The first table below looks at the demand for WSE skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WSE 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 Application Development category.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Web Services Enhancements (WSE)
Rank 862 868 873
Rank change year-on-year
+6 +5
Permanent jobs citing WSE 6 17 9
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.006% 0.014% 0.007%
As % of the Application Development category 0.014% 0.034% 0.017%
Number of salaries quoted 2 17 8
Average salary £41,250 £54,000 £55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-23.61% -1.81%
90% offered a salary of more than £36,250 £48,400 £50,000
10% offered a salary of more than £46,250 £56,400 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £41,250 £40,000 -
% change year-on-year
+3.12% -
All Application Development
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
43829 50279 51552
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 40.24% 41.72% 40.16%
Number of salaries quoted 38095 44608 45685
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £28,000 £28,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £36,500
% change year-on-year
- +2.73%

WSE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

WSE Jobs Demand Trend

WSE
Salary Trend

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

WSE Salary Trend

WSE
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WSE 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
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Job
Vacancies
England +13 5 £41,250 -23.61%
East of England - 3 - -
Cambridge - 3 - -
Cambridgeshire - 3 - -
South East +14 1 £47,500 +18.75%
Buckinghamshire +6 1 £47,500 +18.75%
Milton Keynes -17 1 £47,500 +18.75%
Dorchester - 1 £35,000 -
Glasgow - 1 - -
South West - 1 £35,000 -
Dorset - 1 £35,000 -
Scotland - 1 - -

WSE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing WSE 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 WSE.

1 16 (88.89%) Web Services
2 14 (77.78%) .NET
3 13 (72.22%) C#
4 12 (66.67%) SQL
4 12 (66.67%) SQL Server
4 12 (66.67%) ASP.NET
4 12 (66.67%) WCF
5 10 (55.56%) jQuery
5 10 (55.56%) JavaScript
6 9 (50.00%) OO
7 8 (44.44%) E-Commerce
7 8 (44.44%) MVC
7 8 (44.44%) SQL Server 2008
8 7 (38.89%) Degree
8 7 (38.89%) CSS
9 6 (33.33%) T-SQL
9 6 (33.33%) Java
9 6 (33.33%) VB.NET
9 6 (33.33%) Unit Testing
9 6 (33.33%) Subversion
9 6 (33.33%) Ajax
10 5 (27.78%) Agile Software Development
10 5 (27.78%) Computer Science
11 4 (22.22%) HTML
11 4 (22.22%) Linux
11 4 (22.22%) JSON
11 4 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
11 4 (22.22%) NUnit
11 4 (22.22%) NHibernate
11 4 (22.22%) ASP.NET MVC

WSE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing WSE 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 WSE. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 16 (88.89%) Web Services
2 14 (77.78%) .NET
3 12 (66.67%) ASP.NET
3 12 (66.67%) WCF
4 10 (55.56%) jQuery
5 7 (38.89%) CSS
6 6 (33.33%) Ajax
7 4 (22.22%) HTML
7 4 (22.22%) JSON
7 4 (22.22%) NHibernate
7 4 (22.22%) ASP.NET MVC
7 4 (22.22%) HTML5
7 4 (22.22%) CSS3
8 3 (16.67%) JSP
8 3 (16.67%) SOAP
9 2 (11.11%) Hibernate
9 2 (11.11%) Struts
9 2 (11.11%) XML
9 2 (11.11%) .NET Framework
9 2 (11.11%) Struts2
Application Platforms
1 3 (16.67%) Amazon AWS
1 3 (16.67%) Apache
1 3 (16.67%) Tomcat
2 2 (11.11%) CMS
2 2 (11.11%) IIS
2 2 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (11.11%) nginx
2 2 (11.11%) Confluence
3 1 (5.556%) Orchard CMS
3 1 (5.556%) Umbraco
3 1 (5.556%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.556%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) X.509
1 3 (16.67%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 8 (44.44%) SQL Server 2008
3 4 (22.22%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
4 3 (16.67%) SQL Server 2005
5 2 (11.11%) Oracle 10g
5 2 (11.11%) MySQL
5 2 (11.11%) Oracle 11g
5 2 (11.11%) MongoDB
5 2 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (5.556%) Hazelcast
6 1 (5.556%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (33.33%) Subversion
2 4 (22.22%) NUnit
3 3 (16.67%) MSTest
3 3 (16.67%) Git (software)
3 3 (16.67%) Visual Studio
3 3 (16.67%) Eclipse
4 2 (11.11%) IntelliJ
4 2 (11.11%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (11.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (11.11%) JIRA
4 2 (11.11%) FishEye
5 1 (5.556%) MSBuild
5 1 (5.556%) TeamCity
5 1 (5.556%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (5.556%) Maven
5 1 (5.556%) MSI
General
1 3 (16.67%) Automotive
2 1 (5.556%) Telecoms
2 1 (5.556%) Finance
2 1 (5.556%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 17 (94.44%) Developer
2 9 (50.00%) Web Developer
3 7 (38.89%) .NET Developer
4 5 (27.78%) C# Developer
5 4 (22.22%) C# Web Developer
6 3 (16.67%) C# .NET Developer
6 3 (16.67%) Java Developer
6 3 (16.67%) Senior Web Developer
6 3 (16.67%) ASP.NET Developer
6 3 (16.67%) Senior C# Developer
6 3 (16.67%) Senior Developer
7 2 (11.11%) VB.NET Developer
7 2 (11.11%) .NET Web Developer
7 2 (11.11%) C# ASP.NET Developer
7 2 (11.11%) E-Commerce Web Developer
8 1 (5.556%) UI Programmer
8 1 (5.556%) Agile .NET Developer
8 1 (5.556%) Agile C# Developer
8 1 (5.556%) UI Developer
8 1 (5.556%) Senior UI Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Computer Science
2 2 (11.11%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 4 (22.22%) Linux
2 3 (16.67%) Windows
3 2 (11.11%) Windows XP
3 2 (11.11%) Windows Vista
3 2 (11.11%) Android
3 2 (11.11%) CentOS
4 1 (5.556%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (5.556%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) OO
2 8 (44.44%) E-Commerce
2 8 (44.44%) MVC
3 6 (33.33%) Unit Testing
4 5 (27.78%) Agile Software Development
5 4 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (16.67%) Refactoring
6 3 (16.67%) Web Development
7 2 (11.11%) Migration
7 2 (11.11%) OOP
7 2 (11.11%) Software Engineering
7 2 (11.11%) Data Migration
8 1 (5.556%) Performance Improvement
8 1 (5.556%) 3D Modelling
8 1 (5.556%) Multithreading
8 1 (5.556%) Knowledge Management
8 1 (5.556%) Asset Management
8 1 (5.556%) TDD
8 1 (5.556%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 13 (72.22%) C#
2 12 (66.67%) SQL
3 10 (55.56%) JavaScript
4 6 (33.33%) T-SQL
4 6 (33.33%) Java
4 6 (33.33%) VB.NET
5 2 (11.11%) PL/SQL
6 1 (5.556%) VB6
6 1 (5.556%) VB
6 1 (5.556%) C
6 1 (5.556%) C++
Qualifications
1 7 (38.89%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.556%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (5.556%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) Oracle
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.11%) Citrix
2 2 (11.11%) Atlassian
3 1 (5.556%) DevExpress
3 1 (5.556%) Infragistics