The first table below looks at the demand for SOA skills in IT jobs advertised for the Highlands region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SOA over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Highlands region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Rank - - -
Permanent jobs citing SOA 0 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the Highlands - - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Average salary - - -
UK excluding London average salary £48,000 £48,750 £47,500
% change year-on-year
-1.53% +2.63%
All Processes & Methodologies
Highlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
22 10 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the Highlands 53.66% 47.62% 30.00%
Number of salaries quoted 3 4 0
Average salary £25,000 £37,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-33.33% -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
SOA
Scotland

SOA
Top 12 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Highlands 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 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) Ant
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) EJB
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared

SOA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Highlands 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 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) EJB
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Ant
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared