The first table below looks at the demand for SOA 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 SOA over the 3 months to 19 June 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Rank 126 126 158
Rank change year-on-year
0 +32
Contract jobs citing SOA 88 91 94
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 1.298% 1.176% 0.939%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.751% 1.626% 1.322%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 66 69
Average daily rate £475 £475 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £380 £375 £346
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £575
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 £23.13 £40.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-42.18% +60.00%
All Processes & Methodologies
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
5027 5597 7112
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 74.14% 72.30% 71.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3796 4123 5235
Average daily rate £450 £475 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.26% -5.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £310 £301 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 82 123
Average hourly rate £31.25 £25.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.00 £16.65 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £125.00 £47.85 £54.00
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 City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London 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 City of London region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

City of London SOA Daily Rate Histogram

SOA
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London SOA Hourly Rate Trend

SOA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 57 (37.75%) Oracle
2 49 (32.45%) Finance
3 39 (25.83%) Banking
4 33 (21.85%) .NET
5 30 (19.87%) SQL Server
5 30 (19.87%) Java
6 29 (19.21%) C#
6 29 (19.21%) Middleware
6 29 (19.21%) Scrum
7 28 (18.54%) TDD
7 28 (18.54%) XML
8 27 (17.88%) Microsoft
9 26 (17.22%) SQL
10 24 (15.89%) UML
11 22 (14.57%) Windows
12 19 (12.58%) J2EE
13 18 (11.92%) Agile Software Development
14 16 (10.60%) Web Services
14 16 (10.60%) Linux
15 15 (9.934%) Data Modelling
16 14 (9.272%) N-Tier
16 14 (9.272%) C++
16 14 (9.272%) Oracle 11g
17 13 (8.609%) PL/SQL
17 13 (8.609%) SOAP
17 13 (8.609%) OO
18 12 (7.947%) Investment Banking
18 12 (7.947%) UNIX
18 12 (7.947%) Blackberry
18 12 (7.947%) BizTalk Server

SOA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 33 (21.85%) .NET
2 29 (19.21%) Middleware
3 28 (18.54%) XML
4 19 (12.58%) J2EE
5 16 (10.60%) Web Services
6 13 (8.609%) SOAP
7 11 (7.285%) Cocoa Touch
7 11 (7.285%) MonoTouch
7 11 (7.285%) iOS SDK
7 11 (7.285%) Oracle Fusion
7 11 (7.285%) ASP.NET
7 11 (7.285%) WCF
7 11 (7.285%) Cocoa
8 10 (6.623%) REST
9 8 (5.298%) HTML
10 7 (4.636%) CSS
10 7 (4.636%) JSP
10 7 (4.636%) Spring
10 7 (4.636%) WebSphere
11 6 (3.974%) Hibernate
Application Platforms
1 12 (7.947%) BizTalk Server
2 9 (5.960%) ESB
3 8 (5.298%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 7 (4.636%) WebLogic
5 5 (3.311%) Apache
5 5 (3.311%) SharePoint
5 5 (3.311%) CMS
5 5 (3.311%) Oracle Workflow
5 5 (3.311%) Oracle Coherence
6 4 (2.649%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (1.987%) Drupal
7 3 (1.987%) Tomcat
8 2 (1.325%) AquaLogic
8 2 (1.325%) WebLogic Portal
9 1 (0.662%) Adobe CQ
9 1 (0.662%) Oracle Service Bus
9 1 (0.662%) Amazon AWS
9 1 (0.662%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.662%) WebSphere Message Broker
9 1 (0.662%) MQSeries
Applications
1 8 (5.298%) MS Excel
2 5 (3.311%) MS Office
3 4 (2.649%) MS PowerPoint
4 1 (0.662%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.662%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 5 (3.311%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (2.649%) Oracle Applications
2 4 (2.649%) Oracle EBS R12
2 4 (2.649%) Oracle BPM
3 3 (1.987%) Summit
4 2 (1.325%) Oracle iProcurement
5 1 (0.662%) AquaLogic BPM
5 1 (0.662%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.662%) HFM
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.298%) NFC
2 4 (2.649%) SAN
2 4 (2.649%) DHCP
2 4 (2.649%) HTTP
2 4 (2.649%) SNMP
2 4 (2.649%) DNS
3 3 (1.987%) Internet
4 2 (1.325%) SMTP
4 2 (1.325%) Network Security
5 1 (0.662%) AMQP
5 1 (0.662%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.662%) BSS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (19.87%) SQL Server
2 14 (9.272%) Oracle 11g
3 6 (3.974%) RDBMS
3 6 (3.974%) Oracle 10g
3 6 (3.974%) Oracle ODI
4 5 (3.311%) Oracle BI EE
4 5 (3.311%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (2.649%) MySQL
5 4 (2.649%) Oracle 8/8i
6 3 (1.987%) DB2
6 3 (1.987%) SQLPlus
7 2 (1.325%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (1.325%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
7 2 (1.325%) SQL Server 2008
7 2 (1.325%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.325%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.662%) MarkLogic
8 1 (0.662%) OLAP
8 1 (0.662%) TOAD
8 1 (0.662%) Essbase
Development Applications
1 11 (7.285%) Xcode
2 9 (5.960%) Git (software)
3 7 (4.636%) Subversion
4 6 (3.974%) Maven
4 6 (3.974%) JDeveloper
4 6 (3.974%) SpecFlow
5 5 (3.311%) Selenium
5 5 (3.311%) JIRA
6 4 (2.649%) Ant
6 4 (2.649%) Hudson
6 4 (2.649%) TeamCity
6 4 (2.649%) Jenkins
7 3 (1.987%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (1.987%) Mercurial
7 3 (1.987%) Gerrit
7 3 (1.987%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.987%) FishEye
7 3 (1.987%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (1.987%) AnthillPro
7 3 (1.987%) Oracle Forms
General
1 49 (32.45%) Finance
2 39 (25.83%) Banking
3 12 (7.947%) Investment Banking
4 6 (3.974%) Front Office
5 5 (3.311%) Telecoms
5 5 (3.311%) Retail
6 4 (2.649%) Publishing
6 4 (2.649%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.325%) Games
8 1 (0.662%) Back Office
8 1 (0.662%) Billing
8 1 (0.662%) Wholesale Banking
8 1 (0.662%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.662%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (0.662%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 59 (39.07%) Architect
2 54 (35.76%) Developer
3 31 (20.53%) Solutions Architect
4 14 (9.272%) Senior Developer
5 13 (8.609%) SOA Architect
5 13 (8.609%) C# Developer
6 11 (7.285%) iOS Developer
6 11 (7.285%) Senior iOS Developer
7 10 (6.623%) .NET Developer
7 10 (6.623%) Analyst
8 9 (5.960%) Business Analyst
9 8 (5.298%) Java Developer
10 4 (2.649%) DBA
10 4 (2.649%) ASP.NET Developer
10 4 (2.649%) Oracle Architect
11 3 (1.987%) Silverlight Developer
11 3 (1.987%) Drupal Developer
11 3 (1.987%) PHP Drupal Developer
11 3 (1.987%) C# .NET Developer
11 3 (1.987%) C++/C# Developer
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.272%) N-Tier
2 12 (7.947%) Blackberry
2 12 (7.947%) Mobile App
3 11 (7.285%) iPhone
4 8 (5.298%) Java Card
5 6 (3.974%) Open Source
6 5 (3.311%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (3.311%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 5 (3.311%) Grid Computing
7 4 (2.649%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.987%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.987%) Derivative
9 2 (1.325%) iSeries
9 2 (1.325%) Data Integration
10 1 (0.662%) SaaS
10 1 (0.662%) SWIFT
10 1 (0.662%) Digital Media
10 1 (0.662%) Video Conferencing
10 1 (0.662%) Data Conversion
10 1 (0.662%) DataPower
Operating Systems
1 22 (14.57%) Windows
2 16 (10.60%) Linux
3 12 (7.947%) UNIX
3 12 (7.947%) Android
3 12 (7.947%) Apple iOS
4 11 (7.285%) Windows Phone
5 3 (1.987%) Debian
6 1 (0.662%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.662%) CentOS
6 1 (0.662%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.662%) AIX
6 1 (0.662%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (19.21%) Scrum
2 28 (18.54%) TDD
3 24 (15.89%) UML
4 18 (11.92%) Agile Software Development
5 15 (9.934%) Data Modelling
6 13 (8.609%) OO
7 11 (7.285%) Mobile Application Development
7 11 (7.285%) BDD
8 10 (6.623%) Stakeholder Management
8 10 (6.623%) MVC
8 10 (6.623%) Workflow
9 9 (5.960%) Continuous Integration
9 9 (5.960%) ETL
9 9 (5.960%) ITIL
9 9 (5.960%) E-Commerce
10 8 (5.298%) Technical Architecture
10 8 (5.298%) Business Analysis
10 8 (5.298%) Multithreading
11 7 (4.636%) User Acceptance Testing
11 7 (4.636%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 30 (19.87%) Java
2 29 (19.21%) C#
3 26 (17.22%) SQL
4 14 (9.272%) C++
5 13 (8.609%) PL/SQL
6 11 (7.285%) Objective-C
7 10 (6.623%) JavaScript
8 7 (4.636%) PHP
9 6 (3.974%) Shell Script
9 6 (3.974%) Python
10 4 (2.649%) PHP5
11 3 (1.987%) Bash shell
12 2 (1.325%) Ruby
12 2 (1.325%) C
12 2 (1.325%) Perl
12 2 (1.325%) Ada
12 2 (1.325%) Groovy
13 1 (0.662%) Scala
13 1 (0.662%) Clojure
13 1 (0.662%) F#
Qualifications
1 7 (4.636%) Security Cleared
2 6 (3.974%) Degree
3 5 (3.311%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.325%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 2 (1.325%) ISEB
5 1 (0.662%) BC Cleared
5 1 (0.662%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.662%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.960%) QA
2 2 (1.325%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.662%) SLA
3 1 (0.662%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (2.649%) VMware ESX
1 4 (2.649%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (2.649%) XenDesktop
2 3 (1.987%) vCloud
3 1 (0.662%) Xen
Systems Management
1 5 (3.311%) Puppet
Vendors
1 57 (37.75%) Oracle
2 27 (17.88%) Microsoft
3 9 (5.960%) TIBCO
4 7 (4.636%) IBM
4 7 (4.636%) VMware
5 5 (3.311%) Pega
5 5 (3.311%) DataSynapse
6 4 (2.649%) Informatica
6 4 (2.649%) HP
6 4 (2.649%) EMC
6 4 (2.649%) Citrix
6 4 (2.649%) SAP
6 4 (2.649%) Siebel
6 4 (2.649%) JBoss
7 3 (1.987%) Sencha
8 2 (1.325%) Brocade
8 2 (1.325%) Teradata
8 2 (1.325%) Business Objects
8 2 (1.325%) Zend
9 1 (0.662%) Sitecore
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