The first table below looks at the demand for SOAP skills in IT jobs advertised for the Leeds region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SOAP 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 Application Development category for the Leeds region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
Rank 80 96 73
Rank change year-on-year
+16 -23
Permanent jobs citing SOAP 65 42 40
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leeds 2.464% 1.970% 2.216%
As % of the Application Development category 6.047% 4.027% 4.756%
Number of salaries quoted 51 38 34
Average salary £35,000 £37,250 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.04% +6.42%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £29,000 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £56,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-6.25% -
All Application Development
Leeds
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
1075 1043 841
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leeds 40.75% 48.92% 46.59%
Number of salaries quoted 865 948 753
Average salary £34,000 £35,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.85% +7.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,500 £25,400
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £42,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
SOAP
West Yorkshire

SOAP
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing SOAP across the Leeds region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Leeds SOAP Jobs Demand Trend

SOAP
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing SOAP across the Leeds region.

Leeds SOAP Salary Trend

SOAP
Salary Histogram

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

Leeds SOAP Salary Histogram

SOAP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leeds region citing SOAP 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 SOAP.

1 141 (80.11%) Web Services
2 89 (50.57%) SQL
3 88 (50.00%) XML
4 77 (43.75%) .NET
5 66 (37.50%) Java
5 66 (37.50%) Microsoft
6 60 (34.09%) C#
7 56 (31.82%) ASP.NET
8 47 (26.70%) Agile Software Development
9 45 (25.57%) Oracle
10 43 (24.43%) VB.NET
11 42 (23.86%) XSD
12 41 (23.30%) OO
12 41 (23.30%) Team Foundation Server
13 40 (22.73%) WSDL
14 38 (21.59%) HTML
14 38 (21.59%) QA
15 35 (19.89%) JavaScript
16 34 (19.32%) Windows
17 33 (18.75%) jQuery
17 33 (18.75%) Selenium
18 29 (16.48%) SQL Server
19 27 (15.34%) WebLogic
19 27 (15.34%) WebSphere
20 26 (14.77%) HP Quality Center
20 26 (14.77%) Web Application Development
20 26 (14.77%) Workflow
20 26 (14.77%) MySQL
21 25 (14.20%) Finance
21 25 (14.20%) IBM

SOAP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leeds region citing SOAP 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 SOAP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 141 (80.11%) Web Services
2 88 (50.00%) XML
3 77 (43.75%) .NET
4 56 (31.82%) ASP.NET
5 42 (23.86%) XSD
6 40 (22.73%) WSDL
7 38 (21.59%) HTML
8 33 (18.75%) jQuery
9 27 (15.34%) WebSphere
10 23 (13.07%) J2EE
11 22 (12.50%) Ajax
12 18 (10.23%) Spring
12 18 (10.23%) Hibernate
12 18 (10.23%) WinForms
13 17 (9.659%) JMS
14 14 (7.955%) Apache Wicket
14 14 (7.955%) JPA
14 14 (7.955%) Spring Integration
14 14 (7.955%) JAXB
15 12 (6.818%) JSON
Application Platforms
1 27 (15.34%) WebLogic
2 23 (13.07%) IIS
2 23 (13.07%) Oracle 9iAS
3 22 (12.50%) Oracle Workflow
4 19 (10.80%) Tomcat
5 5 (2.841%) Apache
5 5 (2.841%) SharePoint
6 4 (2.273%) Magento
7 2 (1.136%) CMS
7 2 (1.136%) WebSphere Application Server
7 2 (1.136%) ESB
8 1 (0.568%) WordPress
8 1 (0.568%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.568%) ActiveMQ
Applications
1 9 (5.114%) MS Excel
2 3 (1.705%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.568%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 21 (11.93%) Firewall
2 20 (11.36%) Internet
3 3 (1.705%) HTTP
3 3 (1.705%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.136%) BSS
5 1 (0.568%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (16.48%) SQL Server
2 26 (14.77%) MySQL
3 17 (9.659%) SQL Server 2005
4 5 (2.841%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (1.705%) DB2
6 2 (1.136%) Oracle 8/8i
7 1 (0.568%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (0.568%) SQL Server 2008
7 1 (0.568%) Oracle 11g
7 1 (0.568%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 1 (0.568%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.568%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 41 (23.30%) Team Foundation Server
2 33 (18.75%) Selenium
3 18 (10.23%) JUnit
4 15 (8.523%) Maven
5 14 (7.955%) JBehave
5 14 (7.955%) SpecFlow
5 14 (7.955%) Cucumber
5 14 (7.955%) FitNesse
6 12 (6.818%) Bugzilla
6 12 (6.818%) JIRA
7 9 (5.114%) QuickTest Pro
8 5 (2.841%) Visual Studio
9 3 (1.705%) JMeter
10 2 (1.136%) Eclipse
11 1 (0.568%) Git (software)
11 1 (0.568%) MyEclipse
11 1 (0.568%) Hudson
11 1 (0.568%) WebDriver
11 1 (0.568%) Subversion
11 1 (0.568%) Ant
General
1 25 (14.20%) Finance
2 11 (6.250%) Games
3 7 (3.977%) Law
4 4 (2.273%) Advertising
4 4 (2.273%) Telecoms
5 2 (1.136%) Marketing
5 2 (1.136%) Billing
6 1 (0.568%) Banking
6 1 (0.568%) Retail
Job Titles
1 105 (59.66%) Developer
2 43 (24.43%) Java Developer
3 42 (23.86%) Software Developer
4 37 (21.02%) Analyst
5 33 (18.75%) .NET Developer
6 27 (15.34%) Test Analyst
7 22 (12.50%) Technical Analyst
8 21 (11.93%) Senior Developer
9 19 (10.80%) Senior Java Developer
10 18 (10.23%) Technical Support
11 14 (7.955%) Java/J2EE Developer
11 14 (7.955%) J2EE Developer
12 12 (6.818%) Tester
12 12 (6.818%) Technical Test Analyst
13 10 (5.682%) C# Developer
13 10 (5.682%) Support Analyst
13 10 (5.682%) Technical Support Analyst
14 9 (5.114%) Architect
15 8 (4.545%) Automated Tester
15 8 (4.545%) Web Tester
Miscellaneous
1 6 (3.409%) Management Information System
2 3 (1.705%) New Media
2 3 (1.705%) Open Source
3 2 (1.136%) N-Tier
4 1 (0.568%) iPad
4 1 (0.568%) e-Health
4 1 (0.568%) Web 2.0
4 1 (0.568%) Computer Science
4 1 (0.568%) Client/Server
4 1 (0.568%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 34 (19.32%) Windows
2 17 (9.659%) UNIX
3 16 (9.091%) Linux
4 2 (1.136%) Windows XP
4 2 (1.136%) Windows NT
4 2 (1.136%) Windows 8
4 2 (1.136%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.568%) openSUSE
5 1 (0.568%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.568%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.568%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (26.70%) Agile Software Development
2 41 (23.30%) OO
3 26 (14.77%) Web Application Development
3 26 (14.77%) Workflow
4 23 (13.07%) Test Automation
4 23 (13.07%) Business Analysis
5 21 (11.93%) TDD
6 19 (10.80%) Test Management
6 19 (10.80%) BDD
7 17 (9.659%) Automated Testing
8 16 (9.091%) E-Commerce
9 15 (8.523%) Usability Testing
10 14 (7.955%) Enterprise Architecture
10 14 (7.955%) Technical Architecture
10 14 (7.955%) User Stories
11 11 (6.250%) Test Strategy
11 11 (6.250%) Waterfall
12 10 (5.682%) Unit Testing
13 9 (5.114%) Agile Testing
13 9 (5.114%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 89 (50.57%) SQL
2 66 (37.50%) Java
3 60 (34.09%) C#
4 43 (24.43%) VB.NET
5 35 (19.89%) JavaScript
6 21 (11.93%) T-SQL
7 12 (6.818%) PHP
8 11 (6.250%) VB
9 9 (5.114%) VB6
10 3 (1.705%) PHP5
10 3 (1.705%) PHP4
10 3 (1.705%) XAML
11 2 (1.136%) C
11 2 (1.136%) C++
12 1 (0.568%) Groovy
12 1 (0.568%) Bash shell
12 1 (0.568%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.568%) Embedded C
12 1 (0.568%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 6 (3.409%) ISEB
2 3 (1.705%) Degree
3 2 (1.136%) ISTQB
4 1 (0.568%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (21.59%) QA
2 18 (10.23%) SLA
3 5 (2.841%) HL7
Systems Management
1 26 (14.77%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 66 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 45 (25.57%) Oracle
3 25 (14.20%) IBM
4 23 (13.07%) BEA
5 18 (10.23%) JBoss
6 16 (9.091%) HP
7 5 (2.841%) Metastorm
8 4 (2.273%) Zend
9 3 (1.705%) Adobe
9 3 (1.705%) ATG
10 2 (1.136%) Dell
11 1 (0.568%) Google
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