The first table below looks at the demand for ESB skills in IT contracts advertised for the South West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ESB 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 West 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
Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)
Rank 107 128 114
Rank change year-on-year
+21 -14
Contract jobs citing ESB 8 11 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 0.391% 0.332% 0.107%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.151% 1.916% 0.699%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 1
Average daily rate £425 £425 £488
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -12.82%
UK excluding London average daily rate £388 £413 £475
% change year-on-year
-6.06% -13.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £39.00 £40.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -
All Application Platforms
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
372 574 429
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 18.16% 17.32% 15.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 224 342 219
Average daily rate £350 £358 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.09% +15.32%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £163
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £441 £415
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 34 25
Average hourly rate £19.00 £25.00 £20.13
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-24.00% +24.22%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.05 £16.45 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £24.50 £41.50 £40.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -
ESB
England

ESB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West 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 West region.

South West ESB Daily Rate Trend

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 West 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
Wiltshire +3 4 £425 -
Bristol - 3 - -
Dorset - 1 - -
ESB
England

ESB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 11 (64.71%) Oracle
2 10 (58.82%) SQL
2 10 (58.82%) SOA
3 9 (52.94%) JDeveloper
3 9 (52.94%) Oracle EBS
3 9 (52.94%) Workflow
3 9 (52.94%) BPEL
4 8 (47.06%) Shell Script
4 8 (47.06%) Oracle Workflow
4 8 (47.06%) XQuery
4 8 (47.06%) Linux
4 8 (47.06%) PL/SQL
4 8 (47.06%) XSLT
5 6 (35.29%) User Acceptance Testing
6 5 (29.41%) Oracle BI EE
6 5 (29.41%) Informatica
6 5 (29.41%) XML
6 5 (29.41%) Oracle Reports
6 5 (29.41%) ETL
6 5 (29.41%) Siebel
6 5 (29.41%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (23.53%) Kofax
7 4 (23.53%) Finance
7 4 (23.53%) Migration
7 4 (23.53%) ERP
7 4 (23.53%) CRM
7 4 (23.53%) WebLogic
7 4 (23.53%) SQL Server
7 4 (23.53%) WebCenter
7 4 (23.53%) Data Migration

ESB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 8 (47.06%) XSLT
2 5 (29.41%) XML
3 4 (23.53%) WebCenter
4 3 (17.65%) WCF
4 3 (17.65%) HTML
4 3 (17.65%) .NET
4 3 (17.65%) CSS
5 2 (11.76%) SOAP
5 2 (11.76%) ASP.NET
5 2 (11.76%) Ajax
5 2 (11.76%) jQuery
5 2 (11.76%) ASP.NET MVC 4
5 2 (11.76%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (5.882%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (5.882%) WebSphere
6 1 (5.882%) XSD
6 1 (5.882%) XSL
6 1 (5.882%) Web Services
6 1 (5.882%) J2ME
6 1 (5.882%) EDI
Application Platforms
1 8 (47.06%) Oracle Workflow
2 4 (23.53%) WebLogic
3 2 (11.76%) Apache
4 1 (5.882%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (5.882%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (5.882%) WebSphere Process Server
4 1 (5.882%) TIBCO EMS
4 1 (5.882%) WebSphere Message Broker
4 1 (5.882%) Mule
Business Applications
1 9 (52.94%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (17.65%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (11.76%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (5.882%) BusinessWorks
4 1 (5.882%) AWD
4 1 (5.882%) TIBCO iProcess
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.882%) LDAP
1 1 (5.882%) LAN
1 1 (5.882%) WAN
1 1 (5.882%) HTTP
1 1 (5.882%) SSL
1 1 (5.882%) SAN
1 1 (5.882%) Firewall
1 1 (5.882%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (29.41%) Oracle Reports
1 5 (29.41%) Oracle BI EE
2 4 (23.53%) SQL Server
3 3 (17.65%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (5.882%) Oracle 10g
5 1 (5.882%) Spotfire
5 1 (5.882%) Oracle 11g
5 1 (5.882%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 9 (52.94%) JDeveloper
2 2 (11.76%) Subversion
General
1 4 (23.53%) Finance
Job Titles
1 11 (64.71%) Developer
2 5 (29.41%) OBIEE Developer
3 4 (23.53%) Oracle Consultant
3 4 (23.53%) Consultant
4 2 (11.76%) Oracle BI Developer
5 1 (5.882%) Project Manager
5 1 (5.882%) WebSphere Developer
5 1 (5.882%) BizTalk Developer
5 1 (5.882%) Designer
5 1 (5.882%) Technical Project Manager
5 1 (5.882%) Senior Developer
5 1 (5.882%) Lead Developer
5 1 (5.882%) Java Developer
5 1 (5.882%) Oracle Developer
5 1 (5.882%) .NET Developer
5 1 (5.882%) Technical Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.882%) Replication
1 1 (5.882%) DataPower
Operating Systems
1 8 (47.06%) Linux
2 1 (5.882%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (5.882%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) SOA
2 9 (52.94%) Workflow
2 9 (52.94%) BPEL
3 6 (35.29%) User Acceptance Testing
4 5 (29.41%) ETL
4 5 (29.41%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (23.53%) CRM
5 4 (23.53%) ERP
5 4 (23.53%) Data Migration
5 4 (23.53%) Migration
6 3 (17.65%) MVC
7 2 (11.76%) Performance Testing
8 1 (5.882%) Stakeholder Management
8 1 (5.882%) Scrum
8 1 (5.882%) EAI
8 1 (5.882%) Data Modelling
8 1 (5.882%) E-business
8 1 (5.882%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 10 (58.82%) SQL
2 8 (47.06%) XQuery
2 8 (47.06%) Shell Script
2 8 (47.06%) PL/SQL
3 3 (17.65%) C#
3 3 (17.65%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.882%) C
4 1 (5.882%) Java
4 1 (5.882%) XPath
Vendors
1 11 (64.71%) Oracle
2 5 (29.41%) Siebel
2 5 (29.41%) Informatica
3 4 (23.53%) Kofax
4 2 (11.76%) TIBCO
5 1 (5.882%) Wall Street Systems
5 1 (5.882%) ILOG
5 1 (5.882%) IBM
5 1 (5.882%) JBoss
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