The first table below looks at the demand for ESB skills in IT contracts advertised for the Wales region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ESB over the 3 months to 23 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 for the Wales 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)
Rank - 53 57
Contract jobs citing ESB 0 3 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wales - 0.524% 0.301%
As % of the Application Platforms category - 2.609% 1.449%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 2
Average daily rate - £515 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +42.06%
UK excluding London average daily rate £383 £413 £463
% change year-on-year
-7.27% -10.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £39.00 £40.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -
All Application Platforms
Wales
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
59 115 138
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wales 13.82% 20.10% 20.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 46 73
Average daily rate £350 £308 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.82% -5.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £206 £105 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £345
% change year-on-year
- -5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 11
Average hourly rate £17.25 £20.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-13.75% -11.11%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.85 £9.00 £10.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.65 £20.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -2.43%
ESB
UK

ESB
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing ESB across the Wales region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Wales ESB Jobs Demand Trend

ESB
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing ESB across the Wales region.

Wales ESB Daily Rate Trend

ESB
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wales region citing ESB 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 ESB.

1 5 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (80.00%) Cordys
2 4 (80.00%) Web Services
2 4 (80.00%) SOA
3 3 (60.00%) EAI
4 2 (40.00%) SAP
4 2 (40.00%) Mainframe
4 2 (40.00%) MQSeries
4 2 (40.00%) E-Commerce
4 2 (40.00%) EDI
4 2 (40.00%) i2
4 2 (40.00%) JDA
5 1 (20.00%) WebSphere
5 1 (20.00%) Mercator
5 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
5 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
5 1 (20.00%) WebSphere Transformation Extender
5 1 (20.00%) XML
5 1 (20.00%) Java
5 1 (20.00%) PL/SQL
5 1 (20.00%) SQL
5 1 (20.00%) Oracle
5 1 (20.00%) WebLogic
5 1 (20.00%) Eclipse
5 1 (20.00%) IBM

ESB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wales region citing ESB 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 ESB. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (80.00%) Web Services
2 2 (40.00%) EDI
3 1 (20.00%) WebSphere
3 1 (20.00%) XML
Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) MQSeries
2 1 (20.00%) WebSphere Transformation Extender
2 1 (20.00%) WebLogic
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Eclipse
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Designer
1 4 (80.00%) SOA Designer
2 2 (40.00%) Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Integration Architect
2 2 (40.00%) SOA Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Functional Architect
3 1 (20.00%) WebSphere Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (40.00%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) SOA
2 3 (60.00%) EAI
3 2 (40.00%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Java
1 1 (20.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Cordys
2 2 (40.00%) SAP
2 2 (40.00%) i2
2 2 (40.00%) JDA
3 1 (20.00%) Mercator
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle
3 1 (20.00%) IBM