The first table below looks at the demand for BPEL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited BPEL over the 3 months to 23 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 Midlands 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Business Process Execution Language (BPEL)
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing BPEL 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the Midlands - - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £425 £360
% change year-on-year
-11.76% +18.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £40.00
All Processes & Methodologies
Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
112 130 227
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the Midlands 65.12% 48.33% 64.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 55 53
Average daily rate £450 £375 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -11.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £250 £290
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £550 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 60
Average hourly rate £32.00 £21.00 £24.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+52.38% -14.28%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
BPEL
England

BPEL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Midlands 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 Midlands region.

Midlands BPEL Daily Rate Trend

BPEL
Top 14 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands 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%) Shell Script
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (100.00%) Workflow
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle Workflow
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) UNIX
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle BI EE
2 1 (50.00%) AIX
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle BPEL
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle 11g

BPEL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands 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 Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle BPEL
Business Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle Applications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle BI EE
2 1 (50.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle 11g
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) DBA
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle DBA
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle Applications DBA
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) UNIX
2 1 (50.00%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Workflow
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Shell Script
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle RAC
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle