SOAP Contracts in Reading
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for SOAP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SOAP over the 3 months to 23 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 Reading 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
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
Rank 59 72 79
Rank change year-on-year
+13 +7
Contract jobs citing SOAP 6 7 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.715% 0.628% 0.281%
As % of the Application Development category 2.913% 4.294% 1.220%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
Average daily rate £375 - £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £330
% change year-on-year
- +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £36.25
% change year-on-year
-14.28% -3.44%
All Application Development
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category		 206 163 246
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 24.55% 14.62% 23.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 60 117
Average daily rate £375 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £250 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £488 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 9
Average hourly rate £15.00 £15.00 £19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -23.07%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
SOAP
Berkshire

SOAP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading SOAP Daily Rate Trend

SOAP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 8 (72.73%) Web Services
1 8 (72.73%) XML
2 7 (63.64%) REST
3 5 (45.45%) soapUI
3 5 (45.45%) Java
3 5 (45.45%) jQuery
4 4 (36.36%) Groovy
4 4 (36.36%) Software Testing
4 4 (36.36%) Handset
4 4 (36.36%) JavaScript
4 4 (36.36%) .NET
4 4 (36.36%) HP Quality Center
4 4 (36.36%) DbVisualizer
5 3 (27.27%) HTML
5 3 (27.27%) SQL Server
5 3 (27.27%) WebSphere Application Server
5 3 (27.27%) UNIX
5 3 (27.27%) ASP.NET
5 3 (27.27%) CSS
5 3 (27.27%) ISEB
5 3 (27.27%) Shell Script
5 3 (27.27%) Finance
5 3 (27.27%) ISTQB
5 3 (27.27%) WebSphere
5 3 (27.27%) System Testing
5 3 (27.27%) Web Testing
6 2 (18.18%) Android
6 2 (18.18%) Web Development
6 2 (18.18%) Degree
6 2 (18.18%) JSON

SOAP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 8 (72.73%) Web Services
1 8 (72.73%) XML
2 7 (63.64%) REST
3 5 (45.45%) soapUI
3 5 (45.45%) jQuery
4 4 (36.36%) .NET
5 3 (27.27%) HTML
5 3 (27.27%) ASP.NET
5 3 (27.27%) CSS
5 3 (27.27%) WebSphere
6 2 (18.18%) JSON
6 2 (18.18%) Spring
6 2 (18.18%) Ajax
6 2 (18.18%) Struts
6 2 (18.18%) Unity DI Container
6 2 (18.18%) ASP.NET MVC 4
6 2 (18.18%) ASP.NET MVC
6 2 (18.18%) HTML5
6 2 (18.18%) CSS3
6 2 (18.18%) Sencha Touch
Application Platforms
1 3 (27.27%) WebSphere Application Server
2 2 (18.18%) CMS
2 2 (18.18%) MSMQ
3 1 (9.091%) WebLogic
3 1 (9.091%) IIS
3 1 (9.091%) Apache
3 1 (9.091%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (9.091%) MS Office
1 1 (9.091%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.091%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) DbVisualizer
2 3 (27.27%) SQL Server
3 1 (9.091%) TOAD
3 1 (9.091%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Subversion
1 2 (18.18%) Eclipse
1 2 (18.18%) SpecFlow
2 1 (9.091%) JProfiler
2 1 (9.091%) Cucumber
2 1 (9.091%) NuGet
2 1 (9.091%) LoadRunner
General
1 3 (27.27%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Publishing
3 1 (9.091%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Developer
2 2 (18.18%) .NET Programmer
2 2 (18.18%) Programmer
2 2 (18.18%) .NET Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Test Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) ASP.NET Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Test Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Web Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Mobile Applications Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Mobile Developer
2 2 (18.18%) ASP.NET Programmer
3 1 (9.091%) Integration Specialist
3 1 (9.091%) Applications Developer
3 1 (9.091%) Web Applications Developer
3 1 (9.091%) Performance Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Tester
3 1 (9.091%) Performance Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Handset
2 2 (18.18%) Smartphone
2 2 (18.18%) Blackberry
2 2 (18.18%) Mobile App
3 1 (9.091%) Oracle Exalogic
3 1 (9.091%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) UNIX
2 2 (18.18%) Android
2 2 (18.18%) Windows
2 2 (18.18%) Windows 8
2 2 (18.18%) Apple iOS
3 1 (9.091%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Software Testing
2 3 (27.27%) System Testing
2 3 (27.27%) Web Testing
3 2 (18.18%) Web Development
3 2 (18.18%) TDD
3 2 (18.18%) Content Management
3 2 (18.18%) MVC
3 2 (18.18%) OO
3 2 (18.18%) Web Application Development
3 2 (18.18%) Domain-Driven Design
4 1 (9.091%) Waterfall
4 1 (9.091%) BDD
4 1 (9.091%) Mobile Application Development
4 1 (9.091%) SOA
4 1 (9.091%) Data Management
4 1 (9.091%) Product Marketing
4 1 (9.091%) Time Management
4 1 (9.091%) Test Scripting
4 1 (9.091%) Performance Testing
4 1 (9.091%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) Java
2 4 (36.36%) Groovy
2 4 (36.36%) JavaScript
3 3 (27.27%) Shell Script
4 2 (18.18%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) ISEB
1 3 (27.27%) ISTQB
2 2 (18.18%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.091%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Sencha
2 1 (9.091%) Oracle
2 1 (9.091%) Microsoft
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