The first table below looks at the demand for SOA skills in IT jobs advertised for the Chatham 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 Chatham region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Rank 5 11 -
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -
Permanent jobs citing SOA 1 1 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chatham 8.333% 4.762% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.50% 5.556% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Average salary £72,500 - -
UK excluding London average salary £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
All Processes & Methodologies
Chatham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
8 18 12
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chatham 66.67% 85.71% 100.00%
Number of salaries quoted 7 15 8
Average salary £43,500 £25,000 £18,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+74.00% +38.88%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
SOA
Kent

SOA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chatham 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 Chatham region.

Chatham SOA Salary Trend

SOA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chatham 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 15 (100.00%) XML
2 14 (93.33%) XML Schema
2 14 (93.33%) Mainframe
3 13 (86.67%) CICS
3 13 (86.67%) B2B
3 13 (86.67%) ETL
3 13 (86.67%) MQSeries
3 13 (86.67%) XSLT
3 13 (86.67%) DB2
3 13 (86.67%) J2EE
3 13 (86.67%) Web Services
4 12 (80.00%) FTP
5 10 (66.67%) COBOL
5 10 (66.67%) Capacity Planning
5 10 (66.67%) Load Balancing
6 9 (60.00%) BODI
6 9 (60.00%) Marketing
6 9 (60.00%) CA Endevor
6 9 (60.00%) Business Objects
6 9 (60.00%) Cognos
6 9 (60.00%) OOA/OOD
6 9 (60.00%) Informatica
7 8 (53.33%) Oracle
8 7 (46.67%) Data Modelling
8 7 (46.67%) Oracle 11g
9 6 (40.00%) Finance
9 6 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (40.00%) JCL
9 6 (40.00%) UML
10 5 (33.33%) Performance Management

SOA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chatham 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 15 (100.00%) XML
2 14 (93.33%) XML Schema
3 13 (86.67%) XSLT
3 13 (86.67%) J2EE
3 13 (86.67%) Web Services
4 2 (13.33%) HTML
5 1 (6.667%) EJB
5 1 (6.667%) JMX
5 1 (6.667%) JAXB
5 1 (6.667%) jQuery
5 1 (6.667%) JAX-WS
5 1 (6.667%) JSF
5 1 (6.667%) Zend Framework
Application Platforms
1 13 (86.67%) CICS
1 13 (86.67%) MQSeries
2 1 (6.667%) Apache
2 1 (6.667%) Drupal
2 1 (6.667%) concrete5
Communications & Networking
1 12 (80.00%) FTP
2 1 (6.667%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (86.67%) DB2
2 9 (60.00%) BODI
3 7 (46.67%) Oracle 11g
4 1 (6.667%) MySQL
General
1 9 (60.00%) Marketing
2 6 (40.00%) Finance
3 1 (6.667%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 14 (93.33%) Architect
2 13 (86.67%) Solutions Architect
3 9 (60.00%) Mainframe Architect
4 5 (33.33%) Team Leader
5 1 (6.667%) Developer
5 1 (6.667%) PHP Developer
5 1 (6.667%) J2EE Architect
5 1 (6.667%) J2EE Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 14 (93.33%) Mainframe
2 1 (6.667%) Open Source
2 1 (6.667%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Windows
2 1 (6.667%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (86.67%) B2B
1 13 (86.67%) ETL
2 10 (66.67%) Capacity Planning
2 10 (66.67%) Load Balancing
3 9 (60.00%) OOA/OOD
4 7 (46.67%) Data Modelling
5 6 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (40.00%) UML
6 5 (33.33%) Performance Management
7 1 (6.667%) OOP
7 1 (6.667%) MVC
7 1 (6.667%) OO
7 1 (6.667%) Agile Software Development
7 1 (6.667%) Content Management
7 1 (6.667%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (66.67%) COBOL
2 6 (40.00%) JCL
3 2 (13.33%) SQL
4 1 (6.667%) Java
4 1 (6.667%) JavaScript
4 1 (6.667%) PHP
Systems Management
1 9 (60.00%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 9 (60.00%) Business Objects
1 9 (60.00%) Cognos
1 9 (60.00%) Informatica
2 8 (53.33%) Oracle
3 1 (6.667%) Zend