The first table below looks at the demand for WSDL 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 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 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Web Services Description Language (WSDL)
Rank 34 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing WSDL 4 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham 1.404% - -
As % of the Application Development category 4.762% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £394 - -
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
Nottingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
84 87 61
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham 29.47% 39.19% 25.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 52 22
Average daily rate £325 £305 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.55% -6.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £263 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £435 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 7 3
Average hourly rate £28.25 £8.50 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+232.35% -78.75%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
WSDL
Nottinghamshire

WSDL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Nottingham 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 Nottingham region.

Nottingham 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 Nottingham region.

Nottingham WSDL Hourly Rate Trend

WSDL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham 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 6 (100.00%) SOAP
1 6 (100.00%) XML
1 6 (100.00%) XPath
2 5 (83.33%) Finance
3 4 (66.67%) WebSphere MQ
3 4 (66.67%) Project Management
3 4 (66.67%) BPEL
3 4 (66.67%) DataPower
3 4 (66.67%) WebSphere
3 4 (66.67%) XSD
3 4 (66.67%) XSLT
3 4 (66.67%) Web Services
3 4 (66.67%) HTML
3 4 (66.67%) SOA
3 4 (66.67%) HTTP
3 4 (66.67%) XML Schema
3 4 (66.67%) SSL
4 3 (50.00%) Middleware
5 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (33.33%) Hudson
5 2 (33.33%) Maven
5 2 (33.33%) Time Management
5 2 (33.33%) IBM
5 2 (33.33%) WS-I
5 2 (33.33%) HP
5 2 (33.33%) QuickTest Pro
5 2 (33.33%) LoadRunner
5 2 (33.33%) Java
5 2 (33.33%) WebLogic
5 2 (33.33%) UNIX

WSDL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham 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 6 (100.00%) XML
1 6 (100.00%) SOAP
2 4 (66.67%) Web Services
2 4 (66.67%) XML Schema
2 4 (66.67%) XSD
2 4 (66.67%) XSLT
2 4 (66.67%) HTML
2 4 (66.67%) WebSphere
3 3 (50.00%) Middleware
4 2 (33.33%) JMS
4 2 (33.33%) WS-I
Application Platforms
1 4 (66.67%) WebSphere MQ
2 2 (33.33%) WebLogic
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) HTTP
1 4 (66.67%) SSL
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) QuickTest Pro
1 2 (33.33%) LoadRunner
1 2 (33.33%) Maven
1 2 (33.33%) Hudson
General
1 5 (83.33%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Test Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Middleware Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) WebSphere Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) DataPower
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) SOA
1 4 (66.67%) Project Management
1 4 (66.67%) BPEL
2 2 (33.33%) Time Management
2 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) XPath
2 2 (33.33%) Java
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) IBM
1 2 (33.33%) HP