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

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)
Rank 120 97 97
Rank change year-on-year
-23 0
Permanent jobs citing ESB 4 5 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 0.215% 0.340% 0.502%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.948% 2.165% 3.448%
Number of salaries quoted 4 3 8
Average salary £41,750 £65,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-35.76% +44.44%
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year
-18.18% +10.00%
All Application Platforms
Oxfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
422 231 232
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 22.70% 15.72% 14.55%
Number of salaries quoted 363 203 210
Average salary £40,000 £35,000 £35,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.28% -1.40%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £24,000 £26,900
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -
ESB
South East

ESB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire 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
Oxford -12 3 £42,500 -34.61%
ESB
South East

ESB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 (83.33%) SOA
2 9 (75.00%) Oracle
3 8 (66.67%) WebLogic
3 8 (66.67%) UNIX
3 8 (66.67%) Windows
3 8 (66.67%) Linux
3 8 (66.67%) JBoss
3 8 (66.67%) Microsoft
3 8 (66.67%) Tomcat
3 8 (66.67%) MS Excel
3 8 (66.67%) SharePoint
3 8 (66.67%) WebSphere
4 7 (58.33%) Billing
4 7 (58.33%) TOGAF
4 7 (58.33%) Oracle BPM
4 7 (58.33%) Siebel
4 7 (58.33%) PeopleSoft
4 7 (58.33%) Process Management
4 7 (58.33%) E-business
5 6 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
6 4 (33.33%) ITIL V3
6 4 (33.33%) Customer Insight
6 4 (33.33%) Software Deployment
6 4 (33.33%) MarkLogic
6 4 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
6 4 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (33.33%) Degree
6 4 (33.33%) WCF
6 4 (33.33%) BizTalk Server
6 4 (33.33%) Middleware

ESB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 8 (66.67%) WebSphere
2 4 (33.33%) WCF
2 4 (33.33%) Middleware
2 4 (33.33%) Web Services
2 4 (33.33%) XML
2 4 (33.33%) XSLT
3 2 (16.67%) .NET Framework
3 2 (16.67%) ASP.NET
3 2 (16.67%) XML Schema
3 2 (16.67%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 8 (66.67%) WebLogic
1 8 (66.67%) Tomcat
1 8 (66.67%) SharePoint
2 4 (33.33%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 8 (66.67%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (58.33%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (16.67%) Oracle Financials
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) MarkLogic
1 4 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
1 4 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 3 (25.00%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (58.33%) Billing
2 2 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (8.333%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 10 (83.33%) Architect
2 4 (33.33%) BizTalk Developer
2 4 (33.33%) Developer
2 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Technical Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Developer
3 2 (16.67%) BizTalk Architect
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (16.67%) Kindle
3 1 (8.333%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 8 (66.67%) UNIX
1 8 (66.67%) Windows
1 8 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) SOA
2 7 (58.33%) TOGAF
2 7 (58.33%) Process Management
2 7 (58.33%) E-business
3 6 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
4 4 (33.33%) ITIL V3
4 4 (33.33%) Customer Insight
4 4 (33.33%) Software Deployment
4 4 (33.33%) ITIL
5 3 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (16.67%) EAI
7 1 (8.333%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) C#
2 3 (25.00%) Java
3 2 (16.67%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) ISO 9001
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) SCOM
Vendors
1 9 (75.00%) Oracle
2 8 (66.67%) JBoss
2 8 (66.67%) Microsoft
3 7 (58.33%) Siebel
3 7 (58.33%) PeopleSoft