The first table below looks at the demand for SOA 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 SOA over the 3 months to 19 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 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Rank 65 85 94
Rank change year-on-year
+20 +9
Contract jobs citing SOA 207 182 186
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 2.585% 1.821% 1.755%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.755% 2.753% 2.735%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 114 89
Average daily rate £440 £450 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.22% +12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £305 £305 £246
10% offered a daily rate of more than £527 £550 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £400 £400
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 0
Average hourly rate £23.13 £40.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-42.18% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £23.13 £40.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-42.18% +60.00%
All Processes & Methodologies
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
5512 6610 6800
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 68.83% 66.13% 64.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2869 3135 3151
Average daily rate £375 £370 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.35% -1.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 229 312 351
Average hourly rate £30.00 £30.00 £30.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £12.88 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £47.50 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
SOA
England

SOA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East SOA Jobs Demand Trend

SOA
Daily Rate Trend

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

South East SOA Daily Rate Trend

SOA
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SOA across the South East region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

South East SOA Daily Rate Histogram

SOA
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South East SOA Hourly Rate Trend

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 South East region over the 3 months to 19 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
Hampshire +2 61 £500 +25.00% 17
Surrey +22 42 £338 -20.58% 10
Berkshire +18 37 £525 +16.66% 7
Oxfordshire +17 27 £450 -5.26% 1
Buckinghamshire +8 22 £425 - 4
Thames Valley +4 3 £450 -18.18%
West Sussex -5 3 £445 -11.00%
Kent - 3 - - 4
Middlesex - 3 £450 - 1
East Sussex - - - - 1
SOA
England

SOA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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.

1 152 (40.00%) Oracle
2 117 (30.79%) SQL
2 117 (30.79%) Web Services
3 116 (30.53%) Java
4 115 (30.26%) C#
4 115 (30.26%) .NET
5 79 (20.79%) XML
6 75 (19.74%) Middleware
6 75 (19.74%) WCF
7 71 (18.68%) Telecoms
8 66 (17.37%) UML
9 65 (17.11%) SQL Server
10 61 (16.05%) Scrum
11 52 (13.68%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 51 (13.42%) TDD
13 50 (13.16%) Microsoft
14 48 (12.63%) Windows
14 48 (12.63%) WebSphere
15 45 (11.84%) PL/SQL
16 44 (11.58%) Security Cleared
17 43 (11.32%) WebLogic
17 43 (11.32%) Finance
17 43 (11.32%) MVC
18 42 (11.05%) ASP.NET
19 38 (10.00%) BDD
20 36 (9.474%) Agile Software Development
21 34 (8.947%) ESB
22 33 (8.684%) Banking
22 33 (8.684%) SC Cleared
23 32 (8.421%) SOAP

SOA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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
1 117 (30.79%) Web Services
2 115 (30.26%) .NET
3 79 (20.79%) XML
4 75 (19.74%) Middleware
4 75 (19.74%) WCF
5 48 (12.63%) WebSphere
6 42 (11.05%) ASP.NET
7 32 (8.421%) SOAP
8 31 (8.158%) CSS
9 30 (7.895%) jQuery
10 29 (7.632%) Oracle Fusion
11 27 (7.105%) Spring
12 24 (6.316%) Hibernate
12 24 (6.316%) J2EE
12 24 (6.316%) JMS
13 23 (6.053%) JSP
13 23 (6.053%) .NET Framework
13 23 (6.053%) Java EE
14 20 (5.263%) HTML5
14 20 (5.263%) REST
Application Platforms
1 52 (13.68%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 43 (11.32%) WebLogic
3 34 (8.947%) ESB
4 32 (8.421%) Apache
5 27 (7.105%) BizTalk Server
6 14 (3.684%) Windows Azure
7 11 (2.895%) WebSphere Process Server
7 11 (2.895%) Oracle Service Bus
7 11 (2.895%) SharePoint
7 11 (2.895%) CMS
8 10 (2.632%) WebSphere Application Server
8 10 (2.632%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 10 (2.632%) Oracle Application Server
9 6 (1.579%) WebSphere Message Broker
10 5 (1.316%) Oracle Workflow
11 4 (1.053%) MQSeries
11 4 (1.053%) Tomcat
11 4 (1.053%) Umbraco
11 4 (1.053%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.789%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 17 (4.474%) MS Excel
2 9 (2.368%) MS Office
3 4 (1.053%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.053%) MS PowerPoint
4 2 (0.526%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 21 (5.526%) Oracle EBS
2 18 (4.737%) Oracle EBS R12
3 15 (3.947%) Oracle Applications
4 8 (2.105%) Staffware
4 8 (2.105%) BusinessWorks
4 8 (2.105%) TIBCO iProcess
5 5 (1.316%) Oracle BPM
6 4 (1.053%) Oracle Financials
7 3 (0.789%) Dynamics CRM
8 2 (0.526%) Oracle HRMS
8 2 (0.526%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.526%) WebTrends
8 2 (0.526%) Temenos T24
8 2 (0.526%) FLEXCUBE
9 1 (0.263%) SAP ERP
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.421%) Internet
2 11 (2.895%) HTTP
3 6 (1.579%) LDAP
4 4 (1.053%) 2G
4 4 (1.053%) 3G
4 4 (1.053%) RTP
5 3 (0.789%) Wireless
5 3 (0.789%) RTCP
6 2 (0.526%) DVB
6 2 (0.526%) IPv4
6 2 (0.526%) WAN
6 2 (0.526%) LAN
6 2 (0.526%) SNMP
7 1 (0.263%) BSS
7 1 (0.263%) GSM
7 1 (0.263%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.263%) 3GPP
7 1 (0.263%) UMTS
7 1 (0.263%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (17.11%) SQL Server
2 30 (7.895%) Oracle 11g
3 26 (6.842%) SQL Server 2008
4 23 (6.053%) Oracle 10g
5 20 (5.263%) Oracle Reports
6 15 (3.947%) Oracle Discoverer
7 13 (3.421%) Oracle 8/8i
8 11 (2.895%) TOAD
9 9 (2.368%) SQLPlus
10 8 (2.105%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 8 (2.105%) SQL Server 2005
10 8 (2.105%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 7 (1.842%) Oracle BI EE
11 7 (1.842%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 6 (1.579%) BusinessObjects
12 6 (1.579%) DB2
12 6 (1.579%) InterSystems Cache
13 5 (1.316%) RDBMS
14 4 (1.053%) GIS
15 2 (0.526%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 29 (7.632%) SpecFlow
2 25 (6.579%) JIRA
3 20 (5.263%) Visual Studio
4 19 (5.000%) Team Foundation Server
5 17 (4.474%) Selenium
6 15 (3.947%) Oracle Forms
6 15 (3.947%) Jenkins
7 12 (3.158%) Eclipse
8 9 (2.368%) Maven
9 8 (2.105%) Ant
9 8 (2.105%) Subversion
10 6 (1.579%) WebDriver
11 5 (1.316%) FitNesse
11 5 (1.316%) WATIR
11 5 (1.316%) MSTest
11 5 (1.316%) Git (software)
11 5 (1.316%) JUnit
11 5 (1.316%) JDeveloper
12 4 (1.053%) JMeter
12 4 (1.053%) TestDirector
General
1 71 (18.68%) Telecoms
2 43 (11.32%) Finance
3 33 (8.684%) Banking
4 20 (5.263%) Retail
5 5 (1.316%) Investment Banking
6 3 (0.789%) Billing
6 3 (0.789%) Military
7 2 (0.526%) Manufacturing
7 2 (0.526%) Publishing
7 2 (0.526%) Multimedia
7 2 (0.526%) Private Banking
8 1 (0.263%) Marketing
8 1 (0.263%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.263%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.263%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 125 (32.89%) Developer
2 99 (26.05%) Architect
3 49 (12.89%) .NET Developer
4 36 (9.474%) C# Developer
5 34 (8.947%) Oracle Developer
6 31 (8.158%) C# .NET Developer
7 25 (6.579%) Designer
8 23 (6.053%) Solutions Architect
8 23 (6.053%) Analyst
9 18 (4.737%) SOA Developer
10 17 (4.474%) Consultant
10 17 (4.474%) Software Architect
11 16 (4.211%) Development Manager
11 16 (4.211%) SOA Architect
12 15 (3.947%) Oracle SOA Developer
12 15 (3.947%) Test Analyst
12 15 (3.947%) PL/SQL Developer
13 14 (3.684%) SQL Developer
13 14 (3.684%) Oracle Architect
14 12 (3.158%) DBA
Miscellaneous
1 12 (3.158%) N-Tier
2 10 (2.632%) Mobile App
3 9 (2.368%) Replication
4 8 (2.105%) Digital Media
5 6 (1.579%) Management Information System
6 5 (1.316%) Web 2.0
7 4 (1.053%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (0.789%) Mathematics
8 3 (0.789%) Smart Meter
8 3 (0.789%) iPhone
8 3 (0.789%) Open Source
8 3 (0.789%) EPoS
8 3 (0.789%) Blackberry
8 3 (0.789%) Handset
9 2 (0.526%) Mobile Banking
9 2 (0.526%) Mainframe
9 2 (0.526%) PMI
9 2 (0.526%) MPEG
9 2 (0.526%) Client/Server
9 2 (0.526%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 48 (12.63%) Windows
2 26 (6.842%) UNIX
3 19 (5.000%) Linux
4 11 (2.895%) Solaris
5 10 (2.632%) Windows Server 2003
6 4 (1.053%) AIX
7 3 (0.789%) Android
8 2 (0.526%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.263%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (17.37%) UML
2 61 (16.05%) Scrum
3 51 (13.42%) TDD
4 43 (11.32%) MVC
5 38 (10.00%) BDD
6 36 (9.474%) Agile Software Development
7 26 (6.842%) Enterprise Architecture
8 25 (6.579%) Stakeholder Management
9 22 (5.789%) E-business
10 21 (5.526%) ITIL
11 19 (5.000%) Continuous Integration
12 16 (4.211%) Business Intelligence
13 15 (3.947%) Software Architecture
14 14 (3.684%) E-Commerce
14 14 (3.684%) Unit Testing
14 14 (3.684%) BPEL
15 12 (3.158%) Disaster Recovery
15 12 (3.158%) ERP
15 12 (3.158%) TOGAF
15 12 (3.158%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 117 (30.79%) SQL
2 116 (30.53%) Java
3 115 (30.26%) C#
4 45 (11.84%) PL/SQL
5 22 (5.789%) JavaScript
6 16 (4.211%) Perl
7 12 (3.158%) T-SQL
8 11 (2.895%) Korn
8 11 (2.895%) Shell Script
9 8 (2.105%) Python
10 7 (1.842%) XPath
11 6 (1.579%) C
11 6 (1.579%) C++
11 6 (1.579%) Groovy
12 5 (1.316%) XQuery
13 4 (1.053%) PHP
13 4 (1.053%) VB.NET
14 3 (0.789%) Bash shell
14 3 (0.789%) ActionScript 2.0
14 3 (0.789%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 44 (11.58%) Security Cleared
2 33 (8.684%) SC Cleared
3 19 (5.000%) Degree
4 4 (1.053%) CIMA
4 4 (1.053%) BC Cleared
5 3 (0.789%) ISEB
5 3 (0.789%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (0.526%) PMI Certification
6 2 (0.526%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 2 (0.526%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.263%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (4.211%) QA
2 10 (2.632%) PCI DSS
3 7 (1.842%) HL7
4 4 (1.053%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (4.474%) Oracle RAC
2 9 (2.368%) Oracle RMAN
3 2 (0.526%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (2.895%) HP Quality Center
2 9 (2.368%) Data Guard
3 4 (1.053%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 3 (0.789%) Tivoli
4 3 (0.789%) Tivoli Identity Manager
5 1 (0.263%) Puppet
5 1 (0.263%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 152 (40.00%) Oracle
2 50 (13.16%) Microsoft
3 21 (5.526%) IBM
4 16 (4.211%) TIBCO
5 13 (3.421%) Siebel
6 10 (2.632%) SAP
6 10 (2.632%) ILOG
7 7 (1.842%) Google
7 7 (1.842%) HP
8 6 (1.579%) Business Objects
9 5 (1.316%) ATG
10 4 (1.053%) hybris
10 4 (1.053%) Venda
10 4 (1.053%) Sitecore
11 3 (0.789%) Fujitsu
11 3 (0.789%) JBoss
11 3 (0.789%) ESRI
11 3 (0.789%) webMethods
11 3 (0.789%) Teradata
12 2 (0.526%) Talend
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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
Surrey
C#.Net & Oracle PL/SQL Developer required. Our client is looking for a C#.Net & Oracle PL/SQL Developer to start immediately. You must have the following essential...
Proactive Appointments
Rate: Unspecified Market Rate
Posted: 14 June 2013
Camberley, Surrey
The Integration Specialist will be responsible for specifying application/technical architecture, functionalities with solution integration and dealt with projects using SOA, ESB, Web Services, JAVA and J2EE Technologies.
Quindell Plc - Metaskil
Rate: £good day rate available
Posted: 18 June 2013
Milton Keynes, Thames Valley
Solutions Architect required to provide Governance and technical support for a Websphere upgrade within large multinational business Websphere middleware and message bus are undergoing an upgrade with the...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Rate: £380.00 - £420.00 per day
Posted: 11 June 2013
West Malling, Kent
Embarking upon a substantial development programme using the latest .Net 4.5 technology, applicants with the following additional skills are also invited to submit up to date cvs; -...
Randstad Technologies
Rate: £300 - £400 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013
Surrey, South East
E-Resourcing
Rate: £280 - £300 per day
Posted: 31 May 2013
Basingstoke, Hampshire
ARC IT Recruitment Ltd
Rate: competitive
Posted: 14 June 2013
Havant, South East
Rate: £450 - £600 per day
Posted: 29 May 2013
Havant, South East
Rate: £450 - £600 per day
Posted: 29 May 2013
Berkshire, Thames Valley
Selecture Limited
Rate: £500 - £750 per annum
Posted: 3 June 2013
Reading, Thames Valley
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Rate: £500.00 - £550.00 per day
Posted: 10 June 2013
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Posted: 3 June 2013
Andover, South East
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Posted: 5 June 2013
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