 9 (69.23%) ASP.NET MVC
2 9 (69.23%) ASP.NET MVC 3
2 9 (69.23%) Razor View Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.692%) VLAN
1 1 (7.692%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (92.31%) SQL Server
1 12 (92.31%) SQL Server 2008
2 3 (23.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Job Titles
1 12 (92.31%) C# Developer
1 12 (92.31%) Developer
1 12 (92.31%) XML Developer
2 1 (7.692%) Consultant
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.692%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (7.692%) Windows
1 1 (7.692%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (7.692%) Business Analysis
2 1 (7.692%) Service Management
2 1 (7.692%) BPR
2 1 (7.692%) Business Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 12 (92.31%) C#
1 12 (92.31%) SQL
1 12 (92.31%) T-SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (7.692%) HP SiteScope
Vendors
1 1 (7.692%) HP
1 1 (7.692%) Citrix
1 1 (7.692%) Red Hat