The first table below looks at the demand for SOA skills in IT contracts advertised for the Canary Wharf region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SOA over the 3 months to 22 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 Canary Wharf 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Rank 47 42 54
Rank change year-on-year
-5 +12
Contract jobs citing SOA 5 8 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 1.244% 2.046% 0.800%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.506% 2.614% 1.055%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 1
Average daily rate £488 £588 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-17.02% +6.81%
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
Canary Wharf
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
332 306 379
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 82.59% 78.26% 75.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 254 194 284
Average daily rate £550 £550 £550
90% offered a daily rate of more than £259 £350 £425
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £650 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
Average hourly rate - £65.00 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +333.33%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
SOA
London

SOA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Canary Wharf 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 Canary Wharf region.

Canary Wharf 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 Canary Wharf region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Canary Wharf SOA Daily Rate Histogram

SOA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 4 (66.67%) Oracle
1 4 (66.67%) Banking
2 3 (50.00%) Investment Banking
2 3 (50.00%) Release Management
2 3 (50.00%) UML
3 2 (33.33%) OOP
3 2 (33.33%) OOA/OOD
3 2 (33.33%) OO
3 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 2 (33.33%) ITIL
3 2 (33.33%) Java
3 2 (33.33%) SQL
3 2 (33.33%) .NET
3 2 (33.33%) MS Project
3 2 (33.33%) MS Office
3 2 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 2 (33.33%) OOD
3 2 (33.33%) ISO 9001
3 2 (33.33%) RUP
3 2 (33.33%) RDBMS
3 2 (33.33%) Project Management
3 2 (33.33%) WCF
3 2 (33.33%) Spring
3 2 (33.33%) ESB
3 2 (33.33%) Data Management
3 2 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
3 2 (33.33%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 2 (33.33%) Change Management
3 2 (33.33%) Back Office
3 2 (33.33%) Data Integration

SOA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 2 (33.33%) .NET
1 2 (33.33%) WCF
1 2 (33.33%) Spring
2 1 (16.67%) Spring Batch
2 1 (16.67%) Guava
2 1 (16.67%) Apache CXF
2 1 (16.67%) Middleware
2 1 (16.67%) WPF
2 1 (16.67%) WSDL
2 1 (16.67%) JDBC
2 1 (16.67%) SOAP
2 1 (16.67%) Web Services
2 1 (16.67%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) ESB
2 1 (16.67%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (33.33%) MS Project
1 2 (33.33%) MS Office
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 2 (33.33%) RDBMS
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (16.67%) Data Mart
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle 10g
2 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) ERwin
1 1 (16.67%) Subversion
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
1 1 (16.67%) ClearCase
General
1 4 (66.67%) Banking
2 3 (50.00%) Investment Banking
3 2 (33.33%) Back Office
4 1 (16.67%) Finance
4 1 (16.67%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Java/J2EE Architect
2 1 (16.67%) C# Programmer
2 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
2 1 (16.67%) J2EE Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Java Architect
2 1 (16.67%) J2EE Solutions Architect
2 1 (16.67%) C# Analyst Programmer
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Data Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst Programmer
2 1 (16.67%) Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Data Integration
2 1 (16.67%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) UNIX
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Release Management
1 3 (50.00%) UML
2 2 (33.33%) OOP
2 2 (33.33%) OOA/OOD
2 2 (33.33%) OO
2 2 (33.33%) ITIL
2 2 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 2 (33.33%) OOD
2 2 (33.33%) RUP
2 2 (33.33%) Project Management
2 2 (33.33%) Data Management
2 2 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
2 2 (33.33%) Change Management
2 2 (33.33%) Change Control
2 2 (33.33%) Waterfall
3 1 (16.67%) Memory Management
3 1 (16.67%) Data Governance
3 1 (16.67%) Data Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Software Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Java
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) F#
2 1 (16.67%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) ISO 9001
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Perforce
2 1 (16.67%) Endeca
2 1 (16.67%) Google
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Sybase