The first table below looks at the demand for soapUI 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 soapUI over the 3 months to 21 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Eviware soapUI
Rank 365 387 391
Rank change year-on-year
+22 +4
Contract jobs citing soapUI 24 18 39
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.109% 0.067% 0.127%
As % of the Application Development category 0.376% 0.238% 0.417%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 9 21
Average daily rate £370 £440 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.90% -2.22%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £332 £313 £288
10% offered a daily rate of more than £455 £575 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £356 £350 £400
% change year-on-year
+1.78% -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
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
6388 7563 9347
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 29.00% 28.03% 30.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 4622 4989 6271
Average daily rate £406 £400 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.56% -11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £285 £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 90 106 133
Average hourly rate £41.50 £33.75 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+22.96% -3.57%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.00 £15.45 £17.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £54.00 £47.50 £55.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
soapUI
England

soapUI
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London 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 London region.

London soapUI Daily Rate Trend

soapUI
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing soapUI across the London region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

London soapUI Daily Rate Histogram

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 London region over the 3 months to 21 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 4 £363 +11.53%
soapUI
England

soapUI
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 38 (66.67%) SOAP
2 33 (57.89%) Selenium
3 31 (54.39%) SQL
4 27 (47.37%) Java
5 25 (43.86%) WebDriver
6 23 (40.35%) BDD
6 23 (40.35%) Agile Software Development
6 23 (40.35%) TDD
7 16 (28.07%) Web Services
8 14 (24.56%) Linux
8 14 (24.56%) Team Foundation Server
9 13 (22.81%) XML
9 13 (22.81%) C#
9 13 (22.81%) JMeter
9 13 (22.81%) Scrum
9 13 (22.81%) Automated Testing
10 12 (21.05%) JUnit
10 12 (21.05%) WCF
11 11 (19.30%) Test Scripting
11 11 (19.30%) HP Quality Center
11 11 (19.30%) Oracle
11 11 (19.30%) SQL Server
11 11 (19.30%) Microsoft
12 10 (17.54%) UNIX
12 10 (17.54%) QA
12 10 (17.54%) SQL Server 2012
13 9 (15.79%) JIRA
13 9 (15.79%) Finance
13 9 (15.79%) SOA
13 9 (15.79%) HP

soapUI
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 38 (66.67%) SOAP
2 16 (28.07%) Web Services
3 13 (22.81%) XML
4 12 (21.05%) WCF
5 8 (14.04%) .NET
6 6 (10.53%) REST
7 5 (8.772%) Ajax
8 4 (7.018%) Spring
8 4 (7.018%) Middleware
9 3 (5.263%) EJB 3.0
9 3 (5.263%) WebSphere
9 3 (5.263%) Hibernate
9 3 (5.263%) Java EE
9 3 (5.263%) EJB
9 3 (5.263%) XML Schema
9 3 (5.263%) JSP
10 2 (3.509%) WAP
10 2 (3.509%) J2EE
10 2 (3.509%) HTML
10 2 (3.509%) JSON
Application Platforms
1 3 (5.263%) Apache
1 3 (5.263%) Tomcat
2 2 (3.509%) AquaLogic
2 2 (3.509%) WebSphere Process Server
3 1 (1.754%) Force.com
3 1 (1.754%) Confluence
3 1 (1.754%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (1.754%) ESB
3 1 (1.754%) WebLogic
3 1 (1.754%) IIS
3 1 (1.754%) MQSeries
3 1 (1.754%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 2 (3.509%) MS Excel
1 2 (3.509%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 1 (1.754%) SAP FI
1 1 (1.754%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.772%) HTTP
1 5 (8.772%) HTTPS
1 5 (8.772%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (19.30%) SQL Server
2 10 (17.54%) SQL Server 2012
3 5 (8.772%) DB2
4 4 (7.018%) TOAD
4 4 (7.018%) MySQL
5 2 (3.509%) RDBMS
5 2 (3.509%) Oracle 10g
5 2 (3.509%) BusinessObjects XI
5 2 (3.509%) SAP Data Services
6 1 (1.754%) Oracle 11g
6 1 (1.754%) Siebel EIM
6 1 (1.754%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.754%) Data Mart
6 1 (1.754%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (1.754%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 33 (57.89%) Selenium
2 25 (43.86%) WebDriver
3 14 (24.56%) Team Foundation Server
4 13 (22.81%) JMeter
5 12 (21.05%) JUnit
6 9 (15.79%) JIRA
7 8 (14.04%) Cucumber
8 7 (12.28%) Hudson
9 6 (10.53%) Maven
9 6 (10.53%) FitNesse
9 6 (10.53%) Jenkins
10 5 (8.772%) TestNG
10 5 (8.772%) Ant
10 5 (8.772%) Visual Studio
11 4 (7.018%) OpenSTA
11 4 (7.018%) SpecFlow
12 3 (5.263%) JBehave
12 3 (5.263%) HttpUnit
12 3 (5.263%) QuickTest Pro
13 2 (3.509%) Rational Rose
General
1 9 (15.79%) Finance
2 7 (12.28%) Telecoms
3 5 (8.772%) Banking
4 4 (7.018%) Retail
5 2 (3.509%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.754%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 16 (28.07%) Tester
2 12 (21.05%) Analyst
3 10 (17.54%) Test Analyst
4 6 (10.53%) Technical Tester
4 6 (10.53%) Developer
4 6 (10.53%) Architect
4 6 (10.53%) Automation Tester
5 4 (7.018%) QA Engineer
5 4 (7.018%) Technical Architect
5 4 (7.018%) Consultant
6 3 (5.263%) Non-Functional Tester
6 3 (5.263%) Performance Tester
7 2 (3.509%) QA Analyst
7 2 (3.509%) Java Developer
7 2 (3.509%) Senior Tester
7 2 (3.509%) Web Tester
7 2 (3.509%) Test Architect
7 2 (3.509%) Salesforce.com Developer
8 1 (1.754%) Mobile Tester
8 1 (1.754%) Non-Functional Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.772%) Open Source
2 2 (3.509%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (3.509%) Mobile Banking
3 1 (1.754%) Social Network
3 1 (1.754%) Mainframe
3 1 (1.754%) Client/Server
3 1 (1.754%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 14 (24.56%) Linux
2 10 (17.54%) UNIX
3 4 (7.018%) Windows
4 2 (3.509%) AIX
5 1 (1.754%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (40.35%) BDD
1 23 (40.35%) Agile Software Development
1 23 (40.35%) TDD
2 13 (22.81%) Scrum
2 13 (22.81%) Automated Testing
3 11 (19.30%) Test Scripting
4 9 (15.79%) SOA
5 8 (14.04%) Web Testing
6 7 (12.28%) Test Automation
6 7 (12.28%) Performance Testing
6 7 (12.28%) Continuous Integration
6 7 (12.28%) Technical Architecture
7 6 (10.53%) Manual Testing
8 5 (8.772%) Stress Testing
8 5 (8.772%) Security Testing
8 5 (8.772%) Identity Management
8 5 (8.772%) Migration
8 5 (8.772%) Software Testing
8 5 (8.772%) E-Commerce
9 4 (7.018%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 31 (54.39%) SQL
2 27 (47.37%) Java
3 13 (22.81%) C#
4 3 (5.263%) Perl
4 3 (5.263%) Python
5 2 (3.509%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.509%) Groovy
5 2 (3.509%) Apex Code
6 1 (1.754%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.754%) XPath
6 1 (1.754%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.754%) VBScript
6 1 (1.754%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 4 (7.018%) ISEB
2 3 (5.263%) ISTQB
3 1 (1.754%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (17.54%) QA
System Software
1 5 (8.772%) OpenSSO
Systems Management
1 11 (19.30%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (3.509%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (19.30%) Oracle
1 11 (19.30%) Microsoft
2 9 (15.79%) HP
3 5 (8.772%) Facebook
4 2 (3.509%) Salesforce.com
4 2 (3.509%) BEA
4 2 (3.509%) SAP
4 2 (3.509%) Lombardi
5 1 (1.754%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.754%) BT
5 1 (1.754%) Telerik
5 1 (1.754%) Google
5 1 (1.754%) JBoss
5 1 (1.754%) TIBCO
5 1 (1.754%) JD Edwards
5 1 (1.754%) Siebel