The first table below looks at the demand for Oracle SOA Suite 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 SOA Suite 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 SOA Suite
Rank 195 224 226
Rank change year-on-year
+29 +2
Contract jobs citing Oracle SOA Suite 28 23 26
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.358% 0.226% 0.249%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.928% 1.429% 1.460%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 17 9
Average daily rate £413 £475 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.15% +52.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £305 £350 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £575 £380
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £475 £325
% change year-on-year
-21.05% +46.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
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 SOA Suite
England

Oracle SOA Suite
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East Oracle SOA Suite Jobs Demand Trend

Oracle SOA Suite
Daily Rate Trend

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

South East Oracle SOA Suite Daily Rate Trend

Oracle SOA Suite
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Oracle SOA Suite across the South East region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

South East Oracle SOA Suite Daily Rate Histogram

Oracle SOA Suite
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South East Oracle SOA Suite Hourly Rate Trend

Oracle SOA Suite
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle SOA Suite 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
Oxfordshire +11 11 £323 -32.10%
Buckinghamshire +17 10 £500 +33.33%
Berkshire +16 3 £415 -24.54%
Hampshire -5 3 £413 -28.26%
Oracle SOA Suite
England

Oracle SOA Suite
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 37 (100.00%) Oracle
1 37 (100.00%) SOA
2 22 (59.46%) Middleware
3 17 (45.95%) Oracle Fusion
4 16 (43.24%) Java
5 13 (35.14%) Oracle 11g
6 12 (32.43%) Disaster Recovery
6 12 (32.43%) SQL
7 11 (29.73%) Web Services
7 11 (29.73%) Oracle EBS
7 11 (29.73%) Java EE
8 10 (27.03%) Oracle Application Server
8 10 (27.03%) BPEL
8 10 (27.03%) Oracle 10g
8 10 (27.03%) Windows Server 2003
8 10 (27.03%) Internet
8 10 (27.03%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 10 (27.03%) WebLogic
8 10 (27.03%) Windows
8 10 (27.03%) Solaris
8 10 (27.03%) JMS
8 10 (27.03%) HTTP
9 9 (24.32%) WSDL
9 9 (24.32%) Telecoms
9 9 (24.32%) OC4J
9 9 (24.32%) Oracle Service Bus
9 9 (24.32%) REST
10 8 (21.62%) Digital Media
10 8 (21.62%) Oracle RAC
10 8 (21.62%) SC Cleared

Oracle SOA Suite
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 22 (59.46%) Middleware
2 17 (45.95%) Oracle Fusion
3 11 (29.73%) Java EE
3 11 (29.73%) Web Services
4 10 (27.03%) JMS
5 9 (24.32%) WSDL
5 9 (24.32%) OC4J
5 9 (24.32%) REST
6 8 (21.62%) Apache CXF
6 8 (21.62%) XML
6 8 (21.62%) SOAP
7 6 (16.22%) .NET
7 6 (16.22%) WCF
8 5 (13.51%) XSD
9 3 (8.108%) XSLT
10 2 (5.405%) J2EE
10 2 (5.405%) XML Schema
11 1 (2.703%) Oracle ADF
11 1 (2.703%) Hibernate
11 1 (2.703%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 10 (27.03%) WebLogic
1 10 (27.03%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 10 (27.03%) Oracle Application Server
2 9 (24.32%) Oracle Service Bus
3 8 (21.62%) Apache
4 5 (13.51%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (2.703%) Kentico
5 1 (2.703%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (2.703%) MS Project
1 1 (2.703%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (29.73%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (10.81%) Oracle EBS R12
2 4 (10.81%) Oracle BPM
3 2 (5.405%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 10 (27.03%) HTTP
1 10 (27.03%) Internet
2 6 (16.22%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (35.14%) Oracle 11g
2 10 (27.03%) Oracle 10g
3 6 (16.22%) InterSystems Cache
3 6 (16.22%) Oracle Reports
3 6 (16.22%) Oracle 8/8i
3 6 (16.22%) Oracle Discoverer
4 2 (5.405%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (2.703%) DB2
Development Applications
1 6 (16.22%) Oracle Forms
2 5 (13.51%) Eclipse
2 5 (13.51%) JDeveloper
2 5 (13.51%) Ant
2 5 (13.51%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (2.703%) Maven
General
1 9 (24.32%) Telecoms
2 1 (2.703%) Finance
2 1 (2.703%) Military
2 1 (2.703%) Billing
Job Titles
1 13 (35.14%) Developer
2 11 (29.73%) Oracle Developer
2 11 (29.73%) Administrator
3 8 (21.62%) Middleware Specialist
4 7 (18.92%) Oracle SOA Developer
4 7 (18.92%) SOA Developer
4 7 (18.92%) Lead Developer
5 2 (5.405%) Project Manager
6 1 (2.703%) Architect
6 1 (2.703%) DBA
6 1 (2.703%) C# Developer
6 1 (2.703%) CMS Developer
6 1 (2.703%) Designer
6 1 (2.703%) Java Developer
6 1 (2.703%) Oracle DBA
Miscellaneous
1 8 (21.62%) Digital Media
2 5 (13.51%) Web 2.0
3 2 (5.405%) Oracle Exalogic
4 1 (2.703%) PMI
4 1 (2.703%) Data Integration
4 1 (2.703%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 10 (27.03%) Windows
1 10 (27.03%) Solaris
1 10 (27.03%) Windows Server 2003
2 3 (8.108%) UNIX
3 2 (5.405%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (100.00%) SOA
2 12 (32.43%) Disaster Recovery
3 10 (27.03%) BPEL
4 8 (21.62%) ITIL
5 7 (18.92%) Agile Software Development
6 6 (16.22%) MVC
6 6 (16.22%) Workflow
6 6 (16.22%) Scrum
6 6 (16.22%) UML
7 5 (13.51%) Risk Assessment
7 5 (13.51%) Unit Testing
7 5 (13.51%) Enterprise Architecture
8 3 (8.108%) BPMN
9 2 (5.405%) Incident Management
9 2 (5.405%) Content Management
9 2 (5.405%) Identity Management
9 2 (5.405%) Business Intelligence
10 1 (2.703%) CRM
10 1 (2.703%) E-Commerce
10 1 (2.703%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 16 (43.24%) Java
2 12 (32.43%) SQL
3 7 (18.92%) C#
3 7 (18.92%) XPath
4 5 (13.51%) XQuery
5 2 (5.405%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (21.62%) SC Cleared
1 8 (21.62%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.703%) PMI Certification
2 1 (2.703%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
System Software
1 8 (21.62%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 3 (8.108%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (2.703%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 37 (100.00%) Oracle
2 2 (5.405%) HP
2 2 (5.405%) Red Hat
3 1 (2.703%) Ektron
3 1 (2.703%) Hyperion
3 1 (2.703%) Siebel
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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