The first table below looks at the demand for Web Services 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 Web Services 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 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Web Services
Rank 19 32 25
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -7
Contract jobs citing Web Services 10 9 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Suffolk 6.329% 3.516% 4.571%
As % of the Application Development category 17.86% 12.33% 12.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 8 6
Average daily rate £350 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £325 £305
10% offered a daily rate of more than £353 £373 £388
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 £31.50 £32.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year
-3.07% -18.75%
All Application Development
Suffolk
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
56 73 66
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Suffolk 35.44% 28.52% 37.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 52 32
Average daily rate £325 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £275 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £425 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Average hourly rate - £29.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Web Services
East of England

Web Services
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Suffolk 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 Suffolk region.

Suffolk 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 Suffolk region.

Suffolk 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 Suffolk 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
Ipswich +13 8 £350 -17.58%
Web Services
East of England

Web Services
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Suffolk 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 9 (81.82%) C#
1 9 (81.82%) .NET
2 8 (72.73%) WCF
3 7 (63.64%) N-Tier
3 7 (63.64%) HTML
3 7 (63.64%) ASP.NET
3 7 (63.64%) CSS
3 7 (63.64%) Team Foundation Server
3 7 (63.64%) .NET Framework
4 6 (54.55%) Windows
5 5 (45.45%) XML
6 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
7 3 (27.27%) SOAP
7 3 (27.27%) WPF
7 3 (27.27%) Silverlight
8 2 (18.18%) MVVM
8 2 (18.18%) Reactive Extensions
8 2 (18.18%) Managed Extensibility Framework
8 2 (18.18%) SQL
8 2 (18.18%) Project Planning
8 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
8 2 (18.18%) SharePoint
8 2 (18.18%) Workflow
9 1 (9.091%) SolidWorks
9 1 (9.091%) MVC
9 1 (9.091%) XSLT
9 1 (9.091%) JavaScript
9 1 (9.091%) SQL Server
9 1 (9.091%) Ajax
9 1 (9.091%) SQL Server 2005

Web Services
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Suffolk 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 9 (81.82%) .NET
2 8 (72.73%) WCF
3 7 (63.64%) ASP.NET
3 7 (63.64%) CSS
3 7 (63.64%) HTML
3 7 (63.64%) .NET Framework
4 5 (45.45%) XML
5 3 (27.27%) SOAP
5 3 (27.27%) WPF
5 3 (27.27%) Silverlight
6 2 (18.18%) Reactive Extensions
6 2 (18.18%) Managed Extensibility Framework
7 1 (9.091%) WF
7 1 (9.091%) LINQ
7 1 (9.091%) jQuery
7 1 (9.091%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
7 1 (9.091%) XSLT
7 1 (9.091%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 2 (18.18%) SharePoint
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.091%) SQL Server
1 1 (9.091%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (9.091%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (9.091%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (9.091%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 7 (63.64%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (9.091%) Talend Open Studio
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Developer
2 6 (54.55%) C# ASP.NET Developer
2 6 (54.55%) .NET Developer
2 6 (54.55%) C# Developer
2 6 (54.55%) ASP.NET Developer
2 6 (54.55%) C# .NET Developer
3 2 (18.18%) SQL Developer
3 2 (18.18%) HTML Developer
3 2 (18.18%) CSS Developer
4 1 (9.091%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 7 (63.64%) N-Tier
2 1 (9.091%) Data Integration
Operating Systems
1 6 (54.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (18.18%) Workflow
1 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
1 2 (18.18%) Project Planning
1 2 (18.18%) MVVM
2 1 (9.091%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) C#
2 2 (18.18%) SQL
3 1 (9.091%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.091%) SolidWorks
2 1 (9.091%) Talend
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