The first table below looks at the demand for SOA skills in IT contracts advertised for the Swindon 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 Swindon 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 30 31 35
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +4
Contract jobs citing SOA 8 10 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 2.909% 2.762% 0.633%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.828% 4.115% 0.889%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 10 2
Average daily rate £425 £425 £425
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
Swindon
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
209 243 225
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 76.00% 67.13% 71.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 180 136
Average daily rate £425 £425 £425
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £250 £263
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £513 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 10
Average hourly rate £14.75 £22.50 £21.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-34.44% +3.44%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.25 £15.70 £11.15
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.00 £30.50 £34.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
SOA
Wiltshire

SOA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Swindon 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 Swindon region.

Swindon SOA Daily Rate Trend

SOA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon 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 14 (100.00%) Oracle
2 12 (85.71%) SQL
2 12 (85.71%) Oracle EBS
2 12 (85.71%) Workflow
2 12 (85.71%) Oracle Workflow
3 11 (78.57%) BPEL
3 11 (78.57%) PL/SQL
4 9 (64.29%) Linux
4 9 (64.29%) JDeveloper
4 9 (64.29%) ESB
4 9 (64.29%) Oracle BI EE
5 8 (57.14%) Shell Script
5 8 (57.14%) XQuery
5 8 (57.14%) Business Intelligence
5 8 (57.14%) Oracle Reports
5 8 (57.14%) XSLT
6 7 (50.00%) CRM
6 7 (50.00%) Finance
7 6 (42.86%) User Acceptance Testing
7 6 (42.86%) Oracle EBS R12
7 6 (42.86%) Siebel
7 6 (42.86%) ETL
7 6 (42.86%) Middleware
8 5 (35.71%) Oracle Fusion
8 5 (35.71%) Informatica
9 4 (28.57%) Migration
9 4 (28.57%) Kofax
9 4 (28.57%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 4 (28.57%) WebCenter
9 4 (28.57%) Data Migration

SOA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon 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 8 (57.14%) XSLT
2 6 (42.86%) Middleware
3 5 (35.71%) Oracle Fusion
4 4 (28.57%) WebCenter
5 3 (21.43%) J2EE
5 3 (21.43%) XML
6 1 (7.143%) EDI
Application Platforms
1 12 (85.71%) Oracle Workflow
2 9 (64.29%) ESB
3 4 (28.57%) WebLogic
3 4 (28.57%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 3 (21.43%) SharePoint
5 1 (7.143%) Oracle 10gAS
5 1 (7.143%) Oracle Service Bus
Business Applications
1 12 (85.71%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (42.86%) Oracle EBS R12
3 3 (21.43%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (21.43%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (7.143%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (7.143%) Oracle 11i
4 1 (7.143%) Oracle BPM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (64.29%) Oracle BI EE
2 8 (57.14%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (21.43%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (14.29%) Oracle 10g
5 1 (7.143%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 9 (64.29%) JDeveloper
2 3 (21.43%) Oracle Forms
General
1 7 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (64.29%) Developer
2 5 (35.71%) Consultant
2 5 (35.71%) Oracle Consultant
2 5 (35.71%) Oracle Developer
2 5 (35.71%) OBIEE Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Oracle BI Developer
4 1 (7.143%) Oracle Applications Developer
4 1 (7.143%) Oracle Technical Consultant
4 1 (7.143%) Technical Developer
4 1 (7.143%) Middleware Developer
4 1 (7.143%) DBA
4 1 (7.143%) Technical Consultant
4 1 (7.143%) Lead Developer
4 1 (7.143%) Administrator
4 1 (7.143%) Oracle DBA
Operating Systems
1 9 (64.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (85.71%) Workflow
2 11 (78.57%) BPEL
3 8 (57.14%) Business Intelligence
4 7 (50.00%) CRM
5 6 (42.86%) User Acceptance Testing
5 6 (42.86%) ETL
6 4 (28.57%) Data Migration
6 4 (28.57%) Migration
7 3 (21.43%) ERP
7 3 (21.43%) ITIL
7 3 (21.43%) PRINCE2
8 2 (14.29%) Change Management
8 2 (14.29%) E-business
8 2 (14.29%) Scrum
8 2 (14.29%) Performance Testing
8 2 (14.29%) Performance Management
8 2 (14.29%) Release Management
9 1 (7.143%) Content Management
9 1 (7.143%) Stakeholder Management
9 1 (7.143%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 12 (85.71%) SQL
2 11 (78.57%) PL/SQL
3 8 (57.14%) XQuery
3 8 (57.14%) Shell Script
4 4 (28.57%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) OCP
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.143%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 1 (7.143%) Oracle RAC
Vendors
1 14 (100.00%) Oracle
2 6 (42.86%) Siebel
3 5 (35.71%) Informatica
4 4 (28.57%) Kofax
5 3 (21.43%) Hyperion
6 2 (14.29%) Stellent
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