The first table below looks at the demand for WSDL 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 WSDL over the 3 months to 23 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Web Services Description Language (WSDL)
Rank 319 383 398
Rank change year-on-year
+64 +15
Contract jobs citing WSDL 58 27 37
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.268% 0.100% 0.117%
As % of the Application Development category 0.921% 0.358% 0.383%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 10 28
Average daily rate £400 £400 £408
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -1.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £245 £297 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £650 £570
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £380 £375
% change year-on-year
+5.26% +1.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £42.50
All Application Development
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
6299 7537 9673
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 29.11% 27.99% 30.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 4542 4965 6506
Average daily rate £405 £400 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.25% -11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £282 £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 91 106 137
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 £15.90 £17.70
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%
WSDL
England

WSDL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London 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 London region.

London WSDL Daily Rate Trend

WSDL
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WSDL across the London region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

London WSDL Daily Rate Histogram

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 London region over the 3 months to 23 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 +18 9 £500 +11.11%
Canary Wharf - 1 £550 -
WSDL
England

WSDL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 74 (74.75%) Web Services
2 67 (67.68%) XML
3 61 (61.62%) SOAP
4 50 (50.51%) Oracle
5 45 (45.45%) Java
6 33 (33.33%) SQL
6 33 (33.33%) J2EE
7 32 (32.32%) JavaScript
7 32 (32.32%) XSD
8 30 (30.30%) Apache
9 28 (28.28%) Linux
10 26 (26.26%) HTML
10 26 (26.26%) CSS
11 25 (25.25%) WebLogic
11 25 (25.25%) Ajax
11 25 (25.25%) Pega
12 23 (23.23%) Agile Software Development
12 23 (23.23%) XSLT
13 21 (21.21%) SOA
13 21 (21.21%) WebSphere
14 20 (20.20%) Banking
14 20 (20.20%) HTTP
15 19 (19.19%) MS Visio
15 19 (19.19%) JSP
15 19 (19.19%) Spring
16 18 (18.18%) OO
17 17 (17.17%) Tomcat
17 17 (17.17%) MySQL
17 17 (17.17%) jQuery
18 16 (16.16%) Maven

WSDL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 74 (74.75%) Web Services
2 67 (67.68%) XML
3 61 (61.62%) SOAP
4 33 (33.33%) J2EE
5 32 (32.32%) XSD
6 26 (26.26%) HTML
6 26 (26.26%) CSS
7 25 (25.25%) Ajax
8 23 (23.23%) XSLT
9 21 (21.21%) WebSphere
10 19 (19.19%) JSP
10 19 (19.19%) Spring
11 17 (17.17%) jQuery
12 16 (16.16%) JDBC
13 15 (15.15%) .NET
14 14 (14.14%) Middleware
15 11 (11.11%) XHTML
16 10 (10.10%) Django
16 10 (10.10%) Apache Flex
16 10 (10.10%) Servlets
Application Platforms
1 30 (30.30%) Apache
2 25 (25.25%) WebLogic
3 17 (17.17%) Tomcat
4 14 (14.14%) MQSeries
5 11 (11.11%) ESB
6 10 (10.10%) Oracle Workflow
6 10 (10.10%) CMS
7 8 (8.081%) nginx
8 6 (6.061%) WebSphere MQ
8 6 (6.061%) IIS
8 6 (6.061%) SharePoint
9 5 (5.051%) Sonic ESB
9 5 (5.051%) BizTalk Server
9 5 (5.051%) Alfresco
10 4 (4.040%) ColdFusion
11 2 (2.020%) WebSphere Application Server
11 2 (2.020%) WebSphere Portal
12 1 (1.010%) MSMQ
12 1 (1.010%) Oracle HTTP Server
12 1 (1.010%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 19 (19.19%) MS Visio
2 9 (9.091%) MS Excel
3 5 (5.051%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.010%) BusinessWorks
1 1 (1.010%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 20 (20.20%) HTTP
2 8 (8.081%) Internet
3 5 (5.051%) TCP/IP
3 5 (5.051%) FTP
4 2 (2.020%) Firewall
4 2 (2.020%) SSL
5 1 (1.010%) LDAP
5 1 (1.010%) TELNET
5 1 (1.010%) SMTP
5 1 (1.010%) SSH
5 1 (1.010%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (17.17%) MySQL
2 15 (15.15%) RDBMS
3 11 (11.11%) SQL Server
4 5 (5.051%) MS Access
4 5 (5.051%) SQL Server 2000
5 4 (4.040%) SQL Server 2005
5 4 (4.040%) SQL Server 2008
5 4 (4.040%) Siebel EIM
5 4 (4.040%) OLAP
6 3 (3.030%) Oracle 11g
7 1 (1.010%) Redis
7 1 (1.010%) Big Data
7 1 (1.010%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.010%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 16 (16.16%) Maven
2 9 (9.091%) Subversion
3 7 (7.071%) Eclipse
4 5 (5.051%) WinDbg
5 4 (4.040%) XMLSpy
6 3 (3.030%) Mockito
6 3 (3.030%) ClearCase
6 3 (3.030%) JUnit
7 2 (2.020%) JIRA
7 2 (2.020%) JMeter
7 2 (2.020%) TestDirector
7 2 (2.020%) QuickTest Pro
7 2 (2.020%) LoadRunner
7 2 (2.020%) Hudson
7 2 (2.020%) Rational Application Developer
7 2 (2.020%) TeamCity
8 1 (1.010%) Jenkins
8 1 (1.010%) Capybara
8 1 (1.010%) RSpec
8 1 (1.010%) Git (software)
General
1 20 (20.20%) Banking
2 13 (13.13%) Finance
3 5 (5.051%) Marketing
4 3 (3.030%) Telecoms
5 2 (2.020%) Back Office
5 2 (2.020%) Publishing
6 1 (1.010%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 44 (44.44%) Developer
2 28 (28.28%) Architect
3 6 (6.061%) Siebel Developer
4 5 (5.051%) Technical Design Leader
4 5 (5.051%) Analyst
4 5 (5.051%) Consultant
5 4 (4.040%) C# ASP.NET Developer
5 4 (4.040%) Applications Support
5 4 (4.040%) .NET Developer
5 4 (4.040%) Java Developer
5 4 (4.040%) C# Developer
5 4 (4.040%) Python Developer
5 4 (4.040%) Tester
5 4 (4.040%) Agile .NET Developer
5 4 (4.040%) Agile C# Developer
5 4 (4.040%) C# .NET Developer
6 3 (3.030%) Senior Architect
6 3 (3.030%) Senior Systems Architect
6 3 (3.030%) Applications Support Analyst
6 3 (3.030%) C++ Developer
Miscellaneous
1 16 (16.16%) Open Source
2 10 (10.10%) iPhone
2 10 (10.10%) Blackberry
2 10 (10.10%) W3C
3 6 (6.061%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (5.051%) SWIFT
5 4 (4.040%) iPad
6 3 (3.030%) Mobile App
6 3 (3.030%) RIA
7 2 (2.020%) Mainframe
8 1 (1.010%) Social Media
8 1 (1.010%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.010%) DataPower
8 1 (1.010%) Statistics
8 1 (1.010%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 28 (28.28%) Linux
2 15 (15.15%) Windows
3 14 (14.14%) UNIX
4 8 (8.081%) Windows XP
4 8 (8.081%) Windows 7
5 4 (4.040%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (4.040%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (23.23%) Agile Software Development
2 21 (21.21%) SOA
3 18 (18.18%) OO
4 13 (13.13%) Content Management
5 12 (12.12%) Workflow
5 12 (12.12%) UML
6 11 (11.11%) Scrum
7 10 (10.10%) MVC
7 10 (10.10%) Data Modelling
7 10 (10.10%) E-Commerce
8 8 (8.081%) BPMN
8 8 (8.081%) OOP
9 7 (7.071%) Unit Testing
10 6 (6.061%) Test Scripting
10 6 (6.061%) BPEL
11 5 (5.051%) CRM
11 5 (5.051%) ITIL
11 5 (5.051%) Service Management
11 5 (5.051%) Kanban
12 4 (4.040%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 45 (45.45%) Java
2 33 (33.33%) SQL
3 32 (32.32%) JavaScript
4 13 (13.13%) Python
4 13 (13.13%) Perl
5 12 (12.12%) C++
6 7 (7.071%) PHP
6 7 (7.071%) Shell Script
7 6 (6.061%) C#
7 6 (6.061%) Ada
8 5 (5.051%) VC++
8 5 (5.051%) VBScript
8 5 (5.051%) VB
9 4 (4.040%) ActionScript
9 4 (4.040%) T-SQL
9 4 (4.040%) C
10 1 (1.010%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.010%) XQuery
10 1 (1.010%) XPath
10 1 (1.010%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (2.020%) SC Cleared
1 2 (2.020%) Security Cleared
1 2 (2.020%) ISEB
1 2 (2.020%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.040%) SLA
2 2 (2.020%) QA
System Software
1 2 (2.020%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.010%) OpenSSO
Vendors
1 50 (50.51%) Oracle
2 25 (25.25%) Pega
3 16 (16.16%) JBoss
4 11 (11.11%) Microsoft
5 10 (10.10%) FatWire
6 9 (9.091%) IBM
7 6 (6.061%) Siebel
8 5 (5.051%) Lotus
8 5 (5.051%) Plumtree
9 4 (4.040%) Endeca
9 4 (4.040%) Google
9 4 (4.040%) Perforce
10 3 (3.030%) Sybase
11 2 (2.020%) Unisys
11 2 (2.020%) Sun
12 1 (1.010%) Facebook
12 1 (1.010%) Business Objects
12 1 (1.010%) TIBCO
12 1 (1.010%) webMethods
12 1 (1.010%) Remedy
London
Build/Test of connectors: Import WSDL and XSD... Co-ordination with relevant stakeholders - SOA SME, BPA SME, DSMs, Solution Architects, BPA and SOA Developmeant teams, Pega System team,...
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Rate: Rate Negotiable
Posted: 22 May 2013
London
Build/Test of connectors: Import WSDL and XSD... Co-ordination with relevant stakeholders - SOA SME, BPA SME, DSMs, Solution Architects, BPA and SOA Developmeant teams, Pega System team,...
Coal IT Services
Rate: From £700 to £900 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013