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

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)
Rank 79 67 71
Rank change year-on-year
-12 +4
Permanent jobs citing ESB 3 1 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford 0.290% 0.157% 0.886%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.435% 1.163% 5.469%
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 7
Average salary £42,500 £65,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-34.61% +44.44%
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year
-18.18% +10.00%
All Application Platforms
Oxford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
209 86 128
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford 20.17% 13.48% 16.20%
Number of salaries quoted 171 72 110
Average salary £45,000 £35,000 £41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+28.57% -14.63%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £29,100 £29,100
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £60,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -
ESB
Oxfordshire

ESB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxford 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 Oxford region.

Oxford ESB Salary Trend

ESB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford 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 9 (90.00%) SOA
2 7 (70.00%) Tomcat
2 7 (70.00%) SharePoint
2 7 (70.00%) Oracle
2 7 (70.00%) WebLogic
2 7 (70.00%) UNIX
2 7 (70.00%) Windows
2 7 (70.00%) Linux
2 7 (70.00%) JBoss
2 7 (70.00%) WebSphere
3 6 (60.00%) Process Management
3 6 (60.00%) E-business
3 6 (60.00%) Billing
3 6 (60.00%) TOGAF
3 6 (60.00%) Oracle BPM
3 6 (60.00%) MS Excel
3 6 (60.00%) Siebel
3 6 (60.00%) PeopleSoft
3 6 (60.00%) Microsoft
4 5 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
5 3 (30.00%) SQL Server 2008
5 3 (30.00%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (30.00%) Degree
5 3 (30.00%) WCF
5 3 (30.00%) ITIL V3
5 3 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (30.00%) Customer Insight
5 3 (30.00%) Software Deployment
5 3 (30.00%) MarkLogic
5 3 (30.00%) BizTalk Server

ESB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford 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 (70.00%) WebSphere
2 3 (30.00%) WCF
2 3 (30.00%) Middleware
2 3 (30.00%) Web Services
2 3 (30.00%) XML
2 3 (30.00%) XSLT
3 2 (20.00%) .NET
3 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET
3 2 (20.00%) XML Schema
3 2 (20.00%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 7 (70.00%) Tomcat
1 7 (70.00%) SharePoint
1 7 (70.00%) WebLogic
2 3 (30.00%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 6 (60.00%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (60.00%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle Financials
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 3 (30.00%) MarkLogic
1 3 (30.00%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (30.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (60.00%) Billing
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Architect
2 3 (30.00%) BizTalk Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Technical Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Developer
4 1 (10.00%) BizTalk Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (10.00%) Digital Media
3 1 (10.00%) Kindle
Operating Systems
1 7 (70.00%) UNIX
1 7 (70.00%) Windows
1 7 (70.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) SOA
2 6 (60.00%) Process Management
2 6 (60.00%) E-business
2 6 (60.00%) TOGAF
3 5 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
4 3 (30.00%) ITIL V3
4 3 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (30.00%) Customer Insight
4 3 (30.00%) Software Deployment
4 3 (30.00%) ITIL
5 2 (20.00%) EAI
6 1 (10.00%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) C#
1 3 (30.00%) Java
2 2 (20.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) ISO 9001
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) Oracle
1 7 (70.00%) JBoss
2 6 (60.00%) Siebel
2 6 (60.00%) PeopleSoft
2 6 (60.00%) Microsoft