The first table below looks at the demand for SOA skills in IT jobs advertised for the Glasgow region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SOA over the 3 months to 23 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 Glasgow region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Rank 65 46 44
Rank change year-on-year
-19 -2
Permanent jobs citing SOA 34 33 38
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Glasgow 2.926% 3.933% 3.878%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.048% 5.670% 4.866%
Number of salaries quoted 19 29 31
Average salary £40,000 £36,000 £52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.11% -31.42%
90% offered a salary of more than £36,800 £35,000 £44,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £56,000 £75,000
UK excluding London average salary £47,500 £48,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year
-1.04% +1.05%
All Processes & Methodologies
Glasgow
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
840 582 781
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Glasgow 72.29% 69.37% 79.69%
Number of salaries quoted 487 436 595
Average salary £41,250 £38,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.55% -10.58%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £27,000 £29,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
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 Glasgow region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region.

Glasgow SOA Salary Trend

SOA
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SOA across the Glasgow region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Glasgow SOA Salary Histogram

SOA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Glasgow 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 57 (79.17%) Java
2 39 (54.17%) SQL
3 38 (52.78%) XML
4 35 (48.61%) Spring
5 31 (43.06%) Agile Software Development
6 30 (41.67%) Finance
7 28 (38.89%) Web Services
8 27 (37.50%) Subversion
9 25 (34.72%) Scrum
10 23 (31.94%) Hibernate
10 23 (31.94%) Tomcat
11 22 (30.56%) jQuery
11 22 (30.56%) Unit Testing
12 19 (26.39%) JMS
12 19 (26.39%) Data Modelling
13 18 (25.00%) UNIX
14 17 (23.61%) SOAP
15 16 (22.22%) Oracle
15 16 (22.22%) Eclipse
16 15 (20.83%) N-Tier
16 15 (20.83%) Maven
16 15 (20.83%) Banking
16 15 (20.83%) Waterfall
17 14 (19.44%) JIRA
17 14 (19.44%) J2EE
18 12 (16.67%) JavaScript
18 12 (16.67%) XSLT
18 12 (16.67%) Private Banking
18 12 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
18 12 (16.67%) Product Management

SOA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Glasgow 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 38 (52.78%) XML
2 35 (48.61%) Spring
3 28 (38.89%) Web Services
4 23 (31.94%) Hibernate
5 22 (30.56%) jQuery
6 19 (26.39%) JMS
7 17 (23.61%) SOAP
8 14 (19.44%) J2EE
9 12 (16.67%) XSLT
10 11 (15.28%) GWT
10 11 (15.28%) Ajax
11 10 (13.89%) JSON
12 9 (12.50%) soapUI
12 9 (12.50%) XML Schema
13 7 (9.722%) Middleware
14 6 (8.333%) AppFuse
15 5 (6.944%) Ruby on Rails
15 5 (6.944%) JSF
16 4 (5.556%) Lucene
16 4 (5.556%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 23 (31.94%) Tomcat
2 11 (15.28%) ESB
3 10 (13.89%) RabbitMQ
4 9 (12.50%) Apache
5 5 (6.944%) OpenStack
5 5 (6.944%) Oracle Coherence
6 4 (5.556%) Oracle Workflow
6 4 (5.556%) Apache Solr
7 2 (2.778%) WebLogic
7 2 (2.778%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (1.389%) Adobe CQ
8 1 (1.389%) Drupal
8 1 (1.389%) GlassFish
8 1 (1.389%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 8 (11.11%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (5.556%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (4.167%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (2.778%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.389%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (15.28%) SQL Server
2 7 (9.722%) MySQL
3 5 (6.944%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (6.944%) Oracle Reports
4 4 (5.556%) Oracle BI EE
4 4 (5.556%) CouchDB
4 4 (5.556%) Couchbase
4 4 (5.556%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.778%) OLTP
5 2 (2.778%) RDBMS
5 2 (2.778%) Oracle 10g
5 2 (2.778%) Oracle 11g
6 1 (1.389%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.389%) TOAD
6 1 (1.389%) Oracle 8/8i
6 1 (1.389%) Oracle OWB
Development Applications
1 27 (37.50%) Subversion
2 16 (22.22%) Eclipse
3 15 (20.83%) Maven
4 14 (19.44%) JIRA
5 5 (6.944%) Hudson
5 5 (6.944%) Ant
5 5 (6.944%) JMeter
6 4 (5.556%) TeamCity
6 4 (5.556%) Git (software)
7 3 (4.167%) JDeveloper
8 2 (2.778%) PowerDesigner
8 2 (2.778%) JUnit
8 2 (2.778%) MagicDraw
9 1 (1.389%) JBehave
9 1 (1.389%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (1.389%) Oracle Forms
General
1 30 (41.67%) Finance
2 15 (20.83%) Banking
3 12 (16.67%) Private Banking
4 6 (8.333%) Telecoms
4 6 (8.333%) Retail
5 3 (4.167%) Investment Banking
5 3 (4.167%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.389%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.389%) Games
6 1 (1.389%) Advertising
6 1 (1.389%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 26 (36.11%) Developer
2 15 (20.83%) Java Developer
3 11 (15.28%) Senior Developer
4 9 (12.50%) Test Engineer
5 8 (11.11%) Analyst
6 7 (9.722%) Lead Developer
7 6 (8.333%) Team Leader
7 6 (8.333%) Business Analyst
7 6 (8.333%) Automation Engineer
8 5 (6.944%) Java Architect
8 5 (6.944%) Java Technical Architect
8 5 (6.944%) Software Engineer
8 5 (6.944%) Architect
8 5 (6.944%) Java Team Leader
8 5 (6.944%) Systems Analyst
8 5 (6.944%) Technical Architect
9 4 (5.556%) Software Developer
9 4 (5.556%) C# Software Engineer
9 4 (5.556%) Senior Software Developer
9 4 (5.556%) .NET Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 15 (20.83%) N-Tier
2 8 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (8.333%) Clustering
3 6 (8.333%) Client/Server
3 6 (8.333%) Eucalyptus
4 4 (5.556%) Computer Science
4 4 (5.556%) Open Source
5 3 (4.167%) Derivative
6 2 (2.778%) Fixed Income
6 2 (2.778%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.389%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 18 (25.00%) UNIX
2 3 (4.167%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (43.06%) Agile Software Development
2 25 (34.72%) Scrum
3 22 (30.56%) Unit Testing
4 19 (26.39%) Data Modelling
5 15 (20.83%) Waterfall
6 12 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
6 12 (16.67%) Product Management
7 11 (15.28%) Extreme Programming
8 10 (13.89%) DSDM
9 8 (11.11%) MVC
9 8 (11.11%) Test Strategy
10 7 (9.722%) Business Analysis
10 7 (9.722%) Requirements Analysis
10 7 (9.722%) Business Intelligence
10 7 (9.722%) OO
11 6 (8.333%) TDD
11 6 (8.333%) OOA/OOD
11 6 (8.333%) Automated Testing
11 6 (8.333%) Use Case
11 6 (8.333%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 57 (79.17%) Java
2 39 (54.17%) SQL
3 12 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 11 (15.28%) PHP
4 11 (15.28%) Python
5 7 (9.722%) Perl
6 6 (8.333%) T-SQL
6 6 (8.333%) VBScript
6 6 (8.333%) PL/SQL
6 6 (8.333%) Ruby
7 5 (6.944%) C#
8 1 (1.389%) Groovy
8 1 (1.389%) C++
8 1 (1.389%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.389%) Jython
Qualifications
1 3 (4.167%) Degree
2 2 (2.778%) SC Cleared
2 2 (2.778%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.167%) QA
System Software
1 6 (8.333%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.389%) Oracle RAC
Vendors
1 16 (22.22%) Oracle
2 11 (15.28%) Microsoft
2 11 (15.28%) VMware
3 10 (13.89%) IBM
3 10 (13.89%) Citrix
3 10 (13.89%) Informatica
4 9 (12.50%) Sybase
5 4 (5.556%) Pega
6 3 (4.167%) JBoss
7 1 (1.389%) SAP
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Expert knowledge of Java and related frameworks including Spring. Ability to architect and deliver multi tier Java applications... In depth technical skills around SOA, BRMS, BPM and ESB...
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Salary: Attractive, plus flexible benefits
Posted: 30 April 2013
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Posted: 22 May 2013
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Salary: Attractive, plus flexible benefits
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