The first table below looks at the demand for SOA skills in IT jobs advertised for the Stoke-on-Trent region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SOA over the 3 months to 21 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 Stoke-on-Trent region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Rank 27 20 27
Rank change year-on-year
-7 +7
Permanent jobs citing SOA 9 24 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Stoke-on-Trent 6.081% 12.90% 4.301%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.184% 18.32% 7.477%
Number of salaries quoted 8 24 8
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -20.00%
UK excluding London average salary £47,500 £48,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year
-1.04% +1.05%
All Processes & Methodologies
Stoke-on-Trent
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
98 131 107
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Stoke-on-Trent 66.22% 70.43% 57.53%
Number of salaries quoted 92 112 76
Average salary £45,000 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.50% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £25,000 £28,000
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £55,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
SOA
Staffordshire

SOA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Stoke-on-Trent 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 Stoke-on-Trent region.

Stoke-on-Trent SOA Salary Trend

SOA
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SOA across the Stoke-on-Trent region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Stoke-on-Trent SOA Salary Histogram

SOA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Stoke-on-Trent 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 31 (100.00%) C#
1 31 (100.00%) .NET
1 31 (100.00%) CSS
2 30 (96.77%) XML
2 30 (96.77%) SQL Server
2 30 (96.77%) JavaScript
2 30 (96.77%) VB.NET
2 30 (96.77%) Unit Testing
2 30 (96.77%) HTML5
3 28 (90.32%) TDD
3 28 (90.32%) Degree
3 28 (90.32%) Ajax
3 28 (90.32%) ASP.NET
3 28 (90.32%) XSLT
3 28 (90.32%) XHTML
3 28 (90.32%) N-Tier
3 28 (90.32%) SEO
4 27 (87.10%) jQuery
5 25 (80.65%) CSS3
5 25 (80.65%) Web Application Development
5 25 (80.65%) MS Excel
5 25 (80.65%) E-Commerce
6 24 (77.42%) SQL
7 13 (41.94%) MVC
7 13 (41.94%) JIRA
8 12 (38.71%) Document Management
8 12 (38.71%) CMS
9 7 (22.58%) Web Development
10 5 (16.13%) Microsoft
10 5 (16.13%) Computer Science

SOA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Stoke-on-Trent 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 31 (100.00%) .NET
1 31 (100.00%) CSS
2 30 (96.77%) XML
2 30 (96.77%) HTML5
3 28 (90.32%) Ajax
3 28 (90.32%) ASP.NET
3 28 (90.32%) XSLT
3 28 (90.32%) XHTML
4 27 (87.10%) jQuery
5 25 (80.65%) CSS3
6 3 (9.677%) HTML
7 2 (6.452%) WCF
7 2 (6.452%) WPF
Application Platforms
1 12 (38.71%) CMS
Applications
1 25 (80.65%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (96.77%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (41.94%) JIRA
2 2 (6.452%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 19 (61.29%) Developer
2 18 (58.06%) Web Developer
3 13 (41.94%) Senior Developer
3 13 (41.94%) Senior Web Developer
4 12 (38.71%) Web Team Leader
4 12 (38.71%) .NET Team Leader
4 12 (38.71%) Team Leader
4 12 (38.71%) Development Team Leader
5 8 (25.81%) .NET Developer
5 8 (25.81%) C# Developer
5 8 (25.81%) VB.NET Developer
5 8 (25.81%) C# .NET Developer
6 7 (22.58%) C# Web Developer
6 7 (22.58%) Senior .NET Web Developer
6 7 (22.58%) Senior VB.NET Developer
6 7 (22.58%) Senior ASP.NET Developer
6 7 (22.58%) Web Development Team Leader
6 7 (22.58%) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer
6 7 (22.58%) C# ASP.NET Developer
6 7 (22.58%) ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 28 (90.32%) N-Tier
2 5 (16.13%) Computer Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (96.77%) Unit Testing
2 28 (90.32%) TDD
2 28 (90.32%) SEO
3 25 (80.65%) Web Application Development
3 25 (80.65%) E-Commerce
4 13 (41.94%) MVC
5 12 (38.71%) Document Management
6 7 (22.58%) Web Development
7 2 (6.452%) OO
7 2 (6.452%) Agile Software Development
8 1 (3.226%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 31 (100.00%) C#
2 30 (96.77%) JavaScript
2 30 (96.77%) VB.NET
3 24 (77.42%) SQL
4 2 (6.452%) T-SQL
4 2 (6.452%) VB
4 2 (6.452%) VB6
Qualifications
1 28 (90.32%) Degree
2 3 (9.677%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.452%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (16.13%) 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