Middleware Contracts in the South West
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Middleware 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 Middleware over the 3 months to 22 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 Development 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
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Middleware
Rank 78 98 83
Rank change year-on-year
+20 -15
Contract jobs citing Middleware 33 41 37
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 1.601% 1.241% 1.340%
As % of the Application Development category 6.818% 5.223% 5.754%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 23 21
Average daily rate £419 £410 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.13% -3.52%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £348 £343 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £451 £450 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £408 £410 £400
% change year-on-year
-0.60% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 4
Average hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £41.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.25% -2.43%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £39.00 £37.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year
+5.40% -8.64%
All Application Development
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category		 484 785 643
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 23.48% 23.77% 23.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 310 469 283
Average daily rate £325 £350 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% +12.90%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £248 £205
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £475 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 26 38
Average hourly rate £24.50 £25.00 £33.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.00% -24.81%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.20 £15.10 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £54.50 £41.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Middleware
England

Middleware
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West Middleware Jobs Demand Trend

Middleware
Daily Rate Trend

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

South West Middleware Daily Rate Trend

Middleware
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Middleware across the South West region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

South West Middleware Daily Rate Histogram

Middleware
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South West Middleware Hourly Rate Trend

Middleware
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Middleware within the South West region over the 3 months to 22 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 +16 15 £425 -2.85%
Devon +5 8 £350 -22.22%
Bristol +13 7 - -
Dorset +2 2 £375 -8.53%
Gloucestershire +31 1 - -
Middleware
England

Middleware
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing Middleware 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 Middleware.

1 60 (81.08%) Oracle
2 36 (48.65%) Oracle 11g
3 27 (36.49%) Oracle BI EE
3 27 (36.49%) SOA
4 26 (35.14%) Linux
5 23 (31.08%) Oracle 10g
5 23 (31.08%) Finance
6 22 (29.73%) Oracle EBS
6 22 (29.73%) Oracle EBS R12
7 21 (28.38%) Oracle RAC
8 18 (24.32%) Oracle Fusion
8 18 (24.32%) Oracle Service Bus
8 18 (24.32%) SAN
8 18 (24.32%) XML
9 17 (22.97%) Data Warehouse
10 16 (21.62%) VMware
11 15 (20.27%) Oracle Application Server
11 15 (20.27%) VMware Infrastructure
11 15 (20.27%) Business Intelligence
11 15 (20.27%) SOAP
11 15 (20.27%) Hyperion
12 14 (18.92%) WebLogic
12 14 (18.92%) Oracle 10gAS
13 13 (17.57%) BPEL
13 13 (17.57%) SQL
13 13 (17.57%) UNIX
14 12 (16.22%) Java
14 12 (16.22%) Scrum
15 11 (14.86%) Windows
15 11 (14.86%) PRINCE2

Middleware
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing Middleware 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 Middleware. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 18 (24.32%) Oracle Fusion
1 18 (24.32%) XML
2 15 (20.27%) SOAP
3 11 (14.86%) WebCenter
4 9 (12.16%) Web Services
5 6 (8.108%) J2EE
6 4 (5.405%) JDBC
7 3 (4.054%) .NET
7 3 (4.054%) ASP.NET
7 3 (4.054%) WSDL
7 3 (4.054%) WCF
8 2 (2.703%) Ajax
8 2 (2.703%) jQuery
8 2 (2.703%) HTML5
8 2 (2.703%) EDI
8 2 (2.703%) CSS
8 2 (2.703%) ODBC
9 1 (1.351%) REST
9 1 (1.351%) Oracle ADF
9 1 (1.351%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 18 (24.32%) Oracle Service Bus
2 15 (20.27%) Oracle Application Server
3 14 (18.92%) WebLogic
3 14 (18.92%) Oracle 10gAS
4 8 (10.81%) Windows Azure
4 8 (10.81%) MQSeries
5 7 (9.459%) GlassFish
5 7 (9.459%) AquaLogic
5 7 (9.459%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 6 (8.108%) AquaLogic Service Bus
6 6 (8.108%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (8.108%) Amazon AWS
6 6 (8.108%) Oracle Workflow
7 5 (6.757%) SharePoint
8 2 (2.703%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (1.351%) ESB
Applications
1 1 (1.351%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 22 (29.73%) Oracle EBS
1 22 (29.73%) Oracle EBS R12
2 11 (14.86%) Oracle 11i
3 8 (10.81%) Oracle Applications
4 5 (6.757%) Oracle BPM
5 3 (4.054%) Oracle CRM
6 2 (2.703%) BusinessWorks
7 1 (1.351%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (1.351%) SAP R/3
7 1 (1.351%) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking
1 18 (24.32%) SAN
2 11 (14.86%) NAS
3 10 (13.51%) VPN
4 9 (12.16%) LAN
4 9 (12.16%) WAN
5 7 (9.459%) Firewall
5 7 (9.459%) MPLS
5 7 (9.459%) DNS
5 7 (9.459%) DHCP
5 7 (9.459%) TCP/IP
6 3 (4.054%) HTTPS
7 2 (2.703%) HTTP
7 2 (2.703%) Internet
8 1 (1.351%) 3G
8 1 (1.351%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (48.65%) Oracle 11g
2 27 (36.49%) Oracle BI EE
3 23 (31.08%) Oracle 10g
4 17 (22.97%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (12.16%) SQL Server
6 7 (9.459%) Oracle Reports
7 4 (5.405%) Essbase
7 4 (5.405%) Oracle OLAP
7 4 (5.405%) OLAP
8 2 (2.703%) TOAD
8 2 (2.703%) DB2
9 1 (1.351%) Oracle 8/8i
9 1 (1.351%) OLTP
9 1 (1.351%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (9.459%) Oracle Forms
1 7 (9.459%) Git (software)
2 2 (2.703%) JIRA
2 2 (2.703%) Oracle APEX
2 2 (2.703%) JDeveloper
2 2 (2.703%) QuickTest Pro
2 2 (2.703%) LoadRunner
2 2 (2.703%) Introscope
2 2 (2.703%) SpecFlow
3 1 (1.351%) JProbe
3 1 (1.351%) PVCS
3 1 (1.351%) Eclipse
3 1 (1.351%) JProfiler
3 1 (1.351%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (1.351%) NetBeans
3 1 (1.351%) Subversion
General
1 23 (31.08%) Finance
2 4 (5.405%) Banking
2 4 (5.405%) Telecoms
3 3 (4.054%) Back Office
4 2 (2.703%) Local Government
5 1 (1.351%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (36.49%) Developer
2 22 (29.73%) Oracle Developer
3 12 (16.22%) Architect
4 10 (13.51%) Analyst
5 8 (10.81%) Infrastructure Team Leader
5 8 (10.81%) Team Leader
5 8 (10.81%) Infrastructure Architect
6 7 (9.459%) Consultant
6 7 (9.459%) DBA
6 7 (9.459%) Service Analyst
6 7 (9.459%) Oracle DBA
6 7 (9.459%) Oracle Analyst
7 5 (6.757%) Analyst Developer
8 4 (5.405%) Oracle Consultant
8 4 (5.405%) Oracle BI Developer
8 4 (5.405%) OBIEE Developer
8 4 (5.405%) Administrator
9 3 (4.054%) Business Developer
9 3 (4.054%) Technical Consultant
9 3 (4.054%) Information Assurance Leader
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.459%) PaaS
1 7 (9.459%) IaaS
2 2 (2.703%) Clustering
2 2 (2.703%) Data Integration
2 2 (2.703%) Computer Science
2 2 (2.703%) SWIFT
3 1 (1.351%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.351%) Device Driver
3 1 (1.351%) Digital Media
3 1 (1.351%) Social Network
3 1 (1.351%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (1.351%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 26 (35.14%) Linux
2 13 (17.57%) UNIX
3 11 (14.86%) Windows
4 9 (12.16%) Solaris
4 9 (12.16%) Oracle Linux
5 7 (9.459%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.351%) SUSE
6 1 (1.351%) Windows 7
6 1 (1.351%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (1.351%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (36.49%) SOA
2 15 (20.27%) Business Intelligence
3 13 (17.57%) BPEL
4 12 (16.22%) Scrum
5 11 (14.86%) PRINCE2
5 11 (14.86%) ETL
6 10 (13.51%) ITIL
7 9 (12.16%) Workflow
7 9 (12.16%) Load Balancing
8 8 (10.81%) Requirements Analysis
8 8 (10.81%) Information Assurance
8 8 (10.81%) CRM
9 6 (8.108%) OO
10 5 (6.757%) Configuration Management
10 5 (6.757%) Project Management
10 5 (6.757%) Performance Management
10 5 (6.757%) Systems Analysis
11 4 (5.405%) Content Management
11 4 (5.405%) TOGAF
11 4 (5.405%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (17.57%) SQL
2 12 (16.22%) Java
3 9 (12.16%) PL/SQL
4 6 (8.108%) C
5 4 (5.405%) C#
6 2 (2.703%) XPath
6 2 (2.703%) C++
6 2 (2.703%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.703%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.351%) SAPscript
7 1 (1.351%) XQuery
7 1 (1.351%) VB
7 1 (1.351%) ABAP
7 1 (1.351%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (13.51%) Security Cleared
2 6 (8.108%) Degree
3 5 (6.757%) DV Cleared
4 4 (5.405%) ISEB
5 3 (4.054%) OCP
5 3 (4.054%) Oracle Certification
5 3 (4.054%) SC Cleared
6 2 (2.703%) ISTQB
7 1 (1.351%) PMP
7 1 (1.351%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.351%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.351%) ISO 9001
1 1 (1.351%) QA
System Software
1 21 (28.38%) Oracle RAC
2 15 (20.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (9.459%) Active Directory
4 6 (8.108%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (2.703%) HP Quality Center
1 2 (2.703%) HP SiteScope
Vendors
1 60 (81.08%) Oracle
2 16 (21.62%) VMware
3 15 (20.27%) Hyperion
4 10 (13.51%) Siebel
4 10 (13.51%) Cisco
5 9 (12.16%) Informatica
5 9 (12.16%) Microsoft
6 7 (9.459%) Sun
7 6 (8.108%) Red Hat
8 3 (4.054%) Stellent
9 2 (2.703%) IBM
9 2 (2.703%) HP
9 2 (2.703%) CA
9 2 (2.703%) TIBCO
9 2 (2.703%) Mercator
10 1 (1.351%) QNX
10 1 (1.351%) Citrix
10 1 (1.351%) Juniper
10 1 (1.351%) BEA
10 1 (1.351%) SAP
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