The first table below looks at the demand for SOA skills in IT contracts advertised for the Staines region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SOA 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 Processes & Methodologies category for the Staines 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
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Rank 20 21 34
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +13
Contract jobs citing SOA 3 1 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Staines 2.190% 0.680% 1.235%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.703% 0.840% 1.456%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
Average daily rate £388 - £490
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 £31.56 £40.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-21.09% +45.45%
All Processes & Methodologies
Staines
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
111 119 206
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Staines 81.02% 80.95% 84.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 36 47
Average daily rate £375 £375 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -11.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £150 £285 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £589 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 2
Average hourly rate £13.00 £41.50 £27.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-68.67% +53.70%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
SOA
Surrey

SOA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Staines 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 Staines region.

Staines SOA Daily Rate Trend

SOA
Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Staines 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 4 (57.14%) ITIL
2 3 (42.86%) Visual Studio
2 3 (42.86%) JMeter
2 3 (42.86%) Groovy
2 3 (42.86%) Windows Azure
3 2 (28.57%) Risk Assessment
3 2 (28.57%) ESB
3 2 (28.57%) Web Services
3 2 (28.57%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (28.57%) MSTest
3 2 (28.57%) Waterfall
3 2 (28.57%) ITIL V2
4 1 (14.29%) SaaS
4 1 (14.29%) Windows
4 1 (14.29%) ERP
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
4 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
4 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
4 1 (14.29%) Scrum

SOA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Staines 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 2 (28.57%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 3 (42.86%) Windows Azure
2 2 (28.57%) ESB
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Visual Studio
1 3 (42.86%) JMeter
2 2 (28.57%) MSTest
General
1 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
1 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Designer
2 2 (28.57%) Test Leader
3 1 (14.29%) Agile Test Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) ITIL
2 2 (28.57%) Risk Assessment
2 2 (28.57%) Waterfall
2 2 (28.57%) ITIL V2
3 1 (14.29%) ERP
3 1 (14.29%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) ITIL Certification
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft