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The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Web Services skills in IT jobs advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Web Services over the 3 months to 18 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category for the Birmingham region.

 Web Services
Location
3 months to
18 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank193285
Rank change year-on-year
Up+13Up+53
Matching permanent IT job ads747352
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham7.028 %4.993 %1.611 %
As % of the Application Development category20.73 %13.30 %5.514 %
Salaries quoted717050
Average salary£35,500£38,500£30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.790 %+28.33 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£25,000£31,500£27,450
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£47,500£53,250£40,250
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£35,000£36,500
% change year-on-year
--4.100 %
Birmingham IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryAll Application Development
Birmingham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
357549943
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham33.90 %37.55 %29.21 %
Salaries quoted326504861
Average salary£35,000£32,500£32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.690 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£24,000£25,000£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£46,000£45,000£52,500
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£34,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+2.940 %-2.850 %
Web Services West MidlandsWeb Services
West Midlands

Web Services
Demand Trend

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

Birmingham Web Services Demand Trend

Web Services
Salary Trend

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

Birmingham Web Services Salary Trend

Web Services
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Web Services across the Birmingham region over the 3 months to 18 March 2010.

Birmingham Web Services Salary Histogram

Web Services
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 March 2010, IT jobs across the Birmingham region citing Web Services 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 Web Services.

192 (67.65 %).NET
291 (66.91 %)SQL Server
380 (58.82 %)ASP.NET
477 (56.62 %)C#
572 (52.94 %)HTML
666 (48.53 %)JavaScript
761 (44.85 %)CSS
859 (43.38 %)XML
957 (41.91 %)AJAX
1042 (30.88 %)VB.NET
1138 (27.94 %)C++
1237 (27.21 %)Windows
1334 (25.00 %)SQL
1433 (24.26 %)Java
1531 (22.79 %)Visual Studio
1630 (22.06 %)IIS
1630 (22.06 %)T-SQL
1726 (19.12 %)C
1726 (19.12 %)Perl
1726 (19.12 %)PHP
1726 (19.12 %)SOAP
1726 (19.12 %)XSLT
1823 (16.91 %)WCF
1823 (16.91 %)Web Development
1920 (14.71 %)Microsoft
1920 (14.71 %)VB
2019 (13.97 %)J2EE
2118 (13.24 %)Delphi
2118 (13.24 %)Open Source
2217 (12.50 %)Ruby

Web Services
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 March 2010, IT jobs across the Birmingham region citing Web Services 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 Web Services. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Birmingham IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
192 (67.65 %).NET
280 (58.82 %)ASP.NET
372 (52.94 %)HTML
461 (44.85 %)CSS
559 (43.38 %)XML
657 (41.91 %)AJAX
726 (19.12 %)SOAP
726 (19.12 %)XSLT
823 (16.91 %)WCF
919 (13.97 %)J2EE
1015 (11.03 %)ASP
1114 (10.29 %)LINQ
1211 (8.088 %)XHTML
1310 (7.353 %)LAMP
1310 (7.353 %).NET Framework
1310 (7.353 %)Spring
149 (6.618 %)Hibernate
157 (5.147 %)Drools
157 (5.147 %)RESTful
166 (4.412 %)Ruby on Rails
Birmingham IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
130 (22.06 %)IIS
216 (11.76 %)Lotus Notes
39 (6.618 %)BizTalk Server
45 (3.676 %)SharePoint Server 2007
45 (3.676 %)SharePoint
54 (2.941 %)NetWeaver
63 (2.206 %)CMS
72 (1.471 %)ESB
81 (0.735 %)WordPress
81 (0.735 %)AquaLogic
Birmingham IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
18 (5.882 %)Photoshop
22 (1.471 %)MS Excel
31 (0.735 %)FastStats
31 (0.735 %)MS Office
Birmingham IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
13 (2.206 %)SAP PM
13 (2.206 %)SAP CRM
21 (0.735 %)SAP R/3
Birmingham IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
16 (4.412 %)Internet
24 (2.941 %)Intranet
31 (0.735 %)HTTP
Birmingham IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
191 (66.91 %)SQL Server
215 (11.03 %)SQL Server 2005
313 (9.559 %)SQL Server Integration Services
313 (9.559 %)DTS
411 (8.088 %)MySQL
59 (6.618 %)SQL Server 2008
59 (6.618 %)SQL Server 2000
64 (2.941 %)Datawarehouse
64 (2.941 %)Data Cleansing
73 (2.206 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
73 (2.206 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
73 (2.206 %)Oracle 10g
73 (2.206 %)GIS
81 (0.735 %)BusinessObjects XI
81 (0.735 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
81 (0.735 %)Oracle 11g
81 (0.735 %)BusinessObjects
81 (0.735 %)ETL
81 (0.735 %)Oracle 8/8i
81 (0.735 %)Oracle 9i
Birmingham IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
131 (22.79 %)Visual Studio
21 (0.735 %)Team Foundation Server
21 (0.735 %)Subversion
Birmingham IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
19 (6.618 %)Auditing
24 (2.941 %)Education
33 (2.206 %)Finance
42 (1.471 %)Law
42 (1.471 %)Back Office
42 (1.471 %)Marketing
51 (0.735 %)Retail
51 (0.735 %)Telecoms
Birmingham IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1113 (83.09 %)Developer
273 (53.68 %).NET Developer
353 (38.97 %)ASP.NET Developer
445 (33.09 %)C# Developer
532 (23.53 %)C# ASP.NET Developer
630 (22.06 %)VB.NET Developer
728 (20.59 %)VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer
823 (16.91 %)Web Developer
920 (14.71 %)Senior Developer
1018 (13.24 %)Senior .NET Developer
1116 (11.76 %)Senior C# Developer
1116 (11.76 %)Senior ASP.NET Developer
1210 (7.353 %).NET Web Developer
139 (6.618 %)Java Developer
139 (6.618 %)Architect
148 (5.882 %)Java/J2EE Developer
157 (5.147 %)Lead Architect
157 (5.147 %)Web Applications Developer
157 (5.147 %)Java Web Developer
157 (5.147 %)Applications Developer
Birmingham IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
118 (13.24 %)Open Source
28 (5.882 %)SaaS
34 (2.941 %)Client/Server
42 (1.471 %)N-Tier
42 (1.471 %)Management Information System
51 (0.735 %)Blog
51 (0.735 %)W3C
Birmingham IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
137 (27.21 %)Windows
213 (9.559 %)Linux
37 (5.147 %)Solaris
37 (5.147 %)UNIX
46 (4.412 %)Windows Server 2003
Birmingham IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
123 (16.91 %)Web Development
214 (10.29 %)Document Management
311 (8.088 %)E-Commerce
410 (7.353 %)SOA
59 (6.618 %)Service Management
68 (5.882 %)Time Management
77 (5.147 %)Content Management
86 (4.412 %)Project Management
86 (4.412 %)Business Analysis
95 (3.676 %)Agile Software Development
95 (3.676 %)Software Engineering
104 (2.941 %)CRM
104 (2.941 %)OOP
104 (2.941 %)Data Security
104 (2.941 %)Data Analysis
104 (2.941 %)Information Management
104 (2.941 %)Data Management
113 (2.206 %)Unit Testing
113 (2.206 %)TDD
113 (2.206 %)Logistics
Birmingham IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
177 (56.62 %)C#
266 (48.53 %)JavaScript
342 (30.88 %)VB.NET
438 (27.94 %)C++
534 (25.00 %)SQL
633 (24.26 %)Java
730 (22.06 %)T-SQL
826 (19.12 %)C
826 (19.12 %)Perl
826 (19.12 %)PHP
920 (14.71 %)VB
1018 (13.24 %)Delphi
1117 (12.50 %)Ruby
129 (6.618 %)VB6
137 (5.147 %)XPath
144 (2.941 %)Python
144 (2.941 %)ABAP
144 (2.941 %)VBA
144 (2.941 %)Groovy
153 (2.206 %)PL/SQL
Birmingham IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
17 (5.147 %)Degree
Birmingham IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
13 (2.206 %)SLA
21 (0.735 %)QA
Birmingham IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
11 (0.735 %)MSMQ
Birmingham IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
11 (0.735 %)MOM
Birmingham IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
120 (14.71 %)Microsoft
216 (11.76 %)Lotus
313 (9.559 %)Oracle
47 (5.147 %)JBoss
47 (5.147 %)Adobe
54 (2.941 %)SAP
63 (2.206 %)FatWire
72 (1.471 %)TIBCO
81 (0.735 %)BEA
81 (0.735 %)ESRI
81 (0.735 %)Business Objects