The first table below looks at the demand for SOAP skills in IT contracts advertised for the South West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SOAP over the 3 months to 20 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 South West 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 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
Rank 100 111 109
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -2
Contract jobs citing SOAP 17 29 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 0.827% 0.882% 0.363%
As % of the Application Development category 3.520% 3.685% 1.610%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 16 1
Average daily rate £350 £374 £230
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.35% +62.50%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £336
% change year-on-year
- +4.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Average hourly rate £24.50 £25.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.00% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £32.25 £36.00
% change year-on-year
-6.97% -10.41%
All Application Development
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
483 787 621
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 23.50% 23.94% 22.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 304 476 275
Average daily rate £325 £338 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.70% +8.87%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £240 £205
10% offered a daily rate of more than £458 £475 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 23 36
Average hourly rate £24.50 £25.00 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.00% -23.07%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.20 £10.00 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £54.50 £41.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
SOAP
England

SOAP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West 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 South West region.

South West SOAP Daily Rate Trend

SOAP
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SOAP across the South West region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

South West SOAP Daily Rate Histogram

SOAP
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SOAP across the South West region.

South West SOAP Hourly Rate Trend

SOAP
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOAP within the South West region over the 3 months to 20 May 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
Devon - 7 £350 -
Bristol +5 3 £315 -17.10%
Dorset - 3 £250 -
Gloucestershire +28 2 £500 -
Somerset - 1 £465 -
SOAP
England

SOAP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 19 (52.78%) Oracle
2 18 (50.00%) XML
3 16 (44.44%) Web Services
3 16 (44.44%) Oracle 11g
4 15 (41.67%) Oracle Service Bus
4 15 (41.67%) Middleware
5 14 (38.89%) REST
6 12 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
6 12 (33.33%) SOA
7 11 (30.56%) Java
8 9 (25.00%) Finance
8 9 (25.00%) Security Cleared
9 8 (22.22%) MQSeries
9 8 (22.22%) Linux
10 7 (19.44%) JavaBeans
10 7 (19.44%) C
10 7 (19.44%) JUnit
10 7 (19.44%) EJB
10 7 (19.44%) JBoss
10 7 (19.44%) TDD
10 7 (19.44%) AquaLogic
10 7 (19.44%) DV Cleared
10 7 (19.44%) Git (software)
11 6 (16.67%) AquaLogic Service Bus
11 6 (16.67%) JavaScript
12 5 (13.89%) WSDL
12 5 (13.89%) MVC
12 5 (13.89%) Degree
13 4 (11.11%) WCF
13 4 (11.11%) Ajax

SOAP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 18 (50.00%) XML
2 16 (44.44%) Web Services
3 15 (41.67%) Middleware
4 14 (38.89%) REST
5 7 (19.44%) JavaBeans
5 7 (19.44%) EJB
6 5 (13.89%) WSDL
7 4 (11.11%) Ajax
7 4 (11.11%) WCF
7 4 (11.11%) HTML
7 4 (11.11%) .NET
8 3 (8.333%) CSS
8 3 (8.333%) ASP.NET
8 3 (8.333%) jQuery
9 2 (5.556%) Google Maps API
9 2 (5.556%) .NET Framework
9 2 (5.556%) Oracle ADF
9 2 (5.556%) Spring
10 1 (2.778%) CSS3
10 1 (2.778%) Hibernate
Application Platforms
1 15 (41.67%) Oracle Service Bus
2 8 (22.22%) MQSeries
3 7 (19.44%) AquaLogic
4 6 (16.67%) AquaLogic Service Bus
5 3 (8.333%) SharePoint
6 2 (5.556%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (5.556%) ESB
7 1 (2.778%) WebSphere Message Broker
7 1 (2.778%) Mule
7 1 (2.778%) WordPress
7 1 (2.778%) Windows Azure
7 1 (2.778%) SharePoint 2010
7 1 (2.778%) Kentico
7 1 (2.778%) Rendezvous
7 1 (2.778%) CMS
7 1 (2.778%) WebSphere Process Server
7 1 (2.778%) TIBCO EMS
7 1 (2.778%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (2.778%) IIS
7 1 (2.778%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (2.778%) MS Office
1 1 (2.778%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.778%) BusinessWorks
1 1 (2.778%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.778%) Temenos T24
1 1 (2.778%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.556%) HTTP
1 2 (5.556%) Internet
2 1 (2.778%) IMAP
2 1 (2.778%) POP3
2 1 (2.778%) SMTP
2 1 (2.778%) DNS
2 1 (2.778%) HTTPS
2 1 (2.778%) IIOP
2 1 (2.778%) SSL
2 1 (2.778%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (44.44%) Oracle 11g
2 3 (8.333%) SQL Server 2005
2 3 (8.333%) MySQL
2 3 (8.333%) SQL Server
3 2 (5.556%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (2.778%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (2.778%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 7 (19.44%) JUnit
1 7 (19.44%) Git (software)
2 2 (5.556%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (5.556%) Eclipse
2 2 (5.556%) JDeveloper
2 2 (5.556%) NetBeans
3 1 (2.778%) Subversion
3 1 (2.778%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (2.778%) Visual Studio
3 1 (2.778%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 1 (2.778%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (2.778%) Rational Rose
General
1 9 (25.00%) Finance
2 2 (5.556%) Back Office
3 1 (2.778%) Banking
Job Titles
1 30 (83.33%) Developer
2 11 (30.56%) Oracle Developer
3 8 (22.22%) Senior Developer
3 8 (22.22%) Analyst
4 7 (19.44%) Service Analyst
4 7 (19.44%) Oracle Analyst
5 6 (16.67%) Architect
6 5 (13.89%) Analyst Developer
7 4 (11.11%) Java Developer
7 4 (11.11%) Senior Architect
8 2 (5.556%) Senior Software Developer
8 2 (5.556%) Oracle Analyst Programmer
8 2 (5.556%) Analyst Programmer
8 2 (5.556%) Programmer
8 2 (5.556%) Software Developer
8 2 (5.556%) Consultant
8 2 (5.556%) Technical Architect
9 1 (2.778%) Web Developer
9 1 (2.778%) Business Analyst
9 1 (2.778%) ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.778%) Streaming Media
1 1 (2.778%) DataPower
1 1 (2.778%) PaaS
1 1 (2.778%) IaaS
1 1 (2.778%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 8 (22.22%) Linux
2 2 (5.556%) UNIX
3 1 (2.778%) Windows
3 1 (2.778%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (2.778%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (33.33%) SOA
1 12 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
2 7 (19.44%) TDD
3 5 (13.89%) MVC
4 4 (11.11%) OO
4 4 (11.11%) Waterfall
5 3 (8.333%) Configuration Management
6 2 (5.556%) E-Commerce
6 2 (5.556%) B2B
7 1 (2.778%) B2C
7 1 (2.778%) Scrum
7 1 (2.778%) Web Design
7 1 (2.778%) OOP
7 1 (2.778%) CRM
7 1 (2.778%) Content Management
7 1 (2.778%) Systems Analysis
7 1 (2.778%) Business Analysis
7 1 (2.778%) Technical Architecture
7 1 (2.778%) Refactoring
7 1 (2.778%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (30.56%) Java
2 7 (19.44%) C
3 6 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 4 (11.11%) SQL
5 3 (8.333%) C#
6 2 (5.556%) PHP
6 2 (5.556%) PL/SQL
7 1 (2.778%) T-SQL
7 1 (2.778%) ActionScript
7 1 (2.778%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.778%) PHP5
7 1 (2.778%) ActionScript 3.0
7 1 (2.778%) ActionScript 2.0
7 1 (2.778%) C++
Qualifications
1 9 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (19.44%) DV Cleared
3 5 (13.89%) Degree
4 2 (5.556%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.778%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.778%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (2.778%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 19 (52.78%) Oracle
2 7 (19.44%) JBoss
3 3 (8.333%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.556%) Google
5 1 (2.778%) Wall Street Systems
5 1 (2.778%) Sitecore
5 1 (2.778%) Facebook
5 1 (2.778%) Twitter
5 1 (2.778%) Temenos
5 1 (2.778%) BEA
5 1 (2.778%) ILOG
5 1 (2.778%) TIBCO
5 1 (2.778%) webMethods
5 1 (2.778%) Mercator
5 1 (2.778%) IBM