The first table below looks at the demand for SOA skills in IT jobs advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SOA over the 3 months to 17 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 Edinburgh region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Rank 65 81 83
Rank change year-on-year
+16 +2
Permanent jobs citing SOA 27 12 18
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 2.554% 0.896% 1.167%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.431% 1.244% 1.475%
Number of salaries quoted 24 11 17
Average salary £41,500 £41,000 £52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.21% -21.90%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,750 £30,000 £43,500
10% offered a salary of more than £44,250 £72,500 £77,500
UK excluding London average salary £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
All Processes & Methodologies
Edinburgh
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
787 965 1220
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 74.46% 72.01% 79.12%
Number of salaries quoted 463 681 859
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% -2.43%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £27,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £61,700 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
SOA
Scotland

SOA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh SOA Salary Trend

SOA
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SOA across the Edinburgh region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Edinburgh SOA Salary Histogram

SOA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh 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 32 (60.38%) Java
2 29 (54.72%) XML
3 27 (50.94%) Ajax
4 25 (47.17%) JSF
4 25 (47.17%) JavaScript
5 24 (45.28%) Finance
5 24 (45.28%) BPMN
6 23 (43.40%) XSLT
7 21 (39.62%) MVC
8 19 (35.85%) J2EE
9 18 (33.96%) SQL Server
9 18 (33.96%) C#
10 17 (32.08%) Spring
11 16 (30.19%) .NET
12 15 (28.30%) ASP.NET
12 15 (28.30%) JSP
12 15 (28.30%) WebSphere
12 15 (28.30%) ESB
13 14 (26.42%) Hibernate
13 14 (26.42%) Web Services
13 14 (26.42%) SQL
13 14 (26.42%) Oracle
14 13 (24.53%) UML
14 13 (24.53%) JBoss
14 13 (24.53%) Java EE
15 12 (22.64%) Servlets
15 12 (22.64%) Eclipse
15 12 (22.64%) Continuous Integration
16 11 (20.75%) Middleware
16 11 (20.75%) Maven

SOA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh 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 29 (54.72%) XML
2 27 (50.94%) Ajax
3 25 (47.17%) JSF
4 23 (43.40%) XSLT
5 19 (35.85%) J2EE
6 17 (32.08%) Spring
7 16 (30.19%) .NET
8 15 (28.30%) ASP.NET
8 15 (28.30%) JSP
8 15 (28.30%) WebSphere
9 14 (26.42%) Web Services
9 14 (26.42%) Hibernate
10 13 (24.53%) Java EE
11 12 (22.64%) Servlets
12 11 (20.75%) Middleware
13 10 (18.87%) jQuery
14 9 (16.98%) Drools
14 9 (16.98%) jBPM
14 9 (16.98%) HTML
15 8 (15.09%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 15 (28.30%) ESB
2 9 (16.98%) Drupal
3 6 (11.32%) WebSphere Application Server
4 5 (9.434%) MQSeries
5 4 (7.547%) SharePoint
5 4 (7.547%) WebSphere Portal
6 2 (3.774%) Mule
6 2 (3.774%) CMS
6 2 (3.774%) TeamSite
6 2 (3.774%) WebLogic
6 2 (3.774%) IIS
6 2 (3.774%) Apache
7 1 (1.887%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (1.887%) WebSphere MQ
7 1 (1.887%) Apache Solr
7 1 (1.887%) SharePoint 2010
7 1 (1.887%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (1.887%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (1.887%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 2 (3.774%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (3.774%) BusinessWorks
1 2 (3.774%) Oracle BPM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (33.96%) SQL Server
2 10 (18.87%) SQL Server 2005
3 5 (9.434%) NoSQL
4 4 (7.547%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (7.547%) DB2
5 3 (5.660%) Oracle 11g
6 1 (1.887%) CouchDB
6 1 (1.887%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (1.887%) TOAD
6 1 (1.887%) Oracle 10g
6 1 (1.887%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 12 (22.64%) Eclipse
2 11 (20.75%) Maven
3 10 (18.87%) JUnit
4 4 (7.547%) Visual Studio
4 4 (7.547%) LoadRunner
4 4 (7.547%) Log4j
4 4 (7.547%) Canoo WebTest
4 4 (7.547%) Fiddler
5 3 (5.660%) Subversion
6 2 (3.774%) Talend Open Studio
6 2 (3.774%) Jenkins
6 2 (3.774%) JIRA
7 1 (1.887%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.887%) Git (software)
7 1 (1.887%) Ant
7 1 (1.887%) NUnit
7 1 (1.887%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (1.887%) JDeveloper
General
1 24 (45.28%) Finance
2 4 (7.547%) Banking
3 3 (5.660%) Advertising
4 2 (3.774%) Telecoms
4 2 (3.774%) Retail
5 1 (1.887%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.887%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 33 (62.26%) Developer
2 15 (28.30%) Java Developer
3 8 (15.09%) .NET Developer
3 8 (15.09%) Analyst
4 6 (11.32%) Java/J2EE Developer
5 5 (9.434%) C# ASP.NET Developer
5 5 (9.434%) C# .NET Developer
5 5 (9.434%) ASP.NET Developer
5 5 (9.434%) Architect
5 5 (9.434%) C# Developer
6 4 (7.547%) J2EE Developer
6 4 (7.547%) Tester
6 4 (7.547%) Performance Tester
6 4 (7.547%) Test Analyst
6 4 (7.547%) SQL Developer
6 4 (7.547%) Performance Analyst
6 4 (7.547%) Performance Test Analyst
7 3 (5.660%) Java Architect
7 3 (5.660%) Java Technical Architect
7 3 (5.660%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (1.887%) Online Banking
1 1 (1.887%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.660%) Linux
2 2 (3.774%) Android
2 2 (3.774%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.887%) Windows
3 1 (1.887%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (1.887%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (45.28%) BPMN
2 21 (39.62%) MVC
3 13 (24.53%) UML
4 12 (22.64%) Continuous Integration
5 11 (20.75%) TDD
5 11 (20.75%) Workflow
5 11 (20.75%) Software Engineering
6 7 (13.21%) Data Modelling
7 6 (11.32%) Agile Software Development
8 5 (9.434%) Scrum
9 4 (7.547%) OO
9 4 (7.547%) Content Management
9 4 (7.547%) Performance Testing
10 3 (5.660%) TOGAF
10 3 (5.660%) Business Intelligence
11 2 (3.774%) OOD
11 2 (3.774%) OOA/OOD
11 2 (3.774%) Unified Process
11 2 (3.774%) Systems Analysis
11 2 (3.774%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 32 (60.38%) Java
2 25 (47.17%) JavaScript
3 18 (33.96%) C#
4 14 (26.42%) SQL
5 2 (3.774%) Objective-C
5 2 (3.774%) C++
5 2 (3.774%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.887%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (7.547%) SC Cleared
1 4 (7.547%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.774%) Oracle Certification
2 2 (3.774%) Sun Certification
2 2 (3.774%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (1.887%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 4 (7.547%) Oracle Identity Manager
Vendors
1 14 (26.42%) Oracle
2 13 (24.53%) JBoss
3 7 (13.21%) IBM
4 6 (11.32%) Microsoft
5 4 (7.547%) HP
5 4 (7.547%) Canoo
6 2 (3.774%) Talend
6 2 (3.774%) TIBCO
6 2 (3.774%) webMethods
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