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The table below looks at the demand for Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) skills within the Bedfordshire region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SOAP over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkSimple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
Location
3 months to
10 Oct 2008
Same period last year
Rank7256
Rank change on same period last yearDown-16
Matching permanent IT job ads411
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled0.002 %0.005 %
As % of the category below0.976 %3.642 %
Salaries quoted411
Average minimum salary£39,500£27,636
Average salary£41,375£31,318
% change on same period last year+32.11 %
Average maximum salary£43,250£35,000
UK excluding London average salary£39,982£39,183
% change on same period last year+2.03 %
Bedfordshire IT Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
Bedfordshire
Matching permanent IT job ads410302
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled0.237 %0.130 %
Salaries quoted368279
Average minimum salary£33,765£32,803
Average salary£37,263£35,702
% change on same period last year+4.37 %
Average maximum salary£40,761£38,602
UK excluding London average salary£35,990£36,664
% change on same period last year-1.83 %
SOAP East of EnglandSOAP
East of England

SOAP
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing SOAP across the Bedfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Bedfordshire SOAP Demand Trend

SOAP
Salary Trend

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

Bedfordshire SOAP Salary Trend

SOAP
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SOAP across the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

Bedfordshire SOAP Salary Histogram

SOAP
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SOAP within the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Last
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
BedfordDown-233£41,000+31.41 %
SOAP East of EnglandSOAP
East of England

SOAP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing SOAP 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 SOAP.

115 (100.00 %)XML
214 (93.33 %)WebServices
39 (60.00 %)SQL
48 (53.33 %)C#
57 (46.67 %)HTML
57 (46.67 %)PHP
57 (46.67 %)Transact-SQL
57 (46.67 %).NET
57 (46.67 %)CSS
57 (46.67 %)Oracle
66 (40.00 %)MySQL
66 (40.00 %)PL/SQL
66 (40.00 %)Marketing
75 (33.33 %)Web Development
75 (33.33 %)XSLT
75 (33.33 %)XHTML
84 (26.67 %)AJAX
84 (26.67 %)XML-RPC
84 (26.67 %)Microsoft
93 (20.00 %)SQL Server Integration Services
93 (20.00 %)MS Excel
93 (20.00 %)SQL Server
102 (13.33 %)IIS
102 (13.33 %)ASP.NET
102 (13.33 %)C
102 (13.33 %)VB.NET
102 (13.33 %)Middleware
102 (13.33 %)RDBMS
102 (13.33 %)BizTalk Server
111 (6.667 %)Google

SOAP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing SOAP 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 SOAP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Bedfordshire IT Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
115 (100.00 %)XML
214 (93.33 %)WebServices
37 (46.67 %)HTML
37 (46.67 %).NET
37 (46.67 %)CSS
45 (33.33 %)XSLT
45 (33.33 %)XHTML
54 (26.67 %)XML-RPC
54 (26.67 %)AJAX
62 (13.33 %)Middleware
62 (13.33 %)ASP.NET
71 (6.667 %)J2EE
71 (6.667 %)WSDL
Bedfordshire IT Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
12 (13.33 %)IIS
12 (13.33 %)BizTalk Server
21 (6.667 %)Apache
Bedfordshire IT Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
13 (20.00 %)MS Excel
Bedfordshire IT Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
16 (40.00 %)MySQL
23 (20.00 %)SQL Server
23 (20.00 %)SQL Server Integration Services
32 (13.33 %)RDBMS
Bedfordshire IT Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
11 (6.667 %)ClearCase
Bedfordshire IT Job Market, GeneralGeneral
16 (40.00 %)Marketing
21 (6.667 %)Government
21 (6.667 %)Pensions
Bedfordshire IT Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
111 (73.33 %)Developer
26 (40.00 %)PHP Developer
33 (20.00 %)Web Developer
42 (13.33 %)C# Developer
42 (13.33 %)Team Leader
42 (13.33 %)PHP Web Developer
51 (6.667 %)C# Web Developer
51 (6.667 %)Senior Java Developer
51 (6.667 %)Integration Consultant
51 (6.667 %).NET Team Leader
51 (6.667 %)Development Team Leader
51 (6.667 %)Software Developer
51 (6.667 %)Software Engineer
51 (6.667 %)Consultant
51 (6.667 %)Senior Developer
51 (6.667 %)Lead Developer
51 (6.667 %)Java Developer
51 (6.667 %)Oracle Developer
Bedfordshire IT Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
11 (6.667 %)Replication
Bedfordshire IT Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
11 (6.667 %)UNIX
Bedfordshire IT Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
15 (33.33 %)Web Development
21 (6.667 %)OO
21 (6.667 %)Configuration Management
Bedfordshire IT Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
19 (60.00 %)SQL
28 (53.33 %)C#
37 (46.67 %)PHP
37 (46.67 %)Transact-SQL
46 (40.00 %)PL/SQL
52 (13.33 %)VB.NET
52 (13.33 %)C
61 (6.667 %)Java
Bedfordshire IT Job Market, VendorsVendors
17 (46.67 %)Oracle
24 (26.67 %)Microsoft
31 (6.667 %)Mapinfo
31 (6.667 %)BT
31 (6.667 %)Google