The first table below looks at the demand for ESB skills in IT contracts advertised for the Nottingham 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 Nottingham 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 31 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing ESB 7 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham 2.431% - -
As % of the Application Platforms category 14.58% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £358 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £388 £413 £475
% change year-on-year
-6.06% -13.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £39.00 £40.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -
All Application Platforms
Nottingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
48 33 46
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham 16.67% 14.73% 19.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 21 12
Average daily rate £320 £310 £335
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.22% -7.46%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £205 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £445 £435 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £345
% change year-on-year
- -5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 4 1
Average hourly rate £28.25 £30.00 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.83% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -
ESB
Nottinghamshire

ESB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Nottingham 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 Nottingham region.

Nottingham ESB Daily Rate Trend

ESB
Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham 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 8 (100.00%) SOA
2 7 (87.50%) Web Services
2 7 (87.50%) XML
2 7 (87.50%) TIBCO
3 6 (75.00%) Middleware
3 6 (75.00%) InterSystems
3 6 (75.00%) Scrum
3 6 (75.00%) Agile Software Development
3 6 (75.00%) Subversion
3 6 (75.00%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (50.00%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (12.50%) Test Scripting
5 1 (12.50%) Cordys
5 1 (12.50%) XForms
5 1 (12.50%) C
5 1 (12.50%) HTML
5 1 (12.50%) Java
5 1 (12.50%) J2EE

ESB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham 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 7 (87.50%) Web Services
1 7 (87.50%) XML
2 6 (75.00%) Middleware
3 1 (12.50%) XForms
3 1 (12.50%) HTML
3 1 (12.50%) J2EE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 6 (75.00%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Developer
2 5 (62.50%) SOA Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) SOA
2 6 (75.00%) Scrum
2 6 (75.00%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (12.50%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) C
1 1 (12.50%) Java
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) TIBCO
2 6 (75.00%) InterSystems
3 1 (12.50%) Cordys