North Yorkshire SOA Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) skills within the North Yorkshire region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited SOA over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Location Alderley Edge Andover Avon Basildon Berkshire Birmingham Brentwood Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Croydon Docklands, London Dover East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hove Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kent Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Preston Reading Rickmansworth Scotland Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West Southampton Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Whyteleafe Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	30	45
Rank change on same period last year	+15
Matching contract IT job ads	11	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.015 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	5.046 %	0.333 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£402	£439
% change on same period last year	-8.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£35.00	-
Average hourly rate	£37.50	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£39.18	£35.09
% change on same period last year	+11.66 %
Processes & Methodologies North Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	218	300
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.287 %	0.318 %
Daily rates quoted	66	98
Average minimum daily rate	£364	£372
Average daily rate	£382	£391
% change on same period last year	-2.45 %
Average maximum daily rate	£399	£410
UK excluding London average daily rate	£384	£374
% change on same period last year	+2.50 %
Hourly rates quoted	15	10
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.95	£25.37
Average hourly rate	£17.98	£25.66
% change on same period last year	-29.95 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.00	£25.96
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.40	£30.19
% change on same period last year	-2.62 %
SOA Yorkshire

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

SOA
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing SOA across the North Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

SOA
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SOA across the North Yorkshire region.

SOA
Hourly Rate Trend

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

SOA
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing SOA within the North Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Harrogate	-	7	-	-

SOA Yorkshire

SOA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, 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 12 (57.14 %) Java 2 11 (52.38 %) Security Cleared 3 10 (47.62 %) Banking 4 9 (42.86 %) SC Cleared 5 7 (33.33 %) Government 6 5 (23.81 %) Finance 6 5 (23.81 %) Microsoft 6 5 (23.81 %) Auditing 7 4 (19.05 %) WebSphere 7 4 (19.05 %) IBM 7 4 (19.05 %) .NET 7 4 (19.05 %) J2EE 8 3 (14.29 %) SQL Server 8 3 (14.29 %) XML 8 3 (14.29 %) UML

8 3 (14.29 %) Internet 9 2 (9.524 %) WebSphere MQ 9 2 (9.524 %) OSPF 9 2 (9.524 %) SQL 9 2 (9.524 %) SSL 9 2 (9.524 %) Cisco 9 2 (9.524 %) Citrix 9 2 (9.524 %) SAN 9 2 (9.524 %) Terminal Services 9 2 (9.524 %) BizTalk Server 9 2 (9.524 %) Firewall 9 2 (9.524 %) Frame Relay 9 2 (9.524 %) OOA/OOD 9 2 (9.524 %) RUP 9 2 (9.524 %) Datawarehouse

SOA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, 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 4 (19.05 %) .NET 1 4 (19.05 %) J2EE 1 4 (19.05 %) WebSphere 2 3 (14.29 %) XML 3 2 (9.524 %) JSF 3 2 (9.524 %) EJB 3 2 (9.524 %) Servlets 3 2 (9.524 %) Struts 3 2 (9.524 %) WebServices 4 1 (4.762 %) ASP.NET 4 1 (4.762 %) .NET Framework	Application Platforms 1 2 (9.524 %) BizTalk Server 1 2 (9.524 %) WebSphere MQ 2 1 (4.762 %) WPS 2 1 (4.762 %) SharePoint
Communications & Networking 1 3 (14.29 %) Internet 2 2 (9.524 %) OSPF 2 2 (9.524 %) Firewall 2 2 (9.524 %) Frame Relay 2 2 (9.524 %) iSCSI 2 2 (9.524 %) ATM 2 2 (9.524 %) LAN 2 2 (9.524 %) WAN 2 2 (9.524 %) FTP 2 2 (9.524 %) RIP 2 2 (9.524 %) TCP/IP 2 2 (9.524 %) SSL 2 2 (9.524 %) SAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (14.29 %) SQL Server 2 2 (9.524 %) Datawarehouse 2 2 (9.524 %) DTS 2 2 (9.524 %) SQL Server Integration Services 3 1 (4.762 %) Data Cleansing 3 1 (4.762 %) RDBMS
General 1 10 (47.62 %) Banking 2 7 (33.33 %) Government 3 5 (23.81 %) Finance 3 5 (23.81 %) Auditing 4 1 (4.762 %) Retail	Job Titles 1 9 (42.86 %) Developer 2 7 (33.33 %) Architect 2 7 (33.33 %) Java Developer 3 5 (23.81 %) Solutions Architect 4 2 (9.524 %) SQL DBA 4 2 (9.524 %) Infrastructure Architect 4 2 (9.524 %) Infrastructure Designer 4 2 (9.524 %) Java/J2EE Developer 4 2 (9.524 %) SQL Server DBA 4 2 (9.524 %) J2EE Developer 4 2 (9.524 %) DBA 5 1 (4.762 %) IT Project Manager 5 1 (4.762 %) Solutions Designer 5 1 (4.762 %) C# Developer 5 1 (4.762 %) Project Manager 5 1 (4.762 %) IT Manager
Miscellaneous 1 2 (9.524 %) Client/Server	Operating Systems 1 2 (9.524 %) Unix 1 2 (9.524 %) Windows 1 2 (9.524 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 11 (52.38 %) Security Cleared 2 9 (42.86 %) SC Cleared 3 3 (14.29 %) UML 4 2 (9.524 %) OOA/OOD 4 2 (9.524 %) RUP 4 2 (9.524 %) Network Design 5 1 (4.762 %) Matrix Management 5 1 (4.762 %) PRINCE2 5 1 (4.762 %) E-Commerce 5 1 (4.762 %) EAI 5 1 (4.762 %) Business Intelligence 5 1 (4.762 %) Scrum 5 1 (4.762 %) Web Design 5 1 (4.762 %) Agile Software Development 5 1 (4.762 %) Content Management	Programming Languages 1 12 (57.14 %) Java 2 2 (9.524 %) C# 2 2 (9.524 %) SQL 3 1 (4.762 %) COBOL 3 1 (4.762 %) DHTML 3 1 (4.762 %) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (9.524 %) PCI DSS	System Software 1 2 (9.524 %) Terminal Services
Vendors 1 5 (23.81 %) Microsoft 2 4 (19.05 %) IBM 3 2 (9.524 %) Citrix 3 2 (9.524 %) Oracle 3 2 (9.524 %) Cisco 4 1 (4.762 %) Micro Focus