The first table below looks at the demand for ESB skills in IT jobs advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited ESB over the 3 months to 24 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 West Midlands region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)
Rank 190 157 142
Rank change year-on-year
-33 -15
Permanent jobs citing ESB 14 28 34
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.278% 0.614% 0.815%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.413% 3.431% 4.245%
Number of salaries quoted 8 22 26
Average salary £44,750 £47,500 £57,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.78% -17.39%
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year
-18.18% +10.00%
All Application Platforms
West Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
991 816 801
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 19.71% 17.90% 19.20%
Number of salaries quoted 839 704 731
Average salary £37,500 £36,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.73% -2.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £61,500 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -
ESB
England

ESB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 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
Birmingham - 5 £46,250 -
Coventry - 3 £46,000 -
Staffordshire -10 2 £43,500 -8.42%
Warwickshire - 2 - -
ESB
England

ESB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands 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 (53.33%) .NET
1 8 (53.33%) Oracle
1 8 (53.33%) SOA
2 6 (40.00%) WebSphere
2 6 (40.00%) IBM
3 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 5 (33.33%) Java
3 5 (33.33%) Visual Studio
3 5 (33.33%) .NET Framework
3 5 (33.33%) WCF
3 5 (33.33%) TDD
3 5 (33.33%) Workflow
3 5 (33.33%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 4 (26.67%) Configuration Management
4 4 (26.67%) ASP.NET
4 4 (26.67%) C#
4 4 (26.67%) EAI
5 3 (20.00%) ERP
5 3 (20.00%) RUP
5 3 (20.00%) IBM Certification
5 3 (20.00%) SQL
5 3 (20.00%) T-SQL
5 3 (20.00%) SQL Server
5 3 (20.00%) DB2
5 3 (20.00%) WebSphere Application Server
5 3 (20.00%) WebLogic
5 3 (20.00%) Project Management
5 3 (20.00%) WebSphere MQ
5 3 (20.00%) WebLogic Portal
5 3 (20.00%) WebLogic Integration

ESB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands 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 (53.33%) .NET
2 6 (40.00%) WebSphere
3 5 (33.33%) .NET Framework
3 5 (33.33%) WCF
3 5 (33.33%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 4 (26.67%) ASP.NET
5 3 (20.00%) WinForms
5 3 (20.00%) WPF
5 3 (20.00%) LINQ
5 3 (20.00%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (6.667%) COM
6 1 (6.667%) XML
Application Platforms
1 3 (20.00%) WebSphere Application Server
1 3 (20.00%) WebLogic
1 3 (20.00%) WebSphere MQ
1 3 (20.00%) WebLogic Portal
1 3 (20.00%) WebLogic Integration
1 3 (20.00%) WebSphere Process Server
1 3 (20.00%) AquaLogic
1 3 (20.00%) WebSphere Message Broker
1 3 (20.00%) AquaLogic Service Bus
2 2 (13.33%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (6.667%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (13.33%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Oracle BPM
1 3 (20.00%) AquaLogic BPM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.667%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (20.00%) DB2
1 3 (20.00%) RDBMS
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 5 (33.33%) Visual Studio
2 2 (13.33%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (13.33%) TortoiseSVN
2 2 (13.33%) Subversion
2 2 (13.33%) ClearCase
General
1 3 (20.00%) Advertising
2 2 (13.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Developer
2 4 (26.67%) Architect
3 3 (20.00%) Software Developer
3 3 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (20.00%) .NET Developer
3 3 (20.00%) C# Developer
3 3 (20.00%) .NET Software Developer
3 3 (20.00%) WebSphere Developer
3 3 (20.00%) C# Software Developer
3 3 (20.00%) C# .NET Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Technical Developer
4 2 (13.33%) IT Development Manager
4 2 (13.33%) Development Manager
5 1 (6.667%) Technical Architect
5 1 (6.667%) Technical Project Manager
5 1 (6.667%) Project Manager
5 1 (6.667%) Technical Manager
5 1 (6.667%) .NET Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (20.00%) Open Source
2 2 (13.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (6.667%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Windows 2000 Server
1 2 (13.33%) UNIX
1 2 (13.33%) Windows
1 2 (13.33%) HPUX
1 2 (13.33%) Linux
1 2 (13.33%) zOS
1 2 (13.33%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) SOA
2 5 (33.33%) TDD
2 5 (33.33%) Workflow
3 4 (26.67%) Configuration Management
3 4 (26.67%) EAI
4 3 (20.00%) ERP
4 3 (20.00%) RUP
4 3 (20.00%) Project Management
4 3 (20.00%) MVC
4 3 (20.00%) Unified Process
4 3 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
4 3 (20.00%) Release Management
4 3 (20.00%) Unit Testing
4 3 (20.00%) MVVM
4 3 (20.00%) BDD
5 2 (13.33%) V-Model
5 2 (13.33%) Matrix Management
5 2 (13.33%) Programme Management
5 2 (13.33%) Change Management
5 2 (13.33%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) Java
2 4 (26.67%) C#
3 3 (20.00%) SQL
3 3 (20.00%) T-SQL
4 1 (6.667%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) IBM Certification
Vendors
1 8 (53.33%) Oracle
2 6 (40.00%) IBM
3 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
4 1 (6.667%) Software AG
4 1 (6.667%) HP
4 1 (6.667%) webMethods