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

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Rank 50 30 47
Rank change year-on-year
-20 +17
Permanent jobs citing SOA 2 4 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 0.573% 2.548% 1.653%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.683% 3.509% 2.326%
Number of salaries quoted 0 4 4
Average salary - £45,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +5.88%
UK excluding London average salary £47,500 £47,750 £47,500
% change year-on-year
-0.52% +0.52%
All Processes & Methodologies
Chester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
293 114 172
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 83.95% 72.61% 71.07%
Number of salaries quoted 157 95 167
Average salary £38,000 £37,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.70% -7.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £25,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £50,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
SOA
Cheshire

SOA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester SOA Salary Trend

SOA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (80.00%) Scrum
2 4 (80.00%) Ab Initio
2 4 (80.00%) Kanban
2 4 (80.00%) Web Services
2 4 (80.00%) XML
2 4 (80.00%) UNIX
2 4 (80.00%) E-Commerce
2 4 (80.00%) ETL
2 4 (80.00%) Big Data
3 1 (20.00%) HTTP
3 1 (20.00%) JMS
3 1 (20.00%) JBoss
3 1 (20.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) C#
3 1 (20.00%) C++
3 1 (20.00%) HTML
3 1 (20.00%) Java
3 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) JUnit
3 1 (20.00%) EJB
3 1 (20.00%) CSS
3 1 (20.00%) Struts
3 1 (20.00%) Groovy
3 1 (20.00%) EJB 3.0
3 1 (20.00%) Open Source
3 1 (20.00%) Dependency Injection
3 1 (20.00%) MVC
3 1 (20.00%) Hibernate

SOA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 4 (80.00%) Web Services
1 4 (80.00%) XML
2 1 (20.00%) JMS
2 1 (20.00%) HTML
2 1 (20.00%) EJB
2 1 (20.00%) CSS
2 1 (20.00%) Struts
2 1 (20.00%) EJB 3.0
2 1 (20.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (20.00%) Spring
2 1 (20.00%) Spring Web Flow
Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) ESB
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JUnit
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
2 4 (80.00%) Ab Initio Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Open Source
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (80.00%) Scrum
2 4 (80.00%) Kanban
2 4 (80.00%) E-Commerce
2 4 (80.00%) ETL
3 1 (20.00%) Dependency Injection
3 1 (20.00%) MVC
3 1 (20.00%) AOP
3 1 (20.00%) Web Development
3 1 (20.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) C#
1 1 (20.00%) C++
1 1 (20.00%) Java
1 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
1 1 (20.00%) Groovy
1 1 (20.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Ab Initio
2 1 (20.00%) JBoss
Chester, North West
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Salary: £37000 - £44000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013