The first table below looks at the demand for SOA 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 SOA over the 3 months to 20 May 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 Processes & Methodologies 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Rank 78 98 48
Rank change year-on-year
+20 -50
Contract jobs citing SOA 37 38 91
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 1.714% 1.293% 3.524%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.575% 2.005% 5.385%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 25 45
Average daily rate £350 £413 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.15% -13.15%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £250 £353
10% offered a daily rate of more than £463 £508 £575
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £390 £400
% change year-on-year
+2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
- +45.45%
All Processes & Methodologies
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1437 1895 1690
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 66.56% 64.50% 65.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 809 921 762
Average daily rate £375 £373 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.67% -0.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
- -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 131 154 190
Average hourly rate £35.22 £31.50 £32.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+11.80% -2.32%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.39 £12.32 £14.30
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.00 £49.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+28.00% -16.66%
SOA
England

SOA
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing SOA across the East of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

East of England SOA Jobs Demand Trend

SOA
Daily Rate Trend

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

East of England SOA Daily Rate Trend

SOA
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SOA across the East of England region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

East of England SOA Daily Rate Histogram

SOA
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SOA across the East of England region.

East of England SOA Hourly Rate Trend

SOA
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOA within the East of England region over the 3 months to 20 May 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
Hertfordshire +10 14 £388 -13.88%
Bedfordshire - 11 £331 -
Essex +5 4 £363 +45.00%
Cambridgeshire +4 4 £450 +42.85%
Norfolk -6 2 £475 +20.63%
Suffolk - 1 - -
East Anglia - 1 £325 -
SOA
England

SOA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 70 (63.64%) .NET
2 52 (47.27%) TDD
3 46 (41.82%) C#
4 40 (36.36%) Java
5 38 (34.55%) Oracle
6 35 (31.82%) OO
7 34 (30.91%) XML
8 33 (30.00%) SQL Server
9 29 (26.36%) Scrum
9 29 (26.36%) Agile Software Development
10 28 (25.45%) Retail
10 28 (25.45%) Microsoft
11 27 (24.55%) Windows
12 25 (22.73%) Web Services
13 23 (20.91%) N-Tier
14 21 (19.09%) BizTalk Server
15 20 (18.18%) SQL
16 19 (17.27%) J2EE
17 17 (15.45%) ESB
18 16 (14.55%) ASP.NET
19 15 (13.64%) SAP
19 15 (13.64%) Business Intelligence
19 15 (13.64%) MVC
20 14 (12.73%) E-Commerce
21 13 (11.82%) Finance
21 13 (11.82%) Spring
21 13 (11.82%) Windows Azure
22 12 (10.91%) Multithreading
22 12 (10.91%) Systems Analysis
22 12 (10.91%) UML

SOA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 70 (63.64%) .NET
2 34 (30.91%) XML
3 25 (22.73%) Web Services
4 19 (17.27%) J2EE
5 16 (14.55%) ASP.NET
6 13 (11.82%) Spring
7 11 (10.00%) SAP PI
8 10 (9.091%) ASP.NET MVC
8 10 (9.091%) XML Schema
8 10 (9.091%) Hibernate
8 10 (9.091%) WCF
8 10 (9.091%) .NET Framework
9 9 (8.182%) WSDL
9 9 (8.182%) HTML
10 8 (7.273%) SOAP
11 6 (5.455%) Middleware
11 6 (5.455%) NHibernate
11 6 (5.455%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
12 5 (4.545%) REST
12 5 (4.545%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 21 (19.09%) BizTalk Server
2 17 (15.45%) ESB
3 13 (11.82%) Windows Azure
4 8 (7.273%) SharePoint
5 4 (3.636%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 4 (3.636%) Oracle Service Bus
6 3 (2.727%) NServiceBus
6 3 (2.727%) NetWeaver
6 3 (2.727%) WebLogic
7 2 (1.818%) MSMQ
7 2 (1.818%) SharePoint 2010
8 1 (0.909%) Tuxedo
8 1 (0.909%) IIS
8 1 (0.909%) Apache
8 1 (0.909%) WebLogic Portal
8 1 (0.909%) WebLogic Integration
8 1 (0.909%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.909%) TIBCO EMS
Applications
1 10 (9.091%) MS Excel
2 2 (1.818%) MS Project
3 1 (0.909%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 4 (3.636%) Oracle BPM
2 3 (2.727%) SAP CRM
2 3 (2.727%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.909%) BusinessWorks
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.364%) Internet
2 2 (1.818%) WAN
3 1 (0.909%) HTTP
3 1 (0.909%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (30.00%) SQL Server
2 11 (10.00%) VLDB
3 7 (6.364%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 6 (5.455%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (3.636%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 4 (3.636%) Oracle 10g
6 3 (2.727%) SQL Server 2008
6 3 (2.727%) SQL Server 2005
7 2 (1.818%) dBASE
8 1 (0.909%) MySQL
8 1 (0.909%) GIS
8 1 (0.909%) DB2
8 1 (0.909%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.909%) OLTP
8 1 (0.909%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 7 (6.364%) Team Foundation Server
2 6 (5.455%) Git (software)
2 6 (5.455%) JUnit
3 4 (3.636%) Maven
3 4 (3.636%) SpecFlow
4 3 (2.727%) Ant
5 2 (1.818%) JIRA
5 2 (1.818%) Selenium
5 2 (1.818%) Visual Studio
5 2 (1.818%) ClearCase
6 1 (0.909%) QuickTest Pro
6 1 (0.909%) PVCS
6 1 (0.909%) Talend Open Studio
6 1 (0.909%) WATIR
6 1 (0.909%) WebDriver
6 1 (0.909%) Cucumber
General
1 28 (25.45%) Retail
2 13 (11.82%) Finance
3 4 (3.636%) Telecoms
4 3 (2.727%) Billing
5 2 (1.818%) Legal
5 2 (1.818%) Marketing
6 1 (0.909%) Banking
6 1 (0.909%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 52 (47.27%) Architect
1 52 (47.27%) Developer
2 28 (25.45%) Solutions Architect
2 28 (25.45%) .NET Developer
3 20 (18.18%) C# Developer
3 20 (18.18%) C# .NET Developer
4 18 (16.36%) .NET Architect
5 16 (14.55%) C# Architect
6 11 (10.00%) ScrumMaster
7 8 (7.273%) Senior Developer
8 7 (6.364%) Analyst
9 6 (5.455%) Web Developer
9 6 (5.455%) Senior .NET Developer
9 6 (5.455%) Agile .NET Developer
10 5 (4.545%) Designer
11 4 (3.636%) Java Developer
11 4 (3.636%) Systems Analyst
11 4 (3.636%) Solutions Designer
12 3 (2.727%) Project Manager
12 3 (2.727%) Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 23 (20.91%) N-Tier
2 11 (10.00%) Contract for Difference
3 10 (9.091%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (2.727%) IIBA
4 3 (2.727%) NHS
5 1 (0.909%) Mainframe
5 1 (0.909%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.909%) IaaS
5 1 (0.909%) Data Integration
5 1 (0.909%) Inversion of Control
5 1 (0.909%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 27 (24.55%) Windows
2 5 (4.545%) UNIX
3 4 (3.636%) Linux
4 2 (1.818%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (1.818%) Solaris
4 2 (1.818%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (1.818%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.909%) VME
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (47.27%) TDD
2 35 (31.82%) OO
3 29 (26.36%) Scrum
3 29 (26.36%) Agile Software Development
4 15 (13.64%) MVC
4 15 (13.64%) Business Intelligence
5 14 (12.73%) E-Commerce
6 12 (10.91%) UML
6 12 (10.91%) Systems Analysis
6 12 (10.91%) Multithreading
7 11 (10.00%) Unit Testing
8 10 (9.091%) Validation
8 10 (9.091%) Change Management
9 9 (8.182%) CRM
9 9 (8.182%) BDD
10 8 (7.273%) Continuous Integration
11 7 (6.364%) AOP
11 7 (6.364%) Refactoring
11 7 (6.364%) Project Management
12 6 (5.455%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 46 (41.82%) C#
2 40 (36.36%) Java
3 20 (18.18%) SQL
4 11 (10.00%) JavaScript
5 5 (4.545%) PL/SQL
6 3 (2.727%) VB.NET
6 3 (2.727%) ABAP
7 1 (0.909%) Python
7 1 (0.909%) Ruby
7 1 (0.909%) C
Qualifications
1 7 (6.364%) ISEB
2 5 (4.545%) Security Cleared
3 4 (3.636%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.727%) Degree
5 2 (1.818%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.818%) PMP
6 1 (0.909%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.545%) QA
2 2 (1.818%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (0.909%) Oracle RAC
1 1 (0.909%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.909%) OpenView
1 1 (0.909%) OVSD
Vendors
1 38 (34.55%) Oracle
2 28 (25.45%) Microsoft
3 15 (13.64%) SAP
4 6 (5.455%) JBoss
5 3 (2.727%) IBM
5 3 (2.727%) Civica
5 3 (2.727%) TIBCO
6 2 (1.818%) Ab Initio
7 1 (0.909%) VMware
7 1 (0.909%) Google
7 1 (0.909%) Fujitsu
7 1 (0.909%) Talend
7 1 (0.909%) HP
7 1 (0.909%) BEA
7 1 (0.909%) BMC
7 1 (0.909%) CA
7 1 (0.909%) Epicor
7 1 (0.909%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.909%) JD Edwards
7 1 (0.909%) Sage
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