The first table below looks at the demand for SOA skills in IT contracts advertised for the Oxford 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 Oxford 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 33 34 26
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -8
Contract jobs citing SOA 1 5 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 0.427% 1.506% 0.599%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.621% 2.577% 1.389%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 1
Average daily rate £498 £475 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.73% +35.71%
UK excluding London average daily rate £390 £400 £400
% change year-on-year
-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
Oxford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
161 194 72
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 68.80% 58.43% 43.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 120 39
Average daily rate £350 £425 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-17.64% +54.54%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £300 £178
10% offered a daily rate of more than £498 £500 £398
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 19 4
Average hourly rate £10.33 £20.06 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-48.52% -19.76%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
SOA
Oxfordshire

SOA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxford 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 Oxford region.

Oxford SOA Daily Rate Trend

SOA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (50.00%) MS Project
1 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (50.00%) XML
1 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
1 1 (50.00%) CRM
1 1 (50.00%) Siebel
1 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) HP
1 1 (50.00%) PMI
1 1 (50.00%) PMI Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Hyperion
1 1 (50.00%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (50.00%) Billing
1 1 (50.00%) Content Management
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (50.00%) WCF
1 1 (50.00%) WF
1 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Azure

SOA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (50.00%) XML
1 1 (50.00%) WCF
1 1 (50.00%) WF
1 1 (50.00%) AppFabric
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Project
1 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle EBS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (50.00%) Billing
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) BizTalk Developer
1 1 (50.00%) BizTalk Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (50.00%) CRM
1 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (50.00%) Content Management
1 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) PMI Certification
1 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) Siebel
1 1 (50.00%) HP
1 1 (50.00%) Hyperion