The first table below looks at the demand for SOA skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cheltenham region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SOA over the 3 months to 23 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 Cheltenham region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Rank 36 28 -
Rank change year-on-year
-8 -
Permanent jobs citing SOA 3 29 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheltenham 1.415% 7.250% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.273% 9.091% -
Number of salaries quoted 3 8 0
Average salary £39,000 £34,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.70% -
UK excluding London average salary £47,500 £48,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year
-1.04% +1.05%
All Processes & Methodologies
Cheltenham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
132 319 169
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheltenham 62.26% 79.75% 67.33%
Number of salaries quoted 126 228 139
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £32,500 £28,076
10% offered a salary of more than £71,500 £55,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
SOA
Gloucestershire

SOA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheltenham 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 Cheltenham region.

Cheltenham SOA Salary Trend

SOA
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheltenham 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 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) SOAP
1 3 (100.00%) Web Services
1 3 (100.00%) XML
1 3 (100.00%) BizTalk Server
1 3 (100.00%) Middleware
1 3 (100.00%) EDI
2 1 (33.33%) ERP
2 1 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (33.33%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (33.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (33.33%) F#
2 1 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
2 1 (33.33%) CRM
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server

SOA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheltenham 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 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) SOAP
1 3 (100.00%) Web Services
1 3 (100.00%) XML
1 3 (100.00%) Middleware
1 3 (100.00%) EDI
Application Platforms
1 3 (100.00%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (33.33%) Dynamics CRM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) .NET Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) ERP
1 1 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (33.33%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) T-SQL
2 1 (33.33%) F#