The first table below looks at the demand for SOA skills in IT contracts advertised for the Exeter region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SOA over the 3 months to 17 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 Exeter 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Rank 13 12 15
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +3
Contract jobs citing SOA 10 7 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Exeter 9.009% 11.67% 7.895%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.36% 15.56% 15.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 2
Average daily rate £350 £488 £488
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-28.20% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £488 £458
10% offered a daily rate of more than £363 £488 £518
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £400 £400
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.56 £40.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-21.09% +45.45%
All Processes & Methodologies
Exeter
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
88 45 40
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Exeter 79.28% 75.00% 52.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 22 16
Average daily rate £338 £419 £370
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-19.45% +13.24%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £200 £148
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £513 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 8
Average hourly rate £19.39 £11.75 £29.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+65.02% -60.16%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
SOA
Devon

SOA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Exeter 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 Exeter region.

Exeter SOA Daily Rate Trend

SOA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Exeter 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 17 (94.44%) Oracle
2 14 (77.78%) XML
3 13 (72.22%) Git (software)
4 10 (55.56%) Web Services
4 10 (55.56%) .NET
5 9 (50.00%) VB.NET
6 8 (44.44%) Oracle Applications
6 8 (44.44%) C#
6 8 (44.44%) HTML
6 8 (44.44%) JavaScript
6 8 (44.44%) XSLT
6 8 (44.44%) MCAD
6 8 (44.44%) MCSD
6 8 (44.44%) ASP.NET
6 8 (44.44%) CSS
6 8 (44.44%) XQuery
6 8 (44.44%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (38.89%) Middleware
7 7 (38.89%) Oracle Service Bus
7 7 (38.89%) XPath
8 6 (33.33%) Oracle 11g
8 6 (33.33%) Finance
8 6 (33.33%) SOAP
9 5 (27.78%) Configuration Management
9 5 (27.78%) Degree
9 5 (27.78%) Agile Software Development
10 4 (22.22%) AquaLogic
10 4 (22.22%) Waterfall
10 4 (22.22%) AquaLogic Service Bus
10 4 (22.22%) .NET Framework

SOA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Exeter 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 14 (77.78%) XML
2 10 (55.56%) Web Services
2 10 (55.56%) .NET
3 8 (44.44%) ASP.NET
3 8 (44.44%) CSS
3 8 (44.44%) HTML
3 8 (44.44%) XSLT
4 7 (38.89%) Middleware
5 6 (33.33%) SOAP
6 4 (22.22%) .NET Framework
7 1 (5.556%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (5.556%) WebSphere
7 1 (5.556%) J2EE
7 1 (5.556%) WSDL
Application Platforms
1 7 (38.89%) Oracle Service Bus
2 4 (22.22%) AquaLogic
2 4 (22.22%) AquaLogic Service Bus
3 2 (11.11%) MQSeries
Applications
1 1 (5.556%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (44.44%) Oracle Applications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (33.33%) Oracle 11g
2 1 (5.556%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.556%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 13 (72.22%) Git (software)
General
1 6 (33.33%) Finance
2 3 (16.67%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 17 (94.44%) Developer
2 9 (50.00%) .NET Developer
3 7 (38.89%) Oracle Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Analyst Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Service Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Oracle Analyst
5 1 (5.556%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (5.556%) Project Manager
5 1 (5.556%) ASP.NET Developer
5 1 (5.556%) Technical Manager
5 1 (5.556%) Senior .NET Developer
5 1 (5.556%) WebSphere Developer
5 1 (5.556%) Technical Project Manager
5 1 (5.556%) Senior Developer
5 1 (5.556%) C# Developer
5 1 (5.556%) VB.NET Developer
5 1 (5.556%) VB Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.556%) UNIX
1 1 (5.556%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (27.78%) Configuration Management
1 5 (27.78%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (22.22%) OO
2 4 (22.22%) Waterfall
3 3 (16.67%) B2B
3 3 (16.67%) B2C
4 1 (5.556%) E-Commerce
4 1 (5.556%) Project Planning
4 1 (5.556%) Project Management
4 1 (5.556%) Risk Management
4 1 (5.556%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 9 (50.00%) VB.NET
2 8 (44.44%) XQuery
2 8 (44.44%) C#
2 8 (44.44%) JavaScript
3 7 (38.89%) XPath
4 3 (16.67%) SQL
5 2 (11.11%) Java
5 2 (11.11%) C
6 1 (5.556%) VB
Qualifications
1 8 (44.44%) MCAD
1 8 (44.44%) MCSD
1 8 (44.44%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (27.78%) Degree
Vendors
1 17 (94.44%) Oracle
2 1 (5.556%) IBM