Bedfordshire SOA Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) skills within the Bedfordshire region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SOA over the last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Location Aberdeen Altrincham Avon Aylesbury Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chichester Chippenham Cirencester City of London County Antrim Croydon Daresbury Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Ealing East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Exeter Farnborough Gateshead Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Hertfordshire Home Counties Horsham Hove Huddersfield Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London Luton Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Reading Reigate Rickmansworth Runcorn Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South Croydon South East South Wales South West Southampton St Albans St Asaph Suffolk Surrey Sussex Tadworth Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weymouth Whyteleafe Wiltshire Woking York Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	72	63
Rank change on same period last year	-9
Matching permanent IT job ads	3	1
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.610 %	0.272 %
Salaries quoted	3	0
Average minimum salary	£51,667	-
Average salary	£59,167	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum salary	£66,667	-
UK excluding London average salary	£58,542	£59,417
% change on same period last year	-1.47 %
Processes & Methodologies Bedfordshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	492	368
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.241 %	0.163 %
Salaries quoted	405	309
Average minimum salary	£36,548	£39,221
Average salary	£39,027	£42,489
% change on same period last year	-8.14 %
Average maximum salary	£41,505	£45,757
UK excluding London average salary	£42,840	£44,076
% change on same period last year	-2.80 %
SOA East of England

SOA
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of permanent IT jobs ads citing SOA across the Bedfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

SOA
Salary Trend

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

SOA
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SOA across the Bedfordshire region over the past 3 months.

SOA
Top 20 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing SOA also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing SOA.

1 9 (100.00 %) .NET 1 9 (100.00 %) Microsoft 2 5 (55.56 %) OO 2 5 (55.56 %) C# 2 5 (55.56 %) ADO.NET 2 5 (55.56 %) ASP.NET 2 5 (55.56 %) VB.NET 2 5 (55.56 %) AOP 3 4 (44.44 %) XML 3 4 (44.44 %) Oracle 4 3 (33.33 %) SQL Server 4 3 (33.33 %) SharePoint 4 3 (33.33 %) N-Tier 4 3 (33.33 %) BizTalk Server 4 3 (33.33 %) SQL Server Reporting Services

5 2 (22.22 %) MS Excel 6 1 (11.11 %) WINS 6 1 (11.11 %) Internet 6 1 (11.11 %) SQL 6 1 (11.11 %) UML

SOA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing SOA also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing SOA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 9 (100.00 %) .NET 2 5 (55.56 %) ADO.NET 2 5 (55.56 %) ASP.NET 3 4 (44.44 %) XML	Application Platforms 1 3 (33.33 %) SharePoint 1 3 (33.33 %) BizTalk Server
Applications 1 2 (22.22 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 1 (11.11 %) WINS 1 1 (11.11 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (33.33 %) SQL Server 1 3 (33.33 %) SQL Server Reporting Services	Job Titles 1 5 (55.56 %) Solutions Architect 1 5 (55.56 %) Architect 2 4 (44.44 %) Software Manager 2 4 (44.44 %) Development Manager 2 4 (44.44 %) Senior Manager 2 4 (44.44 %) Software Development Manager 3 3 (33.33 %) .NET Architect 3 3 (33.33 %) .NET Solutions Architect 4 1 (11.11 %) Junior 4 1 (11.11 %) Technical Architect 4 1 (11.11 %) Technical Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous 1 3 (33.33 %) N-Tier	Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (55.56 %) OO 1 5 (55.56 %) AOP 2 1 (11.11 %) UML
Programming Languages 1 5 (55.56 %) C# 1 5 (55.56 %) VB.NET 2 1 (11.11 %) SQL	Vendors 1 9 (100.00 %) Microsoft 2 4 (44.44 %) Oracle