The first table below looks at the demand for SOAP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Suffolk region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SOAP 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 Suffolk 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
Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
Rank 21 36 -
Rank change year-on-year
+15 -
Contract jobs citing SOAP 5 4 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Suffolk 3.571% 1.581% -
As % of the Application Development category 11.63% 7.143% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
Average daily rate £275 £325 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.38% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £338
% change year-on-year
- +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Average hourly rate £35.00 £32.25 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+8.52% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.75 £35.00 £36.00
% change year-on-year
-12.14% -2.77%
All Application Development
Suffolk
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
43 56 86
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Suffolk 30.71% 22.13% 40.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 37 44
Average daily rate £325 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £278 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £365 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
Average hourly rate £35.00 £19.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+79.48% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
SOAP
East of England

SOAP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Suffolk 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 Suffolk region.

Suffolk SOAP Daily Rate Trend

SOAP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Suffolk 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 Suffolk 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
Ipswich - 2 £325 -
Bury St Edmunds - - - -
Felixstowe - - - -
SOAP
East of England

SOAP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Suffolk 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 7 (63.64%) XML
2 5 (45.45%) WCF
3 4 (36.36%) Silverlight
3 4 (36.36%) C#
3 4 (36.36%) .NET
3 4 (36.36%) soapUI
4 3 (27.27%) SQL Server
4 3 (27.27%) XSLT
4 3 (27.27%) Windows
4 3 (27.27%) Web Services
4 3 (27.27%) Use Case
4 3 (27.27%) WPF
4 3 (27.27%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (18.18%) Integration Testing
5 2 (18.18%) Project Planning
5 2 (18.18%) .NET Framework
5 2 (18.18%) LINQ
5 2 (18.18%) Workflow
5 2 (18.18%) Validation
5 2 (18.18%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (18.18%) MVC
5 2 (18.18%) Ajax
5 2 (18.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (18.18%) Oracle
5 2 (18.18%) SOA
5 2 (18.18%) HTTP
5 2 (18.18%) SharePoint
5 2 (18.18%) HTTPS
5 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
5 2 (18.18%) IIS

SOAP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Suffolk 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 7 (63.64%) XML
2 5 (45.45%) WCF
3 4 (36.36%) Silverlight
3 4 (36.36%) .NET
3 4 (36.36%) soapUI
4 3 (27.27%) XSLT
4 3 (27.27%) Web Services
4 3 (27.27%) WPF
5 2 (18.18%) .NET Framework
5 2 (18.18%) LINQ
5 2 (18.18%) Ajax
5 2 (18.18%) ASP.NET
5 2 (18.18%) CSS
5 2 (18.18%) HTML
5 2 (18.18%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 2 (18.18%) Reactive Extensions
5 2 (18.18%) Managed Extensibility Framework
6 1 (9.091%) REST
6 1 (9.091%) JSP
6 1 (9.091%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 2 (18.18%) BizTalk Server
1 2 (18.18%) SharePoint
1 2 (18.18%) IIS
2 1 (9.091%) CICS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) HTTP
1 2 (18.18%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) SQL Server
2 2 (18.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (9.091%) DB2
3 1 (9.091%) TOAD
3 1 (9.091%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (9.091%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (9.091%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1 (9.091%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Tester
3 2 (18.18%) Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Test Analyst
4 1 (9.091%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (9.091%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (9.091%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 1 (9.091%) Software Test Analyst
4 1 (9.091%) Java Developer
4 1 (9.091%) .NET Developer
4 1 (9.091%) C# Developer
4 1 (9.091%) ASP.NET Developer
4 1 (9.091%) Mainframe Developer
4 1 (9.091%) C# ASP.NET Developer
4 1 (9.091%) Validation Engineer
4 1 (9.091%) Senior Validation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.091%) N-Tier
1 1 (9.091%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Windows
2 1 (9.091%) zOS
2 1 (9.091%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (27.27%) Use Case
2 2 (18.18%) Integration Testing
2 2 (18.18%) Project Planning
2 2 (18.18%) Workflow
2 2 (18.18%) Validation
2 2 (18.18%) MVC
2 2 (18.18%) SOA
2 2 (18.18%) MVVM
3 1 (9.091%) Test Strategy
3 1 (9.091%) Waterfall
3 1 (9.091%) Regression Testing
3 1 (9.091%) Test Management
3 1 (9.091%) Test Scripting
3 1 (9.091%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) C#
2 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
2 2 (18.18%) SQL
3 1 (9.091%) VBScript
3 1 (9.091%) VB
3 1 (9.091%) Java
3 1 (9.091%) COBOL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.091%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.091%) Twitter
2 1 (9.091%) Red Hat
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