The first table below looks at the demand for SOA skills in IT jobs advertised for the Leicester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SOA over the 3 months to 17 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 Leicester region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Rank 57 56 38
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -18
Permanent jobs citing SOA 1 1 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leicester 0.251% 0.274% 2.055%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.337% 0.369% 2.927%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 6
Average salary £42,500 £49,776 £29,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-14.61% +68.73%
UK excluding London average salary £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
All Processes & Methodologies
Leicester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
297 271 205
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leicester 74.62% 74.25% 70.21%
Number of salaries quoted 255 246 178
Average salary £38,048 £35,000 £39,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.70% -10.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £27,000 £24,150
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £55,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
SOA
Leicestershire

SOA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leicester 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 Leicester region.

Leicester SOA Salary Trend

SOA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leicester 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 2 (66.67%) C#
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
1 2 (66.67%) Web Services
1 2 (66.67%) N-Tier
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Web Development
1 2 (66.67%) WPF
1 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET
2 1 (33.33%) CSS
2 1 (33.33%) jQuery
2 1 (33.33%) HTML5
2 1 (33.33%) MVVM
2 1 (33.33%) CSS3
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
2 1 (33.33%) COBIT
2 1 (33.33%) SCADA
2 1 (33.33%) QA
2 1 (33.33%) WCF
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) TOGAF
2 1 (33.33%) Ajax
2 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) HTTP
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Middleware
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) UML
2 1 (33.33%) OOP

SOA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leicester 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 2 (66.67%) .NET
1 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET
1 2 (66.67%) Web Services
1 2 (66.67%) WPF
2 1 (33.33%) jQuery
2 1 (33.33%) HTML5
2 1 (33.33%) CSS3
2 1 (33.33%) Middleware
2 1 (33.33%) Ajax
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
2 1 (33.33%) WCF
2 1 (33.33%) CSS
2 1 (33.33%) ADO.NET
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Software Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) N-Tier
2 1 (33.33%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Web Development
2 1 (33.33%) MVVM
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) UML
2 1 (33.33%) OOP
2 1 (33.33%) OO
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) TOGAF
2 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) VB.NET
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) COBIT
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft