Web Services Description Language (WSDL)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for WSDL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited WSDL over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 593 700 811
Rank change year-on-year +107 +111 -180
Contract jobs citing WSDL 5 19 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.012% 0.032% 0.043%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.056% 0.14% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 27
10th Percentile £485 £435 £390
25th Percentile £575 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% +37.50%
75th Percentile £625 £538 £688
90th Percentile - £542 £735
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £525 £476
% change year-on-year +14.29% +10.41% +18.88%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

WSDL is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,876 13,931 24,130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.50% 23.29% 27.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,162 10,182 17,689
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £660
90th Percentile £767 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 153 242
10th Percentile £20.91 £31.60 £21.10
25th Percentile £39.98 £48.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £64.94
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.85 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +32.65% +8.89%

WSDL
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing WSDL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for WSDL in the UK

WSDL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing WSDL.

Daily rate trend for WSDL in the UK

WSDL
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WSDL over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for WSDL in the UK

WSDL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing WSDL.

Hourly rate trend for WSDL in the UK

WSDL
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WSDL within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +118 5 £600 +17.07% 6
UK excluding London +58 3 £600 +14.29% 1
Midlands - 3 £600 - 1
West Midlands - 3 £600 - 1
London +97 2 £598 +13.81% 5

WSDL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) WebLogic
1 1 (20.00%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 3 (60.00%) NetSuite
2 1 (20.00%) BusinessWorks
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Boomi
2 2 (40.00%) iPaaS
3 1 (20.00%) Azure
3 1 (20.00%) SaaS
3 1 (20.00%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) MySQL
1 3 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Integration Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Consultant
3 1 (20.00%) Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Java Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Java Solutions Architect
3 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow Consultant
3 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) SOAP
2 4 (80.00%) JSON
2 4 (80.00%) XML
3 3 (60.00%) REST
3 3 (60.00%) XSD
3 3 (60.00%) XSLT
4 2 (40.00%) Web Services
5 1 (20.00%) Ajax
5 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
5 1 (20.00%) CSS
5 1 (20.00%) DHTML
5 1 (20.00%) EJB
5 1 (20.00%) HTML
5 1 (20.00%) J2EE
5 1 (20.00%) JAX-WS
5 1 (20.00%) LDAP
5 1 (20.00%) Rendezvous
5 1 (20.00%) SAML
5 1 (20.00%) TIBCO EMS
5 1 (20.00%) XHTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (20.00%) Client/Server
1 1 (20.00%) CMDB
1 1 (20.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Integration Patterns
3 2 (40.00%) CRM
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) ERP
3 2 (40.00%) SOA
3 2 (40.00%) Workflow
4 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) Clean Code
4 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
4 1 (20.00%) Design Patterns
4 1 (20.00%) ETL
4 1 (20.00%) IT Asset Management
4 1 (20.00%) ITIL
4 1 (20.00%) ITSM
4 1 (20.00%) Logistics
4 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) SDLC
4 1 (20.00%) TDD
4 1 (20.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Groovy
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) Perl
2 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (20.00%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Salesforce
2 2 (40.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (20.00%) SAP
3 1 (20.00%) TIBCO