The first table below looks at the demand for SOA 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 SOA over the 3 months to 23 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 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Rank 47 46 45
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -1
Contract jobs citing SOA 5 19 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 0.978% 2.273% 1.682%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.661% 3.345% 2.500%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 16 2
Average daily rate £525 £374 £481
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+40.37% -22.28%
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 £40.00 £40.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
- +45.45%
All Processes & Methodologies
Bristol
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
301 568 440
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 58.90% 67.94% 67.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 383 253
Average daily rate £325 £350 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% -12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £233 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £471 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 24 22
Average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £36.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -4.10%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £28.70 £16.00 £11.15
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £55.25 £37.50 £43.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
SOA
South West

SOA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bristol 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 Bristol region.

Bristol SOA Daily Rate Trend

SOA
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Bristol SOA Hourly Rate Trend

SOA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 5 (71.43%) Middleware
2 3 (42.86%) Java
2 3 (42.86%) Web Services
2 3 (42.86%) XML
2 3 (42.86%) Finance
3 2 (28.57%) Scrum
3 2 (28.57%) TDD
3 2 (28.57%) Banking
3 2 (28.57%) C#
3 2 (28.57%) MVC
3 2 (28.57%) Telecoms
3 2 (28.57%) XPath
3 2 (28.57%) jQuery
3 2 (28.57%) HTML5
3 2 (28.57%) BDD
3 2 (28.57%) SpecFlow
3 2 (28.57%) Automation Testing
3 2 (28.57%) JIRA
3 2 (28.57%) WCF
3 2 (28.57%) OO
3 2 (28.57%) ASP.NET
3 2 (28.57%) CSS
3 2 (28.57%) JDBC
3 2 (28.57%) PL/SQL
3 2 (28.57%) SQL
3 2 (28.57%) .NET
3 2 (28.57%) J2EE
3 2 (28.57%) Oracle
3 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
3 2 (28.57%) DB2

SOA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 5 (71.43%) Middleware
2 3 (42.86%) Web Services
2 3 (42.86%) XML
3 2 (28.57%) jQuery
3 2 (28.57%) HTML5
3 2 (28.57%) WCF
3 2 (28.57%) ASP.NET
3 2 (28.57%) CSS
3 2 (28.57%) JDBC
3 2 (28.57%) .NET
3 2 (28.57%) J2EE
4 1 (14.29%) SOAP
4 1 (14.29%) JMS
4 1 (14.29%) WSDL
4 1 (14.29%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) WebSphere Application Server
1 1 (14.29%) WebSphere Message Broker
1 1 (14.29%) ESB
1 1 (14.29%) WebSphere Process Server
Business Applications
1 2 (28.57%) BusinessWorks
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) SSL
1 1 (14.29%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
1 2 (28.57%) DB2
2 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) SpecFlow
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Banking
2 2 (28.57%) Telecoms
3 1 (14.29%) Back Office
3 1 (14.29%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) .NET Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) TIBCO Consultant
2 2 (28.57%) Consultant
2 2 (28.57%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Technical Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) WebSphere Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Data Integration
1 1 (14.29%) DataPower
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Scrum
1 2 (28.57%) TDD
1 2 (28.57%) MVC
1 2 (28.57%) BDD
1 2 (28.57%) Automation Testing
1 2 (28.57%) OO
1 2 (28.57%) Configuration Management
1 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (14.29%) Project Management
2 1 (14.29%) BPR
2 1 (14.29%) Financial Modelling
2 1 (14.29%) Workflow
2 1 (14.29%) TOGAF
2 1 (14.29%) Information Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Java
2 2 (28.57%) C#
2 2 (28.57%) XPath
2 2 (28.57%) PL/SQL
2 2 (28.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) ISEB
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle
1 2 (28.57%) CA
1 2 (28.57%) TIBCO
2 1 (14.29%) ILOG
2 1 (14.29%) IBM
2 1 (14.29%) Wall Street Systems