The first table below looks at the demand for SOA skills in IT jobs advertised for the Northampton region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SOA over the 3 months to 21 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 Northampton region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Rank - 42 -
Permanent jobs citing SOA 0 13 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Northampton - 2.832% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - 3.779% -
Number of salaries quoted 0 13 0
Average salary - £52,500 -
UK excluding London average salary £47,500 £48,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year
-1.04% +1.05%
All Processes & Methodologies
Northampton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
301 344 326
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Northampton 76.40% 74.95% 69.51%
Number of salaries quoted 258 332 306
Average salary £38,500 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.66% +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £24,000 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £54,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
SOA
Northamptonshire

SOA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Northampton 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 Northampton region.

Northampton SOA Salary Trend

SOA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Northampton 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 13 (100.00%) Java
1 13 (100.00%) Scrum
2 10 (76.92%) MVC
2 10 (76.92%) Spring
2 10 (76.92%) Spring MVC
2 10 (76.92%) JavaScript
2 10 (76.92%) Oracle
2 10 (76.92%) Web Services
3 9 (69.23%) JBoss
3 9 (69.23%) XHTML
3 9 (69.23%) Ant
3 9 (69.23%) JUnit
3 9 (69.23%) CSS
3 9 (69.23%) JSP
3 9 (69.23%) PL/SQL
3 9 (69.23%) SQL
3 9 (69.23%) Ajax
3 9 (69.23%) OpenCms
3 9 (69.23%) Maven
3 9 (69.23%) Tomcat
3 9 (69.23%) Subversion
4 3 (23.08%) Java EE
4 3 (23.08%) J2EE
4 3 (23.08%) PRINCE2
4 3 (23.08%) Open Source
5 2 (15.38%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 2 (15.38%) RUP
5 2 (15.38%) PMP
5 2 (15.38%) PMI Certification
5 2 (15.38%) Oracle 8/8i

SOA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Northampton 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 10 (76.92%) Spring
1 10 (76.92%) Spring MVC
1 10 (76.92%) Web Services
2 9 (69.23%) XHTML
2 9 (69.23%) CSS
2 9 (69.23%) JSP
2 9 (69.23%) Ajax
3 3 (23.08%) Java EE
3 3 (23.08%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 9 (69.23%) OpenCms
1 9 (69.23%) Tomcat
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 9 (69.23%) Ant
1 9 (69.23%) JUnit
1 9 (69.23%) Maven
1 9 (69.23%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 10 (76.92%) Java Developer
1 10 (76.92%) Developer
2 4 (30.77%) Senior Developer
2 4 (30.77%) Lead Developer
2 4 (30.77%) Lead Java Developer
2 4 (30.77%) Senior Java Developer
3 3 (23.08%) Project Manager
4 1 (7.692%) IT Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Open Source
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) Scrum
2 10 (76.92%) MVC
3 3 (23.08%) PRINCE2
4 2 (15.38%) RUP
4 2 (15.38%) DSDM
4 2 (15.38%) Matrix Management
5 1 (7.692%) Time Management
5 1 (7.692%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (7.692%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) Java
2 10 (76.92%) JavaScript
3 9 (69.23%) PL/SQL
3 9 (69.23%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
1 2 (15.38%) PMP
1 2 (15.38%) PMI Certification
Vendors
1 10 (76.92%) Oracle
2 9 (69.23%) JBoss