The first table below looks at the demand for the Oracle SOA Developer role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Oracle SOA Developer in their job title 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 Job Titles currently tracked.

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
Oracle SOA Developer
Rank 518 562 584
Rank change year-on-year
+44 +22
Contract jobs requiring an Oracle SOA Developer 12 16 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.026% 0.027% 0.007%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.028% 0.030% 0.007%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 14 3
Average daily rate £463 £450 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.77% +28.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £380 £408 £330
10% offered a daily rate of more than £515 £475 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £450 £350
% change year-on-year
-5.55% +28.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
42797 53993 56874
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.24% 92.65% 92.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 24561 29781 30909
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2134 2552 2929
Average hourly rate £18.50 £19.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.63% -5.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £40.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%

Oracle SOA Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Oracle SOA Developer within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Oracle SOA Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Oracle SOA Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Oracle SOA Developer Daily Rate Trend

Oracle SOA Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Oracle SOA Developer within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Oracle SOA Developer Daily Rate Histogram

Oracle SOA Developer
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle SOA Developer within the UK over the 3 months to 17 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 +45 12 £463 +2.77%
South East +23 8 £425 -5.55%
Milton Keynes - 7 £463 -
Buckinghamshire - 7 £463 -
London +21 2 £550 +22.22%
Surrey +19 1 £275 -38.88%
West Yorkshire - 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 - -
East of England - 1 - -
Leeds - 1 - -
Hertfordshire - 1 - -

Oracle SOA Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Oracle SOA Developer in their job title 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 with Oracle SOA Developer in their job title.

1 23 (100.00%) Oracle
1 23 (100.00%) SOA
2 18 (78.26%) Oracle 11g
3 14 (60.87%) BPEL
4 12 (52.17%) Oracle Service Bus
5 11 (47.83%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 10 (43.48%) Web Services
7 8 (34.78%) SOAP
7 8 (34.78%) Middleware
8 7 (30.43%) Siebel
8 7 (30.43%) WSDL
8 7 (30.43%) JDeveloper
8 7 (30.43%) E-business
8 7 (30.43%) REST
9 6 (26.09%) C#
9 6 (26.09%) .NET
9 6 (26.09%) XML
9 6 (26.09%) MVC
9 6 (26.09%) Agile Software Development
9 6 (26.09%) WCF
10 5 (21.74%) XSD
10 5 (21.74%) UML
10 5 (21.74%) XPath
11 4 (17.39%) Ant
11 4 (17.39%) Oracle 8/8i
11 4 (17.39%) Eclipse
11 4 (17.39%) XQuery
11 4 (17.39%) Workflow
11 4 (17.39%) Oracle Workflow
11 4 (17.39%) Scrum

Oracle SOA Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Oracle SOA Developer in their job title 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 with Oracle SOA Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 10 (43.48%) Web Services
2 8 (34.78%) SOAP
2 8 (34.78%) Middleware
3 7 (30.43%) WSDL
3 7 (30.43%) REST
4 6 (26.09%) WCF
4 6 (26.09%) XML
4 6 (26.09%) .NET
5 5 (21.74%) XSD
6 4 (17.39%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (8.696%) J2EE
8 1 (4.348%) EJB
8 1 (4.348%) JSP
8 1 (4.348%) Servlets
8 1 (4.348%) XSLT
8 1 (4.348%) JMS
8 1 (4.348%) XML Schema
8 1 (4.348%) HTML
8 1 (4.348%) Oracle ADF
8 1 (4.348%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 12 (52.17%) Oracle Service Bus
2 11 (47.83%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 4 (17.39%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (8.696%) WebLogic
5 1 (4.348%) ESB
5 1 (4.348%) Oracle BPEL
Business Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (13.04%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (8.696%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (4.348%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (4.348%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.348%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (78.26%) Oracle 11g
2 4 (17.39%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 7 (30.43%) JDeveloper
2 4 (17.39%) Team Foundation Server
2 4 (17.39%) Ant
2 4 (17.39%) Eclipse
3 1 (4.348%) JUnit
General
1 2 (8.696%) Finance
1 2 (8.696%) Retail
2 1 (4.348%) Retail Banking
2 1 (4.348%) Banking
2 1 (4.348%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Web 2.0
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (100.00%) SOA
2 14 (60.87%) BPEL
3 7 (30.43%) E-business
4 6 (26.09%) MVC
4 6 (26.09%) Agile Software Development
5 5 (21.74%) UML
6 4 (17.39%) Workflow
6 4 (17.39%) Enterprise Architecture
6 4 (17.39%) Unit Testing
6 4 (17.39%) Scrum
7 1 (4.348%) Continuous Integration
7 1 (4.348%) BPMN
7 1 (4.348%) Dependency Injection
7 1 (4.348%) BDD
7 1 (4.348%) User Stories
7 1 (4.348%) Migration
7 1 (4.348%) OOA/OOD
7 1 (4.348%) Code Coverage
Programming Languages
1 6 (26.09%) C#
2 5 (21.74%) XPath
3 4 (17.39%) XQuery
4 3 (13.04%) Java
5 2 (8.696%) PL/SQL
5 2 (8.696%) SQL
6 1 (4.348%) R
Vendors
1 23 (100.00%) Oracle
2 7 (30.43%) Siebel
3 1 (4.348%) Microsoft
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You will need to have solid Oracle 11g SOA suite 11.1.3 - PS5 experience along with web service technologies (WSDL, REST, SOAP), Fusions middleware suite & SOA suite...
Hudson
Rate: Market Rate
Posted: 26 April 2013