The first table below looks at the demand for ESB skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bristol region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ESB over the 3 months to 24 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 Bristol 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)
Rank 47 - 49
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing ESB 3 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 0.581% - 0.155%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.542% - 0.971%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £380 £400 £463
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -13.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £39.00 £40.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -
All Application Platforms
Bristol
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
118 151 103
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 22.87% 18.06% 15.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 97 56
Average daily rate £310 £340 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.82% +4.61%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £187 £163 £163
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £435 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £343
% change year-on-year
- -5.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 9 6
Average hourly rate £14.00 £23.00 £14.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-39.13% +58.62%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.00 £14.50 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.00 £26.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -2.43%
ESB
South West

ESB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bristol 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 Bristol region.

Bristol ESB Daily Rate Trend

ESB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 4 (100.00%) XML
2 3 (75.00%) WCF
3 2 (50.00%) Ajax
3 2 (50.00%) MVC
3 2 (50.00%) Subversion
3 2 (50.00%) jQuery
3 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
3 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
3 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET
3 2 (50.00%) CSS
3 2 (50.00%) C#
3 2 (50.00%) HTML
3 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (50.00%) .NET
3 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (25.00%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (25.00%) SOAP
4 1 (25.00%) EDI
4 1 (25.00%) ERP
4 1 (25.00%) JMS
4 1 (25.00%) SOA
4 1 (25.00%) HTTP
4 1 (25.00%) WSDL
4 1 (25.00%) SSL
4 1 (25.00%) IBM
4 1 (25.00%) ILOG
4 1 (25.00%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (25.00%) DataPower
4 1 (25.00%) Wall Street Systems

ESB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 4 (100.00%) XML
2 3 (75.00%) WCF
3 2 (50.00%) Ajax
3 2 (50.00%) jQuery
3 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
3 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
3 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET
3 2 (50.00%) CSS
3 2 (50.00%) HTML
3 2 (50.00%) .NET
4 1 (25.00%) SOAP
4 1 (25.00%) EDI
4 1 (25.00%) JMS
4 1 (25.00%) WSDL
4 1 (25.00%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) WebSphere Application Server
1 1 (25.00%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (25.00%) WebSphere Process Server
1 1 (25.00%) WebSphere Message Broker
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) HTTP
1 1 (25.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (25.00%) WebSphere Developer
2 1 (25.00%) BizTalk Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) DataPower
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) MVC
2 1 (25.00%) ERP
2 1 (25.00%) SOA
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C#
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) IBM
1 1 (25.00%) ILOG
1 1 (25.00%) Wall Street Systems