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

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Rank 74 53 94
Rank change year-on-year
-21 +41
Permanent jobs citing SOA 7 67 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Essex 0.716% 4.810% 0.637%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.001% 7.120% 0.877%
Number of salaries quoted 7 45 8
Average salary £43,500 £50,000 £21,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-13.00% +138.09%
UK excluding London average salary £47,500 £48,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year
-1.04% +1.05%
All Processes & Methodologies
Essex
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
699 941 912
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Essex 71.55% 67.55% 72.67%
Number of salaries quoted 589 808 757
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £27,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £57,500 £62,700
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
SOA
East of England

SOA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Essex 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 Essex region.

Essex SOA Salary Trend

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 Essex region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Brentwood -15 3 £43,500 -35.55%
SOA
East of England

SOA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Essex 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 14 (100.00%) .NET
2 9 (64.29%) MVC
2 9 (64.29%) C#
2 9 (64.29%) WCF
3 8 (57.14%) SQL Server 2005
3 8 (57.14%) SQL Server
3 8 (57.14%) Finance
3 8 (57.14%) OO
4 7 (50.00%) TDD
4 7 (50.00%) SQL
4 7 (50.00%) T-SQL
4 7 (50.00%) Ajax
4 7 (50.00%) jQuery
5 5 (35.71%) VB
5 5 (35.71%) VB.NET
5 5 (35.71%) Java
5 5 (35.71%) ASP.NET
5 5 (35.71%) Web Services
5 5 (35.71%) XML
5 5 (35.71%) XSD
5 5 (35.71%) XSLT
5 5 (35.71%) .NET Framework
5 5 (35.71%) VB6
5 5 (35.71%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 4 (28.57%) Dependency Injection
6 4 (28.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (28.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (28.57%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (21.43%) DevExpress
7 3 (21.43%) Mercurial

SOA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Essex 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 14 (100.00%) .NET
2 9 (64.29%) WCF
3 7 (50.00%) Ajax
3 7 (50.00%) jQuery
4 5 (35.71%) ASP.NET
4 5 (35.71%) Web Services
4 5 (35.71%) XML
4 5 (35.71%) XSD
4 5 (35.71%) XSLT
4 5 (35.71%) .NET Framework
4 5 (35.71%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 3 (21.43%) ASP.NET 2.0
5 3 (21.43%) HTML5
5 3 (21.43%) CSS
5 3 (21.43%) HTML
5 3 (21.43%) WinForms
6 2 (14.29%) REST
6 2 (14.29%) LINQ
6 2 (14.29%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (7.143%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
Application Platforms
1 3 (21.43%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (21.43%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (57.14%) SQL Server 2005
1 8 (57.14%) SQL Server
2 4 (28.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 4 (28.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (21.43%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Team Foundation Server
2 3 (21.43%) Mercurial
2 3 (21.43%) TeamCity
2 3 (21.43%) JIRA
2 3 (21.43%) Bitbucket
2 3 (21.43%) NUnit
General
1 8 (57.14%) Finance
2 3 (21.43%) Back Office
3 2 (14.29%) Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (92.86%) Developer
2 6 (42.86%) .NET Developer
3 5 (35.71%) C# Developer
3 5 (35.71%) Applications Developer
3 5 (35.71%) C# .NET Developer
4 2 (14.29%) ASP.NET Developer
4 2 (14.29%) C# ASP.NET Developer
5 1 (7.143%) Senior Developer
5 1 (7.143%) Lead Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) MVC
2 8 (57.14%) OO
3 7 (50.00%) TDD
4 4 (28.57%) Dependency Injection
5 3 (21.43%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (21.43%) Agile Software Development
6 1 (7.143%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 9 (64.29%) C#
2 7 (50.00%) SQL
2 7 (50.00%) T-SQL
3 5 (35.71%) VB
3 5 (35.71%) VB.NET
3 5 (35.71%) Java
3 5 (35.71%) VB6
4 3 (21.43%) JavaScript
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Nagios
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) DevExpress
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
Brentwood, Essex
You will have the opportunity to be involved in SOA and have the opportunity to grow your career as a senior developer and progress into a senior architect.
Opus Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Salary: £40000 to £47000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
Brentwood, East Anglia
NET C# Developer I have a fantastic opportunity for a senior and experienced developer to join a well established client in the Essex area as a senior developer-...
OPUS
Salary: GBP40000 to GBP47000 per annum
Posted: 16 May 2013
Basildon, Essex
Skills/Experience/Qualifications required to perform the role Essential: - DBA experience with Oracle 10g / 11g Standard Edition Databases on the Microsoft Windows platform. - Oracle Database Performance Tuning (manual) -...
Xuber
Salary: Competitive
Posted: 20 May 2013