The first table below looks at the demand for SOA skills in IT contracts advertised for the Stoke-on-Trent region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SOA 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 Processes & Methodologies category for the Stoke-on-Trent 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
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Rank 9 11 11
Rank change year-on-year
+2 0
Contract jobs citing SOA 6 12 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Stoke-on-Trent 20.69% 17.14% 14.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 23.08% 22.64% 18.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 6
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
Stoke-on-Trent
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
26 53 43
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Stoke-on-Trent 89.66% 75.71% 79.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 33 11
Average daily rate £325 £301 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.15% -7.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £195 £253 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £330 £345 £478
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £32.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
SOA
Staffordshire

SOA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Stoke-on-Trent 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 Stoke-on-Trent region.

Stoke-on-Trent SOA Daily Rate Trend

SOA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Stoke-on-Trent 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 20 (100.00%) C#
1 20 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 20 (100.00%) .NET
1 20 (100.00%) XML
1 20 (100.00%) N-Tier
1 20 (100.00%) Ajax
1 20 (100.00%) HTML5
2 19 (95.00%) CSS3
2 19 (95.00%) Unit Testing
2 19 (95.00%) SEO
2 19 (95.00%) VB.NET
2 19 (95.00%) ASP.NET
2 19 (95.00%) CSS
2 19 (95.00%) XSLT
2 19 (95.00%) XHTML
2 19 (95.00%) E-Commerce
2 19 (95.00%) SQL Server
3 18 (90.00%) SQL
4 17 (85.00%) jQuery
4 17 (85.00%) Degree
4 17 (85.00%) Web Application Development
5 10 (50.00%) TDD
6 6 (30.00%) Document Management
6 6 (30.00%) JIRA
6 6 (30.00%) AccuRev
7 4 (20.00%) Windows Mobile
7 4 (20.00%) Games
7 4 (20.00%) Windows
8 3 (15.00%) Blackberry
8 3 (15.00%) Web Development

SOA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Stoke-on-Trent 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 20 (100.00%) .NET
1 20 (100.00%) XML
1 20 (100.00%) Ajax
1 20 (100.00%) HTML5
2 19 (95.00%) CSS3
2 19 (95.00%) ASP.NET
2 19 (95.00%) CSS
2 19 (95.00%) XSLT
2 19 (95.00%) XHTML
3 17 (85.00%) jQuery
4 3 (15.00%) .NET Framework
5 1 (5.000%) WinForms
5 1 (5.000%) XSD
5 1 (5.000%) HTML
5 1 (5.000%) ADO.NET
5 1 (5.000%) WCF
5 1 (5.000%) WF
5 1 (5.000%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 1 (5.000%) REST
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (95.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (30.00%) JIRA
2 1 (5.000%) Visual Studio
2 1 (5.000%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 4 (20.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 20 (100.00%) Developer
2 19 (95.00%) .NET Developer
3 18 (90.00%) VB.NET Developer
3 18 (90.00%) ASP.NET Developer
3 18 (90.00%) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer
4 16 (80.00%) SQL Developer
4 16 (80.00%) .NET Web Developer
4 16 (80.00%) Web Developer
5 3 (15.00%) C# Developer
5 3 (15.00%) C# ASP.NET Developer
5 3 (15.00%) C# .NET Developer
6 2 (10.00%) Website Developer
7 1 (5.000%) Applications Developer
7 1 (5.000%) C# Web Developer
7 1 (5.000%) Windows Mobile Developer
7 1 (5.000%) Mobile Applications Developer
7 1 (5.000%) Mobile Developer
Miscellaneous
1 20 (100.00%) N-Tier
2 3 (15.00%) Blackberry
2 3 (15.00%) WURFL
3 2 (10.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (20.00%) Windows Mobile
1 4 (20.00%) Windows
2 3 (15.00%) Apple iOS
2 3 (15.00%) BlackBerry OS
2 3 (15.00%) Android
3 1 (5.000%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (95.00%) Unit Testing
1 19 (95.00%) SEO
1 19 (95.00%) E-Commerce
2 17 (85.00%) Web Application Development
3 10 (50.00%) TDD
4 6 (30.00%) Document Management
5 3 (15.00%) Web Development
6 2 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (10.00%) Agile Software Development
7 1 (5.000%) OOD
7 1 (5.000%) Workflow
7 1 (5.000%) Migration
7 1 (5.000%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 20 (100.00%) C#
1 20 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 19 (95.00%) VB.NET
3 18 (90.00%) SQL
4 1 (5.000%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (85.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 6 (30.00%) AccuRev
2 1 (5.000%) DevExpress