The first table below looks at the demand for SOAP skills in IT jobs advertised for the Leicestershire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SOAP over the 3 months to 20 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 Leicestershire region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
Rank 74 63 55
Rank change year-on-year
-11 -8
Permanent jobs citing SOAP 6 9 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leicestershire 0.884% 1.271% 0.560%
As % of the Application Development category 1.899% 2.486% 1.224%
Number of salaries quoted 2 9 3
Average salary £25,750 £37,500 £41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-31.33% -8.53%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,350 £37,300 £36,200
10% offered a salary of more than £29,150 £40,000 £41,316
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-6.25% -
All Application Development
Leicestershire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
316 362 245
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leicestershire 46.54% 51.13% 45.71%
Number of salaries quoted 279 331 226
Average salary £37,500 £32,500 £31,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+15.38% +4.83%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £25,000 £20,000
10% offered a salary of more than £46,000 £45,000 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
SOAP
East Midlands

SOAP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire region.

Leicestershire SOAP Salary Trend

SOAP
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SOAP within the Leicestershire region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Loughborough - 4 - -
Leicester -13 1 £21,500 -42.66%
SOAP
East Midlands

SOAP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leicestershire 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 6 (100.00%) Web Services
1 6 (100.00%) XML
1 6 (100.00%) JSON
2 5 (83.33%) PHPUnit
2 5 (83.33%) jQuery
2 5 (83.33%) REST
2 5 (83.33%) XHTML
2 5 (83.33%) HTML
2 5 (83.33%) JavaScript
2 5 (83.33%) PHP
2 5 (83.33%) MySQL
2 5 (83.33%) SEO
2 5 (83.33%) CMS
2 5 (83.33%) LAMP
2 5 (83.33%) Agile Software Development
2 5 (83.33%) TDD
2 5 (83.33%) Subversion
2 5 (83.33%) Ajax
2 5 (83.33%) CSS
3 4 (66.67%) Degree
3 4 (66.67%) Change Management
3 4 (66.67%) MVC
3 4 (66.67%) C
3 4 (66.67%) Photoshop
3 4 (66.67%) Eclipse
3 4 (66.67%) Adobe
3 4 (66.67%) Apple
3 4 (66.67%) Mobile Commerce
3 4 (66.67%) CSS3
3 4 (66.67%) User Acceptance Testing

SOAP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leicestershire 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 6 (100.00%) Web Services
1 6 (100.00%) XML
1 6 (100.00%) JSON
2 5 (83.33%) jQuery
2 5 (83.33%) HTML
2 5 (83.33%) CSS
2 5 (83.33%) XHTML
2 5 (83.33%) LAMP
2 5 (83.33%) Ajax
2 5 (83.33%) REST
3 4 (66.67%) CSS3
3 4 (66.67%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 5 (83.33%) CMS
2 4 (66.67%) WordPress
2 4 (66.67%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Photoshop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) MySQL
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Subversion
1 5 (83.33%) PHPUnit
2 4 (66.67%) Cucumber
2 4 (66.67%) Eclipse
2 4 (66.67%) JIRA
2 4 (66.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 4 (66.67%) Git (software)
General
1 1 (16.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Developer
2 4 (66.67%) Software Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Web Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) QA Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) SEO
1 5 (83.33%) Agile Software Development
1 5 (83.33%) TDD
2 4 (66.67%) Mobile Commerce
2 4 (66.67%) Change Management
2 4 (66.67%) MVC
2 4 (66.67%) Refactoring
2 4 (66.67%) User Acceptance Testing
2 4 (66.67%) Waterfall
3 1 (16.67%) Unit Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) JavaScript
1 5 (83.33%) PHP
2 4 (66.67%) C
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Adobe
1 4 (66.67%) Apple
1 4 (66.67%) Zend
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
Leicester, Leicestershire
To be considered for the Technical QA Analyst position, you must have the following: Technical skills Test Driven Development (desirable) SQL/Microsoft SQL Server (essential) Understanding of XML,...
Advantage XPO
Salary: £20000 - £25000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 25 April 2013