SOA Contracts in the North West
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for SOA 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 SOA 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
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Rank 99 87 91
Rank change year-on-year
-12 +4
Contract jobs citing SOA 19 45 35
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.815% 1.446% 1.148%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.148% 2.344% 1.771%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 21 28
Average daily rate £433 £375 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.33% +30.43%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £305 £275 £259
10% offered a daily rate of more than £496 £500 £508
UK excluding London average daily rate £390 £400 £400
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £40.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
- +45.45%
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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%
SOA
England

SOA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West 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 North West region.

North West 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 North West region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

North West SOA Daily Rate Histogram

SOA
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SOA across the North West region.

North West SOA Hourly Rate Trend

SOA
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOA 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
Manchester +7 10 £350 -17.64%
Cheshire -1 7 £450 +28.57%
Lancashire -3 1 £500 +33.33%
SOA
England

SOA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 16 (47.06%) XML
2 15 (44.12%) Java
2 15 (44.12%) Oracle
3 12 (35.29%) SQL
3 12 (35.29%) MVC
4 11 (32.35%) Linux
4 11 (32.35%) jQuery
5 10 (29.41%) UNIX
6 9 (26.47%) SQL Server
6 9 (26.47%) .NET
6 9 (26.47%) Finance
6 9 (26.47%) Shell Script
7 8 (23.53%) J2EE
7 8 (23.53%) JavaScript
7 8 (23.53%) C#
7 8 (23.53%) Web Services
8 7 (20.59%) ASP.NET
8 7 (20.59%) Agile Software Development
8 7 (20.59%) Ajax
8 7 (20.59%) .NET Framework
8 7 (20.59%) ESB
8 7 (20.59%) SQL Server 2008
8 7 (20.59%) Team Foundation Server
9 6 (17.65%) ASP.NET MVC
9 6 (17.65%) MVVM
9 6 (17.65%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
9 6 (17.65%) Razor View Engine
9 6 (17.65%) ASP.NET MVC 4
9 6 (17.65%) JSON
9 6 (17.65%) WCF

SOA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 16 (47.06%) XML
2 11 (32.35%) jQuery
3 9 (26.47%) .NET
4 8 (23.53%) J2EE
4 8 (23.53%) Web Services
5 7 (20.59%) ASP.NET
5 7 (20.59%) Ajax
5 7 (20.59%) .NET Framework
6 6 (17.65%) ASP.NET MVC
6 6 (17.65%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 6 (17.65%) Razor View Engine
6 6 (17.65%) ASP.NET MVC 4
6 6 (17.65%) JSON
6 6 (17.65%) WCF
6 6 (17.65%) Middleware
6 6 (17.65%) Hibernate
6 6 (17.65%) HTML
7 5 (14.71%) SOAP
7 5 (14.71%) XSD
7 5 (14.71%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 7 (20.59%) ESB
2 3 (8.824%) WebSphere MQ
2 3 (8.824%) TIBCO EMS
2 3 (8.824%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (2.941%) NetWeaver
3 1 (2.941%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (2.941%) WebLogic
3 1 (2.941%) CMS
3 1 (2.941%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (2.941%) WebSphere Process Server
3 1 (2.941%) Joomla!
3 1 (2.941%) Drupal
3 1 (2.941%) WordPress
3 1 (2.941%) Magento
Applications
1 1 (2.941%) MS Visio
1 1 (2.941%) MS Project
1 1 (2.941%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 3 (8.824%) BusinessWorks
1 3 (8.824%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (8.824%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
1 3 (8.824%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.824%) LDAP
2 1 (2.941%) LAN
2 1 (2.941%) WAN
2 1 (2.941%) HTTP
2 1 (2.941%) Internet
2 1 (2.941%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (26.47%) SQL Server
2 7 (20.59%) SQL Server 2008
3 6 (17.65%) Oracle 11g
4 5 (14.71%) SQL Server 2005
5 2 (5.882%) Oracle Exadata
5 2 (5.882%) Oracle 10g
5 2 (5.882%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.941%) TOAD
6 1 (2.941%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (2.941%) OLTP
6 1 (2.941%) Oracle Discoverer
6 1 (2.941%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (2.941%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (2.941%) SAP HANA
6 1 (2.941%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 7 (20.59%) Team Foundation Server
2 6 (17.65%) Visual Studio
3 4 (11.76%) Gradle
4 2 (5.882%) JUnit
General
1 9 (26.47%) Finance
2 5 (14.71%) Retail
3 3 (8.824%) Banking
4 1 (2.941%) German Language
Job Titles
1 20 (58.82%) Developer
2 8 (23.53%) Senior Developer
2 8 (23.53%) Java Developer
3 6 (17.65%) Senior Java Developer
3 6 (17.65%) .NET Developer
4 4 (11.76%) Java/J2EE Developer
4 4 (11.76%) J2EE Developer
4 4 (11.76%) Architect
5 3 (8.824%) Support Engineer
5 3 (8.824%) Lead Developer
5 3 (8.824%) Consultant
5 3 (8.824%) Oracle Consultant
5 3 (8.824%) TIBCO Support
6 2 (5.882%) Senior Architect
6 2 (5.882%) Lead .NET Developer
6 2 (5.882%) Senior Java/J2EE Architect
6 2 (5.882%) Java/J2EE Architect
6 2 (5.882%) Java Architect
6 2 (5.882%) Senior Java Architect
6 2 (5.882%) Senior Java/J2EE Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.76%) N-Tier
2 3 (8.824%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (8.824%) Equities
2 3 (8.824%) Computer Science
3 2 (5.882%) Oracle Exalogic
4 1 (2.941%) Client/Server
4 1 (2.941%) Replication
4 1 (2.941%) PKI
4 1 (2.941%) Statistics
4 1 (2.941%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 11 (32.35%) Linux
2 10 (29.41%) UNIX
3 6 (17.65%) Windows
4 3 (8.824%) Solaris
5 2 (5.882%) AIX
6 1 (2.941%) Windows 8
6 1 (2.941%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (2.941%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (35.29%) MVC
2 7 (20.59%) Agile Software Development
3 6 (17.65%) MVVM
4 5 (14.71%) TDD
5 4 (11.76%) Pair Programming
6 3 (8.824%) EAI
6 3 (8.824%) ITIL
6 3 (8.824%) OO
6 3 (8.824%) Configuration Management
6 3 (8.824%) Service Delivery
6 3 (8.824%) Regression Testing
6 3 (8.824%) Problem Management
6 3 (8.824%) Capacity Planning
7 2 (5.882%) Unit Testing
7 2 (5.882%) BPEL
7 2 (5.882%) Web Development
7 2 (5.882%) Incident Management
7 2 (5.882%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (5.882%) OOA/OOD
7 2 (5.882%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 15 (44.12%) Java
2 12 (35.29%) SQL
3 9 (26.47%) Shell Script
4 8 (23.53%) JavaScript
4 8 (23.53%) C#
5 2 (5.882%) PowerShell
5 2 (5.882%) PL/SQL
5 2 (5.882%) T-SQL
5 2 (5.882%) VBScript
6 1 (2.941%) XQuery
6 1 (2.941%) ABAP
6 1 (2.941%) PHP
6 1 (2.941%) XPath
Qualifications
1 3 (8.824%) Degree
1 3 (8.824%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.882%) BC Cleared
2 2 (5.882%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.941%) MCDBA
3 1 (2.941%) MCT
3 1 (2.941%) PRINCE2 Certification
System Software
1 2 (5.882%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 3 (8.824%) TIBCO Hawk
2 2 (5.882%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (2.941%) Oracle Identity Manager
Vendors
1 15 (44.12%) Oracle
2 5 (14.71%) Microsoft
3 4 (11.76%) JBoss
4 3 (8.824%) Red Hat
4 3 (8.824%) IBM
4 3 (8.824%) TIBCO
5 2 (5.882%) Razor Risk
5 2 (5.882%) HP
6 1 (2.941%) SAP
6 1 (2.941%) Zend
Contract Java Developer- North West.
Stockport, North West
My client has an urgent project requirement for a 3 month contract, which is likely to extend, for a Java developer with Spring MVC, Hibernate and Agile methodology...
Real Staffing
Rate: £300 - £330 per day
Posted: 24 May 2013
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