Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 21 September 2018

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Oracle SOA Suite skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Oracle SOA Suite over the 6 months to 21 September 2018 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Oracle SOA Suite
UK > England
6 months to
21 Sep 2018		 Same period 2017 Same period 2016
Rank 494 454 391
Rank change year-on-year -40 -63 +5
Contract jobs citing Oracle SOA Suite 403 430 616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 0.43% 0.47% 0.62%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.56% 2.81% 3.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 261 233 372
England median daily rate £500 £505 £463
Median daily rate % change year-on-year -0.99% +9.19% -2.63%
10th Percentile £400 £363 £307
90th Percentile £600 £605 £625
UK median daily rate £488 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -2.50% +11.11% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 2
England median hourly rate £35.00 £40.00 £55.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year -12.50% -27.27% +22.22%
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £40.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -12.50% -27.27% +22.22%

Oracle SOA Suite is in the Application Platforms category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for application platform skills.

All Application Platform Skills
England
Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 15,767 15,289 18,498
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.80% 16.83% 18.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,420 9,982 12,360
England median daily rate £460 £450 £425
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +2.22% +5.88% +6.25%
10th Percentile £275 £263 £258
90th Percentile £625 £600 £588
UK median daily rate £450 £438 £420
% change year-on-year +2.86% +4.17% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 400 394 451
England median hourly rate £21.41 £20.47 £20.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year +4.62% +2.34% -
10th Percentile £12.50 £11.25 £12.00
90th Percentile £51.40 £48.75 £46.00
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% +2.50%

Oracle SOA Suite
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Oracle SOA Suite as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Oracle SOA Suite in England

Oracle SOA Suite
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Oracle SOA Suite in England.

Contractor daily rate trend for Oracle SOA Suite in England

Oracle SOA Suite
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in England

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Oracle SOA Suite in England over the 6 months to 21 September 2018.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Oracle SOA Suite in England

Oracle SOA Suite
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle SOA Suite in England.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Oracle SOA Suite in England

Oracle SOA Suite
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle SOA Suite within the England region over the 6 months to 21 September 2018. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months		 Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Job
Vacancies
London -15 137 £488 -2.50% 31
South East +17 98 £475 -2.06% 10
East of England -24 78 £525 - 6
North of England -4 50 £451 +20.33% 10
Yorkshire 0 26 £439 +17.00% 6
Midlands -43 22 £475 -12.04% 10
South West -7 16 £425 -22.73% 2
North West -17 16 £525 +33.33% 3
West Midlands -56 12 £350 -36.36% 7
East Midlands +15 9 £475 -5.00% 3
North East - 7 £675 - 1
Oracle SOA Suite
UK

For the 6 months to 21 September 2018, IT contractor jobs citing Oracle SOA Suite also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region with a requirement for Oracle SOA Suite.

1 403 (100.00%) Oracle
2 401 (99.50%) SOA
3 235 (58.31%) Java
4 177 (43.92%) Middleware
5 166 (41.19%) Web Services
6 155 (38.46%) SOAP
7 146 (36.23%) Agile Software Development
8 139 (34.49%) XML
9 134 (33.25%) Oracle Service Bus
10 128 (31.76%) Oracle Database
11 121 (30.02%) Finance
12 103 (25.56%) REST
13 97 (24.07%) SQL
14 89 (22.08%) Oracle Fusion
14 89 (22.08%) TDD
15 87 (21.59%) RESTful
16 80 (19.85%) JSON
17 77 (19.11%) Linux
18 76 (18.86%) Maven
19 75 (18.61%) WebLogic
20 71 (17.62%) SAP
21 69 (17.12%) Oracle Database 11g
22 68 (16.87%) XSLT
23 67 (16.63%) Spring
24 66 (16.38%) Telecoms
25 65 (16.13%) Business Intelligence
25 65 (16.13%) WSO2
25 65 (16.13%) Apache Camel
26 63 (15.63%) JMS
27 61 (15.14%) J2EE

Oracle SOA Suite
Co-occurring IT Skills in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 134 (33.25%) Oracle Service Bus
2 75 (18.61%) WebLogic
3 60 (14.89%) Mule
4 22 (5.46%) WebSphere
5 20 (4.96%) Oracle Workflow
6 19 (4.71%) Confluence
7 14 (3.47%) Apache
7 14 (3.47%) JBoss
7 14 (3.47%) Oracle BPEL
8 11 (2.73%) Liferay
8 11 (2.73%) Tomcat
9 10 (2.48%) BizTalk Server
10 9 (2.23%) WebLogic Portal
11 6 (1.49%) Oracle Coherence
12 5 (1.24%) NetWeaver
12 5 (1.24%) SharePoint
13 4 (0.99%) Apache Solr
14 3 (0.74%) Apache Spark
14 3 (0.74%) MQSeries
15 2 (0.50%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (0.50%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.25%) CATIA
2 1 (0.25%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 29 (7.20%) Oracle EBS
2 24 (5.96%) Oracle Applications
3 20 (4.96%) Oracle BPM
4 18 (4.47%) Siebel CRM
5 17 (4.22%) Oracle EBS R12
6 16 (3.97%) Oracle Receivables
7 14 (3.47%) Oracle General Ledger
7 14 (3.47%) Oracle Utilities
8 13 (3.23%) Oracle Financials
9 8 (1.99%) SAP ERP
10 7 (1.74%) Oracle Payables
11 6 (1.49%) Oracle ERP
12 5 (1.24%) BusinessWorks
12 5 (1.24%) Maximo
12 5 (1.24%) Oracle E-Business Tax
12 5 (1.24%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
12 5 (1.24%) Oracle TCA
13 4 (0.99%) Payment Gateway
14 3 (0.74%) SAP MII
14 3 (0.74%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 25 (6.20%) Amazon AWS
2 15 (3.72%) Microsoft Azure
2 15 (3.72%) PaaS
3 11 (2.73%) Cloud Computing
3 11 (2.73%) IaaS
4 10 (2.48%) Boomi
5 8 (1.99%) SaaS
6 5 (1.24%) iPaaS
7 4 (0.99%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (0.99%) GitHub
7 4 (0.99%) Office 365
7 4 (0.99%) OpenShift
7 4 (0.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (0.74%) Amazon ELB
8 3 (0.74%) Oracle Service Cloud
9 2 (0.50%) Amazon S3
9 2 (0.50%) npm
10 1 (0.25%) Amazon EMR
10 1 (0.25%) Mimecast
10 1 (0.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.73%) Firewall
2 10 (2.48%) MPLS
3 7 (1.74%) Ethernet
3 7 (1.74%) SSL
3 7 (1.74%) Wireless
4 6 (1.49%) FTP
4 6 (1.49%) HTTP
4 6 (1.49%) TCP/IP
5 5 (1.24%) HTTPS
5 5 (1.24%) Unified Communications
6 4 (0.99%) Internet
6 4 (0.99%) VPN
7 3 (0.74%) OpenLDAP
8 2 (0.50%) Network Security
9 1 (0.25%) Converged Networks
9 1 (0.25%) DNS
9 1 (0.25%) FIX Connectivity
9 1 (0.25%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (31.76%) Oracle Database
2 69 (17.12%) Oracle Database 11g
3 55 (13.65%) SQL Server
4 53 (13.15%) Oracle Database 12c
5 43 (10.67%) Oracle ODI
6 34 (8.44%) Relational Database
7 29 (7.20%) Oracle Reports
8 28 (6.95%) MySQL
9 26 (6.45%) Oracle BI EE
10 18 (4.47%) RDBMS
11 17 (4.22%) DB2
11 17 (4.22%) PostgreSQL
12 13 (3.23%) NoSQL
13 10 (2.48%) MongoDB
14 8 (1.99%) Big Data
14 8 (1.99%) Oracle BI Publisher
14 8 (1.99%) Oracle Database 10g
15 6 (1.49%) Hadoop
16 5 (1.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 4 (0.99%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 76 (18.86%) Maven
2 55 (13.65%) Git (software)
3 43 (10.67%) Jenkins
4 41 (10.17%) JDeveloper
5 33 (8.19%) Subversion
6 32 (7.94%) JIRA
7 31 (7.69%) Oracle Forms
8 22 (5.46%) SoapUI
9 20 (4.96%) JUnit
10 19 (4.71%) Ant
11 17 (4.22%) Eclipse
12 14 (3.47%) Selenium
13 11 (2.73%) Cucumber
14 10 (2.48%) IntelliJ
14 10 (2.48%) SonarQube
15 9 (2.23%) TeamCity
16 8 (1.99%) Artifactory
17 7 (1.74%) Mockito
17 7 (1.74%) XMLSpy
18 6 (1.49%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 121 (30.02%) Finance
2 66 (16.38%) Telecoms
3 55 (13.65%) Marketing
4 52 (12.90%) Electronics
5 51 (12.66%) Manufacturing
6 31 (7.69%) Banking
7 23 (5.71%) Retail
8 15 (3.72%) General Ledger
9 9 (2.23%) Back Office
10 6 (1.49%) Publishing
11 4 (0.99%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.74%) Front Office
13 2 (0.50%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.25%) Billing
14 1 (0.25%) Law
Job Titles
1 202 (50.12%) Developer
2 91 (22.58%) Architect
3 78 (19.35%) Java Developer
4 65 (16.13%) Senior Developer
5 63 (15.63%) Oracle Developer
6 61 (15.14%) SOA Developer
7 52 (12.90%) Integration Developer
8 33 (8.19%) Solutions Architect
9 31 (7.69%) Senior Java Developer
10 30 (7.44%) Technical Architect
11 29 (7.20%) DBA
12 28 (6.95%) Oracle DBA
13 25 (6.20%) Consultant
14 24 (5.96%) Oracle SOA Developer
15 22 (5.46%) Agile Developer
16 16 (3.97%) Senior Agile Developer
17 15 (3.72%) Oracle Applications DBA
18 14 (3.47%) Lead Developer
18 14 (3.47%) Oracle Consultant
19 13 (3.23%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (43.92%) Middleware
2 166 (41.19%) Web Services
3 155 (38.46%) SOAP
4 139 (34.49%) XML
5 103 (25.56%) REST
6 89 (22.08%) Oracle Fusion
7 87 (21.59%) RESTful
8 80 (19.85%) JSON
9 68 (16.87%) XSLT
10 67 (16.63%) Spring
11 65 (16.13%) Apache Camel
12 63 (15.63%) JMS
13 61 (15.14%) J2EE
14 42 (10.42%) Java EE
15 34 (8.44%) .NET
15 34 (8.44%) Hibernate
16 33 (8.19%) Swagger
16 33 (8.19%) WireMock
17 31 (7.69%) HTML
17 31 (7.69%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 56 (13.90%) Greenfield Project
2 23 (5.71%) Enterprise Software
3 18 (4.47%) Clustering
4 13 (3.23%) Management Information System
5 9 (2.23%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (1.99%) iPad
7 6 (1.49%) Computer Science
7 6 (1.49%) Social Media
8 4 (0.99%) e-Learning
8 4 (0.99%) N-Tier
9 3 (0.74%) Data Centre
9 3 (0.74%) Data Structures
9 3 (0.74%) Market Risk
9 3 (0.74%) User Experience
10 2 (0.50%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.50%) DataPower
10 2 (0.50%) Fintech
10 2 (0.50%) Replication
11 1 (0.25%) Fixed Income
11 1 (0.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 77 (19.11%) Linux
2 58 (14.39%) Unix
3 26 (6.45%) AIX
4 22 (5.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 21 (5.21%) Windows
6 6 (1.49%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.99%) CentOS
8 3 (0.74%) Solaris
9 2 (0.50%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.25%) Android
10 1 (0.25%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.25%) Fedora
10 1 (0.25%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 401 (99.50%) SOA
2 146 (36.23%) Agile Software Development
3 89 (22.08%) TDD
4 65 (16.13%) Business Intelligence
5 56 (13.90%) Microservices
6 55 (13.65%) Programme Management
7 51 (12.66%) Digital Marketing
8 46 (11.41%) DevOps
9 40 (9.93%) ERP
9 40 (9.93%) Problem-Solving
10 39 (9.68%) BPEL
11 38 (9.43%) Scrum
12 37 (9.18%) SDLC
12 37 (9.18%) Unit Testing
13 34 (8.44%) Workflow
14 31 (7.69%) Continuous Integration
15 27 (6.70%) BDD
15 27 (6.70%) CRM
15 27 (6.70%) Performance Tuning
16 22 (5.46%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 235 (58.31%) Java
2 97 (24.07%) SQL
3 59 (14.64%) Java 8
4 56 (13.90%) JavaScript
5 52 (12.90%) PL/SQL
6 47 (11.66%) XPath
7 23 (5.71%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
8 17 (4.22%) C#
9 14 (3.47%) Python
10 12 (2.98%) Java 9
10 12 (2.98%) Shell Script
10 12 (2.98%) XQuery
11 6 (1.49%) Perl
12 5 (1.24%) C++
13 4 (0.99%) Scala
13 4 (0.99%) VB
14 3 (0.74%) ABAP
14 3 (0.74%) PHP
14 3 (0.74%) PowerShell
14 3 (0.74%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (7.69%) Security Cleared
2 25 (6.20%) SC Cleared
3 12 (2.98%) Degree
4 3 (0.74%) A+ Certification
5 2 (0.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (0.25%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.25%) OCP
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.72%) QA
2 12 (2.98%) PSD2
3 6 (1.49%) SLA
4 3 (0.74%) GDPR
4 3 (0.74%) PMO
5 1 (0.25%) COBIT
5 1 (0.25%) Data Quality
System Software
1 32 (7.94%) Docker
2 4 (0.99%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 4 (0.99%) Oracle RAC
2 4 (0.99%) vSphere
3 2 (0.50%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.25%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.25%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 20 (4.96%) Puppet
2 18 (4.47%) Ansible
2 18 (4.47%) Oracle Identity Management
3 17 (4.22%) Oracle Identity Manager
4 12 (2.98%) Kubernetes
5 11 (2.73%) WebSphere Service Registry and Repository
6 9 (2.23%) ZABBIX
7 7 (1.74%) Opscode Chef
8 6 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (1.49%) Terraform
9 4 (0.99%) Ambari
10 3 (0.74%) MOM
10 3 (0.74%) Packer
10 3 (0.74%) TIBCO Hawk
11 2 (0.50%) Consul
11 2 (0.50%) SCOM
11 2 (0.50%) WebSphere Cast Iron
12 1 (0.25%) Data Guard
12 1 (0.25%) Oracle RMAN
12 1 (0.25%) Rancher
Vendors
1 403 (100.00%) Oracle
2 71 (17.62%) SAP
3 65 (16.13%) WSO2
4 23 (5.71%) IBM
5 20 (4.96%) Siebel
6 19 (4.71%) Microsoft
7 18 (4.47%) TIBCO
8 17 (4.22%) Okta
8 17 (4.22%) Red Hat
9 9 (2.23%) Dell
9 9 (2.23%) Talend
10 8 (1.99%) Informatica
11 7 (1.74%) VMware
12 6 (1.49%) MuleSoft
12 6 (1.49%) Remedy
13 5 (1.24%) hybris
14 4 (0.99%) Cisco
14 4 (0.99%) Citrix
14 4 (0.99%) Sybase
15 3 (0.74%) ATG