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This section looks at the demand for Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) skills within the Scotland region with a comparison to our Application Platforms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited ESB over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkEnterprise Service Bus (ESB)
Location
3 months to 25 Jul 2008Same period last year
Rank98124
Rank change on same period last yearUp+26
Matching contract IT job ads24
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.003 %0.004 %
As % of the category below0.637 %0.847 %
Daily rates quoted01
Average minimum daily rate-£375
Average daily rate-£413
% change on same period last year-
Average maximum daily rate-£450
UK excluding London average daily rate£463£473
% change on same period last year-2.17 %
Hourly rates quoted00
Average minimum hourly rate--
Average hourly rate--
% change on same period last year-
Average maximum hourly rate--
UK excluding London average hourly rate--
% change on same period last year-
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
Scotland
Matching contract IT job ads314472
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.419 %0.478 %
Daily rates quoted5654
Average minimum daily rate£309£294
Average daily rate£326£305
% change on same period last year+6.85 %
Average maximum daily rate£344£317
UK excluding London average daily rate£355£349
% change on same period last year+1.64 %
Hourly rates quoted2332
Average minimum hourly rate£20.00£18.99
Average hourly rate£20.83£20.84
% change on same period last year-0.07 %
Average maximum hourly rate£21.66£22.70
UK excluding London average hourly rate£24.28£23.70
% change on same period last year+2.44 %
ESB UKESB
UK

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

ESB
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing ESB across the Scotland region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Scotland ESB Demand Trend

ESB
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing ESB across the Scotland region.

Scotland ESB Daily Rate Trend

ESB
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ESB within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Last
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EdinburghUp+71--
West LothianNew entry-1--
ESB UKESB
UK

ESB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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.

14 (100.00 %)WebSphere
22 (50.00 %)XML
22 (50.00 %)Finance
22 (50.00 %)ClearCase
22 (50.00 %)Java
22 (50.00 %)SQL
22 (50.00 %)XSLT
31 (25.00 %)Financial Institution
31 (25.00 %)Identity Management
31 (25.00 %)UNIX
31 (25.00 %)Solaris
31 (25.00 %)RAD
31 (25.00 %)Tomcat
31 (25.00 %)J2EE
31 (25.00 %)Sybase
31 (25.00 %)DB2
31 (25.00 %)Ant
31 (25.00 %)JUnit
31 (25.00 %)JDBC
31 (25.00 %)JSP
31 (25.00 %)Struts
31 (25.00 %)E-Commerce
31 (25.00 %)JMS
31 (25.00 %)MS Visio
31 (25.00 %)Eclipse
31 (25.00 %)WSDL
31 (25.00 %)XML Schema
31 (25.00 %)IBM
31 (25.00 %)Sun
31 (25.00 %)SAX

ESB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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.

Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
14 (100.00 %)WebSphere
22 (50.00 %)XML
22 (50.00 %)XSLT
31 (25.00 %)JMS
31 (25.00 %)WSDL
31 (25.00 %)XML Schema
31 (25.00 %)SAX
31 (25.00 %)FpML
31 (25.00 %)Spring
31 (25.00 %)J2EE
31 (25.00 %)JDBC
31 (25.00 %)JSP
31 (25.00 %)Struts
31 (25.00 %)DOM
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
11 (25.00 %)Tomcat
11 (25.00 %)WebSphere MQ
11 (25.00 %)Mule
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
11 (25.00 %)MS Visio
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
11 (25.00 %)DB2
11 (25.00 %)Reference Data
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
12 (50.00 %)ClearCase
21 (25.00 %)Eclipse
21 (25.00 %)XMLSpy
21 (25.00 %)CruiseControl
21 (25.00 %)Subversion
21 (25.00 %)Ant
21 (25.00 %)JUnit
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, GeneralGeneral
12 (50.00 %)Finance
21 (25.00 %)Financial Institution
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
12 (50.00 %)Developer
21 (25.00 %)Consultant
21 (25.00 %)Java Developer
21 (25.00 %)Infrastructure Architect
21 (25.00 %)WebSphere Consultant
21 (25.00 %)Data Integration Developer
21 (25.00 %)Architect
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
11 (25.00 %)Equities
11 (25.00 %)Data Integration
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
11 (25.00 %)UNIX
11 (25.00 %)Solaris
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
11 (25.00 %)RAD
11 (25.00 %)E-Commerce
11 (25.00 %)Identity Management
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
12 (50.00 %)Java
12 (50.00 %)SQL
21 (25.00 %)XQuery
21 (25.00 %)Shell Script
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
11 (25.00 %)QA
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
11 (25.00 %)AquaLogic
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, VendorsVendors
11 (25.00 %)Sybase
11 (25.00 %)IBM
11 (25.00 %)Sun
11 (25.00 %)PolarLake
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