The first table below looks at the demand for WSDL skills in IT jobs advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WSDL 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 West Midlands region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Web Services Description Language (WSDL)
Rank 203 172 163
Rank change year-on-year
-31 -9
Permanent jobs citing WSDL 1 14 9
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.020% 0.310% 0.220%
As % of the Application Development category 0.050% 0.726% 0.573%
Number of salaries quoted 0 11 9
Average salary - £27,000 £34,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -20.58%
UK excluding London average salary £33,250 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-16.87% +6.66%
All Application Development
West Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
2009 1928 1570
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 40.73% 42.71% 38.39%
Number of salaries quoted 1796 1732 1439
Average salary £36,000 £36,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +2.85%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £25,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
WSDL
England

WSDL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands WSDL Jobs Demand Trend

WSDL
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing WSDL across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands WSDL Salary Trend

WSDL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands region citing WSDL 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 IT job ads sampled that cited WSDL.

1 5 (100.00%) C#
1 5 (100.00%) .NET
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 5 (100.00%) Web Services
2 4 (80.00%) Workflow
2 4 (80.00%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (80.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 4 (80.00%) SOAP
2 4 (80.00%) OO
2 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (60.00%) CRM
3 3 (60.00%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (60.00%) Telecoms
4 2 (40.00%) MVC
5 1 (20.00%) RDBMS
5 1 (20.00%) Apple
5 1 (20.00%) Windows
5 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET
5 1 (20.00%) CSS
5 1 (20.00%) Oracle
5 1 (20.00%) HTML
5 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (20.00%) jQuery
5 1 (20.00%) Android
5 1 (20.00%) iPhone
5 1 (20.00%) User Experience Design
5 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (20.00%) Apple iOS
5 1 (20.00%) Mobile App
5 1 (20.00%) Mobile Application Development

WSDL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands region citing WSDL also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited WSDL. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (100.00%) .NET
1 5 (100.00%) Web Services
2 4 (80.00%) SOAP
3 1 (20.00%) HTML
3 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET
3 1 (20.00%) CSS
3 1 (20.00%) jQuery
3 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC
Business Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Dynamics CRM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (20.00%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 3 (60.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) .NET Developer
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Web Developer
2 1 (20.00%) C# Developer
2 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET Developer
2 1 (20.00%) .NET Web Developer
2 1 (20.00%) C# Web Developer
2 1 (20.00%) C# ASP.NET Developer
2 1 (20.00%) C# .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) iPhone
1 1 (20.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Android
1 1 (20.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Workflow
1 4 (80.00%) Agile Software Development
1 4 (80.00%) OO
2 3 (60.00%) CRM
3 2 (40.00%) MVC
4 1 (20.00%) Systems Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) User Experience Design
4 1 (20.00%) Mobile Application Development
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) C#
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) Objective-C
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Apple
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle