The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Web Services skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Web Services over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 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.

Web Services
Location
3 months to
22 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank314044
Rank change year-on-year
Up+9Up+4
Matching permanent IT job ads722160444299
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK5.988 %4.929 %4.503 %
As % of the Application Development category14.33 %12.30 %11.81 %
Number of salaries quoted639853583669
Average salary£42,500£40,000£40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£30,000£29,500£29,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£65,000£65,000£60,000
UK excluding London average salary£38,000£37,500£37,500
% change year-on-year
+1.33 %-
IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryAll Application Development
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
504084911936413
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK41.80 %40.06 %38.14 %
Number of salaries quoted447934339731363
Average salary£40,000£40,000£40,000
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£28,000£27,500£27,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£62,500£67,500£65,000
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£35,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.14 %-

Web Services
Demand Trend

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

Web Services Demand Trend

Web Services
Salary Trend

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

Web Services Salary Trend

Web Services
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Web Services over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 within the UK.

Web Services Salary Histogram

Web Services
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Web Services within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2012. 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+86904£42,500+6.25 %
LondonUp+153102£50,000-
South EastUp+41279£42,500+11.84 %
East of EnglandUp+4652£40,000+6.66 %
City of LondonUp+19620£55,000+4.76 %
North WestNo change0588£35,000-
SurreyDown-1409£45,000+12.50 %
YorkshireUp+5360£35,000-
West MidlandsUp+15338£35,500-8.38 %
South WestUp+5325£35,000-
BerkshireUp+12282£45,000+8.43 %
ManchesterUp+5281£32,500-7.14 %
East MidlandsUp+30249£36,000+10.76 %
West YorkshireNo change0217£37,500+7.14 %
HertfordshireUp+24214£42,500-5.55 %
HampshireDown-1208£40,000+19.07 %
CambridgeshireDown-6202£36,000-
ScotlandUp+2191£35,000-12.50 %
LeedsUp+4183£37,500+7.14 %
CheshireDown-2176£37,500+11.11 %
CambridgeDown-6145£35,000-2.62 %
NottinghamshireUp+39142£36,750+13.07 %
WarwickshireUp+11136£36,000-10.00 %
NottinghamUp+31129£36,000+10.76 %
EssexDown-1120£50,000+25.00 %
GloucestershireUp+15101£37,500-16.66 %
OxfordshireUp+1096£45,000+5.88 %
ReadingUp+3195£50,000+17.64 %
West SussexDown-795£40,000+14.28 %
BuckinghamshireDown-1192£37,500-

Web Services
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK citing Web Services 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 Web Services.

16978 (48.56 %).NET
26072 (42.26 %)C#
35966 (41.52 %)XML
45439 (37.85 %)SQL Server
55223 (36.35 %)JavaScript
65213 (36.28 %)SQL
75189 (36.11 %)Java
84741 (32.99 %)ASP.NET
94412 (30.70 %)CSS
104065 (28.29 %)HTML
112893 (20.13 %)Ajax
122776 (19.32 %)Microsoft
132705 (18.83 %)Agile Software Development
142550 (17.75 %)Oracle
152500 (17.40 %)OO
162466 (17.16 %)jQuery
172457 (17.10 %)Finance
182440 (16.98 %)SOAP
192436 (16.95 %)Windows
202416 (16.81 %)Degree
212395 (16.67 %)J2EE
222279 (15.86 %)MVC
232263 (15.75 %)Spring
242062 (14.35 %)WCF
251970 (13.71 %)Linux
261886 (13.13 %)TDD
271742 (12.12 %)Hibernate
281655 (11.52 %)Scrum
291626 (11.32 %)MySQL
301563 (10.88 %)Visual Studio

Web Services
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK citing Web Services 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 Web Services. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
16978 (48.56 %).NET
25966 (41.52 %)XML
34741 (32.99 %)ASP.NET
44412 (30.70 %)CSS
54065 (28.29 %)HTML
62893 (20.13 %)Ajax
72466 (17.16 %)jQuery
82440 (16.98 %)SOAP
92395 (16.67 %)J2EE
102263 (15.75 %)Spring
112062 (14.35 %)WCF
121742 (12.12 %)Hibernate
131526 (10.62 %)XSLT
141442 (10.04 %).NET Framework
151218 (8.477 %)JSP
161114 (7.753 %)REST
171034 (7.196 %)XHTML
181003 (6.980 %)WPF
19915 (6.368 %)HTML5
20812 (5.651 %)RESTful
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
11263 (8.790 %)Apache
21255 (8.734 %)Tomcat
31171 (8.149 %)SharePoint
41133 (7.885 %)IIS
5754 (5.247 %)CMS
6666 (4.635 %)WebLogic
7392 (2.728 %)ESB
8358 (2.491 %)Amazon AWS
9336 (2.338 %)SharePoint 2010
10333 (2.317 %)BizTalk Server
11308 (2.144 %)SharePoint Server
12227 (1.580 %)Drupal
13193 (1.343 %)Amazon EC2
14191 (1.329 %)Umbraco
15157 (1.093 %)Force.com
16153 (1.065 %)Jetty
17146 (1.016 %)WebSphere Application Server
18136 (0.946 %)GlassFish
19118 (0.821 %)Oracle Coherence
20109 (0.759 %)ActiveMQ
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
11192 (8.296 %)MS Excel
2244 (1.698 %)MS Visio
3230 (1.601 %)MS Office
4176 (1.225 %)Photoshop
5102 (0.710 %)InfoPath
679 (0.550 %)Google Apps
764 (0.445 %)MS Project
837 (0.257 %)Fireworks
915 (0.104 %)Spreadsheet
1013 (0.090 %)DOC1
1013 (0.090 %)PrintSoft PReS
1013 (0.090 %)Adobe Illustrator
1013 (0.090 %)MS PowerPoint
118 (0.056 %)OmniGraffle
118 (0.056 %)InDesign
118 (0.056 %)RoboHelp
127 (0.049 %)GIMP
133 (0.021 %)PowerPivot
133 (0.021 %)Doxygen
133 (0.021 %)Acrobat
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
1275 (1.914 %)Dynamics CRM
249 (0.341 %)Google Analytics
335 (0.244 %)BusinessWorks
434 (0.237 %)Dynamics NAV
533 (0.230 %)Oracle BPM
627 (0.188 %)Remedy ITSM
722 (0.153 %)Dynamics AX
820 (0.139 %)Summit
918 (0.125 %)WebTrends
918 (0.125 %)Oracle EBS
1017 (0.118 %)TIBCO BusinessEvents
1114 (0.097 %)Oracle CRM
1114 (0.097 %)BASE24
1213 (0.090 %)Exstream
1312 (0.084 %)SAP R/3
1312 (0.084 %)Oracle 11i
1312 (0.084 %)SAP HCM
1411 (0.077 %)Visualfiles
1510 (0.070 %)LatentZero
1510 (0.070 %)HiInvest
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1807 (5.616 %)Internet
2626 (4.357 %)HTTP
3410 (2.853 %)TCP/IP
4271 (1.886 %)DNS
5238 (1.656 %)SSL
6223 (1.552 %)Intranet
7215 (1.496 %)LDAP
8199 (1.385 %)Firewall
9115 (0.800 %)FTP
1093 (0.647 %)DHCP
1188 (0.612 %)DMZ
1276 (0.529 %)SMTP
1375 (0.522 %)SAN
1471 (0.494 %)Extranet
1570 (0.487 %)VoIP
1661 (0.425 %)VPN
1747 (0.327 %)LAN
1846 (0.320 %)HTTPS
1941 (0.285 %)WAN
2039 (0.271 %)CTI
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
15439 (37.85 %)SQL Server
21626 (11.32 %)MySQL
31444 (10.05 %)SQL Server 2008
41322 (9.200 %)SQL Server 2005
5593 (4.127 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
6556 (3.869 %)RDBMS
7453 (3.153 %)SQL Server Integration Services
8232 (1.615 %)ETL
9230 (1.601 %)Oracle 10g
10221 (1.538 %)Data Warehouse
11185 (1.287 %)PostgreSQL
12184 (1.281 %)SQL Server 2000
13182 (1.267 %)Oracle 8/8i
14173 (1.204 %)NoSQL
15168 (1.169 %)Oracle 11g
16160 (1.114 %)GIS
17159 (1.107 %)Crystal Reports
18143 (0.995 %)DB2
19142 (0.988 %)Hadoop
20130 (0.905 %)MongoDB
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
11563 (10.88 %)Visual Studio
21303 (9.068 %)Subversion
3780 (5.428 %)Eclipse
4756 (5.261 %)JUnit
5600 (4.176 %)Maven
6598 (4.162 %)Team Foundation Server
7478 (3.327 %)Ant
8422 (2.937 %)Git (software)
9377 (2.624 %)NUnit
10318 (2.213 %)Selenium
11210 (1.461 %)JIRA
12189 (1.315 %)VSS/SourceSafe
13162 (1.127 %)Mercurial
13162 (1.127 %)Hudson
14143 (0.995 %)TeamCity
15132 (0.919 %)ClearCase
16127 (0.884 %)CruiseControl
17121 (0.842 %)Cucumber
1896 (0.668 %)Xcode
1993 (0.647 %)Rhino Mocks
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
12457 (17.10 %)Finance
2774 (5.387 %)Banking
3469 (3.264 %)Retail
4447 (3.111 %)Telecoms
5425 (2.958 %)Marketing
6322 (2.241 %)Games
7196 (1.364 %)Advertising
8173 (1.204 %)Back Office
9169 (1.176 %)Publishing
10132 (0.919 %)Front Office
11131 (0.912 %)Investment Banking
12118 (0.821 %)Law
13104 (0.724 %)Manufacturing
1482 (0.571 %)Legal
1562 (0.431 %)Multimedia
1654 (0.376 %)Automotive
1747 (0.327 %)Financial Institution
1747 (0.327 %)Music
1841 (0.285 %)Electronics
1937 (0.257 %)Pharmaceutical
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
19889 (68.82 %)Developer
22911 (20.26 %).NET Developer
32116 (14.73 %)Java Developer
41934 (13.46 %)Senior Developer
51933 (13.45 %)C# Developer
61432 (9.966 %)C# .NET Developer
71393 (9.694 %)Web Developer
81097 (7.634 %)Architect
9977 (6.799 %)Analyst
10968 (6.737 %)ASP.NET Developer
11922 (6.417 %)Software Developer
12749 (5.213 %)C# ASP.NET Developer
13556 (3.869 %)Software Engineer
14549 (3.821 %)Senior .NET Developer
15535 (3.723 %)Lead Developer
16531 (3.695 %)Java/J2EE Developer
17511 (3.556 %)Senior Java Developer
18471 (3.278 %)Programmer
19464 (3.229 %)Consultant
20451 (3.139 %)PHP Developer
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1914 (6.361 %)Computer Science
2763 (5.310 %)Open Source
3562 (3.911 %)N-Tier
4556 (3.869 %)iPhone
5307 (2.137 %)SaaS
6274 (1.907 %)Client/Server
7271 (1.886 %)iPad
8241 (1.677 %)Blackberry
9234 (1.629 %)Mathematics
10204 (1.420 %)Social Media
11171 (1.190 %)Management Information System
12170 (1.183 %)Cloud Computing
13162 (1.127 %)Web 2.0
14146 (1.016 %)Digital Media
15138 (0.960 %)RIA
15138 (0.960 %)Online Games
16131 (0.912 %)W3C
17128 (0.891 %)Derivative
18116 (0.807 %)Social Network
19101 (0.703 %)Inversion of Control
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
12436 (16.95 %)Windows
21970 (13.71 %)Linux
31120 (7.795 %)UNIX
4745 (5.185 %)Android
5398 (2.770 %)Apple iOS
6312 (2.171 %)Windows Server 2003
7309 (2.150 %)Solaris
8242 (1.684 %)Windows Server 2008
9219 (1.524 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10176 (1.225 %)CentOS
11159 (1.107 %)Ubuntu
12139 (0.967 %)Debian
13138 (0.960 %)Windows Mobile
1489 (0.619 %)AIX
1568 (0.473 %)Windows XP
1666 (0.459 %)Mac OS X
1736 (0.251 %)Windows 7
1831 (0.216 %)Windows Vista
1927 (0.188 %)Windows Phone 7
2014 (0.097 %)BlackBerry OS
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
12705 (18.83 %)Agile Software Development
22500 (17.40 %)OO
32279 (15.86 %)MVC
41886 (13.13 %)TDD
51655 (11.52 %)Scrum
61497 (10.42 %)SOA
71404 (9.771 %)E-Commerce
81392 (9.688 %)UML
91346 (9.367 %)Web Development
101017 (7.078 %)Unit Testing
11826 (5.748 %)Continuous Integration
12698 (4.858 %)CRM
13678 (4.718 %)OOP
14586 (4.078 %)Content Management
15567 (3.946 %)Workflow
16538 (3.744 %)Project Management
17469 (3.264 %)OOD
18452 (3.146 %)Software Engineering
19438 (3.048 %)Multithreading
20378 (2.631 %)Data Modelling
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
16072 (42.26 %)C#
25223 (36.35 %)JavaScript
35213 (36.28 %)SQL
45189 (36.11 %)Java
51324 (9.214 %)PHP
61298 (9.033 %)VB.NET
71033 (7.189 %)T-SQL
8869 (6.048 %)C++
9648 (4.510 %)VB
10581 (4.043 %)Python
11549 (3.821 %)PL/SQL
12486 (3.382 %)C
13430 (2.993 %)Ruby
14403 (2.805 %)Perl
15393 (2.735 %)XPath
16319 (2.220 %)PHP5
17285 (1.983 %)Objective-C
18209 (1.455 %)Shell Script
19180 (1.253 %)Apex Code
20168 (1.169 %)VB6
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
12416 (16.81 %)Degree
2386 (2.686 %)Security Cleared
3347 (2.415 %)Microsoft Certification
4251 (1.747 %)SC Cleared
5134 (0.933 %)ISEB
693 (0.647 %)MCP
790 (0.626 %)MCSD
879 (0.550 %)MCTS
977 (0.536 %)MCAD
1066 (0.459 %)Cisco Certification
1066 (0.459 %)ITIL Certification
1165 (0.452 %)RHCE
1262 (0.431 %)Sun Certification
1361 (0.425 %)CISSP
1457 (0.397 %)Postgraduate
1553 (0.369 %)CCNA
1652 (0.362 %)MCSE
1740 (0.278 %)RHCT
1833 (0.230 %)IBM Certification
1931 (0.216 %)MCPD
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1704 (4.899 %)QA
2104 (0.724 %)SLA
384 (0.585 %)ISO/IEC 27001
457 (0.397 %)PCI DSS
552 (0.362 %)ISO 9001
645 (0.313 %)WAI
725 (0.174 %)Data Quality
819 (0.132 %)HL7
916 (0.111 %)ISO/IEC 17799
1015 (0.104 %)ISO 8583
1110 (0.070 %)BS7799
129 (0.063 %)JSP 440
135 (0.035 %)ISO 9000
144 (0.028 %)HIPAA
144 (0.028 %)WCAG
153 (0.021 %)Dublin Core
153 (0.021 %)GLP
162 (0.014 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
162 (0.014 %)TickIT
171 (0.007 %)FATCA
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1360 (2.505 %)Active Directory
2220 (1.531 %)VMware Infrastructure
367 (0.466 %)vSphere
449 (0.341 %)Varnish
544 (0.306 %)VMware ESX
633 (0.230 %)Hyper-V
730 (0.209 %)Samba
829 (0.202 %)VMware ESXi
928 (0.195 %)Sendmail
1024 (0.167 %)Squid
1121 (0.146 %)Xen
1217 (0.118 %)NFS
1313 (0.090 %)Postfix
1313 (0.090 %)XenApp
1412 (0.084 %)UAG
1511 (0.077 %)XenServer
1511 (0.077 %)Terminal Services
168 (0.056 %)OpenSSO
168 (0.056 %)vCloud
177 (0.049 %)Nmap
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
1171 (1.190 %)Puppet
294 (0.654 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
386 (0.599 %)HP Quality Center
473 (0.508 %)SCCM
564 (0.445 %)Tivoli
653 (0.369 %)WMI
751 (0.355 %)Nagios
845 (0.313 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
938 (0.264 %)Tivoli Identity Manager
1031 (0.216 %)ZABBIX
1120 (0.139 %)OpenView
1217 (0.118 %)Plesk
1316 (0.111 %)CA Wily
1316 (0.111 %)Control-M
1316 (0.111 %)Novell Identity Manager
1413 (0.090 %)Cacti
1511 (0.077 %)Munin
1610 (0.070 %)SCOM
1610 (0.070 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
1610 (0.070 %)Ionix
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
12776 (19.32 %)Microsoft
22550 (17.75 %)Oracle
31176 (8.184 %)JBoss
4413 (2.874 %)IBM
5394 (2.742 %)Google
6273 (1.900 %)VMware
7272 (1.893 %)Red Hat
8258 (1.796 %)Zend
9252 (1.754 %)Salesforce.com
10226 (1.573 %)Sun
11195 (1.357 %)Symbian
12176 (1.225 %)SAP
13146 (1.016 %)Adobe
14145 (1.009 %)TIBCO
15144 (1.002 %)Apple
16140 (0.974 %)ATG
17137 (0.953 %)Facebook
18112 (0.779 %)Cisco
19110 (0.766 %)Business Objects
20108 (0.752 %)HP