The first table below looks at the demand for SOA skills in IT jobs advertised for the Luton region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SOA over the 3 months to 24 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 Luton region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Rank 36 44 38
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -6
Permanent jobs citing SOA 8 2 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Luton 2.162% 0.533% 0.389%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.640% 0.917% 0.439%
Number of salaries quoted 6 2 1
Average salary £55,000 £55,000 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +15.78%
UK excluding London average salary £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
All Processes & Methodologies
Luton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
303 218 228
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Luton 81.89% 58.13% 88.72%
Number of salaries quoted 266 180 194
Average salary £47,500 £47,500 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +11.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,250 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £57,500 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
SOA
Bedfordshire

SOA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Luton 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 Luton region.

Luton SOA Salary Trend

SOA
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SOA across the Luton region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Luton SOA Salary Histogram

SOA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Luton 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 23 (100.00%) .NET
1 23 (100.00%) TDD
2 21 (91.30%) C#
3 15 (65.22%) MVC
3 15 (65.22%) HTML
3 15 (65.22%) JavaScript
3 15 (65.22%) SQL Server
3 15 (65.22%) ASP.NET
3 15 (65.22%) Web Development
3 15 (65.22%) Scrum
3 15 (65.22%) BDD
4 12 (52.17%) Unit Testing
5 11 (47.83%) Dependency Injection
5 11 (47.83%) Inversion of Control
5 11 (47.83%) NHibernate
5 11 (47.83%) Microsoft
6 10 (43.48%) E-Commerce
7 8 (34.78%) BizTalk Server
7 8 (34.78%) Internet
7 8 (34.78%) N-Tier
7 8 (34.78%) MS Excel
7 8 (34.78%) SharePoint
7 8 (34.78%) Web Services
7 8 (34.78%) XML
7 8 (34.78%) Windows
7 8 (34.78%) AOP
7 8 (34.78%) Change Management
7 8 (34.78%) Continuous Integration
7 8 (34.78%) Refactoring
7 8 (34.78%) ASP.NET MVC

SOA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Luton 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 23 (100.00%) .NET
2 15 (65.22%) HTML
2 15 (65.22%) ASP.NET
3 11 (47.83%) NHibernate
4 8 (34.78%) Web Services
4 8 (34.78%) XML
4 8 (34.78%) ASP.NET MVC
5 7 (30.43%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 8 (34.78%) BizTalk Server
1 8 (34.78%) SharePoint
2 6 (26.09%) SharePoint Server
3 3 (13.04%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 8 (34.78%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 8 (34.78%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (65.22%) SQL Server
2 7 (30.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 5 (21.74%) SQL Server 2008
3 5 (21.74%) SQL Server 2005
3 5 (21.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (21.74%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (21.74%) GIS
Development Applications
1 8 (34.78%) Team Foundation Server
2 3 (13.04%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (30.43%) Retail
2 3 (13.04%) Games
2 3 (13.04%) Investment Banking
2 3 (13.04%) Banking
Job Titles
1 20 (86.96%) Developer
2 17 (73.91%) .NET Developer
3 9 (39.13%) C# Developer
4 6 (26.09%) C# .NET Developer
5 3 (13.04%) Architect
5 3 (13.04%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.348%) Web Developer
6 1 (4.348%) ASP.NET Developer
6 1 (4.348%) Team Leader
6 1 (4.348%) .NET Web Developer
6 1 (4.348%) .NET Team Leader
6 1 (4.348%) C# Web Developer
6 1 (4.348%) C# ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (47.83%) Inversion of Control
2 8 (34.78%) N-Tier
3 3 (13.04%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 8 (34.78%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (100.00%) TDD
2 15 (65.22%) MVC
2 15 (65.22%) Web Development
2 15 (65.22%) Scrum
2 15 (65.22%) BDD
3 12 (52.17%) Unit Testing
4 11 (47.83%) Dependency Injection
5 10 (43.48%) E-Commerce
6 8 (34.78%) AOP
6 8 (34.78%) Change Management
6 8 (34.78%) Continuous Integration
6 8 (34.78%) Refactoring
7 5 (21.74%) Data Transformation
7 5 (21.74%) OO
7 5 (21.74%) ETL
7 5 (21.74%) Workflow
8 3 (13.04%) Stakeholder Management
9 2 (8.696%) TOGAF
9 2 (8.696%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 21 (91.30%) C#
2 15 (65.22%) JavaScript
3 5 (21.74%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (21.74%) Degree
2 2 (8.696%) ISEB
Vendors
1 11 (47.83%) Microsoft
2 3 (13.04%) Oracle
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