The first table below looks at the demand for SOA skills in IT jobs advertised for the Durham region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SOA over the 3 months to 21 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 Durham region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Rank - 28 -
Permanent jobs citing SOA 0 1 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Durham - 0.699% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - 1.124% -
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 0
Average salary - £52,500 -
UK excluding London average salary £47,500 £48,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year
-1.04% +1.05%
All Processes & Methodologies
Durham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
42 89 64
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Durham 58.33% 62.24% 66.67%
Number of salaries quoted 38 79 46
Average salary £33,000 £30,750 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.31% -12.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £21,500 £23,000 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £59,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
SOA
North East

SOA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Durham 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 Durham region.

Durham SOA Salary Trend

SOA
Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Durham 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 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) MS Excel
1 2 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Middleware
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Mobile
1 2 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008

SOA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Durham 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 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (100.00%) Middleware
Applications
1 2 (100.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Lead Developer
2 1 (50.00%) C# Developer
2 1 (50.00%) C# Software Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Software Developer
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft