The first table below looks at the demand for Oracle SOA Suite 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 SOA Suite over the 3 months to 18 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 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle SOA Suite
Rank 50 59 -
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -
Contract jobs citing Oracle SOA Suite 8 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 1.333% 0.147% -
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.957% 1.020% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
Average daily rate £425 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £475 £325
% change year-on-year
-21.05% +46.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Platforms
Milton Keynes
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
115 98 90
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 19.17% 14.45% 14.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 35 37
Average daily rate £375 £250 £219
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+50.30% +13.92%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £185 £148 £142
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £319 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £340
% change year-on-year
- -4.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 4 9
Average hourly rate £13.50 £13.00 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+3.84% -7.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £13.00 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.00 £13.35 £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +2.56%
Oracle SOA Suite
Buckinghamshire

Oracle SOA Suite
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Milton Keynes Oracle SOA Suite Jobs Demand Trend

Oracle SOA Suite
Daily Rate Trend

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

Milton Keynes Oracle SOA Suite Daily Rate Trend

Oracle SOA Suite
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Oracle SOA Suite across the Milton Keynes region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Milton Keynes Oracle SOA Suite Daily Rate Histogram

Oracle SOA Suite
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes region citing Oracle SOA Suite 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 SOA Suite.

1 12 (100.00%) Oracle
1 12 (100.00%) SOA
2 10 (83.33%) Web Services
2 10 (83.33%) Oracle 11g
3 9 (75.00%) BPEL
3 9 (75.00%) Oracle Service Bus
3 9 (75.00%) REST
3 9 (75.00%) WSDL
3 9 (75.00%) Middleware
4 8 (66.67%) SOAP
4 8 (66.67%) XML
4 8 (66.67%) C#
4 8 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
5 7 (58.33%) XPath
5 7 (58.33%) Scrum
5 7 (58.33%) WCF
6 6 (50.00%) MVC
6 6 (50.00%) Workflow
6 6 (50.00%) .NET
6 6 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
7 5 (41.67%) Unit Testing
7 5 (41.67%) Web 2.0
7 5 (41.67%) Enterprise Architecture
7 5 (41.67%) Ant
7 5 (41.67%) XSD
7 5 (41.67%) UML
7 5 (41.67%) Oracle 8/8i
7 5 (41.67%) Oracle Workflow
7 5 (41.67%) JDeveloper
7 5 (41.67%) XQuery

Oracle SOA Suite
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes region citing Oracle SOA Suite 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 SOA Suite. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 10 (83.33%) Web Services
2 9 (75.00%) Middleware
2 9 (75.00%) WSDL
2 9 (75.00%) REST
3 8 (66.67%) XML
3 8 (66.67%) SOAP
4 7 (58.33%) WCF
5 6 (50.00%) .NET
6 5 (41.67%) XSD
7 4 (33.33%) Oracle Fusion
8 3 (25.00%) XSLT
9 2 (16.67%) JMS
9 2 (16.67%) XML Schema
10 1 (8.333%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
10 1 (8.333%) CSS
10 1 (8.333%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 9 (75.00%) Oracle Service Bus
2 5 (41.67%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (16.67%) WebLogic
4 1 (8.333%) CMS
4 1 (8.333%) Kentico
Business Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle BPM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (83.33%) Oracle 11g
2 5 (41.67%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 6 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 5 (41.67%) Ant
2 5 (41.67%) Eclipse
2 5 (41.67%) JDeveloper
3 1 (8.333%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 10 (83.33%) 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 1 (8.333%) C# Developer
4 1 (8.333%) ScrumMaster
4 1 (8.333%) CMS Developer
4 1 (8.333%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Web 2.0
2 1 (8.333%) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) SOA
2 9 (75.00%) BPEL
3 8 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
4 7 (58.33%) Scrum
5 6 (50.00%) MVC
5 6 (50.00%) Workflow
6 5 (41.67%) UML
6 5 (41.67%) Enterprise Architecture
6 5 (41.67%) Unit Testing
7 2 (16.67%) BPMN
8 1 (8.333%) Budget Control
8 1 (8.333%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 1 (8.333%) Agile Testing
8 1 (8.333%) Continuous Integration
8 1 (8.333%) Release Management
8 1 (8.333%) TDD
8 1 (8.333%) OO
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) C#
2 7 (58.33%) XPath
3 5 (41.67%) XQuery
4 2 (16.67%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.333%) QA
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (8.333%) Ektron