The first table below looks at the demand for WSDL 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 WSDL over the 3 months to 19 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 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Web Services Description Language (WSDL)
Rank 23 36 -
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -
Contract jobs citing WSDL 8 6 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Lancashire 3.620% 1.422% -
As % of the Application Development category 11.27% 4.615% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 0
Average daily rate £311 £465 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-33.11% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £380 £400
% change year-on-year
-1.31% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £42.50
All Application Development
Lancashire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
71 130 52
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Lancashire 32.13% 30.81% 21.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 70 25
Average daily rate £300 £375 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.00% +25.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £288 £248
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £550 £464
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 1
Average hourly rate £37.50 £20.00 £32.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+87.50% -37.50%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
WSDL
North West

WSDL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Lancashire WSDL Jobs Demand Trend

WSDL
Daily Rate Trend

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

Lancashire WSDL Daily Rate Trend

WSDL
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WSDL within the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
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Job
Vacancies
Blackburn - - - - 2
WSDL
North West

WSDL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire region citing WSDL 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 WSDL.

1 15 (88.24%) SOAP
1 15 (88.24%) XML
2 14 (82.35%) OO
3 12 (70.59%) Web Services
4 10 (58.82%) SQL
5 9 (52.94%) C#
5 9 (52.94%) Java
5 9 (52.94%) .NET
5 9 (52.94%) XSD
5 9 (52.94%) Microsoft
5 9 (52.94%) WCF
6 8 (47.06%) JMS
6 8 (47.06%) RDBMS
6 8 (47.06%) Curam
6 8 (47.06%) JNDI
6 8 (47.06%) XSL
6 8 (47.06%) OOA/OOD
6 8 (47.06%) J2EE
6 8 (47.06%) Oracle
6 8 (47.06%) SQL Server
6 8 (47.06%) DB2
6 8 (47.06%) HTML
6 8 (47.06%) Mobile App
6 8 (47.06%) Mobile Application Development
7 7 (41.18%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (41.18%) IIS
7 7 (41.18%) EJB
7 7 (41.18%) JAAS
7 7 (41.18%) WPF
7 7 (41.18%) Use Case

WSDL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire region citing WSDL 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 WSDL. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 15 (88.24%) SOAP
1 15 (88.24%) XML
2 12 (70.59%) Web Services
3 9 (52.94%) .NET
3 9 (52.94%) XSD
3 9 (52.94%) WCF
4 8 (47.06%) JMS
4 8 (47.06%) JNDI
4 8 (47.06%) XSL
4 8 (47.06%) J2EE
4 8 (47.06%) HTML
5 7 (41.18%) EJB
5 7 (41.18%) JAAS
5 7 (41.18%) WPF
5 7 (41.18%) .NET Framework
6 6 (35.29%) Ninject
7 4 (23.53%) REST
7 4 (23.53%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
8 2 (11.76%) ADO.NET
9 1 (5.882%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 7 (41.18%) IIS
2 1 (5.882%) ESB
Applications
1 2 (11.76%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (47.06%) RDBMS
1 8 (47.06%) SQL Server
1 8 (47.06%) DB2
2 6 (35.29%) SQL Server 2008
2 6 (35.29%) SQL Server 2005
2 6 (35.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (29.41%) SQL Server 2012
4 2 (11.76%) SQL Server 7
Development Applications
1 5 (29.41%) Visual Studio
2 3 (17.65%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 15 (88.24%) Developer
2 3 (17.65%) Software Developer
2 3 (17.65%) Java Developer
3 2 (11.76%) .NET Developer
3 2 (11.76%) C# Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Software Engineer
4 1 (5.882%) Java/J2EE Developer
4 1 (5.882%) WPF Developer
4 1 (5.882%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (5.882%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (5.882%) C# Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (47.06%) Mobile App
2 7 (41.18%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 6 (35.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (82.35%) OO
2 8 (47.06%) OOA/OOD
2 8 (47.06%) Mobile Application Development
3 7 (41.18%) Use Case
3 7 (41.18%) Document Management
4 6 (35.29%) Requirements Analysis
4 6 (35.29%) UML
4 6 (35.29%) MVC
5 5 (29.41%) Workflow
5 5 (29.41%) Agile Software Development
5 5 (29.41%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (23.53%) Dependency Injection
6 4 (23.53%) TDD
7 2 (11.76%) Web Application Development
8 1 (5.882%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (58.82%) SQL
2 9 (52.94%) C#
2 9 (52.94%) Java
3 3 (17.65%) VB6
3 3 (17.65%) VB
3 3 (17.65%) VB.NET
4 1 (5.882%) C
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.882%) Degree
Vendors
1 9 (52.94%) Microsoft
2 8 (47.06%) Curam
2 8 (47.06%) Oracle
Preston, Lancashire
oExtensive experience in C# utilising Microsoft .NET Framework v4.5 with Visual Studio 2010 / 2012. oExtensive experience with SQL Server 2012/2008/2005. oAsynchronous Programming Models (in particular...
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