The first table below looks at the demand for WS-I 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 WS-I over the 3 months to 19 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 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I)
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing WS-I 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham - - -
As % of the Application Development category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - £450 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Development
Nottingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
64 74 56
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham 21.05% 33.18% 23.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 48 28
Average daily rate £290 £288 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.86% -10.15%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £238 £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 7 1 1
Average hourly rate £30.00 £8.50 £9.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+252.94% -10.52%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
WS-I
Nottinghamshire

WS-I
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Nottingham WS-I Jobs Demand Trend

WS-I
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Nottingham WS-I Hourly Rate Trend

WS-I
Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham region citing WS-I 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 WS-I.

1 2 (100.00%) SOAP
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) JMS
1 2 (100.00%) SOA
1 2 (100.00%) WSDL
1 2 (100.00%) IBM
1 2 (100.00%) HP
1 2 (100.00%) QuickTest Pro
1 2 (100.00%) LoadRunner
1 2 (100.00%) Middleware
1 2 (100.00%) Project Management
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (100.00%) BPEL
1 2 (100.00%) XPath
1 2 (100.00%) Time Management

WS-I
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham region citing WS-I 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 WS-I. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (100.00%) SOAP
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) JMS
1 2 (100.00%) WSDL
1 2 (100.00%) Middleware
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) QuickTest Pro
1 2 (100.00%) LoadRunner
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Test Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) SOA
1 2 (100.00%) Project Management
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (100.00%) BPEL
1 2 (100.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) XPath
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) IBM
1 2 (100.00%) HP