West Yorkshire SOA Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) skills within the West Yorkshire region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited SOA over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Location Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheshire City of London County Antrim Croydon Cumbria Docklands, London East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Farnborough Farnham Gerrards Cross Glamorgan Glasgow Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Rickmansworth Salford Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Street Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	66	69
Rank change on same period last year	+3
Matching contract IT job ads	27	30
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.036 %	0.030 %
As % of the category below	2.559 %	2.930 %
Daily rates quoted	8	10
Average minimum daily rate	£311	£425
Average daily rate	£346	£509
% change on same period last year	-32.13 %
Average maximum daily rate	£380	£594
UK excluding London average daily rate	£411	£419
% change on same period last year	-1.90 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£32.50	-
Average hourly rate	£32.50	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.50	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£38.75	£35.00
% change on same period last year	+10.71 %
Processes & Methodologies West Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	1055	1024
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.426 %	1.010 %
Daily rates quoted	307	201
Average minimum daily rate	£339	£347
Average daily rate	£365	£370
% change on same period last year	-1.40 %
Average maximum daily rate	£391	£394
UK excluding London average daily rate	£378	£375
% change on same period last year	+0.59 %
Hourly rates quoted	36	61
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.49	£24.74
Average hourly rate	£25.46	£25.90
% change on same period last year	-1.69 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.43	£27.06
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.41	£30.41
% change on same period last year	+0.01 %
SOA Yorkshire

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

SOA
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing SOA across the West Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

SOA
Daily Rate Trend

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

SOA
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SOA across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

SOA
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SOA across the West Yorkshire region.

SOA
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SOA across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

SOA
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOA within the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Leeds	-18	15	£363	-28.81 %
Halifax	-	4	£275	-

SOA Yorkshire

SOA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing SOA 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 SOA.

1 22 (46.81 %) .NET 2 19 (40.43 %) C# 2 19 (40.43 %) Java 3 15 (31.91 %) Banking 3 15 (31.91 %) Security Cleared 4 14 (29.79 %) SC Cleared 5 12 (25.53 %) WebServices 6 10 (21.28 %) XML 6 10 (21.28 %) SQL Server 6 10 (21.28 %) Finance 7 9 (19.15 %) Government 7 9 (19.15 %) ASP.NET 8 8 (17.02 %) Insurance 9 7 (14.89 %) Microsoft 9 7 (14.89 %) Visual Studio

9 7 (14.89 %) SQL 9 7 (14.89 %) VB 9 7 (14.89 %) J2EE 9 7 (14.89 %) VB6 9 7 (14.89 %) SQL Server 2005 10 6 (12.77 %) Auditing 10 6 (12.77 %) Scrum 10 6 (12.77 %) Oracle 10 6 (12.77 %) VB.NET 11 5 (10.64 %) CSS 12 4 (8.511 %) HTML 12 4 (8.511 %) UNIX 12 4 (8.511 %) Windows 12 4 (8.511 %) XHTML 12 4 (8.511 %) Internet

SOA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing SOA 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 SOA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 22 (46.81 %) .NET 2 12 (25.53 %) WebServices 3 10 (21.28 %) XML 4 9 (19.15 %) ASP.NET 5 7 (14.89 %) J2EE 6 5 (10.64 %) CSS 7 4 (8.511 %) XHTML 7 4 (8.511 %) WebSphere 7 4 (8.511 %) Microsoft Enterprise Library 7 4 (8.511 %) HTML 8 3 (6.383 %) WCF 8 3 (6.383 %) .NET Framework 9 2 (4.255 %) Hibernate 9 2 (4.255 %) Spring 9 2 (4.255 %) XSD 9 2 (4.255 %) ASP.NET 2.0 10 1 (2.128 %) Oracle Fusion 10 1 (2.128 %) SOAP 10 1 (2.128 %) Struts 10 1 (2.128 %) XML Schema	Application Platforms 1 2 (4.255 %) SharePoint 1 2 (4.255 %) WebSphere MQ 2 1 (2.128 %) CMS 2 1 (2.128 %) SharePoint Server 2007
Applications 1 2 (4.255 %) MS Excel 2 1 (2.128 %) MS Visio	Communications & Networking 1 4 (8.511 %) Internet 2 2 (4.255 %) OSPF 2 2 (4.255 %) Firewall 2 2 (4.255 %) Frame Relay 2 2 (4.255 %) iSCSI 2 2 (4.255 %) ATM 2 2 (4.255 %) LAN 2 2 (4.255 %) WAN 2 2 (4.255 %) FTP 2 2 (4.255 %) RIP 2 2 (4.255 %) TCP/IP 2 2 (4.255 %) SSL 2 2 (4.255 %) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 10 (21.28 %) SQL Server 2 7 (14.89 %) SQL Server 2005 3 2 (4.255 %) Oracle 10g	Development Applications 1 7 (14.89 %) Visual Studio 2 2 (4.255 %) NUnit
General 1 15 (31.91 %) Banking 2 10 (21.28 %) Finance 3 9 (19.15 %) Government 4 8 (17.02 %) Insurance 5 6 (12.77 %) Auditing 6 4 (8.511 %) Retail 7 1 (2.128 %) Electric 7 1 (2.128 %) Health 7 1 (2.128 %) Legal 7 1 (2.128 %) Publishing 7 1 (2.128 %) Back Office	Job Titles 1 21 (44.68 %) Developer 2 14 (29.79 %) Architect 2 14 (29.79 %) C# Developer 3 9 (19.15 %) .NET Developer 4 8 (17.02 %) Solutions Architect 5 6 (12.77 %) Java Developer 6 4 (8.511 %) Technical Architect 6 4 (8.511 %) Technical Designer 7 2 (4.255 %) Applications Architect 7 2 (4.255 %) Infrastructure Designer 7 2 (4.255 %) Sharepoint Architect 7 2 (4.255 %) Technical Project Manager 7 2 (4.255 %) Project Manager 7 2 (4.255 %) Infrastructure Architect 7 2 (4.255 %) Technical Manager 7 2 (4.255 %) Team Leader 8 1 (2.128 %) SQL Developer 8 1 (2.128 %) Development Team Leader 8 1 (2.128 %) SQL Server Developer 8 1 (2.128 %) VB.NET Developer
Miscellaneous 1 2 (4.255 %) Client/Server 2 1 (2.128 %) N-Tier 2 1 (2.128 %) Web 2.0	Operating Systems 1 4 (8.511 %) UNIX 1 4 (8.511 %) Windows 2 2 (4.255 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 15 (31.91 %) Security Cleared 2 14 (29.79 %) SC Cleared 3 6 (12.77 %) Scrum 4 3 (6.383 %) OO 4 3 (6.383 %) E-Commerce 5 2 (4.255 %) OOD 5 2 (4.255 %) B2B 5 2 (4.255 %) Web Design 5 2 (4.255 %) Network Design 5 2 (4.255 %) Service Management 6 1 (2.128 %) Workflow 6 1 (2.128 %) Stakeholder Management 6 1 (2.128 %) Enterprise Architecture 6 1 (2.128 %) Technical Architecture 6 1 (2.128 %) Matrix Management 6 1 (2.128 %) Project Management 6 1 (2.128 %) EAI	Programming Languages 1 19 (40.43 %) C# 1 19 (40.43 %) Java 2 7 (14.89 %) SQL 2 7 (14.89 %) VB 2 7 (14.89 %) VB6 3 6 (12.77 %) VB.NET 4 1 (2.128 %) C
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (4.255 %) PCI DSS	System Software 1 2 (4.255 %) Terminal Services
Vendors 1 7 (14.89 %) Microsoft 2 6 (12.77 %) Oracle 3 3 (6.383 %) Intershop 4 2 (4.255 %) Cisco 4 2 (4.255 %) IBM 4 2 (4.255 %) Citrix 4 2 (4.255 %) ATG