The first table below looks at the demand for ESB 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 ESB over the 3 months to 18 June 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 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)
Rank 158 199 196
Rank change year-on-year
+41 -3
Contract jobs citing ESB 67 43 58
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.829% 0.428% 0.550%
As % of the Application Platforms category 4.796% 2.853% 3.326%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 27 27
Average daily rate £399 £425 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.17% -5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £343 £262 £371
10% offered a daily rate of more than £409 £500 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £400 £450
% change year-on-year
-6.25% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 0
Average hourly rate £39.00 £40.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.50% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £39.00 £40.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +14.28%
All Application Platforms
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
1397 1507 1744
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 17.29% 15.00% 16.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 739 740 777
Average daily rate £350 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £200 £214
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £340
% change year-on-year
- -4.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 89 149
Average hourly rate £18.50 £21.50 £18.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-13.95% +16.21%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £12.50 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.40 £39.25 £42.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +2.56%
ESB
England

ESB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East 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 South East region.

South East ESB Daily Rate Trend

ESB
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ESB across the South East region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

South East ESB Daily Rate Histogram

ESB
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South East ESB Hourly Rate Trend

ESB
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ESB across the South East region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

South East ESB Hourly Rate Histogram

ESB
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ESB within the South East region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Surrey +29 26 £393 -14.67% 4
Hampshire 0 18 £400 +23.07% 2
Buckinghamshire +10 12 £375 - 1
Berkshire +21 4 £340 +3.03% 1
Middlesex - - - -
Oxfordshire - - - -
ESB
England

ESB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 57 (47.11%) Web Services
2 49 (40.50%) Java
3 45 (37.19%) XML
4 39 (32.23%) C#
5 35 (28.93%) SQL Server
6 34 (28.10%) SOA
7 32 (26.45%) .NET
8 30 (24.79%) TDD
9 29 (23.97%) MVC
10 28 (23.14%) Windows
11 27 (22.31%) WCF
12 26 (21.49%) ASP.NET
13 24 (19.83%) Finance
13 24 (19.83%) Scrum
14 23 (19.01%) jQuery
15 21 (17.36%) Subversion
16 19 (15.70%) Telecoms
16 19 (15.70%) UML
16 19 (15.70%) Apache
16 19 (15.70%) ASP.NET MVC
17 18 (14.88%) SOAP
17 18 (14.88%) SQL
18 17 (14.05%) CSS
18 17 (14.05%) Middleware
19 16 (13.22%) BizTalk Server
19 16 (13.22%) IBM
20 15 (12.40%) J2EE
21 14 (11.57%) HTML
22 13 (10.74%) Banking
22 13 (10.74%) Oracle

ESB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 57 (47.11%) Web Services
2 45 (37.19%) XML
3 32 (26.45%) .NET
4 27 (22.31%) WCF
5 26 (21.49%) ASP.NET
6 23 (19.01%) jQuery
7 19 (15.70%) ASP.NET MVC
8 18 (14.88%) SOAP
9 17 (14.05%) CSS
9 17 (14.05%) Middleware
10 15 (12.40%) J2EE
11 14 (11.57%) HTML
12 13 (10.74%) WSDL
13 12 (9.917%) Hibernate
13 12 (9.917%) WebSphere
13 12 (9.917%) HTML5
13 12 (9.917%) soapUI
13 12 (9.917%) Java EE
14 11 (9.091%) Apache Axis
14 11 (9.091%) Swing
Application Platforms
1 19 (15.70%) Apache
2 16 (13.22%) BizTalk Server
3 11 (9.091%) SharePoint
4 9 (7.438%) IIS
5 8 (6.612%) Mule
5 8 (6.612%) Windows Azure
6 6 (4.959%) WebSphere Process Server
6 6 (4.959%) SharePoint Server
6 6 (4.959%) WebSphere Message Broker
6 6 (4.959%) WebSphere Application Server
7 5 (4.132%) CMS
8 4 (3.306%) NetWeaver
9 3 (2.479%) EPiServer CMS
10 1 (0.826%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.826%) Drupal
10 1 (0.826%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.826%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.826%) Documentum
Applications
1 3 (2.479%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.826%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.653%) SAP CRM
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.479%) BSS
2 2 (1.653%) HTTP
3 1 (0.826%) Intranet
3 1 (0.826%) Internet
3 1 (0.826%) Extranet
3 1 (0.826%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (28.93%) SQL Server
2 9 (7.438%) SQL Server 2008
3 5 (4.132%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.826%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.826%) BODI
4 1 (0.826%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (0.826%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
4 1 (0.826%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 21 (17.36%) Subversion
2 13 (10.74%) Visual Studio
3 12 (9.917%) TeamCity
4 11 (9.091%) JUnit
4 11 (9.091%) Maven
5 10 (8.264%) MSBuild
5 10 (8.264%) SpecFlow
6 9 (7.438%) Jenkins
6 9 (7.438%) JIRA
6 9 (7.438%) Eclipse
6 9 (7.438%) Git (software)
7 7 (5.785%) Team Foundation Server
7 7 (5.785%) Talend Open Studio
8 6 (4.959%) Rational Application Developer
9 4 (3.306%) JMeter
10 3 (2.479%) Moq
10 3 (2.479%) MSI
10 3 (2.479%) ReSharper
11 2 (1.653%) Selenium
11 2 (1.653%) XMLSpy
General
1 24 (19.83%) Finance
2 19 (15.70%) Telecoms
3 13 (10.74%) Banking
4 5 (4.132%) Retail
5 3 (2.479%) Billing
6 1 (0.826%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.826%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 65 (53.72%) Developer
2 20 (16.53%) Java Developer
3 14 (11.57%) Architect
4 9 (7.438%) Programmer
4 9 (7.438%) Java Swing Developer
5 8 (6.612%) Integration Specialist
5 8 (6.612%) Senior Developer
6 7 (5.785%) Release Manager
6 7 (5.785%) Consultant
6 7 (5.785%) Build Manager
7 6 (4.959%) WebSphere Developer
7 6 (4.959%) C# Developer
7 6 (4.959%) C# .NET Developer
8 5 (4.132%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (3.306%) Development Manager
9 4 (3.306%) Technical Architect
9 4 (3.306%) .NET Developer
9 4 (3.306%) Senior Java Developer
9 4 (3.306%) Senior Programmer
9 4 (3.306%) C# Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.785%) Mobile App
2 6 (4.959%) Data Integration
3 4 (3.306%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (2.479%) Inversion of Control
5 2 (1.653%) DataPower
6 1 (0.826%) Open Source
6 1 (0.826%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.826%) Computer Science
6 1 (0.826%) IBM Mainframe
6 1 (0.826%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 28 (23.14%) Windows
2 9 (7.438%) Windows Server 2008
3 8 (6.612%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (28.10%) SOA
2 30 (24.79%) TDD
3 29 (23.97%) MVC
4 24 (19.83%) Scrum
5 19 (15.70%) UML
6 12 (9.917%) BDD
7 11 (9.091%) Agile Software Development
7 11 (9.091%) Technical Architecture
8 10 (8.264%) OO
8 10 (8.264%) Test Scripting
9 9 (7.438%) Continuous Integration
10 8 (6.612%) Unit Testing
10 8 (6.612%) CRM
10 8 (6.612%) OOD
10 8 (6.612%) ETL
11 7 (5.785%) Workflow
11 7 (5.785%) ITIL
11 7 (5.785%) Software Engineering
11 7 (5.785%) Release Management
11 7 (5.785%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 49 (40.50%) Java
2 39 (32.23%) C#
3 18 (14.88%) SQL
4 9 (7.438%) PowerShell
5 8 (6.612%) JavaScript
6 6 (4.959%) Groovy
7 3 (2.479%) ABAP
8 1 (0.826%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.826%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.826%) C++
8 1 (0.826%) C
Qualifications
1 9 (7.438%) Security Cleared
2 6 (4.959%) Degree
3 5 (4.132%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.826%) ISEB
4 1 (0.826%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.306%) QA
2 3 (2.479%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 6 (4.959%) Tivoli
1 6 (4.959%) Tivoli Identity Manager
2 1 (0.826%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 1 (0.826%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 16 (13.22%) IBM
2 13 (10.74%) Oracle
3 12 (9.917%) Microsoft
4 7 (5.785%) Software AG
4 7 (5.785%) webMethods
4 7 (5.785%) Talend
5 5 (4.132%) Intel
5 5 (4.132%) SAP
6 4 (3.306%) Google
7 3 (2.479%) Huawei
7 3 (2.479%) Fujitsu
7 3 (2.479%) EPiServer
8 1 (0.826%) JBoss
8 1 (0.826%) Business Objects
8 1 (0.826%) Informatica
8 1 (0.826%) TIBCO
8 1 (0.826%) HP
Surrey, South East
Some of the work is legacy, some is new development.You will be working with service oriented architecture (SOA) and Apache Camel. The ServiceMix toolkit is the preferred...
TRG
Rate: 375-420 Per Day Send CV
Posted: 12 June 2013
Camberley, Surrey
You will be working with service oriented architecture (SOA) and Apache Camel. The ServiceMix toolkit is the preferred Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) using the Spring Framework, however, Fuse...
TRG
Rate: £375 - 420 Per Day Send CV
Posted: 12 June 2013
Southampton, Hampshire
EPiServer CMS Developer Required in Hampshire C#/EPiServer /CMS. Tags - HTML5, .NET, MVC, Webforms, CSS, C#, ASP.NET, Jquery, C#.NET, , SQL Server, XML, , SVN, WCF, ESB, Financial,...
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Posted: 13 June 2013
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If you are a developer in test with strong Window's Azure experience and want a new challenge on a testing project this will be a strong fit.....
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Rate: £350 - £450 per annum
Posted: 14 June 2013
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You will have at least five years' experience in a systems development management role and have to be able to demonstrate a background of experience gained from a...
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Rate: £350.00 - £400.00 per day
Posted: 31 May 2013
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