The first table below looks at the demand for SOA skills in IT jobs advertised for the Northamptonshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SOA over the 3 months to 23 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 Northamptonshire region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Rank 65 50 64
Rank change year-on-year
-15 +14
Permanent jobs citing SOA 2 22 14
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Northamptonshire 0.303% 2.883% 1.718%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.412% 3.691% 2.393%
Number of salaries quoted 2 22 7
Average salary £35,000 £60,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-41.66% +84.61%
UK excluding London average salary £47,500 £48,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year
-1.04% +1.05%
All Processes & Methodologies
Northamptonshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
485 596 585
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Northamptonshire 73.60% 78.11% 71.78%
Number of salaries quoted 404 552 537
Average salary £39,000 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.00% +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £24,000 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
SOA
East Midlands

SOA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Northamptonshire 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 Northamptonshire region.

Northamptonshire SOA Salary Trend

SOA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Northamptonshire 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 19 (90.48%) Scrum
2 14 (66.67%) Java
3 11 (52.38%) Oracle
4 10 (47.62%) JavaScript
4 10 (47.62%) MVC
5 9 (42.86%) Spring
5 9 (42.86%) Spring MVC
5 9 (42.86%) PRINCE2
5 9 (42.86%) Web Services
6 8 (38.10%) JBoss
6 8 (38.10%) Ant
6 8 (38.10%) JUnit
6 8 (38.10%) CSS
6 8 (38.10%) JSP
6 8 (38.10%) PL/SQL
6 8 (38.10%) SQL
6 8 (38.10%) Maven
6 8 (38.10%) Ajax
6 8 (38.10%) OpenCms
6 8 (38.10%) Subversion
6 8 (38.10%) Tomcat
6 8 (38.10%) XHTML
7 7 (33.33%) DSDM
7 7 (33.33%) RUP
8 4 (19.05%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 4 (19.05%) PMP
8 4 (19.05%) PMI Certification
8 4 (19.05%) Matrix Management
8 4 (19.05%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 4 (19.05%) Open Source

SOA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Northamptonshire 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 9 (42.86%) Spring
1 9 (42.86%) Spring MVC
1 9 (42.86%) Web Services
2 8 (38.10%) CSS
2 8 (38.10%) JSP
2 8 (38.10%) Ajax
2 8 (38.10%) XHTML
3 3 (14.29%) Java EE
3 3 (14.29%) J2EE
4 2 (9.524%) Middleware
4 2 (9.524%) WebSphere
5 1 (4.762%) RESTful
5 1 (4.762%) Ext JS
5 1 (4.762%) Gearman
5 1 (4.762%) LAMP
5 1 (4.762%) Symfony
Application Platforms
1 8 (38.10%) OpenCms
1 8 (38.10%) Tomcat
2 2 (9.524%) CICS
2 2 (9.524%) WebSphere MQ
2 2 (9.524%) WebSphere Transformation Extender
2 2 (9.524%) WebSphere Message Broker
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.524%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.524%) DB2
1 2 (9.524%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (4.762%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (38.10%) Ant
1 8 (38.10%) JUnit
1 8 (38.10%) Maven
1 8 (38.10%) Subversion
2 1 (4.762%) Git (software)
General
1 2 (9.524%) Finance
2 1 (4.762%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 10 (47.62%) Developer
2 9 (42.86%) Java Developer
2 9 (42.86%) Project Manager
3 4 (19.05%) Senior Developer
3 4 (19.05%) Lead Developer
3 4 (19.05%) Senior Java Developer
3 4 (19.05%) Lead Java Developer
4 1 (4.762%) Middleware Specialist
4 1 (4.762%) PHP MySQL Developer
4 1 (4.762%) IT Project Manager
4 1 (4.762%) PHP Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Open Source
2 2 (9.524%) Tandem
2 2 (9.524%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.524%) UNIX
1 2 (9.524%) Windows
1 2 (9.524%) AIX
1 2 (9.524%) HPUX
1 2 (9.524%) Solaris
2 1 (4.762%) VMS
2 1 (4.762%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (90.48%) Scrum
2 10 (47.62%) MVC
3 9 (42.86%) PRINCE2
4 7 (33.33%) DSDM
4 7 (33.33%) RUP
5 4 (19.05%) Matrix Management
6 2 (9.524%) Business Continuity
6 2 (9.524%) Service Management
6 2 (9.524%) Validation
6 2 (9.524%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (9.524%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (9.524%) Time Management
7 1 (4.762%) Agile Software Development
7 1 (4.762%) Configuration Management
7 1 (4.762%) Project Management
7 1 (4.762%) ITIL
7 1 (4.762%) OO
Programming Languages
1 14 (66.67%) Java
2 10 (47.62%) JavaScript
3 8 (38.10%) PL/SQL
3 8 (38.10%) SQL
4 2 (9.524%) Shell Script
5 1 (4.762%) PHP5
5 1 (4.762%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (19.05%) PRINCE2 Certification
1 4 (19.05%) PMP
1 4 (19.05%) PMI Certification
1 4 (19.05%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.524%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (9.524%) Tivoli
1 2 (9.524%) Tivoli Monitoring
Vendors
1 11 (52.38%) Oracle
2 8 (38.10%) JBoss
3 2 (9.524%) IBM
4 1 (4.762%) Zend