The first table below looks at the demand for SOA skills in IT jobs advertised for the Staffordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SOA over the 3 months to 20 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 Staffordshire region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Rank 53 22 44
Rank change year-on-year
-31 +22
Permanent jobs citing SOA 15 48 16
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Staffordshire 2.525% 8.348% 2.862%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.341% 11.94% 4.278%
Number of salaries quoted 14 44 15
Average salary £40,000 £42,500 £29,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.88% +46.55%
90% offered a salary of more than £33,250 £35,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £43,500 £48,375 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
All Processes & Methodologies
Staffordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
449 402 374
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Staffordshire 75.59% 69.91% 66.91%
Number of salaries quoted 389 343 303
Average salary £39,500 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.25% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £25,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £61,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
SOA
West Midlands

SOA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire region.

Staffordshire SOA Salary Trend

SOA
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SOA across the Staffordshire region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire region over the 3 months to 20 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
Stoke-on-Trent -8 9 £40,000 -
Cannock -23 4 £43,000 -9.47%
SOA
West Midlands

SOA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Staffordshire 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 38 (100.00%) .NET
2 34 (89.47%) C#
3 33 (86.84%) ASP.NET
3 33 (86.84%) SQL Server
3 33 (86.84%) TDD
4 32 (84.21%) Unit Testing
4 32 (84.21%) JavaScript
4 32 (84.21%) CSS
4 32 (84.21%) VB.NET
5 31 (81.58%) XML
5 31 (81.58%) N-Tier
5 31 (81.58%) HTML5
6 29 (76.32%) XHTML
6 29 (76.32%) MS Excel
6 29 (76.32%) SEO
6 29 (76.32%) XSLT
6 29 (76.32%) Ajax
6 29 (76.32%) Degree
7 27 (71.05%) SQL
7 27 (71.05%) jQuery
8 26 (68.42%) E-Commerce
9 25 (65.79%) Web Application Development
9 25 (65.79%) CSS3
10 15 (39.47%) MVC
11 13 (34.21%) JIRA
12 12 (31.58%) Document Management
12 12 (31.58%) CMS
13 11 (28.95%) Microsoft
14 7 (18.42%) Web Development
14 7 (18.42%) WCF

SOA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Staffordshire 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 38 (100.00%) .NET
2 33 (86.84%) ASP.NET
3 32 (84.21%) CSS
4 31 (81.58%) XML
4 31 (81.58%) HTML5
5 29 (76.32%) XSLT
5 29 (76.32%) XHTML
5 29 (76.32%) Ajax
6 27 (71.05%) jQuery
7 25 (65.79%) CSS3
8 7 (18.42%) WCF
9 3 (7.895%) HTML
10 2 (5.263%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
10 2 (5.263%) WPF
10 2 (5.263%) ASP.NET MVC
10 2 (5.263%) .NET Remoting
10 2 (5.263%) .NET Framework
10 2 (5.263%) Web Services
11 1 (2.632%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 12 (31.58%) CMS
2 2 (5.263%) ESB
2 2 (5.263%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 29 (76.32%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.263%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (86.84%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.263%) OLTP
2 2 (5.263%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 13 (34.21%) JIRA
2 4 (10.53%) Team Foundation Server
2 4 (10.53%) Visual Studio
3 2 (5.263%) Subversion
3 2 (5.263%) MSBuild
Job Titles
1 26 (68.42%) Developer
2 18 (47.37%) Web Developer
3 16 (42.11%) Senior Developer
4 13 (34.21%) Senior Web Developer
5 12 (31.58%) .NET Developer
5 12 (31.58%) Team Leader
5 12 (31.58%) Development Team Leader
5 12 (31.58%) .NET Team Leader
5 12 (31.58%) Web Team Leader
6 10 (26.32%) C# .NET Developer
6 10 (26.32%) C# Developer
7 9 (23.68%) VB.NET Developer
7 9 (23.68%) Senior .NET Developer
8 7 (18.42%) Senior ASP.NET Developer
8 7 (18.42%) ASP.NET Developer
8 7 (18.42%) Web Development Team Leader
8 7 (18.42%) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer
8 7 (18.42%) C# ASP.NET Developer
8 7 (18.42%) C# Web Developer
8 7 (18.42%) Senior .NET Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 31 (81.58%) N-Tier
2 6 (15.79%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.632%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (86.84%) TDD
2 32 (84.21%) Unit Testing
3 29 (76.32%) SEO
4 26 (68.42%) E-Commerce
5 25 (65.79%) Web Application Development
6 15 (39.47%) MVC
7 12 (31.58%) Document Management
8 7 (18.42%) Web Development
9 3 (7.895%) OO
9 3 (7.895%) Agile Software Development
10 2 (5.263%) Workflow
11 1 (2.632%) Scrum
11 1 (2.632%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 34 (89.47%) C#
2 32 (84.21%) JavaScript
2 32 (84.21%) VB.NET
3 27 (71.05%) SQL
4 2 (5.263%) T-SQL
4 2 (5.263%) VB
4 2 (5.263%) VB6
Qualifications
1 29 (76.32%) Degree
2 4 (10.53%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.263%) QA
Vendors
1 11 (28.95%) Microsoft
Stoke on Trent, West Midlands
Our client is seeking a Web Application Developer you will have a background in software development working in Microsoft environments.
Hudson
Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 2 May 2013
Stoke on Trent, West Midlands
Our client is seeking a Wed/ Application Developer you will have a background in software development working in Microsoft environments.
Hudson
Salary: Excellent Benefits
Posted: 23 April 2013
Stoke-On-Trent, Staffordshire
Computer science background (OO design, design patterns, algorithms) Development experience in C#... Development experience of VB.NET and WPF. Good working knowledge of VB6... Exposure to WCF, SOA,...
Ticketmaster UK
Salary: Competative
Posted: 15 May 2013