The first table below looks at the demand for SOA skills in IT jobs advertised for the Canary Wharf region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SOA 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 Processes & Methodologies category for the Canary Wharf region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Rank 46 21 32
Rank change year-on-year
-25 +11
Permanent jobs citing SOA 2 23 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 0.664% 6.928% 0.503%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.755% 8.333% 0.649%
Number of salaries quoted 2 6 1
Average salary £85,000 £76,000 £53,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.84% +43.39%
UK excluding London average salary £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
All Processes & Methodologies
Canary Wharf
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
265 276 154
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 88.04% 83.13% 77.39%
Number of salaries quoted 200 236 114
Average salary £75,000 £70,000 £65,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% +7.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £45,000 £45,000
10% offered a salary of more than £100,000 £90,000 £90,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
SOA
London

SOA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Canary Wharf 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 Canary Wharf region.

Canary Wharf SOA Salary Trend

SOA
Top 11 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Front Office
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) C++
1 2 (100.00%) Multithreading
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) DataSynapse
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle Coherence
2 1 (50.00%) Credit Risk

SOA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 2 (100.00%) XML
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Coherence
General
1 2 (100.00%) Front Office
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 2 (100.00%) C++ Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior C++ Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) C++
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) DataSynapse