Somerset SOA Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) skills within the Somerset region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited SOA over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Location Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheshire City of London County Antrim Croydon Cumbria Docklands, London East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Farnborough Farnham Gerrards Cross Glamorgan Glasgow Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Rickmansworth Salford Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Street Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	38	38
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching contract IT job ads	5	8
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.007 %	0.008 %
As % of the category below	2.058 %	2.658 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£550	-
Average daily rate	£550	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£550	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£411	£419
% change on same period last year	-1.90 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£38.75	£35.00
% change on same period last year	+10.71 %
Processes & Methodologies Somerset
Matching contract IT job ads	243	301
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.328 %	0.297 %
Daily rates quoted	62	40
Average minimum daily rate	£403	£324
Average daily rate	£435	£347
% change on same period last year	+25.38 %
Average maximum daily rate	£468	£371
UK excluding London average daily rate	£378	£375
% change on same period last year	+0.59 %
Hourly rates quoted	90	127
Average minimum hourly rate	£32.30	£28.15
Average hourly rate	£34.53	£29.87
% change on same period last year	+15.60 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£36.76	£31.58
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.41	£30.41
% change on same period last year	+0.01 %
SOA South West

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.

SOA
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing SOA across the Somerset region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

SOA
Daily Rate Trend

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

SOA
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOA within the Somerset region over the 3 months to 5 September 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.

Location	Rank 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
Street	-7	1	£550	-

SOA South West

SOA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset 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 5 (45.45 %) XML 2 4 (36.36 %) SQL 2 4 (36.36 %) SOAP 3 3 (27.27 %) BEA 3 3 (27.27 %) BizTalk Server 3 3 (27.27 %) C# 3 3 (27.27 %) Java 3 3 (27.27 %) WSDL 3 3 (27.27 %) J2EE 3 3 (27.27 %) Oracle 3 3 (27.27 %) SQL Server 3 3 (27.27 %) WebLogic 3 3 (27.27 %) IIS 3 3 (27.27 %) SAP 3 3 (27.27 %) XSLT

3 3 (27.27 %) Finance 3 3 (27.27 %) ATG 4 2 (18.18 %) AJAX 4 2 (18.18 %) WebServices 4 2 (18.18 %) NetWeaver 4 2 (18.18 %) JSP 4 2 (18.18 %) AquaLogic 4 2 (18.18 %) Web 2.0 4 2 (18.18 %) WebSphere 5 1 (9.091 %) HTML 5 1 (9.091 %) Microsoft 5 1 (9.091 %) Sun 5 1 (9.091 %) HP 5 1 (9.091 %) ISEB 5 1 (9.091 %) WebLogic Workshop

SOA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset 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 5 (45.45 %) XML 2 4 (36.36 %) SOAP 3 3 (27.27 %) XSLT 3 3 (27.27 %) WSDL 3 3 (27.27 %) J2EE 4 2 (18.18 %) JSP 4 2 (18.18 %) AJAX 4 2 (18.18 %) WebSphere 4 2 (18.18 %) WebServices 5 1 (9.091 %) Struts 5 1 (9.091 %) HTML 5 1 (9.091 %) EJB 5 1 (9.091 %) MVC 5 1 (9.091 %) Hibernate 5 1 (9.091 %) JSF	Application Platforms 1 3 (27.27 %) WebLogic 1 3 (27.27 %) IIS 1 3 (27.27 %) BizTalk Server 2 2 (18.18 %) NetWeaver 3 1 (9.091 %) WebLogic Portal 3 1 (9.091 %) ATG Dynamo 3 1 (9.091 %) JBoss 3 1 (9.091 %) SharePoint
Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (27.27 %) SQL Server	Development Applications 1 1 (9.091 %) Ant 1 1 (9.091 %) JUnit 1 1 (9.091 %) Eclipse 1 1 (9.091 %) WebLogic Workshop 1 1 (9.091 %) Subversion 1 1 (9.091 %) jMock
General 1 3 (27.27 %) Finance 2 1 (9.091 %) Banking	Job Titles 1 3 (27.27 %) Developer 1 3 (27.27 %) BizTalk Developer 2 2 (18.18 %) Consultant 2 2 (18.18 %) Architect 2 2 (18.18 %) SAP Consultant 2 2 (18.18 %) SAP Portals Consultant 3 1 (9.091 %) Technical Manager 3 1 (9.091 %) J2EE Architect 3 1 (9.091 %) QA Engineer 3 1 (9.091 %) Technical Lead 3 1 (9.091 %) Senior QA Engineer 3 1 (9.091 %) Lead Software Engineer 3 1 (9.091 %) Project Manager 3 1 (9.091 %) Software Engineer 3 1 (9.091 %) Technical Architect 3 1 (9.091 %) Technical Project Manager 3 1 (9.091 %) Senior Software Engineer 3 1 (9.091 %) Lead Project Manager
Miscellaneous 1 2 (18.18 %) Web 2.0 2 1 (9.091 %) French Language 2 1 (9.091 %) Management Information System 2 1 (9.091 %) Fixed Income 2 1 (9.091 %) Grid Computing	Operating Systems 1 1 (9.091 %) UNIX 1 1 (9.091 %) VMS
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (9.091 %) ITIL 1 1 (9.091 %) PRINCE2 1 1 (9.091 %) UML 1 1 (9.091 %) OO 1 1 (9.091 %) E-Commerce 1 1 (9.091 %) Data Modelling 1 1 (9.091 %) Project Management 1 1 (9.091 %) TOGAF 1 1 (9.091 %) Information Management 1 1 (9.091 %) Business Analysis 1 1 (9.091 %) Software Testing 1 1 (9.091 %) Risk Analysis 1 1 (9.091 %) Unit Testing 1 1 (9.091 %) Test Scripting	Programming Languages 1 4 (36.36 %) SQL 2 3 (27.27 %) C# 2 3 (27.27 %) Java
Qualifications 1 1 (9.091 %) ISEB	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (9.091 %) COBIT 1 1 (9.091 %) QA
System Software 1 2 (18.18 %) AquaLogic	Vendors 1 3 (27.27 %) Oracle 1 3 (27.27 %) SAP 1 3 (27.27 %) BEA 1 3 (27.27 %) ATG 2 1 (9.091 %) Apple 2 1 (9.091 %) Microsoft 2 1 (9.091 %) Sun 2 1 (9.091 %) HP