The first table below looks at the demand for Oracle Service Bus 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 Oracle Service Bus over the 3 months to 24 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 Application Platforms 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle Service Bus (OSB)
Rank 46 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Oracle Service Bus 9 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 1.695% - -
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.627% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 0
Average daily rate £500 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £440 £413
% change year-on-year
-14.77% +6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £40.00
All Application Platforms
Milton Keynes
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
118 119 91
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 22.22% 17.05% 15.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 50 40
Average daily rate £375 £300 £215
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% +39.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £120 £148 £142
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £328 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £343
% change year-on-year
- -5.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 7 7
Average hourly rate £13.00 £13.50 £21.47
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-3.70% -37.12%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.90 £13.00 £12.30
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.00 £13.50 £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -2.43%
Oracle Service Bus
Buckinghamshire

Oracle Service Bus
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Oracle Service Bus across the Milton Keynes region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Milton Keynes Oracle Service Bus Jobs Demand Trend

Oracle Service Bus
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Oracle Service Bus across the Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes Oracle Service Bus Daily Rate Trend

Oracle Service Bus
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes region citing Oracle Service Bus 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 Oracle Service Bus.

1 9 (100.00%) Oracle
1 9 (100.00%) Web Services
1 9 (100.00%) SOA
1 9 (100.00%) WSDL
1 9 (100.00%) Middleware
1 9 (100.00%) BPEL
1 9 (100.00%) Oracle 11g
1 9 (100.00%) REST
1 9 (100.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 7 (77.78%) XPath
2 7 (77.78%) Agile Software Development
2 7 (77.78%) SOAP
2 7 (77.78%) XML
3 6 (66.67%) C#
3 6 (66.67%) .NET
3 6 (66.67%) MVC
3 6 (66.67%) WCF
4 5 (55.56%) Web 2.0
4 5 (55.56%) Enterprise Architecture
4 5 (55.56%) Unit Testing
4 5 (55.56%) Team Foundation Server
4 5 (55.56%) Workflow
4 5 (55.56%) Oracle Workflow
4 5 (55.56%) Scrum
4 5 (55.56%) JDeveloper
4 5 (55.56%) XQuery
4 5 (55.56%) UML
4 5 (55.56%) Oracle 8/8i
4 5 (55.56%) Eclipse
4 5 (55.56%) Ant

Oracle Service Bus
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes region citing Oracle Service Bus 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 Oracle Service Bus. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (100.00%) Web Services
1 9 (100.00%) WSDL
1 9 (100.00%) Middleware
1 9 (100.00%) REST
2 7 (77.78%) SOAP
2 7 (77.78%) XML
3 6 (66.67%) .NET
3 6 (66.67%) WCF
4 5 (55.56%) XSD
5 3 (33.33%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (22.22%) XSLT
6 2 (22.22%) XML Schema
6 2 (22.22%) JMS
Application Platforms
1 9 (100.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 5 (55.56%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (22.22%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle BPM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (100.00%) Oracle 11g
2 5 (55.56%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 5 (55.56%) Team Foundation Server
1 5 (55.56%) JDeveloper
1 5 (55.56%) Eclipse
1 5 (55.56%) Ant
Job Titles
1 9 (100.00%) Developer
1 9 (100.00%) Oracle Developer
2 7 (77.78%) Oracle SOA Developer
2 7 (77.78%) SOA Developer
2 7 (77.78%) Lead Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Web 2.0
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) SOA
1 9 (100.00%) BPEL
2 7 (77.78%) Agile Software Development
3 6 (66.67%) MVC
4 5 (55.56%) Enterprise Architecture
4 5 (55.56%) Unit Testing
4 5 (55.56%) Workflow
4 5 (55.56%) Scrum
4 5 (55.56%) UML
5 2 (22.22%) BPMN
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) XPath
2 6 (66.67%) C#
3 5 (55.56%) XQuery
4 2 (22.22%) Java
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) Oracle