The first table below looks at the demand for WSDL 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 WSDL 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 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Web Services Description Language (WSDL)
Rank 100 115 114
Rank change year-on-year
+15 -1
Contract jobs citing WSDL 17 17 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.740% 0.537% 0.585%
As % of the Application Development category 2.711% 1.809% 2.406%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 12 16
Average daily rate £336 £363 £360
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.37% +0.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £279 £325 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £534 £365
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
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
627 940 748
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 27.30% 29.68% 24.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 330 521 431
Average daily rate £302 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.23% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £226 £238 £233
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 30 28 24
Average hourly rate £30.00 £19.50 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+53.84% -29.09%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.50 £13.50 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £145.42 £33.32 £37.50
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 North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

North West 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 North West region.

North West WSDL Daily Rate Trend

WSDL
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing WSDL across the North West region.

North West WSDL Hourly Rate Trend

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 North West region over the 3 months to 17 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
Lancashire +18 10 £319 -31.50%
Cheshire +9 7 £375 +7.14%
WSDL
England

WSDL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 22 (88.00%) Web Services
2 20 (80.00%) SQL
3 19 (76.00%) Java
3 19 (76.00%) XML
4 18 (72.00%) SOAP
4 18 (72.00%) J2EE
4 18 (72.00%) Oracle
5 13 (52.00%) DB2
5 13 (52.00%) JMS
6 12 (48.00%) OO
6 12 (48.00%) XSD
6 12 (48.00%) EJB
6 12 (48.00%) Agile Software Development
7 9 (36.00%) Finance
7 9 (36.00%) Hibernate
7 9 (36.00%) JSP
7 9 (36.00%) Servlets
7 9 (36.00%) JavaScript
7 9 (36.00%) Subversion
7 9 (36.00%) Ajax
7 9 (36.00%) WebSphere
7 9 (36.00%) Waterfall
8 8 (32.00%) JNDI
8 8 (32.00%) TDD
8 8 (32.00%) Curam
8 8 (32.00%) jQuery
8 8 (32.00%) HTML
8 8 (32.00%) XSL
8 8 (32.00%) OOA/OOD
8 8 (32.00%) RDBMS

WSDL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 22 (88.00%) Web Services
2 19 (76.00%) XML
3 18 (72.00%) SOAP
3 18 (72.00%) J2EE
4 13 (52.00%) JMS
5 12 (48.00%) EJB
5 12 (48.00%) XSD
6 9 (36.00%) JSP
6 9 (36.00%) Servlets
6 9 (36.00%) Hibernate
6 9 (36.00%) Ajax
6 9 (36.00%) WebSphere
7 8 (32.00%) JNDI
7 8 (32.00%) HTML
7 8 (32.00%) XSL
7 8 (32.00%) jQuery
8 7 (28.00%) .NET
8 7 (28.00%) JAAS
8 7 (28.00%) WCF
9 5 (20.00%) WPF
Application Platforms
1 5 (20.00%) WebLogic
1 5 (20.00%) IIS
2 4 (16.00%) Apache
3 3 (12.00%) ESB
4 2 (8.000%) Mule
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.000%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (52.00%) DB2
2 8 (32.00%) RDBMS
3 6 (24.00%) SQL Server
4 4 (16.00%) SQL Server 2005
4 4 (16.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (16.00%) SQL Server 2008
4 4 (16.00%) SQL Server 2012
5 2 (8.000%) SQL Server 7
Development Applications
1 9 (36.00%) Subversion
2 5 (20.00%) ClearCase
3 4 (16.00%) JUnit
4 3 (12.00%) Visual Studio
4 3 (12.00%) Eclipse
4 3 (12.00%) JIRA
4 3 (12.00%) Git (software)
4 3 (12.00%) Gradle
General
1 9 (36.00%) Finance
2 5 (20.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 23 (92.00%) Developer
2 11 (44.00%) Java Developer
3 5 (20.00%) Senior Java Developer
3 5 (20.00%) Senior Developer
4 3 (12.00%) Software Developer
5 2 (8.000%) Software Engineer
5 2 (8.000%) .NET Developer
6 1 (4.000%) C# Developer
6 1 (4.000%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (4.000%) Web Developer
6 1 (4.000%) Java Web Developer
6 1 (4.000%) Java/J2EE Developer
6 1 (4.000%) C# .NET Developer
6 1 (4.000%) WPF Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (24.00%) Mobile App
2 5 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (20.00%) PMI
3 4 (16.00%) Web 2.0
4 1 (4.000%) RIA
Operating Systems
1 6 (24.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (48.00%) OO
1 12 (48.00%) Agile Software Development
2 9 (36.00%) Waterfall
3 8 (32.00%) TDD
3 8 (32.00%) OOA/OOD
4 7 (28.00%) Use Case
5 6 (24.00%) MVC
5 6 (24.00%) Continuous Integration
5 6 (24.00%) Mobile Application Development
6 5 (20.00%) BDD
6 5 (20.00%) Workflow
6 5 (20.00%) PRINCE2
6 5 (20.00%) RUP
6 5 (20.00%) PRINCE
6 5 (20.00%) Project Management
6 5 (20.00%) CMMI
6 5 (20.00%) Document Management
7 4 (16.00%) Requirements Analysis
7 4 (16.00%) UML
7 4 (16.00%) Dependency Injection
Programming Languages
1 20 (80.00%) SQL
2 19 (76.00%) Java
3 9 (36.00%) JavaScript
4 7 (28.00%) C#
5 5 (20.00%) PL/SQL
6 4 (16.00%) XPath
7 3 (12.00%) Groovy
7 3 (12.00%) VB
7 3 (12.00%) VB.NET
7 3 (12.00%) VB6
8 1 (4.000%) C
Qualifications
1 5 (20.00%) PMI Certification
2 2 (8.000%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 18 (72.00%) Oracle
2 8 (32.00%) Curam
3 7 (28.00%) Microsoft
4 5 (20.00%) JBoss
4 5 (20.00%) Chordiant
5 3 (12.00%) IBM
5 3 (12.00%) Perforce
Chester, North West
Required Skills:SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:Essential:-Extensive experience of Web 2.0 technologies i.e AJAX, XHTML, JavaScript, XPATH, CSS, XSLT, DOM, JSP, Servlets-Minimum 2yrs + JSF...
Rate: £350 - £400 per day
Posted: 11 May 2013