Thames Valley SOA Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) skills within the Thames Valley region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited SOA over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Location Avon Barrow-in-Furness Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheshire City of London County Antrim Croydon Cumbria Docklands, London East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Farnborough Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Liverpool Livingston London Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Potters Bar Reading Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Suffolk Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Woking Worcestershire Worthing Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	32	40
Rank change on same period last year	+8
Matching contract IT job ads	1	9
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.002 %	0.010 %
As % of the category below	0.685 %	3.734 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£400
Average daily rate	-	£450
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£500
UK excluding London average daily rate	£440	£406
% change on same period last year	+8.46 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£48.06	£25.00
% change on same period last year	+92.22 %
Processes & Methodologies Thames Valley
Matching contract IT job ads	146	241
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.230 %	0.258 %
Daily rates quoted	21	11
Average minimum daily rate	£338	£382
Average daily rate	£377	£428
% change on same period last year	-11.81 %
Average maximum daily rate	£417	£474
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£370
% change on same period last year	+2.76 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.00	£36.11
Average hourly rate	£26.33	£39.11
% change on same period last year	-32.67 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.67	£42.11
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.17	£29.91
% change on same period last year	-5.80 %
SOA South East

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

SOA
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing SOA across the Thames Valley region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

SOA
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SOA across the Thames Valley region.

SOA
Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Thames Valley 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 (66.67 %) C# 1 2 (66.67 %) .NET 1 2 (66.67 %) OO 1 2 (66.67 %) Finance 1 2 (66.67 %) AJAX 2 1 (33.33 %) Pensions 2 1 (33.33 %) QA 2 1 (33.33 %) User Acceptance Testing 2 1 (33.33 %) Banking 2 1 (33.33 %) Systems Analysis 2 1 (33.33 %) Insurance 2 1 (33.33 %) Business Analysis 2 1 (33.33 %) ASP.NET

SOA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Thames Valley 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 2 (66.67 %) .NET 1 2 (66.67 %) AJAX 2 1 (33.33 %) ASP.NET	General 1 2 (66.67 %) Finance 2 1 (33.33 %) Banking 2 1 (33.33 %) Insurance 2 1 (33.33 %) Pensions
Job Titles 1 1 (33.33 %) Architect 1 1 (33.33 %) Technical Architect	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (66.67 %) OO 2 1 (33.33 %) Systems Analysis 2 1 (33.33 %) Business Analysis 2 1 (33.33 %) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages 1 2 (66.67 %) C#	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (33.33 %) QA