The first table below looks at the demand for SOA skills in IT jobs advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SOA over the 3 months to 22 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 Hertfordshire region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Rank 96 73 49
Rank change year-on-year
-23 -24
Permanent jobs citing SOA 49 81 143
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 1.995% 3.135% 4.319%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.604% 4.290% 5.648%
Number of salaries quoted 44 70 106
Average salary £53,750 £60,000 £57,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-10.41% +4.34%
90% offered a salary of more than £47,650 £39,800 £37,500
10% offered a salary of more than £93,500 £70,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £47,500 £47,750 £47,500
% change year-on-year
-0.52% +0.52%
All Processes & Methodologies
Hertfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1882 1888 2532
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 76.63% 73.07% 76.47%
Number of salaries quoted 1491 1527 2046
Average salary £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.26% +5.55%
90% offered a salary of more than £31,650 £31,500 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
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 Hertfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire SOA Salary Trend

SOA
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SOA across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 22 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
Hertford +2 14 £50,000 +11.11%
Hitchin - 4 - -
Watford - 2 £45,000 -
St Albans -6 1 £55,000 -4.34%
Welwyn Garden City -29 1 £70,000 -12.50%
Rickmansworth - 1 £61,500 -
SOA
East of England

SOA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 65 (58.04%) Java
2 60 (53.57%) Web Services
3 57 (50.89%) Oracle
4 45 (40.18%) XML
5 43 (38.39%) CRM
6 40 (35.71%) J2EE
6 40 (35.71%) SQL
7 38 (33.93%) Hibernate
7 38 (33.93%) Retail
7 38 (33.93%) Spring
8 33 (29.46%) JavaScript
9 32 (28.57%) UNIX
10 31 (27.68%) JSP
11 29 (25.89%) Finance
12 28 (25.00%) SQL Server
13 26 (23.21%) Middleware
13 26 (23.21%) XSLT
13 26 (23.21%) SAP
14 25 (22.32%) WebLogic
14 25 (22.32%) OO
14 25 (22.32%) MVC
14 25 (22.32%) Maven
14 25 (22.32%) Web Application Development
15 24 (21.43%) Web Development
15 24 (21.43%) JBoss
15 24 (21.43%) Servlets
16 23 (20.54%) WebSphere
17 22 (19.64%) Subversion
17 22 (19.64%) Ant
17 22 (19.64%) MySQL

SOA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 60 (53.57%) Web Services
2 45 (40.18%) XML
3 40 (35.71%) J2EE
4 38 (33.93%) Hibernate
4 38 (33.93%) Spring
5 31 (27.68%) JSP
6 26 (23.21%) Middleware
6 26 (23.21%) XSLT
7 24 (21.43%) Servlets
8 23 (20.54%) WebSphere
9 20 (17.86%) Castor
9 20 (17.86%) JiBX
9 20 (17.86%) XMLBeans
9 20 (17.86%) XML Schema
9 20 (17.86%) Struts
9 20 (17.86%) JDBC
9 20 (17.86%) JAXB
10 19 (16.96%) .NET
10 19 (16.96%) SAP BSP
11 16 (14.29%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 25 (22.32%) WebLogic
2 21 (18.75%) Tomcat
3 20 (17.86%) Oracle Workflow
4 18 (16.07%) ESB
5 12 (10.71%) NetWeaver
6 7 (6.250%) CMS
7 6 (5.357%) Gentran
7 6 (5.357%) Sonic ESB
7 6 (5.357%) BizTalk Server
8 5 (4.464%) Windows Azure
9 4 (3.571%) SharePoint
10 3 (2.679%) Oracle Application Server
11 2 (1.786%) TIBCO EMS
11 2 (1.786%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (1.786%) Apache
12 1 (0.893%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 8 (7.143%) MS Excel
2 6 (5.357%) MS Office
3 3 (2.679%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (8.036%) Oracle EBS
2 8 (7.143%) SAP BPC
3 4 (3.571%) Oracle Retail
4 3 (2.679%) SAP R/3
5 2 (1.786%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
5 2 (1.786%) BusinessWorks
6 1 (0.893%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.929%) HTTP
2 6 (5.357%) Intranet
2 6 (5.357%) FTP
2 6 (5.357%) HTTPS
3 4 (3.571%) Internet
4 1 (0.893%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 22 (19.64%) MySQL
3 9 (8.036%) RDBMS
3 9 (8.036%) DataStage
4 8 (7.143%) SAP BW
4 8 (7.143%) DB2
5 6 (5.357%) MongoDB
5 6 (5.357%) GIS
6 5 (4.464%) Oracle 8/8i
6 5 (4.464%) Oracle 10g
7 3 (2.679%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (2.679%) Crystal Reports
8 1 (0.893%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.893%) SQL Server 2005
8 1 (0.893%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 25 (22.32%) Maven
2 22 (19.64%) Subversion
2 22 (19.64%) Ant
3 21 (18.75%) Eclipse
4 7 (6.250%) JUnit
5 5 (4.464%) Rhino Mocks
6 4 (3.571%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (2.679%) Visual Studio
8 2 (1.786%) JIRA
General
1 38 (33.93%) Retail
2 29 (25.89%) Finance
3 8 (7.143%) Games
4 5 (4.464%) Advertising
5 2 (1.786%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 64 (57.14%) Developer
2 31 (27.68%) Senior Developer
3 30 (26.79%) Java Developer
4 27 (24.11%) Architect
5 23 (20.54%) Solutions Architect
6 21 (18.75%) Senior Java Developer
7 20 (17.86%) SAP Developer
8 15 (13.39%) Middleware Developer
9 10 (8.929%) ABAP Developer
10 8 (7.143%) Lead Architect
10 8 (7.143%) Analyst
10 8 (7.143%) Consultant
11 7 (6.250%) Lead Solutions Architect
12 6 (5.357%) .NET Developer
12 6 (5.357%) Senior Consultant
13 5 (4.464%) Lead Developer
13 5 (4.464%) C# Developer
13 5 (4.464%) C# .NET Developer
14 4 (3.571%) Oracle Solutions Architect
14 4 (3.571%) Oracle Architect
Miscellaneous
1 20 (17.86%) Mobile App
2 11 (9.821%) Computer Science
3 10 (8.929%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (8.036%) Mainframe
4 9 (8.036%) FMCG
4 9 (8.036%) DataPower
5 8 (7.143%) Management Information System
6 4 (3.571%) iPhone
6 4 (3.571%) Blackberry
6 4 (3.571%) W3C
6 4 (3.571%) N-Tier
7 2 (1.786%) PKI
7 2 (1.786%) Web 2.0
7 2 (1.786%) NHS
8 1 (0.893%) CLARiiON
8 1 (0.893%) Symmetrix
8 1 (0.893%) Celerra
8 1 (0.893%) Spread Betting
Operating Systems
1 32 (28.57%) UNIX
2 20 (17.86%) Android
3 16 (14.29%) Apple iOS
4 9 (8.036%) Windows
5 6 (5.357%) Solaris
6 1 (0.893%) VMS
6 1 (0.893%) Linux
6 1 (0.893%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (38.39%) CRM
2 25 (22.32%) OO
2 25 (22.32%) MVC
2 25 (22.32%) Web Application Development
3 24 (21.43%) Web Development
4 21 (18.75%) Multithreading
5 20 (17.86%) ERP
5 20 (17.86%) Workflow
6 18 (16.07%) TDD
7 16 (14.29%) Mobile Application Development
8 12 (10.71%) Unit Testing
9 10 (8.929%) Scrum
9 10 (8.929%) UML
10 9 (8.036%) BDD
11 8 (7.143%) TOGAF
12 7 (6.250%) E-Commerce
12 7 (6.250%) Migration
12 7 (6.250%) SAP ESA
13 6 (5.357%) Root Cause Analysis
13 6 (5.357%) Risk Analysis
Programming Languages
1 65 (58.04%) Java
2 40 (35.71%) SQL
3 33 (29.46%) JavaScript
4 22 (19.64%) ABAP
5 14 (12.50%) Shell Script
6 13 (11.61%) C#
7 6 (5.357%) ActionScript 2.0
7 6 (5.357%) Groovy
7 6 (5.357%) XPath
7 6 (5.357%) ActionScript
8 5 (4.464%) PL/SQL
8 5 (4.464%) Scala
9 3 (2.679%) Perl
9 3 (2.679%) Korn
9 3 (2.679%) Bourne shell
9 3 (2.679%) Bash shell
10 2 (1.786%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
10 2 (1.786%) Python
11 1 (0.893%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 15 (13.39%) Degree
2 1 (0.893%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.464%) QA
2 1 (0.893%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (1.786%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
2 1 (0.893%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.893%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (1.786%) HP Quality Center
1 2 (1.786%) Tivoli
2 1 (0.893%) OpenView
2 1 (0.893%) OVSD
Vendors
1 57 (50.89%) Oracle
2 26 (23.21%) SAP
3 24 (21.43%) JBoss
4 6 (5.357%) IBM
5 4 (3.571%) TIBCO
5 4 (3.571%) Microsoft
6 2 (1.786%) BEA
7 1 (0.893%) Symbian
7 1 (0.893%) BT
7 1 (0.893%) VMware
7 1 (0.893%) Sun
7 1 (0.893%) HP
7 1 (0.893%) EMC
7 1 (0.893%) Brocade
Welwyn Garden City
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Tesco
Salary: Competitive Salary with Excellent Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Welwyn Garden City
Title: Lead Solutions Architect (SA, Architect) Location: Welwyn Garden City, Herts, Key Skills: Architecture, Leadership, SOA An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Lead Solutions Architect for integration...
Tesco
Salary: Competitive Salary with Excellent Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Hertfordshire
You will need strong core skills in Java, JDBC, JSP, SQL, MVC framework, Web Services, team leading and design... Core skills and experience - Strong Java programming skills including...
Computer People
Salary: £50000.00 - £60000.00 per annum + Excellent benefits
Posted: 16 May 2013
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Working knowledge of XML, XML Schema and XSLT. Web Development - JSP, Servlets, JavaScript. Working knowledge of at least one J2EE container such as Tomcat, JBoss, Websphere or Weblogic.....
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Salary: From £40,000 to £60,000 per annum £40,000 - £60,000 Depending on exper
Posted: 17 May 2013
Hertfordshire
Core skills and experience *Strong Java programming skills including the use of Java 1.5+ language features *Database Development on MSSQL, Oracle or MySQL using SQL and JDBC *...
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Salary: £55000.00 - £60000.00 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
Hertfordshire, South East
Exciting company in the Financial Services sector are currently recruiting for a Middleware Engineer.Essential skills:3-4 years experience in a demanding, high availability environment Oracle Weblogic...
DP Connect Ltd
Salary: £60000 per annum + Bonus, Pension, Healthcare
Posted: 18 May 2013
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This role will include liaisons with other technical teams under I.T Infrastructure & Networks such as Unix Services, Database Services, Essential: *3-4 years' experience in a demanding,...
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Salary: £50000 per annum + £59,000 package
Posted: 21 May 2013
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Salary: Competitive
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