The first table below looks at the demand for SOAP skills in IT contracts advertised for the London 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 London 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 133 174 202
Rank change year-on-year
+41 +28
Contract jobs citing SOAP 334 288 281
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 1.542% 1.069% 0.904%
As % of the Application Development category 5.277% 3.817% 2.960%
Number of daily rates quoted 223 184 189
Average daily rate £425 £450 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.55% +12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £283 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £600 £580
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £333
% change year-on-year
- +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 6
Average hourly rate £27.50 - £28.01
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.81 - £18.76
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.50 - £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
-14.28% -4.10%
All Application Development
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
6329 7546 9494
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 29.22% 28.01% 30.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 4552 4974 6394
Average daily rate £401 £400 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.12% -11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £280 £280 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 107 136
Average hourly rate £40.00 £34.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+17.64% -2.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.00 £15.95 £17.65
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £54.00 £47.50 £57.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
SOAP
England

SOAP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London 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 London region.

London SOAP Daily Rate Trend

SOAP
Daily Rate Histogram

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

London SOAP Daily Rate Histogram

SOAP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London SOAP Hourly Rate Trend

SOAP
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SOAP across the London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

London SOAP Hourly Rate Histogram

SOAP
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOAP within the London region over the 3 months to 24 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
City of London -15 52 £425 -5.55%
Canary Wharf +1 5 £650 +39.18%
Hounslow -4 1 - -
SOAP
England

SOAP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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.

1 366 (59.90%) Web Services
2 336 (54.99%) Java
3 309 (50.57%) XML
4 220 (36.01%) JavaScript
5 202 (33.06%) HTML
6 184 (30.11%) REST
7 179 (29.30%) CSS
8 176 (28.81%) SQL
9 158 (25.86%) Agile Software Development
10 157 (25.70%) Linux
11 155 (25.37%) Oracle
12 146 (23.90%) TDD
13 129 (21.11%) .NET
14 128 (20.95%) jQuery
15 125 (20.46%) JSON
16 123 (20.13%) Apache
17 121 (19.80%) MVC
18 116 (18.99%) Spring
19 113 (18.49%) SQL Server
20 112 (18.33%) Ajax
21 108 (17.68%) RESTful
22 107 (17.51%) E-Commerce
23 104 (17.02%) J2EE
24 101 (16.53%) UNIX
25 100 (16.37%) Scrum
26 95 (15.55%) C#
27 94 (15.38%) HTTP
28 92 (15.06%) OO
29 90 (14.73%) SOA
30 89 (14.57%) Microsoft

SOAP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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
1 366 (59.90%) Web Services
2 309 (50.57%) XML
3 202 (33.06%) HTML
4 184 (30.11%) REST
5 179 (29.30%) CSS
6 129 (21.11%) .NET
7 128 (20.95%) jQuery
8 125 (20.46%) JSON
9 116 (18.99%) Spring
10 112 (18.33%) Ajax
11 108 (17.68%) RESTful
12 104 (17.02%) J2EE
13 87 (14.24%) Java EE
14 82 (13.42%) XSLT
15 79 (12.93%) WebSphere
16 66 (10.80%) HTML5
17 65 (10.64%) Hibernate
18 62 (10.15%) ASP.NET
19 60 (9.820%) JSP
19 60 (9.820%) WSDL
Application Platforms
1 123 (20.13%) Apache
2 74 (12.11%) IIS
3 57 (9.329%) Tomcat
4 45 (7.365%) CMS
5 42 (6.874%) WebSphere Application Server
6 36 (5.892%) WebLogic
7 25 (4.092%) ESB
8 16 (2.619%) Amazon EC2
9 15 (2.455%) MQSeries
9 15 (2.455%) Amazon AWS
10 14 (2.291%) Drupal
11 13 (2.128%) Mule
12 11 (1.800%) BizTalk Server
13 10 (1.637%) Sitefinity
13 10 (1.637%) Kentico
13 10 (1.637%) Alfresco
13 10 (1.637%) Umbraco
13 10 (1.637%) Oracle Workflow
14 9 (1.473%) nginx
14 9 (1.473%) Force.com
Applications
1 60 (9.820%) MS Excel
2 18 (2.946%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.818%) MS Office
4 4 (0.655%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.164%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.164%) InfoPath
5 1 (0.164%) MS Project
5 1 (0.164%) Google Apps
Business Applications
1 3 (0.491%) ION MarketView
2 2 (0.327%) RMDS
3 1 (0.164%) Oracle CRM
3 1 (0.164%) SAP CRM
3 1 (0.164%) SAP AFS
3 1 (0.164%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.164%) Remedy AR System
3 1 (0.164%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.164%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.164%) BusinessWorks
3 1 (0.164%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.164%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.164%) Google Analytics
3 1 (0.164%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 94 (15.38%) HTTP
2 55 (9.002%) Firewall
3 49 (8.020%) LDAP
4 47 (7.692%) TCP/IP
5 38 (6.219%) NetScaler
5 38 (6.219%) BIG-IP
6 34 (5.565%) SSL
7 21 (3.437%) DNS
7 21 (3.437%) Internet
8 15 (2.455%) SAN
8 15 (2.455%) NAS
8 15 (2.455%) Network Security
9 14 (2.291%) RTP
9 14 (2.291%) HTTPS
9 14 (2.291%) RTSP
10 10 (1.637%) FTP
11 3 (0.491%) X.509
11 3 (0.491%) SMTP
12 2 (0.327%) OpenLDAP
12 2 (0.327%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (18.49%) SQL Server
2 76 (12.44%) MySQL
3 49 (8.020%) MongoDB
3 49 (8.020%) NoSQL
4 35 (5.728%) RDBMS
5 18 (2.946%) CouchDB
5 18 (2.946%) Oracle 8/8i
6 17 (2.782%) Redis
7 16 (2.619%) Big Data
8 15 (2.455%) SQL Server 2012
8 15 (2.455%) Hadoop
9 10 (1.637%) Apache Cassandra
9 10 (1.637%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 9 (1.473%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 9 (1.473%) Oracle 11g
10 9 (1.473%) SQL Server 2008
11 7 (1.146%) SQL Server 2000
11 7 (1.146%) DB2
11 7 (1.146%) SQLite
11 7 (1.146%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 81 (13.26%) Maven
2 66 (10.80%) Selenium
3 64 (10.47%) JUnit
4 54 (8.838%) Git (software)
5 52 (8.511%) Jenkins
6 46 (7.529%) Subversion
7 43 (7.038%) Hudson
8 39 (6.383%) Eclipse
9 38 (6.219%) JIRA
10 33 (5.401%) WebDriver
11 30 (4.910%) Cucumber
12 23 (3.764%) Team Foundation Server
13 20 (3.273%) Ant
14 18 (2.946%) Mockito
15 13 (2.128%) Visual Studio
16 10 (1.637%) TeamCity
17 9 (1.473%) CruiseControl
17 9 (1.473%) JMeter
18 8 (1.309%) Capistrano
18 8 (1.309%) Spring Roo
General
1 73 (11.95%) Finance
2 69 (11.29%) Banking
3 28 (4.583%) Investment Banking
4 20 (3.273%) Publishing
5 19 (3.110%) Retail
6 17 (2.782%) Telecoms
7 16 (2.619%) German Language
8 15 (2.455%) French Language
9 7 (1.146%) Multimedia
9 7 (1.146%) Games
10 5 (0.818%) Spanish Language
10 5 (0.818%) Financial Institution
11 4 (0.655%) Front Office
12 3 (0.491%) Marketing
12 3 (0.491%) Back Office
13 2 (0.327%) Retail Banking
14 1 (0.164%) Billing
14 1 (0.164%) Dutch Language
14 1 (0.164%) Wholesale Banking
14 1 (0.164%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 374 (61.21%) Developer
2 135 (22.09%) Java Developer
3 57 (9.329%) Architect
4 51 (8.347%) .NET Developer
4 51 (8.347%) Senior Developer
5 25 (4.092%) Senior Java Developer
6 24 (3.928%) Consultant
6 24 (3.928%) Support Engineer
7 22 (3.601%) C# Developer
7 22 (3.601%) Senior Support Engineer
8 21 (3.437%) Tester
9 20 (3.273%) iOS Developer
10 19 (3.110%) Analyst
10 19 (3.110%) Web Developer
10 19 (3.110%) C# .NET Developer
11 17 (2.782%) Agile Java Developer
12 16 (2.619%) Web Engineer
12 16 (2.619%) Java/J2EE Developer
13 14 (2.291%) Test Analyst
13 14 (2.291%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 55 (9.002%) Open Source
2 41 (6.710%) PKI
3 28 (4.583%) iPhone
4 27 (4.419%) Mobile App
5 21 (3.437%) iPad
6 20 (3.273%) N-Tier
7 15 (2.455%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 15 (2.455%) W3C
8 14 (2.291%) Blackberry
8 14 (2.291%) Computer Science
8 14 (2.291%) Fixed Income
9 13 (2.128%) Derivative
10 10 (1.637%) 3D Graphics
10 10 (1.637%) Taxonomies
10 10 (1.637%) Ontologies
11 9 (1.473%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (0.982%) Video on Demand
13 5 (0.818%) Data Integration
13 5 (0.818%) DataPower
13 5 (0.818%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 157 (25.70%) Linux
2 101 (16.53%) UNIX
3 73 (11.95%) Windows
4 43 (7.038%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 41 (6.710%) Windows XP
6 36 (5.892%) Apple iOS
7 20 (3.273%) Android
8 11 (1.800%) AIX
9 9 (1.473%) Windows 7
10 7 (1.146%) Solaris
11 3 (0.491%) HPUX
11 3 (0.491%) Windows Server 2008
11 3 (0.491%) CentOS
12 2 (0.327%) Mac OS X
12 2 (0.327%) Windows Server 2003
12 2 (0.327%) Windows Mobile
12 2 (0.327%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.164%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (25.86%) Agile Software Development
2 146 (23.90%) TDD
3 121 (19.80%) MVC
4 107 (17.51%) E-Commerce
5 100 (16.37%) Scrum
6 92 (15.06%) OO
7 90 (14.73%) SOA
8 89 (14.57%) BDD
9 62 (10.15%) Continuous Integration
10 52 (8.511%) UML
11 46 (7.529%) Data Modelling
12 45 (7.365%) Multithreading
13 39 (6.383%) Unit Testing
14 35 (5.728%) Content Management
15 31 (5.074%) OOD
16 30 (4.910%) Change Control
16 30 (4.910%) Pair Programming
17 27 (4.419%) Web Development
18 24 (3.928%) Workflow
18 24 (3.928%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 336 (54.99%) Java
2 220 (36.01%) JavaScript
3 176 (28.81%) SQL
4 95 (15.55%) C#
5 64 (10.47%) Perl
6 60 (9.820%) PHP
7 50 (8.183%) Ruby
8 40 (6.547%) Python
9 35 (5.728%) Groovy
10 33 (5.401%) C++
11 28 (4.583%) VB
12 25 (4.092%) PL/SQL
12 25 (4.092%) Objective-C
13 22 (3.601%) VBScript
14 21 (3.437%) C
15 19 (3.110%) T-SQL
15 19 (3.110%) Shell Script
16 10 (1.637%) Apex Code
17 8 (1.309%) PHP5
18 7 (1.146%) VC++
Qualifications
1 34 (5.565%) Degree
2 10 (1.637%) GWAPT
2 10 (1.637%) GPEN
2 10 (1.637%) GIAC
3 9 (1.473%) CISSP
4 4 (0.655%) Security Cleared
5 3 (0.491%) ISEB
5 3 (0.491%) SC Cleared
6 2 (0.327%) MBA
6 2 (0.327%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (0.327%) PMP
6 2 (0.327%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.164%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (0.164%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.164%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.164%) CCIE
7 1 (0.164%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.164%) VCP5
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (4.583%) QA
2 7 (1.146%) SLA
3 1 (0.164%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 14 (2.291%) Samba
2 9 (1.473%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.982%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 6 (0.982%) ProxySG
4 5 (0.818%) OpenSSO
5 2 (0.327%) ClearTrust
6 1 (0.164%) Xen
6 1 (0.164%) NFS
6 1 (0.164%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.164%) Veritas Volume Manager
6 1 (0.164%) Veritas File System
6 1 (0.164%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.164%) Shibboleth
6 1 (0.164%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (2.782%) Nagios
2 16 (2.619%) Puppet
3 10 (1.637%) HP Quality Center
3 10 (1.637%) ZABBIX
3 10 (1.637%) OpenView
4 5 (0.818%) BladeLogic
5 1 (0.164%) Business Desktop Deployment
5 1 (0.164%) Netcool/Webtop
5 1 (0.164%) WMI
5 1 (0.164%) Tivoli
5 1 (0.164%) Tivoli Monitoring
5 1 (0.164%) Netcool
5 1 (0.164%) Netcool/OMNIbus
5 1 (0.164%) Oracle Identity Management
5 1 (0.164%) Oracle Identity Manager
5 1 (0.164%) HP SiteScope
Vendors
1 155 (25.37%) Oracle
2 89 (14.57%) Microsoft
3 71 (11.62%) JBoss
4 44 (7.201%) Red Hat
5 39 (6.383%) Citrix
6 38 (6.219%) F5
7 25 (4.092%) Google
8 23 (3.764%) Pega
9 16 (2.619%) HP
9 16 (2.619%) IBM
10 12 (1.964%) Rackspace
10 12 (1.964%) Salesforce.com
11 11 (1.800%) 29West
12 10 (1.637%) Imperva
12 10 (1.637%) FatWire
13 8 (1.309%) Adobe
14 7 (1.146%) SAP
14 7 (1.146%) Sybase
14 7 (1.146%) Facebook
15 6 (0.982%) RightScale
City of London
Job Title: Java DeveloperLocation: LondonContract: 12 months fixed termSalary: £45k - £50kStart: Immediate Key skills: Developer, Java, SQL, SOAP, REST, Testing Project Details: My client urgently requires an experienced...
Real Staffing
Rate: £45000 - £50000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
City of London
Job Title: Java DeveloperLocation: LondonContract: 12 months fixed termSalary: £45k - £50kStart: Immediate Key skills: Developer, Java, SQL, SOAP, REST, Testing Project Details: My client urgently requires an experienced...
Real Staffing
Rate: £45000 - £50000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
West London
BizTalk Developer, Integration, Start ASAP, 3+ months, West London, £325+,My client is searching for a BizTalk Developer to start ASAP in West London.
Mint
Rate: £300 - £325 per day
Posted: 10 May 2013
London
Spring MVC. Java and JEE. HTML / DHTML / CSS / JavaScript including jQuery /AJAX. DBMS Skills (MS SQL (including stored procs) / Oracle) and data modelling. RESTful (JSON) SOAP Web services...
ComputAppoint
Rate: £550 - £600 per day
Posted: 24 May 2013
City of London
I am currently searching for strong C# Webservices developer for a financial services software vendor... The role will see you in a position responsible for full lifeycyle development...
Real Staffing
Rate: £500 per day
Posted: 18 May 2013
City of London
Key Requirements:- Strong C#.NET multi-threaded server side development experience- Web services WCF - MUST have SOAP with attachments or in payloads- Excellent communication skills C# Web services...
Real Staffing
Rate: £450 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
London
With expertise designing and modelling n-tier developments?... Create functional and technical specification and documentation of these requirementsBe the conduit between the development team and the presales teamGet...
OCC Computing
Rate: £350 - 400 per day
Posted: 26 April 2013
City, London
Global Investment bank seeks an experienced Lead E-commerce FX Java Programmer with excellent Server-Side, Multi-threading, Low Latency, E-Commerce experience ideally a Spanish speaker... Key...
McGregor Boyall
Rate: £600 - £700 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013
London
SOAP, XML, JSON etc... - Strong experience with object-oriented programming - software development experience in Objective-C C/C++, Java, HTML/CSS - Knowledge of layered systems architectures and layered...
Hotfoot Resourcing.
Rate: From £300 to £350 per day
Posted: 23 May 2013
London
ruby, javascript, api, linux, nosql, mongo, python, elastic search, soap, lucene, Excellent position for a back end Ruby Developer to join a global organisation that always embrace the...
Search Consultancy
Posted: 21 May 2013
West London
Agile QA Automation Engineer - 3 Months rolling... Candidates will enjoy working in a BDD environment working on a new Project... Duration: 3 Months Initially with extensions Location : West...
Hydrogen Group
Rate: £400.00 per annum
Posted: 24 May 2013
London
Linux, JBoss, TomCat, Apache, PHP, DNS) Monitoring (e.g... Oracle, MySQL, NoSQL e.g. Cassandra, MongoDB, Redis, Hadoop & CouchDB) Security: Encryption; Network security; Network topology; System Hardening, Pen...
Bearing Partnership
Rate: From £450 to £480 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
City, London
Solaris - SPARC - x86 - RHEL - Linux - AIX - HP-UX - OS - Tuning - Patching - Engineer - Perl - Shell - Scripting - Security - Symantec - EMC - Storage - Oracle - Bladelogic - PowerBroker - Hummingbird - REST - SOAP - HA/DR - Monitoring -...
Austin Fraser
Rate: £400 - £475 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013