The first table below looks at the demand for ESB skills in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ESB over the 3 months to 20 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 Application Platforms category for the Manchester 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)
Rank 64 79 64
Rank change year-on-year
+15 -15
Contract jobs citing ESB 6 5 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.617% 0.411% 0.390%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.927% 2.242% 2.857%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 3
Average daily rate £350 £350 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +16.66%
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £400 £450
% change year-on-year
-6.25% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £40.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £39.00 £40.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +14.28%
All Application Platforms
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
205 223 140
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 21.09% 18.32% 13.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 122 83
Average daily rate £300 £300 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £168 £204 £192
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £400 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £340
% change year-on-year
- -4.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 15 11
Average hourly rate £17.50 £19.25 £11.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-9.09% +75.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £12.00 £9.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £34.40 £22.75 £20.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +5.26%
ESB
North West

ESB
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing ESB across the Manchester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Manchester ESB Jobs Demand Trend

ESB
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing ESB across the Manchester region.

Manchester ESB Daily Rate Trend

ESB
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ESB within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 20 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Altrincham - - - -
Cheadle - - - -
ESB
North West

ESB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing ESB 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 ESB.

1 7 (87.50%) Java
2 6 (75.00%) SQL
2 6 (75.00%) J2EE
2 6 (75.00%) SOA
2 6 (75.00%) JBoss
3 5 (62.50%) Shell Script
3 5 (62.50%) Oracle
3 5 (62.50%) JavaScript
3 5 (62.50%) Agile Software Development
3 5 (62.50%) MVC
3 5 (62.50%) Hibernate
3 5 (62.50%) Spring
3 5 (62.50%) Spring MVC
3 5 (62.50%) jQuery
3 5 (62.50%) Gradle
3 5 (62.50%) Linux
4 4 (50.00%) Pair Programming
5 1 (12.50%) Retail
5 1 (12.50%) GlassFish
5 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
5 1 (12.50%) Waterfall
5 1 (12.50%) soapUI
5 1 (12.50%) XPath
5 1 (12.50%) T-SQL
5 1 (12.50%) VBScript
5 1 (12.50%) SOAP
5 1 (12.50%) Struts
5 1 (12.50%) XML
5 1 (12.50%) ITIL
5 1 (12.50%) Windows

ESB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing ESB 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 ESB. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (75.00%) J2EE
2 5 (62.50%) Hibernate
2 5 (62.50%) Spring
2 5 (62.50%) Spring MVC
2 5 (62.50%) jQuery
3 1 (12.50%) soapUI
3 1 (12.50%) SOAP
3 1 (12.50%) Struts
3 1 (12.50%) XML
3 1 (12.50%) Middleware
3 1 (12.50%) SonicMQ
3 1 (12.50%) WSH
3 1 (12.50%) WebSphere MQ
Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) GlassFish
1 1 (12.50%) Apache
1 1 (12.50%) BizTalk Server
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) Gradle
General
1 1 (12.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (100.00%) Developer
2 7 (87.50%) Java Developer
3 4 (50.00%) Senior Developer
3 4 (50.00%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Administrator
4 1 (12.50%) BizTalk Administrator
4 1 (12.50%) Java Software Developer
4 1 (12.50%) BizTalk Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) SOA
2 5 (62.50%) Agile Software Development
2 5 (62.50%) MVC
3 4 (50.00%) Pair Programming
4 1 (12.50%) Waterfall
4 1 (12.50%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) Java
2 6 (75.00%) SQL
3 5 (62.50%) Shell Script
3 5 (62.50%) JavaScript
4 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
4 1 (12.50%) XPath
4 1 (12.50%) T-SQL
4 1 (12.50%) VBScript
4 1 (12.50%) XQuery
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) JBoss
2 5 (62.50%) Oracle
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
Stockport, North West
My client has an urgent project requirement for a 3 month contract, which is likely to extend, for a Java developer with Spring MVC, Hibernate and Agile methodology...
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Rate: £300 - £330 per day
Posted: 23 May 2013