The first table below looks at the demand for SOAP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Nottingham 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 Nottingham 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 31 31 -
Rank change year-on-year
0 -
Contract jobs citing SOAP 5 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham 1.748% 0.448% -
As % of the Application Development category 6.024% 1.111% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £394 - -
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
Nottingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
83 90 60
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham 29.02% 40.36% 25.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 53 24
Average daily rate £325 £310 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.83% -4.46%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £263 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £435 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 7 2
Average hourly rate £30.00 £8.50 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+252.94% -78.75%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
SOAP
Nottinghamshire

SOAP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Nottingham 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 Nottingham region.

Nottingham SOAP Daily Rate Trend

SOAP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Nottingham SOAP Hourly Rate Trend

SOAP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham 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 8 (80.00%) Finance
2 7 (70.00%) XML
2 7 (70.00%) SOA
3 6 (60.00%) WSDL
3 6 (60.00%) XPath
4 5 (50.00%) Web Services
4 5 (50.00%) XSD
4 5 (50.00%) XSLT
5 4 (40.00%) HTML
5 4 (40.00%) XML Schema
5 4 (40.00%) SSL
5 4 (40.00%) HTTP
5 4 (40.00%) WebSphere MQ
5 4 (40.00%) DataPower
5 4 (40.00%) BPEL
5 4 (40.00%) WebSphere
5 4 (40.00%) Project Management
6 3 (30.00%) TDD
6 3 (30.00%) NUnit
6 3 (30.00%) WCF
6 3 (30.00%) Team Foundation Server
6 3 (30.00%) MSTest
6 3 (30.00%) Middleware
6 3 (30.00%) .NET
6 3 (30.00%) C#
6 3 (30.00%) IIS
7 2 (20.00%) WebLogic
7 2 (20.00%) Java
7 2 (20.00%) UNIX
7 2 (20.00%) OO

SOAP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham 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 7 (70.00%) XML
2 6 (60.00%) WSDL
3 5 (50.00%) Web Services
3 5 (50.00%) XSD
3 5 (50.00%) XSLT
4 4 (40.00%) HTML
4 4 (40.00%) XML Schema
4 4 (40.00%) WebSphere
5 3 (30.00%) WCF
5 3 (30.00%) Middleware
5 3 (30.00%) .NET
6 2 (20.00%) JMS
6 2 (20.00%) WS-I
6 2 (20.00%) Unity DI Container
6 2 (20.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 2 (20.00%) WPF
6 2 (20.00%) .NET Framework
7 1 (10.00%) Managed Extensibility Framework
7 1 (10.00%) soapUI
7 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 4 (40.00%) WebSphere MQ
2 3 (30.00%) IIS
3 2 (20.00%) WebLogic
3 2 (20.00%) MSMQ
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) SSL
1 4 (40.00%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) NUnit
1 3 (30.00%) Team Foundation Server
1 3 (30.00%) MSTest
2 2 (20.00%) QuickTest Pro
2 2 (20.00%) LoadRunner
2 2 (20.00%) Hudson
2 2 (20.00%) Maven
General
1 8 (80.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Financial Institution
2 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Test Architect
2 2 (20.00%) WPF Developer
2 2 (20.00%) .NET Developer
2 2 (20.00%) C# Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle Developer
3 1 (10.00%) WebSphere Administrator
3 1 (10.00%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Middleware Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) DataPower
2 1 (10.00%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) UNIX
2 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) SOA
2 4 (40.00%) BPEL
2 4 (40.00%) Project Management
3 3 (30.00%) TDD
4 2 (20.00%) OO
4 2 (20.00%) OOD
4 2 (20.00%) MVVM
4 2 (20.00%) Dependency Injection
4 2 (20.00%) Time Management
4 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) XPath
2 3 (30.00%) C#
3 2 (20.00%) Java
4 1 (10.00%) Groovy
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) IBM
1 2 (20.00%) HP
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle