SOA Contracts in Bedfordshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for SOA skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SOA over the 3 months to 17 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 Processes & Methodologies category for the Bedfordshire 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Rank 19 - 24
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing SOA 11 0 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 5.946% - 5.442%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.483% - 7.547%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 4
Average daily rate £331 - £301
90% offered a daily rate of more than £295 - £186
10% offered a daily rate of more than £380 - £403
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £400 £400
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.56 £40.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-21.09% +45.45%
All Processes & Methodologies
Bedfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 147 198 212
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 79.46% 70.21% 72.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 106 104
Average daily rate £350 £350 £345
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +1.44%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £238 £181
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 9
Average hourly rate £32.75 £41.50 £47.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-21.08% -12.63%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
SOA
East of England

SOA
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing SOA across the Bedfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Bedfordshire SOA Jobs Demand Trend

SOA
Daily Rate Trend

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

Bedfordshire SOA Daily Rate Trend

SOA
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SOA across the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Bedfordshire SOA Daily Rate Histogram

SOA
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOA within the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. 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
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Luton - 8 £338 -
SOA
East of England

SOA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing SOA 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 SOA.

1 12 (100.00%) .NET
2 10 (83.33%) C#
3 9 (75.00%) TDD
4 8 (66.67%) BDD
4 8 (66.67%) ASP.NET
4 8 (66.67%) E-Commerce
4 8 (66.67%) Microsoft
4 8 (66.67%) MVC
4 8 (66.67%) Scrum
5 7 (58.33%) JavaScript
6 6 (50.00%) SQL Server
7 5 (41.67%) Git (software)
8 4 (33.33%) Unit Testing
8 4 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (33.33%) KnockoutJS
8 4 (33.33%) SpecFlow
8 4 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
8 4 (33.33%) AOP
8 4 (33.33%) NHibernate
8 4 (33.33%) .NET Framework
8 4 (33.33%) Refactoring
8 4 (33.33%) Internet
8 4 (33.33%) Change Management
8 4 (33.33%) HTML
8 4 (33.33%) N-Tier
8 4 (33.33%) MS Excel
8 4 (33.33%) Web Services
8 4 (33.33%) XML
8 4 (33.33%) Windows
9 3 (25.00%) Oracle

SOA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing SOA 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 SOA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 12 (100.00%) .NET
2 8 (66.67%) ASP.NET
3 4 (33.33%) Web Services
3 4 (33.33%) XML
3 4 (33.33%) NHibernate
3 4 (33.33%) .NET Framework
3 4 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
3 4 (33.33%) KnockoutJS
3 4 (33.33%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 3 (25.00%) NServiceBus
2 2 (16.67%) Windows Azure
2 2 (16.67%) SharePoint
2 2 (16.67%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (8.333%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (33.33%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (8.333%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (8.333%) GIS
2 1 (8.333%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (8.333%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (8.333%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) Git (software)
2 4 (33.33%) SpecFlow
3 2 (16.67%) Visual Studio
3 2 (16.67%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (8.333%) WebDriver
4 1 (8.333%) Cucumber
4 1 (8.333%) WATIR
4 1 (8.333%) Selenium
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Developer
2 6 (50.00%) Web Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (25.00%) .NET Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Architect
4 2 (16.67%) C# .NET Developer
4 2 (16.67%) C# Developer
5 1 (8.333%) ASP.NET Developer
5 1 (8.333%) .NET Web Developer
5 1 (8.333%) C# Web Developer
5 1 (8.333%) C# ASP.NET Developer
5 1 (8.333%) Test Leader
5 1 (8.333%) Agile .NET Developer
5 1 (8.333%) Agile C# Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) N-Tier
2 3 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (8.333%) Inversion of Control
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) TDD
2 8 (66.67%) E-Commerce
2 8 (66.67%) MVC
2 8 (66.67%) Scrum
2 8 (66.67%) BDD
3 4 (33.33%) Change Management
3 4 (33.33%) AOP
3 4 (33.33%) Refactoring
3 4 (33.33%) Unit Testing
3 4 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
5 2 (16.67%) Web Development
5 2 (16.67%) TOGAF
6 1 (8.333%) Automated Testing
6 1 (8.333%) Kanban
6 1 (8.333%) Dependency Injection
6 1 (8.333%) Waterfall
6 1 (8.333%) Workflow
6 1 (8.333%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (8.333%) OO
Programming Languages
1 10 (83.33%) C#
2 7 (58.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (8.333%) SQL
3 1 (8.333%) Python
3 1 (8.333%) Ruby
3 1 (8.333%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) ISEB
2 1 (8.333%) Degree
Vendors
1 8 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (25.00%) Oracle
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