The first table below looks at the demand for SOA skills in IT jobs advertised for the Stirling region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SOA over the 3 months to 17 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 Stirling region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Rank - - 11
Permanent jobs citing SOA 0 0 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Stirling - - 9.804%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - - 15.63%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 5
Average salary - - £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
All Processes & Methodologies
Stirling
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
30 80 32
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Stirling 88.24% 74.77% 62.75%
Number of salaries quoted 19 60 26
Average salary £46,500 £38,750 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+20.00% -8.82%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £29,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £110,000 £55,250 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
SOA
Scotland

SOA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Stirling 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 Stirling region.

Stirling SOA Salary Trend

SOA
Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Stirling 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 4 (100.00%) HTML
1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
1 4 (100.00%) J2EE
1 4 (100.00%) WebLogic
1 4 (100.00%) SOAP
1 4 (100.00%) Struts
1 4 (100.00%) XML
1 4 (100.00%) XSLT
1 4 (100.00%) JMS
1 4 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 4 (100.00%) WSDL
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
1 4 (100.00%) Subversion
1 4 (100.00%) Spring
1 4 (100.00%) jQuery
1 4 (100.00%) Struts2
2 2 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (50.00%) Waterfall
2 2 (50.00%) V-Model
2 2 (50.00%) UML
2 2 (50.00%) OOA/OOD
2 2 (50.00%) OO
2 2 (50.00%) Web Services
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle

SOA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Stirling 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 4 (100.00%) HTML
1 4 (100.00%) J2EE
1 4 (100.00%) SOAP
1 4 (100.00%) Struts
1 4 (100.00%) XML
1 4 (100.00%) XSLT
1 4 (100.00%) JMS
1 4 (100.00%) WSDL
1 4 (100.00%) Spring
1 4 (100.00%) jQuery
1 4 (100.00%) Struts2
2 2 (50.00%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 4 (100.00%) WebLogic
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 4 (100.00%) Subversion
General
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Java/J2EE Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Java Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Java/J2EE Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) UML
1 2 (50.00%) OOA/OOD
1 2 (50.00%) OO
1 2 (50.00%) V-Model
1 2 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
1 2 (50.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle