The first table below looks at the demand for ESB skills in IT contracts advertised for the Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ESB over the 3 months to 19 June 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 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)
Rank 100 101 -
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -
Contract jobs citing ESB 17 21 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 0.873% 0.866% -
As % of the Application Platforms category 3.872% 4.526% -
Number of daily rates quoted 15 2 0
Average daily rate £375 £353 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.38% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £400 £450
% change year-on-year
-6.25% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £39.00 £40.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +14.28%
All Application Platforms
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
439 464 431
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 22.54% 19.14% 22.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 259 189
Average daily rate £301 £325 £333
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.53% -2.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £173 £165 £207
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £340
% change year-on-year
- -4.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 26 28
Average hourly rate £22.00 £18.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+22.22% -10.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £11.16 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £36.00 £30.00 £187.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +5.26%
ESB
England

ESB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire ESB Daily Rate Trend

ESB
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Yorkshire ESB Hourly Rate Trend

ESB
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ESB within the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
West Yorkshire -6 4 £444 - 2
ESB
England

ESB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire 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 44 (93.62%) Oracle
2 42 (89.36%) SOA
3 32 (68.09%) Linux
3 32 (68.09%) BPEL
4 31 (65.96%) Oracle Application Server
4 31 (65.96%) WebLogic
4 31 (65.96%) Middleware
5 28 (59.57%) ITIL
5 28 (59.57%) Oracle 11g
5 28 (59.57%) Oracle Service Bus
5 28 (59.57%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 27 (57.45%) Oracle Linux
6 27 (57.45%) Oracle 10gAS
6 27 (57.45%) Change Management
6 27 (57.45%) Oracle 10g
6 27 (57.45%) HPUX
6 27 (57.45%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 25 (53.19%) Oracle Fusion
8 24 (51.06%) Oracle ODI
9 7 (14.89%) XML
9 7 (14.89%) SOAP
9 7 (14.89%) Java
10 6 (12.77%) .NET
11 5 (10.64%) Unified Process
11 5 (10.64%) HTTP
11 5 (10.64%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (10.64%) REST
11 5 (10.64%) Java EE
11 5 (10.64%) LAMP
12 4 (8.511%) WebSphere Process Server

ESB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire 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 31 (65.96%) Middleware
2 25 (53.19%) Oracle Fusion
3 7 (14.89%) XML
3 7 (14.89%) SOAP
4 6 (12.77%) .NET
5 5 (10.64%) REST
5 5 (10.64%) Java EE
5 5 (10.64%) LAMP
6 4 (8.511%) WebSphere
6 4 (8.511%) WebSphere MQ
7 3 (6.383%) J2EE
7 3 (6.383%) Web Services
7 3 (6.383%) JMS
8 2 (4.255%) RESTful
8 2 (4.255%) Apache FOP
8 2 (4.255%) Spring
8 2 (4.255%) ActiveMQ
8 2 (4.255%) Hibernate
8 2 (4.255%) JavaBeans
8 2 (4.255%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 31 (65.96%) Oracle Application Server
1 31 (65.96%) WebLogic
2 28 (59.57%) Oracle Service Bus
2 28 (59.57%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 27 (57.45%) Oracle 10gAS
4 4 (8.511%) WebSphere Process Server
4 4 (8.511%) WebSphere Application Server
5 3 (6.383%) Documentum
5 3 (6.383%) WebSphere Portal
6 2 (4.255%) Mule
6 2 (4.255%) Tomcat
6 2 (4.255%) Apache
7 1 (2.128%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (2.128%) AquaLogic
7 1 (2.128%) Oracle BPEL
7 1 (2.128%) AquaLogic Service Bus
Business Applications
1 4 (8.511%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (6.383%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (2.128%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (2.128%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.64%) HTTP
2 3 (6.383%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (59.57%) Oracle 11g
2 27 (57.45%) Oracle 10g
3 24 (51.06%) Oracle ODI
4 1 (2.128%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 2 (4.255%) Build Forge
2 1 (2.128%) JDeveloper
2 1 (2.128%) NUnit
2 1 (2.128%) MSTest
General
1 3 (6.383%) Telecoms
1 3 (6.383%) Finance
1 3 (6.383%) Retail
Job Titles
1 31 (65.96%) Administrator
2 24 (51.06%) Middleware Administrator
3 9 (19.15%) Architect
4 6 (12.77%) Technical Architect
5 5 (10.64%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (6.383%) Developer
7 2 (4.255%) Oracle Analyst
7 2 (4.255%) WebSphere Administrator
7 2 (4.255%) Analyst
7 2 (4.255%) Java Developer
8 1 (2.128%) Oracle Developer
8 1 (2.128%) Data Architect
8 1 (2.128%) Oracle Architect
8 1 (2.128%) Oracle SOA Developer
8 1 (2.128%) SOA Developer
8 1 (2.128%) Oracle Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.64%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (4.255%) Computer Science
2 2 (4.255%) N-Tier
3 1 (2.128%) Oracle Exalogic
Operating Systems
1 32 (68.09%) Linux
2 27 (57.45%) Oracle Linux
2 27 (57.45%) HPUX
3 3 (6.383%) AIX
4 2 (4.255%) UNIX
4 2 (4.255%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (89.36%) SOA
2 32 (68.09%) BPEL
3 28 (59.57%) ITIL
4 27 (57.45%) Change Management
5 5 (10.64%) Unified Process
6 3 (6.383%) ERP
6 3 (6.383%) Migration
6 3 (6.383%) E-business
6 3 (6.383%) Technical Architecture
7 2 (4.255%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (4.255%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (4.255%) Web Design
7 2 (4.255%) UML
8 1 (2.128%) OOP
8 1 (2.128%) OO
8 1 (2.128%) Project Management
8 1 (2.128%) Business Transformation
8 1 (2.128%) TDD
8 1 (2.128%) Business Analysis
8 1 (2.128%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (14.89%) Java
2 3 (6.383%) SQL
3 2 (4.255%) PHP
4 1 (2.128%) PL/SQL
4 1 (2.128%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (4.255%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.383%) QA
System Software
1 2 (4.255%) OpenSSO
1 2 (4.255%) VMware Server
1 2 (4.255%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 27 (57.45%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 2 (4.255%) CA Wily
2 2 (4.255%) OpenView
Vendors
1 44 (93.62%) Oracle
2 3 (6.383%) Siebel
2 3 (6.383%) HP
3 2 (4.255%) IBM
3 2 (4.255%) Adobe
3 2 (4.255%) VMware
3 2 (4.255%) JBoss
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