The first table below looks at the demand for Web Services skills in IT contracts advertised for the Staffordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Web Services over the 3 months to 22 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 Staffordshire 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Web Services
Rank 19 26 34
Rank change year-on-year
+7 +8
Contract jobs citing Web Services 1 11 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Staffordshire 1.149% 5.000% 2.857%
As % of the Application Development category 4.000% 14.47% 5.505%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 3
Average daily rate - £300 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +9.09%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
-7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.25 £32.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year
-0.76% -18.75%
All Application Development
Staffordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
25 76 109
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Staffordshire 28.74% 34.55% 51.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 33 66
Average daily rate £325 £325 £325
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £330 £382 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Average hourly rate £15.31 £16.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-4.31% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Web Services
West Midlands

Web Services
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire region.

Staffordshire Web Services Daily Rate Trend

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 Staffordshire region.

Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire region over the 3 months to 22 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
Stoke-on-Trent +7 1 - -
Web Services
West Midlands

Web Services
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire 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 7 (87.50%) JavaScript
2 5 (62.50%) ActionScript
2 5 (62.50%) Photoshop
2 5 (62.50%) HTML
2 5 (62.50%) CSS
2 5 (62.50%) OO
2 5 (62.50%) Flash
2 5 (62.50%) Adobe
2 5 (62.50%) Flash Builder
2 5 (62.50%) ActionScript 3.0
3 4 (50.00%) HTML5
3 4 (50.00%) OOD
3 4 (50.00%) Graphic Design
4 2 (25.00%) ASP.NET
4 2 (25.00%) .NET
4 2 (25.00%) C#
5 1 (12.50%) C++
5 1 (12.50%) VB.NET
5 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
5 1 (12.50%) VBA
5 1 (12.50%) MS Office
5 1 (12.50%) N-Tier
5 1 (12.50%) TDD
5 1 (12.50%) Telerik
5 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (12.50%) Automated Testing
5 1 (12.50%) SQL Server 2005
5 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (12.50%) Web Development
5 1 (12.50%) .NET Framework

Web Services
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire 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 5 (62.50%) HTML
1 5 (62.50%) CSS
1 5 (62.50%) Flash
2 4 (50.00%) HTML5
3 2 (25.00%) ASP.NET
3 2 (25.00%) .NET
4 1 (12.50%) .NET Framework
4 1 (12.50%) WCF
4 1 (12.50%) WPF
4 1 (12.50%) Silverlight
4 1 (12.50%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
Applications
1 5 (62.50%) Photoshop
2 1 (12.50%) MS Office
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) Flash Builder
General
1 1 (12.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Designer
1 4 (50.00%) Developer
1 4 (50.00%) Programmer
1 4 (50.00%) Flash Designer
1 4 (50.00%) Flash Programmer
2 2 (25.00%) .NET Developer
3 1 (12.50%) C# Developer
3 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Flash Developer
3 1 (12.50%) C# ASP.NET Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Mobile Developer
3 1 (12.50%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Flash ActionScript Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Graphic Design
2 1 (12.50%) N-Tier
2 1 (12.50%) RIA
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Android
1 1 (12.50%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) OO
2 4 (50.00%) OOD
3 1 (12.50%) TDD
3 1 (12.50%) Automated Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Web Development
3 1 (12.50%) MVC
3 1 (12.50%) MVVM
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) JavaScript
2 5 (62.50%) ActionScript
2 5 (62.50%) ActionScript 3.0
3 2 (25.00%) C#
4 1 (12.50%) C++
4 1 (12.50%) VB.NET
4 1 (12.50%) VBA
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Adobe
2 1 (12.50%) Telerik
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft