The first table below looks at the demand for SOA skills in IT jobs advertised for the Coventry region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SOA over the 3 months to 24 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 Coventry region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Rank 66 40 49
Rank change year-on-year
-26 +9
Permanent jobs citing SOA 4 4 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Coventry 0.634% 1.117% 0.255%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.920% 1.487% 0.338%
Number of salaries quoted 3 3 1
Average salary £47,500 £50,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.00% +25.00%
UK excluding London average salary £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
All Processes & Methodologies
Coventry
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
435 269 296
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Coventry 68.94% 75.14% 75.51%
Number of salaries quoted 360 243 287
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £47,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% -21.46%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £24,500 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £56,000 £65,000 £58,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
SOA
West Midlands

SOA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Coventry 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 Coventry region.

Coventry SOA Salary Trend

SOA
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SOA across the Coventry region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Coventry SOA Salary Histogram

SOA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Coventry 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 6 (60.00%) .NET
2 5 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 5 (50.00%) C#
2 5 (50.00%) Java
3 4 (40.00%) Web Services
4 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
4 3 (30.00%) MVC
4 3 (30.00%) Agile Software Development
4 3 (30.00%) WCF
4 3 (30.00%) ASP.NET MVC
5 2 (20.00%) NHibernate
5 2 (20.00%) Performance Testing
5 2 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
5 2 (20.00%) .NET Framework
5 2 (20.00%) XPath
5 2 (20.00%) Degree
5 2 (20.00%) QA
5 2 (20.00%) Finance
5 2 (20.00%) XQuery
5 2 (20.00%) HP
5 2 (20.00%) ISEB
5 2 (20.00%) LoadRunner
5 2 (20.00%) SQL
5 2 (20.00%) MS Excel
5 2 (20.00%) XML
5 2 (20.00%) XSLT
5 2 (20.00%) Windows
5 2 (20.00%) UML
5 2 (20.00%) OOP
5 2 (20.00%) Oracle

SOA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Coventry 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 6 (60.00%) .NET
2 5 (50.00%) ASP.NET
3 4 (40.00%) Web Services
4 3 (30.00%) WCF
4 3 (30.00%) ASP.NET MVC
5 2 (20.00%) NHibernate
5 2 (20.00%) .NET Framework
5 2 (20.00%) XML
5 2 (20.00%) XSLT
6 1 (10.00%) HTML
6 1 (10.00%) CSS
6 1 (10.00%) JSP
6 1 (10.00%) J2EE
6 1 (10.00%) Ajax
6 1 (10.00%) WebSphere
6 1 (10.00%) WPF
6 1 (10.00%) Yii
6 1 (10.00%) REST
6 1 (10.00%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) WebSphere Application Server
1 1 (10.00%) WebLogic
1 1 (10.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) ENOVIA
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) HTTP
1 1 (10.00%) Intranet
1 1 (10.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (10.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) LoadRunner
2 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) Eclipse
2 1 (10.00%) Hudson
General
1 2 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Developer
2 5 (50.00%) .NET Developer
3 2 (20.00%) C# .NET Developer
3 2 (20.00%) C# ASP.NET Developer
3 2 (20.00%) C# Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Software Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Test Leader
3 2 (20.00%) Performance Test Leader
3 2 (20.00%) Senior .NET Developer
4 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET Developer
4 1 (10.00%) PHP Developer
4 1 (10.00%) SharePoint Developer
4 1 (10.00%) WPF Developer
4 1 (10.00%) .NET Software Developer
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) MVC
1 3 (30.00%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (20.00%) Performance Testing
2 2 (20.00%) UML
2 2 (20.00%) OOP
2 2 (20.00%) Web Application Development
3 1 (10.00%) OO
3 1 (10.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (10.00%) Scrum
3 1 (10.00%) PLM
3 1 (10.00%) TDD
3 1 (10.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (10.00%) Domain-Driven Design
3 1 (10.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) C#
1 5 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (20.00%) XPath
2 2 (20.00%) XQuery
2 2 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) PHP
3 1 (10.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
1 2 (20.00%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) HP
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle