The first table below looks at the demand for SOA skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SOA over the 3 months to 19 June 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.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Rank 169 122 113
Rank change year-on-year
-47 -9
Permanent jobs citing SOA 1804 2572 2702
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 1.656% 2.134% 2.105%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.173% 2.848% 2.857%
Number of salaries quoted 1464 2145 2341
Average salary £53,000 £55,000 £55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.63% -
90% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £37,500 £36,000
10% offered a salary of more than £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK excluding London average salary £48,000 £48,750 £47,500
% change year-on-year
-1.53% +2.63%
All Processes & Methodologies
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
83034 90312 94559
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 76.23% 74.93% 73.66%
Number of salaries quoted 68153 76820 79397
Average salary £45,000 £47,000 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.25% -1.05%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £70,500 £75,000 £75,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%

SOA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

SOA Jobs Demand Trend

SOA
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing SOA within the UK.

SOA Salary Trend

SOA
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SOA over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 within the UK.

SOA Salary Histogram

SOA
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
England -42 1687 £55,000 - 225
London -22 892 £65,000 - 103
South East -47 302 £51,000 +2.00% 43
City of London +8 270 £67,500 +3.84% 26
East of England -28 124 £50,000 +11.11% 23
South West -29 119 £41,861 -9.97% 11
Yorkshire +32 92 £38,000 -1.93% 8
Surrey +5 91 £48,000 -1.53% 10
West Yorkshire +30 84 £37,750 -2.58% 8
West Midlands -45 72 £45,000 - 13
Scotland +37 67 £40,000 +11.11% 4
Hampshire -29 61 £47,500 -9.52% 17
Berkshire -13 59 £55,000 - 6
North West -78 57 £47,500 +11.76% 17
Hertfordshire -2 54 £54,500 -5.21% 11
Leeds +19 49 £38,000 -5.00% 5
Wiltshire +11 38 £38,472 -18.14% 2
Basingstoke +5 35 £47,500 -20.83% 3
Bristol -9 32 £50,000 +11.11% 6
Cambridgeshire -10 30 £45,000 +23.28% 4
Edinburgh +22 28 £40,000 -23.07% 1
Glasgow -8 28 £40,000 +11.11% 3
Manchester -46 27 £37,500 - 4
Bradford +16 26 £37,000 -3.89% 1
West Sussex +6 26 £51,750 -13.75%
Swindon +8 23 £34,500 -25.80%
Birmingham -5 23 £45,500 -13.33% 1
Oxfordshire -17 23 £66,250 +20.45% 1
Reading -36 23 £46,250 -7.50% 2
Warwickshire -1 22 £47,500 +5.55% 1

SOA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs within the UK 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 1682 (43.45%) Java
2 1344 (34.72%) Oracle
3 1303 (33.66%) SQL
4 1220 (31.52%) .NET
5 1139 (29.42%) Web Services
6 1068 (27.59%) C#
7 996 (25.73%) XML
8 982 (25.37%) Finance
9 874 (22.58%) SQL Server
10 776 (20.05%) TDD
11 763 (19.71%) JavaScript
12 705 (18.21%) Scrum
13 704 (18.19%) Agile Software Development
14 658 (17.00%) J2EE
15 641 (16.56%) OO
16 609 (15.73%) Middleware
17 585 (15.11%) MVC
17 585 (15.11%) Microsoft
18 561 (14.49%) Spring
19 550 (14.21%) ASP.NET
20 549 (14.18%) UML
21 543 (14.03%) WCF
22 510 (13.17%) ESB
23 498 (12.86%) HTML
24 470 (12.14%) Linux
25 448 (11.57%) CSS
26 447 (11.55%) jQuery
27 420 (10.85%) Ajax
28 413 (10.67%) Hibernate
29 408 (10.54%) REST

SOA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs within the UK 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 1220 (31.52%) .NET
2 1139 (29.42%) Web Services
3 996 (25.73%) XML
4 658 (17.00%) J2EE
5 609 (15.73%) Middleware
6 561 (14.49%) Spring
7 550 (14.21%) ASP.NET
8 543 (14.03%) WCF
9 498 (12.86%) HTML
10 448 (11.57%) CSS
11 447 (11.55%) jQuery
12 420 (10.85%) Ajax
13 413 (10.67%) Hibernate
14 408 (10.54%) REST
15 352 (9.093%) JMS
16 343 (8.861%) SOAP
17 334 (8.628%) XSLT
18 285 (7.362%) WebSphere
19 283 (7.311%) HTML5
20 277 (7.156%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 510 (13.17%) ESB
2 364 (9.403%) WebLogic
3 254 (6.562%) Apache
4 221 (5.709%) Tomcat
5 173 (4.469%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 155 (4.004%) SharePoint
7 143 (3.694%) CMS
8 132 (3.410%) IIS
9 118 (3.048%) BizTalk Server
10 106 (2.738%) Oracle Service Bus
11 86 (2.222%) Apache Solr
12 80 (2.067%) MQSeries
13 77 (1.989%) WebSphere Application Server
14 72 (1.860%) Oracle Workflow
15 68 (1.757%) Windows Azure
16 57 (1.472%) Amazon AWS
17 54 (1.395%) Amazon EC2
18 44 (1.137%) Alfresco
19 43 (1.111%) Drupal
20 36 (0.930%) GlassFish
Applications
1 280 (7.233%) MS Excel
2 31 (0.801%) MS Office
3 19 (0.491%) MS Visio
4 11 (0.284%) MS Project
5 3 (0.077%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.052%) MS PowerPoint
6 2 (0.052%) Office 365
7 1 (0.026%) Mingle
7 1 (0.026%) Fireworks
Business Applications
1 197 (5.089%) Oracle EBS
2 160 (4.133%) Oracle BPM
3 84 (2.170%) Oracle EBS R12
4 76 (1.963%) Oracle Applications
5 54 (1.395%) Dynamics CRM
6 49 (1.266%) BusinessWorks
7 41 (1.059%) Oracle ERP
8 21 (0.542%) Oracle 11i
9 18 (0.465%) SAP BPC
10 13 (0.336%) SAP CRM
11 11 (0.284%) LatentZero
12 10 (0.258%) Oracle Financials
13 9 (0.232%) Oracle Retail
13 9 (0.232%) RMDS
14 8 (0.207%) Dynamics NAV
14 8 (0.207%) SAP Oil and Gas
15 7 (0.181%) AquaLogic BPM
15 7 (0.181%) TIBCO iProcess
15 7 (0.181%) SAP GRC
16 6 (0.155%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 205 (5.296%) HTTP
2 192 (4.960%) Internet
3 71 (1.834%) DNS
4 67 (1.731%) TCP/IP
5 60 (1.550%) SSL
6 52 (1.343%) Firewall
7 51 (1.317%) FTP
8 48 (1.240%) Intranet
9 42 (1.085%) SAN
10 41 (1.059%) BSS
11 34 (0.878%) AMQP
12 26 (0.672%) NAS
13 23 (0.594%) Extranet
14 18 (0.465%) LDAP
15 17 (0.439%) HTTPS
16 16 (0.413%) S/MIME
17 14 (0.362%) WAN
18 12 (0.310%) NFC
19 10 (0.258%) SMS
19 10 (0.258%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 874 (22.58%) SQL Server
2 355 (9.171%) MySQL
3 224 (5.787%) SQL Server 2008
4 211 (5.451%) NoSQL
5 201 (5.192%) RDBMS
6 179 (4.624%) SQL Server 2005
7 165 (4.262%) Oracle 11g
8 123 (3.177%) DB2
9 122 (3.152%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 114 (2.945%) Data Warehouse
11 99 (2.557%) Big Data
12 98 (2.532%) PostgreSQL
13 90 (2.325%) Oracle 10g
13 90 (2.325%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 82 (2.118%) Oracle BI EE
15 75 (1.937%) Oracle Reports
16 64 (1.653%) Oracle 8/8i
17 62 (1.602%) Oracle ODI
18 61 (1.576%) MongoDB
19 50 (1.292%) MarkLogic
Development Applications
1 280 (7.233%) Maven
2 261 (6.742%) Subversion
3 226 (5.838%) JUnit
4 185 (4.779%) Selenium
5 178 (4.598%) Ant
6 155 (4.004%) Eclipse
7 150 (3.875%) Git (software)
8 144 (3.720%) JIRA
9 137 (3.539%) Team Foundation Server
10 130 (3.358%) Jenkins
11 121 (3.126%) Visual Studio
12 67 (1.731%) NUnit
13 62 (1.602%) TeamCity
14 61 (1.576%) JDeveloper
15 58 (1.498%) Hudson
16 46 (1.188%) Oracle Forms
17 45 (1.162%) JMeter
18 43 (1.111%) Cucumber
19 40 (1.033%) SpecFlow
20 37 (0.956%) WebDriver
General
1 982 (25.37%) Finance
2 312 (8.060%) Retail
3 280 (7.233%) Banking
4 184 (4.753%) Telecoms
5 107 (2.764%) Games
6 100 (2.583%) Marketing
7 90 (2.325%) Investment Banking
8 86 (2.222%) Publishing
9 66 (1.705%) Billing
10 54 (1.395%) Retail Banking
11 49 (1.266%) Advertising
12 47 (1.214%) Back Office
13 45 (1.162%) Front Office
14 44 (1.137%) Financial Institution
15 35 (0.904%) Law
16 23 (0.594%) Pharmaceutical
17 19 (0.491%) Manufacturing
18 18 (0.465%) Private Banking
19 14 (0.362%) Aerospace
20 11 (0.284%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1593 (41.15%) Developer
2 1072 (27.69%) Architect
3 462 (11.93%) Senior Developer
4 450 (11.62%) Solutions Architect
5 436 (11.26%) Java Developer
6 372 (9.610%) .NET Developer
7 339 (8.757%) C# Developer
8 264 (6.820%) Analyst
9 238 (6.148%) C# .NET Developer
10 199 (5.141%) Consultant
11 177 (4.572%) Software Developer
12 152 (3.927%) Technical Architect
13 146 (3.772%) Senior .NET Developer
14 145 (3.746%) Senior Java Developer
15 138 (3.565%) C# ASP.NET Developer
16 135 (3.487%) Senior C# Developer
17 129 (3.332%) ASP.NET Developer
18 121 (3.126%) Lead Developer
19 118 (3.048%) Enterprise Architect
20 108 (2.790%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 305 (7.879%) Enterprise Software
2 187 (4.831%) Open Source
2 187 (4.831%) Computer Science
3 177 (4.572%) N-Tier
3 177 (4.572%) Mobile App
4 142 (3.668%) SaaS
5 112 (2.893%) Management Information System
6 85 (2.196%) Client/Server
7 75 (1.937%) Mainframe
8 69 (1.782%) Cloud Computing
9 68 (1.757%) Web 2.0
10 49 (1.266%) Derivative
11 45 (1.162%) Inversion of Control
11 45 (1.162%) Social Network
12 43 (1.111%) iPhone
12 43 (1.111%) Statistics
13 41 (1.059%) Blackberry
14 40 (1.033%) Digital Media
15 39 (1.007%) PaaS
15 39 (1.007%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 470 (12.14%) Linux
2 405 (10.46%) UNIX
3 393 (10.15%) Windows
4 172 (4.443%) Android
5 144 (3.720%) Apple iOS
6 73 (1.886%) Windows Server 2003
7 71 (1.834%) Windows Server 2008
8 68 (1.757%) Solaris
9 45 (1.162%) HPUX
10 37 (0.956%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 25 (0.646%) Windows Phone
12 20 (0.517%) CentOS
13 14 (0.362%) SUSE
14 11 (0.284%) AIX
15 10 (0.258%) openSUSE
16 8 (0.207%) Windows 7
17 7 (0.181%) Windows Phone 7
17 7 (0.181%) Windows Mobile
18 6 (0.155%) Ubuntu
18 6 (0.155%) Windows Phone 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 776 (20.05%) TDD
2 705 (18.21%) Scrum
3 704 (18.19%) Agile Software Development
4 641 (16.56%) OO
5 585 (15.11%) MVC
6 549 (14.18%) UML
7 382 (9.868%) E-Commerce
8 338 (8.732%) Continuous Integration
9 293 (7.569%) Enterprise Architecture
10 290 (7.492%) TOGAF
11 282 (7.285%) CRM
12 266 (6.872%) Unit Testing
13 226 (5.838%) Data Modelling
14 209 (5.399%) Business Intelligence
15 205 (5.296%) Technical Architecture
16 196 (5.063%) ITIL
17 189 (4.882%) BDD
18 180 (4.650%) Web Development
19 177 (4.572%) ERP
20 172 (4.443%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 1682 (43.45%) Java
2 1303 (33.66%) SQL
3 1068 (27.59%) C#
4 763 (19.71%) JavaScript
5 285 (7.362%) PL/SQL
6 206 (5.322%) T-SQL
7 193 (4.986%) PHP
8 189 (4.882%) C++
9 151 (3.901%) Python
10 146 (3.772%) Shell Script
11 127 (3.281%) Perl
12 126 (3.255%) Ruby
13 115 (2.971%) C
14 114 (2.945%) XPath
15 91 (2.351%) VB.NET
16 86 (2.222%) Groovy
17 71 (1.834%) Scala
18 62 (1.602%) XQuery
19 50 (1.292%) ActionScript
20 43 (1.111%) VB
Qualifications
1 407 (10.51%) Degree
2 77 (1.989%) Security Cleared
3 47 (1.214%) SC Cleared
4 43 (1.111%) ISEB
5 22 (0.568%) DV Cleared
6 20 (0.517%) CISSP
6 20 (0.517%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 16 (0.413%) Oracle Certification
8 13 (0.336%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 13 (0.336%) ITIL Certification
9 12 (0.310%) PMI Certification
10 11 (0.284%) ISTQB
10 11 (0.284%) Microsoft Certification
10 11 (0.284%) CISM
11 10 (0.258%) MBA
12 7 (0.181%) GIAC
12 7 (0.181%) SSCP
13 6 (0.155%) ISEB Practitioner
14 5 (0.129%) BC Cleared
14 5 (0.129%) CITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 306 (7.905%) QA
2 30 (0.775%) SLA
3 23 (0.594%) COBIT
4 18 (0.465%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 15 (0.387%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 10 (0.258%) PCI DSS
7 8 (0.207%) GCP
7 8 (0.207%) WAI
8 7 (0.181%) ISO 9001
9 4 (0.103%) EFQM
9 4 (0.103%) JSP 440
10 3 (0.077%) HMG Infosec
11 1 (0.026%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.026%) SNOMED CT
11 1 (0.026%) HL7
11 1 (0.026%) DICOM
11 1 (0.026%) ISO 8583
11 1 (0.026%) GAAP
System Software
1 46 (1.188%) Oracle RAC
2 40 (1.033%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (0.568%) Active Directory
4 18 (0.465%) Xen
5 14 (0.362%) Oracle RMAN
6 11 (0.284%) Varnish
7 10 (0.258%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
7 10 (0.258%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 8 (0.207%) OpenSSO
9 6 (0.155%) Samba
10 5 (0.129%) VirtualBox
11 3 (0.077%) NFS
12 2 (0.052%) Hyper-V
13 1 (0.026%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 38 (0.982%) Puppet
2 25 (0.646%) HP Quality Center
3 22 (0.568%) Tivoli
4 21 (0.542%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 19 (0.491%) Data Guard
6 18 (0.465%) MOM
6 18 (0.465%) CA Endevor
7 14 (0.362%) SCOM
8 9 (0.232%) Nagios
9 8 (0.207%) SCCM
9 8 (0.207%) Oracle Identity Management
10 7 (0.181%) Tivoli Monitoring
11 6 (0.155%) CA SiteMinder
11 6 (0.155%) OpenView
11 6 (0.155%) ZABBIX
11 6 (0.155%) Oracle Identity Manager
12 5 (0.129%) Vagrant
12 5 (0.129%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 3 (0.077%) Oracle Statspack
13 3 (0.077%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 1344 (34.72%) Oracle
2 585 (15.11%) Microsoft
3 288 (7.440%) JBoss
4 200 (5.167%) IBM
5 139 (3.591%) TIBCO
6 106 (2.738%) Siebel
7 95 (2.454%) SAP
8 79 (2.041%) Informatica
9 65 (1.679%) Red Hat
10 63 (1.627%) Sybase
11 61 (1.576%) Hyperion
12 58 (1.498%) ATG
13 49 (1.266%) Pega
13 49 (1.266%) VMware
14 42 (1.085%) Google
15 41 (1.059%) Business Objects
16 40 (1.033%) HP
16 40 (1.033%) Sun
17 39 (1.007%) webMethods
18 33 (0.852%) Zend
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