SOA Contracts in Staffordshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for SOA skills in IT contracts advertised for the Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire 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 14 19 29
Rank change year-on-year
+5 +10
Contract jobs citing SOA 6 14 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Staffordshire 7.059% 6.452% 4.566%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.677% 9.790% 7.519%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 11 8
Average daily rate £330 £325 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.53% +30.00%
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
Staffordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 62 143 133
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Staffordshire 72.94% 65.90% 60.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 60 48
Average daily rate £320 £290 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.34% -3.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £238 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £370 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 10 6
Average hourly rate £21.29 £20.26 £12.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.10% +68.79%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
SOA
West Midlands

SOA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire region.

Staffordshire SOA Daily 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 Staffordshire region over the 3 months to 21 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
Stoke-on-Trent +2 6 £330 +1.53%
SOA
West Midlands

SOA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire 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 21 (95.45%) N-Tier
1 21 (95.45%) .NET
1 21 (95.45%) Ajax
2 20 (90.91%) HTML5
2 20 (90.91%) ASP.NET
2 20 (90.91%) CSS
2 20 (90.91%) XML
2 20 (90.91%) C#
2 20 (90.91%) JavaScript
2 20 (90.91%) VB.NET
2 20 (90.91%) SEO
3 19 (86.36%) XHTML
3 19 (86.36%) E-Commerce
3 19 (86.36%) SQL Server
3 19 (86.36%) XSLT
3 19 (86.36%) Unit Testing
3 19 (86.36%) CSS3
4 18 (81.82%) SQL
5 17 (77.27%) Degree
5 17 (77.27%) jQuery
5 17 (77.27%) Web Application Development
6 11 (50.00%) TDD
7 6 (27.27%) Document Management
7 6 (27.27%) JIRA
7 6 (27.27%) AccuRev
8 4 (18.18%) Windows Mobile
8 4 (18.18%) Games
8 4 (18.18%) Windows
9 3 (13.64%) Blackberry
9 3 (13.64%) Web Development

SOA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire 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 21 (95.45%) .NET
1 21 (95.45%) Ajax
2 20 (90.91%) HTML5
2 20 (90.91%) ASP.NET
2 20 (90.91%) CSS
2 20 (90.91%) XML
3 19 (86.36%) XHTML
3 19 (86.36%) XSLT
3 19 (86.36%) CSS3
4 17 (77.27%) jQuery
5 3 (13.64%) .NET Framework
6 1 (4.545%) WebSphere
6 1 (4.545%) WCF
6 1 (4.545%) WF
6 1 (4.545%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 1 (4.545%) REST
6 1 (4.545%) WinForms
6 1 (4.545%) XSD
6 1 (4.545%) HTML
6 1 (4.545%) ADO.NET
Application Platforms
1 1 (4.545%) ESB
1 1 (4.545%) WebSphere Message Broker
1 1 (4.545%) WebSphere MQ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (86.36%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.545%) RDBMS
2 1 (4.545%) DB2
Development Applications
1 6 (27.27%) JIRA
2 1 (4.545%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (4.545%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (18.18%) Games
Job Titles
1 22 (100.00%) Developer
2 20 (90.91%) .NET Developer
3 18 (81.82%) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer
3 18 (81.82%) VB.NET Developer
3 18 (81.82%) ASP.NET Developer
4 17 (77.27%) Web Developer
4 17 (77.27%) .NET Web Developer
5 16 (72.73%) SQL Developer
6 3 (13.64%) C# Developer
6 3 (13.64%) C# ASP.NET Developer
6 3 (13.64%) C# .NET Developer
7 2 (9.091%) Website Developer
8 1 (4.545%) WebSphere Developer
8 1 (4.545%) C# Web Developer
8 1 (4.545%) Agile .NET Developer
8 1 (4.545%) Mobile Applications Developer
8 1 (4.545%) Mobile Developer
8 1 (4.545%) Windows Mobile Developer
8 1 (4.545%) Applications Developer
Miscellaneous
1 21 (95.45%) N-Tier
2 3 (13.64%) Blackberry
2 3 (13.64%) WURFL
3 2 (9.091%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (18.18%) Windows Mobile
1 4 (18.18%) Windows
2 3 (13.64%) Apple iOS
2 3 (13.64%) Android
2 3 (13.64%) BlackBerry OS
3 1 (4.545%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (90.91%) SEO
2 19 (86.36%) E-Commerce
2 19 (86.36%) Unit Testing
3 17 (77.27%) Web Application Development
4 11 (50.00%) TDD
5 6 (27.27%) Document Management
6 3 (13.64%) Web Development
7 2 (9.091%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (9.091%) Agile Software Development
8 1 (4.545%) EAI
8 1 (4.545%) OOD
8 1 (4.545%) Workflow
8 1 (4.545%) Migration
8 1 (4.545%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 20 (90.91%) C#
1 20 (90.91%) JavaScript
1 20 (90.91%) VB.NET
2 18 (81.82%) SQL
3 1 (4.545%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (77.27%) Degree
2 1 (4.545%) IBM Certification
Vendors
1 6 (27.27%) AccuRev
2 1 (4.545%) DevExpress
2 1 (4.545%) IBM
2 1 (4.545%) Oracle
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