The first table below looks at the demand for SOAP skills in IT jobs advertised for the Newcastle upon Tyne region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SOAP 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 Application Development category for the Newcastle upon Tyne region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
Rank 54 49 46
Rank change year-on-year
-5 -3
Permanent jobs citing SOAP 5 6 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Newcastle upon Tyne 1.022% 1.299% 0.257%
As % of the Application Development category 3.012% 3.077% 0.538%
Number of salaries quoted 5 6 1
Average salary £33,000 £62,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-47.20% +78.57%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-6.25% -
All Application Development
Newcastle upon Tyne
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
166 195 186
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Newcastle upon Tyne 33.95% 42.21% 47.81%
Number of salaries quoted 156 160 166
Average salary £35,000 £36,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.77% +2.85%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £23,950 £20,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £42,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
SOAP
Tyne and Wear

SOAP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Newcastle upon Tyne SOAP Jobs Demand Trend

SOAP
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing SOAP across the Newcastle upon Tyne region.

Newcastle upon Tyne SOAP Salary Trend

SOAP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Newcastle upon Tyne 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 6 (100.00%) soapUI
2 5 (83.33%) Automation Testing
2 5 (83.33%) TCP/IP
2 5 (83.33%) Open Source
2 5 (83.33%) Linux
2 5 (83.33%) RAD
2 5 (83.33%) Wireless
2 5 (83.33%) Scrum
2 5 (83.33%) ISTQB
2 5 (83.33%) Selenium
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle 11g
3 1 (16.67%) jQuery
3 1 (16.67%) Test Management
3 1 (16.67%) Manual Testing
3 1 (16.67%) JSON
3 1 (16.67%) QA
3 1 (16.67%) Apache Axis
3 1 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (16.67%) Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Spring
3 1 (16.67%) Maven
3 1 (16.67%) Logistics
3 1 (16.67%) Automated Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Software Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (16.67%) Hibernate
3 1 (16.67%) Apache
3 1 (16.67%) Eclipse

SOAP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Newcastle upon Tyne 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 6 (100.00%) soapUI
2 1 (16.67%) jQuery
2 1 (16.67%) JSON
2 1 (16.67%) Apache Axis
2 1 (16.67%) Spring
2 1 (16.67%) Hibernate
2 1 (16.67%) Web Services
2 1 (16.67%) XML
2 1 (16.67%) HTML5
2 1 (16.67%) XML Schema
Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Apache
1 1 (16.67%) WebLogic
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) TCP/IP
1 5 (83.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Selenium
2 1 (16.67%) Maven
2 1 (16.67%) Eclipse
2 1 (16.67%) JUnit
2 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (16.67%) Banking
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Automation Testing
1 5 (83.33%) RAD
1 5 (83.33%) Scrum
2 1 (16.67%) Test Management
2 1 (16.67%) Manual Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (16.67%) Logistics
2 1 (16.67%) Automated Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Software Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Java
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) ISTQB
2 1 (16.67%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle
1 1 (16.67%) SAP