WSDL Contracts

Web Services Description Language (WSDL)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring WSDL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited WSDL over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 576 681 811
Rank change year-on-year +105 +130 -123
Contract jobs citing WSDL 8 16 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.018% 0.029% 0.042%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.087% 0.13% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 22
10th Percentile £400 £428 £458
25th Percentile £419 £488 £540
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £525 £585
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -10.26% +50.97%
75th Percentile £606 £531 £699
90th Percentile £625 £538 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% +49.15%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

WSDL falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,217 12,733 23,425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.10% 22.93% 26.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,352 9,286 17,244
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £670
90th Percentile £775 £775 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 153 227
10th Percentile £22.20 £31.60 £22.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +23.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £67.18
90th Percentile £74.48 £80.85 £76.64
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% +22.22%

WSDL
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing WSDL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for WSDL in the UK

WSDL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing WSDL.

Daily rate trend for WSDL in the UK

WSDL
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WSDL over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for WSDL in the UK

WSDL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing WSDL.

Hourly rate trend for WSDL in the UK

WSDL
Top 5 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 12 June 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
England +80 7 £595 +19.00% 4
London +82 4 £560 +6.67% 2
UK excluding London +22 3 £600 +14.29% 2
Midlands - 3 £600 -
West Midlands - 3 £600 -

WSDL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) WebLogic
1 1 (12.50%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 3 (37.50%) NetSuite
2 1 (12.50%) BusinessWorks
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
1 3 (37.50%) Boomi
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) GCP
2 2 (25.00%) iPaaS
3 1 (12.50%) SaaS
3 1 (12.50%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) MySQL
1 5 (62.50%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Git
1 2 (25.00%) Gradle
1 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (25.00%) JUnit
1 2 (25.00%) Maven
1 2 (25.00%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Architect
1 3 (37.50%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Integration Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Java Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Java Solutions Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (100.00%) SOAP
2 6 (75.00%) XML
3 5 (62.50%) Web Services
4 4 (50.00%) JSON
5 3 (37.50%) AngularJS
5 3 (37.50%) CSS
5 3 (37.50%) HTML
5 3 (37.50%) REST
5 3 (37.50%) RESTful
5 3 (37.50%) XSD
5 3 (37.50%) XSLT
6 2 (25.00%) Keycloak
6 2 (25.00%) Node.js
6 2 (25.00%) React
6 2 (25.00%) Spring
6 2 (25.00%) Spring Boot
7 1 (12.50%) Ajax
7 1 (12.50%) JAX-WS
7 1 (12.50%) TIBCO EMS
7 1 (12.50%) XHTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Algorithms
1 1 (12.50%) Client/Server
1 1 (12.50%) CMDB
1 1 (12.50%) Data Structures
1 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (12.50%) N-Tier
1 1 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Agile
2 4 (50.00%) DevOps
2 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 3 (37.50%) Integration Patterns
3 3 (37.50%) TDD
3 3 (37.50%) Unit Testing
4 2 (25.00%) API Design
4 2 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 2 (25.00%) BDD
4 2 (25.00%) Code Quality
4 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (25.00%) CRM
4 2 (25.00%) Design Patterns
4 2 (25.00%) ERP
4 2 (25.00%) Integration Testing
4 2 (25.00%) Microservices
4 2 (25.00%) SOA
4 2 (25.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (37.50%) Java
3 2 (25.00%) SQL
4 1 (12.50%) Groovy
4 1 (12.50%) Perl
4 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
1 2 (25.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (12.50%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Salesforce
2 2 (25.00%) Google
2 2 (25.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) SAP
3 1 (12.50%) TIBCO