The first table below looks at the demand for the SOA Architect role in IT jobs advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SOA Architect in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised for the Manchester region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SOA Architect
Rank - - -
Permanent jobs requiring an SOA Architect 0 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester - - -
As % of the Job Titles category - - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Average salary - - -
UK excluding London average salary £62,500 £62,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year
+0.80% -4.61%
All Job Titles
Manchester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
3913 3494 3793
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 95.56% 96.41% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 3384 3103 3469
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
90% offered a salary of more than £23,500 £23,000 £21,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £56,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
SOA Architect
North West

SOA Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing SOA Architect across the Manchester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Manchester SOA Architect Jobs Demand Trend

SOA Architect
Salary Trend

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

Manchester SOA Architect Salary Trend

SOA Architect
Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester region that cited SOA Architect in their job title 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 with SOA Architect in their job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Oracle
1 3 (100.00%) Web Services
1 3 (100.00%) SOA
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (100.00%) Middleware
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle 11g
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (66.67%) MySQL
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) IBM
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
3 1 (33.33%) WebLogic
3 1 (33.33%) SOAP
3 1 (33.33%) XML
3 1 (33.33%) XSD
3 1 (33.33%) XSLT
3 1 (33.33%) XQuery
3 1 (33.33%) RDBMS
3 1 (33.33%) BPEL
3 1 (33.33%) XPath
3 1 (33.33%) ESB

SOA Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester region that cited SOA Architect in their job title 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 with SOA Architect in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (100.00%) Web Services
1 3 (100.00%) Middleware
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (33.33%) SOAP
2 1 (33.33%) XML
2 1 (33.33%) XSD
2 1 (33.33%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (33.33%) WebLogic
2 1 (33.33%) ESB
Business Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle BPM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle 11g
2 2 (66.67%) MySQL
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
3 1 (33.33%) RDBMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) SOA
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) BPEL
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) XQuery
1 1 (33.33%) XPath
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle
2 2 (66.67%) IBM