The first table below looks at the demand for BPEL skills in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited BPEL over the 3 months to 23 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 South East 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Business Process Execution Language (BPEL)
Rank 205 195 243
Rank change year-on-year
-10 +48
Contract jobs citing BPEL 18 47 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.231% 0.462% 0.152%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.340% 0.711% 0.235%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 28 2
Average daily rate £500 £388 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+29.03% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £240 £318
10% offered a daily rate of more than £520 £475 £458
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £425 £360
% change year-on-year
-11.76% +18.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £40.00
All Processes & Methodologies
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
5291 6607 6798
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 67.98% 64.97% 64.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 2749 3169 3099
Average daily rate £375 £363 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.44% -3.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £514
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 323 368
Average hourly rate £26.99 £27.00 £34.41
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-0.04% -21.52%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £13.50 £13.54
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
BPEL
England

BPEL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East BPEL Jobs Demand Trend

BPEL
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing BPEL across the South East region.

South East BPEL Daily Rate Trend

BPEL
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South East BPEL Hourly Rate Trend

BPEL
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BPEL within the South East region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Buckinghamshire - 15 £500 -
Hampshire -7 3 - -
BPEL
England

BPEL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing BPEL 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 BPEL.

1 18 (78.26%) Oracle
2 15 (65.22%) Web Services
3 14 (60.87%) SOA
3 14 (60.87%) WSDL
4 13 (56.52%) Middleware
5 11 (47.83%) Oracle 11g
6 10 (43.48%) Oracle Service Bus
6 10 (43.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 9 (39.13%) REST
7 9 (39.13%) UML
7 9 (39.13%) XML
7 9 (39.13%) SOAP
8 8 (34.78%) Ant
9 7 (30.43%) .NET
9 7 (30.43%) C#
9 7 (30.43%) Java
9 7 (30.43%) Agile Software Development
9 7 (30.43%) XPath
10 6 (26.09%) WebSphere
10 6 (26.09%) WCF
10 6 (26.09%) MVC
10 6 (26.09%) Workflow
10 6 (26.09%) Oracle Workflow
11 5 (21.74%) Scrum
11 5 (21.74%) BPEL4WS
11 5 (21.74%) Web 2.0
11 5 (21.74%) Enterprise Architecture
11 5 (21.74%) JDeveloper
11 5 (21.74%) XQuery
11 5 (21.74%) XSD

BPEL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing BPEL 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 BPEL. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 15 (65.22%) Web Services
2 14 (60.87%) WSDL
3 13 (56.52%) Middleware
4 9 (39.13%) REST
4 9 (39.13%) XML
4 9 (39.13%) SOAP
5 7 (30.43%) .NET
6 6 (26.09%) WebSphere
6 6 (26.09%) WCF
7 5 (21.74%) BPEL4WS
7 5 (21.74%) XSD
8 4 (17.39%) Oracle Fusion
9 3 (13.04%) JDBC
9 3 (13.04%) XML Schema
10 2 (8.696%) JMS
10 2 (8.696%) XSLT
10 2 (8.696%) J2EE
11 1 (4.348%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 10 (43.48%) Oracle Service Bus
1 10 (43.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 6 (26.09%) Oracle Workflow
3 4 (17.39%) WebLogic
4 3 (13.04%) WebSphere Process Server
5 2 (8.696%) Oracle BPEL
6 1 (4.348%) Apache
6 1 (4.348%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 4 (17.39%) Oracle BPM
2 3 (13.04%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (8.696%) Oracle EBS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (47.83%) Oracle 11g
2 5 (21.74%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (4.348%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (4.348%) BODI
3 1 (4.348%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (4.348%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (4.348%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
Development Applications
1 8 (34.78%) Ant
2 5 (21.74%) JDeveloper
2 5 (21.74%) Eclipse
2 5 (21.74%) Team Foundation Server
3 3 (13.04%) Hudson
General
1 2 (8.696%) Finance
2 1 (4.348%) Billing
Job Titles
1 14 (60.87%) Developer
2 9 (39.13%) Oracle Developer
3 7 (30.43%) Lead Developer
3 7 (30.43%) Oracle SOA Developer
3 7 (30.43%) SOA Developer
4 3 (13.04%) Consultant
4 3 (13.04%) Applications Developer
5 2 (8.696%) Test Leader
5 2 (8.696%) Functional Consultant
5 2 (8.696%) Oracle Consultant
5 2 (8.696%) Oracle Functional Consultant
5 2 (8.696%) Architect
6 1 (4.348%) Data Architect
6 1 (4.348%) WebSphere Consultant
6 1 (4.348%) WebSphere Developer
6 1 (4.348%) SOA Architect
6 1 (4.348%) Oracle Architect
6 1 (4.348%) Oracle SOA Architect
6 1 (4.348%) Middleware Architect
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) Web 2.0
2 1 (4.348%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (17.39%) UNIX
2 3 (13.04%) AIX
3 1 (4.348%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (4.348%) Windows
3 1 (4.348%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (60.87%) SOA
2 9 (39.13%) UML
3 7 (30.43%) Agile Software Development
4 6 (26.09%) MVC
4 6 (26.09%) Workflow
5 5 (21.74%) Scrum
5 5 (21.74%) Enterprise Architecture
5 5 (21.74%) Unit Testing
6 4 (17.39%) ITIL
7 3 (13.04%) Data Modelling
8 2 (8.696%) BPMN
8 2 (8.696%) Data Architecture
8 2 (8.696%) CRM
8 2 (8.696%) Stakeholder Management
9 1 (4.348%) Risk Management
9 1 (4.348%) CMMI
9 1 (4.348%) Business Intelligence
9 1 (4.348%) Matrix Management
9 1 (4.348%) Fault Management
9 1 (4.348%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (30.43%) C#
1 7 (30.43%) Java
1 7 (30.43%) XPath
2 5 (21.74%) XQuery
3 3 (13.04%) Jython
4 2 (8.696%) SQL
5 1 (4.348%) Shell Script
5 1 (4.348%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.348%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (4.348%) ISEB
1 1 (4.348%) ISEB Practitioner
1 1 (4.348%) ISTQB
1 1 (4.348%) DV Cleared
1 1 (4.348%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 18 (78.26%) Oracle
2 4 (17.39%) IBM
3 3 (13.04%) Siebel
4 1 (4.348%) HP
4 1 (4.348%) Business Objects
Buckinghamshire, Thames Valley
You will need to have solid Oracle 11g SOA suite 11.1.3 - PS5 experience along with web service technologies (WSDL, REST, SOAP), Fusions middleware suite & SOA suite...
Hudson
Rate: Market Rate
Posted: 26 April 2013