The first table below looks at the demand for ESB skills in IT contracts advertised for the Basingstoke region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ESB over the 3 months to 21 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 Platforms category for the Basingstoke 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)
Rank 29 - 31
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing ESB 15 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Basingstoke 7.009% - 0.410%
As % of the Application Platforms category 28.30% - 2.941%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 0
Average daily rate £400 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £388 £413 £475
% change year-on-year
-6.06% -13.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Average hourly rate £39.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £39.00 £40.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -
All Application Platforms
Basingstoke
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
53 37 34
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Basingstoke 24.77% 20.11% 13.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 13 13
Average daily rate £388 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.33% -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £308 £300 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £410 £500 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £345
% change year-on-year
- -5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 6
Average hourly rate £39.00 £19.00 £34.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+105.26% -44.92%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -
ESB
Hampshire

ESB
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing ESB across the Basingstoke region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Basingstoke ESB Jobs Demand Trend

ESB
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing ESB across the Basingstoke region.

Basingstoke ESB Daily Rate Trend

ESB
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ESB across the Basingstoke region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Basingstoke ESB Daily Rate Histogram

ESB
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing ESB across the Basingstoke region.

Basingstoke ESB Hourly Rate Trend

ESB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Basingstoke region citing ESB 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 ESB.

1 16 (64.00%) Windows
2 10 (40.00%) Web Services
2 10 (40.00%) Java
2 10 (40.00%) Java EE
3 9 (36.00%) Maven
3 9 (36.00%) Test Scripting
3 9 (36.00%) Continuous Integration
3 9 (36.00%) PowerShell
3 9 (36.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 9 (36.00%) TeamCity
3 9 (36.00%) Git (software)
3 9 (36.00%) soapUI
3 9 (36.00%) MSBuild
3 9 (36.00%) BizTalk Server
3 9 (36.00%) C#
3 9 (36.00%) SQL Server
3 9 (36.00%) IIS
4 7 (28.00%) JUnit
4 7 (28.00%) Oracle
4 7 (28.00%) XML
4 7 (28.00%) Linux
4 7 (28.00%) OO
4 7 (28.00%) Swing
4 7 (28.00%) J2SE
4 7 (28.00%) SOAP
4 7 (28.00%) Software AG
4 7 (28.00%) webMethods
4 7 (28.00%) Java RMI
4 7 (28.00%) OOD
4 7 (28.00%) Eclipse

ESB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Basingstoke region citing ESB 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 ESB. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 10 (40.00%) Web Services
1 10 (40.00%) Java EE
2 9 (36.00%) soapUI
3 7 (28.00%) XML
3 7 (28.00%) Swing
3 7 (28.00%) J2SE
3 7 (28.00%) SOAP
3 7 (28.00%) Java RMI
3 7 (28.00%) Hibernate
3 7 (28.00%) Apache Axis
4 3 (12.00%) KML
4 3 (12.00%) WebSphere
4 3 (12.00%) WSDL
5 1 (4.000%) .NET
5 1 (4.000%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 9 (36.00%) BizTalk Server
1 9 (36.00%) IIS
2 3 (12.00%) WebSphere Message Broker
2 3 (12.00%) SharePoint Server
2 3 (12.00%) WebSphere Process Server
2 3 (12.00%) WebSphere Application Server
2 3 (12.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (8.000%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 6 (24.00%) BSS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (36.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (36.00%) Maven
1 9 (36.00%) TeamCity
1 9 (36.00%) Git (software)
1 9 (36.00%) MSBuild
2 7 (28.00%) JUnit
2 7 (28.00%) Eclipse
2 7 (28.00%) Subversion
3 3 (12.00%) Rational Application Developer
3 3 (12.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (24.00%) Billing
1 6 (24.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (40.00%) Developer
2 7 (28.00%) Release Manager
2 7 (28.00%) Java Developer
2 7 (28.00%) Build Manager
3 6 (24.00%) Architect
3 6 (24.00%) Solutions Architect
4 5 (20.00%) Java Swing Developer
5 3 (12.00%) WebSphere Developer
Operating Systems
1 16 (64.00%) Windows
2 9 (36.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 7 (28.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (36.00%) Test Scripting
1 9 (36.00%) Continuous Integration
2 7 (28.00%) OO
2 7 (28.00%) OOD
2 7 (28.00%) Test Automation
2 7 (28.00%) Release Management
2 7 (28.00%) Software Engineering
2 7 (28.00%) TDD
3 6 (24.00%) Business Analysis
3 6 (24.00%) eTOM
3 6 (24.00%) CRM
3 6 (24.00%) ITIL
4 3 (12.00%) Unit Testing
4 3 (12.00%) UML
5 1 (4.000%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 10 (40.00%) Java
2 9 (36.00%) PowerShell
2 9 (36.00%) C#
3 2 (8.000%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (20.00%) Degree
2 3 (12.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.000%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 3 (12.00%) Tivoli
1 3 (12.00%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 7 (28.00%) Oracle
1 7 (28.00%) Software AG
1 7 (28.00%) webMethods
2 6 (24.00%) Huawei
3 3 (12.00%) IBM
3 3 (12.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.000%) Fujitsu