The first table below looks at the demand for Oracle Service Bus 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 Oracle Service Bus over the 3 months to 17 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 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle Service Bus (OSB)
Rank 214 240 227
Rank change year-on-year
+26 -13
Contract jobs citing Oracle Service Bus 9 7 25
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.115% 0.069% 0.239%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.620% 0.435% 1.404%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 6
Average daily rate £500 £425 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+17.64% +13.33%
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £440 £400
% change year-on-year
-14.77% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £40.00
All Application Platforms
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
1452 1609 1781
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 18.58% 15.84% 17.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 759 784 741
Average daily rate £340 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.61% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £219 £210 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £463
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 82 154
Average hourly rate £18.00 £18.75 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-4.00% -8.53%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £11.45 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.10 £40.00 £42.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -
Oracle Service Bus
England

Oracle Service Bus
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East Oracle Service Bus Jobs Demand Trend

Oracle Service Bus
Daily Rate Trend

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

South East Oracle Service Bus Daily Rate Trend

Oracle Service Bus
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle Service Bus within the South East region over the 3 months to 17 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 - 9 £500 -
Oracle Service Bus
England

Oracle Service Bus
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing Oracle Service Bus 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 Oracle Service Bus.

1 13 (100.00%) Oracle
2 11 (84.62%) SOA
2 11 (84.62%) Middleware
3 10 (76.92%) BPEL
3 10 (76.92%) Oracle 11g
4 9 (69.23%) REST
4 9 (69.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 9 (69.23%) WSDL
4 9 (69.23%) Web Services
5 7 (53.85%) XML
5 7 (53.85%) .NET
5 7 (53.85%) SOAP
5 7 (53.85%) Agile Software Development
5 7 (53.85%) XPath
6 6 (46.15%) WCF
6 6 (46.15%) Scrum
6 6 (46.15%) MVC
6 6 (46.15%) C#
7 5 (38.46%) Ant
7 5 (38.46%) XSD
7 5 (38.46%) UML
7 5 (38.46%) Oracle 8/8i
7 5 (38.46%) Workflow
7 5 (38.46%) Oracle Workflow
7 5 (38.46%) Eclipse
7 5 (38.46%) JDeveloper
7 5 (38.46%) XQuery
7 5 (38.46%) Web 2.0
7 5 (38.46%) Enterprise Architecture
7 5 (38.46%) Team Foundation Server

Oracle Service Bus
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing Oracle Service Bus 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 Oracle Service Bus. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 11 (84.62%) Middleware
2 9 (69.23%) REST
2 9 (69.23%) Web Services
2 9 (69.23%) WSDL
3 7 (53.85%) .NET
3 7 (53.85%) SOAP
3 7 (53.85%) XML
4 6 (46.15%) WCF
5 5 (38.46%) XSD
6 4 (30.77%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (15.38%) XSLT
7 2 (15.38%) JMS
7 2 (15.38%) XML Schema
Application Platforms
1 9 (69.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 5 (38.46%) Oracle Workflow
3 4 (30.77%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.692%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (76.92%) Oracle 11g
2 5 (38.46%) Oracle 8/8i
3 2 (15.38%) Oracle BI EE
4 1 (7.692%) Oracle OLAP
4 1 (7.692%) OLAP
4 1 (7.692%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) Ant
1 5 (38.46%) Eclipse
1 5 (38.46%) JDeveloper
1 5 (38.46%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (7.692%) Oracle Forms
Job Titles
1 9 (69.23%) Oracle Developer
1 9 (69.23%) Developer
2 7 (53.85%) Lead Developer
2 7 (53.85%) Oracle SOA Developer
2 7 (53.85%) SOA Developer
3 3 (23.08%) Architect
4 1 (7.692%) Oracle SOA Architect
4 1 (7.692%) Middleware Architect
4 1 (7.692%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (7.692%) Applications Architect
4 1 (7.692%) Build Manager
4 1 (7.692%) SOA Architect
4 1 (7.692%) Oracle Architect
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Web 2.0
2 1 (7.692%) Data Conversion
2 1 (7.692%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) UNIX
2 1 (7.692%) HPUX
2 1 (7.692%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (84.62%) SOA
2 10 (76.92%) BPEL
3 7 (53.85%) Agile Software Development
4 6 (46.15%) Scrum
4 6 (46.15%) MVC
5 5 (38.46%) Workflow
5 5 (38.46%) UML
5 5 (38.46%) Enterprise Architecture
5 5 (38.46%) Unit Testing
6 2 (15.38%) BPMN
7 1 (7.692%) Database Security
7 1 (7.692%) Release Management
7 1 (7.692%) CRM
7 1 (7.692%) Configuration Management
7 1 (7.692%) E-business
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) XPath
2 6 (46.15%) C#
3 5 (38.46%) XQuery
4 2 (15.38%) SQL
4 2 (15.38%) Java
5 1 (7.692%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.692%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (7.692%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) Oracle
2 2 (15.38%) VMware
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