The first table below looks at the demand for SOA skills in IT contracts advertised for the Tyne and Wear 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 Tyne and Wear 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 - 16 17
Contract jobs citing SOA 0 26 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Tyne and Wear - 7.738% 7.031%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - 11.06% 12.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 20 11
Average daily rate - £338 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
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
Tyne and Wear
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
124 235 148
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Tyne and Wear 68.51% 69.94% 57.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 130 69
Average daily rate £350 £350 £311
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +12.44%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £263 £250 £182
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £550 £399
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 9 5
Average hourly rate £19.00 £12.00 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+58.33% -42.85%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
SOA
North East

SOA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Tyne and Wear 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 Tyne and Wear region.

Tyne and Wear SOA Daily Rate Trend

SOA
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Tyne and Wear 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 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) XML
1 1 (50.00%) UNIX
1 1 (50.00%) HPUX
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) IBM
1 1 (50.00%) HP
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
1 1 (50.00%) LoadRunner
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (50.00%) Thin Client
1 1 (50.00%) Middleware
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle RAC
1 1 (50.00%) Fat Client
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Management
1 1 (50.00%) Rational Performance Tester
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Capacity Management

SOA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Tyne and Wear 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 (50.00%) XML
1 1 (50.00%) Middleware
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) LoadRunner
1 1 (50.00%) Rational Performance Tester
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Data Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Thin Client
1 1 (50.00%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) UNIX
1 1 (50.00%) HPUX
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Management
1 1 (50.00%) Capacity Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle RAC
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) IBM
1 1 (50.00%) HP
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat