The first table below looks at the demand for SOA 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 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 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Rank 67 93 82
Rank change year-on-year
+26 -11
Contract jobs citing SOA 35 39 48
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 1.742% 1.247% 1.586%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.589% 1.831% 2.481%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 26 16
Average daily rate £350 £405 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.51% -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £335 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £452 £481 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £400 £400
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £23.13 £40.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-42.18% +60.00%
All Processes & Methodologies
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1352 2130 1935
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 67.30% 68.12% 63.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 845 1316 985
Average daily rate £375 £378 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.66% +0.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £265 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 111 148
Average hourly rate £29.00 £25.00 £31.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.00% -20.63%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.64 £11.46 £14.95
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £40.90 £39.00
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 West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

South West 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 West region.

South West 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 West region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

South West 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 West region.

South West 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 West 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
Devon +7 13 £338 -28.00%
Bristol +14 11 £360 -7.69% 6
Wiltshire +3 6 £425 -2.85% 2
Somerset 0 5 £458 +9.04% 1
Dorset - - - -
Gloucestershire - - - - 1
SOA
England

SOA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 37 (62.71%) Oracle
2 27 (45.76%) XML
3 23 (38.98%) Finance
4 22 (37.29%) Middleware
5 21 (35.59%) .NET
5 21 (35.59%) SQL
6 18 (30.51%) C#
6 18 (30.51%) Java
7 15 (25.42%) VB.NET
7 15 (25.42%) ASP.NET
8 14 (23.73%) CSS
9 13 (22.03%) Web Services
9 13 (22.03%) HTML
10 12 (20.34%) JavaScript
10 12 (20.34%) PL/SQL
10 12 (20.34%) J2EE
10 12 (20.34%) PRINCE2
10 12 (20.34%) XPath
11 11 (18.64%) XSLT
11 11 (18.64%) XQuery
11 11 (18.64%) Oracle Applications
12 10 (16.95%) Configuration Management
12 10 (16.95%) Business Intelligence
12 10 (16.95%) Git (software)
12 10 (16.95%) Oracle Fusion
13 9 (15.25%) Oracle BI EE
13 9 (15.25%) TOGAF
13 9 (15.25%) OO
13 9 (15.25%) ITIL
13 9 (15.25%) MCSD

SOA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 27 (45.76%) XML
2 22 (37.29%) Middleware
3 21 (35.59%) .NET
4 15 (25.42%) ASP.NET
5 14 (23.73%) CSS
6 13 (22.03%) Web Services
6 13 (22.03%) HTML
7 12 (20.34%) J2EE
8 11 (18.64%) XSLT
9 10 (16.95%) Oracle Fusion
10 6 (10.17%) .NET Framework
11 5 (8.475%) WCF
11 5 (8.475%) JDBC
11 5 (8.475%) SOAP
12 3 (5.085%) WPF
12 3 (5.085%) WF
12 3 (5.085%) jQuery
12 3 (5.085%) ASP
12 3 (5.085%) XSL
12 3 (5.085%) WSDL
Application Platforms
1 9 (15.25%) Oracle Workflow
2 8 (13.56%) SharePoint
2 8 (13.56%) Oracle Service Bus
2 8 (13.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 4 (6.780%) ESB
4 3 (5.085%) SharePoint 2010
5 2 (3.390%) MQSeries
5 2 (3.390%) WebLogic
5 2 (3.390%) AquaLogic Service Bus
5 2 (3.390%) AquaLogic
6 1 (1.695%) Oracle 10gAS
Applications
1 1 (1.695%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (18.64%) Oracle Applications
2 8 (13.56%) Oracle EBS
3 7 (11.86%) Oracle EBS R12
4 5 (8.475%) BusinessWorks
5 4 (6.780%) Oracle BPM
6 2 (3.390%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (1.695%) Oracle 11i
7 1 (1.695%) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.085%) LAN
1 3 (5.085%) WAN
2 2 (3.390%) Firewall
3 1 (1.695%) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (15.25%) Oracle BI EE
2 8 (13.56%) Oracle Reports
2 8 (13.56%) Oracle 11g
3 7 (11.86%) SQL Server
4 6 (10.17%) DB2
5 3 (5.085%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (5.085%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (5.085%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (3.390%) Oracle 10g
6 2 (3.390%) Oracle ODI
7 1 (1.695%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.695%) Informix
Development Applications
1 10 (16.95%) Git (software)
2 4 (6.780%) JDeveloper
2 4 (6.780%) Oracle Forms
3 3 (5.085%) Visual Studio
3 3 (5.085%) Subversion
4 2 (3.390%) JIRA
4 2 (3.390%) SpecFlow
General
1 23 (38.98%) Finance
2 3 (5.085%) Back Office
3 2 (3.390%) Games
3 2 (3.390%) Legal
3 2 (3.390%) Telecoms
3 2 (3.390%) Banking
3 2 (3.390%) Retail
4 1 (1.695%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 32 (54.24%) Developer
2 16 (27.12%) .NET Developer
3 12 (20.34%) Oracle Developer
4 10 (16.95%) Architect
5 8 (13.56%) Consultant
6 6 (10.17%) Technical Consultant
7 5 (8.475%) TIBCO Consultant
7 5 (8.475%) Analyst Developer
7 5 (8.475%) Analyst
8 4 (6.780%) Technical Project Manager
8 4 (6.780%) Project Manager
8 4 (6.780%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (6.780%) Technical Manager
8 4 (6.780%) OBIEE Developer
9 3 (5.085%) Oracle Analyst
9 3 (5.085%) Service Analyst
10 2 (3.390%) Administrator
10 2 (3.390%) Development Manager
10 2 (3.390%) Infrastructure Architect
10 2 (3.390%) VB.NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.390%) Management Information System
1 2 (3.390%) Clustering
2 1 (1.695%) IaaS
2 1 (1.695%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.475%) Linux
2 1 (1.695%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (20.34%) PRINCE2
2 10 (16.95%) Configuration Management
2 10 (16.95%) Business Intelligence
3 9 (15.25%) TOGAF
3 9 (15.25%) OO
3 9 (15.25%) ITIL
3 9 (15.25%) Workflow
4 8 (13.56%) Agile Software Development
5 7 (11.86%) Performance Management
5 7 (11.86%) Waterfall
5 7 (11.86%) BPEL
5 7 (11.86%) CRM
5 7 (11.86%) UML
5 7 (11.86%) Change Management
6 6 (10.17%) Scrum
7 5 (8.475%) ETL
8 4 (6.780%) Project Management
8 4 (6.780%) Service Management
8 4 (6.780%) ITSM
8 4 (6.780%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 21 (35.59%) SQL
2 18 (30.51%) C#
2 18 (30.51%) Java
3 15 (25.42%) VB.NET
4 12 (20.34%) JavaScript
4 12 (20.34%) PL/SQL
4 12 (20.34%) XPath
5 11 (18.64%) XQuery
6 6 (10.17%) C
7 4 (6.780%) VB
8 3 (5.085%) VBScript
8 3 (5.085%) VB6
8 3 (5.085%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (15.25%) MCSD
1 9 (15.25%) Microsoft Certification
2 8 (13.56%) Security Cleared
3 7 (11.86%) SC Cleared
4 6 (10.17%) MCAD
5 5 (8.475%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 4 (6.780%) ISEB
6 4 (6.780%) Degree
7 3 (5.085%) ISEB Practitioner
7 3 (5.085%) OCP
7 3 (5.085%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (3.390%) BC Cleared
8 2 (3.390%) DV Cleared
9 1 (1.695%) CIPD
9 1 (1.695%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.780%) ISO 9000
2 3 (5.085%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (5.085%) COBIT
2 3 (5.085%) TickIT
3 2 (3.390%) QA
4 1 (1.695%) SLA
4 1 (1.695%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 2 (3.390%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.695%) Oracle RAC
Vendors
1 37 (62.71%) Oracle
2 5 (8.475%) Siebel
2 5 (8.475%) CA
2 5 (8.475%) TIBCO
3 4 (6.780%) Hyperion
3 4 (6.780%) Informatica
4 3 (5.085%) Microsoft
4 3 (5.085%) Stellent
5 2 (3.390%) VMware
6 1 (1.695%) Fredhopper
6 1 (1.695%) Sybase
6 1 (1.695%) IBM
6 1 (1.695%) ATG
6 1 (1.695%) webMethods
Bristol, South West
The successful candidate will hold experience delivering projects defined in the Service Delivery Project Plan... Quality assurance and overall integrity of the programme - focusing inwardly on the internal...
Capita Resourcing Ltd
Rate: £300 - £350 per day + £350 Max Offer
Posted: 18 June 2013
Bristol, Avon
The successful candidate will hold experience delivering projects defined in the Service Delivery Project Plan... Quality assurance and overall integrity of the programme - focusing inwardly on the internal...
Capita Resourcing - IT Resourcing
Rate: £300 - £350 per day + £350 Max Offer
Posted: 18 June 2013
Bristol, South West
These roles will range between leading, advising, supervising and managing each work package / project to a successful outcome.Technical Project manager / Prince2Key Responsibilities*The individual will retain ownership...
Sand Resources
Rate: £280 - £340 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013
Bristol, Avon
The post holder is responsible for delivering the work packages defined in the Service Delivery Project Plan... Quality assurance and overall integrity of the programme - focusing inwardly on...
Experis IT
Posted: 14 June 2013
Taunton, South West
Main Duties/ Responsibilities * Identifying and delivery against strategic direction for the group in-line with wider strategy and agreeing with Service and Support Group Manager* Working with technical...
Capita Resourcing
Posted: 3 June 2013
Bristol, Avon
LA International
Rate: £345 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
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