The first table below looks at the demand for SOA skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SOA over the 3 months to 20 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 Cambridge 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Rank 38 39 28
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -11
Contract jobs citing SOA 1 10 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 0.298% 2.410% 2.058%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.535% 4.505% 3.571%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 8 3
Average daily rate £350 £315 £415
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.11% -24.09%
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £390 £400
% change year-on-year
+2.56% -2.50%
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
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
187 222 140
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 55.65% 53.49% 57.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 109 85
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £274 £267
10% offered a daily rate of more than £429 £550 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
- -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 19 19
Average hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £31.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.88% +34.92%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £34.75 £37.50 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £57.20 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+28.00% -16.66%
SOA
Cambridgeshire

SOA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge SOA Daily Rate Trend

SOA
Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) JDBC
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) JPA
1 1 (100.00%) Software Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) REST

SOA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 1 (100.00%) JDBC
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) JPA
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Java Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL