The first table below looks at the demand for JAX-WS skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited JAX-WS over the 3 months to 17 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.

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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java API for XML Web Services (JAX-WS)
Rank 514 562 564
Rank change year-on-year
+48 +2
Contract jobs citing JAX-WS 16 16 24
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.034% 0.027% 0.039%
As % of the Application Development category 0.126% 0.107% 0.142%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 14 10
Average daily rate £400 £380 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.26% +4.82%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £302 £240 £199
10% offered a daily rate of more than £473 £491 £465
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £350 £325
% change year-on-year
+7.14% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £42.50
All Application Development
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
12713 14910 16863
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 27.40% 25.58% 27.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 7958 8755 9793
Average daily rate £375 £350 £393
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -10.82%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 375 374 576
Average hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -9.72%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.33 £15.00 £19.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £42.10 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%

JAX-WS
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing JAX-WS within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

JAX-WS Jobs Demand Trend

JAX-WS
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing JAX-WS within the UK.

JAX-WS Daily Rate Trend

JAX-WS
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing JAX-WS within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

JAX-WS Daily Rate Histogram

JAX-WS
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing JAX-WS within the UK.

JAX-WS Hourly Rate Trend

JAX-WS
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JAX-WS within the UK over the 3 months to 17 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
Scotland - 10 £425 -
Edinburgh - 6 £400 -
England +37 5 £363 -4.60%
London +19 3 £425 -12.82%
City of London +12 2 £463 -11.90%
Dalkeith - 2 - -
Midlothian - 2 - -
North West +14 1 - -
Cheshire +5 1 - -
Hammersmith +3 1 £200 -56.16%
West Wales - 1 £322 -
Wales - 1 £322 -
Swansea - 1 £322 -
Glasgow - 1 £450 -

JAX-WS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing JAX-WS 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 JAX-WS.

1 18 (78.26%) Java
2 10 (43.48%) JUnit
2 10 (43.48%) Web Services
2 10 (43.48%) Maven
2 10 (43.48%) WebSphere
2 10 (43.48%) Java EE
3 9 (39.13%) Ant
3 9 (39.13%) Spring
3 9 (39.13%) JAXB
4 8 (34.78%) JSF
4 8 (34.78%) SOA
5 7 (30.43%) J2EE
5 7 (30.43%) IBM
6 6 (26.09%) Hibernate
6 6 (26.09%) XML
6 6 (26.09%) XSD
6 6 (26.09%) LDAP
6 6 (26.09%) Git (software)
6 6 (26.09%) soapUI
6 6 (26.09%) Jenkins
7 5 (21.74%) Unit Testing
7 5 (21.74%) JPA
7 5 (21.74%) Linux
7 5 (21.74%) XSLT
7 5 (21.74%) WebLogic
7 5 (21.74%) HTTP
8 4 (17.39%) Lotus
8 4 (17.39%) Tivoli
8 4 (17.39%) Agile Software Development
8 4 (17.39%) Content Management

JAX-WS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing JAX-WS 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 JAX-WS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 10 (43.48%) Web Services
1 10 (43.48%) WebSphere
1 10 (43.48%) Java EE
2 9 (39.13%) JAXB
2 9 (39.13%) Spring
3 8 (34.78%) JSF
4 7 (30.43%) J2EE
5 6 (26.09%) XML
5 6 (26.09%) XSD
5 6 (26.09%) soapUI
5 6 (26.09%) Hibernate
6 5 (21.74%) JPA
6 5 (21.74%) XSLT
7 4 (17.39%) JSR 286
8 3 (13.04%) RESTful
8 3 (13.04%) JMS
8 3 (13.04%) SOAP
9 2 (8.696%) XSL
9 2 (8.696%) WSDL
9 2 (8.696%) EJB
Application Platforms
1 5 (21.74%) WebLogic
2 4 (17.39%) FileNet
2 4 (17.39%) ESB
2 4 (17.39%) WebSphere Portal
2 4 (17.39%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (8.696%) Mule
3 2 (8.696%) Apache
3 2 (8.696%) Tomcat
4 1 (4.348%) nginx
4 1 (4.348%) Force.com
Communications & Networking
1 6 (26.09%) LDAP
2 5 (21.74%) HTTP
3 1 (4.348%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (17.39%) DB2
2 2 (8.696%) Oracle 10g
3 1 (4.348%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (4.348%) Oracle 11g
3 1 (4.348%) SQL Server 2012
3 1 (4.348%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (43.48%) JUnit
1 10 (43.48%) Maven
2 9 (39.13%) Ant
3 6 (26.09%) Git (software)
3 6 (26.09%) Jenkins
4 4 (17.39%) Rational Application Developer
5 3 (13.04%) Subversion
6 2 (8.696%) Eclipse
7 1 (4.348%) JMeter
7 1 (4.348%) Hudson
7 1 (4.348%) JIRA
7 1 (4.348%) FishEye
General
1 1 (4.348%) Finance
1 1 (4.348%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 21 (91.30%) Developer
2 14 (60.87%) Java Developer
3 4 (17.39%) WebSphere Developer
4 3 (13.04%) Java/J2EE Developer
4 3 (13.04%) J2EE Developer
5 2 (8.696%) Software Developer
5 2 (8.696%) Web Developer
6 1 (4.348%) Java Web Developer
6 1 (4.348%) Java Architect
6 1 (4.348%) Architect
6 1 (4.348%) Software Engineer
6 1 (4.348%) Technical Architect
6 1 (4.348%) Java Software Engineer
6 1 (4.348%) Java Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 5 (21.74%) Linux
2 1 (4.348%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (34.78%) SOA
2 5 (21.74%) Unit Testing
3 4 (17.39%) Content Management
3 4 (17.39%) RAD
3 4 (17.39%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (8.696%) E-Commerce
4 2 (8.696%) Identity Management
4 2 (8.696%) MVC
4 2 (8.696%) UML
4 2 (8.696%) Release Management
4 2 (8.696%) Multithreading
5 1 (4.348%) Web Application Development
5 1 (4.348%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (4.348%) Business Analysis
5 1 (4.348%) Scrum
5 1 (4.348%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 18 (78.26%) Java
2 4 (17.39%) SQL
3 1 (4.348%) Python
3 1 (4.348%) XPath
3 1 (4.348%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.348%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (4.348%) SC Cleared
1 1 (4.348%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (17.39%) Tivoli Directory Server
2 2 (8.696%) ClearTrust
Systems Management
1 4 (17.39%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 7 (30.43%) IBM
2 4 (17.39%) Lotus
2 4 (17.39%) Oracle
3 2 (8.696%) JBoss
4 1 (4.348%) Salesforce.com