The first table below looks at the demand for SOA skills in IT contracts advertised for the Suffolk region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SOA over the 3 months to 18 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 Suffolk 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Rank 25 - 33
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing SOA 1 0 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Suffolk 0.709% - 1.887%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.149% - 3.030%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 4
Average daily rate - - £563
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £400 £400
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £35.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £23.13 £40.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-42.18% +60.00%
All Processes & Methodologies
Suffolk
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
87 162 132
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Suffolk 61.70% 62.79% 62.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 83 62
Average daily rate £350 £325 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -38.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £288 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £425 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 17 7
Average hourly rate £35.00 £29.50 £16.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+18.64% +78.78%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.30 £12.50 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £35.00 £50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
SOA
East of England

SOA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Suffolk 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 Suffolk region.

Suffolk 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 Suffolk region over the 3 months to 18 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
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Job
Vacancies
Ipswich - - - -
SOA
East of England

SOA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Suffolk 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 (80.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (60.00%) ASP.NET
2 3 (60.00%) Windows
2 3 (60.00%) C#
2 3 (60.00%) .NET
2 3 (60.00%) SharePoint
2 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (60.00%) BizTalk Server
2 3 (60.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 3 (60.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 3 (60.00%) WCF
2 3 (60.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 3 (60.00%) Windows 7
3 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (40.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (40.00%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (40.00%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (40.00%) WPF
3 2 (40.00%) Silverlight
3 2 (40.00%) LINQ
3 2 (40.00%) NHibernate
3 2 (40.00%) Technical Architecture
3 2 (40.00%) .NET Framework
3 2 (40.00%) ASP.NET MVC
3 2 (40.00%) SharePoint 2010
3 2 (40.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 2 (40.00%) VB.NET
3 2 (40.00%) MVC
3 2 (40.00%) Finance
3 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003

SOA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Suffolk 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 3 (60.00%) .NET
1 3 (60.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (60.00%) WCF
2 2 (40.00%) WPF
2 2 (40.00%) Silverlight
2 2 (40.00%) LINQ
2 2 (40.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 2 (40.00%) SOAP
2 2 (40.00%) MSMQ
2 2 (40.00%) NHibernate
2 2 (40.00%) .NET Framework
2 2 (40.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 1 (20.00%) soapUI
Application Platforms
1 3 (60.00%) SharePoint
1 3 (60.00%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (40.00%) SharePoint 2010
Business Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Dynamics CRM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (60.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 3 (60.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 3 (60.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 2 (40.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (40.00%) SQL Server 2005
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Lead Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Microsoft Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Validation Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Validation Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Tester
3 1 (20.00%) Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Test Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
1 3 (60.00%) Windows 7
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) CRM
1 2 (40.00%) MVC
1 2 (40.00%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (20.00%) Use Case
2 1 (20.00%) Test Management
2 1 (20.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (20.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Waterfall
2 1 (20.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (20.00%) Validation
2 1 (20.00%) Data Management
2 1 (20.00%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) C#
2 2 (40.00%) VB.NET
3 1 (20.00%) VBScript
3 1 (20.00%) VB
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle
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