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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Rank 41 33 39
Rank change year-on-year
-8 +6
Permanent jobs citing SOA 10 38 15
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Liverpool 2.793% 7.451% 4.644%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.356% 9.769% 6.944%
Number of salaries quoted 9 23 15
Average salary £50,000 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+25.00% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £49,500 £32,500 £34,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £51,500 £41,500
UK excluding London average salary £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
All Processes & Methodologies
Liverpool
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
298 389 216
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Liverpool 83.24% 76.27% 66.87%
Number of salaries quoted 255 331 172
Average salary £37,500 £39,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.84% -2.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £30,000 £28,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
SOA
Merseyside

SOA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Liverpool 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 Liverpool region.

Liverpool SOA Salary Trend

SOA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Liverpool 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 11 (84.62%) Middleware
1 11 (84.62%) Oracle
2 10 (76.92%) WebLogic
2 10 (76.92%) Oracle Fusion
2 10 (76.92%) Oracle Service Bus
2 10 (76.92%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 9 (69.23%) Java
4 7 (53.85%) ESB
4 7 (53.85%) Oracle 11g
4 7 (53.85%) SQL
4 7 (53.85%) JMS
5 6 (46.15%) Oracle 10g
6 5 (38.46%) PL/SQL
7 4 (30.77%) Perl
7 4 (30.77%) Web Services
7 4 (30.77%) UNIX
7 4 (30.77%) Shell Script
7 4 (30.77%) WSDL
8 3 (23.08%) Oracle BPM
8 3 (23.08%) BPEL
9 2 (15.38%) Spring
9 2 (15.38%) Agile Software Development
9 2 (15.38%) AOP
9 2 (15.38%) Ruby
9 2 (15.38%) Unit Testing
9 2 (15.38%) Groovy
9 2 (15.38%) EJB 3.0
9 2 (15.38%) Computer Science
9 2 (15.38%) Spring Web Flow
9 2 (15.38%) Web Development

SOA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Liverpool 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 11 (84.62%) Middleware
2 10 (76.92%) Oracle Fusion
3 7 (53.85%) JMS
4 4 (30.77%) WSDL
4 4 (30.77%) Web Services
5 2 (15.38%) Hibernate
5 2 (15.38%) Spring
5 2 (15.38%) Spring Web Flow
5 2 (15.38%) EJB 3.0
5 2 (15.38%) HTML
5 2 (15.38%) EJB
5 2 (15.38%) CSS
5 2 (15.38%) Struts
Application Platforms
1 10 (76.92%) WebLogic
1 10 (76.92%) Oracle Service Bus
1 10 (76.92%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 7 (53.85%) ESB
Business Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Oracle BPM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (53.85%) Oracle 11g
2 6 (46.15%) Oracle 10g
3 1 (7.692%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) JUnit
General
1 1 (7.692%) Manufacturing
1 1 (7.692%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (92.31%) Developer
2 8 (61.54%) Oracle Developer
3 5 (38.46%) Middleware Developer
4 3 (23.08%) Oracle SOA Developer
4 3 (23.08%) SOA Developer
5 2 (15.38%) Java Developer
6 1 (7.692%) Analyst
6 1 (7.692%) Systems Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Computer Science
1 2 (15.38%) Open Source
2 1 (7.692%) Mobile App
2 1 (7.692%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (30.77%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (23.08%) BPEL
2 2 (15.38%) MVC
2 2 (15.38%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (15.38%) AOP
2 2 (15.38%) Web Development
2 2 (15.38%) Unit Testing
2 2 (15.38%) Dependency Injection
3 1 (7.692%) Project Management
3 1 (7.692%) Time Management
3 1 (7.692%) Software Testing
3 1 (7.692%) Logistics
3 1 (7.692%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 9 (69.23%) Java
2 7 (53.85%) SQL
3 5 (38.46%) PL/SQL
4 4 (30.77%) Perl
4 4 (30.77%) Shell Script
5 2 (15.38%) Ruby
5 2 (15.38%) Groovy
5 2 (15.38%) Python
5 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
5 2 (15.38%) C#
5 2 (15.38%) C++
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Degree
Vendors
1 11 (84.62%) Oracle
2 2 (15.38%) JBoss
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