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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Rank 54 53 49
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -4
Permanent jobs citing SOA 3 10 13
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Sheffield 0.573% 1.629% 2.261%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.716% 2.392% 3.385%
Number of salaries quoted 2 10 12
Average salary £42,500 £36,500 £43,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
+16.43% -15.60%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £34,750 £41,500
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £56,500 £66,150
UK excluding London average salary £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
All Processes & Methodologies
Sheffield
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
419 418 384
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Sheffield 79.96% 68.08% 66.78%
Number of salaries quoted 363 356 330
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £22,500 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £50,000 £53,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
SOA
South Yorkshire

SOA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Sheffield 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 Sheffield region.

Sheffield SOA Salary Trend

SOA
Salary Histogram

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

Sheffield SOA Salary Histogram

SOA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Sheffield 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 8 (66.67%) Java
2 7 (58.33%) Scrum
3 6 (50.00%) SQL
3 6 (50.00%) Web Services
4 5 (41.67%) PL/SQL
4 5 (41.67%) ESB
5 4 (33.33%) Biotechnology
5 4 (33.33%) QA
5 4 (33.33%) Unit Testing
5 4 (33.33%) Test Scripting
5 4 (33.33%) Data Protection
5 4 (33.33%) SQL Server
5 4 (33.33%) C#
5 4 (33.33%) GCP
5 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
5 4 (33.33%) TIBCO
5 4 (33.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 4 (33.33%) Pharmaceutical
5 4 (33.33%) Process Management
5 4 (33.33%) MVC
5 4 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
5 4 (33.33%) Validation
6 3 (25.00%) SQL Server 2005
6 3 (25.00%) Web Development
6 3 (25.00%) MS Excel
6 3 (25.00%) .NET
6 3 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
7 2 (16.67%) Spring MVC
7 2 (16.67%) JPA
7 2 (16.67%) Open Source

SOA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Sheffield 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 6 (50.00%) Web Services
2 3 (25.00%) .NET
3 2 (16.67%) Spring MVC
3 2 (16.67%) JPA
3 2 (16.67%) Hibernate
3 2 (16.67%) J2EE
3 2 (16.67%) HTML
3 2 (16.67%) ASP.NET
3 2 (16.67%) CSS
3 2 (16.67%) .NET Framework
3 2 (16.67%) Java EE
3 2 (16.67%) Spring
4 1 (8.333%) EDI
4 1 (8.333%) JSP
4 1 (8.333%) COM
4 1 (8.333%) OAuth
4 1 (8.333%) WCF
4 1 (8.333%) WF
4 1 (8.333%) Symfony
4 1 (8.333%) Zend Framework
Application Platforms
1 5 (41.67%) ESB
2 1 (8.333%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (8.333%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 3 (25.00%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (8.333%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (8.333%) Oracle EBS R12
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 3 (25.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 3 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (16.67%) MySQL
3 2 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (8.333%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (8.333%) Subversion
1 1 (8.333%) Visual Studio
1 1 (8.333%) Git (software)
General
1 4 (33.33%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (8.333%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Developer
2 4 (33.33%) Development Analyst
2 4 (33.33%) Senior Development Analyst
2 4 (33.33%) Senior Analyst
2 4 (33.33%) Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Java Developer
3 2 (16.67%) .NET Developer
4 1 (8.333%) C# Developer
4 1 (8.333%) Junior Developer
4 1 (8.333%) PHP Developer
4 1 (8.333%) Junior C# Developer
4 1 (8.333%) Junior .NET Developer
4 1 (8.333%) Oracle Developer
4 1 (8.333%) Business Developer
4 1 (8.333%) Development Manager
4 1 (8.333%) BizTalk Developer
4 1 (8.333%) Software Developer
4 1 (8.333%) Junior
4 1 (8.333%) Software Engineer
4 1 (8.333%) C# .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Biotechnology
2 2 (16.67%) Open Source
2 2 (16.67%) SaaS
2 2 (16.67%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.333%) UNIX
1 1 (8.333%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Scrum
2 4 (33.33%) Unit Testing
2 4 (33.33%) Test Scripting
2 4 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 4 (33.33%) Process Management
2 4 (33.33%) MVC
2 4 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (33.33%) Validation
3 3 (25.00%) Web Development
4 1 (8.333%) Logistics
4 1 (8.333%) Software Testing
4 1 (8.333%) TDD
4 1 (8.333%) BPEL
4 1 (8.333%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (8.333%) EAI
4 1 (8.333%) ETL
4 1 (8.333%) E-Commerce
4 1 (8.333%) ERP
4 1 (8.333%) ITIL
4 1 (8.333%) OO
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) Java
2 6 (50.00%) SQL
3 5 (41.67%) PL/SQL
4 4 (33.33%) C#
5 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 2 (16.67%) PHP
6 1 (8.333%) Perl
6 1 (8.333%) PHP5
Qualifications
1 1 (8.333%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) QA
1 4 (33.33%) GCP
1 4 (33.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 1 (8.333%) SCOM
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 4 (33.33%) TIBCO
2 1 (8.333%) SAP
2 1 (8.333%) Oracle
2 1 (8.333%) Zend