England SOA Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) skills within the England region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SOA over the 3 months to 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Location Aberdeen Aldershot Altrincham Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Bury Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carmarthenshire Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Coventry Crewe Croydon Darlington Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Durham East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Farnborough Farnham Gateshead Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halesowen Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrow Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire Home Counties Horsham Huddersfield Hull Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Knaresborough Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston Llanelli London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Perth and Kinross Perthshire Portsmouth Prescot Reading Rickmansworth Rotherham Runcorn Salford Scotland Scunthorpe Sheffield Shropshire Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stockport Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Telford Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Uxbridge Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weymouth Whyteleafe Wigan Wiltshire Windsor Woking Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	146	188
Rank change on same period last year	+42
Matching permanent IT job ads	2291	2306
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.331 %	0.992 %
As % of the category below	2.388 %	1.907 %
Salaries quoted	1946	1780
Average minimum salary	£52,503	£54,337
Average salary	£57,967	£60,795
% change on same period last year	-4.65 %
Average maximum salary	£63,432	£67,254
UK excluding London average salary	£55,262	£63,429
% change on same period last year	-12.87 %
Processes & Methodologies England
Matching permanent IT job ads	95939	120907
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	55.72 %	52.03 %
Salaries quoted	79912	97226
Average minimum salary	£42,960	£44,062
Average salary	£47,005	£48,070
% change on same period last year	-2.21 %
Average maximum salary	£51,050	£52,079
UK excluding London average salary	£42,657	£44,229
% change on same period last year	-3.55 %
SOA UK

SOA
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing SOA across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

SOA
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing SOA across the England region.

SOA
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SOA across the England region over the 3 months to 13 October 2008.

SOA
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SOA within the England region over the 3 months to 13 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
London	+49	1137	£62,167	-5.30 %
South East	+56	501	£57,872	+2.64 %
Yorkshire	+6	154	£41,255	-23.38 %
North West	-33	147	£51,894	-16.13 %
East of England	+58	122	£54,067	-2.03 %
West Midlands	+4	100	£58,569	+19.69 %
South West	+40	83	£47,402	+2.62 %
North East	+35	20	£33,545	-52.07 %
East Midlands	-3	20	£55,250	-4.94 %
Midlands	+30	18	£94,844	+5.91 %

SOA UK

SOA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT jobs across the England 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 1752 (37.47 %) .NET 2 1716 (36.70 %) Java 3 1515 (32.40 %) J2EE 4 1376 (29.43 %) Oracle 5 1244 (26.60 %) WebServices 6 1084 (23.18 %) C# 7 1080 (23.10 %) XML 8 1076 (23.01 %) Finance 9 957 (20.47 %) SQL 10 941 (20.12 %) UML 11 845 (18.07 %) OO 12 829 (17.73 %) SQL Server 13 738 (15.78 %) WebSphere 14 673 (14.39 %) EAI 15 624 (13.34 %) Microsoft

16 562 (12.02 %) Insurance 17 559 (11.95 %) WebLogic 18 548 (11.72 %) TOGAF 19 543 (11.61 %) UNIX 20 540 (11.55 %) Enterprise Architecture 21 520 (11.12 %) Banking 22 429 (9.175 %) Degree 23 423 (9.046 %) RUP 24 421 (9.003 %) Windows 25 417 (8.918 %) Business Intelligence 25 417 (8.918 %) Agile Software Development 26 416 (8.896 %) Retail 27 412 (8.811 %) ASP.NET 28 405 (8.661 %) Zachman Framework 29 394 (8.426 %) Middleware

SOA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT jobs across the England 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 1752 (37.47 %) .NET 2 1515 (32.40 %) J2EE 3 1244 (26.60 %) WebServices 4 1080 (23.10 %) XML 5 738 (15.78 %) WebSphere 6 412 (8.811 %) ASP.NET 7 394 (8.426 %) Middleware 8 326 (6.972 %) Spring 9 286 (6.116 %) Hibernate 9 286 (6.116 %) SOAP 10 261 (5.582 %) AJAX 11 248 (5.304 %) XSLT 12 215 (4.598 %) .NET Framework 13 210 (4.491 %) HTML 14 184 (3.935 %) JSP 14 184 (3.935 %) WCF 15 183 (3.914 %) J2SE 16 178 (3.807 %) JMS 17 169 (3.614 %) Oracle Fusion 18 143 (3.058 %) Struts	Application Platforms 1 559 (11.95 %) WebLogic 2 328 (7.015 %) ESB 3 312 (6.672 %) BizTalk Server 4 218 (4.662 %) Tomcat 5 212 (4.534 %) SharePoint 6 150 (3.208 %) Apache 7 138 (2.951 %) JBoss 8 116 (2.481 %) NetWeaver 9 109 (2.331 %) WebSphere Application Server 10 102 (2.181 %) WebSphere MQ 11 101 (2.160 %) IIS 12 96 (2.053 %) MQSeries 13 83 (1.775 %) WPS 14 81 (1.732 %) WebLogic Portal 15 75 (1.604 %) SharePoint Server 2007 16 57 (1.219 %) SAS 17 55 (1.176 %) CMS 18 50 (1.069 %) TIBCO EMS 19 48 (1.027 %) SharePoint Portal Server 20 45 (0.962 %) ColdFusion
Applications 1 209 (4.470 %) MS Excel 2 113 (2.417 %) MS Visio 3 27 (0.577 %) MS Office 4 17 (0.364 %) MS Project 5 7 (0.150 %) MS PowerPoint 6 3 (0.064 %) Quicktime 7 2 (0.043 %) Maya 8 1 (0.021 %) PrintSoft PReS 8 1 (0.021 %) S-PLUS 8 1 (0.021 %) InfoPath	Business Applications 1 101 (2.160 %) Oracle Applications 2 52 (1.112 %) SAP Oil and Gas 3 49 (1.048 %) BusinessWorks 4 46 (0.984 %) TIBCO iProcess 5 38 (0.813 %) Oracle 11i 6 35 (0.749 %) Oracle EBS 7 31 (0.663 %) Oracle Financials 8 12 (0.257 %) Siebel Analytics 9 11 (0.235 %) SAP SEM 10 7 (0.150 %) Temenos T24 10 7 (0.150 %) Misys Equation 10 7 (0.150 %) Misys Midas 10 7 (0.150 %) SAP MDM 10 7 (0.150 %) FLEXCUBE 11 6 (0.128 %) SAP Analytics 12 4 (0.086 %) Summit 12 4 (0.086 %) SAP CRM 13 3 (0.064 %) Global One 13 3 (0.064 %) Oracle SCM 13 3 (0.064 %) SAP ERP
Communications & Networking 1 312 (6.672 %) Internet 2 88 (1.882 %) Intranet 3 74 (1.583 %) LDAP 4 59 (1.262 %) Firewall 5 54 (1.155 %) HTTP 6 43 (0.920 %) VoIP 6 43 (0.920 %) GPRS 7 34 (0.727 %) GSM 8 33 (0.706 %) TCP/IP 9 29 (0.620 %) Wireless 10 26 (0.556 %) 3G 11 25 (0.535 %) HTTPS 11 25 (0.535 %) SSH 12 23 (0.492 %) Extranet 13 21 (0.449 %) CTI 14 20 (0.428 %) SAN 14 20 (0.428 %) FTP 15 17 (0.364 %) SMS 15 17 (0.364 %) VPN 16 14 (0.299 %) UMTS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 829 (17.73 %) SQL Server 2 319 (6.822 %) RDBMS 3 290 (6.202 %) Oracle 10g 4 172 (3.678 %) BusinessObjects 5 156 (3.336 %) Datawarehouse 6 154 (3.293 %) SQL Server 2005 7 144 (3.080 %) ETL 8 135 (2.887 %) DB2 9 122 (2.609 %) Oracle 8/8i 10 91 (1.946 %) Oracle 9i 11 66 (1.411 %) SQL Server 2000 12 58 (1.240 %) Oracle Discoverer 13 48 (1.027 %) Oracle Reports 14 43 (0.920 %) Reference Data 15 41 (0.877 %) MySQL 16 39 (0.834 %) SQL Server Integration Services 17 29 (0.620 %) OLAP 18 28 (0.599 %) GIS 19 20 (0.428 %) Oracle 11g 20 16 (0.342 %) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications 1 123 (2.630 %) JUnit 1 123 (2.630 %) Visual Studio 2 98 (2.096 %) Ant 3 88 (1.882 %) Eclipse 4 47 (1.005 %) Subversion 5 45 (0.962 %) Oracle Forms 6 31 (0.663 %) NUnit 7 20 (0.428 %) Cactus 8 19 (0.406 %) WebLogic Workshop 9 17 (0.364 %) Visual Studio Team System 10 15 (0.321 %) JIRA 11 14 (0.299 %) ERwin 11 14 (0.299 %) TestDirector 12 13 (0.278 %) Rational Rose 13 12 (0.257 %) Flash 14 9 (0.192 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer 14 9 (0.192 %) Dreamweaver 14 9 (0.192 %) JDeveloper 15 8 (0.171 %) QuickTest Pro 15 8 (0.171 %) VSS/SourceSafe	General 1 1076 (23.01 %) Finance 2 562 (12.02 %) Insurance 3 520 (11.12 %) Banking 4 416 (8.896 %) Retail 5 282 (6.031 %) Telecoms 6 240 (5.133 %) Pensions 7 201 (4.299 %) Investment Banking 8 130 (2.780 %) Front Office 8 130 (2.780 %) Government 9 125 (2.673 %) Back Office 10 120 (2.566 %) Health 11 95 (2.032 %) Education 12 78 (1.668 %) Retail Banking 13 62 (1.326 %) Manufacturing 14 49 (1.048 %) Pharmaceutical 14 49 (1.048 %) Publishing 15 45 (0.962 %) Marketing 16 40 (0.855 %) Electric 17 39 (0.834 %) Games 18 24 (0.513 %) Billing
Job Titles 1 1798 (38.45 %) Architect 2 1332 (28.49 %) Developer 3 490 (10.48 %) Solutions Architect 4 482 (10.31 %) Enterprise Architect 5 480 (10.27 %) Technical Architect 6 459 (9.816 %) Consultant 7 453 (9.688 %) Java Developer 8 373 (7.977 %) Senior Developer 9 343 (7.335 %) Analyst 10 321 (6.865 %) .NET Developer 11 267 (5.710 %) C# Developer 12 210 (4.491 %) Java/J2EE Developer 13 162 (3.464 %) J2EE Developer 14 137 (2.930 %) Senior Java Developer 15 124 (2.652 %) Integration Architect 16 121 (2.588 %) Team Leader 17 118 (2.524 %) Senior Consultant 18 116 (2.481 %) Applications Architect 19 111 (2.374 %) J2EE Architect 20 103 (2.203 %) .NET Architect	Miscellaneous 1 228 (4.876 %) N-Tier 2 136 (2.908 %) Web 2.0 3 129 (2.759 %) Derivative 4 95 (2.032 %) Client/Server 5 91 (1.946 %) Mainframe 6 85 (1.818 %) Management Information System 7 78 (1.668 %) Equity Derivative 8 67 (1.433 %) Computer Science 9 62 (1.326 %) Multithreading 10 54 (1.155 %) Data Integration 11 45 (0.962 %) Biometrics 12 41 (0.877 %) PKI 13 40 (0.855 %) Fixed Income 14 39 (0.834 %) Grid Computing 15 36 (0.770 %) Clustering 15 36 (0.770 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 16 29 (0.620 %) Market Risk 17 19 (0.406 %) Mathematics 18 18 (0.385 %) W3C 19 16 (0.342 %) Equities
Operating Systems 1 543 (11.61 %) UNIX 2 421 (9.003 %) Windows 3 257 (5.496 %) Linux 4 127 (2.716 %) Solaris 5 60 (1.283 %) Windows NT 6 55 (1.176 %) Windows XP 7 52 (1.112 %) Windows Server 2003 8 51 (1.091 %) Windows 2000 9 36 (0.770 %) Windows Server 2008 9 36 (0.770 %) AIX 10 35 (0.749 %) VMS 10 35 (0.749 %) zOS 11 15 (0.321 %) Windows Mobile 12 9 (0.192 %) Windows 2000 Server 13 5 (0.107 %) Windows Vista 14 3 (0.064 %) Ubuntu 15 1 (0.021 %) Red Hat Linux 15 1 (0.021 %) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 15 1 (0.021 %) HPUX	Processes & Methodologies 1 941 (20.12 %) UML 2 845 (18.07 %) OO 3 673 (14.39 %) EAI 4 548 (11.72 %) TOGAF 5 540 (11.55 %) Enterprise Architecture 6 423 (9.046 %) RUP 7 417 (8.918 %) Business Intelligence 7 417 (8.918 %) Agile Software Development 8 405 (8.661 %) Zachman Framework 9 301 (6.437 %) Project Management 10 264 (5.646 %) E-Commerce 11 258 (5.518 %) Scrum 12 227 (4.855 %) CRM 13 201 (4.299 %) Technical Architecture 14 197 (4.213 %) ERP 15 192 (4.106 %) Workflow 16 181 (3.871 %) TDD 17 169 (3.614 %) OOD 18 167 (3.571 %) Security Cleared 19 165 (3.529 %) Content Management
Programming Languages 1 1716 (36.70 %) Java 2 1084 (23.18 %) C# 3 957 (20.47 %) SQL 4 339 (7.250 %) C++ 5 263 (5.624 %) PL/SQL 6 246 (5.261 %) C 7 183 (3.914 %) JavaScript 8 173 (3.700 %) VB.NET 9 164 (3.507 %) VB 10 87 (1.861 %) Perl 11 80 (1.711 %) VB6 12 63 (1.347 %) Transact-SQL 13 62 (1.326 %) PHP 14 46 (0.984 %) DHTML 15 41 (0.877 %) COBOL 16 33 (0.706 %) ABAP 16 33 (0.706 %) Python 17 28 (0.599 %) Shell Script 18 26 (0.556 %) VBA 18 26 (0.556 %) XPath	Qualifications 1 429 (9.175 %) Degree 2 37 (0.791 %) Microsoft Certification 3 33 (0.706 %) CISA 4 30 (0.642 %) CISM 5 25 (0.535 %) CISMP 5 25 (0.535 %) Oracle Certification 6 22 (0.470 %) OCP 7 15 (0.321 %) ISEB 8 13 (0.278 %) MCSD 9 11 (0.235 %) MCAD 9 11 (0.235 %) CISSP 9 11 (0.235 %) ITIL Certification 9 11 (0.235 %) PMP 9 11 (0.235 %) PMI Certification 10 10 (0.214 %) IBM Certification 10 10 (0.214 %) Sun Certification 11 9 (0.192 %) PRINCE2 Certification 12 8 (0.171 %) MCTS 12 8 (0.171 %) MBA 13 7 (0.150 %) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 35 (0.749 %) QA 2 14 (0.299 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 3 11 (0.235 %) HMG Infosec 3 11 (0.235 %) JSP 440 4 10 (0.214 %) COBIT 5 5 (0.107 %) SLA 6 4 (0.086 %) ISO17799 6 4 (0.086 %) 21 CFR Part 11 6 4 (0.086 %) ISO27001 6 4 (0.086 %) CDISC 7 3 (0.064 %) Basel II 8 2 (0.043 %) ISO9001 8 2 (0.043 %) RosettaNet 8 2 (0.043 %) BS7799 8 2 (0.043 %) WCAG 8 2 (0.043 %) WAI 8 2 (0.043 %) MiFID 9 1 (0.021 %) DICOM 9 1 (0.021 %) HL7 9 1 (0.021 %) ISO9000	System Software 1 88 (1.882 %) AquaLogic 2 45 (0.962 %) Oracle RAC 3 35 (0.749 %) MetaFrame 4 34 (0.727 %) Active Directory 5 21 (0.449 %) MSMQ 6 10 (0.214 %) Terminal Server 7 9 (0.192 %) ISA Server 8 8 (0.171 %) Oracle RMAN 9 6 (0.128 %) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management 1 30 (0.642 %) OpenView 2 10 (0.214 %) MOM 3 7 (0.150 %) ServiceCenter 3 7 (0.150 %) AssetCenter 4 4 (0.086 %) SCOM 5 3 (0.064 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 6 1 (0.021 %) OVOW	Vendors 1 1376 (29.43 %) Oracle 2 624 (13.34 %) Microsoft 3 382 (8.169 %) SAP 4 234 (5.004 %) IBM 5 204 (4.363 %) BEA 6 192 (4.106 %) TIBCO 7 172 (3.678 %) Business Objects 8 165 (3.529 %) Cognos 9 148 (3.165 %) Siebel 10 125 (2.673 %) webMethods 11 97 (2.074 %) PeopleSoft 12 86 (1.839 %) Sybase 13 60 (1.283 %) Sun 14 49 (1.048 %) Hyperion 15 47 (1.005 %) Citrix 16 38 (0.813 %) Chordiant 17 36 (0.770 %) Perforce 18 35 (0.749 %) MicroStrategy 19 31 (0.663 %) ATG 20 28 (0.599 %) Sitecore