Web Services Contracts in the South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Web Services skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Web Services over the 3 months to 29 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Web Services England / South East
Location	3 months to 29 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	33	33	42
Rank change year-on-year	0	+9
Contract jobs citing Web Services	430	474	381
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East	5.57%	5.32%	4.04%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category	20.41%	19.92%	15.83%
Number of daily rates quoted	286	329	246
Median daily rate	£400	£450	£393
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	-11.11%	+14.64%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£306	£313	£300
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£538	£589	£500
UK excluding London median daily rate	£405	£400	£375
% change year-on-year	+1.25%	+6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted	8	15	5
Median hourly rate	£45.00	£44.50	£26.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+1.12%	+71.15%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£40.00	£29.50	£17.65
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£53.51	£59.31	£28.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£40.00	£36.25	£37.80
% change year-on-year	+10.34%	-4.10%

Web Services is in the industry standards, technical specifications and software library and framework skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for industry standards, technical specifications and software library and framework skills.

Contract Software Library & Framework Skills South East
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for industry standards, technical specifications and software library and framework skills	2107	2379	2407
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South East	27.29%	26.70%	25.51%
Number of daily rates quoted	5871	5543	5677
Median daily rate	£403	£400	£363
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+0.62%	+10.34%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£306	£281	£263
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£538	£538	£475
UK excluding London median daily rate	£395	£375	£350
% change year-on-year	+5.33%	+7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted	126	192	68
Median hourly rate	£42.50	£43.00	£40.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-1.16%	+7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£19.38	£12.25	£15.58
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£48.75	£57.50	£50.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£42.50	£36.00	£40.00
% change year-on-year	+18.05%	-10.00%

Web Services
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Web Services as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Web Services in the South East

Web Services
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Web Services in the South East.

Contractor daily rate trend for Web Services in the South East

Web Services
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Web Services in the South East over the 3 months to 29 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Web Services in the South East

Web Services
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Web Services in the South East.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Web Services in the South East

Web Services
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing Web Services in the South East over the 3 months to 29 June 2017.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for Web Services in the South East

Web Services
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Web Services within the South East region over the 3 months to 29 June 2017. 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	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
Surrey	+1	95	£425	-5.55%	22
Hampshire	-2	84	£395	+8.96%	35
Berkshire	+15	68	£400	-	28
Buckinghamshire	+6	64	£350	-	18
Kent	+11	45	£345	-54.00%	4
Oxfordshire	-18	41	£450	-5.26%	23
East Sussex	+5	20	£338	-3.57%	3
West Sussex	-13	15	£445	-1.11%	4
Middlesex	-8	1	£325	-27.77%
Web Services England

Web Services
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in the South East

For the 6 months to 29 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing Web Services also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the South East region with a requirement for Web Services.

1	366 (41.50%)	Agile Software Development
2	352 (39.91%)	Java
3	336 (38.10%)	SQL
4	285 (32.31%)	REST
5	255 (28.91%)	XML
6	251 (28.46%)	.NET
7	228 (25.85%)	JavaScript
8	225 (25.51%)	Oracle
9	205 (23.24%)	SQL Server
10	196 (22.22%)	TDD
11	184 (20.86%)	C#
12	180 (20.41%)	SOAP
13	177 (20.07%)	Finance
14	171 (19.39%)	HTML
15	170 (19.27%)	Git (software)

16	166 (18.82%)	Continuous Integration
17	163 (18.48%)	Microsoft
18	157 (17.80%)	Scrum
19	155 (17.57%)	CSS
19	155 (17.57%)	Linux
20	147 (16.67%)	Python
21	136 (15.42%)	RESTful
22	133 (15.08%)	Test Automation
22	133 (15.08%)	Amazon AWS
23	132 (14.97%)	OO
24	131 (14.85%)	MVC
25	127 (14.40%)	Spring
26	124 (14.06%)	Relational Database
27	120 (13.61%)	Team Foundation Server
28	119 (13.49%)	Jenkins

Web Services
Co-occurring IT Skills in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	69 (7.82%)	JBoss
2	44 (4.99%)	CMS
3	40 (4.54%)	IIS
4	39 (4.42%)	WebLogic
5	38 (4.31%)	Oracle SOA Suite
6	32 (3.63%)	WebSphere
7	27 (3.06%)	Tomcat
8	26 (2.95%)	Sitecore CMS
9	25 (2.83%)	Apache
10	24 (2.72%)	Confluence
11	22 (2.49%)	SharePoint
12	20 (2.27%)	WebSphere Application Server
13	16 (1.81%)	Elasticsearch
14	13 (1.47%)	NServiceBus
15	12 (1.36%)	WildFly
16	9 (1.02%)	Apache Solr
16	9 (1.02%)	Oracle Workflow
17	8 (0.91%)	OpenStack
18	7 (0.79%)	ATG Dynamo
19	6 (0.68%)	SharePoint 2013

Applications
1	7 (0.79%)	Microsoft Office
2	3 (0.34%)	MS Visio
2	3 (0.34%)	Spreadsheet
3	2 (0.23%)	Microsoft Project
4	1 (0.11%)	Microsoft Excel

Business Applications
1	22 (2.49%)	Dynamics CRM
2	12 (1.36%)	Oracle BPM
3	10 (1.13%)	Magento
4	7 (0.79%)	Remedy ITSM
5	6 (0.68%)	BusinessWorks
5	6 (0.68%)	Salesforce.com CRM
6	4 (0.45%)	Oracle 11i
6	4 (0.45%)	Oracle Applications
6	4 (0.45%)	Oracle EBS
7	3 (0.34%)	Oracle Receivables
7	3 (0.34%)	Remedy AR System
7	3 (0.34%)	SAP Oil and Gas
8	1 (0.11%)	BASE24
8	1 (0.11%)	Dynamics AX
8	1 (0.11%)	IBM Operational Decision Manager
8	1 (0.11%)	Postilion
8	1 (0.11%)	SAP ERP
8	1 (0.11%)	SAP R/3

Cloud Services
1	133 (15.08%)	Amazon AWS
2	64 (7.26%)	Microsoft Azure
3	25 (2.83%)	Google Cloud Platform
3	25 (2.83%)	PaaS
3	25 (2.83%)	SaaS
4	24 (2.72%)	Google App Engine
5	23 (2.61%)	IaaS
6	22 (2.49%)	Google Compute Engine
7	18 (2.04%)	GitHub
8	11 (1.25%)	Amazon EC2
9	10 (1.13%)	OpenShift
10	9 (1.02%)	AWS Lambda
11	8 (0.91%)	Amazon S3
12	7 (0.79%)	Amazon CloudWatch
12	7 (0.79%)	Amazon SQS
12	7 (0.79%)	CloudFront
12	7 (0.79%)	Office 365
13	6 (0.68%)	Amazon ElastiCache
13	6 (0.68%)	AWS CloudFormation
13	6 (0.68%)	Cloud Computing

Communications & Networking
1	37 (4.20%)	Internet
2	34 (3.85%)	HTTP
3	21 (2.38%)	LDAP
4	18 (2.04%)	SSL
5	15 (1.70%)	DNS
6	14 (1.59%)	SSH
7	11 (1.25%)	TCP/IP
8	9 (1.02%)	Firewall
8	9 (1.02%)	MVNO
8	9 (1.02%)	SMTP
9	8 (0.91%)	Diameter Protocol
9	8 (0.91%)	INAP
9	8 (0.91%)	Intelligent Network
9	8 (0.91%)	Network Security
9	8 (0.91%)	SNMP
9	8 (0.91%)	SS7
10	7 (0.79%)	VPN
11	6 (0.68%)	Kerberos
11	6 (0.68%)	WAN
12	4 (0.45%)	BGP

Database & Business Intelligence
1	205 (23.24%)	SQL Server
2	124 (14.06%)	Relational Database
3	95 (10.77%)	Oracle Database
4	54 (6.12%)	SQL Server Integration Services
5	41 (4.65%)	Oracle Database 11g
5	41 (4.65%)	SQL Server 2008
6	38 (4.31%)	Data Warehouse
7	34 (3.85%)	Oracle Database 10g
8	30 (3.40%)	Oracle Database 12c
9	27 (3.06%)	MySQL
9	27 (3.06%)	NoSQL
9	27 (3.06%)	SQL Server 2012
10	24 (2.72%)	MongoDB
11	20 (2.27%)	PostgreSQL
12	18 (2.04%)	RDBMS
13	15 (1.70%)	SQL Server 2016
14	14 (1.59%)	BusinessObjects
14	14 (1.59%)	Redis
15	13 (1.47%)	Oracle Reports
15	13 (1.47%)	SQL Server 2014

Development Applications
1	170 (19.27%)	Git (software)
2	120 (13.61%)	Team Foundation Server
3	119 (13.49%)	Jenkins
4	106 (12.02%)	Maven
5	93 (10.54%)	JIRA
6	59 (6.69%)	Selenium
7	47 (5.33%)	Subversion
8	41 (4.65%)	Eclipse
8	41 (4.65%)	JUnit
9	39 (4.42%)	Gradle
10	38 (4.31%)	Visual Studio
11	36 (4.08%)	Ant
12	24 (2.72%)	Cucumber
13	20 (2.27%)	Protractor
14	18 (2.04%)	IntelliJ
14	18 (2.04%)	Mockito
14	18 (2.04%)	SpecFlow
14	18 (2.04%)	TeamCity
15	14 (1.59%)	Bitbucket
15	14 (1.59%)	SoapUI

General
1	177 (20.07%)	Finance
2	43 (4.88%)	Banking
3	29 (3.29%)	Retail
4	27 (3.06%)	Telecoms
5	23 (2.61%)	Publishing
6	11 (1.25%)	Corporate Banking
7	10 (1.13%)	Back Office
8	7 (0.79%)	Law
9	5 (0.57%)	Electronics
9	5 (0.57%)	Investment Banking
9	5 (0.57%)	Legal
10	4 (0.45%)	Financial Institution
10	4 (0.45%)	Manufacturing
10	4 (0.45%)	Marketing
11	2 (0.23%)	Games
11	2 (0.23%)	Local Government
12	1 (0.11%)	Advertising
12	1 (0.11%)	Automotive
12	1 (0.11%)	Billing
12	1 (0.11%)	Retail Banking

Job Titles
1	541 (61.34%)	Developer
2	165 (18.71%)	Java Developer
3	146 (16.55%)	.NET Developer
4	106 (12.02%)	Analyst
5	79 (8.96%)	C# Developer
6	73 (8.28%)	C# .NET Developer
7	70 (7.94%)	Systems Analyst
8	57 (6.46%)	Web Developer
9	46 (5.22%)	SQL Developer
9	46 (5.22%)	Tester
10	44 (4.99%)	Architect
11	43 (4.88%)	Oracle Analyst
12	42 (4.76%)	Pensions Analyst
13	40 (4.54%)	Senior Developer
14	33 (3.74%)	Insurance Systems Analyst
15	32 (3.63%)	Python Developer
15	32 (3.63%)	Technical Analyst
16	31 (3.51%)	Sitecore Developer
17	30 (3.40%)	Django Developer
17	30 (3.40%)	Python/Django Developer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	285 (32.31%)	REST
2	255 (28.91%)	XML
3	251 (28.46%)	.NET
4	180 (20.41%)	SOAP
5	171 (19.39%)	HTML
6	155 (17.57%)	CSS
7	136 (15.42%)	RESTful
8	127 (14.40%)	Spring
9	114 (12.93%)	.NET Framework
10	107 (12.13%)	AngularJS
11	101 (11.45%)	JSON
12	81 (9.18%)	Entity Framework
13	77 (8.73%)	ASP.NET
14	69 (7.82%)	WCF
15	62 (7.03%)	Hibernate
16	58 (6.58%)	ASP.NET Web API
16	58 (6.58%)	HTML5
17	53 (6.01%)	jQuery
18	51 (5.78%)	Ajax
18	51 (5.78%)	LINQ

Miscellaneous
1	79 (8.96%)	Analytical Skills
2	56 (6.35%)	Algorithms
2	56 (6.35%)	Mobile App
3	28 (3.17%)	Greenfield Project
4	17 (1.93%)	Enterprise Software
4	17 (1.93%)	Management Information System
5	15 (1.70%)	User Experience
5	15 (1.70%)	Virtual Team
6	13 (1.47%)	Computer Science
6	13 (1.47%)	Public Cloud
7	10 (1.13%)	Client/Server
8	8 (0.91%)	Derivative
9	7 (0.79%)	CMDB
9	7 (0.79%)	Linux Command Line
9	7 (0.79%)	N-Tier
10	6 (0.68%)	W3C
11	3 (0.34%)	Hybrid Cloud
11	3 (0.34%)	MPEG
11	3 (0.34%)	Private Cloud
11	3 (0.34%)	Video on Demand

Operating Systems
1	155 (17.57%)	Linux
2	105 (11.90%)	Windows
3	70 (7.94%)	Unix
4	38 (4.31%)	Windows Server
5	28 (3.17%)	Apple iOS
6	21 (2.38%)	Windows Server 2008
6	21 (2.38%)	Windows Server 2012
7	20 (2.27%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8	14 (1.59%)	Android
9	10 (1.13%)	Ubuntu
10	5 (0.57%)	Debian
11	4 (0.45%)	CentOS
11	4 (0.45%)	Oracle Linux
12	3 (0.34%)	Mac OS X
12	3 (0.34%)	Solaris
12	3 (0.34%)	Windows Server 2003
13	2 (0.23%)	AIX
13	2 (0.23%)	SUSE
14	1 (0.11%)	Amazon Linux
14	1 (0.11%)	VMS

Processes & Methodologies
1	366 (41.50%)	Agile Software Development
2	196 (22.22%)	TDD
3	166 (18.82%)	Continuous Integration
4	157 (17.80%)	Scrum
5	133 (15.08%)	Test Automation
6	132 (14.97%)	OO
7	131 (14.85%)	MVC
8	114 (12.93%)	DevOps
9	109 (12.36%)	SDLC
10	97 (11.00%)	Unit Testing
11	93 (10.54%)	SOA
11	93 (10.54%)	Web Development
12	77 (8.73%)	OOD
13	69 (7.82%)	Data Analysis
14	64 (7.26%)	Software Engineering
15	57 (6.46%)	Migration
16	54 (6.12%)	E-Commerce
17	53 (6.01%)	BDD
17	53 (6.01%)	Data Management
18	52 (5.90%)	Multithreading

Programming Languages
1	352 (39.91%)	Java
2	336 (38.10%)	SQL
3	228 (25.85%)	JavaScript
4	184 (20.86%)	C#
5	147 (16.67%)	Python
6	72 (8.16%)	T-SQL
7	39 (4.42%)	PowerShell
8	38 (4.31%)	PL/SQL
9	36 (4.08%)	Ruby
10	30 (3.40%)	PHP
11	26 (2.95%)	TypeScript
12	25 (2.83%)	Groovy
13	24 (2.72%)	VB
14	19 (2.15%)	Perl
15	18 (2.04%)	VB.NET
16	16 (1.81%)	Bash Shell
16	16 (1.81%)	C
17	13 (1.47%)	Scala
18	12 (1.36%)	F#
19	11 (1.25%)	Objective-C

Qualifications
1	70 (7.94%)	Security Cleared
2	53 (6.01%)	Degree
3	49 (5.56%)	SC Cleared
4	16 (1.81%)	ISEB
5	14 (1.59%)	ISTQB
6	10 (1.13%)	Computer Science Degree
7	7 (0.79%)	DV Cleared
7	7 (0.79%)	ISTQB Foundation Certification
8	6 (0.68%)	Microsoft Certification
9	4 (0.45%)	ISEB Practitioner
10	3 (0.34%)	ISTQB Advanced Certification
10	3 (0.34%)	ITIL Certification
10	3 (0.34%)	MCSD
11	2 (0.23%)	CISA
11	2 (0.23%)	CISSP
11	2 (0.23%)	Master's Degree
11	2 (0.23%)	PMI Certification
11	2 (0.23%)	PMP
11	2 (0.23%)	Postgraduate
11	2 (0.23%)	PRINCE2 Certification

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	62 (7.03%)	QA
2	11 (1.25%)	Data Quality
3	8 (0.91%)	PCI DSS
4	6 (0.68%)	ISO/IEC 27001
5	5 (0.57%)	SLA
6	3 (0.34%)	Sarbanes-Oxley
7	2 (0.23%)	PMO
8	1 (0.11%)	Actionable Recommendations
8	1 (0.11%)	COBIT
8	1 (0.11%)	IFRS
8	1 (0.11%)	IFRS 9
8	1 (0.11%)	ISO 8583
8	1 (0.11%)	JSP 440
8	1 (0.11%)	WCAG

System Software
1	41 (4.65%)	Docker
2	25 (2.83%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	21 (2.38%)	Active Directory
4	14 (1.59%)	VMware ESXi
5	7 (0.79%)	Virtual Machines
5	7 (0.79%)	vSphere
6	5 (0.57%)	Oracle RAC
7	3 (0.34%)	VMware Workstation
8	2 (0.23%)	Apache ZooKeeper
8	2 (0.23%)	vCloud
8	2 (0.23%)	zsh
9	1 (0.11%)	Hyper-V
9	1 (0.11%)	Shibboleth
9	1 (0.11%)	Xen

Systems Management
1	29 (3.29%)	Ansible
2	25 (2.83%)	Puppet
3	17 (1.93%)	Terraform
4	16 (1.81%)	Opscode Chef
5	10 (1.13%)	HP Fortify
6	9 (1.02%)	NetBackup
7	8 (0.91%)	vRealize
8	6 (0.68%)	logstash
9	5 (0.57%)	Kubernetes
9	5 (0.57%)	Salt
10	4 (0.45%)	Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
10	4 (0.45%)	Fluentd
10	4 (0.45%)	Graphite
10	4 (0.45%)	Oracle Enterprise Manager
10	4 (0.45%)	Oracle RMAN
10	4 (0.45%)	Prometheus
10	4 (0.45%)	StatsD
10	4 (0.45%)	ZABBIX
11	3 (0.34%)	Nagios
11	3 (0.34%)	SCOM

Vendors
1	225 (25.51%)	Oracle
2	163 (18.48%)	Microsoft
3	49 (5.56%)	Sitecore
4	38 (4.31%)	VMware
5	33 (3.74%)	Google
6	29 (3.29%)	IBM
7	25 (2.83%)	HP
8	23 (2.61%)	ServiceNow
9	20 (2.27%)	Red Hat
10	19 (2.15%)	SAP
11	17 (1.93%)	Splunk
12	11 (1.25%)	Citrix
12	11 (1.25%)	Infragistics
13	10 (1.13%)	Remedy
13	10 (1.13%)	Salesforce.com
14	9 (1.02%)	BMC
14	9 (1.02%)	McAfee
14	9 (1.02%)	Rackspace
14	9 (1.02%)	Symantec
14	9 (1.02%)	Veritas