The first table below looks at the demand for ESB skills in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ESB over the 3 months to 24 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 Application Platforms category for the Edinburgh 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)
Rank - 62 -
Contract jobs citing ESB 0 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh - 0.092% -
As % of the Application Platforms category - 0.654% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £380 £400 £463
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -13.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £39.00 £40.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -
All Application Platforms
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
149 153 163
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 17.89% 14.08% 12.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 60 58
Average daily rate £350 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £184 £200 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £430 £438
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £343
% change year-on-year
- -5.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 4
Average hourly rate £20.00 £13.75 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+45.45% -21.42%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.40 £11.75 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.50 £14.00 £18.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -2.43%
ESB
Scotland

ESB
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing ESB across the Edinburgh region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Edinburgh ESB Jobs Demand Trend

ESB
Daily Rate Trend

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

Edinburgh ESB Daily Rate Trend

ESB
Top 8 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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.

1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) XML Schema
1 1 (100.00%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (100.00%) WCF
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008

ESB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) XML Schema
1 1 (100.00%) WCF
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) BizTalk Server
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) BizTalk Developer