The first table below looks at the demand for SOAP skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SOAP 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 for the West Midlands 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
Rank 80 86 59
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -27
Contract jobs citing SOAP 15 17 35
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.909% 0.762% 1.847%
As % of the Application Development category 3.741% 3.097% 7.415%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 26
Average daily rate £301 £301 £280
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +7.32%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £270 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £340 £370 £300
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £333
% change year-on-year
- +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £28.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £32.25 £36.00
% change year-on-year
-6.97% -10.41%
All Application Development
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
401 549 472
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 24.29% 24.61% 24.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 301 256
Average daily rate £300 £300 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £235 £218 £247
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £400 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 14 23
Average hourly rate £28.50 £16.50 £18.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+72.72% -9.58%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.00 £12.50 £11.88
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.00 £37.50 £25.27
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
SOAP
England

SOAP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

West Midlands SOAP Daily Rate Trend

SOAP
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SOAP across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands SOAP Hourly 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 West Midlands region 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
Birmingham +7 4 - -
Coventry -3 4 £250 -37.50%
Solihull +1 2 £350 -
SOAP
England

SOAP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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 22 (88.00%) .NET
2 21 (84.00%) C#
2 21 (84.00%) SQL Server
2 21 (84.00%) Web Services
3 15 (60.00%) WSDL
4 13 (52.00%) Agile Software Development
4 13 (52.00%) Microsoft
5 12 (48.00%) Workflow
6 11 (44.00%) Windows
6 11 (44.00%) OO
7 9 (36.00%) JavaScript
7 9 (36.00%) SQL
8 8 (32.00%) HTML
8 8 (32.00%) ASP.NET
8 8 (32.00%) CSS
8 8 (32.00%) Telecoms
8 8 (32.00%) MVC
8 8 (32.00%) jQuery
9 6 (24.00%) Team Foundation Server
10 5 (20.00%) HTML5
10 5 (20.00%) XML
10 5 (20.00%) FTP
11 4 (16.00%) JSON
11 4 (16.00%) WCF
11 4 (16.00%) Subversion
12 3 (12.00%) WinForms
12 3 (12.00%) WPF
12 3 (12.00%) ASP.NET MVC
12 3 (12.00%) Unit Testing
12 3 (12.00%) Degree

SOAP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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 22 (88.00%) .NET
2 21 (84.00%) Web Services
3 15 (60.00%) WSDL
4 8 (32.00%) ASP.NET
4 8 (32.00%) CSS
4 8 (32.00%) jQuery
4 8 (32.00%) HTML
5 5 (20.00%) HTML5
5 5 (20.00%) XML
6 4 (16.00%) JSON
6 4 (16.00%) WCF
7 3 (12.00%) WPF
7 3 (12.00%) REST
7 3 (12.00%) ASP.NET MVC
7 3 (12.00%) WinForms
8 2 (8.000%) Ajax
8 2 (8.000%) WebSphere
8 2 (8.000%) ASP.NET MVC 3
8 2 (8.000%) JMS
8 2 (8.000%) JDBC
Application Platforms
1 3 (12.00%) CMS
2 2 (8.000%) IBM HTTP Server
2 2 (8.000%) WebSphere Process Server
2 2 (8.000%) ESB
2 2 (8.000%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (4.000%) WebSphere MQ
Applications
1 2 (8.000%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (8.000%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 5 (20.00%) FTP
2 3 (12.00%) HTTP
3 1 (4.000%) SNMP
3 1 (4.000%) TCP/IP
3 1 (4.000%) DNS
3 1 (4.000%) HTTPS
3 1 (4.000%) IIOP
3 1 (4.000%) SSL
3 1 (4.000%) IPv6
3 1 (4.000%) LDAP
3 1 (4.000%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (84.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (8.000%) DB2
3 1 (4.000%) Oracle 10g
3 1 (4.000%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 6 (24.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 4 (16.00%) Subversion
General
1 8 (32.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (4.000%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 22 (88.00%) Developer
2 15 (60.00%) .NET Developer
3 2 (8.000%) Consultant
3 2 (8.000%) WebSphere Consultant
4 1 (4.000%) .NET Analyst Programmer
4 1 (4.000%) .NET Software Engineer
4 1 (4.000%) .NET Programmer
4 1 (4.000%) Microsoft Developer
4 1 (4.000%) WebSphere Architect
4 1 (4.000%) C# ASP.NET Developer
4 1 (4.000%) Lead .NET Developer
4 1 (4.000%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (4.000%) Applications Developer
4 1 (4.000%) Senior Developer
4 1 (4.000%) Analyst Programmer
4 1 (4.000%) Programmer
4 1 (4.000%) Lead Developer
4 1 (4.000%) Analyst
4 1 (4.000%) Web Developer
4 1 (4.000%) Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.000%) W3C
1 1 (4.000%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 11 (44.00%) Windows
2 2 (8.000%) Linux
2 2 (8.000%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (52.00%) Agile Software Development
2 12 (48.00%) Workflow
3 11 (44.00%) OO
4 8 (32.00%) MVC
5 3 (12.00%) E-Commerce
5 3 (12.00%) SOA
5 3 (12.00%) Unit Testing
6 2 (8.000%) Data Management
6 2 (8.000%) CRM
7 1 (4.000%) SEO
7 1 (4.000%) Migration
7 1 (4.000%) BPEL
7 1 (4.000%) Time Management
7 1 (4.000%) Information Architecture
7 1 (4.000%) Root Cause Analysis
7 1 (4.000%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 21 (84.00%) C#
2 9 (36.00%) JavaScript
2 9 (36.00%) SQL
3 3 (12.00%) T-SQL
3 3 (12.00%) VB.NET
3 3 (12.00%) XAML
4 2 (8.000%) Java
5 1 (4.000%) PHP
5 1 (4.000%) PL/SQL
5 1 (4.000%) Jython
Qualifications
1 3 (12.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (4.000%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.000%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 13 (52.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.000%) Red Hat
2 2 (8.000%) IBM
3 1 (4.000%) Oracle
3 1 (4.000%) Business Objects
3 1 (4.000%) VMware
3 1 (4.000%) Zend
3 1 (4.000%) Cordys