The first table below looks at the demand for SOAP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Middlesex 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 Middlesex 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 24 31 38
Rank change year-on-year
+7 +7
Contract jobs citing SOAP 1 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Middlesex 0.500% 0.324% 0.298%
As % of the Application Development category 4.167% 2.174% 1.333%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Average daily rate £400 £350 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £333
% change year-on-year
- +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
-14.28% -4.10%
All Application Development
Middlesex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
24 46 75
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Middlesex 12.00% 14.89% 22.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 17 30
Average daily rate £350 £375 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.66% -16.66%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 6
Average hourly rate £37.50 £19.52 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+92.11% -32.68%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
SOAP
South East

SOAP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Middlesex 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 Middlesex region.

Middlesex SOAP Daily Rate Trend

SOAP
Top 9 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex 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 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) 3D Graphics
1 1 (100.00%) Cocoa
1 1 (100.00%) Objective-C
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) iPhone
1 1 (100.00%) iPad
1 1 (100.00%) Apple iOS

SOAP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex 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 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) Cocoa
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) iOS Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) 3D Graphics
1 1 (100.00%) iPhone
1 1 (100.00%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Apple iOS
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) Objective-C