The first table below looks at the demand for SOA skills in IT jobs advertised for the Gloucestershire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SOA over the 3 months to 24 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 Gloucestershire region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Rank 84 52 83
Rank change year-on-year
-32 +31
Permanent jobs citing SOA 11 52 11
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 1.250% 4.173% 0.933%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.786% 5.843% 1.337%
Number of salaries quoted 10 31 7
Average salary £35,000 £34,000 £36,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.94% -5.55%
UK excluding London average salary £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
All Processes & Methodologies
Gloucestershire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
616 890 823
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 70.00% 71.43% 69.80%
Number of salaries quoted 537 734 733
Average salary £36,000 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-10.00% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £30,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
SOA
South West

SOA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region.

Gloucestershire SOA Salary Trend

SOA
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SOA across the Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Gloucestershire SOA Salary Histogram

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 Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Cirencester -6 6 £35,000 +1.44%
Cheltenham -11 3 £39,000 +14.70%
Stroud -2 1 £50,000 +47.05%
SOA
South West

SOA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 15 (100.00%) C#
1 15 (100.00%) .NET
2 13 (86.67%) SQL
2 13 (86.67%) SQL Server
3 12 (80.00%) T-SQL
3 12 (80.00%) Web Services
4 11 (73.33%) XML
4 11 (73.33%) ASP.NET
5 10 (66.67%) OO
6 8 (53.33%) XPath
6 8 (53.33%) Wealth Management
6 8 (53.33%) XSLT
6 8 (53.33%) CSS
6 8 (53.33%) HTML
6 8 (53.33%) JavaScript
7 3 (20.00%) SOAP
7 3 (20.00%) MS Excel
7 3 (20.00%) EDI
7 3 (20.00%) N-Tier
7 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
7 3 (20.00%) BizTalk Server
7 3 (20.00%) Middleware
7 3 (20.00%) MVC
7 3 (20.00%) Finance
7 3 (20.00%) WCF
7 3 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC
8 2 (13.33%) ASP.NET MVC 3
8 2 (13.33%) SQL Server 2008
8 2 (13.33%) SQL Server 2005
8 2 (13.33%) Agile Software Development

SOA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 15 (100.00%) .NET
2 12 (80.00%) Web Services
3 11 (73.33%) XML
3 11 (73.33%) ASP.NET
4 8 (53.33%) XSLT
4 8 (53.33%) CSS
4 8 (53.33%) HTML
5 3 (20.00%) SOAP
5 3 (20.00%) EDI
5 3 (20.00%) Middleware
5 3 (20.00%) WCF
5 3 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC
6 2 (13.33%) ASP.NET MVC 3
7 1 (6.667%) ASP.NET MVC 4
Application Platforms
1 3 (20.00%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 3 (20.00%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (6.667%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (6.667%) Dynamics CRM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (86.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (13.33%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (13.33%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (6.667%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (6.667%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (6.667%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 1 (6.667%) Visual Studio
1 1 (6.667%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 3 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (6.667%) Banking
2 1 (6.667%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 15 (100.00%) Developer
2 12 (80.00%) .NET Developer
3 10 (66.67%) C# Developer
4 9 (60.00%) ASP.NET Developer
4 9 (60.00%) C# ASP.NET Developer
4 9 (60.00%) C# .NET Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Software Developer
6 1 (6.667%) Analyst Developer
6 1 (6.667%) Analyst
6 1 (6.667%) Web Developer
6 1 (6.667%) Applications Developer
6 1 (6.667%) Senior Developer
6 1 (6.667%) Senior ASP.NET Developer
6 1 (6.667%) C# Web Developer
6 1 (6.667%) Web Applications Developer
6 1 (6.667%) Senior C# Developer
6 1 (6.667%) Senior .NET Developer
6 1 (6.667%) C# Application Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) OO
2 8 (53.33%) Wealth Management
3 3 (20.00%) MVC
4 2 (13.33%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (6.667%) ERP
5 1 (6.667%) Scrum
5 1 (6.667%) CRM
5 1 (6.667%) E-Commerce
5 1 (6.667%) Logistics
5 1 (6.667%) V-Model
5 1 (6.667%) Unit Testing
5 1 (6.667%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (6.667%) Product Marketing
Programming Languages
1 15 (100.00%) C#
2 13 (86.67%) SQL
3 12 (80.00%) T-SQL
4 8 (53.33%) XPath
4 8 (53.33%) JavaScript
5 1 (6.667%) PL/SQL
5 1 (6.667%) F#
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.667%) Oracle
Cirencester, Gloucestershire
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Salary: Market Rates
Posted: 20 May 2013
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Knowledge of OO Design (OOD) and Service Orientated Architectures (SOA)... - Experience using XAML / Expression... This successful C# Software Developer ( Programmer, Software Engineer, .NET, UI, Silverlight, WPF, SQL Server )...
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