The first table below looks at the demand for Middleware skills in IT contracts advertised for the Devon region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Middleware 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 Application Development category for the Devon 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
Middleware
Rank 22 24 31
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +7
Contract jobs citing Middleware 8 5 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Devon 4.878% 2.747% 0.676%
As % of the Application Development category 11.43% 8.065% 1.124%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 1
Average daily rate £338 £450 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-25.00% -14.28%
UK excluding London average daily rate £413 £413 £395
% change year-on-year
- +4.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £39.00 £40.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -1.23%
All Application Development
Devon
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
70 62 89
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Devon 42.68% 34.07% 60.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 35 43
Average daily rate £350 £308 £376
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.82% -18.10%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £200 £230
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £450 £440
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 7
Average hourly rate - £10.00 £29.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -66.10%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
Middleware
South West

Middleware
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Middleware across the Devon region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Devon Middleware Jobs Demand Trend

Middleware
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Middleware across the Devon region.

Devon Middleware Daily Rate Trend

Middleware
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Middleware within the Devon region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Exeter -3 6 £350 -22.22%
Middleware
South West

Middleware
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Devon region citing Middleware 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 Middleware.

1 7 (77.78%) Oracle
1 7 (77.78%) SOAP
1 7 (77.78%) XML
1 7 (77.78%) Oracle 11g
1 7 (77.78%) Oracle Service Bus
2 5 (55.56%) Finance
2 5 (55.56%) Web Services
2 5 (55.56%) SOA
3 4 (44.44%) Git (software)
4 3 (33.33%) Degree
4 3 (33.33%) MQSeries
5 2 (22.22%) Configuration Management
5 2 (22.22%) Agile Software Development
5 2 (22.22%) WSDL
5 2 (22.22%) AquaLogic
5 2 (22.22%) Waterfall
5 2 (22.22%) AquaLogic Service Bus
6 1 (11.11%) Memcached
6 1 (11.11%) AppFabric
6 1 (11.11%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 1 (11.11%) Redis
6 1 (11.11%) Mobile App
6 1 (11.11%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (11.11%) Windows Azure
6 1 (11.11%) NHibernate
6 1 (11.11%) .NET Framework
6 1 (11.11%) Ajax
6 1 (11.11%) WCF
6 1 (11.11%) LINQ
6 1 (11.11%) Release Management

Middleware
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Devon region citing Middleware 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 Middleware. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (77.78%) SOAP
1 7 (77.78%) XML
2 5 (55.56%) Web Services
3 2 (22.22%) WSDL
4 1 (11.11%) Memcached
4 1 (11.11%) AppFabric
4 1 (11.11%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 1 (11.11%) NHibernate
4 1 (11.11%) .NET Framework
4 1 (11.11%) Ajax
4 1 (11.11%) WCF
4 1 (11.11%) LINQ
4 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET
4 1 (11.11%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 7 (77.78%) Oracle Service Bus
2 3 (33.33%) MQSeries
3 2 (22.22%) AquaLogic
3 2 (22.22%) AquaLogic Service Bus
4 1 (11.11%) Windows Azure
4 1 (11.11%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (77.78%) Oracle 11g
2 1 (11.11%) Redis
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Git (software)
2 1 (11.11%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (11.11%) Subversion
General
1 5 (55.56%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Retail
2 1 (11.11%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Developer
1 7 (77.78%) Oracle Developer
2 4 (44.44%) Analyst Developer
2 4 (44.44%) Analyst
2 4 (44.44%) Service Analyst
2 4 (44.44%) Oracle Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Test Environment Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Environment Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Leader
3 1 (11.11%) Developer Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Test Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Mobile App
1 1 (11.11%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) SOA
2 2 (22.22%) Configuration Management
2 2 (22.22%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (22.22%) Waterfall
3 1 (11.11%) Release Management
3 1 (11.11%) B2B
3 1 (11.11%) OO
3 1 (11.11%) E-Commerce
3 1 (11.11%) MVC
3 1 (11.11%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
1 1 (11.11%) C#
1 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
1 1 (11.11%) VBA
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Degree
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) SAP