The first table below looks at the demand for SOA skills in IT contracts advertised for the Marlow 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 Marlow 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 5 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing SOA 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Marlow 12.50% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.38% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £600 - -
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
Marlow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
13 8 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Marlow 81.25% 88.89% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 11
Average daily rate £600 £175 £330
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+242.85% -46.96%
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Average hourly rate £12.50 - £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
SOA
Buckinghamshire

SOA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Marlow 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 Marlow region.

Marlow SOA Daily Rate Trend

SOA
Top 7 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Marlow 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 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) WCF
1 2 (100.00%) WPF

SOA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Marlow 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 2 (100.00%) WCF
1 2 (100.00%) WPF
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#