The first table below looks at the demand for Web Services skills in IT contracts advertised for the Somerset region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Web Services over the 3 months to 19 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 Somerset 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Web Services
Rank 15 26 24
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -2
Contract jobs citing Web Services 20 5 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 10.93% 2.890% 6.220%
As % of the Application Development category 33.90% 8.621% 12.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 4 6
Average daily rate £305 £230 £280
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+32.60% -17.85%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £350
% change year-on-year
-1.51% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year
-7.69% -18.75%
All Application Development
Somerset
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
59 58 101
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 32.24% 33.53% 48.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 30 61
Average daily rate £320 £333 £280
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.75% +18.75%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £230 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £458 £413 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 2
Average hourly rate £19.00 £25.00 £17.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-24.00% +40.84%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
Web Services
South West

Web Services
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Somerset 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 Somerset region.

Somerset 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 Somerset region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Somerset 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 Somerset region.

Somerset 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 Somerset region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Taunton - 7 £325 -
Bridgwater - 5 £310 -
Bath +1 4 £263 +14.13% 1
Web Services
South West

Web Services
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset 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 19 (76.00%) JavaScript
2 18 (72.00%) HTML
3 17 (68.00%) Java
3 17 (68.00%) CSS
4 16 (64.00%) .NET
5 15 (60.00%) ASP.NET
5 15 (60.00%) MVC
6 14 (56.00%) TDD
6 14 (56.00%) ASP
6 14 (56.00%) C#
7 13 (52.00%) SQL
7 13 (52.00%) Retail
8 9 (36.00%) Spring
8 9 (36.00%) Spring MVC
8 9 (36.00%) Scrum
9 8 (32.00%) J2EE
10 7 (28.00%) Microsoft
10 7 (28.00%) SQL Server
10 7 (28.00%) VB
10 7 (28.00%) Web Development
10 7 (28.00%) Product Management
10 7 (28.00%) Agile Software Development
11 5 (20.00%) JUnit
12 4 (16.00%) MySQL
12 4 (16.00%) PHP
12 4 (16.00%) Refactoring
12 4 (16.00%) Symfony
12 4 (16.00%) Zend
12 4 (16.00%) CodeIgniter
13 3 (12.00%) JCAPS

Web Services
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset 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 18 (72.00%) HTML
2 17 (68.00%) CSS
3 16 (64.00%) .NET
4 15 (60.00%) ASP.NET
5 14 (56.00%) ASP
6 9 (36.00%) Spring
6 9 (36.00%) Spring MVC
7 8 (32.00%) J2EE
8 4 (16.00%) Symfony
8 4 (16.00%) CodeIgniter
9 3 (12.00%) EJB
9 3 (12.00%) XSLT
10 2 (8.000%) WCF
10 2 (8.000%) HTML5
11 1 (4.000%) REST
11 1 (4.000%) RESTful
11 1 (4.000%) JSON
11 1 (4.000%) .NET Framework
11 1 (4.000%) SOAP
11 1 (4.000%) ADO.NET
Application Platforms
1 3 (12.00%) JCAPS
2 1 (4.000%) SharePoint
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.000%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (28.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (16.00%) MySQL
3 1 (4.000%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (20.00%) JUnit
2 1 (4.000%) Rhino Mocks
2 1 (4.000%) MSBuild
2 1 (4.000%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.000%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (4.000%) MSTest
2 1 (4.000%) Subversion
2 1 (4.000%) NUnit
2 1 (4.000%) Visual Studio
General
1 13 (52.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (76.00%) Developer
2 8 (32.00%) Web Developer
3 5 (20.00%) Java Developer
3 5 (20.00%) .NET Developer
3 5 (20.00%) Software Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) Applications Developer
4 4 (16.00%) PHP Developer
4 4 (16.00%) Web Applications Developer
4 4 (16.00%) PHP Web Developer
4 4 (16.00%) PHP MySQL Developer
5 3 (12.00%) JCAPS Developer
5 3 (12.00%) .NET Software Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) C# Software Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) Java Software Engineer
6 2 (8.000%) Senior Developer
6 2 (8.000%) ASP Developer
6 2 (8.000%) ASP.NET Developer
6 2 (8.000%) C# Developer
6 2 (8.000%) C# ASP.NET Developer
6 2 (8.000%) Classic ASP Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.000%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (60.00%) MVC
2 14 (56.00%) TDD
3 9 (36.00%) Scrum
4 7 (28.00%) Web Development
4 7 (28.00%) Product Management
4 7 (28.00%) Agile Software Development
5 4 (16.00%) Refactoring
6 3 (12.00%) BPEL
7 1 (4.000%) Kanban
7 1 (4.000%) Technical Architecture
7 1 (4.000%) Workflow
7 1 (4.000%) OOP
7 1 (4.000%) OO
7 1 (4.000%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 19 (76.00%) JavaScript
2 17 (68.00%) Java
3 14 (56.00%) C#
4 13 (52.00%) SQL
5 7 (28.00%) VB
6 4 (16.00%) PHP
7 1 (4.000%) VB.NET
7 1 (4.000%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (8.000%) Degree
2 1 (4.000%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.000%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 7 (28.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (16.00%) Zend
3 3 (12.00%) Altova
4 1 (4.000%) Oracle
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