The first table below looks at the demand for SOA skills in IT contracts advertised for the North Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SOA over the 3 months to 20 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 Yorkshire 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Rank - 24 31
Contract jobs citing SOA 0 3 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in North Yorkshire - 1.676% 1.105%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - 2.479% 1.550%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 0
Average daily rate - £338 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £390 £400
% change year-on-year
+2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
- +45.45%
All Processes & Methodologies
North Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
89 121 129
As % of all contract IT jobs located in North Yorkshire 58.55% 67.60% 71.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 65 47
Average daily rate £363 £300 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+20.83% -20.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £254 £230 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £425 £470
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
- -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 7
Average hourly rate £175.00 £16.50 £28.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+960.60% -41.07%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+28.00% -16.66%
SOA
Yorkshire

SOA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

North Yorkshire SOA Daily Rate Trend

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 Yorkshire region.

North Yorkshire SOA Hourly Rate Trend

SOA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North Yorkshire 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 3 (60.00%) Oracle
1 3 (60.00%) WebLogic
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (40.00%) Open Source
2 2 (40.00%) .NET
2 2 (40.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (40.00%) WCF
2 2 (40.00%) .NET Remoting
2 2 (40.00%) .NET Framework
2 2 (40.00%) Oracle 11g
2 2 (40.00%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (40.00%) AOP
2 2 (40.00%) OO
2 2 (40.00%) Oracle 11i
2 2 (40.00%) N-Tier
2 2 (40.00%) OOD
3 1 (20.00%) Middleware
3 1 (20.00%) ADO.NET
3 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET
3 1 (20.00%) SOAP
3 1 (20.00%) Web Services
3 1 (20.00%) XML
3 1 (20.00%) XSD
3 1 (20.00%) XSLT
3 1 (20.00%) Linux
3 1 (20.00%) Ajax
3 1 (20.00%) Web 2.0
3 1 (20.00%) MVC
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle RMAN

SOA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North Yorkshire 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 2 (40.00%) .NET
1 2 (40.00%) .NET Remoting
1 2 (40.00%) .NET Framework
1 2 (40.00%) WCF
2 1 (20.00%) WPF
2 1 (20.00%) WF
2 1 (20.00%) LINQ
2 1 (20.00%) jQuery
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (20.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 1 (20.00%) ADO.NET
2 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (20.00%) SOAP
2 1 (20.00%) Web Services
2 1 (20.00%) XML
2 1 (20.00%) XSD
2 1 (20.00%) XSLT
2 1 (20.00%) Middleware
2 1 (20.00%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 3 (60.00%) WebLogic
2 2 (40.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (40.00%) Oracle 11i
2 2 (40.00%) Oracle Applications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle 11g
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) DBA
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle Applications DBA
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle DBA
2 1 (20.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Business Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) E-Business Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) N-Tier
1 2 (40.00%) Open Source
2 1 (20.00%) Web 2.0
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) OO
1 2 (40.00%) OOD
1 2 (40.00%) AOP
2 1 (20.00%) Change Control
2 1 (20.00%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) C#
1 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (20.00%) VB.NET
1 1 (20.00%) R
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle RMAN
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle RAC
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle