The first table below looks at the demand for BPEL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited BPEL 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 Leeds 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
Business Process Execution Language (BPEL)
Rank 75 58 56
Rank change year-on-year
-17 -2
Contract jobs citing BPEL 1 10 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 0.134% 1.124% 0.160%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.181% 1.560% 0.235%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 1
Average daily rate - £400 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +23.07%
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £425 £375
% change year-on-year
-11.76% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £40.00
All Processes & Methodologies
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
552 641 425
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 74.09% 72.02% 67.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 311 377 211
Average daily rate £315 £345 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.69% -1.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £245 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 14 19
Average hourly rate £34.00 £20.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+65.85% +17.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.90 £12.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.00 £62.50 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
BPEL
West Yorkshire

BPEL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds BPEL Daily Rate Trend

BPEL
Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) SOA
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle Service Bus
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle 11g
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (50.00%) WebCenter
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle ADF
2 1 (50.00%) JDeveloper
2 1 (50.00%) Middleware
2 1 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) XSL
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Java

BPEL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 1 (50.00%) XML
1 1 (50.00%) XSL
1 1 (50.00%) Middleware
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle ADF
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (50.00%) WebCenter
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Service Bus
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle Applications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JDeveloper
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle SOA Developer
2 1 (50.00%) SOA Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle