The first table below looks at the demand for Web Services skills in IT contracts advertised for the Worcestershire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Web Services over the 3 months to 17 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 Worcestershire 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 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Web Services
Rank 12 7 16
Rank change year-on-year
-5 +9
Contract jobs citing Web Services 8 6 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Worcestershire 9.524% 10.71% 4.225%
As % of the Application Development category 33.33% 33.33% 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 0
Average daily rate £342 £300 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.83% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £344
% change year-on-year
- -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £25.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year
-7.69% -18.75%
All Application Development
Worcestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
24 18 21
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Worcestershire 28.57% 32.14% 29.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 10 12
Average daily rate £342 £190 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+79.73% -39.20%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £282 £190 £263
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £305 £420
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.00 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+12.90% -13.16%
Web Services
West Midlands

Web Services
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Worcestershire 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 Worcestershire region.

Worcestershire 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 Worcestershire region.

Worcestershire 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 Worcestershire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Worcester +3 7 £316 +66.18% 5
Redditch - 1 £375 -
Web Services
West Midlands

Web Services
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Worcestershire 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 16 (88.89%) SQL Server
2 12 (66.67%) OO
3 11 (61.11%) ASP.NET
3 11 (61.11%) C#
3 11 (61.11%) .NET
3 11 (61.11%) ASP.NET MVC
4 10 (55.56%) ASP.NET MVC 2
5 9 (50.00%) MVC
5 9 (50.00%) UML
5 9 (50.00%) N-Tier
6 8 (44.44%) SQL Server 2005
6 8 (44.44%) Web Development
7 7 (38.89%) E-Commerce
8 6 (33.33%) PRINCE2
8 6 (33.33%) Web Analytics
8 6 (33.33%) Analytics
8 6 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
8 6 (33.33%) Content Management
8 6 (33.33%) SEO
9 5 (27.78%) Team Foundation Server
9 5 (27.78%) Data Protection
9 5 (27.78%) SQL Server 2008
9 5 (27.78%) T-SQL
9 5 (27.78%) Mercator
10 4 (22.22%) SQL
10 4 (22.22%) .NET Framework
10 4 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (22.22%) CMS
11 3 (16.67%) Workflow
11 3 (16.67%) Incident Management

Web Services
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Worcestershire 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 11 (61.11%) .NET
1 11 (61.11%) ASP.NET
1 11 (61.11%) ASP.NET MVC
2 10 (55.56%) ASP.NET MVC 2
3 4 (22.22%) .NET Framework
4 3 (16.67%) HTML
4 3 (16.67%) jQuery
5 2 (11.11%) Django
5 2 (11.11%) CSS
6 1 (5.556%) XML
6 1 (5.556%) XSLT
6 1 (5.556%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 4 (22.22%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) Internet
2 1 (5.556%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (88.89%) SQL Server
2 8 (44.44%) SQL Server 2005
3 5 (27.78%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (11.11%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (27.78%) Team Foundation Server
Job Titles
1 11 (61.11%) Developer
2 8 (44.44%) .NET Developer
3 6 (33.33%) Web Developer
4 5 (27.78%) DBA
4 5 (27.78%) SQL Server DBA
4 5 (27.78%) SQL DBA
5 3 (16.67%) .NET Web Developer
6 2 (11.11%) Software Engineer
6 2 (11.11%) ASP.NET Developer
6 2 (11.11%) C# Developer
7 1 (5.556%) Senior Web Developer
7 1 (5.556%) Senior Developer
7 1 (5.556%) CMS Developer
7 1 (5.556%) C# .NET Developer
7 1 (5.556%) E-Commerce Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (50.00%) N-Tier
2 2 (11.11%) VLE
2 2 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (66.67%) OO
2 9 (50.00%) UML
2 9 (50.00%) MVC
3 8 (44.44%) Web Development
4 7 (38.89%) E-Commerce
5 6 (33.33%) PRINCE2
5 6 (33.33%) SEO
5 6 (33.33%) Analytics
5 6 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
5 6 (33.33%) Content Management
5 6 (33.33%) Web Analytics
6 5 (27.78%) Data Protection
7 4 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (16.67%) Incident Management
8 3 (16.67%) Workflow
8 3 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
9 2 (11.11%) Information Architecture
10 1 (5.556%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 11 (61.11%) C#
2 5 (27.78%) T-SQL
3 4 (22.22%) SQL
4 3 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 2 (11.11%) PHP
5 2 (11.11%) Python
6 1 (5.556%) VB.NET
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) Mercator
2 2 (11.11%) SAP
3 1 (5.556%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.556%) Oracle
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