Cambridgeshire SOA Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) skills within the Cambridgeshire region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited SOA over the 3 months to 4 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Location Avon Barrow-in-Furness Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheshire City of London Corby Croydon Cumbria Docklands, London East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Farnborough Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Liverpool Livingston London Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Potters Bar Reading Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West Southampton Suffolk Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Woking Worcestershire Worthing Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	51	59
Rank change on same period last year	+8
Matching contract IT job ads	6	9
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.010 %	0.010 %
As % of the category below	2.000 %	1.935 %
Daily rates quoted	3	3
Average minimum daily rate	£360	£250
Average daily rate	£377	£250
% change on same period last year	+50.66 %
Average maximum daily rate	£393	£250
UK excluding London average daily rate	£430	£404
% change on same period last year	+6.42 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£48.44	£30.00
% change on same period last year	+61.45 %
Processes & Methodologies Cambridgeshire
Matching contract IT job ads	300	465
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.487 %	0.508 %
Daily rates quoted	60	135
Average minimum daily rate	£315	£332
Average daily rate	£346	£352
% change on same period last year	-1.68 %
Average maximum daily rate	£377	£372
UK excluding London average daily rate	£381	£373
% change on same period last year	+2.16 %
Hourly rates quoted	54	60
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.57	£31.47
Average hourly rate	£24.57	£34.42
% change on same period last year	-28.60 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.58	£37.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.22	£29.56
% change on same period last year	-4.53 %
SOA East of England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

SOA
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing SOA across the Cambridgeshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

SOA
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SOA across the Cambridgeshire region.

SOA
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SOA across the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 4 December 2008.

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 Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 4 December 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Cambridge	+14	6	£377	+50.66 %

SOA East of England

SOA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 7 (87.50 %) .NET 2 5 (62.50 %) SQL Server 3 4 (50.00 %) Oracle 4 3 (37.50 %) J2EE 4 3 (37.50 %) Java 4 3 (37.50 %) XML 5 2 (25.00 %) C# 5 2 (25.00 %) OOD 5 2 (25.00 %) BizTalk Server 6 1 (12.50 %) ETL 6 1 (12.50 %) JavaBeans 6 1 (12.50 %) HTML 6 1 (12.50 %) JavaScript 6 1 (12.50 %) VB.NET 6 1 (12.50 %) Visual Studio

6 1 (12.50 %) ASP.NET 6 1 (12.50 %) CSS 6 1 (12.50 %) WebServices 6 1 (12.50 %) XSD 6 1 (12.50 %) XSLT 6 1 (12.50 %) UML 6 1 (12.50 %) OOA/OOD 6 1 (12.50 %) OO 6 1 (12.50 %) Oracle 8/8i 6 1 (12.50 %) N-Tier 6 1 (12.50 %) Data Modelling 6 1 (12.50 %) E-business 6 1 (12.50 %) Workflow 6 1 (12.50 %) Oracle Workflow 6 1 (12.50 %) WinForms

SOA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 7 (87.50 %) .NET 2 3 (37.50 %) J2EE 2 3 (37.50 %) XML 3 1 (12.50 %) XSD 3 1 (12.50 %) XSLT 3 1 (12.50 %) JavaBeans 3 1 (12.50 %) WinForms 3 1 (12.50 %) Spring 3 1 (12.50 %) AJAX 3 1 (12.50 %) JSON 3 1 (12.50 %) WCF 3 1 (12.50 %) WPF 3 1 (12.50 %) ASP.NET 3 1 (12.50 %) CSS 3 1 (12.50 %) WebServices 3 1 (12.50 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 2 (25.00 %) BizTalk Server 2 1 (12.50 %) Oracle Workflow
Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (62.50 %) SQL Server 2 1 (12.50 %) Oracle 8/8i 2 1 (12.50 %) ETL 2 1 (12.50 %) SQL Server 2005	Development Applications 1 1 (12.50 %) Visual Studio
Job Titles 1 4 (50.00 %) Architect 2 3 (37.50 %) Developer 2 3 (37.50 %) Solutions Architect 3 1 (12.50 %) Technical Consultant 3 1 (12.50 %) Java Developer 3 1 (12.50 %) .NET Developer 3 1 (12.50 %) C# Developer 3 1 (12.50 %) J2EE Developer 3 1 (12.50 %) VB.NET Developer 3 1 (12.50 %) Systems Architect 3 1 (12.50 %) Enterprise Architect 3 1 (12.50 %) C# Web Developer 3 1 (12.50 %) Solutions Consultant 3 1 (12.50 %) Java/J2EE Developer 3 1 (12.50 %) Analyst 3 1 (12.50 %) Systems Analyst 3 1 (12.50 %) Technical Architect 3 1 (12.50 %) Web Developer 3 1 (12.50 %) Consultant	Miscellaneous 1 1 (12.50 %) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (25.00 %) OOD 2 1 (12.50 %) E-business 2 1 (12.50 %) Workflow 2 1 (12.50 %) Enterprise Architecture 2 1 (12.50 %) Unit Testing 2 1 (12.50 %) UML 2 1 (12.50 %) OOA/OOD 2 1 (12.50 %) OO 2 1 (12.50 %) Data Modelling	Programming Languages 1 3 (37.50 %) Java 2 2 (25.00 %) C# 3 1 (12.50 %) JavaScript 3 1 (12.50 %) VB.NET 3 1 (12.50 %) XPath
Vendors 1 4 (50.00 %) Oracle