The first table below looks at the demand for soapUI skills in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester 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 Manchester 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 72 87 -
Rank change year-on-year
+15 -
Contract jobs citing soapUI 1 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.106% 0.154% -
As % of the Application Development category 0.345% 0.514% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
Average daily rate £260 £333 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-21.86% -
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
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
290 389 281
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 30.72% 29.92% 27.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 232 153
Average daily rate £290 £300 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.33% +9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £230 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £375 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 14 13
Average hourly rate £21.00 £17.50 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -36.36%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.61 £15.00 £18.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £160.50 £33.32 £37.50
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 Manchester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester soapUI Daily Rate Trend

soapUI
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 2 (100.00%) SOA
1 2 (100.00%) SOAP
2 1 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) T-SQL
2 1 (50.00%) VBScript
2 1 (50.00%) WSH
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) XQuery
2 1 (50.00%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (50.00%) Retail
2 1 (50.00%) XPath
2 1 (50.00%) ESB
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell

soapUI
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 2 (100.00%) SOAP
2 1 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) WSH
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (50.00%) ESB
General
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Test Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Test Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) BizTalk Developer
1 1 (50.00%) BizTalk Administrator
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) SOA
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) T-SQL
1 1 (50.00%) VBScript
1 1 (50.00%) XQuery
1 1 (50.00%) XPath
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft