The first table below looks at the demand for SOAP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Preston region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SOAP 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 Preston 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
Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
Rank - 23 4
Contract jobs citing SOAP 0 5 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Preston - 2.841% 12.50%
As % of the Application Development category - 7.353% 66.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 2
Average daily rate - £465 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +43.07%
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 £32.25 £36.00
% change year-on-year
-6.97% -10.41%
All Application Development
Preston
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
8 68 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Preston 16.33% 38.64% 18.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 61 2
Average daily rate £300 £380 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-21.05% +26.66%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £135.37 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
SOAP
Lancashire

SOAP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Preston 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 Preston region.

Preston 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 Preston region.

Preston SOAP Hourly Rate Trend

SOAP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Preston 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 4 (100.00%) C#
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 4 (100.00%) XSD
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) WSDL
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (100.00%) MVC
1 4 (100.00%) WCF
1 4 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (75.00%) Mobile App
2 3 (75.00%) Mobile Application Development
2 3 (75.00%) Workflow
2 3 (75.00%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (75.00%) TDD
2 3 (75.00%) Requirements Analysis
2 3 (75.00%) UML
2 3 (75.00%) OO
3 2 (50.00%) ADO.NET
3 2 (50.00%) Web Services
3 2 (50.00%) XML
3 2 (50.00%) IIS
3 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 2 (50.00%) VB
3 2 (50.00%) VB.NET
3 2 (50.00%) .NET Framework
3 2 (50.00%) VB6
3 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 7
3 2 (50.00%) Web Application Development

SOAP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Preston 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 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) XSD
1 4 (100.00%) WSDL
1 4 (100.00%) WCF
2 2 (50.00%) WPF
2 2 (50.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 2 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 2 (50.00%) ADO.NET
2 2 (50.00%) Web Services
2 2 (50.00%) XML
3 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
3 1 (25.00%) Java EE
3 1 (25.00%) Ninject
3 1 (25.00%) RESTful
3 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) IIS
2 1 (25.00%) ESB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 7
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (25.00%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) .NET Developer
3 1 (25.00%) C# Developer
3 1 (25.00%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (25.00%) WPF Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (75.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) MVC
2 3 (75.00%) Workflow
2 3 (75.00%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (75.00%) TDD
2 3 (75.00%) Requirements Analysis
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (75.00%) UML
2 3 (75.00%) OO
2 3 (75.00%) Mobile Application Development
3 2 (50.00%) Document Management
3 2 (50.00%) Dependency Injection
3 2 (50.00%) Web Application Development
4 1 (25.00%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) VB
2 2 (50.00%) VB.NET
2 2 (50.00%) VB6
3 1 (25.00%) Java
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft