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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Rank 71 72 67
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -5
Permanent jobs citing SOA 23 8 12
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 2.112% 0.841% 1.367%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.706% 1.221% 1.644%
Number of salaries quoted 20 8 12
Average salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.00% -9.09%
UK excluding London average salary £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
All Processes & Methodologies
Bedfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
850 655 730
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 78.05% 68.87% 83.14%
Number of salaries quoted 771 570 682
Average salary £45,000 £45,000 £41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +9.75%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,500 £27,500 £30,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £58,200 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
SOA
East of England

SOA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bedfordshire 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 Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire SOA Salary Trend

SOA
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SOA across the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Bedfordshire SOA Salary Histogram

SOA
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SOA within the Bedfordshire 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
Bedford - 10 £46,250 -
Luton +8 8 £55,000 -
SOA
East of England

SOA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 41 (91.11%) TDD
2 40 (88.89%) .NET
3 37 (82.22%) C#
4 28 (62.22%) SQL Server
5 27 (60.00%) ASP.NET
5 27 (60.00%) Scrum
5 27 (60.00%) Microsoft
6 23 (51.11%) MVC
7 19 (42.22%) BDD
8 18 (40.00%) Unit Testing
8 18 (40.00%) XML
8 18 (40.00%) Visual Studio
9 17 (37.78%) HTML
9 17 (37.78%) N-Tier
10 16 (35.56%) JavaScript
10 16 (35.56%) Web Development
10 16 (35.56%) Team Foundation Server
11 15 (33.33%) Web Services
12 14 (31.11%) Dependency Injection
13 13 (28.89%) SQL Server 2008
13 13 (28.89%) MS Excel
13 13 (28.89%) E-Commerce
14 12 (26.67%) Windows
14 12 (26.67%) SQL
14 12 (26.67%) WCF
14 12 (26.67%) WPF
14 12 (26.67%) Continuous Integration
14 12 (26.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 11 (24.44%) NHibernate
15 11 (24.44%) Inversion of Control

SOA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 40 (88.89%) .NET
2 27 (60.00%) ASP.NET
3 18 (40.00%) XML
4 17 (37.78%) HTML
5 15 (33.33%) Web Services
6 12 (26.67%) WCF
6 12 (26.67%) WPF
7 11 (24.44%) NHibernate
8 9 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC
9 8 (17.78%) .NET Framework
10 5 (11.11%) CSS
11 4 (8.889%) WinForms
11 4 (8.889%) ASP
11 4 (8.889%) WF
11 4 (8.889%) Silverlight
12 3 (6.667%) WebSphere
13 2 (4.444%) Hibernate
13 2 (4.444%) WSDL
13 2 (4.444%) JMS
13 2 (4.444%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 9 (20.00%) SharePoint
1 9 (20.00%) BizTalk Server
2 7 (15.56%) SharePoint Server
3 3 (6.667%) Windows Azure
3 3 (6.667%) WebSphere Message Broker
4 2 (4.444%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (4.444%) WebLogic
4 2 (4.444%) WebSphere Process Server
4 2 (4.444%) ESB
5 1 (2.222%) Apache
Applications
1 13 (28.89%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (8.889%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 9 (20.00%) Internet
2 3 (6.667%) HTTP
3 2 (4.444%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (62.22%) SQL Server
2 13 (28.89%) SQL Server 2008
3 12 (26.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 9 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 8 (17.78%) SQL Server 2012
6 5 (11.11%) SQL Server 2005
6 5 (11.11%) Crystal Reports
6 5 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (11.11%) GIS
7 4 (8.889%) RDBMS
7 4 (8.889%) Oracle Reports
7 4 (8.889%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (2.222%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
Development Applications
1 18 (40.00%) Visual Studio
2 16 (35.56%) Team Foundation Server
3 5 (11.11%) JIRA
4 4 (8.889%) PowerBuilder
4 4 (8.889%) Subversion
4 4 (8.889%) MSTest
4 4 (8.889%) Visual Studio Team System
5 3 (6.667%) TeamCity
5 3 (6.667%) Rhino Mocks
5 3 (6.667%) MSBuild
5 3 (6.667%) Selenium
5 3 (6.667%) NUnit
6 2 (4.444%) Eclipse
6 2 (4.444%) JUnit
7 1 (2.222%) Maven
General
1 8 (17.78%) Retail
2 3 (6.667%) Banking
2 3 (6.667%) Investment Banking
2 3 (6.667%) Games
3 2 (4.444%) Finance
Job Titles
1 33 (73.33%) Developer
2 21 (46.67%) .NET Developer
3 9 (20.00%) C# Developer
4 6 (13.33%) C# .NET Developer
5 5 (11.11%) Software Developer
6 4 (8.889%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (8.889%) Architect
7 3 (6.667%) Agile .NET Developer
7 3 (6.667%) Senior .NET Developer
7 3 (6.667%) Development Manager
7 3 (6.667%) Senior Developer
8 2 (4.444%) Java Developer
8 2 (4.444%) Technical Leader
8 2 (4.444%) WebSphere Developer
9 1 (2.222%) C# ASP.NET Developer
9 1 (2.222%) ASP.NET Developer
9 1 (2.222%) Team Leader
9 1 (2.222%) .NET Web Developer
9 1 (2.222%) .NET Team Leader
9 1 (2.222%) C# Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 17 (37.78%) N-Tier
2 11 (24.44%) Inversion of Control
3 4 (8.889%) Wiki
3 4 (8.889%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 12 (26.67%) Windows
2 1 (2.222%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (91.11%) TDD
2 27 (60.00%) Scrum
3 23 (51.11%) MVC
4 19 (42.22%) BDD
5 18 (40.00%) Unit Testing
6 16 (35.56%) Web Development
7 14 (31.11%) Dependency Injection
8 13 (28.89%) E-Commerce
9 12 (26.67%) Continuous Integration
10 9 (20.00%) Refactoring
10 9 (20.00%) AOP
10 9 (20.00%) Change Management
11 8 (17.78%) Domain-Driven Design
12 7 (15.56%) Agile Software Development
12 7 (15.56%) OO
13 5 (11.11%) ETL
13 5 (11.11%) Workflow
13 5 (11.11%) Data Transformation
14 4 (8.889%) Stakeholder Management
14 4 (8.889%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 37 (82.22%) C#
2 16 (35.56%) JavaScript
3 12 (26.67%) SQL
4 7 (15.56%) PL/SQL
5 4 (8.889%) T-SQL
5 4 (8.889%) VBScript
5 4 (8.889%) VB
5 4 (8.889%) VB6
6 3 (6.667%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (13.33%) Degree
2 3 (6.667%) ISEB
Vendors
1 27 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 11 (24.44%) Oracle
3 4 (8.889%) Telerik
4 3 (6.667%) IBM
5 2 (4.444%) ILOG
6 1 (2.222%) Business Objects
6 1 (2.222%) BEA
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Posted: 20 May 2013
Luton, Bedfordshire
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Salary: From £60,000 to £70,000 per annum + bonus + benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Bedfordshire
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Salary: From £40,000 to £70,000 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013
Bedford, South East
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Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + benefits
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