The first table below looks at the demand for SOA skills in IT jobs advertised for the Bath region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SOA 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 Processes & Methodologies category for the Bath region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Rank 35 42 34
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -8
Permanent jobs citing SOA 14 1 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bath 3.743% 0.469% 3.883%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.746% 0.613% 6.107%
Number of salaries quoted 14 1 8
Average salary £46,750 £42,500 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+10.00% +30.76%
UK excluding London average salary £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
All Processes & Methodologies
Bath
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
295 163 131
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bath 78.88% 76.53% 63.59%
Number of salaries quoted 274 160 119
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% -17.64%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £28,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £90,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
SOA
Somerset

SOA
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing SOA across the Bath region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Bath SOA Jobs Demand Trend

SOA
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing SOA across the Bath region.

Bath SOA Salary Trend

SOA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bath region citing SOA 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 SOA.

1 22 (91.67%) Java EE
2 18 (75.00%) Java
3 17 (70.83%) .NET
3 17 (70.83%) Telecoms
3 17 (70.83%) Finance
3 17 (70.83%) Banking
4 15 (62.50%) Enterprise Architecture
4 15 (62.50%) Investment Management
5 14 (58.33%) Web Services
6 13 (54.17%) Cloud Computing
7 12 (50.00%) IBM Mainframe
7 12 (50.00%) IBM
7 12 (50.00%) Mainframe
8 11 (45.83%) Microsoft
9 9 (37.50%) ASP.NET
9 9 (37.50%) J2EE
9 9 (37.50%) C#
9 9 (37.50%) TOGAF
10 7 (29.17%) Hibernate
10 7 (29.17%) Spring
11 6 (25.00%) SQL
12 5 (20.83%) Zachman Framework
13 4 (16.67%) COBIT
13 4 (16.67%) ITIL
14 3 (12.50%) Oracle
14 3 (12.50%) SQL Server
15 2 (8.333%) Migration
15 2 (8.333%) Disaster Recovery
15 2 (8.333%) MVC
15 2 (8.333%) DB2

SOA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bath region citing SOA 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 SOA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 22 (91.67%) Java EE
2 17 (70.83%) .NET
3 14 (58.33%) Web Services
4 9 (37.50%) ASP.NET
4 9 (37.50%) J2EE
5 7 (29.17%) Hibernate
5 7 (29.17%) Spring
6 1 (4.167%) Ajax
6 1 (4.167%) CSS
6 1 (4.167%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 2 (8.333%) CICS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 2 (8.333%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (4.167%) Eclipse
General
1 17 (70.83%) Telecoms
1 17 (70.83%) Finance
1 17 (70.83%) Banking
2 1 (4.167%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 17 (70.83%) Designer
2 16 (66.67%) Solutions Architect
2 16 (66.67%) Architect
2 16 (66.67%) Technical Architect
3 14 (58.33%) Technical Solutions Architect
4 8 (33.33%) Technical Designer
4 8 (33.33%) Senior Solutions Architect
4 8 (33.33%) Senior Technical Architect
4 8 (33.33%) Senior Designer
4 8 (33.33%) Senior Architect
5 5 (20.83%) Enterprise Architect
5 5 (20.83%) Software Designer
6 4 (16.67%) Developer
7 3 (12.50%) Software Developer
7 3 (12.50%) Software Architect
8 2 (8.333%) Lead Developer
9 1 (4.167%) Senior Technical Engineer
9 1 (4.167%) Solutions Consultant
9 1 (4.167%) Mainframe Consultant
9 1 (4.167%) Lead Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 13 (54.17%) Cloud Computing
2 12 (50.00%) IBM Mainframe
2 12 (50.00%) Mainframe
3 1 (4.167%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.333%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (62.50%) Enterprise Architecture
1 15 (62.50%) Investment Management
2 9 (37.50%) TOGAF
3 5 (20.83%) Zachman Framework
4 4 (16.67%) ITIL
5 2 (8.333%) Migration
5 2 (8.333%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (8.333%) MVC
5 2 (8.333%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 18 (75.00%) Java
2 9 (37.50%) C#
3 6 (25.00%) SQL
4 1 (4.167%) COBOL
4 1 (4.167%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.67%) COBIT
Vendors
1 12 (50.00%) IBM
2 11 (45.83%) Microsoft
3 3 (12.50%) Oracle
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