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The table below looks at the demand for Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) skills within the East Anglia 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 15 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkService-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Location
3 months to
15 Oct 2008
Same period last year
Rank17-
Rank change on same period last yearNew entry-
Matching contract IT job ads10
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.001 %0.000 %
As % of the category below1.471 %0.000 %
Daily rates quoted10
Average minimum daily rate£400-
Average daily rate£450-
% change on same period last year-
Average maximum daily rate£500-
UK excluding London average daily rate£431£426
% change on same period last year+1.20 %
Hourly rates quoted00
Average minimum hourly rate--
Average hourly rate--
% change on same period last year-
Average maximum hourly rate--
UK excluding London average hourly rate£38.50£29.29
% change on same period last year+31.46 %
East Anglia IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
East Anglia
Matching contract IT job ads6860
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.097 %0.062 %
Daily rates quoted811
Average minimum daily rate£366£342
Average daily rate£393£353
% change on same period last year+11.25 %
Average maximum daily rate£421£365
UK excluding London average daily rate£378£370
% change on same period last year+1.93 %
Hourly rates quoted10
Average minimum hourly rate£25.00-
Average hourly rate£30.00-
% change on same period last year-
Average maximum hourly rate£35.00-
UK excluding London average hourly rate£29.30£29.76
% change on same period last year-1.54 %
SOA East of EnglandSOA
East of England

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 East Anglia region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

East Anglia SOA Demand Trend

SOA
Daily Rate Trend

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

East Anglia SOA Daily Rate Trend

SOA
Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Anglia 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.

12 (100.00 %)WebSphere
21 (50.00 %)WPF
21 (50.00 %)QMS
21 (50.00 %)Data Integration
21 (50.00 %)COBOL
21 (50.00 %)Java
21 (50.00 %)SQL
21 (50.00 %)J2EE
21 (50.00 %)SQL Server
21 (50.00 %)DB2
21 (50.00 %)Lotus Domino
21 (50.00 %)DSDM
21 (50.00 %)MS Excel
21 (50.00 %)IBM
21 (50.00 %)CICS
21 (50.00 %)Lotus
21 (50.00 %)Workflow
21 (50.00 %)Finance
21 (50.00 %)Content Management

SOA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Anglia 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.

East Anglia IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
12 (100.00 %)WebSphere
21 (50.00 %)WPF
21 (50.00 %)J2EE
East Anglia IT Contractor Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
11 (50.00 %)Lotus Domino
11 (50.00 %)CICS
East Anglia IT Contractor Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
11 (50.00 %)MS Excel
East Anglia IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
11 (50.00 %)SQL Server
11 (50.00 %)DB2
East Anglia IT Contractor Job Market, GeneralGeneral
11 (50.00 %)Finance
East Anglia IT Contractor Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
11 (50.00 %)Architect
11 (50.00 %)Developer
11 (50.00 %)Solutions Architect
11 (50.00 %)WebSphere Developer
East Anglia IT Contractor Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
11 (50.00 %)Data Integration
East Anglia IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
11 (50.00 %)DSDM
11 (50.00 %)Workflow
11 (50.00 %)Content Management
11 (50.00 %)QMS
East Anglia IT Contractor Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
11 (50.00 %)COBOL
11 (50.00 %)Java
11 (50.00 %)SQL
East Anglia IT Contractor Job Market, VendorsVendors
11 (50.00 %)IBM
11 (50.00 %)Lotus