The first table below looks at the demand for Oracle SOA Suite skills in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Oracle SOA Suite 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 Application Platforms category for the Berkshire 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
Oracle SOA Suite
Rank 120 136 -
Rank change year-on-year
+16 -
Contract jobs citing Oracle SOA Suite 3 3 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.124% 0.098% -
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.787% 0.735% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
Average daily rate £415 £550 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-24.54% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £475 £325
% change year-on-year
-21.05% +46.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Platforms
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
381 408 457
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 15.74% 13.38% 15.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 186 153
Average daily rate £350 £325 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -4.41%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £225 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £425 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 17 39
Average hourly rate £18.00 £25.00 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-28.00% -37.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.55 £14.50 £16.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £38.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -
Oracle SOA Suite
South East

Oracle SOA Suite
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire Oracle SOA Suite Jobs Demand Trend

Oracle SOA Suite
Daily Rate Trend

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

Berkshire Oracle SOA Suite Daily Rate Trend

Oracle SOA Suite
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle SOA Suite within the Berkshire 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
Reading +12 2 £415 -24.54%
Oracle SOA Suite
South East

Oracle SOA Suite
Top 29 Related IT Skills

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

1 3 (100.00%) Oracle
1 3 (100.00%) SOA
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 3 (100.00%) Middleware
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Management
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle 11g
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle Exadata
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle Exalogic
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat
2 2 (66.67%) UNIX
2 2 (66.67%) Linux
3 1 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) J2EE
3 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle ADF
3 1 (33.33%) Content Management
3 1 (33.33%) JSF
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Customer Insight
3 1 (33.33%) Identity Management
3 1 (33.33%) Open Source
3 1 (33.33%) WebCenter
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle BPM

Oracle SOA Suite
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 3 (100.00%) Middleware
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (33.33%) WebCenter
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle ADF
2 1 (33.33%) JSF
2 1 (33.33%) J2EE
Business Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle Applications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle 11g
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle Exadata
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) DBA
1 1 (33.33%) Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle DBA
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle Exalogic
2 1 (33.33%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) UNIX
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) SOA
2 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Management
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Customer Insight
3 1 (33.33%) Identity Management
3 1 (33.33%) Content Management
3 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat