SOA Contracts in Reading
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for SOA 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 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 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Rank 58 75 68
Rank change year-on-year
+17 -7
Contract jobs citing SOA 12 9 17
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 1.437% 0.807% 1.631%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.174% 1.282% 2.457%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 11
Average daily rate £483 £450 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.22% +50.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £405 £370 £288
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £570 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £390 £400 £400
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
- +45.45%
All Processes & Methodologies
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 552 702 692
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 66.11% 62.96% 66.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 242 270 310
Average daily rate £390 £370 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.40% +5.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £264 £235 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £550 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 24 18
Average hourly rate £16.00 £14.50 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.34% -47.27%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.20 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.00 £23.80 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
SOA
Berkshire

SOA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading 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 Reading region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Reading SOA Daily Rate Histogram

SOA
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Reading SOA Hourly Rate Trend

SOA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 22 (59.46%) .NET
2 20 (54.05%) C#
3 16 (43.24%) ASP.NET
3 16 (43.24%) jQuery
4 14 (37.84%) Java
5 13 (35.14%) SQL Server
6 12 (32.43%) CSS
6 12 (32.43%) MVC
6 12 (32.43%) WCF
6 12 (32.43%) HTML5
7 11 (29.73%) Telecoms
7 11 (29.73%) XML
8 10 (27.03%) Windows
8 10 (27.03%) Web Services
9 9 (24.32%) UML
9 9 (24.32%) Finance
9 9 (24.32%) Hibernate
9 9 (24.32%) Scrum
9 9 (24.32%) TDD
9 9 (24.32%) Banking
9 9 (24.32%) Spring
10 8 (21.62%) Middleware
11 7 (18.92%) Eclipse
11 7 (18.92%) Apache
11 7 (18.92%) Tomcat
11 7 (18.92%) JUnit
11 7 (18.92%) Visual Studio
11 7 (18.92%) JavaScript
11 7 (18.92%) Maven
11 7 (18.92%) BDD

SOA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 22 (59.46%) .NET
2 16 (43.24%) ASP.NET
2 16 (43.24%) jQuery
3 12 (32.43%) CSS
3 12 (32.43%) WCF
3 12 (32.43%) HTML5
4 11 (29.73%) XML
5 10 (27.03%) Web Services
6 9 (24.32%) Hibernate
6 9 (24.32%) Spring
7 8 (21.62%) Middleware
8 7 (18.92%) Apache CXF
9 6 (16.22%) ASP.NET MVC
9 6 (16.22%) .NET Framework
10 4 (10.81%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
10 4 (10.81%) ASP.NET MVC 3
10 4 (10.81%) HTML
11 3 (8.108%) J2EE
11 3 (8.108%) ADO.NET
11 3 (8.108%) WF
Application Platforms
1 7 (18.92%) Apache
1 7 (18.92%) Tomcat
2 4 (10.81%) BizTalk Server
3 3 (8.108%) CMS
3 3 (8.108%) ESB
3 3 (8.108%) Windows Azure
4 2 (5.405%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (5.405%) Umbraco
4 2 (5.405%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (2.703%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (2.703%) MS Office
1 1 (2.703%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (5.405%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (5.405%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.703%) BSS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (35.14%) SQL Server
2 4 (10.81%) SQL Server 2008
2 4 (10.81%) SQL Server 2005
3 3 (8.108%) Oracle 10g
4 2 (5.405%) Oracle Exadata
4 2 (5.405%) Oracle 11g
5 1 (2.703%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.703%) TOAD
5 1 (2.703%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (18.92%) Eclipse
1 7 (18.92%) JUnit
1 7 (18.92%) Visual Studio
1 7 (18.92%) Maven
2 6 (16.22%) JIRA
2 6 (16.22%) SpecFlow
3 5 (13.51%) Team Foundation Server
4 3 (8.108%) TeamCity
4 3 (8.108%) MSTest
5 1 (2.703%) TestDirector
5 1 (2.703%) Subversion
5 1 (2.703%) ReSharper
5 1 (2.703%) Moq
5 1 (2.703%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (29.73%) Telecoms
2 9 (24.32%) Finance
2 9 (24.32%) Banking
3 2 (5.405%) Retail
4 1 (2.703%) Billing
Job Titles
1 24 (64.86%) Developer
2 14 (37.84%) .NET Developer
3 6 (16.22%) C# .NET Developer
3 6 (16.22%) C# Developer
4 5 (13.51%) Architect
5 4 (10.81%) BizTalk Developer
5 4 (10.81%) Analyst
5 4 (10.81%) Analyst Programmer
5 4 (10.81%) Programmer
6 3 (8.108%) Consultant
6 3 (8.108%) Senior Analyst
6 3 (8.108%) Senior Analyst Programmer
6 3 (8.108%) Senior Programmer
6 3 (8.108%) BizTalk Consultant
7 2 (5.405%) Java Architect
7 2 (5.405%) Web Architect
8 1 (2.703%) Java Developer
8 1 (2.703%) Oracle DBA
8 1 (2.703%) Software Architect
8 1 (2.703%) DBA
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.405%) Mobile App
1 2 (5.405%) Oracle Exalogic
2 1 (2.703%) Inversion of Control
2 1 (2.703%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 10 (27.03%) Windows
2 3 (8.108%) UNIX
3 2 (5.405%) Linux
4 1 (2.703%) AIX
4 1 (2.703%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (32.43%) MVC
2 9 (24.32%) UML
2 9 (24.32%) Scrum
2 9 (24.32%) TDD
3 7 (18.92%) BDD
4 6 (16.22%) Agile Software Development
4 6 (16.22%) Automation Testing
5 5 (13.51%) System Testing
6 3 (8.108%) Dependency Injection
6 3 (8.108%) Multithreading
7 2 (5.405%) Incident Management
7 2 (5.405%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (5.405%) ETL
7 2 (5.405%) Mobile Commerce
7 2 (5.405%) E-Commerce
8 1 (2.703%) OOD
8 1 (2.703%) CRM
8 1 (2.703%) Strategic Planning
8 1 (2.703%) Requirements Analysis
8 1 (2.703%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 20 (54.05%) C#
2 14 (37.84%) Java
3 7 (18.92%) JavaScript
4 6 (16.22%) SQL
5 2 (5.405%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (8.108%) SC Cleared
1 3 (8.108%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.703%) QA
System Software
1 2 (5.405%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (5.405%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (2.703%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 5 (13.51%) Oracle
2 4 (10.81%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.405%) Sitecore
3 2 (5.405%) hybris
3 2 (5.405%) Venda
3 2 (5.405%) Red Hat
3 2 (5.405%) ATG
3 2 (5.405%) JBoss
4 1 (2.703%) Sun
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