The first table below looks at the demand for soapUI skills in IT contracts advertised for the Lancashire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited soapUI 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 Lancashire 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
Eviware soapUI
Rank 26 39 -
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -
Contract jobs citing soapUI 4 5 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Lancashire 2.041% 1.157% -
As % of the Application Development category 6.250% 3.165% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 0
Average daily rate £300 £380 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-21.05% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £400
% change year-on-year
- -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £32.25 -
% change year-on-year
-6.97% -
All Application Development
Lancashire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
64 158 37
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Lancashire 32.65% 36.57% 16.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 89 17
Average daily rate £315 £375 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.00% +30.43%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £275 £214
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £486 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 2
Average hourly rate £37.50 £20.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+87.50% -42.85%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
soapUI
North West

soapUI
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Lancashire soapUI Jobs Demand Trend

soapUI
Daily Rate Trend

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

Lancashire soapUI Daily Rate Trend

soapUI
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing soapUI within the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Chorley - 1 £350 -
soapUI
North West

soapUI
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire region citing soapUI 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 soapUI.

1 4 (100.00%) Selenium
2 3 (75.00%) QA
2 3 (75.00%) Ruby
2 3 (75.00%) Java
2 3 (75.00%) SOAP
2 3 (75.00%) Web Services
3 2 (50.00%) XML
3 2 (50.00%) RAD
3 2 (50.00%) Python
3 2 (50.00%) HTTP
3 2 (50.00%) PHP
3 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 2 (50.00%) C
3 2 (50.00%) C#
3 2 (50.00%) C++
3 2 (50.00%) WATIR
3 2 (50.00%) FitNesse
3 2 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Unit Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 2 (50.00%) WebDriver
3 2 (50.00%) Waterfall
3 2 (50.00%) System Testing
3 2 (50.00%) REST
3 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (50.00%) Mobile App
4 1 (25.00%) Automation Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Gherkin
4 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (25.00%) Test Automation

soapUI
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire region citing soapUI 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 soapUI. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (75.00%) SOAP
1 3 (75.00%) Web Services
2 2 (50.00%) XML
2 2 (50.00%) REST
3 1 (25.00%) Gherkin
3 1 (25.00%) HTML
3 1 (25.00%) CSS
3 1 (25.00%) WCF
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Selenium
2 2 (50.00%) FitNesse
2 2 (50.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 2 (50.00%) WebDriver
2 2 (50.00%) WATIR
2 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (25.00%) Eclipse
3 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
3 1 (25.00%) Hudson
General
1 1 (25.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Consultant
1 2 (50.00%) Test Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) QA Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Automation Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Automation Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) RAD
1 2 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 2 (50.00%) Unit Testing
1 2 (50.00%) System Testing
1 2 (50.00%) Waterfall
2 1 (25.00%) Automation Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (25.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum
2 1 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
1 3 (75.00%) Ruby
2 2 (50.00%) C
2 2 (50.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) C++
2 2 (50.00%) PHP
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) Python
3 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) ISEB
1 1 (25.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) QA