The first table below looks at the demand for WSE skills in IT jobs advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WSE over the 3 months to 21 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 London region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Web Services Enhancements (WSE)
Rank - 623 620
Permanent jobs citing WSE 0 15 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London - 0.028% 0.007%
As % of the Application Development category - 0.068% 0.018%
Number of salaries quoted 0 15 4
Average salary - £54,000 £52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +2.85%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-12.50% +6.66%
All Application Development
London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
17696 21966 22538
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 40.25% 40.78% 39.63%
Number of salaries quoted 15343 19585 19733
Average salary £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.26% -5.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £32,500 £33,500
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
WSE
England

WSE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London WSE Jobs Demand Trend

WSE
Salary Trend

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

London WSE Salary Trend

WSE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the London region citing WSE 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 WSE.

1 9 (100.00%) C#
1 9 (100.00%) .NET
2 8 (88.89%) Web Services
2 8 (88.89%) ASP.NET
2 8 (88.89%) WCF
3 7 (77.78%) SQL Server
3 7 (77.78%) E-Commerce
4 6 (66.67%) OO
4 6 (66.67%) MVC
4 6 (66.67%) SQL
4 6 (66.67%) jQuery
4 6 (66.67%) SQL Server 2008
5 5 (55.56%) Degree
5 5 (55.56%) HTML
6 4 (44.44%) Computer Science
6 4 (44.44%) Unit Testing
7 3 (33.33%) WPF
7 3 (33.33%) NHibernate
7 3 (33.33%) TDD
7 3 (33.33%) NUnit
7 3 (33.33%) Subversion
7 3 (33.33%) Ajax
7 3 (33.33%) T-SQL
7 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
7 3 (33.33%) CSS
7 3 (33.33%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
7 3 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
8 2 (22.22%) MSTest
8 2 (22.22%) Refactoring
8 2 (22.22%) BDD

WSE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the London region citing WSE 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 WSE. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (100.00%) .NET
2 8 (88.89%) Web Services
2 8 (88.89%) ASP.NET
2 8 (88.89%) WCF
3 6 (66.67%) jQuery
4 5 (55.56%) HTML
5 3 (33.33%) WPF
5 3 (33.33%) NHibernate
5 3 (33.33%) Ajax
5 3 (33.33%) CSS
5 3 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
6 2 (22.22%) Razor View Engine
6 2 (22.22%) DHTML
6 2 (22.22%) XML
6 2 (22.22%) WinForms
7 1 (11.11%) Spring MVC
7 1 (11.11%) .NET Framework
7 1 (11.11%) JSON
7 1 (11.11%) Spring
7 1 (11.11%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 2 (22.22%) LiveSite
2 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
2 1 (11.11%) CMS
2 1 (11.11%) IIS
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (77.78%) SQL Server
2 6 (66.67%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (33.33%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
4 2 (22.22%) SQL Server 2005
5 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (11.11%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) NUnit
1 3 (33.33%) Subversion
2 2 (22.22%) MSTest
2 2 (22.22%) Visual Studio
2 2 (22.22%) Git (software)
3 1 (11.11%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (11.11%) TeamCity
3 1 (11.11%) MSI
3 1 (11.11%) MSBuild
General
1 2 (22.22%) Games
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (100.00%) Developer
2 6 (66.67%) Web Developer
3 5 (55.56%) C# Developer
3 5 (55.56%) C# .NET Developer
4 3 (33.33%) .NET Developer
5 2 (22.22%) C# Web Developer
5 2 (22.22%) ASP.NET Developer
5 2 (22.22%) .NET Web Developer
5 2 (22.22%) C# ASP.NET Developer
6 1 (11.11%) UI Developer
6 1 (11.11%) Lead C# Developer
6 1 (11.11%) Lead Developer
6 1 (11.11%) UI Programmer
6 1 (11.11%) E-Commerce Web Developer
6 1 (11.11%) Agile .NET Developer
6 1 (11.11%) Agile C# Developer
6 1 (11.11%) Lead .NET Developer
6 1 (11.11%) Lead Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Computer Science
2 2 (22.22%) Mobile App
2 2 (22.22%) Streaming Video
3 1 (11.11%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (11.11%) UNIX
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) E-Commerce
2 6 (66.67%) OO
2 6 (66.67%) MVC
3 4 (44.44%) Unit Testing
4 3 (33.33%) TDD
5 2 (22.22%) Refactoring
5 2 (22.22%) BDD
5 2 (22.22%) Domain-Driven Design
5 2 (22.22%) Software Engineering
5 2 (22.22%) Agile Software Development
6 1 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (11.11%) Multithreading
6 1 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) C#
2 6 (66.67%) SQL
3 3 (33.33%) T-SQL
3 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 2 (22.22%) XAML
5 1 (11.11%) C
5 1 (11.11%) C++
5 1 (11.11%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Hyper-V