ESB Contracts in the North West
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for ESB 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 ESB over the 3 months to 21 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 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)
Rank 111 121 122
Rank change year-on-year
+10 +1
Contract jobs citing ESB 8 14 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.339% 0.444% 0.266%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.961% 2.345% 1.623%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 4
Average daily rate £350 £425 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-17.64% -5.55%
UK excluding London average daily rate £388 £413 £475
% change year-on-year
-6.06% -13.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £40.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £39.00 £40.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -
All Application Platforms
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category		 408 597 493
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 17.28% 18.93% 16.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 180 308 261
Average daily rate £313 £319 £343
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.88% -7.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £190 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £345
% change year-on-year
- -5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 39 33
Average hourly rate £19.50 £18.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+8.33% +2.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £13.60 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.00 £30.00 £37.55
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -
ESB
England

ESB
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing ESB across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

North West ESB Jobs Demand Trend

ESB
Daily Rate Trend

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

North West ESB Daily Rate Trend

ESB
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ESB within the North West region over the 3 months to 21 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
Manchester +18 5 £350 -
Cheshire - 2 £375 -
Merseyside -2 1 £350 -12.50%
ESB
England

ESB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing ESB 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 ESB.

1 15 (88.24%) Java
2 13 (76.47%) J2EE
3 10 (58.82%) Spring
4 9 (52.94%) jQuery
4 9 (52.94%) Hibernate
4 9 (52.94%) MVC
4 9 (52.94%) JBoss
5 8 (47.06%) Spring MVC
6 7 (41.18%) Oracle
6 7 (41.18%) SQL
7 6 (35.29%) CSS
7 6 (35.29%) Web Services
7 6 (35.29%) SOAP
7 6 (35.29%) SOA
7 6 (35.29%) Shell Script
7 6 (35.29%) Agile Software Development
7 6 (35.29%) CSS3
8 5 (29.41%) HTML5
9 4 (23.53%) Linux
9 4 (23.53%) XML
9 4 (23.53%) JavaScript
10 3 (17.65%) XSD
10 3 (17.65%) JUnit
10 3 (17.65%) OO
10 3 (17.65%) XSLT
10 3 (17.65%) WSDL
10 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
10 3 (17.65%) Gradle
10 3 (17.65%) Pair Programming
11 2 (11.76%) Web Development

ESB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing ESB 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 ESB. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 13 (76.47%) J2EE
2 10 (58.82%) Spring
3 9 (52.94%) jQuery
3 9 (52.94%) Hibernate
4 8 (47.06%) Spring MVC
5 6 (35.29%) CSS
5 6 (35.29%) Web Services
5 6 (35.29%) SOAP
5 6 (35.29%) CSS3
6 5 (29.41%) HTML5
7 4 (23.53%) XML
8 3 (17.65%) XSD
8 3 (17.65%) XSLT
8 3 (17.65%) WSDL
9 2 (11.76%) JSF
9 2 (11.76%) soapUI
9 2 (11.76%) JMS
10 1 (5.882%) .NET
10 1 (5.882%) ADO.NET
10 1 (5.882%) JSP
Application Platforms
1 2 (11.76%) Mule
1 2 (11.76%) Apache
2 1 (5.882%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (5.882%) WebSphere MQ
2 1 (5.882%) SonicMQ
2 1 (5.882%) GlassFish
2 1 (5.882%) Windows Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.882%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) Oracle 11g
1 2 (11.76%) Oracle 10g
2 1 (5.882%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) JUnit
1 3 (17.65%) Gradle
2 1 (5.882%) Eclipse
2 1 (5.882%) JIRA
2 1 (5.882%) Subversion
General
1 1 (5.882%) Finance
1 1 (5.882%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (82.35%) Developer
2 12 (70.59%) Java Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Software Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Senior Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Senior Java Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Java Software Developer
4 2 (11.76%) J2EE Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Java/J2EE Developer
5 1 (5.882%) .NET Developer
5 1 (5.882%) Administrator
5 1 (5.882%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.882%) Analyst
5 1 (5.882%) Test Analyst
5 1 (5.882%) Web Developer
5 1 (5.882%) Consultant
5 1 (5.882%) BizTalk Administrator
5 1 (5.882%) BizTalk Developer
5 1 (5.882%) Java Consultant
5 1 (5.882%) Java Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.882%) Mobile App
2 1 (5.882%) RIA
2 1 (5.882%) Web 2.0
Operating Systems
1 4 (23.53%) Linux
2 2 (11.76%) UNIX
2 2 (11.76%) Windows
2 2 (11.76%) AIX
2 2 (11.76%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) MVC
2 6 (35.29%) SOA
2 6 (35.29%) Agile Software Development
3 3 (17.65%) OO
3 3 (17.65%) Pair Programming
4 2 (11.76%) Web Development
4 2 (11.76%) TDD
4 2 (11.76%) Waterfall
4 2 (11.76%) Unit Testing
4 2 (11.76%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (11.76%) Regression Testing
4 2 (11.76%) OOA/OOD
5 1 (5.882%) UML
5 1 (5.882%) ITIL
5 1 (5.882%) Workflow
5 1 (5.882%) Mobile Application Development
5 1 (5.882%) Web Application Development
5 1 (5.882%) Content Management
5 1 (5.882%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 15 (88.24%) Java
2 7 (41.18%) SQL
3 6 (35.29%) Shell Script
4 4 (23.53%) JavaScript
5 2 (11.76%) XPath
5 2 (11.76%) PL/SQL
6 1 (5.882%) T-SQL
6 1 (5.882%) VBScript
6 1 (5.882%) C#
6 1 (5.882%) XQuery
6 1 (5.882%) Groovy
6 1 (5.882%) PowerShell
Vendors
1 9 (52.94%) JBoss
2 7 (41.18%) Oracle
3 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
4 2 (11.76%) HP
5 1 (5.882%) IBM
5 1 (5.882%) Perforce
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