Docklands, London SOA Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) skills within the Docklands, London region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited SOA over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Location Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire City of London County Antrim Croydon Docklands, London Dover East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Farnham Gerrards Cross Glamorgan Glasgow Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Reading Rickmansworth Salford Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Street Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	51	84
Rank change on same period last year	+33
Matching contract IT job ads	16	15
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.021 %	0.015 %
As % of the category below	2.914 %	1.613 %
Daily rates quoted	9	13
Average minimum daily rate	£336	£525
Average daily rate	£339	£548
% change on same period last year	-38.12 %
Average maximum daily rate	£342	£571
UK excluding London average daily rate	£402	£429
% change on same period last year	-6.29 %
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	£38.45	£35.00
% change on same period last year	+9.86 %
Processes & Methodologies Docklands, London
Matching contract IT job ads	549	930
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.724 %	0.926 %
Daily rates quoted	321	420
Average minimum daily rate	£421	£427
Average daily rate	£442	£454
% change on same period last year	-2.81 %
Average maximum daily rate	£462	£482
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£377
% change on same period last year	+0.74 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.20	£21.22
Average hourly rate	£21.80	£21.61
% change on same period last year	+0.87 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.40	£22.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.30	£30.18
% change on same period last year	+0.42 %
SOA 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.

SOA
Demand Trend

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

SOA
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SOA across the Docklands, London region.

SOA
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SOA across the Docklands, London region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

SOA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Docklands, 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 29 (87.88 %) Oracle 2 24 (72.73 %) SQL 3 18 (54.55 %) J2EE 4 17 (51.52 %) Java 5 12 (36.36 %) Sybase 5 12 (36.36 %) Banking 6 11 (33.33 %) Investment Banking 6 11 (33.33 %) Derivative 6 11 (33.33 %) C# 6 11 (33.33 %) C++ 6 11 (33.33 %) OOP 6 11 (33.33 %) RDBMS 7 10 (30.30 %) XML 7 10 (30.30 %) Finance 8 9 (27.27 %) Content Management

8 9 (27.27 %) RUP 9 8 (24.24 %) Oracle 9i 9 8 (24.24 %) Oracle 10g 9 8 (24.24 %) Agile Software Development 10 7 (21.21 %) LoadRunner 10 7 (21.21 %) UNIX 10 7 (21.21 %) HTML 10 7 (21.21 %) MS Office 10 7 (21.21 %) SAP 10 7 (21.21 %) EJB 11 6 (18.18 %) XSL 11 6 (18.18 %) VERITAS 11 6 (18.18 %) IBM 11 6 (18.18 %) Unified Process 11 6 (18.18 %) Test Scripting

SOA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Docklands, 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 18 (54.55 %) J2EE 2 10 (30.30 %) XML 3 7 (21.21 %) HTML 3 7 (21.21 %) EJB 4 6 (18.18 %) XSL 5 4 (12.12 %) JSP 6 3 (9.091 %) Middleware 7 2 (6.061 %) JMS 7 2 (6.061 %) JavaBeans 7 2 (6.061 %) WebSphere 8 1 (3.030 %) SAP XI 8 1 (3.030 %) JNDI 8 1 (3.030 %) Xerces 8 1 (3.030 %) Xalan 8 1 (3.030 %) Servlets 8 1 (3.030 %) WebServices 8 1 (3.030 %) JMX 8 1 (3.030 %) JAAS 8 1 (3.030 %) SAML	Application Platforms 1 4 (12.12 %) Documentum 2 3 (9.091 %) Oracle 10gAS 3 1 (3.030 %) CMS 3 1 (3.030 %) WebSphere Message Broker 3 1 (3.030 %) WPS 3 1 (3.030 %) Lotus Domino 3 1 (3.030 %) WebLogic 3 1 (3.030 %) IIS 3 1 (3.030 %) WebSphere MQ
Applications 1 7 (21.21 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 1 (3.030 %) Firewall 1 1 (3.030 %) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 11 (33.33 %) RDBMS 2 8 (24.24 %) Oracle 9i 2 8 (24.24 %) Oracle 10g 3 1 (3.030 %) Oracle 8/8i 3 1 (3.030 %) ETL 3 1 (3.030 %) EDRMS 3 1 (3.030 %) SAP BW	Development Applications 1 7 (21.21 %) LoadRunner 2 5 (15.15 %) Rational Rose 3 1 (3.030 %) Ant
General 1 12 (36.36 %) Banking 2 11 (33.33 %) Investment Banking 3 10 (30.30 %) Finance 4 2 (6.061 %) Government 4 2 (6.061 %) Publishing 5 1 (3.030 %) Retail Banking 5 1 (3.030 %) Retail	Job Titles 1 8 (24.24 %) Developer 2 7 (21.21 %) Architect 3 6 (18.18 %) Tester 3 6 (18.18 %) Java Developer 3 6 (18.18 %) Technical Tester 4 5 (15.15 %) Software Architect 5 4 (12.12 %) Senior Developer 6 3 (9.091 %) Solutions Designer 6 3 (9.091 %) DBA 6 3 (9.091 %) Software Engineer 6 3 (9.091 %) Analyst 6 3 (9.091 %) Oracle DBA 6 3 (9.091 %) Senior Software Engineer 6 3 (9.091 %) Java Software Engineer 6 3 (9.091 %) Senior Java Software Engineer 6 3 (9.091 %) Functional Tester 6 3 (9.091 %) Non-Functional Tester 7 2 (6.061 %) Junior 7 2 (6.061 %) Senior Programmer 7 2 (6.061 %) Junior Java Developer
Miscellaneous 1 11 (33.33 %) Derivative 2 2 (6.061 %) Management Information System 3 1 (3.030 %) Clustering	Operating Systems 1 7 (21.21 %) UNIX 2 4 (12.12 %) Windows 2 4 (12.12 %) Solaris 3 1 (3.030 %) Windows 2000 3 1 (3.030 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 11 (33.33 %) OOP 2 9 (27.27 %) Content Management 2 9 (27.27 %) RUP 3 8 (24.24 %) Agile Software Development 4 6 (18.18 %) Unified Process 4 6 (18.18 %) Test Scripting 5 5 (15.15 %) Performance Testing 5 5 (15.15 %) UML 5 5 (15.15 %) OOA/OOD 6 3 (9.091 %) Use Case 6 3 (9.091 %) Network Load Balancing 6 3 (9.091 %) Document Management 7 2 (6.061 %) Configuration Management 7 2 (6.061 %) EAI 7 2 (6.061 %) Data Modelling 7 2 (6.061 %) OO 7 2 (6.061 %) Requirements Analysis 7 2 (6.061 %) Time Management 7 2 (6.061 %) Change Management 8 1 (3.030 %) GAP Analysis	Programming Languages 1 24 (72.73 %) SQL 2 17 (51.52 %) Java 3 11 (33.33 %) C# 3 11 (33.33 %) C++ 4 2 (6.061 %) XQuery 4 2 (6.061 %) C 5 1 (3.030 %) Perl
Qualifications 1 1 (3.030 %) ISEB 1 1 (3.030 %) PRINCE2 Certification	System Software 1 3 (9.091 %) Oracle RAC
Systems Management 1 1 (3.030 %) BMC PATROL	Vendors 1 29 (87.88 %) Oracle 2 12 (36.36 %) Sybase 3 7 (21.21 %) SAP 4 6 (18.18 %) VERITAS 4 6 (18.18 %) IBM 5 3 (9.091 %) Siebel 5 3 (9.091 %) Sun 5 3 (9.091 %) TIBCO 6 1 (3.030 %) FileNet 6 1 (3.030 %) Open Text 6 1 (3.030 %) Vignette 6 1 (3.030 %) EMC 6 1 (3.030 %) Intel 6 1 (3.030 %) BMC