The first table below looks at the demand for SOA 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 SOA over the 3 months to 17 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 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Rank 23 23 21
Rank change year-on-year
0 -2
Contract jobs citing SOA 15 8 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham 5.263% 3.604% 3.390%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.692% 5.096% 5.405%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 2
Average daily rate £375 £435 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.79% +24.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £307 £336 £310
10% offered a daily rate of more than £420 £500 £390
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £400 £400
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.56 £40.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-21.09% +45.45%
All Processes & Methodologies
Nottingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
195 157 148
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham 68.42% 70.72% 62.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 78 44
Average daily rate £363 £338 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.40% -3.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £463 £500 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 12 7
Average hourly rate £27.50 £17.50 £26.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+57.14% -32.69%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.39 £8.50 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £30.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
SOA
Nottinghamshire

SOA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Nottingham 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 Nottingham region.

Nottingham 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 Nottingham region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Nottingham SOA Daily Rate Histogram

SOA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham 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 11 (52.38%) Web Services
1 11 (52.38%) XML
2 9 (42.86%) Middleware
3 8 (38.10%) ESB
4 7 (33.33%) SOAP
4 7 (33.33%) TIBCO
4 7 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
5 6 (28.57%) Scrum
5 6 (28.57%) Subversion
5 6 (28.57%) BPEL
5 6 (28.57%) InterSystems
5 6 (28.57%) Finance
5 6 (28.57%) C#
5 6 (28.57%) Java
5 6 (28.57%) .NET
5 6 (28.57%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (23.81%) MVVM
6 5 (23.81%) WPF
7 4 (19.05%) XPath
7 4 (19.05%) WCF
7 4 (19.05%) WebSphere
7 4 (19.05%) WebLogic
7 4 (19.05%) IIS
7 4 (19.05%) WSDL
7 4 (19.05%) Project Management
7 4 (19.05%) InterSystems Cache
8 3 (14.29%) TDD
8 3 (14.29%) NUnit
8 3 (14.29%) Maven
8 3 (14.29%) WebSphere MQ

SOA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham 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 11 (52.38%) Web Services
1 11 (52.38%) XML
2 9 (42.86%) Middleware
3 7 (33.33%) SOAP
4 6 (28.57%) .NET
5 5 (23.81%) WPF
6 4 (19.05%) WCF
6 4 (19.05%) WebSphere
6 4 (19.05%) WSDL
7 3 (14.29%) .NET Framework
7 3 (14.29%) HTML
7 3 (14.29%) JMS
7 3 (14.29%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
8 2 (9.524%) Managed Extensibility Framework
8 2 (9.524%) Unity DI Container
8 2 (9.524%) J2EE
8 2 (9.524%) ASP.NET
8 2 (9.524%) XSD
8 2 (9.524%) XSLT
8 2 (9.524%) XML Schema
Application Platforms
1 8 (38.10%) ESB
2 4 (19.05%) WebLogic
2 4 (19.05%) IIS
3 3 (14.29%) WebSphere MQ
4 2 (9.524%) MSMQ
Business Applications
1 1 (4.762%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 3 (14.29%) SSL
2 2 (9.524%) HTTP
3 1 (4.762%) SNMP
3 1 (4.762%) TCP/IP
3 1 (4.762%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) InterSystems Cache
2 1 (4.762%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (4.762%) SQL Server 2012
2 1 (4.762%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.762%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 6 (28.57%) Subversion
2 3 (14.29%) Maven
2 3 (14.29%) Team Foundation Server
2 3 (14.29%) MSTest
2 3 (14.29%) Hudson
2 3 (14.29%) NUnit
3 2 (9.524%) QuickTest Pro
3 2 (9.524%) LoadRunner
4 1 (4.762%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (28.57%) Finance
2 1 (4.762%) Retail
2 1 (4.762%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 13 (61.90%) Developer
2 6 (28.57%) Architect
3 5 (23.81%) SOA Developer
4 4 (19.05%) .NET Developer
4 4 (19.05%) C# Developer
5 3 (14.29%) C# .NET Developer
6 2 (9.524%) WPF Developer
6 2 (9.524%) C# Architect
6 2 (9.524%) Test Architect
6 2 (9.524%) Consultant
6 2 (9.524%) .NET Architect
7 1 (4.762%) Technical Leader
7 1 (4.762%) Lead Architect
7 1 (4.762%) Oracle Architect
7 1 (4.762%) Designer
7 1 (4.762%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (4.762%) Solutions Designer
7 1 (4.762%) Technical Architect
7 1 (4.762%) Oracle Technical Architect
7 1 (4.762%) Middleware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (28.57%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (14.29%) DataPower
3 1 (4.762%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 3 (14.29%) UNIX
2 2 (9.524%) Windows
3 1 (4.762%) Solaris
3 1 (4.762%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
2 6 (28.57%) Scrum
2 6 (28.57%) BPEL
3 5 (23.81%) MVVM
4 4 (19.05%) Project Management
5 3 (14.29%) OO
5 3 (14.29%) TDD
6 2 (9.524%) Time Management
6 2 (9.524%) Dependency Injection
6 2 (9.524%) OOD
6 2 (9.524%) Stakeholder Management
7 1 (4.762%) Technical Architecture
7 1 (4.762%) Test Scripting
7 1 (4.762%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 6 (28.57%) C#
1 6 (28.57%) Java
2 4 (19.05%) XPath
3 1 (4.762%) C
3 1 (4.762%) SQL
Vendors
1 7 (33.33%) TIBCO
2 6 (28.57%) InterSystems
3 2 (9.524%) IBM
3 2 (9.524%) HP
4 1 (4.762%) Oracle
4 1 (4.762%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.762%) Cordys