The first table below looks at the demand for Web Services skills in IT contracts advertised for the Norwich region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Web Services 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 Norwich 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
Web Services
Rank 19 15 30
Rank change year-on-year
-4 +15
Contract jobs citing Web Services 4 12 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Norwich 3.125% 7.059% 2.010%
As % of the Application Development category 12.50% 26.67% 5.797%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 3
Average daily rate £400 £375 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% -11.76%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
-7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £32.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year
-3.07% -18.75%
All Application Development
Norwich
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
32 45 69
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Norwich 25.00% 26.47% 34.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 32 19
Average daily rate £300 £288 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.34% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £270 £227 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £388 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
Average hourly rate £16.50 - £26.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Web Services
Norfolk

Web Services
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Norwich Web Services Jobs Demand Trend

Web Services
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Web Services across the Norwich region.

Norwich Web Services Daily Rate Trend

Web Services
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Web Services across the Norwich region.

Norwich Web Services Hourly Rate Trend

Web Services
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Norwich region citing Web Services 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 Web Services.

1 4 (66.67%) C#
1 4 (66.67%) HTML
1 4 (66.67%) .NET
1 4 (66.67%) XML
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 4 (66.67%) ASP.NET
2 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (50.00%) Ajax
3 2 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (33.33%) .NET Framework
3 2 (33.33%) jQuery
3 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 2 (33.33%) Java
3 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 2 (33.33%) J2EE
3 2 (33.33%) IIS
3 2 (33.33%) Visual Studio
3 2 (33.33%) JDBC
3 2 (33.33%) JSP
3 2 (33.33%) Servlets
3 2 (33.33%) Struts
3 2 (33.33%) JMS
3 2 (33.33%) EJB
3 2 (33.33%) TDD
3 2 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (33.33%) Git (software)
4 1 (16.67%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
4 1 (16.67%) Coverity
4 1 (16.67%) WatiN

Web Services
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Norwich region citing Web Services 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 Web Services. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (66.67%) HTML
1 4 (66.67%) .NET
1 4 (66.67%) XML
1 4 (66.67%) ASP.NET
2 3 (50.00%) Ajax
3 2 (33.33%) .NET Framework
3 2 (33.33%) jQuery
3 2 (33.33%) J2EE
3 2 (33.33%) JDBC
3 2 (33.33%) JSP
3 2 (33.33%) Servlets
3 2 (33.33%) Struts
3 2 (33.33%) JMS
3 2 (33.33%) EJB
4 1 (16.67%) SPML
4 1 (16.67%) HTML5
4 1 (16.67%) CSS3
4 1 (16.67%) JNDI
4 1 (16.67%) CSS
4 1 (16.67%) Hibernate
Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) IIS
2 1 (16.67%) Tomcat
2 1 (16.67%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (16.67%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 2 (33.33%) Visual Studio
1 2 (33.33%) Git (software)
2 1 (16.67%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (16.67%) WatiN
2 1 (16.67%) JBehave
2 1 (16.67%) SpecFlow
2 1 (16.67%) CruiseControl
2 1 (16.67%) Subversion
2 1 (16.67%) Log4j
2 1 (16.67%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
2 1 (16.67%) JDeveloper
2 1 (16.67%) Ant
2 1 (16.67%) JUnit
2 1 (16.67%) Selenium
General
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Developer
2 3 (50.00%) Web Developer
3 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET Developer
3 2 (33.33%) .NET Web Developer
3 2 (33.33%) .NET Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Test Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Consultant
4 1 (16.67%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) TDD
2 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
2 1 (16.67%) Waterfall
2 1 (16.67%) BDD
2 1 (16.67%) Regression Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Identity Management
2 1 (16.67%) MVC
2 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
2 1 (16.67%) UML
2 1 (16.67%) OOP
2 1 (16.67%) OOA/OOD
2 1 (16.67%) OO
2 1 (16.67%) User Stories
2 1 (16.67%) Unit Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (16.67%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) C#
2 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (33.33%) Java
4 1 (16.67%) PL/SQL
4 1 (16.67%) SQL
4 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Tivoli
1 1 (16.67%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Coverity
2 1 (16.67%) IBM
2 1 (16.67%) JBoss
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Guidewire