The first table below looks at the demand for Middleware skills in IT contracts advertised for the Buckinghamshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Middleware 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 Development category for the Buckinghamshire 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
Middleware
Rank 50 68 65
Rank change year-on-year
+18 -3
Contract jobs citing Middleware 18 7 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 2.222% 0.717% 1.217%
As % of the Application Development category 8.696% 3.825% 5.556%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 5 3
Average daily rate £494 £500 £301
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.25% +66.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £360 £460 £260
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £575 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £406 £410 £400
% change year-on-year
-0.91% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £39.00 £37.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year
+5.40% -8.64%
All Application Development
Buckinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
207 183 234
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 25.56% 18.75% 21.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 94 103
Average daily rate £325 £310 £330
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.83% -6.06%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £400 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 8
Average hourly rate £20.00 £35.00 £21.94
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-42.85% +59.52%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Middleware
South East

Middleware
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Buckinghamshire Middleware Jobs Demand Trend

Middleware
Daily Rate Trend

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

Buckinghamshire Middleware Daily Rate Trend

Middleware
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Middleware across the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Buckinghamshire Middleware Daily Rate Histogram

Middleware
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Middleware within the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Milton Keynes +19 13 £494 +3.94%
Middleware
South East

Middleware
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire region citing Middleware 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 Middleware.

1 13 (56.52%) Web Services
2 12 (52.17%) SOA
3 11 (47.83%) WSDL
3 11 (47.83%) XML
3 11 (47.83%) Oracle
4 9 (39.13%) SOAP
4 9 (39.13%) BPEL
4 9 (39.13%) Oracle 11g
4 9 (39.13%) Oracle Service Bus
4 9 (39.13%) REST
4 9 (39.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 7 (30.43%) XPath
5 7 (30.43%) Agile Software Development
5 7 (30.43%) Scrum
5 7 (30.43%) UML
6 6 (26.09%) MVC
6 6 (26.09%) C#
6 6 (26.09%) Java
6 6 (26.09%) .NET
6 6 (26.09%) Enterprise Architecture
6 6 (26.09%) WCF
7 5 (21.74%) Unit Testing
7 5 (21.74%) Team Foundation Server
7 5 (21.74%) Web 2.0
7 5 (21.74%) ESB
7 5 (21.74%) Oracle Workflow
7 5 (21.74%) Ant
7 5 (21.74%) XSD
7 5 (21.74%) Oracle 8/8i
7 5 (21.74%) Eclipse

Middleware
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire region citing Middleware 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 Middleware. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 13 (56.52%) Web Services
2 11 (47.83%) WSDL
2 11 (47.83%) XML
3 9 (39.13%) SOAP
3 9 (39.13%) REST
4 6 (26.09%) .NET
4 6 (26.09%) WCF
5 5 (21.74%) XSD
6 4 (17.39%) XML Schema
6 4 (17.39%) JMS
6 4 (17.39%) XSLT
6 4 (17.39%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (8.696%) JDBC
7 2 (8.696%) SAP ALE
7 2 (8.696%) WebSphere
7 2 (8.696%) BAPI
7 2 (8.696%) SAP XI
7 2 (8.696%) SAP PI
8 1 (4.348%) BPEL4WS
8 1 (4.348%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 9 (39.13%) Oracle Service Bus
1 9 (39.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 5 (21.74%) ESB
2 5 (21.74%) Oracle Workflow
3 3 (13.04%) WebLogic
4 2 (8.696%) NetWeaver
5 1 (4.348%) Apache
5 1 (4.348%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (4.348%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (8.696%) SAP CRM
1 2 (8.696%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.696%) HTTP
2 1 (4.348%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (39.13%) Oracle 11g
2 5 (21.74%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (4.348%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 5 (21.74%) Team Foundation Server
1 5 (21.74%) Ant
1 5 (21.74%) Eclipse
1 5 (21.74%) JDeveloper
2 2 (8.696%) Talend Open Studio
General
1 2 (8.696%) Finance
1 2 (8.696%) Telecoms
2 1 (4.348%) Banking
2 1 (4.348%) Retail
2 1 (4.348%) Marketing
2 1 (4.348%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (43.48%) Developer
2 9 (39.13%) Architect
2 9 (39.13%) Oracle Developer
3 7 (30.43%) Oracle SOA Developer
3 7 (30.43%) SOA Developer
3 7 (30.43%) Lead Developer
4 5 (21.74%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
5 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Architect
6 2 (8.696%) Data Architect
7 1 (4.348%) Senior Incident Manager
7 1 (4.348%) SAP PI Consultant
7 1 (4.348%) Data Analyst
7 1 (4.348%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (4.348%) SAP Consultant
7 1 (4.348%) NetWeaver Architect
7 1 (4.348%) SAP Architect
7 1 (4.348%) Incident Manager
7 1 (4.348%) Technical Leader
7 1 (4.348%) Senior Manager
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) Web 2.0
2 1 (4.348%) Data Integration
2 1 (4.348%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.696%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (52.17%) SOA
2 9 (39.13%) BPEL
3 7 (30.43%) Agile Software Development
3 7 (30.43%) Scrum
3 7 (30.43%) UML
4 6 (26.09%) MVC
4 6 (26.09%) Enterprise Architecture
5 5 (21.74%) Unit Testing
5 5 (21.74%) Workflow
5 5 (21.74%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (17.39%) CRM
7 3 (13.04%) Technical Architecture
7 3 (13.04%) ITIL
8 2 (8.696%) ETL
8 2 (8.696%) Stakeholder Management
8 2 (8.696%) Data Modelling
8 2 (8.696%) BPMN
9 1 (4.348%) Data Migration
9 1 (4.348%) Data Architecture
9 1 (4.348%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 7 (30.43%) XPath
2 6 (26.09%) C#
2 6 (26.09%) Java
3 5 (21.74%) XQuery
4 2 (8.696%) ABAP
5 1 (4.348%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.696%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.348%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (4.348%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (4.348%) WSUS
Vendors
1 11 (47.83%) Oracle
2 3 (13.04%) IBM
3 2 (8.696%) SAP
3 2 (8.696%) Talend
4 1 (4.348%) VMware
4 1 (4.348%) ATG
4 1 (4.348%) TIBCO
4 1 (4.348%) Symantec
4 1 (4.348%) Sun
4 1 (4.348%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.348%) HP
4 1 (4.348%) Citrix
4 1 (4.348%) Informatica
4 1 (4.348%) Veritas