The first table below looks at the demand for SOA skills in IT contracts advertised for the Southampton region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SOA over the 3 months to 21 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 Processes & Methodologies category for the Southampton 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Rank 23 30 14
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -16
Contract jobs citing SOA 12 2 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Southampton 4.013% 0.862% 7.182%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.593% 1.429% 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 1 4
Average daily rate £413 £400 £556
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.12% -28.08%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £322 £400 £541
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £400 £589
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 £40.00 £40.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
- +45.45%
All Processes & Methodologies
Southampton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
182 140 117
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Southampton 60.87% 60.34% 64.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 81 57
Average daily rate £370 £400 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.50% -0.06%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £263 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £555 £500 £561
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 18 18
Average hourly rate £27.50 £20.00 £33.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+37.50% -39.39%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £23.00 £17.50 £11.33
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £41.50 £42.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
SOA
Hampshire

SOA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Southampton 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 Southampton region.

Southampton 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 Southampton region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Southampton SOA Daily Rate Histogram

SOA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Southampton 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 17 (80.95%) Oracle
2 10 (47.62%) Telecoms
3 9 (42.86%) Oracle EBS
3 9 (42.86%) Middleware
3 9 (42.86%) ITIL
4 8 (38.10%) WebLogic
4 8 (38.10%) JMS
4 8 (38.10%) Oracle Fusion
4 8 (38.10%) Apache CXF
4 8 (38.10%) Digital Media
4 8 (38.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 5 (23.81%) Retail
5 5 (23.81%) Java
6 4 (19.05%) SAP
6 4 (19.05%) Programme Management
6 4 (19.05%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (14.29%) EPoS
7 3 (14.29%) UNIX
8 2 (9.524%) Windows
8 2 (9.524%) SQL
8 2 (9.524%) Linux
8 2 (9.524%) Python
8 2 (9.524%) LAN
8 2 (9.524%) MPEG
8 2 (9.524%) WAN
8 2 (9.524%) Finance
8 2 (9.524%) Scrum
8 2 (9.524%) VMware
8 2 (9.524%) IPv4

SOA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Southampton 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 9 (42.86%) Middleware
2 8 (38.10%) JMS
2 8 (38.10%) Oracle Fusion
2 8 (38.10%) Apache CXF
3 1 (4.762%) WebSphere
3 1 (4.762%) JDBC
Application Platforms
1 8 (38.10%) WebLogic
1 8 (38.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (4.762%) OpenStack
2 1 (4.762%) WebSphere Process Server
Business Applications
1 9 (42.86%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (4.762%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (4.762%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.524%) LAN
1 2 (9.524%) WAN
1 2 (9.524%) IPv4
1 2 (9.524%) DVB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.762%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 1 (4.762%) Hudson
1 1 (4.762%) Ant
General
1 10 (47.62%) Telecoms
2 5 (23.81%) Retail
3 2 (9.524%) Finance
3 2 (9.524%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 8 (38.10%) Middleware Specialist
2 4 (19.05%) Development Manager
2 4 (19.05%) Delivery Manager
3 2 (9.524%) Architect
3 2 (9.524%) Test Specialist
4 1 (4.762%) Linux Support
4 1 (4.762%) Oracle Architect
4 1 (4.762%) WebSphere Consultant
4 1 (4.762%) Oracle Applications Support
4 1 (4.762%) Test Manager
4 1 (4.762%) Consultant
4 1 (4.762%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.762%) Applications Support
4 1 (4.762%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (38.10%) Digital Media
2 3 (14.29%) EPoS
3 2 (9.524%) MPEG
4 1 (4.762%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 3 (14.29%) UNIX
2 2 (9.524%) Windows
2 2 (9.524%) Linux
2 2 (9.524%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (4.762%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (42.86%) ITIL
2 4 (19.05%) Programme Management
2 4 (19.05%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (9.524%) Scrum
4 2 (9.524%) Test Scripting
4 2 (9.524%) Test Strategy
4 2 (9.524%) Software Engineering
5 1 (4.762%) TOGAF
5 1 (4.762%) BPEL
Programming Languages
1 5 (23.81%) Java
2 2 (9.524%) SQL
2 2 (9.524%) Python
2 2 (9.524%) PowerShell
2 2 (9.524%) Korn
2 2 (9.524%) Bash shell
3 1 (4.762%) Jython
System Software
1 2 (9.524%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (4.762%) Puppet
Vendors
1 17 (80.95%) Oracle
2 4 (19.05%) SAP
3 2 (9.524%) VMware
4 1 (4.762%) Hyperion
4 1 (4.762%) Siebel