The first table below looks at the demand for SOA 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 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 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Rank 39 56 55
Rank change year-on-year
+17 -1
Contract jobs citing SOA 18 7 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 2.995% 1.045% 0.474%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.119% 1.525% 0.923%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 2 1
Average daily rate £425 £438 £600
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.85% -27.08%
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
Milton Keynes
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
437 459 325
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 72.71% 68.51% 51.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 202 142
Average daily rate £350 £325 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -4.41%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £214 £180
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £423 £440
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 21 32
Average hourly rate £22.50 £14.50 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+55.17% -3.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.10 £10.58 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £34.90 £29.50 £47.50
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 Milton Keynes region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes SOA Daily Rate Trend

SOA
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SOA across the Milton Keynes region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Milton Keynes SOA Daily Rate Histogram

SOA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 17 (54.84%) Oracle
2 14 (45.16%) XML
2 14 (45.16%) Middleware
3 13 (41.94%) Web Services
3 13 (41.94%) WebSphere
4 12 (38.71%) REST
4 12 (38.71%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 10 (32.26%) Oracle 11g
6 9 (29.03%) WSDL
6 9 (29.03%) Scrum
6 9 (29.03%) C#
6 9 (29.03%) Agile Software Development
6 9 (29.03%) BPEL
6 9 (29.03%) Oracle Service Bus
7 8 (25.81%) SOAP
7 8 (25.81%) XSD
8 7 (22.58%) UML
8 7 (22.58%) WCF
8 7 (22.58%) XPath
8 7 (22.58%) Enterprise Architecture
9 6 (19.35%) Team Foundation Server
9 6 (19.35%) MVC
9 6 (19.35%) Workflow
9 6 (19.35%) JMS
9 6 (19.35%) Java
9 6 (19.35%) .NET
10 5 (16.13%) Ant
10 5 (16.13%) Oracle 8/8i
10 5 (16.13%) E-Commerce
10 5 (16.13%) Eclipse

SOA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 14 (45.16%) XML
1 14 (45.16%) Middleware
2 13 (41.94%) Web Services
2 13 (41.94%) WebSphere
3 12 (38.71%) REST
4 9 (29.03%) WSDL
5 8 (25.81%) SOAP
5 8 (25.81%) XSD
6 7 (22.58%) WCF
7 6 (19.35%) JMS
7 6 (19.35%) .NET
8 4 (12.90%) Oracle Fusion
8 4 (12.90%) J2EE
9 3 (9.677%) HTML
9 3 (9.677%) CSS
9 3 (9.677%) XSLT
9 3 (9.677%) WebSphere MQ
9 3 (9.677%) JSON
10 2 (6.452%) XML Schema
11 1 (3.226%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
Application Platforms
1 12 (38.71%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 9 (29.03%) Oracle Service Bus
3 5 (16.13%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (9.677%) WebSphere Message Broker
5 2 (6.452%) CMS
5 2 (6.452%) WebLogic
6 1 (3.226%) WebSphere Application Server
6 1 (3.226%) Commerce Server
6 1 (3.226%) Kentico
6 1 (3.226%) ESB
6 1 (3.226%) Drupal
Applications
1 1 (3.226%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (6.452%) Oracle BPM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (32.26%) Oracle 11g
2 5 (16.13%) Oracle 8/8i
3 2 (6.452%) DB2
4 1 (3.226%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 6 (19.35%) Team Foundation Server
2 5 (16.13%) Ant
2 5 (16.13%) Eclipse
2 5 (16.13%) JDeveloper
3 2 (6.452%) LoadRunner
4 1 (3.226%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (12.90%) Retail
2 1 (3.226%) Investment Banking
2 1 (3.226%) Banking
2 1 (3.226%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 13 (41.94%) Developer
2 10 (32.26%) Architect
3 9 (29.03%) Oracle Developer
4 8 (25.81%) SOA Developer
5 7 (22.58%) Lead Developer
5 7 (22.58%) Oracle SOA Developer
6 6 (19.35%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (12.90%) WebSphere Architect
8 3 (9.677%) Project Manager
8 3 (9.677%) Technical Architect
9 2 (6.452%) Performance Test Analyst
9 2 (6.452%) WebSphere Developer
9 2 (6.452%) Performance Analyst
9 2 (6.452%) Analyst
9 2 (6.452%) Test Analyst
9 2 (6.452%) Performance Tester
9 2 (6.452%) Tester
10 1 (3.226%) Consultant
10 1 (3.226%) Senior Developer
10 1 (3.226%) Designer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.13%) Web 2.0
2 1 (3.226%) N-Tier
2 1 (3.226%) Mobile App
2 1 (3.226%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (29.03%) Scrum
1 9 (29.03%) Agile Software Development
1 9 (29.03%) BPEL
2 7 (22.58%) UML
2 7 (22.58%) Enterprise Architecture
3 6 (19.35%) MVC
3 6 (19.35%) Workflow
4 5 (16.13%) E-Commerce
4 5 (16.13%) Unit Testing
5 3 (9.677%) EAI
5 3 (9.677%) OO
5 3 (9.677%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (9.677%) Release Management
6 2 (6.452%) Technical Architecture
6 2 (6.452%) BPMN
6 2 (6.452%) Performance Testing
6 2 (6.452%) Budget Control
6 2 (6.452%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 1 (3.226%) PRINCE2
7 1 (3.226%) RAD
Programming Languages
1 9 (29.03%) C#
2 7 (22.58%) XPath
3 6 (19.35%) Java
4 5 (16.13%) XQuery
5 3 (9.677%) SQL
6 2 (6.452%) JavaScript
7 1 (3.226%) C++
7 1 (3.226%) ActionScript
7 1 (3.226%) ActionScript 2.0
Qualifications
1 2 (6.452%) Degree
1 2 (6.452%) SC Cleared
1 2 (6.452%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.226%) QA
Vendors
1 17 (54.84%) Oracle
2 4 (12.90%) IBM
3 2 (6.452%) HP
4 1 (3.226%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.226%) Sun
4 1 (3.226%) ATG
4 1 (3.226%) Ektron
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