The first table below looks at the demand for SOA skills in IT contracts advertised for the Sussex 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 Sussex 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 - 11 -
Contract jobs citing SOA 0 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Sussex - 2.564% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - 3.846% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £400 -
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
Sussex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
16 26 22
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Sussex 88.89% 66.67% 64.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 17 13
Average daily rate £450 £410 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.75% -8.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £300 £383
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £33.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
SOA
South East

SOA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Sussex 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 Sussex region.

Sussex SOA Daily Rate Trend

SOA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Sussex 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 2 (50.00%) PCI DSS
1 2 (50.00%) ESB
2 1 (25.00%) QA
2 1 (25.00%) AWD
2 1 (25.00%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (25.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) DataPower
2 1 (25.00%) iSeries
2 1 (25.00%) vSphere
2 1 (25.00%) Software Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) High Availability
2 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Change Management
2 1 (25.00%) Data Security
2 1 (25.00%) Ab Initio
2 1 (25.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) VMware ESX
2 1 (25.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) DB2
2 1 (25.00%) Business Objects
2 1 (25.00%) IIS
2 1 (25.00%) SOAP
2 1 (25.00%) Web Services
2 1 (25.00%) XML
2 1 (25.00%) XSD
2 1 (25.00%) UNIX

SOA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Sussex 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 1 (25.00%) WebSphere
1 1 (25.00%) SOAP
1 1 (25.00%) Web Services
1 1 (25.00%) XML
1 1 (25.00%) XSD
1 1 (25.00%) WSDL
Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) ESB
2 1 (25.00%) IIS
2 1 (25.00%) Apache
2 1 (25.00%) Tomcat
2 1 (25.00%) MQSeries
2 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (25.00%) WebSphere MQ
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) AWD
1 1 (25.00%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (25.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) WinRunner
1 1 (25.00%) TestDirector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Designer
2 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Deployment Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) DataPower
1 1 (25.00%) iSeries
1 1 (25.00%) Client/Server
1 1 (25.00%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) UNIX
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) OS/400
1 1 (25.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (25.00%) Software Architecture
1 1 (25.00%) High Availability
1 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (25.00%) Change Management
1 1 (25.00%) Data Security
1 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (25.00%) Project Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (25.00%) vSphere
1 1 (25.00%) VMware ESX
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Ab Initio
1 1 (25.00%) VMware
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle
1 1 (25.00%) Business Objects
1 1 (25.00%) IBM
1 1 (25.00%) BMC
1 1 (25.00%) NetApp
1 1 (25.00%) Remedy