WSDL Contracts in the UK excluding London

Web Services Description Language (WSDL)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for WSDL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited WSDL over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 392 442 501
Rank change year-on-year +50 +59 -109
Contract jobs citing WSDL 3 10 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.014% 0.041% 0.048%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.091% 0.22% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 12
10th Percentile £455 £430 £378
25th Percentile £500 £513 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £476
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +10.41% +18.88%
75th Percentile £625 - £708
90th Percentile - £533 £770
UK median daily rate £600 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% +37.50%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

WSDL is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,306 4,449 6,282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.91% 18.38% 20.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,174 3,335 4,459
10th Percentile £324 £356 £360
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +15.61%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £585
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 181 93 150
10th Percentile £21.25 £22.28 £20.00
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £64.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.78% +30.61% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £74.50 £64.65
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.95 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%

WSDL
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing WSDL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for WSDL in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing WSDL in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for WSDL in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WSDL in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for WSDL in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing WSDL in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for WSDL in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WSDL within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 24 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Midlands - 3 £600 - 1
West Midlands - 3 £600 - 1
WSDL
UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

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

Business Applications
1 3 (100.00%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Boomi
2 2 (66.67%) iPaaS
3 1 (33.33%) SaaS
3 1 (33.33%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) MySQL
1 3 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Integration Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) JSON
1 3 (100.00%) REST
1 3 (100.00%) SOAP
1 3 (100.00%) XML
1 3 (100.00%) XSD
1 3 (100.00%) XSLT
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
2 2 (66.67%) CRM
2 2 (66.67%) ERP
3 1 (33.33%) API Management
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Clean Code
3 1 (33.33%) ETL
3 1 (33.33%) TDD
3 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Groovy
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) SAP
2 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow