The first table below looks at the demand for ESB skills in IT jobs advertised for the Bristol 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 Bristol region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)
Rank 110 106 111
Rank change year-on-year
-4 +5
Permanent jobs citing ESB 8 7 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bristol 0.464% 0.405% 0.271%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.346% 1.892% 1.453%
Number of salaries quoted 5 6 5
Average salary £43,000 £32,755 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+31.27% +0.78%
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year
-18.18% +10.00%
All Application Platforms
Bristol
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
341 370 344
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bristol 19.78% 21.39% 18.61%
Number of salaries quoted 294 346 310
Average salary £35,000 £34,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.94% -2.85%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £26,000 £24,650
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -
ESB
South West

ESB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bristol 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 Bristol region.

Bristol ESB Salary Trend

ESB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bristol 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 10 (90.91%) Oracle
1 10 (90.91%) SOA
2 9 (81.82%) XML
2 9 (81.82%) SQL
3 5 (45.45%) QuickTest Pro
3 5 (45.45%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (45.45%) E-business
3 5 (45.45%) BPEL
3 5 (45.45%) JIRA
3 5 (45.45%) QA
3 5 (45.45%) Integration Testing
3 5 (45.45%) Test Automation
4 4 (36.36%) XSLT
4 4 (36.36%) UML
4 4 (36.36%) Java
4 4 (36.36%) Web Services
4 4 (36.36%) SQL Server
5 3 (27.27%) MySQL
5 3 (27.27%) Middleware
5 3 (27.27%) Ajax
6 2 (18.18%) SQL Server 2005
6 2 (18.18%) NHibernate
6 2 (18.18%) Project Planning
6 2 (18.18%) WPF
6 2 (18.18%) Multithreading
6 2 (18.18%) Data Integration
6 2 (18.18%) Logistics
6 2 (18.18%) SQL Server 2008
6 2 (18.18%) Data Management
6 2 (18.18%) Management Information System

ESB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bristol 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 9 (81.82%) XML
2 4 (36.36%) XSLT
2 4 (36.36%) Web Services
3 3 (27.27%) Middleware
3 3 (27.27%) Ajax
4 2 (18.18%) NHibernate
4 2 (18.18%) WPF
4 2 (18.18%) XML-RPC
4 2 (18.18%) JMS
4 2 (18.18%) .NET
4 2 (18.18%) J2EE
4 2 (18.18%) SOAP
4 2 (18.18%) XSD
4 2 (18.18%) REST
5 1 (9.091%) CSS
5 1 (9.091%) HTML
5 1 (9.091%) Hibernate
5 1 (9.091%) Spring
5 1 (9.091%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (9.091%) jQuery
Business Applications
1 5 (45.45%) Oracle EBS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) SQL Server
2 3 (27.27%) MySQL
3 2 (18.18%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (18.18%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (18.18%) Data Mining
3 2 (18.18%) DB2
4 1 (9.091%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) QuickTest Pro
1 5 (45.45%) JIRA
2 2 (18.18%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (9.091%) Subversion
General
1 2 (18.18%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Analyst
1 5 (45.45%) Test Analyst
2 4 (36.36%) Agile Test Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) .NET Team Leader
3 2 (18.18%) Team Leader
3 2 (18.18%) Integration Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Java Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Developer
4 1 (9.091%) Senior Developer
4 1 (9.091%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (9.091%) Senior Test Analyst
4 1 (9.091%) Senior Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Data Integration
1 2 (18.18%) Management Information System
1 2 (18.18%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.091%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) SOA
2 5 (45.45%) E-business
2 5 (45.45%) BPEL
2 5 (45.45%) Integration Testing
2 5 (45.45%) Test Automation
3 4 (36.36%) UML
4 2 (18.18%) Project Planning
4 2 (18.18%) Multithreading
4 2 (18.18%) Logistics
4 2 (18.18%) Data Management
4 2 (18.18%) OOA/OOD
4 2 (18.18%) OO
4 2 (18.18%) Data Modelling
4 2 (18.18%) ETL
4 2 (18.18%) High Availability
4 2 (18.18%) Data Governance
4 2 (18.18%) Master Data Management
5 1 (9.091%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (9.091%) Information Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) SQL
2 4 (36.36%) Java
3 2 (18.18%) PL/SQL
3 2 (18.18%) C#
3 2 (18.18%) XPath
4 1 (9.091%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (9.091%) ISEB
1 1 (9.091%) SC Cleared
1 1 (9.091%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (45.45%) QA
Vendors
1 10 (90.91%) Oracle
2 1 (9.091%) Nokia