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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)
Rank 113 - 85
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing ESB 5 0 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.294% - 0.446%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.333% - 1.935%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 4
Average salary £46,250 - £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year
-18.18% +10.00%
All Application Platforms
Birmingham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
375 294 310
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 22.06% 19.84% 23.07%
Number of salaries quoted 316 256 284
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% -8.53%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,500 £25,625
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £61,500 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -
ESB
West Midlands

ESB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham 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 Birmingham region.

Birmingham ESB Salary Trend

ESB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham 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 5 (100.00%) Oracle
2 3 (60.00%) WebSphere Application Server
2 3 (60.00%) WebLogic
2 3 (60.00%) Java
2 3 (60.00%) RUP
2 3 (60.00%) ERP
2 3 (60.00%) WebLogic Portal
2 3 (60.00%) WebLogic Integration
2 3 (60.00%) IBM
2 3 (60.00%) Workflow
2 3 (60.00%) Advertising
2 3 (60.00%) Unified Process
2 3 (60.00%) WebSphere Process Server
2 3 (60.00%) AquaLogic
2 3 (60.00%) WebSphere
2 3 (60.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (60.00%) Open Source
2 3 (60.00%) Oracle BPM
2 3 (60.00%) AquaLogic BPM
2 3 (60.00%) AquaLogic Service Bus
2 3 (60.00%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (60.00%) Release Management
3 2 (40.00%) V-Model
3 2 (40.00%) Oracle 11g
3 2 (40.00%) Matrix Management
3 2 (40.00%) Programme Management
3 2 (40.00%) Finance
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (40.00%) Change Management
3 2 (40.00%) ITSM

ESB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham 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 3 (60.00%) WebSphere
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (40.00%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 3 (60.00%) WebSphere Application Server
1 3 (60.00%) WebLogic
1 3 (60.00%) WebLogic Portal
1 3 (60.00%) WebLogic Integration
1 3 (60.00%) WebSphere Process Server
1 3 (60.00%) AquaLogic
1 3 (60.00%) AquaLogic Service Bus
Business Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle BPM
1 3 (60.00%) AquaLogic BPM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle 11g
General
1 3 (60.00%) Advertising
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Architect
1 3 (60.00%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (40.00%) IT Development Manager
2 2 (40.00%) Development Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Open Source
1 3 (60.00%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) RUP
1 3 (60.00%) ERP
1 3 (60.00%) Workflow
1 3 (60.00%) Unified Process
1 3 (60.00%) Release Management
2 2 (40.00%) V-Model
2 2 (40.00%) Matrix Management
2 2 (40.00%) Programme Management
2 2 (40.00%) Change Management
2 2 (40.00%) ITSM
2 2 (40.00%) Configuration Management
2 2 (40.00%) Project Management
2 2 (40.00%) SOA
2 2 (40.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) RAD
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Java
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Oracle
2 3 (60.00%) IBM
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft