Luton WebServices Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Web Services skills within the Luton region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WebServices over the last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Web Services
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Altrincham Ascot Avon Aylesbury Barnet Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birkenhead Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Braintree Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Cheshunt Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Cobham Colchester County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Cranleigh Crawley Crewe Crewkerne Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Dunfermline Dunstable Durham Ealing East Anglia East Grinstead East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Edgware Edinburgh Egham Ellesmere Port Emsworth Enfield England Epsom Esher Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Fife Flintshire Folkestone Gateshead Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Great Yarmouth Greenford Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Havant Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highland Hinckley Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Hove Huddersfield Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Kettering Kidlington Kingston Upon Thames Kinross Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Leigh-on-Sea Lincoln Lincolnshire Liphook Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Lowestoft Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Malvern Manchester Mansfield Marlow Matlock Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes Mold Nantwich Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newport Pagnell Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oakham Ormskirk Orpington Osterley Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Perth and Kinross Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Prescot Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Ringwood Rochdale Rochester Rotherham Rugby Rutland Scotland Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Smethwick Solihull Somerset South Croydon South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stroud Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swindon Tamworth Telford Thame Thames Ditton Thames Valley Torquay Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Waltham Cross Ware Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells Wembley West Drayton West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Weymouth Whyteleafe Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	20	21
Rank change on same period last year	+1
Matching permanent IT job ads	26	34
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.013 %	0.015 %
As % of the category below	19.26 %	16.92 %
Salaries quoted	26	34
Average minimum salary	£37,615	£39,912
Average salary	£41,500	£43,926
% change on same period last year	-5.52 %
Average maximum salary	£45,385	£47,941
UK excluding London average salary	£38,437	£37,728
% change on same period last year	+1.87 %
Application Development Luton
Matching permanent IT job ads	135	201
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.066 %	0.089 %
Salaries quoted	113	160
Average minimum salary	£36,698	£36,350
Average salary	£40,339	£40,611
% change on same period last year	-0.67 %
Average maximum salary	£43,979	£44,871
UK excluding London average salary	£35,972	£36,627
% change on same period last year	-1.78 %
WebServices London

WebServices
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of permanent IT jobs ads citing WebServices across the Luton region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

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Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs ads citing WebServices across the Luton region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing WebServices across the Luton region over the past 3 months.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the Luton region citing WebServices also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing WebServices.

1 52 (100.00 %) .NET 2 51 (98.08 %) .NET Framework 3 49 (94.23 %) C# 4 48 (92.31 %) ASP.NET 5 45 (86.54 %) SQL Server 6 42 (80.77 %) Visual Studio 7 36 (69.23 %) SQL 8 32 (61.54 %) Transact-SQL 9 28 (53.85 %) MS Excel 10 21 (40.38 %) XML 11 19 (36.54 %) Windows 12 17 (32.69 %) Adobe Flex 13 13 (25.00 %) OO 13 13 (25.00 %) QA 14 12 (23.08 %) Project Management

15 11 (21.15 %) Requirements Analysis 16 8 (15.38 %) Microsoft 16 8 (15.38 %) SQL Server 2005 17 7 (13.46 %) SQL Server 2000 18 4 (7.692 %) Finance 18 4 (7.692 %) Legal 19 3 (5.769 %) Change Management 19 3 (5.769 %) Internet 19 3 (5.769 %) SOA 19 3 (5.769 %) UML 19 3 (5.769 %) AOP 20 2 (3.846 %) Refactoring 20 2 (3.846 %) Unit Testing 20 2 (3.846 %) Continuous Integration 20 2 (3.846 %) TDD

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the Luton region citing WebServices also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing WebServices. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 52 (100.00 %) .NET 2 51 (98.08 %) .NET Framework 3 48 (92.31 %) ASP.NET 4 21 (40.38 %) XML 5 17 (32.69 %) Adobe Flex 6 1 (1.923 %) WCF 6 1 (1.923 %) WPF 6 1 (1.923 %) WF 6 1 (1.923 %) WinForms 6 1 (1.923 %) ASP	Applications 1 28 (53.85 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 3 (5.769 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 45 (86.54 %) SQL Server 2 8 (15.38 %) SQL Server 2005 3 7 (13.46 %) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications 1 42 (80.77 %) Visual Studio	General 1 4 (7.692 %) Finance 1 4 (7.692 %) Legal 2 1 (1.923 %) Pensions 2 1 (1.923 %) Marketing 2 1 (1.923 %) Health
Job Titles 1 49 (94.23 %) Developer 1 49 (94.23 %) C# Developer 2 18 (34.62 %) .NET Developer 3 10 (19.23 %) Senior C# Developer 3 10 (19.23 %) Senior Developer 4 8 (15.38 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 5 7 (13.46 %) .NET Programmer 5 7 (13.46 %) Programmer 6 6 (11.54 %) ASP.NET Developer 6 6 (11.54 %) Software Developer 6 6 (11.54 %) CSharp Software Developer 6 6 (11.54 %) Software Programmer 7 4 (7.692 %) C# Analyst Programmer 7 4 (7.692 %) .NET Analyst Programmer 7 4 (7.692 %) Analyst Programmer 7 4 (7.692 %) Analyst 7 4 (7.692 %) Developer Analyst 8 3 (5.769 %) Technical Architect 8 3 (5.769 %) Solutions Architect 8 3 (5.769 %) Architect	Miscellaneous 1 2 (3.846 %) N-Tier 2 1 (1.923 %) Tandem
Operating Systems 1 19 (36.54 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 13 (25.00 %) OO 2 12 (23.08 %) Project Management 3 11 (21.15 %) Requirements Analysis 4 3 (5.769 %) Change Management 4 3 (5.769 %) SOA 4 3 (5.769 %) UML 4 3 (5.769 %) AOP 5 2 (3.846 %) TDD 5 2 (3.846 %) Refactoring 5 2 (3.846 %) Unit Testing 5 2 (3.846 %) Continuous Integration 6 1 (1.923 %) Business Analysis 6 1 (1.923 %) Scrum
Programming Languages 1 49 (94.23 %) C# 2 36 (69.23 %) SQL 3 32 (61.54 %) Transact-SQL	Qualifications 1 1 (1.923 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 13 (25.00 %) QA	Vendors 1 8 (15.38 %) Microsoft 2 2 (3.846 %) Oracle