The first table below looks at the demand for BPEL skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited BPEL 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 Processes & Methodologies category for the 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Business Process Execution Language (BPEL)
Rank 431 419 506
Rank change year-on-year
-12 +87
Contract jobs citing BPEL 82 140 65
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.197% 0.262% 0.116%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.276% 0.384% 0.170%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 71 30
Average daily rate £425 £450 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.55% -5.26%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £320 £323
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £475 £575
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £419 £360
% change year-on-year
-10.44% +16.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £40.00
All Processes & Methodologies
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
29704 36492 38199
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 71.44% 68.42% 67.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 18148 21397 22087
Average daily rate £420 £413 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.81% -8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £588 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 918 1197 1399
Average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £28.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+28.00% -12.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.55 £13.21 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
BPEL
UK

BPEL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England BPEL Jobs Demand Trend

BPEL
Daily Rate Trend

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

England BPEL Daily Rate Trend

BPEL
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing BPEL across the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

England BPEL Daily Rate Histogram

BPEL
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England BPEL Hourly Rate Trend

BPEL
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BPEL within the England region over the 3 months to 24 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
London +29 28 £525 +14.13%
South East -16 18 £500 +33.33%
Yorkshire +7 16 £375 +4.16%
South West +6 9 £425 -5.55%
North West +15 4 £402 -17.64%
East of England - 3 - -
East Midlands - 3 - -
West Midlands +8 1 £280 -
BPEL
UK

BPEL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing BPEL 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 BPEL.

1 128 (73.14%) Oracle
2 89 (50.86%) SOA
3 77 (44.00%) Oracle 11g
4 75 (42.86%) Middleware
5 50 (28.57%) Oracle 10g
5 50 (28.57%) WebLogic
6 48 (27.43%) Oracle Service Bus
7 47 (26.86%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 47 (26.86%) SQL
8 46 (26.29%) Linux
9 45 (25.71%) Oracle Fusion
9 45 (25.71%) ESB
10 42 (24.00%) Oracle Application Server
11 41 (23.43%) Oracle EBS
12 39 (22.29%) ITIL
12 39 (22.29%) Java
13 38 (21.71%) Oracle 10gAS
14 37 (21.14%) Oracle Linux
15 32 (18.29%) Web Services
16 31 (17.71%) UNIX
16 31 (17.71%) Data Warehouse
17 29 (16.57%) JDeveloper
17 29 (16.57%) Workflow
18 28 (16.00%) Oracle BI EE
18 28 (16.00%) Change Management
18 28 (16.00%) WSDL
19 27 (15.43%) HPUX
19 27 (15.43%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
19 27 (15.43%) Oracle Workflow
20 26 (14.86%) Data Modelling

BPEL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing BPEL 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 BPEL. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 75 (42.86%) Middleware
2 45 (25.71%) Oracle Fusion
3 32 (18.29%) Web Services
4 28 (16.00%) WSDL
5 26 (14.86%) XML
6 21 (12.00%) SOAP
7 19 (10.86%) .NET
8 14 (8.000%) J2EE
9 12 (6.857%) XSLT
9 12 (6.857%) XSD
9 12 (6.857%) WebSphere
10 9 (5.143%) JMS
10 9 (5.143%) WCF
10 9 (5.143%) REST
11 6 (3.429%) WebCenter
11 6 (3.429%) WS-I
12 5 (2.857%) JDBC
12 5 (2.857%) XML Schema
12 5 (2.857%) BPEL4WS
13 4 (2.286%) EJB
Application Platforms
1 50 (28.57%) WebLogic
2 48 (27.43%) Oracle Service Bus
3 47 (26.86%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 45 (25.71%) ESB
5 42 (24.00%) Oracle Application Server
6 38 (21.71%) Oracle 10gAS
7 27 (15.43%) Oracle Workflow
8 14 (8.000%) Oracle BPEL
9 9 (5.143%) Tomcat
9 9 (5.143%) Apache
10 5 (2.857%) WebSphere Process Server
11 4 (2.286%) WebSphere MQ
12 3 (1.714%) BizTalk Server
12 3 (1.714%) AquaLogic
12 3 (1.714%) JCAPS
12 3 (1.714%) AquaLogic Service Bus
13 1 (0.571%) WebSphere Application Server
13 1 (0.571%) WebLogic Portal
13 1 (0.571%) WebLogic Integration
13 1 (0.571%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 24 (13.71%) MS Visio
2 19 (10.86%) MS Excel
2 19 (10.86%) MS Office
3 2 (1.143%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 41 (23.43%) Oracle EBS
2 24 (13.71%) Oracle EBS R12
3 14 (8.000%) Oracle Applications
4 13 (7.429%) Oracle BPM
5 11 (6.286%) Oracle 11i
6 5 (2.857%) Oracle Financials
6 5 (2.857%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (1.143%) Oracle iProcurement
7 2 (1.143%) Oracle Manufacturing
7 2 (1.143%) Oracle HRMS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.143%) VPN
1 9 (5.143%) LAN
1 9 (5.143%) WAN
1 9 (5.143%) SAN
1 9 (5.143%) NAS
2 6 (3.429%) HTTP
3 3 (1.714%) SSL
4 1 (0.571%) FTP
4 1 (0.571%) RFID
4 1 (0.571%) Internet
4 1 (0.571%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (44.00%) Oracle 11g
2 50 (28.57%) Oracle 10g
3 31 (17.71%) Data Warehouse
4 28 (16.00%) Oracle BI EE
5 12 (6.857%) Oracle Reports
6 10 (5.714%) Oracle 8/8i
7 8 (4.571%) RDBMS
8 4 (2.286%) Siebel EIM
8 4 (2.286%) SQLPlus
9 3 (1.714%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
10 2 (1.143%) Oracle Discoverer
10 2 (1.143%) TOAD
10 2 (1.143%) Oracle 9i
11 1 (0.571%) OLTP
11 1 (0.571%) DB2
11 1 (0.571%) BusinessObjects
11 1 (0.571%) BODI
11 1 (0.571%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 29 (16.57%) JDeveloper
2 9 (5.143%) Ant
3 7 (4.000%) Hudson
4 5 (2.857%) Oracle Forms
4 5 (2.857%) Eclipse
4 5 (2.857%) Team Foundation Server
5 3 (1.714%) QuickTest Pro
5 3 (1.714%) LoadRunner
5 3 (1.714%) Maven
6 1 (0.571%) JUnit
6 1 (0.571%) CruiseControl
6 1 (0.571%) NUnit
6 1 (0.571%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.571%) Rhino Mocks
6 1 (0.571%) Moq
General
1 24 (13.71%) Finance
2 7 (4.000%) Retail
3 6 (3.429%) Legal
4 4 (2.286%) Banking
5 2 (1.143%) Investment Banking
5 2 (1.143%) Manufacturing
5 2 (1.143%) Advertising
6 1 (0.571%) Financial Institution
6 1 (0.571%) Automotive
6 1 (0.571%) Publishing
6 1 (0.571%) Billing
6 1 (0.571%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 46 (26.29%) Developer
2 35 (20.00%) Analyst
3 31 (17.71%) Business Analyst
4 30 (17.14%) Administrator
5 26 (14.86%) Oracle Developer
6 23 (13.14%) Middleware Administrator
7 19 (10.86%) Credit Risk Analyst
7 19 (10.86%) Credit Analyst
7 19 (10.86%) Credit Risk Business Analyst
7 19 (10.86%) Risk Analyst
8 17 (9.714%) Architect
9 15 (8.571%) SOA Developer
10 14 (8.000%) Oracle SOA Developer
11 12 (6.857%) DBA
11 12 (6.857%) Oracle DBA
12 11 (6.286%) Consultant
13 8 (4.571%) Team Leader
13 8 (4.571%) Infrastructure Team Leader
13 8 (4.571%) Lead Developer
14 7 (4.000%) 3rd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 19 (10.86%) Credit Risk
2 5 (2.857%) Web 2.0
3 3 (1.714%) DataPower
4 2 (1.143%) Computer Science
4 2 (1.143%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.571%) Oracle Exalogic
5 1 (0.571%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 46 (26.29%) Linux
2 37 (21.14%) Oracle Linux
3 31 (17.71%) UNIX
4 27 (15.43%) HPUX
5 15 (8.571%) AIX
6 13 (7.429%) Windows
7 9 (5.143%) Windows Server 2003
7 9 (5.143%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.571%) Solaris
8 1 (0.571%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (50.86%) SOA
2 39 (22.29%) ITIL
3 29 (16.57%) Workflow
4 28 (16.00%) Change Management
5 26 (14.86%) Data Modelling
6 24 (13.71%) User Acceptance Testing
7 19 (10.86%) Data Migration
7 19 (10.86%) Migration
8 18 (10.29%) BPMN
9 16 (9.143%) Business Intelligence
9 16 (9.143%) Agile Software Development
10 15 (8.571%) ETL
10 15 (8.571%) UML
11 12 (6.857%) Project Management
12 11 (6.286%) Process Management
13 10 (5.714%) CRM
14 8 (4.571%) Information Assurance
14 8 (4.571%) Stakeholder Management
14 8 (4.571%) Enterprise Architecture
15 7 (4.000%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 47 (26.86%) SQL
2 39 (22.29%) Java
3 21 (12.00%) PL/SQL
4 17 (9.714%) C#
4 17 (9.714%) Shell Script
5 12 (6.857%) XPath
6 9 (5.143%) XQuery
7 4 (2.286%) Jython
8 1 (0.571%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.571%) R
Qualifications
1 22 (12.57%) Degree
2 12 (6.857%) Security Cleared
3 11 (6.286%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.143%) ISTQB
4 2 (1.143%) ISEB
5 1 (0.571%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.714%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.571%) ISO 9001
2 1 (0.571%) SLA
2 1 (0.571%) QA
System Software
1 19 (10.86%) Oracle RAC
2 9 (5.143%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 27 (15.43%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (0.571%) Data Guard
2 1 (0.571%) Oracle Identity Manager
2 1 (0.571%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 128 (73.14%) Oracle
2 20 (11.43%) Siebel
3 13 (7.429%) Informatica
4 9 (5.143%) VMware
5 8 (4.571%) IBM
6 7 (4.000%) Microsoft
6 7 (4.000%) HP
7 6 (3.429%) Hyperion
8 4 (2.286%) Business Objects
9 3 (1.714%) Altova
10 1 (0.571%) JBoss
10 1 (0.571%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.571%) Remedy
10 1 (0.571%) Mercator
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