The first table below looks at the demand for SOAP skills in IT jobs advertised for the Bristol region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SOAP over the 3 months to 17 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 Bristol region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
Rank 67 97 98
Rank change year-on-year
+30 +1
Permanent jobs citing SOAP 52 20 18
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bristol 2.975% 1.141% 0.999%
As % of the Application Development category 5.411% 2.789% 2.335%
Number of salaries quoted 46 20 9
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% -11.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £27,650 £39,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,500 £40,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-6.25% -
All Application Development
Bristol
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
961 717 771
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bristol 54.98% 40.90% 42.81%
Number of salaries quoted 888 671 686
Average salary £35,000 £34,000 £34,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.94% -2.15%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £26,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
SOAP
South West

SOAP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bristol 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 Bristol region.

Bristol SOAP Salary Trend

SOAP
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SOAP across the Bristol region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Bristol SOAP Salary Histogram

SOAP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bristol 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 70 (71.43%) Web Services
2 59 (60.20%) JavaScript
3 56 (57.14%) XML
4 49 (50.00%) JSON
5 44 (44.90%) SQL Server
6 39 (39.80%) C#
7 38 (38.78%) HTML
8 34 (34.69%) SQL
9 33 (33.67%) Android
10 32 (32.65%) .NET
11 31 (31.63%) CSS
11 31 (31.63%) Mobile App
12 30 (30.61%) TDD
13 29 (29.59%) REST
14 28 (28.57%) Oracle
15 27 (27.55%) Open Source
16 26 (26.53%) Subversion
17 25 (25.51%) Apple iOS
18 24 (24.49%) HTML5
19 23 (23.47%) Computer Science
19 23 (23.47%) Web Development
20 22 (22.45%) Java
21 21 (21.43%) MySQL
21 21 (21.43%) Photoshop
21 21 (21.43%) Internet
21 21 (21.43%) Mac OS X
21 21 (21.43%) Git (software)
21 21 (21.43%) RESTful
21 21 (21.43%) GitHub
22 20 (20.41%) ASP.NET

SOAP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bristol 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 70 (71.43%) Web Services
2 56 (57.14%) XML
3 49 (50.00%) JSON
4 38 (38.78%) HTML
5 32 (32.65%) .NET
6 31 (31.63%) CSS
7 29 (29.59%) REST
8 24 (24.49%) HTML5
9 21 (21.43%) RESTful
10 20 (20.41%) ASP.NET
11 17 (17.35%) jQuery
12 11 (11.22%) J2EE
13 10 (10.20%) WCF
13 10 (10.20%) Spring
13 10 (10.20%) Ajax
14 7 (7.143%) .NET Framework
14 7 (7.143%) Silverlight
14 7 (7.143%) XSD
15 6 (6.122%) Struts
15 6 (6.122%) Smarty
Application Platforms
1 5 (5.102%) Apache
2 4 (4.082%) Tomcat
2 4 (4.082%) CMS
3 3 (3.061%) WordPress
4 2 (2.041%) Oracle Spatial
4 2 (2.041%) ArcGIS
4 2 (2.041%) Kentico
5 1 (1.020%) ESB
5 1 (1.020%) Windows Azure
5 1 (1.020%) Google App Engine
5 1 (1.020%) Amazon AWS
Applications
1 21 (21.43%) Photoshop
2 10 (10.20%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (3.061%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.041%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 21 (21.43%) Internet
2 5 (5.102%) HTTP
3 1 (1.020%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.020%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (44.90%) SQL Server
2 21 (21.43%) MySQL
3 8 (8.163%) SQL Server 2005
4 7 (7.143%) Oracle Reports
5 6 (6.122%) Oracle 8/8i
5 6 (6.122%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (4.082%) SQL Server 2008
7 2 (2.041%) GIS
7 2 (2.041%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (2.041%) Crystal Reports
8 1 (1.020%) DB2
8 1 (1.020%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.020%) Data Mining
8 1 (1.020%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 26 (26.53%) Subversion
2 21 (21.43%) GitHub
2 21 (21.43%) Git (software)
3 16 (16.33%) Visual Studio
4 10 (10.20%) JUnit
5 8 (8.163%) Eclipse
6 5 (5.102%) Team Foundation Server
7 4 (4.082%) WebDriver
7 4 (4.082%) JMeter
7 4 (4.082%) Maven
7 4 (4.082%) Selenium
7 4 (4.082%) MbUnit
7 4 (4.082%) Hudson
8 2 (2.041%) NUnit
8 2 (2.041%) MSTest
General
1 13 (13.27%) Finance
2 3 (3.061%) Advertising
3 2 (2.041%) Games
3 2 (2.041%) Automotive
4 1 (1.020%) Marketing
4 1 (1.020%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 75 (76.53%) Developer
2 25 (25.51%) Senior Developer
3 21 (21.43%) Team Leader
4 19 (19.39%) .NET Developer
5 17 (17.35%) Web Developer
6 16 (16.33%) Software Developer
7 13 (13.27%) Senior Software Developer
8 11 (11.22%) Android Developer
9 10 (10.20%) PHP Developer
9 10 (10.20%) Java Developer
10 8 (8.163%) Senior .NET Developer
10 8 (8.163%) C# Developer
10 8 (8.163%) iOS Developer
10 8 (8.163%) Senior iOS Developer
10 8 (8.163%) PHP Web Developer
11 7 (7.143%) Technical Team Leader
11 7 (7.143%) ASP.NET Developer
12 6 (6.122%) C# .NET Developer
12 6 (6.122%) .NET Software Developer
13 5 (5.102%) Mobile Developer
Miscellaneous
1 31 (31.63%) Mobile App
2 27 (27.55%) Open Source
3 23 (23.47%) Computer Science
4 5 (5.102%) Mathematics
4 5 (5.102%) iPhone
5 4 (4.082%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (4.082%) Blackberry
6 3 (3.061%) N-Tier
7 2 (2.041%) Thin Client
7 2 (2.041%) Fat Client
7 2 (2.041%) Online Games
7 2 (2.041%) Data Integration
7 2 (2.041%) Smartphone
8 1 (1.020%) SaaS
8 1 (1.020%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 33 (33.67%) Android
2 25 (25.51%) Apple iOS
3 21 (21.43%) Mac OS X
4 10 (10.20%) Windows
5 3 (3.061%) Linux
6 1 (1.020%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (30.61%) TDD
2 23 (23.47%) Web Development
3 18 (18.37%) Scrum
4 16 (16.33%) OO
5 15 (15.31%) MVC
6 13 (13.27%) Agile Software Development
7 11 (11.22%) Unit Testing
8 9 (9.184%) Content Management
9 7 (7.143%) Mobile Application Development
10 6 (6.122%) OOD
11 5 (5.102%) SOA
11 5 (5.102%) ETL
11 5 (5.102%) CRM
12 4 (4.082%) Software Testing
12 4 (4.082%) Test Automation
12 4 (4.082%) BDD
12 4 (4.082%) High Availability
12 4 (4.082%) Web Application Development
13 3 (3.061%) Analytics
13 3 (3.061%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 59 (60.20%) JavaScript
2 39 (39.80%) C#
3 34 (34.69%) SQL
4 22 (22.45%) Java
5 17 (17.35%) PHP
6 16 (16.33%) T-SQL
6 16 (16.33%) VB.NET
7 5 (5.102%) C
8 4 (4.082%) VB
8 4 (4.082%) Objective-C
9 3 (3.061%) PL/SQL
10 2 (2.041%) Delphi
10 2 (2.041%) VB6
10 2 (2.041%) PHP5
11 1 (1.020%) XPath
11 1 (1.020%) C++
Qualifications
1 7 (7.143%) Degree
2 2 (2.041%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.061%) QA
System Software
1 2 (2.041%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 28 (28.57%) Oracle
2 13 (13.27%) Microsoft
3 10 (10.20%) Google
4 4 (4.082%) Facebook
4 4 (4.082%) Twitter
4 4 (4.082%) Salesforce.com
5 2 (2.041%) ESRI
5 2 (2.041%) VMware
5 2 (2.041%) Apple
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