The first table below looks at the demand for SOA skills in IT jobs advertised for the Sale 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 Sale region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Rank 18 10 -
Rank change year-on-year
-8 -
Permanent jobs citing SOA 1 1 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Sale 1.754% 3.846% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.174% 9.091% -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Average salary - - -
UK excluding London average salary £47,500 £48,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year
-1.04% +1.05%
All Processes & Methodologies
Sale
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
46 11 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Sale 80.70% 42.31% 41.18%
Number of salaries quoted 18 6 7
Average salary £33,500 £40,000 £36,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
-16.25% +8.84%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,551 £40,000 £29,850
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £42,650 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
SOA
Manchester

SOA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Sale 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 Sale region.

Sale SOA Salary Trend

SOA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Sale 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 2 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) WebLogic
2 1 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) HPUX
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (50.00%) Apache
2 1 (50.00%) Tomcat
2 1 (50.00%) MS Access
2 1 (50.00%) N-Tier
2 1 (50.00%) FoxPro (VFP)
2 1 (50.00%) FTP
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle Discoverer
2 1 (50.00%) JDeveloper
2 1 (50.00%) HP
2 1 (50.00%) ISEB
2 1 (50.00%) Informatica
2 1 (50.00%) PowerCenter
2 1 (50.00%) WebLogic Integration
2 1 (50.00%) TIBCO
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow
2 1 (50.00%) SUSE
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (50.00%) ISEB Practitioner
2 1 (50.00%) Statistical Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) ISTQB
2 1 (50.00%) Release Management

SOA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Sale 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 1 (50.00%) XML
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) WebLogic
1 1 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (50.00%) WebLogic Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Workflow
1 1 (50.00%) Captiva
Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (50.00%) MS Access
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Discoverer
1 1 (50.00%) PowerCenter
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JDeveloper
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Leader
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) HPUX
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Workflow
1 1 (50.00%) Statistical Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Release Management
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) FoxPro (VFP)
1 1 (50.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) ISEB
1 1 (50.00%) ISEB Practitioner
1 1 (50.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) HP
2 1 (50.00%) Informatica
2 1 (50.00%) TIBCO