The first table below looks at the demand for Oracle SOA Suite 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 Oracle SOA Suite over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle SOA Suite
Rank 84 84 70
Rank change year-on-year
0 -14
Contract jobs citing Oracle SOA Suite 4 7 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 0.319% 0.447% 0.800%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.413% 2.612% 3.422%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
Average daily rate £400 £360 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.11% +10.76%
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £475 £325
% change year-on-year
-21.05% +46.15%
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
283 268 263
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 22.55% 17.12% 23.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 154 106
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 £213 £150 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £369 £450 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £343
% change year-on-year
- -5.10%
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 £19.50 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -2.43%
Oracle SOA Suite
Yorkshire

Oracle SOA Suite
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire Oracle SOA Suite Jobs Demand Trend

Oracle SOA Suite
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Oracle SOA Suite across the West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire Oracle SOA Suite Daily Rate Trend

Oracle SOA Suite
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing Oracle SOA Suite 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 SOA Suite.

1 15 (100.00%) Oracle
1 15 (100.00%) SOA
2 13 (86.67%) Oracle 11g
3 9 (60.00%) WebLogic
4 8 (53.33%) BPEL
4 8 (53.33%) Oracle Application Server
5 7 (46.67%) ITIL
5 7 (46.67%) Middleware
6 6 (40.00%) ESB
6 6 (40.00%) Oracle Service Bus
7 5 (33.33%) Oracle Linux
7 5 (33.33%) Linux
7 5 (33.33%) JMS
8 4 (26.67%) HPUX
8 4 (26.67%) UNIX
8 4 (26.67%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 4 (26.67%) Oracle 10g
8 4 (26.67%) Change Management
8 4 (26.67%) Oracle 10gAS
9 3 (20.00%) Clustering
9 3 (20.00%) JDeveloper
9 3 (20.00%) JDBC
9 3 (20.00%) XML
10 2 (13.33%) HP
10 2 (13.33%) Oracle EBS
10 2 (13.33%) Oracle Fusion
10 2 (13.33%) Oracle EBS R12
11 1 (6.667%) AquaLogic Service Bus
11 1 (6.667%) Stress Testing
11 1 (6.667%) R

Oracle SOA Suite
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing Oracle SOA Suite 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 SOA Suite. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (46.67%) Middleware
2 5 (33.33%) JMS
3 3 (20.00%) JDBC
3 3 (20.00%) XML
4 2 (13.33%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (6.667%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 9 (60.00%) WebLogic
2 8 (53.33%) Oracle Application Server
3 6 (40.00%) ESB
3 6 (40.00%) Oracle Service Bus
4 4 (26.67%) Oracle 10gAS
5 1 (6.667%) AquaLogic Service Bus
5 1 (6.667%) AquaLogic
5 1 (6.667%) Oracle BPEL
Business Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (13.33%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.667%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (86.67%) Oracle 11g
2 4 (26.67%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) JDeveloper
2 1 (6.667%) Subversion
General
1 1 (6.667%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (66.67%) Administrator
2 3 (20.00%) SOA Consultant
2 3 (20.00%) Oracle SOA Developer
2 3 (20.00%) SOA Developer
2 3 (20.00%) Oracle SOA Consultant
2 3 (20.00%) Oracle Developer
2 3 (20.00%) Oracle Consultant
2 3 (20.00%) Developer
2 3 (20.00%) Consultant
3 1 (6.667%) Middleware Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 5 (33.33%) Oracle Linux
1 5 (33.33%) Linux
2 4 (26.67%) HPUX
2 4 (26.67%) UNIX
3 1 (6.667%) Windows
3 1 (6.667%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) SOA
2 8 (53.33%) BPEL
3 7 (46.67%) ITIL
4 4 (26.67%) Change Management
5 1 (6.667%) Stress Testing
5 1 (6.667%) Validation
5 1 (6.667%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.667%) R
1 1 (6.667%) Jython
1 1 (6.667%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
1 1 (6.667%) Shell Script
1 1 (6.667%) Perl
1 1 (6.667%) PL/SQL
1 1 (6.667%) SQL
1 1 (6.667%) Python
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 15 (100.00%) Oracle
2 2 (13.33%) HP