The first table below looks at the demand for ESB skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ESB 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 Application Platforms category for the Reading 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
Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)
Rank 67 79 79
Rank change year-on-year
+12 0
Contract jobs citing ESB 3 2 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.361% 0.188% 0.095%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.863% 1.235% 0.524%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Average daily rate £238 £270 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.03% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £388 £413 £475
% change year-on-year
-6.06% -13.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £39.00 £40.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -
All Application Platforms
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
161 162 191
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 19.40% 15.23% 18.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 62 79
Average daily rate £350 £338 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.70% +3.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £193 £260
10% offered a daily rate of more than £439 £425 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 4 10
Average hourly rate £17.50 £19.00 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-7.89% +5.55%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.70 £9.80 £10.05
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £37.60 £19.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -
ESB
Berkshire

ESB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading ESB Daily Rate Trend

ESB
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing ESB across the Reading region.

Reading ESB Hourly Rate Trend

ESB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 10 (66.67%) C#
1 10 (66.67%) .NET
2 9 (60.00%) MVC
3 8 (53.33%) SQL Server
3 8 (53.33%) ASP.NET
3 8 (53.33%) XML
4 7 (46.67%) CSS
4 7 (46.67%) jQuery
5 6 (40.00%) WCF
5 6 (40.00%) Banking
5 6 (40.00%) HTML
5 6 (40.00%) Telecoms
6 5 (33.33%) TDD
6 5 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
7 4 (26.67%) HTML5
7 4 (26.67%) Subversion
7 4 (26.67%) User Acceptance Testing
7 4 (26.67%) SOA
7 4 (26.67%) BizTalk Server
7 4 (26.67%) UML
8 3 (20.00%) SQL
8 3 (20.00%) Ajax
8 3 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
8 3 (20.00%) Retail
8 3 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
8 3 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
9 2 (13.33%) BDD
9 2 (13.33%) SpecFlow
9 2 (13.33%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (13.33%) BSS

ESB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 10 (66.67%) .NET
2 8 (53.33%) ASP.NET
2 8 (53.33%) XML
3 7 (46.67%) CSS
3 7 (46.67%) jQuery
4 6 (40.00%) WCF
4 6 (40.00%) HTML
5 5 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
6 4 (26.67%) HTML5
7 3 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
7 3 (20.00%) Ajax
8 2 (13.33%) LINQ
9 1 (6.667%) CSS3
9 1 (6.667%) Spring MVC
9 1 (6.667%) Hibernate
9 1 (6.667%) Spring
9 1 (6.667%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 4 (26.67%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (13.33%) MSMQ
3 1 (6.667%) CMS
3 1 (6.667%) Umbraco
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) BSS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (53.33%) SQL Server
2 3 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Subversion
2 2 (13.33%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (13.33%) SpecFlow
2 2 (13.33%) Visual Studio
3 1 (6.667%) Gradle
General
1 6 (40.00%) Telecoms
1 6 (40.00%) Banking
2 3 (20.00%) Retail
3 2 (13.33%) Billing
Job Titles
1 11 (73.33%) Developer
2 5 (33.33%) C# Developer
2 5 (33.33%) C# .NET Developer
3 4 (26.67%) .NET Developer
4 3 (20.00%) C# Programmer
4 3 (20.00%) Programmer
5 2 (13.33%) BizTalk Consultant
5 2 (13.33%) Consultant
6 1 (6.667%) CMS Developer
6 1 (6.667%) Support Engineer
6 1 (6.667%) Administrator
6 1 (6.667%) Java Developer
6 1 (6.667%) BizTalk Administrator
6 1 (6.667%) Umbraco Developer
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Windows
2 1 (6.667%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) MVC
2 5 (33.33%) TDD
3 4 (26.67%) User Acceptance Testing
3 4 (26.67%) UML
3 4 (26.67%) SOA
4 3 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
5 2 (13.33%) ETL
5 2 (13.33%) Scrum
5 2 (13.33%) Multithreading
5 2 (13.33%) Kanban
5 2 (13.33%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 10 (66.67%) C#
2 3 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (6.667%) Shell Script
3 1 (6.667%) Java
3 1 (6.667%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 1 (6.667%) JBoss