The first table below looks at the demand for soapUI 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 soapUI over the 3 months to 18 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 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Eviware soapUI
Rank 69 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing soapUI 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.229% - -
As % of the Application Development category 1.036% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £338
% change year-on-year
- +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.13 £32.25 -
% change year-on-year
+15.13% -
All Application Development
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
193 170 216
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 22.06% 14.77% 21.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 64 103
Average daily rate £375 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £223 £250 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 6
Average hourly rate £15.00 £19.00 £16.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-21.05% +15.15%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.00 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+12.90% -13.16%
soapUI
Berkshire

soapUI
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading soapUI Jobs Demand Trend

soapUI
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing soapUI across the Reading region.

Reading soapUI Daily Rate Trend

soapUI
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing soapUI 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 soapUI.

1 5 (100.00%) SOAP
1 5 (100.00%) XML
1 5 (100.00%) REST
2 4 (80.00%) DbVisualizer
2 4 (80.00%) HP Quality Center
2 4 (80.00%) Groovy
2 4 (80.00%) Web Services
2 4 (80.00%) Handset
2 4 (80.00%) Software Testing
3 3 (60.00%) ISEB
3 3 (60.00%) WebSphere
3 3 (60.00%) Shell Script
3 3 (60.00%) WebSphere Application Server
3 3 (60.00%) UNIX
3 3 (60.00%) System Testing
3 3 (60.00%) ISTQB
3 3 (60.00%) Web Testing
4 2 (40.00%) Test Scripting
4 2 (40.00%) Waterfall
4 2 (40.00%) Cucumber
4 2 (40.00%) Java
5 1 (20.00%) SQL
5 1 (20.00%) .NET
5 1 (20.00%) Oracle
5 1 (20.00%) WebLogic
5 1 (20.00%) IIS
5 1 (20.00%) Linux
5 1 (20.00%) Apache
5 1 (20.00%) Tomcat
5 1 (20.00%) LDAP

soapUI
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing soapUI 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 soapUI. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (100.00%) SOAP
1 5 (100.00%) XML
1 5 (100.00%) REST
2 4 (80.00%) Web Services
3 3 (60.00%) WebSphere
4 1 (20.00%) .NET
4 1 (20.00%) WSDL
4 1 (20.00%) SAML
Application Platforms
1 3 (60.00%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (20.00%) WebLogic
2 1 (20.00%) IIS
2 1 (20.00%) Apache
2 1 (20.00%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) DbVisualizer
2 1 (20.00%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (20.00%) LoadRunner
2 1 (20.00%) JProfiler
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Analyst
1 3 (60.00%) Test Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Test Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Integration Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Handset
2 1 (20.00%) Statistics
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle Exalogic
2 1 (20.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) UNIX
2 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Software Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Web Testing
2 3 (60.00%) System Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Waterfall
3 2 (40.00%) Test Scripting
4 1 (20.00%) Web Development
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Mobile Application Development
4 1 (20.00%) Product Marketing
4 1 (20.00%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Groovy
2 3 (60.00%) Shell Script
3 2 (40.00%) Java
4 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) ISEB
1 3 (60.00%) ISTQB
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle