The first table below looks at the demand for Web Services skills in IT contracts advertised for the Oxford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Web Services over the 3 months to 20 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 Oxford 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Web Services
Rank 32 32 24
Rank change year-on-year
0 -8
Contract jobs citing Web Services 4 4 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 1.818% 1.307% 1.163%
As % of the Application Development category 10.53% 5.195% 3.030%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 2
Average daily rate £450 £356 £308
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+26.31% +15.75%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £346
% change year-on-year
-1.51% -4.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £38.00
% change year-on-year
-7.69% -14.47%
All Application Development
Oxford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
38 77 66
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 17.27% 25.16% 38.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 43 49
Average daily rate £325 £288 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.04% -4.16%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £218 £183
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £550 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 1
Average hourly rate - £30.00 £17.55
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +70.94%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
Web Services
Oxfordshire

Web Services
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxford 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 Oxford region.

Oxford 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 Oxford region.

Oxford Web Services Hourly Rate Trend

Web Services
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 8 (72.73%) Windows
2 6 (54.55%) Microsoft
3 4 (36.36%) MS Excel
3 4 (36.36%) SOA
3 4 (36.36%) IBM
3 4 (36.36%) UNIX
3 4 (36.36%) Middleware
3 4 (36.36%) Linux
3 4 (36.36%) Oracle
3 4 (36.36%) WebLogic
3 4 (36.36%) Firewall
3 4 (36.36%) Incident Management
3 4 (36.36%) WebSphere
3 4 (36.36%) Degree
3 4 (36.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 3 (27.27%) XML
5 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
5 2 (18.18%) IIS
5 2 (18.18%) ASP.NET
5 2 (18.18%) C#
5 2 (18.18%) SQL
5 2 (18.18%) VB
5 2 (18.18%) .NET
5 2 (18.18%) Citrix
5 2 (18.18%) SAN
5 2 (18.18%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (18.18%) Apache
5 2 (18.18%) XSLT
5 2 (18.18%) Amazon ELB
5 2 (18.18%) Team Foundation Server

Web Services
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 (36.36%) Middleware
1 4 (36.36%) WebSphere
2 3 (27.27%) XML
3 2 (18.18%) ASP.NET
3 2 (18.18%) .NET
3 2 (18.18%) XSLT
3 2 (18.18%) WinForms
4 1 (9.091%) Ajax
4 1 (9.091%) JSON
4 1 (9.091%) HTML
4 1 (9.091%) CSS
4 1 (9.091%) XSL
Application Platforms
1 4 (36.36%) WebLogic
1 4 (36.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (18.18%) IIS
2 2 (18.18%) Apache
2 2 (18.18%) Amazon ELB
2 2 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (18.18%) Amazon AWS
Applications
1 4 (36.36%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) Firewall
2 2 (18.18%) SAN
2 2 (18.18%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (9.091%) Selenium
2 1 (9.091%) FitNesse
2 1 (9.091%) Firebug
2 1 (9.091%) Fiddler
2 1 (9.091%) QuickTest Pro
General
1 2 (18.18%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Developer
1 4 (36.36%) Systems Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Middleware Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Systems Administrator
3 2 (18.18%) Administrator
3 2 (18.18%) .NET Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Network Administrator
4 1 (9.091%) Senior Systems Administrator
4 1 (9.091%) Senior Network Administrator
4 1 (9.091%) Web Engineer
4 1 (9.091%) Analyst
4 1 (9.091%) Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 8 (72.73%) Windows
2 4 (36.36%) UNIX
2 4 (36.36%) Linux
3 2 (18.18%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (18.18%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) SOA
1 4 (36.36%) Incident Management
2 2 (18.18%) Release Management
2 2 (18.18%) TDD
2 2 (18.18%) MVC
3 1 (9.091%) Scrum
3 1 (9.091%) Software Testing
3 1 (9.091%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (9.091%) Compatibility Testing
3 1 (9.091%) Integration Testing
3 1 (9.091%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (9.091%) Regression Testing
3 1 (9.091%) Test Strategy
3 1 (9.091%) ITIL
3 1 (9.091%) PRINCE2
3 1 (9.091%) UML
3 1 (9.091%) RAD
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) C#
1 2 (18.18%) SQL
1 2 (18.18%) VB
2 1 (9.091%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) Degree
2 1 (9.091%) ISEB
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Microsoft
2 4 (36.36%) IBM
2 4 (36.36%) Oracle
3 2 (18.18%) Citrix
3 2 (18.18%) VMware