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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)
Rank 223 188 201
Rank change year-on-year
-35 +13
Permanent jobs citing ESB 25 63 40
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 0.351% 0.893% 0.583%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.853% 4.150% 3.060%
Number of salaries quoted 13 23 39
Average salary £50,000 £47,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.26% +35.71%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,200 £32,500 £33,700
10% offered a salary of more than £52,000 £60,000 £38,800
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year
-18.18% +10.00%
All Application Platforms
North West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
1349 1518 1307
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 18.92% 21.53% 19.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1145 1347 1187
Average salary £36,000 £33,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.46% -4.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £23,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £55,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -
ESB
England

ESB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West 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 North West region.

North West ESB Salary Trend

ESB
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing ESB across the North West region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

North West ESB Salary Histogram

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 North West 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
Manchester -35 10 - -
Merseyside +3 7 £50,000 +5.26%
Lancashire +7 6 £40,000 -33.33%
Cheshire 0 2 £52,500 -4.54%
ESB
England

ESB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West 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 36 (94.74%) Java
2 25 (65.79%) SOA
3 22 (57.89%) Web Services
4 18 (47.37%) SQL
4 18 (47.37%) J2EE
5 17 (44.74%) JavaScript
5 17 (44.74%) Agile Software Development
5 17 (44.74%) Spring
6 16 (42.11%) Oracle
7 15 (39.47%) Hibernate
8 13 (34.21%) WebSphere
8 13 (34.21%) JMS
9 12 (31.58%) Middleware
9 12 (31.58%) WebLogic
10 11 (28.95%) HTML
10 11 (28.95%) Web Development
10 11 (28.95%) Open Source
11 10 (26.32%) Oracle Fusion
11 10 (26.32%) WebSphere Application Server
12 9 (23.68%) CSS
12 9 (23.68%) JBoss
12 9 (23.68%) MVC
12 9 (23.68%) E-Commerce
13 8 (21.05%) Shell Script
13 8 (21.05%) Linux
13 8 (21.05%) JUnit
14 7 (18.42%) Retail
15 6 (15.79%) Oracle 11g
15 6 (15.79%) jQuery
15 6 (15.79%) C#

ESB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West 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 22 (57.89%) Web Services
2 18 (47.37%) J2EE
3 17 (44.74%) Spring
4 15 (39.47%) Hibernate
5 13 (34.21%) WebSphere
5 13 (34.21%) JMS
6 12 (31.58%) Middleware
7 11 (28.95%) HTML
8 10 (26.32%) Oracle Fusion
9 9 (23.68%) CSS
10 6 (15.79%) jQuery
11 4 (10.53%) Spring MVC
11 4 (10.53%) WSDL
11 4 (10.53%) Struts
12 3 (7.895%) SOAP
12 3 (7.895%) .NET
12 3 (7.895%) EJB
12 3 (7.895%) XML
12 3 (7.895%) Spring Web Flow
12 3 (7.895%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 12 (31.58%) WebLogic
2 10 (26.32%) WebSphere Application Server
3 5 (13.16%) Oracle Service Bus
3 5 (13.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 4 (10.53%) AquaLogic Service Bus
4 4 (10.53%) WebLogic Portal
4 4 (10.53%) WebLogic Integration
4 4 (10.53%) WebSphere Process Server
4 4 (10.53%) AquaLogic
5 3 (7.895%) WebSphere Message Broker
6 2 (5.263%) WebSphere MQ
6 2 (5.263%) Apache
6 2 (5.263%) Apache Solr
7 1 (2.632%) CICS
7 1 (2.632%) Mule
Business Applications
1 4 (10.53%) Oracle BPM
1 4 (10.53%) AquaLogic BPM
2 1 (2.632%) Oracle EBS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.79%) Oracle 11g
2 4 (10.53%) Oracle 8/8i
2 4 (10.53%) Oracle 10g
3 2 (5.263%) MySQL
4 1 (2.632%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.632%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 8 (21.05%) JUnit
2 5 (13.16%) Maven
3 4 (10.53%) Gradle
4 3 (7.895%) Ant
5 2 (5.263%) CruiseControl
General
1 7 (18.42%) Retail
2 4 (10.53%) Telecoms
2 4 (10.53%) Advertising
3 3 (7.895%) Finance
3 3 (7.895%) Banking
4 2 (5.263%) Billing
5 1 (2.632%) Marketing
5 1 (2.632%) Games
Job Titles
1 28 (73.68%) Developer
2 23 (60.53%) Java Developer
3 9 (23.68%) Java/J2EE Developer
4 8 (21.05%) Architect
5 6 (15.79%) Web Developer
5 6 (15.79%) Java Web Developer
6 4 (10.53%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (10.53%) Integration Architect
6 4 (10.53%) Oracle Developer
7 3 (7.895%) J2EE Developer
7 3 (7.895%) Senior Developer
7 3 (7.895%) Senior Java Developer
7 3 (7.895%) Middleware Developer
7 3 (7.895%) Oracle SOA Developer
7 3 (7.895%) SOA Developer
8 2 (5.263%) SOA Architect
8 2 (5.263%) Technical Consultant
8 2 (5.263%) Integration Engineer
8 2 (5.263%) Consultant
9 1 (2.632%) Enterprise Architect
Miscellaneous
1 11 (28.95%) Open Source
2 5 (13.16%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (10.53%) Management Information System
4 3 (7.895%) Computer Science
4 3 (7.895%) Mainframe
5 2 (5.263%) Data Integration
Operating Systems
1 8 (21.05%) Linux
2 4 (10.53%) UNIX
2 4 (10.53%) Windows
3 2 (5.263%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (65.79%) SOA
2 17 (44.74%) Agile Software Development
3 11 (28.95%) Web Development
4 9 (23.68%) MVC
4 9 (23.68%) E-Commerce
5 6 (15.79%) OOA/OOD
6 4 (10.53%) RUP
6 4 (10.53%) ERP
6 4 (10.53%) Workflow
6 4 (10.53%) TDD
6 4 (10.53%) Release Management
6 4 (10.53%) Information Management
6 4 (10.53%) Communications Security
6 4 (10.53%) Unified Process
7 3 (7.895%) Dependency Injection
7 3 (7.895%) AOP
7 3 (7.895%) Unit Testing
8 2 (5.263%) Supply Chain Management
8 2 (5.263%) Data Management
8 2 (5.263%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 36 (94.74%) Java
2 18 (47.37%) SQL
3 17 (44.74%) JavaScript
4 8 (21.05%) Shell Script
5 6 (15.79%) C#
6 5 (13.16%) PL/SQL
6 5 (13.16%) Groovy
7 4 (10.53%) C++
7 4 (10.53%) Perl
8 3 (7.895%) Ruby
8 3 (7.895%) Python
9 1 (2.632%) XQuery
9 1 (2.632%) XPath
Qualifications
1 5 (13.16%) Degree
Vendors
1 16 (42.11%) Oracle
2 9 (23.68%) JBoss
3 5 (13.16%) IBM
4 2 (5.263%) TIBCO
5 1 (2.632%) webMethods
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