The first table below looks at the demand for Oracle Service Bus skills in IT contracts advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Oracle Service Bus over the 3 months to 18 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 Platforms category for the East of England 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle Service Bus (OSB)
Rank 117 133 -
Rank change year-on-year
+16 -
Contract jobs citing Oracle Service Bus 4 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 0.179% 0.066% -
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.005% 0.385% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Average daily rate - £425 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £425 £425
% change year-on-year
-11.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £47.50
All Application Platforms
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
398 519 550
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 17.77% 17.16% 20.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 242 257
Average daily rate £300 £375 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.00% +15.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £233 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £475 £458
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £340
% change year-on-year
- -4.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 44 37
Average hourly rate £23.50 £22.50 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+4.44% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.60 £12.00 £11.09
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £31.54 £35.00 £32.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +2.56%
Oracle Service Bus
England

Oracle Service Bus
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Oracle Service Bus across the East of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

East of England Oracle Service Bus Jobs Demand Trend

Oracle Service Bus
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Oracle Service Bus across the East of England region.

East of England Oracle Service Bus Daily Rate Trend

Oracle Service Bus
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle Service Bus within the East of England region over the 3 months to 18 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
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Job
Vacancies
Hertfordshire - 3 - -
Oracle Service Bus
England

Oracle Service Bus
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing Oracle Service Bus 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 Oracle Service Bus.

1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle
1 4 (100.00%) SOA
2 3 (75.00%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (75.00%) BPEL
2 3 (75.00%) Spring
2 3 (75.00%) Oracle BPM
2 3 (75.00%) JPA
2 3 (75.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (75.00%) User Stories
3 2 (50.00%) EJB 3.0
3 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 2 (50.00%) UML
3 2 (50.00%) EJB
3 2 (50.00%) JSP
3 2 (50.00%) Servlets
3 2 (50.00%) XML
3 2 (50.00%) XSD
4 1 (25.00%) XSLT
4 1 (25.00%) UNIX
4 1 (25.00%) Solaris
4 1 (25.00%) SOAP
4 1 (25.00%) Web Services
4 1 (25.00%) JUnit
4 1 (25.00%) WebLogic
4 1 (25.00%) IIS
4 1 (25.00%) PVCS
4 1 (25.00%) PL/SQL
4 1 (25.00%) C
4 1 (25.00%) HTML

Oracle Service Bus
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing Oracle Service Bus 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 Oracle Service Bus. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (75.00%) Spring
1 3 (75.00%) JPA
2 2 (50.00%) EJB 3.0
2 2 (50.00%) EJB
2 2 (50.00%) JSP
2 2 (50.00%) Servlets
2 2 (50.00%) XML
2 2 (50.00%) XSD
3 1 (25.00%) XSLT
3 1 (25.00%) JMS
3 1 (25.00%) XML Schema
3 1 (25.00%) JAXB
3 1 (25.00%) SOAP
3 1 (25.00%) Web Services
3 1 (25.00%) Ajax
3 1 (25.00%) JSON
3 1 (25.00%) HTML
3 1 (25.00%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (25.00%) WebLogic
2 1 (25.00%) IIS
2 1 (25.00%) Tuxedo
Business Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle BPM
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JUnit
1 1 (25.00%) PVCS
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Retail
1 1 (25.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Applications Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle SOA Developer
1 1 (25.00%) SOA Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) UNIX
1 1 (25.00%) Solaris
1 1 (25.00%) VME
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) SOA
2 3 (75.00%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (75.00%) BPEL
2 3 (75.00%) User Stories
3 2 (50.00%) UML
4 1 (25.00%) OOA/OOD
4 1 (25.00%) OO
4 1 (25.00%) RUP
4 1 (25.00%) Code Coverage
4 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
4 1 (25.00%) MVC
4 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (25.00%) Dependency Injection
4 1 (25.00%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) C
3 1 (25.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) BC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) BEA
2 1 (25.00%) Fujitsu
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