City of London BPEL Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) skills within the City of London region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited BPEL over the 3 months to 18 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Business Process Execution Language (BPEL)
Location Berkshire Buckinghamshire Cardiff City of London Dover Dundee England Glasgow Kent Leatherhead London Manchester Milton Keynes North West Oxford Oxfordshire Scotland Slough South East South Wales South West Surrey UK Wales	3 months to 18 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	217	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	6	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.128 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	4	0
Average minimum daily rate	£375	-
Average daily rate	£413	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£450	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£449	£491
% change on same period last year	-8.52 %
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	-	£37.50
% change on same period last year	-
Processes & Methodologies City of London
Matching contract IT job ads	4701	3363
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	6.243 %	3.451 %
Daily rates quoted	2632	1566
Average minimum daily rate	£425	£450
Average daily rate	£466	£487
% change on same period last year	-4.30 %
Average maximum daily rate	£506	£523
UK excluding London average daily rate	£381	£375
% change on same period last year	+1.52 %
Hourly rates quoted	107	74
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.46	£26.50
Average hourly rate	£30.87	£28.77
% change on same period last year	+7.28 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.28	£31.05
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.43	£30.35
% change on same period last year	-3.02 %
BPEL London

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.

BPEL
Demand Trend

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

BPEL
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing BPEL across the City of London region.

BPEL
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing BPEL across the City of London region over the 3 months to 18 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing BPEL across the City of London region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing BPEL 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 BPEL.

1 6 (54.55 %) J2EE 2 5 (45.45 %) SQL 2 5 (45.45 %) WebServices 2 5 (45.45 %) SOA 3 4 (36.36 %) Java 3 4 (36.36 %) Workflow 3 4 (36.36 %) ESB 4 3 (27.27 %) Spring 4 3 (27.27 %) SC Cleared 4 3 (27.27 %) Security Cleared 4 3 (27.27 %) Finance 4 3 (27.27 %) Biometrics 4 3 (27.27 %) Oracle 4 3 (27.27 %) XML 4 3 (27.27 %) RDBMS

5 2 (18.18 %) BEA 5 2 (18.18 %) Drools 5 2 (18.18 %) SQL Server 5 2 (18.18 %) SOAP 5 2 (18.18 %) Migration 5 2 (18.18 %) Hibernate 6 1 (9.091 %) Scrum 6 1 (9.091 %) Clustering 6 1 (9.091 %) SAP XI 6 1 (9.091 %) Agile Software Development 6 1 (9.091 %) WPS 6 1 (9.091 %) Subversion 6 1 (9.091 %) X.400 6 1 (9.091 %) Project Management 6 1 (9.091 %) JMX

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing BPEL 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 BPEL. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 6 (54.55 %) J2EE 2 5 (45.45 %) WebServices 3 3 (27.27 %) XML 3 3 (27.27 %) Spring 4 2 (18.18 %) Hibernate 4 2 (18.18 %) Drools 4 2 (18.18 %) SOAP 5 1 (9.091 %) Struts 5 1 (9.091 %) EJB 5 1 (9.091 %) JDBC 5 1 (9.091 %) EDI 5 1 (9.091 %) WSDL 5 1 (9.091 %) JMX 5 1 (9.091 %) EDIFACT 5 1 (9.091 %) .NET 5 1 (9.091 %) SAP XI 5 1 (9.091 %) JSF 5 1 (9.091 %) SAP ALE 5 1 (9.091 %) WebSphere 5 1 (9.091 %) Java EE	Application Platforms 1 4 (36.36 %) ESB 2 1 (9.091 %) Oracle BPEL 2 1 (9.091 %) WebLogic 2 1 (9.091 %) IIS 2 1 (9.091 %) Apache 2 1 (9.091 %) Tomcat 2 1 (9.091 %) WPS
Business Applications 1 1 (9.091 %) SAP ERP	Communications & Networking 1 1 (9.091 %) SMTP 1 1 (9.091 %) FTP 1 1 (9.091 %) HTTP 1 1 (9.091 %) X.400
Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (27.27 %) RDBMS 2 2 (18.18 %) SQL Server 3 1 (9.091 %) Oracle 9i 3 1 (9.091 %) Datawarehouse 3 1 (9.091 %) TOAD 3 1 (9.091 %) Oracle 10g 3 1 (9.091 %) Oracle 11g 3 1 (9.091 %) MySQL	Development Applications 1 1 (9.091 %) Eclipse 1 1 (9.091 %) Subversion 1 1 (9.091 %) JIRA
General 1 3 (27.27 %) Finance 2 1 (9.091 %) Insurance 2 1 (9.091 %) Financial Institution	Job Titles 1 4 (36.36 %) Consultant 2 3 (27.27 %) Developer 2 3 (27.27 %) J2EE Consultant 2 3 (27.27 %) Java Developer 3 2 (18.18 %) Architect 4 1 (9.091 %) Oracle DBA 4 1 (9.091 %) Oracle Consultant 4 1 (9.091 %) WebSphere Developer 4 1 (9.091 %) SAP Architect 4 1 (9.091 %) SAP XI Architect 4 1 (9.091 %) Technical Architect 4 1 (9.091 %) DBA
Miscellaneous 1 3 (27.27 %) Biometrics 2 1 (9.091 %) Clustering	Operating Systems 1 1 (9.091 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (45.45 %) SOA 2 4 (36.36 %) Workflow 3 3 (27.27 %) SC Cleared 3 3 (27.27 %) Security Cleared 4 2 (18.18 %) Migration 5 1 (9.091 %) Scrum 5 1 (9.091 %) Agile Software Development 5 1 (9.091 %) Enterprise Architecture 5 1 (9.091 %) Release Management 5 1 (9.091 %) Integration Testing 5 1 (9.091 %) Test Management 5 1 (9.091 %) B2B 5 1 (9.091 %) Project Management 5 1 (9.091 %) Disaster Recovery 5 1 (9.091 %) Risk Management 5 1 (9.091 %) PRINCE2 5 1 (9.091 %) UML 5 1 (9.091 %) RAD 5 1 (9.091 %) ERP 5 1 (9.091 %) EAI	Programming Languages 1 5 (45.45 %) SQL 2 4 (36.36 %) Java 3 1 (9.091 %) PL/SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (9.091 %) QA	System Software 1 1 (9.091 %) Active Directory 1 1 (9.091 %) Oracle RAC
Vendors 1 3 (27.27 %) Oracle 2 2 (18.18 %) BEA 3 1 (9.091 %) PeopleSoft 3 1 (9.091 %) SAP