The first table below looks at the demand for soapUI skills in IT contracts advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited soapUI over the 3 months to 20 June 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 North West 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Eviware soapUI
Rank 119 123 120
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -3
Contract jobs citing soapUI 7 9 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.289% 0.301% 0.033%
As % of the Application Development category 1.074% 1.033% 0.130%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 1
Average daily rate £350 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.66% +7.14%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £325
% change year-on-year
- +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.13 £32.25 -
% change year-on-year
+15.13% -
All Application Development
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
652 871 770
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 26.93% 29.17% 25.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 338 471 438
Average daily rate £313 £325 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.84% -3.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £240 £217
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £450 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 33 34
Average hourly rate £33.00 £17.51 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+88.46% -41.63%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.61 £13.50 £17.65
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £121.65 £33.30 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
soapUI
England

soapUI
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West 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 North West region.

North West 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 North West region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

North West 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 North West region over the 3 months to 20 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Lancashire +4 2 £350 -7.89% 1
Manchester +13 1 £181 -45.75% 2
Cheshire - - - - 3
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England

soapUI
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 9 (75.00%) SOAP
2 6 (50.00%) Web Services
2 6 (50.00%) Java
2 6 (50.00%) Selenium
3 5 (41.67%) Agile Software Development
4 4 (33.33%) QA
4 4 (33.33%) XML
4 4 (33.33%) SQL
4 4 (33.33%) WebDriver
5 3 (25.00%) Jenkins
5 3 (25.00%) E-Commerce
5 3 (25.00%) ISEB
5 3 (25.00%) FitNesse
5 3 (25.00%) Ruby
5 3 (25.00%) Test Scripting
5 3 (25.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 3 (25.00%) PowerShell
5 3 (25.00%) Scrum
6 2 (16.67%) Retail
6 2 (16.67%) Automated Testing
6 2 (16.67%) System Testing
6 2 (16.67%) Groovy
6 2 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (16.67%) Unit Testing
6 2 (16.67%) ISTQB
6 2 (16.67%) WATIR
6 2 (16.67%) HTTP
6 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
6 2 (16.67%) SOA
6 2 (16.67%) Eclipse

soapUI
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 9 (75.00%) SOAP
2 6 (50.00%) Web Services
3 4 (33.33%) XML
4 2 (16.67%) CSS
4 2 (16.67%) HTML
4 2 (16.67%) REST
5 1 (8.333%) Gherkin
5 1 (8.333%) J2EE
5 1 (8.333%) WSH
5 1 (8.333%) WCF
Application Platforms
1 2 (16.67%) ESB
2 1 (8.333%) Windows Azure
2 1 (8.333%) BizTalk Server
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) HTTP
2 1 (8.333%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.333%) TOAD
Development Applications
1 6 (50.00%) Selenium
2 4 (33.33%) WebDriver
3 3 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (25.00%) FitNesse
3 3 (25.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (16.67%) WATIR
4 2 (16.67%) Eclipse
5 1 (8.333%) Hudson
5 1 (8.333%) Cucumber
5 1 (8.333%) Visual Studio
5 1 (8.333%) QuickTest Pro
5 1 (8.333%) XMLSpy
5 1 (8.333%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2 (16.67%) Retail
2 1 (8.333%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Analyst
2 4 (33.33%) Test Analyst
3 3 (25.00%) Test Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Consultant
4 2 (16.67%) Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Tester
4 2 (16.67%) Test Consultant
4 2 (16.67%) Automation Tester
5 1 (8.333%) Automation Analyst
5 1 (8.333%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (8.333%) Test Automation Engineer
5 1 (8.333%) Automated Test Analyst
5 1 (8.333%) BizTalk Administrator
5 1 (8.333%) Junior Test Engineer
5 1 (8.333%) Agile Test Analyst
5 1 (8.333%) Software Test Analyst
5 1 (8.333%) BizTalk Developer
5 1 (8.333%) Technical Test Analyst
5 1 (8.333%) Junior
5 1 (8.333%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.333%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (25.00%) E-Commerce
2 3 (25.00%) Test Scripting
2 3 (25.00%) Scrum
3 2 (16.67%) Automated Testing
3 2 (16.67%) System Testing
3 2 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (16.67%) Unit Testing
3 2 (16.67%) SOA
3 2 (16.67%) RAD
3 2 (16.67%) Test Automation
3 2 (16.67%) Waterfall
4 1 (8.333%) Automation Testing
4 1 (8.333%) ITIL
4 1 (8.333%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) Java
2 4 (33.33%) SQL
3 3 (25.00%) Ruby
3 3 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 2 (16.67%) Groovy
4 2 (16.67%) PHP
4 2 (16.67%) Python
4 2 (16.67%) C
4 2 (16.67%) C#
4 2 (16.67%) C++
5 1 (8.333%) JavaScript
5 1 (8.333%) T-SQL
5 1 (8.333%) VBScript
5 1 (8.333%) XQuery
5 1 (8.333%) XPath
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) ISEB
2 2 (16.67%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle
Preston, Lancashire
Working alongside the Development team in a TDD environment, you will carry out manual testing on written software; including interface testing, which will involve Web Services (SOAP UI),...
MINT Recruitment
Rate: £200 - £225 per day
Posted: 18 June 2013
North West England
Initially you will be expected to be developing the automated test framework within Visual Studio 2012 / coded UI. As the project progresses you will then be executing and...
Real Staffing
Posted: 29 May 2013
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