The first table below looks at the demand for EAI skills in IT contracts advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited EAI 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 Processes & Methodologies category for the North West 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
Enterprise Application Integration (EAI)
Rank 117 131 -
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -
Contract jobs citing EAI 1 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.043% 0.032% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.060% 0.052% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £450 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £500 £400 £425
% change year-on-year
+25.00% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Processes & Methodologies
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1655 1920 1976
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 71.00% 61.72% 64.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 814 983 1018
Average daily rate £350 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £236 £238 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 81 96
Average hourly rate £21.00 £18.00 £20.30
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -11.30%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.25 £13.30 £12.90
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £49.00 £37.50 £38.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
EAI
England

EAI
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West EAI Jobs Demand Trend

EAI
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing EAI across the North West region.

North West EAI Daily Rate Trend

EAI
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing EAI within the North West region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Cheshire 0 1 £450 -
EAI
England

EAI
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing EAI 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 EAI.

1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
1 4 (100.00%) Web Services
1 4 (100.00%) XML
1 4 (100.00%) UNIX
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) Configuration Management
2 3 (75.00%) Service Delivery
2 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 3 (75.00%) IBM
2 3 (75.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (75.00%) WebSphere MQ
2 3 (75.00%) Shell Script
2 3 (75.00%) TIBCO
2 3 (75.00%) TIBCO Hawk
2 3 (75.00%) BusinessWorks
2 3 (75.00%) Middleware
2 3 (75.00%) XSD
2 3 (75.00%) XSLT
2 3 (75.00%) Linux
2 3 (75.00%) LDAP
2 3 (75.00%) SOA
2 3 (75.00%) WebSphere
2 3 (75.00%) TIBCO EMS
2 3 (75.00%) Degree
2 3 (75.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (75.00%) Problem Management
2 3 (75.00%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
2 3 (75.00%) Drools
2 3 (75.00%) Capacity Planning

EAI
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing EAI 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 EAI. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (100.00%) Web Services
1 4 (100.00%) XML
2 3 (75.00%) Middleware
2 3 (75.00%) XSD
2 3 (75.00%) XSLT
2 3 (75.00%) WebSphere
2 3 (75.00%) Drools
2 3 (75.00%) Esper
3 1 (25.00%) SOAP
3 1 (25.00%) SAP XI
Application Platforms
1 3 (75.00%) WebSphere MQ
1 3 (75.00%) TIBCO EMS
Business Applications
1 3 (75.00%) BusinessWorks
1 3 (75.00%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) LDAP
2 1 (25.00%) SMTP
2 1 (25.00%) FTP
2 1 (25.00%) HTTP
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Support Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) TIBCO Support
2 1 (25.00%) webMethods Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 3 (75.00%) Computer Science
1 3 (75.00%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) UNIX
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) Linux
3 1 (25.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Configuration Management
1 3 (75.00%) Service Delivery
1 3 (75.00%) SOA
1 3 (75.00%) Problem Management
1 3 (75.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (25.00%) B2B
2 1 (25.00%) B2C
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) IBM
1 3 (75.00%) TIBCO
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) SAP
2 1 (25.00%) webMethods