The first table below looks at the demand for BPEL skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited BPEL over the 3 months to 24 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 City of London 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Business Process Execution Language (BPEL)
Rank 192 210 242
Rank change year-on-year
+18 +32
Contract jobs citing BPEL 11 8 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.172% 0.102% 0.031%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.235% 0.142% 0.043%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 8 2
Average daily rate £463 £450 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.77% -14.28%
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £419 £360
% change year-on-year
-10.44% +16.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £40.00
All Processes & Methodologies
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
4690 5642 7035
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 73.52% 71.74% 71.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 3529 4083 5194
Average daily rate £450 £463 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.70% -7.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £313 £300 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 98 100
Average hourly rate £41.50 £24.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+72.91% -4.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.20 £15.00 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £47.50 £50.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
BPEL
London

BPEL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London BPEL Jobs Demand Trend

BPEL
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London BPEL Daily Rate Trend

BPEL
Daily Rate Histogram

This 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 24 May 2013.

City of London BPEL Daily Rate Histogram

BPEL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, 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 10 (66.67%) Finance
2 9 (60.00%) Oracle
3 7 (46.67%) JDeveloper
4 6 (40.00%) SOA
4 6 (40.00%) XML
5 5 (33.33%) PL/SQL
5 5 (33.33%) SQL
5 5 (33.33%) Oracle 10g
5 5 (33.33%) Process Management
5 5 (33.33%) Oracle EBS
5 5 (33.33%) Oracle 11g
5 5 (33.33%) BPMN
6 4 (26.67%) Oracle EBS R12
6 4 (26.67%) Workflow
6 4 (26.67%) UNIX
7 3 (20.00%) Oracle Forms
7 3 (20.00%) Shell Script
7 3 (20.00%) Middleware
7 3 (20.00%) SQLPlus
7 3 (20.00%) Oracle Applications
7 3 (20.00%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (20.00%) Waterfall
7 3 (20.00%) Business Analysis
8 2 (13.33%) MS PowerPoint
8 2 (13.33%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
8 2 (13.33%) Oracle BI EE
8 2 (13.33%) Banking
8 2 (13.33%) Oracle iProcurement
8 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
8 2 (13.33%) Legal

BPEL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, 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 (40.00%) XML
2 3 (20.00%) Middleware
3 2 (13.33%) Web Services
3 2 (13.33%) WSDL
4 1 (6.667%) UDDI
4 1 (6.667%) WS-I
4 1 (6.667%) JAXB
4 1 (6.667%) SAX
4 1 (6.667%) ASP.NET
4 1 (6.667%) SOAP
4 1 (6.667%) .NET
4 1 (6.667%) XSD
4 1 (6.667%) DOM
4 1 (6.667%) XSLT
4 1 (6.667%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (6.667%) WF
Application Platforms
1 3 (20.00%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (6.667%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (6.667%) Oracle Application Server
2 1 (6.667%) Oracle Service Bus
2 1 (6.667%) ESB
2 1 (6.667%) Oracle 10gAS
Applications
1 2 (13.33%) MS PowerPoint
2 1 (6.667%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (33.33%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (26.67%) Oracle EBS R12
3 3 (20.00%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (13.33%) Oracle iProcurement
4 2 (13.33%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (6.667%) Oracle 11i
5 1 (6.667%) Oracle HRMS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.667%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (33.33%) Oracle 10g
1 5 (33.33%) Oracle 11g
2 3 (20.00%) SQLPlus
3 2 (13.33%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
3 2 (13.33%) Oracle BI EE
4 1 (6.667%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (6.667%) Siebel EIM
Development Applications
1 7 (46.67%) JDeveloper
2 3 (20.00%) Oracle Forms
General
1 10 (66.67%) Finance
2 2 (13.33%) Banking
2 2 (13.33%) Legal
2 2 (13.33%) Advertising
3 1 (6.667%) Publishing
3 1 (6.667%) Financial Institution
3 1 (6.667%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Business Analyst
1 8 (53.33%) Analyst
2 4 (26.67%) Developer
3 3 (20.00%) Architect
3 3 (20.00%) E-Business Analyst
3 3 (20.00%) Oracle Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Oracle Support Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Oracle Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Business Support Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Support Analyst
5 1 (6.667%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (6.667%) Senior Developer
5 1 (6.667%) Financial Business Analyst
5 1 (6.667%) Oracle Developer
5 1 (6.667%) Siebel Developer
5 1 (6.667%) Business Architect
5 1 (6.667%) Informatica Developer
5 1 (6.667%) Middleware Developer
5 1 (6.667%) Oracle SOA Architect
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) UNIX
2 1 (6.667%) Windows
2 1 (6.667%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) SOA
2 5 (33.33%) Process Management
2 5 (33.33%) BPMN
3 4 (26.67%) Workflow
4 3 (20.00%) Waterfall
4 3 (20.00%) Business Analysis
5 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (6.667%) Data Modelling
6 1 (6.667%) CRM
6 1 (6.667%) ETL
6 1 (6.667%) E-business
6 1 (6.667%) Project Management
6 1 (6.667%) Agile Software Development
6 1 (6.667%) Programme Management
6 1 (6.667%) Financial Modelling
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) PL/SQL
1 5 (33.33%) SQL
2 3 (20.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (6.667%) C#
Vendors
1 9 (60.00%) Oracle
2 2 (13.33%) Business Objects
2 2 (13.33%) Siebel
3 1 (6.667%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.667%) Informatica