The first table below looks at the demand for SOA skills in IT jobs advertised for the Oxfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SOA over the 3 months to 24 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 Oxfordshire region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Rank 89 91 76
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -15
Permanent jobs citing SOA 34 14 31
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 1.842% 0.971% 1.911%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.578% 1.443% 2.944%
Number of salaries quoted 28 14 26
Average salary £67,500 £48,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+40.62% +12.94%
UK excluding London average salary £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
All Processes & Methodologies
Oxfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1319 970 1053
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 71.45% 67.27% 64.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1129 869 934
Average salary £45,000 £41,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.43% +3.75%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £28,000 £25,500
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £60,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
SOA
South East

SOA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire SOA Salary Trend

SOA
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SOA across the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Oxfordshire SOA Salary Histogram

SOA
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SOA within the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Oxford -4 28 £68,750 +14.58%
Bicester - 2 - -
Kidlington - 1 £70,000 -
SOA
South East

SOA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 99 (85.34%) Oracle
2 61 (52.59%) Waterfall
3 52 (44.83%) Java
4 51 (43.97%) Siebel
5 45 (38.79%) TOGAF
6 43 (37.07%) Publishing
7 42 (36.21%) Oracle EBS
8 32 (27.59%) Finance
9 30 (25.86%) ATG
10 26 (22.41%) Agile Software Development
10 26 (22.41%) JBoss
11 25 (21.55%) Zachman Framework
12 24 (20.69%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 24 (20.69%) Business Transformation
12 24 (20.69%) QA
13 23 (19.83%) Software Engineering
14 22 (18.97%) E-Commerce
14 22 (18.97%) WebLogic
15 21 (18.10%) CRM
16 20 (17.24%) Web Services
16 20 (17.24%) Portfolio Management
17 19 (16.38%) Microsoft
18 17 (14.66%) Retail
19 16 (13.79%) Continuous Improvement
19 16 (13.79%) Enterprise Architecture
20 15 (12.93%) ASP.NET
20 15 (12.93%) C#
20 15 (12.93%) .NET
21 13 (11.21%) Windows
21 13 (11.21%) RUP

SOA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 20 (17.24%) Web Services
2 15 (12.93%) ASP.NET
2 15 (12.93%) .NET
3 12 (10.34%) WebSphere
4 5 (4.310%) WCF
4 5 (4.310%) XML
5 4 (3.448%) Middleware
5 4 (3.448%) .NET Framework
6 3 (2.586%) Ajax
6 3 (2.586%) XML Schema
6 3 (2.586%) XSLT
7 2 (1.724%) HTML
7 2 (1.724%) J2EE
7 2 (1.724%) ASP
7 2 (1.724%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
7 2 (1.724%) NHibernate
7 2 (1.724%) ASP.NET MVC
7 2 (1.724%) HTML5
8 1 (0.862%) Spring MVC
8 1 (0.862%) RESTful
Application Platforms
1 24 (20.69%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 22 (18.97%) WebLogic
3 13 (11.21%) Tomcat
4 11 (9.483%) SharePoint
5 10 (8.621%) ESB
6 5 (4.310%) IIS
7 4 (3.448%) WebSphere Process Server
7 4 (3.448%) Windows Azure
8 3 (2.586%) Amazon AWS
8 3 (2.586%) BizTalk Server
9 2 (1.724%) WebLogic Portal
10 1 (0.862%) CMS
10 1 (0.862%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 6 (5.172%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 42 (36.21%) Oracle EBS
2 7 (6.034%) Oracle BPM
3 2 (1.724%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.862%) Oracle iProcurement
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.862%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.759%) SQL Server
1 9 (7.759%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (4.310%) Oracle 11g
3 4 (3.448%) Oracle Reports
3 4 (3.448%) SQL Server 2008
3 4 (3.448%) MarkLogic
4 2 (1.724%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 2 (1.724%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (1.724%) MySQL
4 2 (1.724%) Oracle 10g
4 2 (1.724%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.862%) Big Data
5 1 (0.862%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 9 (7.759%) JUnit
2 8 (6.897%) Selenium
2 8 (6.897%) Jenkins
2 8 (6.897%) PEAR
3 4 (3.448%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.724%) WebLogic Workshop
5 1 (0.862%) Subversion
General
1 43 (37.07%) Publishing
2 32 (27.59%) Finance
3 17 (14.66%) Retail
4 13 (11.21%) Telecoms
5 7 (6.034%) Billing
6 1 (0.862%) Music
6 1 (0.862%) Legal
Job Titles
1 54 (46.55%) Architect
2 44 (37.93%) Solutions Architect
3 17 (14.66%) Technical Manager
4 13 (11.21%) Project Manager
4 13 (11.21%) Developer
4 13 (11.21%) Software Manager
5 9 (7.759%) Technical Project Manager
6 8 (6.897%) Enterprise Architect
7 7 (6.034%) Engineering Manager
8 5 (4.310%) Build Manager
9 4 (3.448%) Infrastructure Architect
10 3 (2.586%) SQL Programmer
10 3 (2.586%) BizTalk Developer
10 3 (2.586%) DBA
10 3 (2.586%) Development Manager
10 3 (2.586%) Programmer
11 2 (1.724%) Technical Support
11 2 (1.724%) Senior Developer
11 2 (1.724%) Technical Architect
11 2 (1.724%) Systems Development Manager
Miscellaneous
1 4 (3.448%) PMI
1 4 (3.448%) Cloud Computing
1 4 (3.448%) Web 2.0
1 4 (3.448%) Digital Media
2 2 (1.724%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (0.862%) Data Integration
3 1 (0.862%) Handset
Operating Systems
1 13 (11.21%) Windows
2 11 (9.483%) UNIX
3 9 (7.759%) Linux
4 1 (0.862%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (52.59%) Waterfall
2 45 (38.79%) TOGAF
3 26 (22.41%) Agile Software Development
4 25 (21.55%) Zachman Framework
5 24 (20.69%) Business Transformation
6 23 (19.83%) Software Engineering
7 22 (18.97%) E-Commerce
8 21 (18.10%) CRM
9 20 (17.24%) Portfolio Management
10 16 (13.79%) Continuous Improvement
10 16 (13.79%) Enterprise Architecture
11 13 (11.21%) RUP
12 12 (10.34%) Business Intelligence
12 12 (10.34%) Data Modelling
13 11 (9.483%) B2B
13 11 (9.483%) B2C
13 11 (9.483%) Project Management
13 11 (9.483%) Process Management
13 11 (9.483%) E-business
14 10 (8.621%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 52 (44.83%) Java
2 15 (12.93%) C#
3 8 (6.897%) SQL
4 5 (4.310%) PL/SQL
5 3 (2.586%) VB.NET
5 3 (2.586%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.724%) VB6
6 2 (1.724%) VB
7 1 (0.862%) Scala
7 1 (0.862%) Python
7 1 (0.862%) C
7 1 (0.862%) C++
7 1 (0.862%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (11.21%) Degree
2 4 (3.448%) PMI Certification
3 2 (1.724%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (1.724%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 2 (1.724%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (20.69%) QA
System Software
1 2 (1.724%) Active Directory
1 2 (1.724%) Hyper-V
1 2 (1.724%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (11.21%) Oracle Identity Management
2 2 (1.724%) Oracle Identity Manager
Vendors
1 99 (85.34%) Oracle
2 51 (43.97%) Siebel
3 30 (25.86%) ATG
4 26 (22.41%) JBoss
5 19 (16.38%) Microsoft
6 12 (10.34%) Hyperion
7 11 (9.483%) PeopleSoft
8 8 (6.897%) IBM
9 5 (4.310%) Business Objects
10 4 (3.448%) Metastorm
10 4 (3.448%) Cordys
10 4 (3.448%) Lombardi
10 4 (3.448%) Pega
11 2 (1.724%) VMware
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