The first table below looks at the demand for SOAP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Milton Keynes region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SOAP over the 3 months to 17 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 Milton Keynes 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
Rank 32 57 55
Rank change year-on-year
+25 -2
Contract jobs citing SOAP 21 6 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 4.094% 0.825% 0.503%
As % of the Application Development category 17.50% 4.615% 2.679%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 0 0
Average daily rate £425 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £333
% change year-on-year
- +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £21.94
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £32.25 £36.00
% change year-on-year
-6.97% -10.41%
All Application Development
Milton Keynes
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
120 130 112
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 23.39% 17.88% 18.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 60 52
Average daily rate £375 £300 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £288 £259 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £375 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 6
Average hourly rate £20.00 £35.00 £21.94
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-42.85% +59.52%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
SOAP
Buckinghamshire

SOAP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Milton Keynes SOAP Daily Rate Histogram

SOAP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 14 (58.33%) Web Services
2 13 (54.17%) Oracle
3 10 (41.67%) XML
4 9 (37.50%) Middleware
4 9 (37.50%) WSDL
5 8 (33.33%) SOA
5 8 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
5 8 (33.33%) WCF
5 8 (33.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 7 (29.17%) Oracle Service Bus
6 7 (29.17%) REST
6 7 (29.17%) Oracle 11g
6 7 (29.17%) BPEL
6 7 (29.17%) Workflow
6 7 (29.17%) Scrum
6 7 (29.17%) C#
6 7 (29.17%) HP
7 6 (25.00%) .NET
7 6 (25.00%) Eclipse
7 6 (25.00%) Oracle Workflow
7 6 (25.00%) MVC
7 6 (25.00%) Team Foundation Server
8 5 (20.83%) Unit Testing
8 5 (20.83%) Web 2.0
8 5 (20.83%) Enterprise Architecture
8 5 (20.83%) XPath
8 5 (20.83%) Oracle 8/8i
8 5 (20.83%) UML
8 5 (20.83%) Java
8 5 (20.83%) XSD

SOAP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 14 (58.33%) Web Services
2 10 (41.67%) XML
3 9 (37.50%) WSDL
3 9 (37.50%) Middleware
4 8 (33.33%) WCF
5 7 (29.17%) REST
6 6 (25.00%) .NET
7 5 (20.83%) XSD
7 5 (20.83%) JMS
8 4 (16.67%) XSLT
8 4 (16.67%) soapUI
9 3 (12.50%) WebSphere
10 2 (8.333%) SAP ALE
10 2 (8.333%) SAP PI
10 2 (8.333%) Oracle Fusion
10 2 (8.333%) CSS
10 2 (8.333%) JDBC
10 2 (8.333%) BAPI
10 2 (8.333%) SAP XI
11 1 (4.167%) BPEL4WS
Application Platforms
1 8 (33.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 7 (29.17%) Oracle Service Bus
3 6 (25.00%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (12.50%) ESB
4 3 (12.50%) MS Exchange
4 3 (12.50%) Lync
5 2 (8.333%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (8.333%) NetWeaver
6 1 (4.167%) CMS
6 1 (4.167%) Kentico
Business Applications
1 2 (8.333%) SAP CRM
2 1 (4.167%) SAP FI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.50%) SAN
1 3 (12.50%) Internet
1 3 (12.50%) Firewall
1 3 (12.50%) iSCSI
1 3 (12.50%) NAS
1 3 (12.50%) SMTP
2 2 (8.333%) HTTP
2 2 (8.333%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (29.17%) Oracle 11g
2 5 (20.83%) Oracle 8/8i
3 3 (12.50%) SQL Server
4 2 (8.333%) DTS
5 1 (4.167%) TOAD
5 1 (4.167%) BODI
5 1 (4.167%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
5 1 (4.167%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (4.167%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (4.167%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (25.00%) Eclipse
1 6 (25.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 5 (20.83%) JDeveloper
2 5 (20.83%) Ant
3 4 (16.67%) Selenium
4 3 (12.50%) QuickTest Pro
4 3 (12.50%) WebDriver
General
1 4 (16.67%) Finance
2 2 (8.333%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 10 (41.67%) Developer
2 7 (29.17%) Oracle Developer
3 6 (25.00%) Lead Developer
3 6 (25.00%) Oracle SOA Developer
3 6 (25.00%) SOA Developer
4 5 (20.83%) Analyst
5 4 (16.67%) Architect
6 3 (12.50%) Test Analyst
6 3 (12.50%) Technical Architect
7 2 (8.333%) Test Manager
7 2 (8.333%) Deployment Analyst
8 1 (4.167%) SAP Analyst
8 1 (4.167%) CMS Developer
8 1 (4.167%) SAP PI Consultant
8 1 (4.167%) Test Leader
8 1 (4.167%) XML Developer
8 1 (4.167%) CSS Developer
8 1 (4.167%) PHP MySQL Developer
8 1 (4.167%) Java Developer
8 1 (4.167%) Integration Architect
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Web 2.0
2 3 (12.50%) Clustering
2 3 (12.50%) Cryptography
3 2 (8.333%) Fat Client
3 2 (8.333%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.50%) Windows
1 3 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (33.33%) SOA
1 8 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
2 7 (29.17%) BPEL
2 7 (29.17%) Workflow
2 7 (29.17%) Scrum
3 6 (25.00%) MVC
4 5 (20.83%) UML
4 5 (20.83%) Enterprise Architecture
4 5 (20.83%) Unit Testing
5 3 (12.50%) CRM
5 3 (12.50%) TOGAF
6 2 (8.333%) V-Model
6 2 (8.333%) Test Strategy
6 2 (8.333%) Functional Testing
7 1 (4.167%) Test Automation
7 1 (4.167%) Software Architecture
7 1 (4.167%) Test Scripting
7 1 (4.167%) System Testing
7 1 (4.167%) Performance Management
7 1 (4.167%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 7 (29.17%) C#
2 5 (20.83%) Java
2 5 (20.83%) XQuery
2 5 (20.83%) XPath
3 3 (12.50%) SQL
4 2 (8.333%) ABAP
5 1 (4.167%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.167%) PHP
Qualifications
1 5 (20.83%) ISEB
2 3 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (12.50%) MCP
2 3 (12.50%) MCSE
2 3 (12.50%) CCSP
2 3 (12.50%) CCNA
2 3 (12.50%) MCTS
2 3 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 3 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.167%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.167%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.167%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (12.50%) Hyper-V
1 3 (12.50%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 3 (12.50%) OpenView
1 3 (12.50%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 1 (4.167%) SCCM
2 1 (4.167%) SCOM
2 1 (4.167%) SCVMM
2 1 (4.167%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 13 (54.17%) Oracle
2 7 (29.17%) HP
3 3 (12.50%) Citrix
3 3 (12.50%) StorageTek
3 3 (12.50%) VMware
3 3 (12.50%) SAP
3 3 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 3 (12.50%) Sun
4 1 (4.167%) Business Objects
4 1 (4.167%) Ektron