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

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Rank - 14 -
Permanent jobs citing SOA 0 28 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Exeter - 13.27% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - 17.50% -
Number of salaries quoted 0 10 0
Average salary - £56,250 -
UK excluding London average salary £47,500 £48,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year
-1.04% +1.05%
All Processes & Methodologies
Exeter
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
83 160 101
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Exeter 69.75% 75.83% 75.94%
Number of salaries quoted 71 123 77
Average salary £35,000 £37,500 £28,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.66% +33.92%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,450 £26,500 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £32,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
SOA
Devon

SOA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Exeter 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 Exeter region.

Exeter SOA Salary Trend

SOA
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Exeter 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%) Web Services
2 1 (50.00%) Back Office
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle 11g
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle Service Bus
2 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
2 1 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) OO
2 1 (50.00%) MQSeries
2 1 (50.00%) B2B
2 1 (50.00%) B2C
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Middleware
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) C
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) VB.NET
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (50.00%) SOAP

SOA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Exeter 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%) Web Services
2 1 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) Middleware
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (50.00%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Service Bus
1 1 (50.00%) MQSeries
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle 11g
General
1 1 (50.00%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
1 1 (50.00%) OO
1 1 (50.00%) B2B
1 1 (50.00%) B2C
1 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) VB.NET
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle