The first table below looks at the demand for SOA skills in IT contracts advertised for the Kent region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SOA over the 3 months to 21 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 Kent 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Rank 36 29 43
Rank change year-on-year
-7 +14
Contract jobs citing SOA 2 6 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 0.664% 2.247% 0.319%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.053% 3.226% 0.552%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 5 0
Average daily rate - £488 -
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
Kent
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
190 186 181
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 63.12% 69.66% 57.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 97 108
Average daily rate £303 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.92% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £138 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 9 15
Average hourly rate £19.39 £17.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.80% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.15 £8.75 £15.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £53.25 £67.50 £49.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
SOA
South East

SOA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kent 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 Kent region.

Kent SOA Daily Rate Trend

SOA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 3 (75.00%) Web Services
1 3 (75.00%) TDD
2 2 (50.00%) Mobile App
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Azure
2 2 (50.00%) .NET
2 2 (50.00%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) ESB
3 1 (25.00%) Selenium
3 1 (25.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (25.00%) TeamCity
3 1 (25.00%) Git (software)
3 1 (25.00%) CMS
3 1 (25.00%) Mainframe
3 1 (25.00%) Workflow
3 1 (25.00%) J2EE
3 1 (25.00%) DB2
3 1 (25.00%) JUnit
3 1 (25.00%) CSS
3 1 (25.00%) COBOL
3 1 (25.00%) HTML
3 1 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) XML
3 1 (25.00%) Linux
3 1 (25.00%) OO
3 1 (25.00%) MQSeries
3 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling

SOA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 3 (75.00%) Web Services
2 2 (50.00%) .NET
3 1 (25.00%) J2EE
3 1 (25.00%) CSS
3 1 (25.00%) HTML
3 1 (25.00%) XML
Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Azure
1 2 (50.00%) BizTalk Server
1 2 (50.00%) ESB
2 1 (25.00%) CMS
2 1 (25.00%) MQSeries
2 1 (25.00%) CICS
2 1 (25.00%) Adobe CQ
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Selenium
1 1 (25.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (25.00%) TeamCity
1 1 (25.00%) Git (software)
1 1 (25.00%) JUnit
1 1 (25.00%) JBehave
1 1 (25.00%) WebDriver
1 1 (25.00%) Mockito
1 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (25.00%) Hudson
1 1 (25.00%) Subversion
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Leader
2 1 (25.00%) Mainframe Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (25.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) TDD
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Workflow
3 1 (25.00%) OO
3 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) ETL
3 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (25.00%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) COBOL
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Adobe