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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)
Rank 49 52 63
Rank change year-on-year
+3 +11
Permanent jobs citing ESB 7 30 9
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Merseyside 1.570% 4.451% 1.931%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.865% 15.38% 6.164%
Number of salaries quoted 5 15 9
Average salary £50,000 £47,500 £34,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.26% +39.70%
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year
-18.18% +10.00%
All Application Platforms
Merseyside
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
89 195 146
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Merseyside 19.96% 28.93% 31.33%
Number of salaries quoted 76 167 117
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +15.38%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,500 £27,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -
ESB
North West

ESB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Merseyside 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 Merseyside region.

Merseyside 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 Merseyside 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
Liverpool -3 7 £50,000 +5.26%
ESB
North West

ESB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Merseyside 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 8 (88.89%) Java
2 7 (77.78%) SQL
2 7 (77.78%) JMS
2 7 (77.78%) SOA
3 5 (55.56%) Oracle
3 5 (55.56%) PL/SQL
3 5 (55.56%) WebLogic
3 5 (55.56%) Oracle 11g
3 5 (55.56%) Oracle Fusion
3 5 (55.56%) Middleware
3 5 (55.56%) Oracle Service Bus
3 5 (55.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 4 (44.44%) Open Source
4 4 (44.44%) Groovy
4 4 (44.44%) Web Services
4 4 (44.44%) UNIX
4 4 (44.44%) Perl
4 4 (44.44%) WSDL
4 4 (44.44%) Oracle 10g
4 4 (44.44%) Shell Script
4 4 (44.44%) MVC
4 4 (44.44%) Hibernate
4 4 (44.44%) Spring
5 2 (22.22%) Dependency Injection
5 2 (22.22%) EJB 3.0
5 2 (22.22%) Guice
5 2 (22.22%) Mac OS
5 2 (22.22%) GWT
5 2 (22.22%) Unit Testing
5 2 (22.22%) Supply Chain Management

ESB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Merseyside 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 (77.78%) JMS
2 5 (55.56%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (55.56%) Middleware
3 4 (44.44%) Hibernate
3 4 (44.44%) Spring
3 4 (44.44%) Web Services
3 4 (44.44%) WSDL
4 2 (22.22%) Spring Web Flow
4 2 (22.22%) GWT
4 2 (22.22%) EJB 3.0
4 2 (22.22%) Guice
4 2 (22.22%) HTML
4 2 (22.22%) EJB
4 2 (22.22%) CSS
4 2 (22.22%) Struts
Application Platforms
1 5 (55.56%) WebLogic
1 5 (55.56%) Oracle Service Bus
1 5 (55.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) Oracle 11g
2 4 (44.44%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) JUnit
Job Titles
1 9 (100.00%) Developer
2 4 (44.44%) Java Developer
2 4 (44.44%) Oracle Developer
3 3 (33.33%) Middleware Developer
3 3 (33.33%) Oracle SOA Developer
3 3 (33.33%) SOA Developer
4 2 (22.22%) Senior Java Developer
4 2 (22.22%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Open Source
2 2 (22.22%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) UNIX
2 2 (22.22%) Windows
2 2 (22.22%) Linux
2 2 (22.22%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) SOA
2 4 (44.44%) MVC
3 2 (22.22%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (22.22%) Supply Chain Management
3 2 (22.22%) AOP
3 2 (22.22%) Web Development
3 2 (22.22%) Unit Testing
3 2 (22.22%) Dependency Injection
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) Java
2 7 (77.78%) SQL
3 5 (55.56%) PL/SQL
4 4 (44.44%) Perl
4 4 (44.44%) Shell Script
4 4 (44.44%) Groovy
5 2 (22.22%) Ruby
5 2 (22.22%) Python
5 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
5 2 (22.22%) C#
5 2 (22.22%) C++
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Oracle
2 2 (22.22%) JBoss
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