Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for SOAP skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SOAP over the 3 months to 22 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category.

LinkSimple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
Location
3 months to
22 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank184213231
Rank change year-on-year
Up+29Up+18
Matching permanent IT job ads9767621682
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK1.128 %0.895 %0.826 %
As % of the Application Development category3.094 %2.574 %2.557 %
Salaries quoted9166431409
Average salary£37,875£40,000£40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.310 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£27,500£28,500£29,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£72,500£61,700£62,500
UK excluding London average salary£33,000£36,375£37,500
% change year-on-year
-9.270 %-3.000 %
IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryAll Application Development
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
315412960765787
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK36.46 %34.78 %32.32 %
Salaries quoted274582524156031
Average salary£38,000£36,000£37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.550 %-4.000 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£26,500£25,000£26,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£65,000£57,500£60,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£34,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+2.940 %-2.850 %

SOAP
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing SOAP within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

SOAP Demand Trend

SOAP
Salary Trend

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

SOAP Salary Trend

SOAP
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SOAP over the 3 months to 22 March 2010 within the UK.

SOAP Salary Histogram

SOAP
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SOAP within the UK over the 3 months to 22 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandUp+42942£37,500-6.25 %
LondonUp+39400£55,000+15.78 %
South EastDown-9155£32,500-18.75 %
YorkshireUp+69128£32,500+8.33 %
City of LondonDown-199£47,500-
East MidlandsUp+3966£30,000-14.28 %
South YorkshireUp+4457£33,500-1.47 %
BerkshireUp+3855£35,250-49.64 %
West MidlandsUp+4454£40,000-
East of EnglandUp+154£33,500-14.10 %
South WestDown-250£32,500-7.14 %
SheffieldUp+3046£33,250-2.20 %
SurreyUp+2545£42,500-5.55 %
East YorkshireUp+1537£29,000+0.86 %
NottinghamshireUp+3535£32,500-13.33 %
NottinghamUp+3833£32,500-13.33 %
North WestDown-3833£35,000+7.69 %
CambridgeshireUp+1732£35,000+27.27 %
CambridgeUp+1632£35,000-
North YorkshireUp+3031£31,500+14.54 %
BristolUp+1727£32,500-14.47 %
BirminghamUp+3224£40,000+25.00 %
ManchesterDown-124£35,000+7.69 %
SelbyDown-224£30,500+1.66 %
ScotlandDown-1620£40,000-9.09 %
West SussexUp+1215£28,500-5.00 %
HullUp+1015£29,250+6.36 %
HerefordshireUp+2114£40,000-
Hemel HempsteadUp+1714£40,000-
East SussexUp+1314£28,500-12.30 %

SOAP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 March 2010, IT jobs within the UK citing SOAP 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 SOAP.

11116 (72.61 %)XML
2748 (48.67 %)Web Services
3691 (44.96 %)C#
4671 (43.66 %).NET
5630 (40.99 %)Java
6591 (38.45 %)SQL Server
7557 (36.24 %)JavaScript
8484 (31.49 %)SQL
9468 (30.45 %)ASP.NET
10457 (29.73 %)CSS
11439 (28.56 %)HTML
12435 (28.30 %)AJAX
13349 (22.71 %)MySQL
14347 (22.58 %)OO
15314 (20.43 %)PHP
16271 (17.63 %)Linux
17225 (14.64 %)Degree
18222 (14.44 %)XSLT
19215 (13.99 %)XHTML
20208 (13.53 %)Spring
21206 (13.40 %)Oracle
22205 (13.34 %)Microsoft
23194 (12.62 %)Hibernate
24192 (12.49 %)UNIX
25190 (12.36 %)Perl
26185 (12.04 %)VB.NET
27183 (11.91 %)J2EE
28172 (11.19 %)C
28172 (11.19 %)Finance
29168 (10.93 %)C++

SOAP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 March 2010, IT jobs within the UK citing SOAP 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 SOAP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
11116 (72.61 %)XML
2748 (48.67 %)Web Services
3671 (43.66 %).NET
4468 (30.45 %)ASP.NET
5457 (29.73 %)CSS
6439 (28.56 %)HTML
7435 (28.30 %)AJAX
8222 (14.44 %)XSLT
9215 (13.99 %)XHTML
10208 (13.53 %)Spring
11194 (12.62 %)Hibernate
12183 (11.91 %)J2EE
13165 (10.74 %)jQuery
14147 (9.564 %)WCF
15127 (8.263 %)JSP
16126 (8.198 %)Struts
17119 (7.742 %).NET Framework
1894 (6.116 %)JDBC
1992 (5.986 %)ASP
2088 (5.725 %)Servlets
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1151 (9.824 %)Apache
2132 (8.588 %)Tomcat
382 (5.335 %)CMS
454 (3.513 %)BizTalk Server
551 (3.318 %)SharePoint
650 (3.253 %)IIS
741 (2.668 %)WebLogic
833 (2.147 %)Drupal
926 (1.692 %)MQSeries
1022 (1.431 %)WordPress
1119 (1.236 %)Jetty
1218 (1.171 %)Joomla!
1315 (0.976 %)NetWeaver
1414 (0.911 %)SharePoint Server 2007
1511 (0.716 %)ESB
1610 (0.651 %)osCommerce
1610 (0.651 %)WebSphere Application Server
1610 (0.651 %)GlassFish
177 (0.455 %)lighttpd
186 (0.390 %)SharePoint Portal Server
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
168 (4.424 %)MS Excel
232 (2.082 %)Photoshop
327 (1.757 %)MS Visio
411 (0.716 %)Adobe Illustrator
59 (0.586 %)S-PLUS
68 (0.520 %)MS Office
77 (0.455 %)InfoPath
86 (0.390 %)MS Project
93 (0.195 %)MS PowerPoint
102 (0.130 %)Fireworks
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
18 (0.520 %)SAP PM
26 (0.390 %)SAP CRM
33 (0.195 %)Dynamics CRM
42 (0.130 %)SAP Business One
42 (0.130 %)BusinessWorks
42 (0.130 %)SAP R/3
51 (0.065 %)Microsoft CRM
51 (0.065 %)WebTrends
51 (0.065 %)Oracle EBS R12
51 (0.065 %)SAP Oil and Gas
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1156 (10.15 %)HTTP
277 (5.010 %)Internet
351 (3.318 %)TCP/IP
420 (1.301 %)SMTP
420 (1.301 %)FTP
519 (1.236 %)DNS
519 (1.236 %)Firewall
519 (1.236 %)SSH
618 (1.171 %)SSL
713 (0.846 %)Intranet
89 (0.586 %)RTP
89 (0.586 %)SNMP
98 (0.520 %)SAN
107 (0.455 %)HTTPS
107 (0.455 %)VPN
107 (0.455 %)WAN
107 (0.455 %)LAN
115 (0.325 %)LDAP
115 (0.325 %)RTSP
124 (0.260 %)Broadband
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1591 (38.45 %)SQL Server
2349 (22.71 %)MySQL
3120 (7.807 %)RDBMS
467 (4.359 %)SQL Server 2005
553 (3.448 %)SQL Server Integration Services
652 (3.383 %)DB2
745 (2.928 %)SQL Server 2000
844 (2.863 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
938 (2.472 %)PostgreSQL
938 (2.472 %)Informix
1024 (1.561 %)Datawarehouse
1121 (1.366 %)SQL Server 2008
1218 (1.171 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
1313 (0.846 %)Oracle 8/8i
1313 (0.846 %)GIS
147 (0.455 %)Oracle 10g
156 (0.390 %)TOAD
165 (0.325 %)Data Cleansing
165 (0.325 %)Data Mining
165 (0.325 %)DTS
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1143 (9.304 %)Subversion
298 (6.376 %)NUnit
298 (6.376 %)JUnit
384 (5.465 %)Ant
480 (5.205 %)Eclipse
577 (5.010 %)Visual Studio
672 (4.684 %)Maven
731 (2.017 %)VSS/SourceSafe
823 (1.496 %)CruiseControl
921 (1.366 %)Dreamweaver
1017 (1.106 %)Selenium
1017 (1.106 %)FitNesse
1113 (0.846 %)jMock
129 (0.586 %)TestNG
129 (0.586 %)Log4j
137 (0.455 %)JIRA
137 (0.455 %)WATIR
145 (0.325 %)Visual Studio Team System
145 (0.325 %)Flex Builder
154 (0.260 %)JMeter
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1172 (11.19 %)Finance
2151 (9.824 %)Banking
360 (3.904 %)Front Office
447 (3.058 %)Investment Banking
544 (2.863 %)Marketing
643 (2.798 %)Retail
736 (2.342 %)Games
826 (1.692 %)Pensions
925 (1.627 %)Telecoms
1024 (1.561 %)Back Office
1024 (1.561 %)Health
1121 (1.366 %)Online Games
1217 (1.106 %)Government
1217 (1.106 %)Construction
1314 (0.911 %)Education
1413 (0.846 %)Billing
1512 (0.781 %)Insurance
1611 (0.716 %)Law
1710 (0.651 %)Legal
1710 (0.651 %)Music
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
11082 (70.40 %)Developer
2272 (17.70 %)Java Developer
3269 (17.50 %)Senior Developer
4216 (14.05 %).NET Developer
5171 (11.13 %)Web Developer
6137 (8.913 %)Architect
7124 (8.068 %)C# Developer
7124 (8.068 %)PHP Developer
8111 (7.222 %)Analyst
989 (5.791 %)Software Developer
1088 (5.725 %)Software Engineer
1185 (5.530 %)Programmer
1267 (4.359 %)Applications Developer
1366 (4.294 %)Senior Java Developer
1460 (3.904 %)Solutions Architect
1558 (3.774 %)Junior
1657 (3.709 %)ASP.NET Developer
1754 (3.513 %)Analyst Programmer
1852 (3.383 %)Java/J2EE Developer
1949 (3.188 %)Junior Developer
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1108 (7.027 %)Computer Science
288 (5.725 %)N-Tier
368 (4.424 %)Derivative
460 (3.904 %)Open Source
555 (3.578 %)Equity Derivative
646 (2.993 %)Multithreading
731 (2.017 %)Client/Server
824 (1.561 %)Web 2.0
922 (1.431 %)iPhone
1019 (1.236 %)Mathematics
1019 (1.236 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
1115 (0.976 %)Equities
1115 (0.976 %)SaaS
1214 (0.911 %)Speech Recognition
1214 (0.911 %)Blackberry
1313 (0.846 %)Thin Client
1313 (0.846 %)Fat Client
1313 (0.846 %)RIA
1412 (0.781 %)Grid Computing
1511 (0.716 %)Credit Derivative
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1271 (17.63 %)Linux
2192 (12.49 %)UNIX
3134 (8.718 %)Windows
470 (4.554 %)Solaris
522 (1.431 %)Red Hat Linux
615 (0.976 %)Windows Server 2003
711 (0.716 %)Ubuntu
810 (0.651 %)Windows Mobile
98 (0.520 %)Windows Server 2008
98 (0.520 %)Windows 2000
107 (0.455 %)Fedora
116 (0.390 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
125 (0.325 %)CentOS
134 (0.260 %)Mac OS
143 (0.195 %)Android
143 (0.195 %)Windows 2000 Server
143 (0.195 %)AIX
151 (0.065 %)SUSE
151 (0.065 %)Debian
151 (0.065 %)Windows XP
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1347 (22.58 %)OO
2166 (10.80 %)E-Commerce
3158 (10.28 %)Web Development
4152 (9.889 %)MVC
5136 (8.848 %)SOA
6120 (7.807 %)Agile Software Development
7113 (7.352 %)Scrum
8108 (7.027 %)UML
980 (5.205 %)OOD
1079 (5.140 %)TDD
1170 (4.554 %)Content Management
1258 (3.774 %)OOP
1347 (3.058 %)Unit Testing
1443 (2.798 %)Continuous Integration
1542 (2.733 %)RAD
1641 (2.668 %)Requirements Analysis
1739 (2.537 %)Software Engineering
1838 (2.472 %)B2B
1838 (2.472 %)Project Management
1934 (2.212 %)CRM
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1691 (44.96 %)C#
2630 (40.99 %)Java
3557 (36.24 %)JavaScript
4484 (31.49 %)SQL
5314 (20.43 %)PHP
6190 (12.36 %)Perl
7185 (12.04 %)VB.NET
8172 (11.19 %)C
9168 (10.93 %)C++
10123 (8.003 %)VB
11109 (7.092 %)PHP5
1288 (5.725 %)T-SQL
1364 (4.164 %)Python
1457 (3.709 %)Ruby
1547 (3.058 %)VB6
1634 (2.212 %)Shell Script
1733 (2.147 %)Delphi
1832 (2.082 %)PHP4
1931 (2.017 %)ActionScript
2022 (1.431 %)Bash shell
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1225 (14.64 %)Degree
216 (1.041 %)Security Cleared
38 (0.520 %)CFA
46 (0.390 %)Postgraduate
46 (0.390 %)Microsoft Certification
54 (0.260 %)SC Cleared
54 (0.260 %)MCPD
63 (0.195 %)ISTQB
63 (0.195 %)IBM Certification
63 (0.195 %)ISEB
63 (0.195 %)MCAD
63 (0.195 %)MCSD
71 (0.065 %)MCTS
71 (0.065 %)ITIL Certification
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
148 (3.123 %)WAI
231 (2.017 %)QA
35 (0.325 %)SLA
43 (0.195 %)HL7
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
15 (0.325 %)Xen
21 (0.065 %)MSMQ
21 (0.065 %)Active Directory
21 (0.065 %)Samba
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
110 (0.651 %)AutoSys
25 (0.325 %)Nagios
25 (0.325 %)Zenoss
34 (0.260 %)Tivoli
34 (0.260 %)Tivoli Monitoring
43 (0.195 %)Plesk
52 (0.130 %)TIBCO Hawk
61 (0.065 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1206 (13.40 %)Oracle
2205 (13.34 %)Microsoft
3151 (9.824 %)JBoss
475 (4.880 %)Zend
565 (4.229 %)Sybase
642 (2.733 %)Google
734 (2.212 %)SAP
823 (1.496 %)Red Hat
919 (1.236 %)Yahoo!
1016 (1.041 %)Perforce
1113 (0.846 %)TIBCO
1113 (0.846 %)DataSynapse
1211 (0.716 %)Adobe
139 (0.586 %)IBM
148 (0.520 %)HP
157 (0.455 %)Citrix
157 (0.455 %)Lagan
166 (0.390 %)Sun
166 (0.390 %)Symbian
175 (0.325 %)BEA