The first table below looks at the demand for Oracle Service Bus skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Oracle Service Bus over the 3 months to 20 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 Application Platforms category.

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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle Service Bus (OSB)
Rank 476 529 492
Rank change year-on-year
+53 -37
Contract jobs citing Oracle Service Bus 57 44 96
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.122% 0.075% 0.159%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.675% 0.462% 0.951%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 19 34
Average daily rate £375 £425 £445
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.76% -4.49%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £350 £313
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £488 £529
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £440 £400
% change year-on-year
-14.77% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
Average hourly rate £50.00 - £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £40.00
All Application Platforms
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
8443 9517 10097
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 18.14% 16.31% 16.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 4788 5237 5378
Average daily rate £350 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 456 422 560
Average hourly rate £21.00 £20.00 £19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.00% +2.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.00 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.20 £40.00 £42.10
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -

Oracle Service Bus
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Oracle Service Bus within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Oracle Service Bus Jobs Demand Trend

Oracle Service Bus
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Oracle Service Bus within the UK.

Oracle Service Bus Daily Rate Trend

Oracle Service Bus
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Oracle Service Bus within the UK over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Oracle Service Bus Daily Rate Histogram

Oracle Service Bus
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Oracle Service Bus within the UK.

Oracle Service Bus Hourly Rate Trend

Oracle Service Bus
Top 20 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle Service Bus within the UK over the 3 months to 20 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
England +78 55 £375 -11.76%
Yorkshire +17 21 £375 -28.57%
South West +23 11 £350 -22.22%
South East +24 9 £500 +17.64%
London +16 9 £525 +23.52%
Milton Keynes - 9 £500 -
Buckinghamshire - 9 £500 -
West Yorkshire +4 7 £400 -23.80%
Devon +1 7 £350 -22.22%
Exeter -4 6 £350 -22.22%
East of England - 4 - -
Leeds +4 3 - -
Hertfordshire - 3 - -
Bristol +14 2 - -
City of London +19 1 £525 +16.66%
Essex - 1 - -
Wiltshire - 1 - -
Bradford - 1 - -
Southend-on-Sea - 1 - -
Swindon - 1 - -

Oracle Service Bus
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Oracle Service Bus 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 Oracle Service Bus.

1 101 (100.00%) Oracle
2 77 (76.24%) SOA
3 72 (71.29%) Middleware
4 63 (62.38%) Oracle 11g
5 59 (58.42%) WebLogic
6 47 (46.53%) BPEL
7 44 (43.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 35 (34.65%) Oracle Fusion
9 31 (30.69%) Oracle Application Server
10 30 (29.70%) ESB
11 28 (27.72%) ITIL
11 28 (27.72%) Linux
12 26 (25.74%) SOAP
13 24 (23.76%) Oracle Linux
13 24 (23.76%) XML
13 24 (23.76%) HPUX
13 24 (23.76%) Oracle 10g
14 22 (21.78%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
14 22 (21.78%) Change Management
14 22 (21.78%) Oracle 10gAS
15 19 (18.81%) Web Services
16 17 (16.83%) Java
16 17 (16.83%) JMS
17 16 (15.84%) Oracle BPM
18 13 (12.87%) AquaLogic
18 13 (12.87%) WSDL
18 13 (12.87%) Agile Software Development
19 12 (11.88%) Finance
19 12 (11.88%) AquaLogic Service Bus
20 10 (9.901%) REST

Oracle Service Bus
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Oracle Service Bus 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 Oracle Service Bus. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 72 (71.29%) Middleware
2 35 (34.65%) Oracle Fusion
3 26 (25.74%) SOAP
4 24 (23.76%) XML
5 19 (18.81%) Web Services
6 17 (16.83%) JMS
7 13 (12.87%) WSDL
8 10 (9.901%) REST
9 8 (7.921%) XSD
10 7 (6.931%) .NET
11 6 (5.941%) J2EE
11 6 (5.941%) WCF
12 5 (4.950%) EJB
12 5 (4.950%) XSLT
13 3 (2.970%) JDBC
13 3 (2.970%) XML Schema
13 3 (2.970%) JPA
13 3 (2.970%) EJB 3.0
13 3 (2.970%) Spring
14 2 (1.980%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 59 (58.42%) WebLogic
2 44 (43.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 31 (30.69%) Oracle Application Server
4 30 (29.70%) ESB
5 22 (21.78%) Oracle 10gAS
6 13 (12.87%) AquaLogic
7 12 (11.88%) AquaLogic Service Bus
8 8 (7.921%) MQSeries
9 6 (5.941%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (1.980%) WebLogic Portal
11 1 (0.990%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 1 (0.990%) IIS
11 1 (0.990%) Tuxedo
11 1 (0.990%) Oracle BPEL
Business Applications
1 16 (15.84%) Oracle BPM
2 3 (2.970%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.990%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.990%) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.990%) HTTP
1 1 (0.990%) SAN
1 1 (0.990%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (62.38%) Oracle 11g
2 24 (23.76%) Oracle 10g
3 7 (6.931%) Oracle 8/8i
4 3 (2.970%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (2.970%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (1.980%) Oracle BI EE
5 2 (1.980%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (0.990%) Oracle OWB
6 1 (0.990%) Oracle OLAP
6 1 (0.990%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 8 (7.921%) Eclipse
1 8 (7.921%) JDeveloper
2 7 (6.931%) Git (software)
3 5 (4.950%) Team Foundation Server
3 5 (4.950%) Ant
4 3 (2.970%) Oracle Forms
4 3 (2.970%) Subversion
5 2 (1.980%) Maven
5 2 (1.980%) Oracle APEX
5 2 (1.980%) PVCS
5 2 (1.980%) ERwin
6 1 (0.990%) NetBeans
6 1 (0.990%) JUnit
6 1 (0.990%) Hudson
General
1 12 (11.88%) Finance
2 9 (8.911%) Retail
3 2 (1.980%) Back Office
4 1 (0.990%) Telecoms
4 1 (0.990%) Advertising
4 1 (0.990%) Banking
4 1 (0.990%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 39 (38.61%) Administrator
2 37 (36.63%) Developer
3 35 (34.65%) Oracle Developer
4 25 (24.75%) Middleware Administrator
5 12 (11.88%) Oracle SOA Developer
5 12 (11.88%) SOA Developer
6 9 (8.911%) Analyst
6 9 (8.911%) Consultant
6 9 (8.911%) Oracle Analyst
7 8 (7.921%) Oracle Consultant
8 7 (6.931%) Architect
8 7 (6.931%) Service Analyst
8 7 (6.931%) Lead Developer
9 5 (4.950%) Analyst Developer
9 5 (4.950%) WebLogic Administrator
10 4 (3.960%) SOA Consultant
10 4 (3.960%) Oracle SOA Consultant
11 3 (2.970%) Oracle SOA Architect
11 3 (2.970%) Oracle Architect
11 3 (2.970%) SOA Architect
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.950%) Web 2.0
2 3 (2.970%) Clustering
3 1 (0.990%) E-Learning
3 1 (0.990%) PMI
3 1 (0.990%) Mainframe
3 1 (0.990%) Replication
3 1 (0.990%) Data Conversion
3 1 (0.990%) Data Integration
3 1 (0.990%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 28 (27.72%) Linux
2 24 (23.76%) Oracle Linux
2 24 (23.76%) HPUX
3 9 (8.911%) UNIX
4 1 (0.990%) Windows
4 1 (0.990%) AIX
4 1 (0.990%) Solaris
4 1 (0.990%) VME
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (76.24%) SOA
2 47 (46.53%) BPEL
3 28 (27.72%) ITIL
4 22 (21.78%) Change Management
5 13 (12.87%) Agile Software Development
6 8 (7.921%) UML
7 7 (6.931%) MVC
7 7 (6.931%) Scrum
7 7 (6.931%) Unit Testing
8 6 (5.941%) Enterprise Architecture
8 6 (5.941%) Workflow
9 5 (4.950%) Configuration Management
10 4 (3.960%) OO
11 3 (2.970%) BPMN
11 3 (2.970%) Waterfall
11 3 (2.970%) User Stories
12 2 (1.980%) Data Modelling
12 2 (1.980%) ETL
12 2 (1.980%) PRINCE2
12 2 (1.980%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (16.83%) Java
2 8 (7.921%) SQL
3 7 (6.931%) XPath
4 6 (5.941%) XQuery
4 6 (5.941%) PL/SQL
4 6 (5.941%) C#
5 5 (4.950%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
6 2 (1.980%) Shell Script
6 2 (1.980%) Jython
6 2 (1.980%) Perl
6 2 (1.980%) Python
7 1 (0.990%) C
7 1 (0.990%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (4.950%) Degree
1 5 (4.950%) Security Cleared
2 3 (2.970%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.980%) PMP
3 2 (1.980%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.990%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.990%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (0.990%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 22 (21.78%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 2 (1.980%) Oracle Identity Manager
2 2 (1.980%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 101 (100.00%) Oracle
2 3 (2.970%) HP
2 3 (2.970%) Mercator
3 2 (1.980%) VMware
3 2 (1.980%) BEA
4 1 (0.990%) Informatica
4 1 (0.990%) Salesforce.com
4 1 (0.990%) webMethods
4 1 (0.990%) Fujitsu
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Hudson
Rate: Market Rate
Posted: 26 April 2013
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Posted: 30 April 2013