West Lothian SOAP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) skills within the West Lothian region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited SOAP over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
Location Aylesbury Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bridgend Brighton Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Coventry Croydon Devon Docklands, London East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Hendon Hertfordshire Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Reading Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stevenage Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwick Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Woking Worthing Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£383	£357
% change on same period last year	+7.40 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.09	£30.73
% change on same period last year	+4.44 %
Application Development West Lothian
Matching contract IT job ads	11	5
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.015 %	0.005 %
Daily rates quoted	5	0
Average minimum daily rate	£314	-
Average daily rate	£347	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£381	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£336
% change on same period last year	+1.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.78	£33.23
% change on same period last year	-1.32 %
SOAP Scotland

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

SOAP
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing SOAP across the West Lothian region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.