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The table below looks at the demand for Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) skills within the East Midlands region with a comparison to our Application Platforms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited ESB over the 3 months to 15 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkEnterprise Service Bus (ESB)
Location
3 months to
15 Oct 2008
Same period last year
Rank-85
Rank change on same period last yearNew entry-
Matching contract IT job ads010
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.000 %0.010 %
As % of the category below0.000 %3.436 %
Daily rates quoted04
Average minimum daily rate-£500
Average daily rate-£513
% change on same period last year-
Average maximum daily rate-£525
UK excluding London average daily rate£462£450
% change on same period last year+2.79 %
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£52.50£42.00
% change on same period last year+25.00 %
East Midlands IT Contractor Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
East Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads255291
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.363 %0.301 %
Daily rates quoted6944
Average minimum daily rate£327£348
Average daily rate£345£368
% change on same period last year-6.16 %
Average maximum daily rate£363£388
UK excluding London average daily rate£350£337
% change on same period last year+3.82 %
Hourly rates quoted2656
Average minimum hourly rate£20.08£18.13
Average hourly rate£22.07£18.94
% change on same period last year+16.54 %
Average maximum hourly rate£24.06£19.74
UK excluding London average hourly rate£24.76£23.84
% change on same period last year+3.86 %
ESB EnglandESB
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.

ESB
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing ESB across the East Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

East Midlands ESB Demand Trend

ESB
Daily Rate Trend

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

East Midlands ESB Daily Rate Trend

ESB
Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands region citing ESB 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 ESB.

19 (100.00 %)Oracle
19 (100.00 %)WebServices
19 (100.00 %)Java
19 (100.00 %)Hibernate
28 (88.89 %)Spring
28 (88.89 %)WSDL
37 (77.78 %)JUnit
46 (66.67 %)WebLogic
46 (66.67 %)J2EE
46 (66.67 %)JAX-WS
55 (55.56 %)Oracle 8/8i
55 (55.56 %)XML
55 (55.56 %)XSD
63 (33.33 %)JSR 168
63 (33.33 %)SOAP
63 (33.33 %)XML Schema
72 (22.22 %)JDeveloper
72 (22.22 %)Oracle 9i
72 (22.22 %)Eclipse
72 (22.22 %)Apache
72 (22.22 %)Continuous Integration
72 (22.22 %)DAO
72 (22.22 %)NetBeans
81 (11.11 %)Apache Axis
81 (11.11 %)JAX-RPC
81 (11.11 %)Middleware

ESB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands region citing ESB 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 ESB. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

East Midlands IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
19 (100.00 %)WebServices
19 (100.00 %)Hibernate
28 (88.89 %)Spring
28 (88.89 %)WSDL
36 (66.67 %)J2EE
36 (66.67 %)JAX-WS
45 (55.56 %)XML
45 (55.56 %)XSD
53 (33.33 %)SOAP
53 (33.33 %)XML Schema
53 (33.33 %)JSR 168
62 (22.22 %)NetBeans
62 (22.22 %)DAO
71 (11.11 %)Apache Axis
71 (11.11 %)JAX-RPC
71 (11.11 %)Middleware
East Midlands IT Contractor Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
16 (66.67 %)WebLogic
22 (22.22 %)Apache
East Midlands IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
15 (55.56 %)Oracle 8/8i
22 (22.22 %)Oracle 9i
East Midlands IT Contractor Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
17 (77.78 %)JUnit
22 (22.22 %)Eclipse
22 (22.22 %)JDeveloper
East Midlands IT Contractor Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
19 (100.00 %)Developer
19 (100.00 %)Java Developer
25 (55.56 %)Java/J2EE Developer
34 (44.44 %)J2EE Developer
East Midlands IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
12 (22.22 %)Continuous Integration
East Midlands IT Contractor Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
19 (100.00 %)Java
East Midlands IT Contractor Job Market, VendorsVendors
19 (100.00 %)Oracle