The first table below looks at the demand for SOA skills in IT jobs advertised for the M4 Corridor region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SOA over the 3 months to 22 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 M4 Corridor region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Rank 13 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing SOA 1 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the M4 Corridor 2.174% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.381% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Average salary £70,000 - -
UK excluding London average salary £47,500 £47,750 £47,500
% change year-on-year
-0.52% +0.52%
All Processes & Methodologies
M4 Corridor
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
42 39 39
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the M4 Corridor 91.30% 68.42% 75.00%
Number of salaries quoted 23 31 37
Average salary £57,500 £50,000 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+15.00% -
90% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £36,000 £42,000
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £60,000 £75,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
SOA
South East

SOA
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing SOA across the M4 Corridor region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

M4 Corridor 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 M4 Corridor region.

M4 Corridor SOA Salary Trend

SOA
Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the M4 Corridor 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 2 (66.67%) C#
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
1 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET
1 2 (66.67%) MS Excel
1 2 (66.67%) N-Tier
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Scrum
1 2 (66.67%) WinForms
1 2 (66.67%) WCF
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) WPF
2 1 (33.33%) MVC
2 1 (33.33%) EAI
2 1 (33.33%) Web Services
2 1 (33.33%) OO
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server

SOA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the M4 Corridor 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 2 (66.67%) .NET
1 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET
1 2 (66.67%) WinForms
1 2 (66.67%) WCF
2 1 (33.33%) WPF
2 1 (33.33%) Web Services
Applications
1 2 (66.67%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Developer
2 1 (33.33%) C# ASP.NET Developer
2 1 (33.33%) C# .NET Developer
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Developer
2 1 (33.33%) C# Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) MVC
2 1 (33.33%) EAI
2 1 (33.33%) OO
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C#
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft