The first table below looks at the demand for SOAP skills in IT jobs advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SOAP 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 Application Development category for the Birmingham region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
Rank 85 85 83
Rank change year-on-year
0 -2
Permanent jobs citing SOAP 33 15 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 1.941% 1.012% 0.595%
As % of the Application Development category 5.288% 2.913% 1.923%
Number of salaries quoted 32 14 7
Average salary £37,500 £63,750 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-41.17% +50.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £21,500 £40,750 £36,600
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £105,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-6.25% -
All Application Development
Birmingham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
624 515 416
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 36.71% 34.75% 30.95%
Number of salaries quoted 560 475 382
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% +15.38%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £27,500 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £48,250 £62,750
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
SOAP
West Midlands

SOAP
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing SOAP across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Birmingham SOAP Jobs Demand Trend

SOAP
Salary Trend

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

Birmingham SOAP Salary Trend

SOAP
Salary Histogram

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

Birmingham SOAP Salary Histogram

SOAP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham 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.

1 33 (73.33%) SQL Server
2 32 (71.11%) MVC
3 31 (68.89%) Agile Software Development
4 30 (66.67%) Java
5 28 (62.22%) Ajax
6 26 (57.78%) Selenium
7 25 (55.56%) SQL Server 2008
7 25 (55.56%) Subversion
8 24 (53.33%) Spring
8 24 (53.33%) Maven
8 24 (53.33%) SQL Server 2005
8 24 (53.33%) ActiveMQ
8 24 (53.33%) JasperReports
8 24 (53.33%) Hibernate
8 24 (53.33%) JBoss
8 24 (53.33%) Tomcat
8 24 (53.33%) JMS
8 24 (53.33%) Eclipse
8 24 (53.33%) JMX
8 24 (53.33%) TeamCity
8 24 (53.33%) Spring MVC
8 24 (53.33%) FitNesse
8 24 (53.33%) Apache Continuum
9 23 (51.11%) OO
10 22 (48.89%) J2EE
10 22 (48.89%) Unit Testing
11 17 (37.78%) Oracle
11 17 (37.78%) XML
11 17 (37.78%) Firmware
11 17 (37.78%) Java EE

SOAP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham 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.

Application Development
1 28 (62.22%) Ajax
2 24 (53.33%) Spring
2 24 (53.33%) Hibernate
2 24 (53.33%) JMS
2 24 (53.33%) JMX
2 24 (53.33%) Spring MVC
3 22 (48.89%) J2EE
4 17 (37.78%) XML
4 17 (37.78%) Java EE
5 13 (28.89%) Web Services
6 10 (22.22%) REST
7 8 (17.78%) XSLT
8 7 (15.56%) CSS
8 7 (15.56%) .NET
9 6 (13.33%) HTML
9 6 (13.33%) ASP.NET
10 5 (11.11%) jQuery
11 4 (8.889%) Boost C++ Libraries
11 4 (8.889%) WCF
11 4 (8.889%) STL
Application Platforms
1 24 (53.33%) ActiveMQ
1 24 (53.33%) Tomcat
2 7 (15.56%) Amazon AWS
3 2 (4.444%) Windows Azure
3 2 (4.444%) IIS
3 2 (4.444%) SharePoint
4 1 (2.222%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (2.222%) SugarCRM
4 1 (2.222%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 11 (24.44%) MS Excel
2 1 (2.222%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.222%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 11 (24.44%) HTTP
2 4 (8.889%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.222%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (73.33%) SQL Server
2 25 (55.56%) SQL Server 2008
3 24 (53.33%) SQL Server 2005
3 24 (53.33%) JasperReports
4 16 (35.56%) Oracle Reports
5 4 (8.889%) Oracle 8/8i
6 3 (6.667%) MySQL
7 1 (2.222%) RDBMS
7 1 (2.222%) Crystal Reports
7 1 (2.222%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (2.222%) SQLite
7 1 (2.222%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 26 (57.78%) Selenium
2 25 (55.56%) Subversion
3 24 (53.33%) Maven
3 24 (53.33%) Eclipse
3 24 (53.33%) TeamCity
3 24 (53.33%) FitNesse
3 24 (53.33%) Apache Continuum
4 6 (13.33%) Visual Studio
5 4 (8.889%) NUnit
6 2 (4.444%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (2.222%) Xcode
7 1 (2.222%) Git (software)
General
1 7 (15.56%) Games
2 1 (2.222%) Finance
2 1 (2.222%) Legal
2 1 (2.222%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 30 (66.67%) Developer
2 14 (31.11%) Senior Developer
3 12 (26.67%) Java Developer
3 12 (26.67%) Senior Java Developer
4 9 (20.00%) Java/J2EE Developer
5 8 (17.78%) QA Tester
5 8 (17.78%) Tester
6 5 (11.11%) Software Engineer
6 5 (11.11%) Java Software Engineer
6 5 (11.11%) Team Leader
7 4 (8.889%) Java Team Leader
7 4 (8.889%) C++ Developer
8 3 (6.667%) .NET Developer
8 3 (6.667%) Programmer
9 2 (4.444%) C# .NET Developer
9 2 (4.444%) Junior
9 2 (4.444%) Analyst
9 2 (4.444%) C# Developer
9 2 (4.444%) QA Engineer
9 2 (4.444%) C++ Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 17 (37.78%) Firmware
2 6 (13.33%) Computer Science
3 1 (2.222%) N-Tier
3 1 (2.222%) PMI
3 1 (2.222%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.222%) FMCG
3 1 (2.222%) iPhone
3 1 (2.222%) Inversion of Control
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.444%) Apple iOS
1 2 (4.444%) Windows
2 1 (2.222%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (71.11%) MVC
2 31 (68.89%) Agile Software Development
3 23 (51.11%) OO
4 22 (48.89%) Unit Testing
5 17 (37.78%) TDD
6 16 (35.56%) Multithreading
7 14 (31.11%) Automated Testing
8 8 (17.78%) Manual Testing
9 2 (4.444%) Continuous Improvement
9 2 (4.444%) Performance Testing
9 2 (4.444%) Integration Testing
9 2 (4.444%) Test Scripting
9 2 (4.444%) Continuous Integration
9 2 (4.444%) Technical Architecture
9 2 (4.444%) OOP
9 2 (4.444%) E-Commerce
10 1 (2.222%) ERP
10 1 (2.222%) OOD
10 1 (2.222%) Project Management
10 1 (2.222%) UML
Programming Languages
1 30 (66.67%) Java
2 11 (24.44%) SQL
3 10 (22.22%) C#
4 6 (13.33%) JavaScript
5 4 (8.889%) C
5 4 (8.889%) C++
5 4 (8.889%) Python
6 3 (6.667%) PHP
6 3 (6.667%) Scala
7 2 (4.444%) XPath
7 2 (4.444%) T-SQL
8 1 (2.222%) VBScript
8 1 (2.222%) VB
8 1 (2.222%) VB6
8 1 (2.222%) PHP5
Qualifications
1 5 (11.11%) Degree
2 1 (2.222%) PMI Certification
2 1 (2.222%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (26.67%) QA
Vendors
1 24 (53.33%) JBoss
2 17 (37.78%) Oracle
3 4 (8.889%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.222%) Epicor
4 1 (2.222%) Apple
4 1 (2.222%) SAP