The first table below looks at the demand for Web Services skills in IT contracts advertised for the Nottinghamshire 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 Nottinghamshire 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 13 19 14
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -5
Contract jobs citing Web Services 31 19 19
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottinghamshire 9.254% 6.667% 6.441%
As % of the Application Development category 30.10% 15.57% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 12 3
Average daily rate £350 £331 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.66% -5.35%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £284 £252 £310
10% offered a daily rate of more than £424 £500 £390
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
-7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
Average hourly rate £27.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £32.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year
-3.07% -18.75%
All Application Development
Nottinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
103 122 76
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottinghamshire 30.75% 42.81% 25.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 71 32
Average daily rate £325 £300 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.33% -7.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £263 £233
10% offered a daily rate of more than £405 £375 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 7 4
Average hourly rate £27.50 £8.50 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+223.52% -78.75%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Web Services
East Midlands

Web Services
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Nottinghamshire 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 Nottinghamshire region.

Nottinghamshire Web Services Daily Rate Trend

Web Services
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Web Services across the Nottinghamshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Nottinghamshire Web Services Daily Rate Histogram

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 Nottinghamshire region.

Nottinghamshire Web Services Hourly Rate Trend

Web Services
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Web Services within the Nottinghamshire region over the 3 months to 21 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
Nottingham 0 25 £350 -
Web Services
East Midlands

Web Services
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottinghamshire 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 23 (46.94%) SQL Server
2 22 (44.90%) .NET
3 18 (36.73%) C#
4 17 (34.69%) ASP.NET
4 17 (34.69%) XML
5 16 (32.65%) Linux
6 12 (24.49%) SOA
7 11 (22.45%) HTML
7 11 (22.45%) Windows
7 11 (22.45%) WPF
8 10 (20.41%) IIS
8 10 (20.41%) Multithreading
8 10 (20.41%) REST
9 9 (18.37%) Agile Software Development
10 8 (16.33%) Subversion
10 8 (16.33%) ESB
10 8 (16.33%) JavaScript
10 8 (16.33%) UNIX
10 8 (16.33%) TIBCO
10 8 (16.33%) Middleware
10 8 (16.33%) jQuery
10 8 (16.33%) SQL Server 2008
11 7 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (14.29%) XSLT
11 7 (14.29%) Telecoms
12 6 (12.24%) Validation
12 6 (12.24%) InterSystems
12 6 (12.24%) Scrum
12 6 (12.24%) VMware
12 6 (12.24%) XSD

Web Services
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottinghamshire 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 22 (44.90%) .NET
2 17 (34.69%) ASP.NET
2 17 (34.69%) XML
3 11 (22.45%) HTML
3 11 (22.45%) WPF
4 10 (20.41%) REST
5 8 (16.33%) Middleware
5 8 (16.33%) jQuery
6 7 (14.29%) XSLT
7 6 (12.24%) XSD
7 6 (12.24%) CSS
7 6 (12.24%) SOAP
8 5 (10.20%) WinForms
8 5 (10.20%) WCF
8 5 (10.20%) WebSphere
9 4 (8.163%) WSDL
9 4 (8.163%) XML Schema
10 3 (6.122%) J2EE
10 3 (6.122%) Ajax
11 2 (4.082%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 10 (20.41%) IIS
2 8 (16.33%) ESB
3 6 (12.24%) Apache
4 5 (10.20%) WebSphere MQ
5 4 (8.163%) CMS
6 3 (6.122%) Umbraco
6 3 (6.122%) Kentico
7 2 (4.082%) WebLogic
8 1 (2.041%) WordPress
8 1 (2.041%) Drupal
Applications
1 1 (2.041%) Photoshop
1 1 (2.041%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 2 (4.082%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 6 (12.24%) Cisco Nexus
2 4 (8.163%) SSL
2 4 (8.163%) HTTP
3 3 (6.122%) Internet
4 1 (2.041%) SAN
4 1 (2.041%) SNMP
4 1 (2.041%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.041%) VPN
4 1 (2.041%) LAN
4 1 (2.041%) LDAP
4 1 (2.041%) Firewall
4 1 (2.041%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (46.94%) SQL Server
2 8 (16.33%) SQL Server 2008
3 5 (10.20%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (8.163%) InterSystems Cache
4 4 (8.163%) SQL Server 2012
5 3 (6.122%) SQL Server 2005
6 2 (4.082%) Oracle 11g
7 1 (2.041%) VLDB
7 1 (2.041%) MySQL
7 1 (2.041%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 8 (16.33%) Subversion
2 4 (8.163%) Visual Studio
3 3 (6.122%) Eclipse
4 2 (4.082%) Maven
4 2 (4.082%) Xcode
4 2 (4.082%) Hudson
5 1 (2.041%) Git (software)
5 1 (2.041%) StyleCop
5 1 (2.041%) MbUnit
5 1 (2.041%) CruiseControl
General
1 7 (14.29%) Telecoms
2 5 (10.20%) Finance
3 1 (2.041%) Advertising
3 1 (2.041%) Retail
Job Titles
1 32 (65.31%) Developer
2 10 (20.41%) .NET Developer
3 9 (18.37%) C# .NET Developer
3 9 (18.37%) C# Developer
3 9 (18.37%) ASP.NET Developer
4 8 (16.33%) C# ASP.NET Developer
5 7 (14.29%) SOA Developer
5 7 (14.29%) SQL Developer
5 7 (14.29%) SQL Server Developer
6 5 (10.20%) Web Developer
6 5 (10.20%) Systems Engineer
7 4 (8.163%) SQL Database Developer
7 4 (8.163%) Database Developer
8 3 (6.122%) Consultant
8 3 (6.122%) Network Engineer
8 3 (6.122%) Deployment Engineer
9 2 (4.082%) Oracle Developer
9 2 (4.082%) ASP Developer
9 2 (4.082%) Server Engineer
9 2 (4.082%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (10.20%) DataPower
3 2 (4.082%) Smart Meter
3 2 (4.082%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 16 (32.65%) Linux
2 11 (22.45%) Windows
3 8 (16.33%) UNIX
4 3 (6.122%) Android
4 3 (6.122%) Apple iOS
5 1 (2.041%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (24.49%) SOA
2 10 (20.41%) Multithreading
3 9 (18.37%) Agile Software Development
4 6 (12.24%) Validation
4 6 (12.24%) Scrum
5 4 (8.163%) Service Delivery
6 3 (6.122%) User Acceptance Testing
6 3 (6.122%) Project Management
6 3 (6.122%) OO
6 3 (6.122%) E-Commerce
6 3 (6.122%) OOD
6 3 (6.122%) E-business
6 3 (6.122%) Content Management
7 2 (4.082%) BPEL
8 1 (2.041%) Responsive Web Design
8 1 (2.041%) Continuous Improvement
8 1 (2.041%) Performance Improvement
8 1 (2.041%) MVVM
8 1 (2.041%) Web Design
8 1 (2.041%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 18 (36.73%) C#
2 8 (16.33%) JavaScript
3 5 (10.20%) Perl
3 5 (10.20%) Java
4 4 (8.163%) XPath
4 4 (8.163%) SQL
5 2 (4.082%) Objective-C
5 2 (4.082%) PHP
5 2 (4.082%) Groovy
6 1 (2.041%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.041%) VB.NET
6 1 (2.041%) C
Qualifications
1 1 (2.041%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 6 (12.24%) MetaFrame
1 6 (12.24%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (12.24%) Tivoli
1 6 (12.24%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 8 (16.33%) TIBCO
2 6 (12.24%) InterSystems
2 6 (12.24%) VMware
2 6 (12.24%) Microsoft
2 6 (12.24%) Citrix
2 6 (12.24%) Cisco
3 5 (10.20%) Oracle
4 3 (6.122%) F5
4 3 (6.122%) Twitter
4 3 (6.122%) IBM
5 1 (2.041%) Facebook
5 1 (2.041%) Cordys
5 1 (2.041%) McAfee
5 1 (2.041%) Google