The first table below looks at the demand for WSDL skills in IT jobs advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WSDL over the 3 months to 17 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 Manchester region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Web Services Description Language (WSDL)
Rank 183 170 169
Rank change year-on-year
-13 -1
Permanent jobs citing WSDL 11 5 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 0.271% 0.138% 0.101%
As % of the Application Development category 0.517% 0.288% 0.233%
Number of salaries quoted 11 5 4
Average salary £30,000 £38,500 £25,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-22.07% +54.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £38,500 £21,150
10% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £41,500 £32,000
UK excluding London average salary £34,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-15.00% +6.66%
All Application Development
Manchester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
2127 1734 1719
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 52.41% 47.82% 43.56%
Number of salaries quoted 1947 1588 1604
Average salary £35,000 £33,000 £33,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.06% -
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £24,500 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £47,500 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
WSDL
North West

WSDL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester WSDL Jobs Demand Trend

WSDL
Salary Trend

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

Manchester WSDL Salary Trend

WSDL
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing WSDL across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Manchester WSDL Salary Histogram

WSDL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester region citing WSDL 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 WSDL.

1 19 (100.00%) XML
2 18 (94.74%) Web Services
3 16 (84.21%) Microsoft
3 16 (84.21%) OO
3 16 (84.21%) VB.NET
3 16 (84.21%) .NET
3 16 (84.21%) SQL Server
3 16 (84.21%) C#
4 15 (78.95%) JavaScript
4 15 (78.95%) ASP.NET
4 15 (78.95%) Microsoft Certification
4 15 (78.95%) OOP
4 15 (78.95%) Risk Management
5 12 (63.16%) Ajax
5 12 (63.16%) CSS
6 11 (57.89%) IIS
7 10 (52.63%) jQuery
8 9 (47.37%) SEO
8 9 (47.37%) XHTML
9 6 (31.58%) WinForms
9 6 (31.58%) Windows
10 5 (26.32%) SQL
10 5 (26.32%) Finance
11 4 (21.05%) Data Management
11 4 (21.05%) MS Excel
11 4 (21.05%) ETL
11 4 (21.05%) Financial Institution
11 4 (21.05%) HTML
11 4 (21.05%) Java
11 4 (21.05%) PCI DSS

WSDL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester region citing WSDL 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 WSDL. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 19 (100.00%) XML
2 18 (94.74%) Web Services
3 16 (84.21%) .NET
4 15 (78.95%) ASP.NET
5 12 (63.16%) CSS
5 12 (63.16%) Ajax
6 10 (52.63%) jQuery
7 9 (47.37%) XHTML
8 6 (31.58%) WinForms
9 4 (21.05%) HTML
10 3 (15.79%) J2EE
11 2 (10.53%) JSP
11 2 (10.53%) SOAP
11 2 (10.53%) Hibernate
11 2 (10.53%) WebSphere
11 2 (10.53%) Java EE
12 1 (5.263%) JSON
12 1 (5.263%) Apache Flex
12 1 (5.263%) Struts
12 1 (5.263%) Servlets
Application Platforms
1 11 (57.89%) IIS
2 1 (5.263%) WebSphere MQ
2 1 (5.263%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (21.05%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (84.21%) SQL Server
2 2 (10.53%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (5.263%) Ant
1 1 (5.263%) Visual Studio
1 1 (5.263%) ClearCase
1 1 (5.263%) Synon
1 1 (5.263%) Subversion
General
1 5 (26.32%) Finance
2 4 (21.05%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 18 (94.74%) Developer
2 15 (78.95%) .NET Developer
3 4 (21.05%) ASP.NET Developer
4 3 (15.79%) Java Developer
5 1 (5.263%) Java/J2EE Developer
5 1 (5.263%) J2EE Developer
5 1 (5.263%) Development Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Open Source
2 1 (5.263%) Mainframe
2 1 (5.263%) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 6 (31.58%) Windows
2 1 (5.263%) Linux
2 1 (5.263%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (84.21%) OO
2 15 (78.95%) OOP
2 15 (78.95%) Risk Management
3 9 (47.37%) SEO
4 4 (21.05%) ETL
4 4 (21.05%) Data Management
5 3 (15.79%) Scrum
6 2 (10.53%) Unit Testing
7 1 (5.263%) Integration Testing
7 1 (5.263%) B2B
7 1 (5.263%) B2C
7 1 (5.263%) TDD
7 1 (5.263%) Pair Programming
7 1 (5.263%) UML
7 1 (5.263%) RAD
7 1 (5.263%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 16 (84.21%) C#
1 16 (84.21%) VB.NET
2 15 (78.95%) JavaScript
3 5 (26.32%) SQL
4 4 (21.05%) Java
5 1 (5.263%) Python
5 1 (5.263%) RPG/400
5 1 (5.263%) Perl
5 1 (5.263%) PHP
5 1 (5.263%) RPG
Qualifications
1 15 (78.95%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (21.05%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 16 (84.21%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.263%) JD Edwards
2 1 (5.263%) Oracle
2 1 (5.263%) JBoss
2 1 (5.263%) IBM