The first table below looks at the demand for SOA skills in IT contracts advertised for the Wiltshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SOA 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 Processes & Methodologies category for the Wiltshire 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
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Rank 43 41 48
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +7
Contract jobs citing SOA 9 12 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wiltshire 1.969% 1.958% 0.544%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.663% 2.956% 0.769%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 10 3
Average daily rate £425 £425 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £390 £400 £400
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
- +45.45%
All Processes & Methodologies
Wiltshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
338 406 390
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wiltshire 73.96% 66.23% 70.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 244 260 214
Average daily rate £425 £386 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.24% -3.62%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £318 £238 £256
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 19 25
Average hourly rate £15.50 £28.00 £31.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-44.64% -9.67%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.30 £14.00 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.50 £41.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
SOA
South West

SOA
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing SOA across the Wiltshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Wiltshire SOA Jobs Demand Trend

SOA
Daily Rate Trend

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

Wiltshire SOA Daily Rate Trend

SOA
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Wiltshire SOA Hourly Rate Trend

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 Wiltshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Swindon +1 8 £425 -
Salisbury - 1 £450 -
SOA
South West

SOA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wiltshire 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 11 (91.67%) Oracle
2 10 (83.33%) SQL
2 10 (83.33%) Oracle BI EE
3 9 (75.00%) Oracle Workflow
3 9 (75.00%) Oracle EBS
3 9 (75.00%) Workflow
3 9 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
3 9 (75.00%) Oracle Reports
4 8 (66.67%) CRM
4 8 (66.67%) PL/SQL
4 8 (66.67%) Finance
5 7 (58.33%) Middleware
5 7 (58.33%) BPEL
5 7 (58.33%) Oracle EBS R12
6 6 (50.00%) Oracle Fusion
6 6 (50.00%) Siebel
6 6 (50.00%) ETL
7 5 (41.67%) JDeveloper
7 5 (41.67%) Informatica
7 5 (41.67%) Linux
7 5 (41.67%) Java
7 5 (41.67%) ESB
7 5 (41.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 4 (33.33%) Hyperion
8 4 (33.33%) Oracle Applications
8 4 (33.33%) XML
8 4 (33.33%) XSLT
8 4 (33.33%) ITIL
8 4 (33.33%) PRINCE2
8 4 (33.33%) Oracle Forms

SOA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wiltshire 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 7 (58.33%) Middleware
2 6 (50.00%) Oracle Fusion
3 4 (33.33%) XML
3 4 (33.33%) XSLT
3 4 (33.33%) J2EE
4 1 (8.333%) EDI
4 1 (8.333%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 9 (75.00%) Oracle Workflow
2 5 (41.67%) ESB
2 5 (41.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 4 (33.33%) SharePoint
4 1 (8.333%) Oracle Service Bus
4 1 (8.333%) Oracle 10gAS
Business Applications
1 9 (75.00%) Oracle EBS
2 7 (58.33%) Oracle EBS R12
3 4 (33.33%) Oracle Applications
4 3 (25.00%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (8.333%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (8.333%) Oracle 11i
5 1 (8.333%) Oracle BPM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (83.33%) Oracle BI EE
2 9 (75.00%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (16.67%) Oracle 10g
5 1 (8.333%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) JDeveloper
2 4 (33.33%) Oracle Forms
General
1 8 (66.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (83.33%) Developer
2 6 (50.00%) Oracle Developer
3 5 (41.67%) OBIEE Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Oracle BI Developer
5 1 (8.333%) Consultant
5 1 (8.333%) DBA
5 1 (8.333%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (8.333%) Technical Consultant
5 1 (8.333%) Lead Developer
5 1 (8.333%) Administrator
5 1 (8.333%) Architect
5 1 (8.333%) Oracle Applications Developer
5 1 (8.333%) Oracle Consultant
5 1 (8.333%) Oracle Technical Consultant
5 1 (8.333%) Technical Developer
5 1 (8.333%) Middleware Developer
5 1 (8.333%) Oracle DBA
Operating Systems
1 5 (41.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Workflow
1 9 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
2 8 (66.67%) CRM
3 7 (58.33%) BPEL
4 6 (50.00%) ETL
5 4 (33.33%) ITIL
5 4 (33.33%) PRINCE2
6 3 (25.00%) ERP
6 3 (25.00%) Change Management
6 3 (25.00%) Scrum
6 3 (25.00%) Release Management
6 3 (25.00%) Performance Management
7 2 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
7 2 (16.67%) Performance Testing
7 2 (16.67%) E-business
8 1 (8.333%) Data Security
8 1 (8.333%) Stakeholder Management
8 1 (8.333%) TOGAF
8 1 (8.333%) Content Management
8 1 (8.333%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 10 (83.33%) SQL
2 8 (66.67%) PL/SQL
3 5 (41.67%) Java
4 4 (33.33%) Shell Script
4 4 (33.33%) XQuery
5 1 (8.333%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) OCP
1 3 (25.00%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.333%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 1 (8.333%) Oracle RAC
Vendors
1 11 (91.67%) Oracle
2 6 (50.00%) Siebel
3 5 (41.67%) Informatica
4 4 (33.33%) Hyperion
5 3 (25.00%) Stellent
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