Web Services Contracts in Wales
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Web Services 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 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 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
20 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Web Services
Rank 37 9 26
Rank change year-on-year
-28 +17
Contract jobs citing Web Services 6 55 32
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wales 1.456% 9.839% 4.977%
As % of the Application Development category 6.818% 39.86% 19.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 22 12
Average daily rate £322 £418 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-22.86% +23.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £239 £325 £278
10% offered a daily rate of more than £333 £475 £441
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
-7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 6
Average hourly rate £17.00 - £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £32.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year
-3.07% -18.75%
All Application Development
Wales
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category		 88 138 164
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wales 21.36% 24.69% 25.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 59 63
Average daily rate £325 £325 £349
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -6.74%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £397 £440 £513
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 13
Average hourly rate £35.00 £27.50 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+27.27% -35.29%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Web Services
UK

Web Services
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wales 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 Wales region.

Wales 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 Wales region.

Wales 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 Wales 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
South Wales -2 5 £283 -16.60%
West Wales -8 1 £322 -26.81%
Web Services
UK

Web Services
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wales 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 23 (51.11%) Java
2 20 (44.44%) SQL
2 20 (44.44%) XML
3 16 (35.56%) Agile Software Development
3 16 (35.56%) Spring
4 15 (33.33%) Hibernate
4 15 (33.33%) Security Cleared
5 14 (31.11%) XSD
5 14 (31.11%) XSLT
5 14 (31.11%) CSS
6 13 (28.89%) J2EE
7 12 (26.67%) JSF
8 11 (24.44%) Liferay
8 11 (24.44%) Oracle
9 10 (22.22%) ClearQuest
9 10 (22.22%) ClearCase
10 9 (20.00%) SAX
10 9 (20.00%) SQL Server
10 9 (20.00%) WebLogic
10 9 (20.00%) DOM
10 9 (20.00%) UML
10 9 (20.00%) .NET
10 9 (20.00%) XPath
11 8 (17.78%) Windows
11 8 (17.78%) PL/SQL
11 8 (17.78%) C#
11 8 (17.78%) WebLogic Portal
11 8 (17.78%) JAXP
11 8 (17.78%) Eclipse
12 7 (15.56%) SAP

Web Services
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wales 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 20 (44.44%) XML
2 16 (35.56%) Spring
3 15 (33.33%) Hibernate
4 14 (31.11%) XSD
4 14 (31.11%) CSS
4 14 (31.11%) XSLT
5 13 (28.89%) J2EE
6 12 (26.67%) JSF
7 9 (20.00%) .NET
7 9 (20.00%) DOM
7 9 (20.00%) SAX
8 8 (17.78%) JAXP
9 6 (13.33%) HTML
9 6 (13.33%) .NET Framework
9 6 (13.33%) WCF
9 6 (13.33%) WPF
9 6 (13.33%) RESTful
10 5 (11.11%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
10 5 (11.11%) WSDL
11 4 (8.889%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 11 (24.44%) Liferay
2 9 (20.00%) WebLogic
3 8 (17.78%) WebLogic Portal
4 4 (8.889%) CMS
4 4 (8.889%) ESB
5 3 (6.667%) LiveLink
6 2 (4.444%) Joomla!
6 2 (4.444%) MQSeries
6 2 (4.444%) WordPress
7 1 (2.222%) Kentico
7 1 (2.222%) WebSphere MQ
7 1 (2.222%) IIS
7 1 (2.222%) Apache
7 1 (2.222%) WebSphere Message Broker
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.444%) HTTPS
1 2 (4.444%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (13.33%) MySQL
3 2 (4.444%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (2.222%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.222%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.222%) Oracle 10g
4 1 (2.222%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.222%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (2.222%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 10 (22.22%) ClearCase
1 10 (22.22%) ClearQuest
2 8 (17.78%) Eclipse
3 2 (4.444%) Ant
3 2 (4.444%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (4.444%) Cucumber
3 2 (4.444%) Hudson
4 1 (2.222%) Mockito
4 1 (2.222%) JUnit
General
1 3 (6.667%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 29 (64.44%) Developer
2 14 (31.11%) Java Developer
3 9 (20.00%) Lead Developer
4 8 (17.78%) Lead Java Developer
5 5 (11.11%) C# Developer
6 4 (8.889%) .NET Developer
6 4 (8.889%) Consultant
6 4 (8.889%) Designer
6 4 (8.889%) SOA Designer
7 3 (6.667%) C# .NET Developer
8 2 (4.444%) Java Engineer
8 2 (4.444%) SOA Architect
8 2 (4.444%) PHP Developer
8 2 (4.444%) Functional Architect
8 2 (4.444%) Architect
8 2 (4.444%) Integration Architect
8 2 (4.444%) Software Engineer
8 2 (4.444%) Web Developer
8 2 (4.444%) Java Software Engineer
9 1 (2.222%) Database Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.889%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (4.444%) Mainframe
2 2 (4.444%) Clustering
2 2 (4.444%) DataPower
2 2 (4.444%) Open Source
3 1 (2.222%) Social Media
3 1 (2.222%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.222%) Web 2.0
3 1 (2.222%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 8 (17.78%) Windows
2 4 (8.889%) UNIX
3 2 (4.444%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (35.56%) Agile Software Development
2 9 (20.00%) UML
3 7 (15.56%) TDD
4 5 (11.11%) E-Commerce
4 5 (11.11%) SOA
5 4 (8.889%) Web Development
5 4 (8.889%) MVVM
6 3 (6.667%) Content Management
6 3 (6.667%) OO
6 3 (6.667%) Scrum
7 2 (4.444%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (4.444%) MVC
7 2 (4.444%) EAI
7 2 (4.444%) OOP
8 1 (2.222%) Validation
8 1 (2.222%) Migration
8 1 (2.222%) Change Management
8 1 (2.222%) Kanban
8 1 (2.222%) Data Migration
8 1 (2.222%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 23 (51.11%) Java
2 20 (44.44%) SQL
3 9 (20.00%) XPath
4 8 (17.78%) C#
4 8 (17.78%) PL/SQL
5 5 (11.11%) JavaScript
5 5 (11.11%) PHP
6 3 (6.667%) ABAP
6 3 (6.667%) Ruby
7 2 (4.444%) Korn
7 2 (4.444%) PHP5
7 2 (4.444%) VB.NET
8 1 (2.222%) XAML
8 1 (2.222%) Scala
Qualifications
1 15 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 6 (13.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.222%) BC Cleared
Vendors
1 11 (24.44%) Oracle
2 7 (15.56%) SAP
3 5 (11.11%) Open Text
4 4 (8.889%) Cordys
5 2 (4.444%) Microsoft
5 2 (4.444%) i2
5 2 (4.444%) JDA
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