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

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Rank 43 43 20
Rank change year-on-year
0 -23
Permanent jobs citing SOA 11 2 33
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Ipswich 3.406% 0.766% 11.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.140% 0.935% 14.47%
Number of salaries quoted 11 2 33
Average salary £37,500 £40,000 £52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.25% -23.80%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £40,000 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £40,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £47,500 £47,750 £47,500
% change year-on-year
-0.52% +0.52%
All Processes & Methodologies
Ipswich
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
214 214 228
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Ipswich 66.25% 81.99% 76.77%
Number of salaries quoted 196 190 214
Average salary £40,000 £39,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.56% +4.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,500 £25,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £55,000 £54,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
SOA
Suffolk

SOA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Ipswich 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 Ipswich region.

Ipswich SOA Salary Trend

SOA
Salary Histogram

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

Ipswich SOA Salary Histogram

SOA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Ipswich 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 34 (91.89%) Web Services
2 30 (81.08%) .NET
3 29 (78.38%) C#
4 27 (72.97%) Microsoft
5 23 (62.16%) Ajax
6 22 (59.46%) .NET Framework
7 18 (48.65%) OO
7 18 (48.65%) SQL
8 17 (45.95%) TDD
9 16 (43.24%) jQuery
10 14 (37.84%) SQL Server
11 12 (32.43%) Games
12 11 (29.73%) Pair Programming
12 11 (29.73%) Continuous Integration
12 11 (29.73%) WCF
12 11 (29.73%) BDD
12 11 (29.73%) Windows Azure
12 11 (29.73%) JavaScript
12 11 (29.73%) HTML
12 11 (29.73%) Finance
12 11 (29.73%) CSS
13 8 (21.62%) Java
13 8 (21.62%) VB.NET
13 8 (21.62%) SaaS
14 7 (18.92%) Retail
14 7 (18.92%) T-SQL
14 7 (18.92%) Visual Studio
14 7 (18.92%) XML
14 7 (18.92%) XSD
14 7 (18.92%) XSLT

SOA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Ipswich 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 34 (91.89%) Web Services
2 30 (81.08%) .NET
3 23 (62.16%) Ajax
4 22 (59.46%) .NET Framework
5 16 (43.24%) jQuery
6 11 (29.73%) WCF
6 11 (29.73%) HTML
6 11 (29.73%) CSS
7 7 (18.92%) XML
7 7 (18.92%) XSD
7 7 (18.92%) XSLT
8 6 (16.22%) J2EE
9 5 (13.51%) Hibernate
9 5 (13.51%) Spring
9 5 (13.51%) JSF
9 5 (13.51%) GWT
10 1 (2.703%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 11 (29.73%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 4 (10.81%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (37.84%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.703%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (18.92%) Visual Studio
General
1 12 (32.43%) Games
2 11 (29.73%) Finance
3 7 (18.92%) Retail
Job Titles
1 34 (91.89%) Developer
2 25 (67.57%) .NET Developer
3 21 (56.76%) C# .NET Developer
3 21 (56.76%) C# Developer
4 16 (43.24%) Senior Developer
5 11 (29.73%) Senior .NET Developer
5 11 (29.73%) Agile .NET Developer
5 11 (29.73%) Agile C# Developer
5 11 (29.73%) Senior C# Developer
6 5 (13.51%) Java/J2EE Developer
6 5 (13.51%) Java Developer
6 5 (13.51%) Senior Java Developer
7 4 (10.81%) Software Developer
8 2 (5.405%) Project Manager
9 1 (2.703%) Lead Software Engineer
9 1 (2.703%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (21.62%) SaaS
2 4 (10.81%) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (48.65%) OO
2 17 (45.95%) TDD
3 11 (29.73%) Pair Programming
3 11 (29.73%) Continuous Integration
3 11 (29.73%) BDD
4 7 (18.92%) UML
5 6 (16.22%) Agile Software Development
6 5 (13.51%) Rapid Prototyping
7 2 (5.405%) PRINCE2
7 2 (5.405%) Scrum
8 1 (2.703%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (78.38%) C#
2 18 (48.65%) SQL
3 11 (29.73%) JavaScript
4 8 (21.62%) Java
4 8 (21.62%) VB.NET
5 7 (18.92%) T-SQL
6 1 (2.703%) Scala
6 1 (2.703%) C++
Qualifications
1 1 (2.703%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
1 1 (2.703%) PMP
Vendors
1 27 (72.97%) Microsoft