The first table below looks at the demand for ESB skills in IT jobs advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited ESB over the 3 months to 21 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 Hertfordshire region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)
Rank 142 127 130
Rank change year-on-year
-15 +3
Permanent jobs citing ESB 1 23 38
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 0.041% 0.913% 1.153%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.205% 3.795% 5.882%
Number of salaries quoted 1 19 15
Average salary £52,500 £62,500 £77,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-16.00% -19.35%
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year
-18.18% +10.00%
All Application Platforms
Hertfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
488 606 646
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 19.85% 24.06% 19.60%
Number of salaries quoted 414 446 481
Average salary £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.88% -5.55%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £28,500 £29,000
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -
ESB
East of England

ESB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire ESB Salary Trend

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 Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 21 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
Hertford - 1 £52,500 -
ESB
East of England

ESB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 20 (83.33%) Java
2 18 (75.00%) SOA
3 13 (54.17%) Web Services
3 13 (54.17%) XML
4 12 (50.00%) JavaScript
4 12 (50.00%) HTML
5 11 (45.83%) OO
5 11 (45.83%) Oracle
6 10 (41.67%) SQL
6 10 (41.67%) SAP
6 10 (41.67%) Ajax
7 9 (37.50%) XPath
7 9 (37.50%) Sonic ESB
7 9 (37.50%) ActionScript 2.0
7 9 (37.50%) Gentran
7 9 (37.50%) XHTML
7 9 (37.50%) FTP
7 9 (37.50%) HTTP
7 9 (37.50%) B2B
7 9 (37.50%) HTTPS
7 9 (37.50%) ActionScript
7 9 (37.50%) XSLT
7 9 (37.50%) CSS
7 9 (37.50%) EDI
7 9 (37.50%) EAI
7 9 (37.50%) GIS
7 9 (37.50%) EDIFACT
8 8 (33.33%) Hibernate
8 8 (33.33%) TDD
8 8 (33.33%) J2EE

ESB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 13 (54.17%) Web Services
1 13 (54.17%) XML
2 12 (50.00%) HTML
3 10 (41.67%) Ajax
4 9 (37.50%) XHTML
4 9 (37.50%) XSLT
4 9 (37.50%) CSS
4 9 (37.50%) EDI
4 9 (37.50%) EDIFACT
5 8 (33.33%) Hibernate
5 8 (33.33%) J2EE
5 8 (33.33%) Spring
6 7 (29.17%) JMS
7 4 (16.67%) JSP
7 4 (16.67%) Servlets
8 3 (12.50%) JPA
8 3 (12.50%) SAP BSP
8 3 (12.50%) Grails
8 3 (12.50%) REST
8 3 (12.50%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 9 (37.50%) Sonic ESB
1 9 (37.50%) Gentran
2 7 (29.17%) CMS
3 3 (12.50%) NetWeaver
4 1 (4.167%) WebLogic Portal
4 1 (4.167%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 6 (25.00%) SAP BPC
Communications & Networking
1 9 (37.50%) FTP
1 9 (37.50%) HTTP
1 9 (37.50%) HTTPS
2 7 (29.17%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (37.50%) GIS
2 6 (25.00%) SAP BW
2 6 (25.00%) RDBMS
2 6 (25.00%) DB2
3 1 (4.167%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 5 (20.83%) Maven
2 1 (4.167%) JIRA
2 1 (4.167%) Subversion
General
1 6 (25.00%) Finance
2 5 (20.83%) Games
2 5 (20.83%) Retail
3 1 (4.167%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 9 (37.50%) Consultant
2 8 (33.33%) Developer
3 6 (25.00%) Senior Consultant
4 5 (20.83%) Java Developer
5 4 (16.67%) Administrator
6 3 (12.50%) Middleware Developer
6 3 (12.50%) Software Engineer
6 3 (12.50%) SAP Developer
6 3 (12.50%) Senior Software Engineer
7 2 (8.333%) SAP Consultant
7 2 (8.333%) EDI Consultant
7 2 (8.333%) SAP EDI Consultant
8 1 (4.167%) SAP Administrator
8 1 (4.167%) Senior SAP Administrator
8 1 (4.167%) SAP Basis Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) FMCG
1 5 (20.83%) Management Information System
2 4 (16.67%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 7 (29.17%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (75.00%) SOA
2 11 (45.83%) OO
3 9 (37.50%) B2B
3 9 (37.50%) EAI
4 8 (33.33%) TDD
5 7 (29.17%) SAP ESA
5 7 (29.17%) Risk Analysis
5 7 (29.17%) E-Commerce
5 7 (29.17%) Agile Software Development
6 6 (25.00%) Migration
6 6 (25.00%) CRM
6 6 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
6 6 (25.00%) SAP Security
7 5 (20.83%) Information Management
7 5 (20.83%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (16.67%) Scrum
8 4 (16.67%) OOD
8 4 (16.67%) Business Development
8 4 (16.67%) Domain-Driven Design
8 4 (16.67%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 20 (83.33%) Java
2 12 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 10 (41.67%) SQL
4 9 (37.50%) XPath
4 9 (37.50%) ActionScript 2.0
4 9 (37.50%) ActionScript
5 6 (25.00%) Shell Script
5 6 (25.00%) ABAP
6 3 (12.50%) Groovy
6 3 (12.50%) Objective-C
7 1 (4.167%) PL/SQL
Vendors
1 11 (45.83%) Oracle
2 10 (41.67%) SAP
3 4 (16.67%) JBoss
4 1 (4.167%) BEA