The first table below looks at the demand for SOA skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SOA over the 3 months to 22 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 Hertfordshire 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Rank 51 60 58
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -2
Contract jobs citing SOA 13 15 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 1.997% 1.535% 0.703%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.802% 2.333% 1.136%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 11 4
Average daily rate £354 £450 £575
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-21.38% -21.73%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £300 £540
10% offered a daily rate of more than £463 £513 £593
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 £40.00 £40.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
- +45.45%
All Processes & Methodologies
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
464 643 528
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 71.27% 65.81% 61.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 290 228
Average daily rate £400 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £250 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £575
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 56 76
Average hourly rate £21.50 £33.75 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-36.29% -3.57%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.05 £12.00 £16.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.60 £49.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
SOA
East of England

SOA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Hertfordshire SOA Daily Rate Histogram

SOA
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOA within the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 22 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
St Albans -1 1 £320 -32.63%
SOA
East of England

SOA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 37 (63.79%) .NET
2 30 (51.72%) C#
3 29 (50.00%) TDD
4 28 (48.28%) Retail
5 27 (46.55%) OO
6 25 (43.10%) Agile Software Development
7 20 (34.48%) Windows
8 19 (32.76%) Scrum
9 18 (31.03%) Web Services
10 16 (27.59%) XML
10 16 (27.59%) Oracle
11 15 (25.86%) Java
12 11 (18.97%) Spring
13 10 (17.24%) J2EE
13 10 (17.24%) Microsoft
14 9 (15.52%) SQL
14 9 (15.52%) SQL Server
15 8 (13.79%) N-Tier
15 8 (13.79%) Hibernate
16 7 (12.07%) Unit Testing
17 6 (10.34%) Project Management
17 6 (10.34%) UML
17 6 (10.34%) MS Excel
17 6 (10.34%) CRM
18 5 (8.621%) JBoss
18 5 (8.621%) SOAP
18 5 (8.621%) JUnit
18 5 (8.621%) BizTalk Server
18 5 (8.621%) E-Commerce
18 5 (8.621%) MVC

SOA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 37 (63.79%) .NET
2 18 (31.03%) Web Services
3 16 (27.59%) XML
4 11 (18.97%) Spring
5 10 (17.24%) J2EE
6 8 (13.79%) Hibernate
7 5 (8.621%) SOAP
7 5 (8.621%) WCF
8 4 (6.897%) GWT
8 4 (6.897%) ASP.NET MVC
8 4 (6.897%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
8 4 (6.897%) Unity DI Container
8 4 (6.897%) .NET Framework
8 4 (6.897%) Java EE
8 4 (6.897%) Middleware
8 4 (6.897%) ASP.NET
9 3 (5.172%) Swing
9 3 (5.172%) Apache Flex
9 3 (5.172%) REST
10 2 (3.448%) JPA
Application Platforms
1 5 (8.621%) BizTalk Server
2 4 (6.897%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (6.897%) ESB
3 3 (5.172%) NetWeaver
3 3 (5.172%) SharePoint
3 3 (5.172%) Oracle Service Bus
4 1 (1.724%) WebLogic
4 1 (1.724%) Apache
4 1 (1.724%) WebLogic Portal
4 1 (1.724%) WebLogic Integration
4 1 (1.724%) TIBCO EMS
Applications
1 6 (10.34%) MS Excel
2 2 (3.448%) MS Project
3 1 (1.724%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 4 (6.897%) Oracle BPM
2 3 (5.172%) SAP CRM
3 1 (1.724%) BusinessWorks
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.172%) Internet
2 1 (1.724%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (15.52%) SQL Server
2 4 (6.897%) Oracle 10g
3 3 (5.172%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.724%) MySQL
4 1 (1.724%) OLTP
4 1 (1.724%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (1.724%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (1.724%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 5 (8.621%) JUnit
2 4 (6.897%) Team Foundation Server
3 3 (5.172%) Maven
4 2 (3.448%) JIRA
5 1 (1.724%) ClearCase
5 1 (1.724%) QuickTest Pro
5 1 (1.724%) Selenium
General
1 28 (48.28%) Retail
2 4 (6.897%) Telecoms
3 3 (5.172%) Billing
4 2 (3.448%) Marketing
5 1 (1.724%) Retail Banking
5 1 (1.724%) Finance
5 1 (1.724%) Banking
Job Titles
1 34 (58.62%) Developer
2 25 (43.10%) Architect
3 24 (41.38%) .NET Developer
4 17 (29.31%) C# Developer
4 17 (29.31%) .NET Architect
4 17 (29.31%) C# .NET Developer
5 15 (25.86%) C# Architect
6 11 (18.97%) ScrumMaster
7 5 (8.621%) Senior .NET Developer
7 5 (8.621%) Senior Developer
8 4 (6.897%) Agile .NET Developer
8 4 (6.897%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (5.172%) Project Manager
9 3 (5.172%) SAP Developer
9 3 (5.172%) Systems Architect
9 3 (5.172%) J2EE Developer
9 3 (5.172%) SAP CRM Developer
9 3 (5.172%) CRM Developer
10 2 (3.448%) Designer
10 2 (3.448%) Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.79%) N-Tier
2 4 (6.897%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.724%) Client/Server
3 1 (1.724%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.724%) Data Integration
Operating Systems
1 20 (34.48%) Windows
2 1 (1.724%) UNIX
2 1 (1.724%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (50.00%) TDD
2 27 (46.55%) OO
3 25 (43.10%) Agile Software Development
4 19 (32.76%) Scrum
5 7 (12.07%) Unit Testing
6 6 (10.34%) Project Management
6 6 (10.34%) UML
6 6 (10.34%) CRM
7 5 (8.621%) E-Commerce
7 5 (8.621%) MVC
8 4 (6.897%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (6.897%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (6.897%) BPEL
8 4 (6.897%) Automated Testing
9 3 (5.172%) Refactoring
9 3 (5.172%) AOP
9 3 (5.172%) Change Management
9 3 (5.172%) User Stories
10 2 (3.448%) Product Marketing
10 2 (3.448%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 30 (51.72%) C#
2 15 (25.86%) Java
3 9 (15.52%) SQL
4 4 (6.897%) PL/SQL
5 3 (5.172%) ABAP
6 1 (1.724%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 3 (5.172%) SC Cleared
1 3 (5.172%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.448%) DV Cleared
2 2 (3.448%) ISEB
2 2 (3.448%) PMP
3 1 (1.724%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.172%) QA
2 2 (3.448%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (1.724%) OpenView
1 1 (1.724%) OVSD
Vendors
1 16 (27.59%) Oracle
2 10 (17.24%) Microsoft
3 5 (8.621%) JBoss
4 4 (6.897%) SAP
5 3 (5.172%) TIBCO
6 2 (3.448%) Ab Initio
7 1 (1.724%) Epicor
7 1 (1.724%) JD Edwards
7 1 (1.724%) Sage
7 1 (1.724%) HP
7 1 (1.724%) Google