The first table below looks at the demand for SOAP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Wales 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 Wales 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 40 43 59
Rank change year-on-year
+3 +16
Contract jobs citing SOAP 6 13 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wales 1.288% 2.189% 0.564%
As % of the Application Development category 7.500% 8.025% 2.151%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 3
Average daily rate £319 £430 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-25.81% +7.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £306 £399 £340
10% offered a daily rate of more than £366 £440 £440
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £338
% change year-on-year
- +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.75 £35.00 £36.00
% change year-on-year
-12.14% -2.77%
All Application Development
Wales
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
80 162 186
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wales 17.17% 27.27% 26.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 68 81
Average daily rate £322 £315 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.23% -3.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £235 £225 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 9
Average hourly rate £37.50 £25.00 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+50.00% -41.17%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
SOAP
UK

SOAP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wales 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 Wales region.

Wales SOAP Daily 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 Wales 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
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Job
Vacancies
South Wales - 5 £325 - 3
SOAP
UK

SOAP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wales 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 8 (88.89%) SQL
2 5 (55.56%) XML
2 5 (55.56%) Windows
2 5 (55.56%) C#
2 5 (55.56%) .NET
2 5 (55.56%) SQL Server
2 5 (55.56%) XSLT
2 5 (55.56%) MVC
2 5 (55.56%) Web Development
2 5 (55.56%) .NET Framework
2 5 (55.56%) WCF
2 5 (55.56%) Team Foundation Server
2 5 (55.56%) Security Cleared
3 4 (44.44%) Windows Server 2008
3 4 (44.44%) Windows Server 2012
3 4 (44.44%) SharePoint 2010
3 4 (44.44%) WF
3 4 (44.44%) HL7
3 4 (44.44%) Degree
3 4 (44.44%) Workflow
3 4 (44.44%) UNIX
3 4 (44.44%) BizTalk Server
3 4 (44.44%) Shell Script
3 4 (44.44%) SharePoint
3 4 (44.44%) FoxPro (VFP)
3 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
3 4 (44.44%) LoadRunner
3 4 (44.44%) Visual Studio
3 4 (44.44%) HTML
3 4 (44.44%) C

SOAP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wales 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 5 (55.56%) XML
1 5 (55.56%) .NET
1 5 (55.56%) XSLT
1 5 (55.56%) .NET Framework
1 5 (55.56%) WCF
2 4 (44.44%) WF
2 4 (44.44%) HTML
3 1 (11.11%) NHibernate
3 1 (11.11%) Apache FOP
3 1 (11.11%) Java SE
3 1 (11.11%) WPF
3 1 (11.11%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 1 (11.11%) REST
3 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET
3 1 (11.11%) Web Services
3 1 (11.11%) XSD
Application Platforms
1 4 (44.44%) SharePoint 2010
1 4 (44.44%) BizTalk Server
1 4 (44.44%) SharePoint
2 1 (11.11%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) SQL Server
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (11.11%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 5 (55.56%) Team Foundation Server
2 4 (44.44%) LoadRunner
2 4 (44.44%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Developer
2 4 (44.44%) Performance Tester
2 4 (44.44%) Tester
3 3 (33.33%) Software Developer
4 2 (22.22%) Senior Developer
4 2 (22.22%) .NET Developer
4 2 (22.22%) Senior Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 5 (55.56%) Windows
2 4 (44.44%) Windows Server 2008
2 4 (44.44%) Windows Server 2012
2 4 (44.44%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) MVC
1 5 (55.56%) Web Development
2 4 (44.44%) Workflow
3 1 (11.11%) TDD
3 1 (11.11%) Service Delivery
3 1 (11.11%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) SQL
2 5 (55.56%) C#
3 4 (44.44%) Shell Script
3 4 (44.44%) FoxPro (VFP)
3 4 (44.44%) C
3 4 (44.44%) Perl
4 2 (22.22%) Java
5 1 (11.11%) Python
5 1 (11.11%) VB.NET
5 1 (11.11%) Jython
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 4 (44.44%) Degree
3 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) HL7
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
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