The first table below looks at the demand for EAI skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited EAI 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 Cheshire region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Enterprise Application Integration (EAI)
Rank 125 131 117
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -14
Permanent jobs citing EAI 1 3 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 0.056% 0.150% 0.179%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.074% 0.196% 0.261%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 3
Average salary £52,500 £65,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-19.23% +62.50%
UK excluding London average salary £70,000 £56,250 £57,500
% change year-on-year
+24.44% -2.17%
All Processes & Methodologies
Cheshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1359 1529 1148
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 76.18% 76.37% 68.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1043 1338 977
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £39,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -3.84%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £55,000 £61,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
EAI
North West

EAI
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire EAI Jobs Demand Trend

EAI
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing EAI across the Cheshire region.

Cheshire EAI Salary Trend

EAI
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire region citing EAI 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 EAI.

1 3 (100.00%) Middleware
2 2 (66.67%) WebSphere
2 2 (66.67%) SOA
2 2 (66.67%) Web Services
3 1 (33.33%) XML
3 1 (33.33%) XSD
3 1 (33.33%) XSLT
3 1 (33.33%) OO
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (33.33%) MQSeries
3 1 (33.33%) LDAP
3 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
3 1 (33.33%) JMS
3 1 (33.33%) MS Visio
3 1 (33.33%) C#
3 1 (33.33%) C++
3 1 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) .NET
3 1 (33.33%) MySQL
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (33.33%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (33.33%) WebLogic
3 1 (33.33%) SOAP
3 1 (33.33%) WSDL
3 1 (33.33%) B2B
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) XQuery
3 1 (33.33%) CICS
3 1 (33.33%) Cognizant

EAI
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire region citing EAI 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 EAI. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (100.00%) Middleware
2 2 (66.67%) WebSphere
2 2 (66.67%) Web Services
3 1 (33.33%) XML
3 1 (33.33%) XSD
3 1 (33.33%) XSLT
3 1 (33.33%) JMS
3 1 (33.33%) .NET
3 1 (33.33%) SOAP
3 1 (33.33%) WSDL
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle Fusion
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) MQSeries
1 1 (33.33%) WebSphere Application Server
1 1 (33.33%) WebLogic
1 1 (33.33%) CICS
1 1 (33.33%) ESB
1 1 (33.33%) WebSphere Message Broker
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Service Bus
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
1 1 (33.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle 8/8i
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle 11g
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Games
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Retail
1 1 (33.33%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Integration Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Architect
2 1 (33.33%) EAI Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Lead Architect
2 1 (33.33%) SOA Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Middleware Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Life Science
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (33.33%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) SOA
2 1 (33.33%) OO
2 1 (33.33%) B2B
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (33.33%) BPEL
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Business Process Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) C++
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) XQuery
1 1 (33.33%) XPath
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Cognizant
1 1 (33.33%) TIBCO
1 1 (33.33%) webMethods