The first table below looks at the demand for SOA skills in IT contracts advertised for the Glasgow region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SOA over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Glasgow 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Rank 59 51 14
Rank change year-on-year
-8 -37
Contract jobs citing SOA 16 8 74
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 1.780% 0.983% 9.610%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.593% 1.471% 13.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 2 57
Average daily rate £338 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.00% +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £334 £355 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £420 £395 £450
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 £23.13 £40.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-42.18% +60.00%
All Processes & Methodologies
Glasgow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
617 544 539
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 68.63% 66.83% 70.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 313 257 322
Average daily rate £340 £338 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.74% -3.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £249 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 23 13
Average hourly rate £9.25 £16.00 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-42.18% -46.66%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
SOA
Scotland

SOA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region.

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Glasgow SOA Daily Rate Histogram

SOA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 22 (62.86%) Java
2 16 (45.71%) Agile Software Development
3 15 (42.86%) SQL
4 14 (40.00%) Hibernate
5 13 (37.14%) Spring
5 13 (37.14%) XML
6 12 (34.29%) Oracle
6 12 (34.29%) SOAP
7 11 (31.43%) Finance
8 10 (28.57%) Informatica
8 10 (28.57%) JMS
8 10 (28.57%) Data Modelling
9 9 (25.71%) Web Services
9 9 (25.71%) Tomcat
9 9 (25.71%) Subversion
9 9 (25.71%) Ruby
9 9 (25.71%) Unit Testing
10 8 (22.86%) Apache
10 8 (22.86%) SQL Server
11 7 (20.00%) UNIX
11 7 (20.00%) UML
11 7 (20.00%) N-Tier
11 7 (20.00%) XML Schema
11 7 (20.00%) TDD
12 6 (17.14%) Scrum
12 6 (17.14%) Ruby on Rails
12 6 (17.14%) Oracle Coherence
12 6 (17.14%) ESB
12 6 (17.14%) RDBMS
12 6 (17.14%) OO

SOA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 (40.00%) Hibernate
2 13 (37.14%) Spring
2 13 (37.14%) XML
3 12 (34.29%) SOAP
4 10 (28.57%) JMS
5 9 (25.71%) Web Services
6 7 (20.00%) XML Schema
7 6 (17.14%) Ruby on Rails
7 6 (17.14%) soapUI
8 4 (11.43%) XSLT
9 1 (2.857%) JAX-RS
9 1 (2.857%) RESTful
9 1 (2.857%) RESTEasy
9 1 (2.857%) JPA
9 1 (2.857%) Apache CXF
9 1 (2.857%) JAX-WS
9 1 (2.857%) Ajax
9 1 (2.857%) Java EE
9 1 (2.857%) jQuery
9 1 (2.857%) JSON
Application Platforms
1 9 (25.71%) Tomcat
2 8 (22.86%) Apache
3 6 (17.14%) Oracle Coherence
3 6 (17.14%) ESB
4 1 (2.857%) GlassFish
4 1 (2.857%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (8.571%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.857%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (2.857%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (2.857%) Oracle EBS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (22.86%) SQL Server
2 6 (17.14%) RDBMS
3 3 (8.571%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.857%) Oracle BI EE
4 1 (2.857%) Oracle 11g
4 1 (2.857%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.857%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (2.857%) Oracle 9i
4 1 (2.857%) MySQL
4 1 (2.857%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 9 (25.71%) Subversion
2 5 (14.29%) JUnit
3 4 (11.43%) ClearCase
3 4 (11.43%) JIRA
4 3 (8.571%) Maven
5 2 (5.714%) Jenkins
5 2 (5.714%) JBehave
6 1 (2.857%) Hudson
6 1 (2.857%) Cucumber
6 1 (2.857%) Rational Application Developer
6 1 (2.857%) RSpec
6 1 (2.857%) Git (software)
6 1 (2.857%) WATIR
6 1 (2.857%) Selenium
6 1 (2.857%) CruiseControl
6 1 (2.857%) Ant
6 1 (2.857%) Eclipse
General
1 11 (31.43%) Finance
2 4 (11.43%) Front Office
3 1 (2.857%) Investment Banking
3 1 (2.857%) Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (40.00%) Developer
2 12 (34.29%) Java Developer
3 10 (28.57%) Analyst
4 5 (14.29%) Test Analyst
5 4 (11.43%) Business Analyst
6 3 (8.571%) Project Manager
7 2 (5.714%) Architect
7 2 (5.714%) Systems Analyst
7 2 (5.714%) Applications Support
7 2 (5.714%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (5.714%) Automation Test Analyst
7 2 (5.714%) Automation Analyst
8 1 (2.857%) Automation Tester
8 1 (2.857%) Production Support Analyst
8 1 (2.857%) Business Solution Architect
8 1 (2.857%) Agile Project Manager
8 1 (2.857%) Designer
8 1 (2.857%) Build Engineer
8 1 (2.857%) DevOps Engineer
8 1 (2.857%) IT Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.00%) N-Tier
2 3 (8.571%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (5.714%) Client/Server
4 1 (2.857%) SaaS
4 1 (2.857%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (2.857%) Smart Meter
4 1 (2.857%) Mashup
4 1 (2.857%) Fixed Income
4 1 (2.857%) Clustering
4 1 (2.857%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 7 (20.00%) UNIX
2 1 (2.857%) Solaris
2 1 (2.857%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (45.71%) Agile Software Development
2 10 (28.57%) Data Modelling
3 9 (25.71%) Unit Testing
4 7 (20.00%) UML
4 7 (20.00%) TDD
5 6 (17.14%) Scrum
5 6 (17.14%) OO
6 5 (14.29%) ETL
7 4 (11.43%) Asset Management
8 3 (8.571%) Product Management
8 3 (8.571%) Extreme Programming
8 3 (8.571%) PRINCE2
9 2 (5.714%) CRM
9 2 (5.714%) ITIL
9 2 (5.714%) OOA/OOD
9 2 (5.714%) Unified Process
9 2 (5.714%) Service Delivery
9 2 (5.714%) Systems Analysis
9 2 (5.714%) Use Case
9 2 (5.714%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 22 (62.86%) Java
2 15 (42.86%) SQL
3 9 (25.71%) Ruby
4 3 (8.571%) Perl
5 2 (5.714%) C#
5 2 (5.714%) T-SQL
5 2 (5.714%) Groovy
6 1 (2.857%) VBScript
6 1 (2.857%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.857%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (5.714%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.857%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.857%) ISTQB
2 1 (2.857%) ISEB
System Software
1 1 (2.857%) Oracle RAC
1 1 (2.857%) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management
1 1 (2.857%) Puppet
1 1 (2.857%) Data Guard
1 1 (2.857%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 12 (34.29%) Oracle
2 10 (28.57%) Informatica
3 6 (17.14%) Sybase
4 4 (11.43%) Perforce
5 3 (8.571%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.857%) JBoss
6 1 (2.857%) SAP
6 1 (2.857%) Chordiant
6 1 (2.857%) HP
6 1 (2.857%) Genesys
6 1 (2.857%) IBM
6 1 (2.857%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.857%) TIBCO