The first table below looks at the demand for SOA skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cardiff region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SOA over the 3 months to 22 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 Cardiff region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Rank 58 48 61
Rank change year-on-year
-10 +13
Permanent jobs citing SOA 9 2 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cardiff 1.596% 0.456% 1.259%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.217% 0.678% 1.573%
Number of salaries quoted 9 2 7
Average salary £42,500 £24,750 £52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+71.71% -52.85%
90% offered a salary of more than £34,500 £24,150 £43,500
10% offered a salary of more than £46,000 £25,350 £68,000
UK excluding London average salary £47,500 £47,750 £47,500
% change year-on-year
-0.52% +0.52%
All Processes & Methodologies
Cardiff
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
406 295 445
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cardiff 71.99% 67.20% 80.04%
Number of salaries quoted 352 275 415
Average salary £34,500 £34,000 £36,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.47% -5.55%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,500 £25,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
SOA
South Wales

SOA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cardiff 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 Cardiff region.

Cardiff SOA Salary Trend

SOA
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SOA across the Cardiff region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Cardiff SOA Salary Histogram

SOA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cardiff 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 5 (38.46%) Web Services
1 5 (38.46%) Finance
2 4 (30.77%) TDD
2 4 (30.77%) Open Source
2 4 (30.77%) .NET
2 4 (30.77%) Oracle
2 4 (30.77%) SQL Server
2 4 (30.77%) UML
3 3 (23.08%) OO
3 3 (23.08%) C#
3 3 (23.08%) SQL
3 3 (23.08%) Java EE
3 3 (23.08%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (23.08%) Technical Architecture
4 2 (15.38%) Apple iOS
4 2 (15.38%) soapUI
4 2 (15.38%) CMS
4 2 (15.38%) Scrum
4 2 (15.38%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (15.38%) Umbraco
4 2 (15.38%) Selenium
4 2 (15.38%) WCF
4 2 (15.38%) Android
4 2 (15.38%) Sitecore CMS
4 2 (15.38%) Sitecore
4 2 (15.38%) Test Automation
4 2 (15.38%) Windows
4 2 (15.38%) Visual Studio
4 2 (15.38%) ASP.NET
4 2 (15.38%) Java

SOA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cardiff 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 5 (38.46%) Web Services
2 4 (30.77%) .NET
3 3 (23.08%) Java EE
4 2 (15.38%) soapUI
4 2 (15.38%) WCF
4 2 (15.38%) ASP.NET
5 1 (7.692%) XHTML
5 1 (7.692%) HTML
5 1 (7.692%) J2EE
5 1 (7.692%) CSS
5 1 (7.692%) SOAP
5 1 (7.692%) XML
5 1 (7.692%) jQuery
5 1 (7.692%) .NET Framework
5 1 (7.692%) Lucene
5 1 (7.692%) Ajax
5 1 (7.692%) REST
Application Platforms
1 2 (15.38%) CMS
1 2 (15.38%) Umbraco
1 2 (15.38%) Sitecore CMS
1 2 (15.38%) SharePoint
2 1 (7.692%) Apache Solr
2 1 (7.692%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.692%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Selenium
1 2 (15.38%) Visual Studio
2 1 (7.692%) QuickTest Pro
2 1 (7.692%) LoadRunner
2 1 (7.692%) Ant
2 1 (7.692%) WebDriver
2 1 (7.692%) CruiseControl
2 1 (7.692%) Maven
2 1 (7.692%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (38.46%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Architect
2 5 (38.46%) Developer
3 3 (23.08%) Enterprise Architect
3 3 (23.08%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (23.08%) Software Developer
4 1 (7.692%) Tester
4 1 (7.692%) Analyst
4 1 (7.692%) Test Analyst
4 1 (7.692%) Software Architect
4 1 (7.692%) SOA Architect
4 1 (7.692%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (7.692%) .NET Developer
4 1 (7.692%) Senior Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Open Source
2 1 (7.692%) Blackberry
2 1 (7.692%) Client/Server
2 1 (7.692%) iPhone
2 1 (7.692%) Handset
2 1 (7.692%) Mobile App
2 1 (7.692%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Apple iOS
1 2 (15.38%) Android
1 2 (15.38%) Windows
2 1 (7.692%) Windows 8
2 1 (7.692%) Windows Phone 8
2 1 (7.692%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (30.77%) TDD
1 4 (30.77%) UML
2 3 (23.08%) OO
2 3 (23.08%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (23.08%) Technical Architecture
3 2 (15.38%) Scrum
3 2 (15.38%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (15.38%) Test Automation
3 2 (15.38%) E-Commerce
3 2 (15.38%) OOD
4 1 (7.692%) BDD
4 1 (7.692%) Manual Testing
4 1 (7.692%) System Testing
4 1 (7.692%) Regression Testing
4 1 (7.692%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) C#
1 3 (23.08%) SQL
2 2 (15.38%) Java
3 1 (7.692%) JavaScript
3 1 (7.692%) Groovy
Systems Management
1 1 (7.692%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Oracle
2 2 (15.38%) Sitecore
Cardiff, South Glamorgan
Code and script development (primarily using Java and Groovy) on a range of automated testing tools and frameworks, including Selenium, soapUI and JBehave... ISTQB/ISEB qualified to intermediate...
Epsilium Recruitment
Salary: From £35,000 to £40,000 per annum + Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Cardiff, South Glamorgan
Code and script development (primarily using Java and Groovy) on a range of automated testing tools and frameworks, including Selenium, soapUI and JBehave... Automating webservice tests with an...
Epsilium Recruitment
Salary: From £35,000 to £55,000 per annum + Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Cardiff, South Glamorgan
Code and script development (primarily using Java and Groovy) on a range of automated testing tools and frameworks, including Selenium, soapUI and JBehave... Automating webservice tests with an...
Epsilium Recruitment
Salary: From £35,000 to £55,000 per annum + Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Cardiff, South Glamorgan
Strong understanding of application development, including Agile/TDD/SOA/OOD development and programming methodologies... ASP.net. Visual Studio. CMS based development (Umbraco/Sitecore/SharePoint) Pluses. Mobile Development (iOS/...
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Salary: From £20,000 to £35,000 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013