The first table below looks at the demand for BPEL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes 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 43 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing BPEL 12 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 2.264% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.133% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 11 0 0
Average daily rate £500 - -
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
Milton Keynes
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
383 465 343
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 72.26% 65.77% 56.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 235 212 153
Average daily rate £350 £325 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -3.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £405 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 25 31
Average hourly rate £16.50 £14.75 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+11.86% -1.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £10.58 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.50 £17.00 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
BPEL
Buckinghamshire

BPEL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes BPEL Daily Rate Trend

BPEL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 12 (100.00%) Web Services
1 12 (100.00%) WSDL
2 11 (91.67%) Oracle
3 9 (75.00%) SOA
3 9 (75.00%) Middleware
3 9 (75.00%) Oracle 11g
3 9 (75.00%) Oracle Service Bus
3 9 (75.00%) REST
3 9 (75.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 8 (66.67%) UML
4 8 (66.67%) XML
5 7 (58.33%) SOAP
5 7 (58.33%) Agile Software Development
5 7 (58.33%) XPath
6 6 (50.00%) WCF
6 6 (50.00%) MVC
6 6 (50.00%) .NET
6 6 (50.00%) C#
7 5 (41.67%) Ant
7 5 (41.67%) XSD
7 5 (41.67%) Oracle 8/8i
7 5 (41.67%) Eclipse
7 5 (41.67%) Workflow
7 5 (41.67%) Oracle Workflow
7 5 (41.67%) Scrum
7 5 (41.67%) Web 2.0
7 5 (41.67%) Enterprise Architecture
7 5 (41.67%) JDeveloper
7 5 (41.67%) XQuery
7 5 (41.67%) Unit Testing

BPEL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 12 (100.00%) Web Services
1 12 (100.00%) WSDL
2 9 (75.00%) Middleware
2 9 (75.00%) REST
3 8 (66.67%) XML
4 7 (58.33%) SOAP
5 6 (50.00%) WCF
5 6 (50.00%) .NET
6 5 (41.67%) XSD
7 3 (25.00%) XML Schema
7 3 (25.00%) BPEL4WS
7 3 (25.00%) Oracle Fusion
8 2 (16.67%) WebSphere
8 2 (16.67%) XSLT
8 2 (16.67%) JMS
Application Platforms
1 9 (75.00%) Oracle Service Bus
1 9 (75.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 5 (41.67%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (16.67%) Oracle BPEL
3 2 (16.67%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle BPM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (75.00%) Oracle 11g
2 5 (41.67%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) Ant
1 5 (41.67%) Eclipse
1 5 (41.67%) JDeveloper
1 5 (41.67%) Team Foundation Server
Job Titles
1 11 (91.67%) Developer
2 9 (75.00%) Oracle Developer
3 7 (58.33%) Lead Developer
3 7 (58.33%) Oracle SOA Developer
3 7 (58.33%) SOA Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Applications Developer
5 1 (8.333%) Architect
5 1 (8.333%) Data Architect
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Web 2.0
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) SOA
2 8 (66.67%) UML
3 7 (58.33%) Agile Software Development
4 6 (50.00%) MVC
5 5 (41.67%) Workflow
5 5 (41.67%) Scrum
5 5 (41.67%) Enterprise Architecture
5 5 (41.67%) Unit Testing
6 2 (16.67%) BPMN
6 2 (16.67%) Data Architecture
6 2 (16.67%) ITIL
6 2 (16.67%) Data Modelling
7 1 (8.333%) CRM
7 1 (8.333%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) XPath
2 6 (50.00%) C#
3 5 (41.67%) XQuery
4 4 (33.33%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.333%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 11 (91.67%) Oracle
2 3 (25.00%) IBM