Merseyside SOAP Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) skills within the Merseyside region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SOAP over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
Location Aberdeen Baldock Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chatham Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham Chorley City of London Coventry Crawley Croydon Dartford Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Fareham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hendon Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hounslow Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Lothian M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newmarket Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Poole Preston Reading Redhill Royston Ruislip Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Helens Stevenage Stockport Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimbledon Wimborne Windsor Woking Wolverhampton Woodbridge Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	65	42
Rank change on same period last year	-23
Matching permanent IT job ads	12	44
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.007 %	0.018 %
As % of the category below	3.390 %	10.09 %
Salaries quoted	11	40
Average minimum salary	£32,909	£25,396
Average salary	£35,000	£28,010
% change on same period last year	+24.95 %
Average maximum salary	£37,091	£30,625
UK excluding London average salary	£39,635	£38,669
% change on same period last year	+2.49 %
Application Development Merseyside
Matching permanent IT job ads	354	436
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.193 %	0.183 %
Salaries quoted	307	378
Average minimum salary	£31,446	£27,598
Average salary	£33,446	£30,039
% change on same period last year	+11.34 %
Average maximum salary	£35,445	£32,480
UK excluding London average salary	£35,939	£36,846
% change on same period last year	-2.45 %
SOAP North West

SOAP
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing SOAP across the Merseyside region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

SOAP
Salary Trend

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

SOAP
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SOAP across the Merseyside region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

SOAP
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SOAP within the Merseyside region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Liverpool	-17	6	£30,500	+12.83 %
St Helens	-1	2	£39,500	+46.29 %

SOAP North West

SOAP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT jobs across the Merseyside region citing SOAP 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 SOAP.

1 22 (91.67 %) SQL Server 1 22 (91.67 %) XML 2 19 (79.17 %) HTML 2 19 (79.17 %) JavaScript 3 15 (62.50 %) VB.NET 3 15 (62.50 %) .NET 4 14 (58.33 %) WebServices 5 13 (54.17 %) ASP.NET 5 13 (54.17 %) IIS 6 11 (45.83 %) ASP.NET 2.0 7 10 (41.67 %) SQL Server 2005 8 9 (37.50 %) Internet 8 9 (37.50 %) Java 8 9 (37.50 %) AJAX 9 8 (33.33 %) .NET Framework

9 8 (33.33 %) Degree 9 8 (33.33 %) J2EE 9 8 (33.33 %) Oracle 9 8 (33.33 %) ASP 9 8 (33.33 %) Crystal Reports 9 8 (33.33 %) EJB 9 8 (33.33 %) JDBC 9 8 (33.33 %) JSP 9 8 (33.33 %) Struts 9 8 (33.33 %) UNIX 9 8 (33.33 %) Linux 9 8 (33.33 %) OOA/OOD 9 8 (33.33 %) Tomcat 9 8 (33.33 %) OOD 9 8 (33.33 %) SQL Server Reporting Services

SOAP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT jobs across the Merseyside region citing SOAP 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 SOAP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 22 (91.67 %) XML 2 19 (79.17 %) HTML 3 15 (62.50 %) .NET 4 14 (58.33 %) WebServices 5 13 (54.17 %) ASP.NET 6 11 (45.83 %) ASP.NET 2.0 7 9 (37.50 %) AJAX 8 8 (33.33 %) .NET Framework 8 8 (33.33 %) ASP 8 8 (33.33 %) EJB 8 8 (33.33 %) JDBC 8 8 (33.33 %) JSP 8 8 (33.33 %) Struts 8 8 (33.33 %) J2EE 8 8 (33.33 %) JSF 9 4 (16.67 %) ADO.NET 9 4 (16.67 %) CSS 9 4 (16.67 %) XHTML 9 4 (16.67 %) WSDL 10 1 (4.167 %) WinForms	Application Platforms 1 13 (54.17 %) IIS 2 8 (33.33 %) Tomcat 3 7 (29.17 %) MTS
Applications 1 1 (4.167 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 9 (37.50 %) Internet 2 3 (12.50 %) Intranet 3 1 (4.167 %) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 22 (91.67 %) SQL Server 2 10 (41.67 %) SQL Server 2005 3 8 (33.33 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 3 8 (33.33 %) Crystal Reports 4 2 (8.333 %) SQL Server 2000	General 1 6 (25.00 %) Health 2 3 (12.50 %) Insurance 3 1 (4.167 %) Pensions 3 1 (4.167 %) Front Office
Job Titles 1 24 (100.00 %) Developer 2 12 (50.00 %) .NET Developer 3 10 (41.67 %) VB.NET Developer 4 9 (37.50 %) Java Developer 5 8 (33.33 %) Senior J2EE Developer 5 8 (33.33 %) Senior Java Developer 5 8 (33.33 %) JavaScript Developer 5 8 (33.33 %) Senior Java/J2EE Developer 5 8 (33.33 %) Java/J2EE Developer 5 8 (33.33 %) J2EE Developer 5 8 (33.33 %) Senior Developer 6 4 (16.67 %) Web Developer 6 4 (16.67 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 7 3 (12.50 %) Software Developer 7 3 (12.50 %) .NET Web Developer	Miscellaneous 1 2 (8.333 %) Pocket PC 1 2 (8.333 %) Client/Server 2 1 (4.167 %) Fixed Income 2 1 (4.167 %) Equities 2 1 (4.167 %) Derivative 2 1 (4.167 %) Equity Derivative 2 1 (4.167 %) Multithreading
Operating Systems 1 8 (33.33 %) UNIX 1 8 (33.33 %) Linux 2 3 (12.50 %) Windows 3 2 (8.333 %) Windows CE	Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (33.33 %) OOA/OOD 1 8 (33.33 %) OOD 2 6 (25.00 %) Business Intelligence 3 4 (16.67 %) OO 4 1 (4.167 %) Algorithmic Trading
Programming Languages 1 19 (79.17 %) JavaScript 2 15 (62.50 %) VB.NET 3 9 (37.50 %) Java 4 4 (16.67 %) VBScript 5 2 (8.333 %) VB 5 2 (8.333 %) VB6 5 2 (8.333 %) C# 6 1 (4.167 %) SQL 6 1 (4.167 %) Transact-SQL	Qualifications 1 8 (33.33 %) Degree 2 7 (29.17 %) MCSD 2 7 (29.17 %) Microsoft Certification
Vendors 1 8 (33.33 %) Oracle 2 6 (25.00 %) Dundas 3 2 (8.333 %) Microsoft 4 1 (4.167 %) Novell