The first table below looks at the demand for AquaLogic Service Bus skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited AquaLogic Service Bus 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 West Yorkshire 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
BEA AquaLogic Service Bus (ALSB)
Rank - 93 -
Contract jobs citing AquaLogic Service Bus 0 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire - 0.063% -
As % of the Application Platforms category - 0.370% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £275 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £275 £400
% change year-on-year
+18.18% -31.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Platforms
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
281 270 266
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 22.44% 17.09% 23.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 156 106
Average daily rate £275 £325 £326
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.38% -0.15%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £236 £150 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £371 £450 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £345
% change year-on-year
- -5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 10 19
Average hourly rate £23.50 £15.00 £21.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+56.66% -30.23%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.25 £11.00 £11.55
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.00 £30.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -2.43%
AquaLogic Service Bus
Yorkshire

AquaLogic Service Bus
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing AquaLogic Service Bus across the West Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

West Yorkshire AquaLogic Service Bus Jobs Demand Trend

AquaLogic Service Bus
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing AquaLogic Service Bus across the West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire AquaLogic Service Bus Daily Rate Trend

AquaLogic Service Bus
Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing AquaLogic 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 AquaLogic Service Bus.

1 6 (100.00%) Oracle
1 6 (100.00%) WebLogic
1 6 (100.00%) JMS
1 6 (100.00%) Middleware
1 6 (100.00%) AquaLogic
1 6 (100.00%) Oracle Service Bus
2 4 (66.67%) Linux
3 3 (50.00%) ESB
3 3 (50.00%) Retail
3 3 (50.00%) BPEL
3 3 (50.00%) Oracle Application Server
3 3 (50.00%) SOA
4 2 (33.33%) ITIL
5 1 (16.67%) Windows
5 1 (16.67%) AIX
5 1 (16.67%) HP
5 1 (16.67%) WebLogic Portal
5 1 (16.67%) Validation
5 1 (16.67%) E-Learning
5 1 (16.67%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (16.67%) Java
5 1 (16.67%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (16.67%) Oracle SOA Suite

AquaLogic Service Bus
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing AquaLogic 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 AquaLogic Service Bus. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (100.00%) JMS
1 6 (100.00%) Middleware
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle Fusion
Application Platforms
1 6 (100.00%) WebLogic
1 6 (100.00%) AquaLogic
1 6 (100.00%) Oracle Service Bus
2 3 (50.00%) ESB
2 3 (50.00%) Oracle Application Server
3 1 (16.67%) WebLogic Portal
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
General
1 3 (50.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Administrator
2 3 (50.00%) WebLogic Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) E-Learning
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) AIX
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) BPEL
1 3 (50.00%) SOA
2 2 (33.33%) ITIL
3 1 (16.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Java
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) HP