The first table below looks at the demand for ESB skills in IT jobs advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited ESB over the 3 months to 17 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 Berkshire region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)
Rank 210 220 184
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -36
Permanent jobs citing ESB 5 3 12
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.097% 0.049% 0.233%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.454% 0.313% 1.467%
Number of salaries quoted 5 3 12
Average salary £45,000 £38,683 £38,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
+16.33% -0.17%
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year
-18.18% +10.00%
All Application Platforms
Berkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
1102 960 818
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 21.42% 15.65% 15.88%
Number of salaries quoted 881 871 689
Average salary £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.88% +6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,000 £30,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £57,500 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -
ESB
South East

ESB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire ESB Jobs Demand Trend

ESB
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing ESB across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire ESB Salary Trend

ESB
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing ESB across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Berkshire ESB Salary Histogram

ESB
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ESB within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Bracknell - 2 £45,000 -
ESB
South East

ESB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire 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 IT job ads sampled that cited ESB.

1 13 (65.00%) Degree
2 12 (60.00%) ITIL
3 11 (55.00%) CRM
3 11 (55.00%) eTOM
3 11 (55.00%) BSS
4 10 (50.00%) Telecoms
5 8 (40.00%) Java
5 8 (40.00%) Business Analysis
6 7 (35.00%) Hibernate
6 7 (35.00%) Billing
6 7 (35.00%) Spring
6 7 (35.00%) Maven
7 5 (25.00%) Google
7 5 (25.00%) MVC
7 5 (25.00%) GWT
7 5 (25.00%) Groovy
7 5 (25.00%) Guice
7 5 (25.00%) TestNG
7 5 (25.00%) DbUnit
7 5 (25.00%) Mockito
7 5 (25.00%) Jenkins
8 4 (20.00%) Huawei
8 4 (20.00%) Oracle
9 3 (15.00%) Windows
9 3 (15.00%) Web Services
9 3 (15.00%) Convergys
9 3 (15.00%) Amdocs
9 3 (15.00%) Scrum
9 3 (15.00%) Comverse
9 3 (15.00%) ZTE

ESB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire 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 IT job ads sampled that cited ESB. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (35.00%) Hibernate
1 7 (35.00%) Spring
2 5 (25.00%) GWT
2 5 (25.00%) Guice
3 3 (15.00%) Web Services
4 2 (10.00%) XSLT
4 2 (10.00%) SAML
4 2 (10.00%) .NET
4 2 (10.00%) ASP.NET
4 2 (10.00%) Servlets
4 2 (10.00%) SOAP
4 2 (10.00%) Apache CXF
4 2 (10.00%) WebSockets
4 2 (10.00%) JSON
4 2 (10.00%) Spring Security
5 1 (5.000%) jQuery
5 1 (5.000%) Middleware
5 1 (5.000%) XML
Application Platforms
1 2 (10.00%) Apache
1 2 (10.00%) Mule
2 1 (5.000%) IIS
2 1 (5.000%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.000%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 1 (5.000%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 11 (55.00%) BSS
2 2 (10.00%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 2 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 2 (10.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (5.000%) SQL Server 2012
2 1 (5.000%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (5.000%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (5.000%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (5.000%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 7 (35.00%) Maven
2 5 (25.00%) TestNG
2 5 (25.00%) DbUnit
2 5 (25.00%) Mockito
2 5 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (10.00%) Git (software)
3 2 (10.00%) Eclipse
4 1 (5.000%) Subversion
4 1 (5.000%) Visual Studio
General
1 10 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 7 (35.00%) Billing
3 1 (5.000%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 11 (55.00%) Architect
2 9 (45.00%) Solutions Architect
3 7 (35.00%) Java Developer
3 7 (35.00%) Developer
4 5 (25.00%) Senior Developer
4 5 (25.00%) Senior Java Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Systems Architect
5 2 (10.00%) Systems Integration Architect
5 2 (10.00%) Integration Architect
6 1 (5.000%) DBA
6 1 (5.000%) Team Leader
6 1 (5.000%) Development Team Leader
6 1 (5.000%) .NET Team Leader
6 1 (5.000%) Data Integration Specialist
6 1 (5.000%) Integration Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.000%) Mainframe
1 1 (5.000%) Management Information System
1 1 (5.000%) Replication
1 1 (5.000%) Data Integration
1 1 (5.000%) Open Source
1 1 (5.000%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.00%) Windows
2 2 (10.00%) Linux
3 1 (5.000%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (60.00%) ITIL
2 11 (55.00%) CRM
2 11 (55.00%) eTOM
3 8 (40.00%) Business Analysis
4 5 (25.00%) MVC
5 3 (15.00%) Scrum
6 2 (10.00%) SOA
7 1 (5.000%) ETL
7 1 (5.000%) Business Intelligence
7 1 (5.000%) TDD
7 1 (5.000%) Data Management
7 1 (5.000%) Workflow
7 1 (5.000%) Migration
7 1 (5.000%) Web Development
7 1 (5.000%) Continuous Integration
7 1 (5.000%) Data Migration
7 1 (5.000%) Data Architecture
7 1 (5.000%) Revenue Management
7 1 (5.000%) Master Data Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (40.00%) Java
2 5 (25.00%) Groovy
3 2 (10.00%) C#
3 2 (10.00%) C++
4 1 (5.000%) SQL
4 1 (5.000%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (65.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) HL7
2 1 (5.000%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Google
2 4 (20.00%) Huawei
2 4 (20.00%) Oracle
3 3 (15.00%) Convergys
3 3 (15.00%) Amdocs
3 3 (15.00%) ZTE
3 3 (15.00%) Nokia Siemens Networks
3 3 (15.00%) Comverse
4 1 (5.000%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.000%) Informatica