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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Rank 8 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing SOA 4 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hitchin 12.90% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.81% - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Average salary - - -
UK excluding London average salary £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
All Processes & Methodologies
Hitchin
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
27 15 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hitchin 87.10% 75.00% 77.78%
Number of salaries quoted 11 12 5
Average salary £37,500 £40,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.25% -11.11%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £40,000 £37,500
10% offered a salary of more than £38,250 £45,000 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
SOA
Hertfordshire

SOA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hitchin 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 Hitchin region.

Hitchin SOA Salary Trend

SOA
Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hitchin 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 5 (100.00%) Java
1 5 (100.00%) Finance
2 4 (80.00%) Middleware
2 4 (80.00%) Java EE
3 1 (20.00%) Project Planning
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (20.00%) Project Management
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) .NET
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (20.00%) PRINCE2
3 1 (20.00%) UNIX
3 1 (20.00%) Linux
3 1 (20.00%) MS Excel
3 1 (20.00%) RDBMS

SOA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hitchin 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 4 (80.00%) Middleware
1 4 (80.00%) Java EE
2 1 (20.00%) .NET
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (20.00%) RDBMS
General
1 5 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Senior Analyst
1 4 (80.00%) Analyst Developer
1 4 (80.00%) Developer
1 4 (80.00%) Analyst
1 4 (80.00%) Senior Developer
1 4 (80.00%) Senior Analyst Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Manager
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) UNIX
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) Project Planning
1 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (20.00%) Project Management
1 1 (20.00%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle