The first table below looks at the demand for ESB skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited ESB over the 3 months to 23 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 Cambridge region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)
Rank - 129 115
Permanent jobs citing ESB 0 1 12
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge - 0.050% 0.550%
As % of the Application Platforms category - 0.311% 3.509%
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 10
Average salary - £42,000 £46,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -8.69%
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year
-18.18% +10.00%
All Application Platforms
Cambridge
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
353 322 342
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 19.56% 15.94% 15.69%
Number of salaries quoted 315 304 287
Average salary £41,000 £40,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.50% +14.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -
ESB
Cambridgeshire

ESB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge ESB Salary Trend

ESB
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge 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 (100.00%) C#
1 10 (100.00%) EAI
1 10 (100.00%) SOA
1 10 (100.00%) ETL
1 10 (100.00%) BizTalk Server
1 10 (100.00%) XML
1 10 (100.00%) WCF
2 9 (90.00%) XML Schema
2 9 (90.00%) Microsoft
3 7 (70.00%) SQL Server
3 7 (70.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 7 (70.00%) WF
3 7 (70.00%) SCOM
4 6 (60.00%) SQL Server 2008
4 6 (60.00%) Agile Software Development
4 6 (60.00%) SQL Server 2005
5 3 (30.00%) .NET Framework
5 3 (30.00%) SAP
5 3 (30.00%) .NET
5 3 (30.00%) Oracle
6 2 (20.00%) MS Excel

ESB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge 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 10 (100.00%) XML
1 10 (100.00%) WCF
2 9 (90.00%) XML Schema
3 7 (70.00%) WF
4 3 (30.00%) .NET Framework
4 3 (30.00%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 10 (100.00%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (70.00%) SQL Server
1 7 (70.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 6 (60.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 6 (60.00%) SQL Server 2005
Job Titles
1 10 (100.00%) Developer
1 10 (100.00%) BizTalk Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) EAI
1 10 (100.00%) SOA
1 10 (100.00%) ETL
2 6 (60.00%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) C#
Systems Management
1 7 (70.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 9 (90.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (30.00%) SAP
2 3 (30.00%) Oracle