The first table below looks at the demand for SOA 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 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 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Rank 52 45 45
Rank change year-on-year
-7 0
Contract jobs citing SOA 6 18 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.747% 1.636% 1.530%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.103% 2.439% 2.315%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 12
Average daily rate £438 £315 £381
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+38.88% -17.37%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £390 £270 £228
10% offered a daily rate of more than £468 £410 £496
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
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
544 738 864
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 67.75% 67.09% 66.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 251 370 475
Average daily rate £403 £375 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.33% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £263 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £483 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
- -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 17 9
Average hourly rate £20.00 £24.00 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-16.66% +50.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £13.07 £10.45
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.50 £32.00 £32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+28.00% -16.66%
SOA
Scotland

SOA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh SOA Daily Rate Trend

SOA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 20 (52.63%) Middleware
1 20 (52.63%) Java
2 18 (47.37%) Rational Application Developer
3 17 (44.74%) UML
4 15 (39.47%) CRM
4 15 (39.47%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (34.21%) Stakeholder Management
5 13 (34.21%) eTOM
6 11 (28.95%) Oracle
7 6 (15.79%) Linux
8 5 (13.16%) Finance
9 4 (10.53%) Technical Architecture
9 4 (10.53%) Java EE
9 4 (10.53%) Agile Software Development
9 4 (10.53%) Zachman Framework
9 4 (10.53%) TOGAF
9 4 (10.53%) Maven
9 4 (10.53%) IBM
9 4 (10.53%) JBoss
9 4 (10.53%) UNIX
9 4 (10.53%) Ant
9 4 (10.53%) JUnit
9 4 (10.53%) Unified Communications
9 4 (10.53%) soapUI
9 4 (10.53%) Git (software)
9 4 (10.53%) JAX-WS
9 4 (10.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (10.53%) Jenkins
10 3 (7.895%) Continuous Improvement
10 3 (7.895%) Oracle BI EE

SOA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 20 (52.63%) Middleware
2 4 (10.53%) soapUI
2 4 (10.53%) Java EE
2 4 (10.53%) JAX-WS
3 2 (5.263%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (5.263%) WebCenter
3 2 (5.263%) WebSphere
4 1 (2.632%) J2EE
4 1 (2.632%) Web Services
4 1 (2.632%) XML
4 1 (2.632%) XSLT
4 1 (2.632%) EDI
Application Platforms
1 3 (7.895%) WebLogic
2 2 (5.263%) Oracle HTTP Server
2 2 (5.263%) Oracle Application Server
Business Applications
1 3 (7.895%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (5.263%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.53%) Unified Communications
2 2 (5.263%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.895%) Oracle BI EE
2 2 (5.263%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.263%) RDBMS
2 2 (5.263%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 18 (47.37%) Rational Application Developer
2 4 (10.53%) Jenkins
2 4 (10.53%) Ant
2 4 (10.53%) JUnit
2 4 (10.53%) Maven
2 4 (10.53%) Git (software)
General
1 5 (13.16%) Finance
2 1 (2.632%) Retail
Job Titles
1 24 (63.16%) Architect
2 17 (44.74%) Solutions Architect
3 15 (39.47%) Solutions Designer
3 15 (39.47%) Designer
4 12 (31.58%) CRM Architect
4 12 (31.58%) SOA Architect
5 4 (10.53%) Infrastructure Architect
6 3 (7.895%) Java Developer
6 3 (7.895%) Consultant
6 3 (7.895%) Developer
6 3 (7.895%) Analyst
7 2 (5.263%) Systems Engineer
7 2 (5.263%) Enterprise Architect
7 2 (5.263%) Oracle Analyst
8 1 (2.632%) Java Architect
8 1 (2.632%) Middleware Administrator
8 1 (2.632%) Middleware Analyst
8 1 (2.632%) Oracle Consultant
8 1 (2.632%) Infrastructure Consultant
8 1 (2.632%) Java Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 15 (39.47%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (2.632%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (15.79%) Linux
2 4 (10.53%) UNIX
2 4 (10.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (5.263%) Windows
3 2 (5.263%) AIX
3 2 (5.263%) Solaris
3 2 (5.263%) zOS
3 2 (5.263%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (5.263%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (44.74%) UML
2 15 (39.47%) CRM
3 13 (34.21%) eTOM
3 13 (34.21%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (10.53%) Agile Software Development
4 4 (10.53%) Zachman Framework
4 4 (10.53%) TOGAF
4 4 (10.53%) Technical Architecture
5 3 (7.895%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (5.263%) Supplier Management
6 2 (5.263%) Process Management
7 1 (2.632%) User Acceptance Testing
7 1 (2.632%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 20 (52.63%) Java
2 2 (5.263%) Perl
2 2 (5.263%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (2.632%) SC Cleared
1 1 (2.632%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.632%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (5.263%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 2 (5.263%) Tivoli
1 2 (5.263%) Tivoli Monitoring
1 2 (5.263%) Netcool
Vendors
1 11 (28.95%) Oracle
2 4 (10.53%) JBoss
2 4 (10.53%) IBM
3 1 (2.632%) Genesys
3 1 (2.632%) Pega
3 1 (2.632%) Chordiant
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