The first table below looks at the demand for SOA 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 SOA over the 3 months to 19 June 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 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Rank 53 61 75
Rank change year-on-year
+8 +14
Contract jobs citing SOA 22 11 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 2.410% 1.151% 0.642%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.374% 1.703% 1.116%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 4 3
Average daily rate £425 £425 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -15.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £383 £440
10% offered a daily rate of more than £570 £485 £580
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 £23.13 £40.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-42.18% +60.00%
All Processes & Methodologies
Buckinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
652 646 627
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 71.41% 67.57% 57.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 361 299 267
Average daily rate £350 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £215 £207
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 25 53
Average hourly rate £18.00 £15.00 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -21.05%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.20 £10.58 £11.60
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £31.00 £32.50 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
SOA
South East

SOA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Milton Keynes +17 18 £425 -2.85% 3
Marlow - 2 £600 -
Beaconsfield - - - -
High Wycombe - - - -
SOA
South East

SOA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 19 (50.00%) Oracle
2 17 (44.74%) Web Services
3 16 (42.11%) XML
4 15 (39.47%) Middleware
5 13 (34.21%) WebSphere
6 12 (31.58%) REST
6 12 (31.58%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 11 (28.95%) Scrum
7 11 (28.95%) C#
8 10 (26.32%) WCF
8 10 (26.32%) Oracle 11g
9 9 (23.68%) Oracle Service Bus
9 9 (23.68%) Agile Software Development
9 9 (23.68%) BPEL
9 9 (23.68%) Enterprise Architecture
9 9 (23.68%) WSDL
10 8 (21.05%) XSD
10 8 (21.05%) UML
10 8 (21.05%) SOAP
10 8 (21.05%) JMS
11 7 (18.42%) XPath
11 7 (18.42%) Java
11 7 (18.42%) .NET
12 6 (15.79%) MVC
12 6 (15.79%) Workflow
12 6 (15.79%) Team Foundation Server
12 6 (15.79%) Unit Testing
13 5 (13.16%) Web 2.0
13 5 (13.16%) Stakeholder Management
13 5 (13.16%) Oracle Workflow

SOA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 17 (44.74%) Web Services
2 16 (42.11%) XML
3 15 (39.47%) Middleware
4 13 (34.21%) WebSphere
5 12 (31.58%) REST
6 10 (26.32%) WCF
7 9 (23.68%) WSDL
8 8 (21.05%) XSD
8 8 (21.05%) SOAP
8 8 (21.05%) JMS
9 7 (18.42%) .NET
10 4 (10.53%) CSS
10 4 (10.53%) HTML
10 4 (10.53%) J2EE
10 4 (10.53%) Oracle Fusion
11 3 (7.895%) JSON
11 3 (7.895%) WebSphere MQ
11 3 (7.895%) XSLT
12 2 (5.263%) XML Schema
12 2 (5.263%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 12 (31.58%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 9 (23.68%) Oracle Service Bus
3 5 (13.16%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (7.895%) WebSphere Message Broker
5 2 (5.263%) WebLogic
5 2 (5.263%) CMS
5 2 (5.263%) ESB
6 1 (2.632%) Kentico
6 1 (2.632%) Drupal
6 1 (2.632%) Commerce Server
6 1 (2.632%) WebSphere Application Server
6 1 (2.632%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (2.632%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (5.263%) Oracle BPM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (26.32%) Oracle 11g
2 5 (13.16%) Oracle 8/8i
3 2 (5.263%) DB2
3 2 (5.263%) Data Mining
4 1 (2.632%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (2.632%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.632%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (15.79%) Team Foundation Server
2 5 (13.16%) JDeveloper
2 5 (13.16%) Eclipse
2 5 (13.16%) Ant
3 2 (5.263%) LoadRunner
3 2 (5.263%) Talend Open Studio
4 1 (2.632%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (10.53%) Retail
2 3 (7.895%) Investment Banking
2 3 (7.895%) Banking
3 1 (2.632%) Marketing
3 1 (2.632%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (39.47%) Architect
1 15 (39.47%) Developer
2 9 (23.68%) Oracle Developer
3 8 (21.05%) SOA Developer
4 7 (18.42%) Lead Developer
4 7 (18.42%) Oracle SOA Developer
5 6 (15.79%) Solutions Architect
6 5 (13.16%) Technical Architect
7 4 (10.53%) WebSphere Architect
8 3 (7.895%) Project Manager
9 2 (5.263%) Tester
9 2 (5.263%) Consultant
9 2 (5.263%) Analyst
9 2 (5.263%) Test Analyst
9 2 (5.263%) Performance Tester
9 2 (5.263%) Performance Analyst
9 2 (5.263%) Performance Test Analyst
9 2 (5.263%) WebSphere Developer
10 1 (2.632%) Designer
10 1 (2.632%) CMS Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.16%) Web 2.0
2 1 (2.632%) Mobile App
2 1 (2.632%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (2.632%) SaaS
2 1 (2.632%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.632%) UNIX
1 1 (2.632%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (28.95%) Scrum
2 9 (23.68%) Agile Software Development
2 9 (23.68%) BPEL
2 9 (23.68%) Enterprise Architecture
3 8 (21.05%) UML
4 6 (15.79%) MVC
4 6 (15.79%) Workflow
4 6 (15.79%) Unit Testing
5 5 (13.16%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (13.16%) E-Commerce
6 4 (10.53%) EAI
6 4 (10.53%) Migration
6 4 (10.53%) Data Migration
7 3 (7.895%) Release Management
7 3 (7.895%) TDD
7 3 (7.895%) Data Modelling
7 3 (7.895%) OO
8 2 (5.263%) ETL
8 2 (5.263%) Technical Architecture
8 2 (5.263%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (28.95%) C#
2 7 (18.42%) XPath
2 7 (18.42%) Java
3 5 (13.16%) XQuery
3 5 (13.16%) SQL
4 3 (7.895%) ActionScript 2.0
4 3 (7.895%) ActionScript
4 3 (7.895%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.632%) C++
5 1 (2.632%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2 (5.263%) Degree
1 2 (5.263%) SC Cleared
1 2 (5.263%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.632%) QA
Vendors
1 19 (50.00%) Oracle
2 4 (10.53%) IBM
3 2 (5.263%) HP
3 2 (5.263%) Talend
4 1 (2.632%) Ektron
4 1 (2.632%) ATG
4 1 (2.632%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.632%) Informatica
4 1 (2.632%) Sun
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