The first table below looks at the demand for SOA skills in IT contracts advertised for the Surrey region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SOA over the 3 months to 24 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 Surrey 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Rank 50 42 64
Rank change year-on-year
-8 +22
Contract jobs citing SOA 30 59 39
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 2.602% 3.662% 2.123%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.645% 5.301% 2.955%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 47 10
Average daily rate £335 £375 £465
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.66% -19.35%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £294 £280 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £395 £460 £503
UK excluding London average daily rate £390 £400 £400
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -
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
Surrey
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
823 1113 1320
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 71.38% 69.09% 71.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 414 631 683
Average daily rate £415 £350 £405
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+18.57% -13.58%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £250 £280
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £525 £515
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 58 37
Average hourly rate £37.50 £31.50 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+19.04% -3.07%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.50 £15.50 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £55.12 £41.50 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
SOA
South East

SOA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Surrey 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 Surrey region.

Surrey 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 Surrey region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Surrey SOA Daily Rate Histogram

SOA
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SOA across the Surrey region.

Surrey SOA Hourly 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 Surrey region over the 3 months to 24 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
Leatherhead +8 8 £305 -18.66%
Camberley - 5 - -
Staines - 3 £388 -
SOA
South East

SOA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 41 (56.94%) .NET
2 40 (55.56%) C#
3 37 (51.39%) Oracle
4 30 (41.67%) Telecoms
5 25 (34.72%) SQL
6 23 (31.94%) PL/SQL
7 19 (26.39%) WCF
8 17 (23.61%) XML
9 16 (22.22%) Silverlight
10 15 (20.83%) Degree
10 15 (20.83%) Java
11 12 (16.67%) Web Services
11 12 (16.67%) Microsoft
12 11 (15.28%) Agile Software Development
12 11 (15.28%) ESB
12 11 (15.28%) QA
13 10 (13.89%) .NET Framework
14 9 (12.50%) Scrum
14 9 (12.50%) UML
14 9 (12.50%) Apache
14 9 (12.50%) WPF
15 8 (11.11%) Oracle 11g
15 8 (11.11%) Data Modelling
16 7 (9.722%) NUnit
16 7 (9.722%) SOAP
16 7 (9.722%) Moq
17 6 (8.333%) Use Case
17 6 (8.333%) Mathematics
17 6 (8.333%) Perl
17 6 (8.333%) Network Planning

SOA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 41 (56.94%) .NET
2 19 (26.39%) WCF
3 17 (23.61%) XML
4 16 (22.22%) Silverlight
5 12 (16.67%) Web Services
6 10 (13.89%) .NET Framework
7 9 (12.50%) WPF
8 7 (9.722%) SOAP
9 5 (6.944%) Spring
9 5 (6.944%) J2EE
10 4 (5.556%) WSDL
10 4 (5.556%) XML Schema
10 4 (5.556%) CORBA
11 3 (4.167%) XSLT
12 2 (2.778%) Oracle Fusion
12 2 (2.778%) Middleware
13 1 (1.389%) Oracle ADF
13 1 (1.389%) Hibernate
13 1 (1.389%) JSF
13 1 (1.389%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 11 (15.28%) ESB
2 9 (12.50%) Apache
3 5 (6.944%) ActiveMQ
4 4 (5.556%) Oracle Coherence
5 3 (4.167%) Oracle Application Server
5 3 (4.167%) Windows Azure
6 1 (1.389%) CMS
6 1 (1.389%) Joomla!
6 1 (1.389%) IIS
6 1 (1.389%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (1.389%) Liferay
6 1 (1.389%) Oracle 10gAS
6 1 (1.389%) Oracle SOA Suite
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.556%) 3GPP
1 4 (5.556%) SNMP
2 3 (4.167%) BSS
3 1 (1.389%) UMTS
3 1 (1.389%) GSM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (11.11%) Oracle 11g
2 5 (6.944%) Oracle 10g
3 3 (4.167%) GIS
3 3 (4.167%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (4.167%) RDBMS
4 2 (2.778%) MySQL
5 1 (1.389%) Oracle 8/8i
5 1 (1.389%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 7 (9.722%) NUnit
1 7 (9.722%) Moq
2 4 (5.556%) TestDirector
2 4 (5.556%) Rational Rose
2 4 (5.556%) JIRA
2 4 (5.556%) Subversion
2 4 (5.556%) Telelogic TAU
3 3 (4.167%) JMeter
3 3 (4.167%) Visual Studio
3 3 (4.167%) Selenium
4 2 (2.778%) MSTest
5 1 (1.389%) Maven
5 1 (1.389%) XMLSpy
5 1 (1.389%) Eclipse
General
1 30 (41.67%) Telecoms
2 1 (1.389%) Finance
2 1 (1.389%) Manufacturing
2 1 (1.389%) Billing
2 1 (1.389%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 34 (47.22%) Developer
2 20 (27.78%) .NET Developer
3 17 (23.61%) C# Developer
4 15 (20.83%) C# .NET Developer
5 11 (15.28%) Oracle Developer
6 9 (12.50%) PL/SQL Developer
7 8 (11.11%) SQL Developer
8 7 (9.722%) Design Engineer
9 5 (6.944%) Designer
9 5 (6.944%) Silverlight Developer
9 5 (6.944%) Integration Specialist
10 4 (5.556%) SOA Developer
10 4 (5.556%) Analyst
10 4 (5.556%) Team Leader
11 3 (4.167%) Quality Manager
11 3 (4.167%) QA Manager
11 3 (4.167%) Oracle DBA
11 3 (4.167%) Java Team Leader
11 3 (4.167%) Senior .NET Developer
11 3 (4.167%) Test Manager
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.333%) Mathematics
2 5 (6.944%) Physics
2 5 (6.944%) Computer Science
3 3 (4.167%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.389%) N-Tier
4 1 (1.389%) Applied Mathematics
4 1 (1.389%) Open Source
4 1 (1.389%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.556%) UNIX
2 3 (4.167%) Windows
3 1 (1.389%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (15.28%) Agile Software Development
2 9 (12.50%) Scrum
2 9 (12.50%) UML
3 8 (11.11%) Data Modelling
4 6 (8.333%) Use Case
4 6 (8.333%) Network Planning
5 5 (6.944%) Technical Architecture
5 5 (6.944%) ITIL
5 5 (6.944%) Continuous Integration
5 5 (6.944%) User Stories
6 4 (5.556%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (5.556%) Manual Testing
6 4 (5.556%) Performance Management
6 4 (5.556%) Product Management
6 4 (5.556%) Regression Testing
7 3 (4.167%) ETL
7 3 (4.167%) Test Automation
7 3 (4.167%) MVVM
7 3 (4.167%) Network Management
7 3 (4.167%) Build Automation
Programming Languages
1 40 (55.56%) C#
2 25 (34.72%) SQL
3 23 (31.94%) PL/SQL
4 15 (20.83%) Java
5 6 (8.333%) Perl
5 6 (8.333%) AWK
6 4 (5.556%) sed
6 4 (5.556%) Python
7 3 (4.167%) XPath
7 3 (4.167%) Shell Script
7 3 (4.167%) Groovy
8 1 (1.389%) PHP
8 1 (1.389%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 15 (20.83%) Degree
2 2 (2.778%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.778%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (1.389%) HND
3 1 (1.389%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (15.28%) QA
Systems Management
1 5 (6.944%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 37 (51.39%) Oracle
2 12 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 6 (8.333%) Teradata
4 4 (5.556%) Nokia Siemens Networks
4 4 (5.556%) Telelogic
5 2 (2.778%) WSO2
Surrey
C#.Net & Oracle PL/SQL Developer required. Our client is looking for a C#.Net & Oracle PL/SQL Developer to start immediately. You must have the following essential...
Proactive Appointments
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Posted: 17 May 2013
Camberley, Surrey
The Integration Specialist will be responsible for specifying application/technical architecture, functionalities with solution integration and dealt with projects using SOA, ESB, Web Services, JAVA and J2EE Technologies.
Quindell Plc - Metaskil
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Posted: 23 May 2013