The first table below looks at the demand for SOA skills in IT jobs advertised for the Warrington region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SOA over the 3 months to 17 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 Warrington region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Rank - 59 41
Permanent jobs citing SOA 0 7 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Warrington - 1.420% 0.346%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - 1.741% 0.568%
Number of salaries quoted 0 5 1
Average salary - £65,000 £33,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +94.02%
UK excluding London average salary £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
All Processes & Methodologies
Warrington
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
273 402 176
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Warrington 76.90% 81.54% 60.90%
Number of salaries quoted 207 369 152
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% -6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £24,000 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £47,500 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
SOA
Cheshire

SOA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Warrington 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 Warrington region.

Warrington SOA Salary Trend

SOA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Warrington 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 10 (100.00%) .NET
1 10 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 9 (90.00%) C#
2 9 (90.00%) WCF
3 8 (80.00%) SQL Server 2005
3 8 (80.00%) Web Development
3 8 (80.00%) Web Services
4 7 (70.00%) XML
4 7 (70.00%) OO
4 7 (70.00%) Microsoft
4 7 (70.00%) Unit Testing
4 7 (70.00%) HTML5
5 6 (60.00%) Continuous Integration
5 6 (60.00%) .NET Framework
5 6 (60.00%) Intranet
5 6 (60.00%) MS Excel
5 6 (60.00%) SharePoint
6 3 (30.00%) VB.NET
6 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
7 2 (20.00%) ADO.NET
7 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET
7 2 (20.00%) SOAP
7 2 (20.00%) ERP
7 2 (20.00%) MVC
7 2 (20.00%) Migration
7 2 (20.00%) Ajax
7 2 (20.00%) REST
7 2 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
7 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC
7 2 (20.00%) Performance Testing

SOA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Warrington 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 10 (100.00%) .NET
2 9 (90.00%) WCF
3 8 (80.00%) Web Services
4 7 (70.00%) XML
4 7 (70.00%) HTML5
5 6 (60.00%) .NET Framework
6 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC
6 2 (20.00%) REST
6 2 (20.00%) Ajax
6 2 (20.00%) SOAP
6 2 (20.00%) ADO.NET
6 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET
7 1 (10.00%) CSS
7 1 (10.00%) J2EE
7 1 (10.00%) HTML
7 1 (10.00%) WPF
7 1 (10.00%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 6 (60.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (60.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 6 (60.00%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 8 (80.00%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Subversion
General
1 1 (10.00%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Developer
1 7 (70.00%) .NET Developer
2 6 (60.00%) C# Developer
2 6 (60.00%) Senior C# Developer
2 6 (60.00%) Senior .NET Developer
2 6 (60.00%) Senior Developer
2 6 (60.00%) C# .NET Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Architect
3 2 (20.00%) .NET Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Computer Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Web Development
2 7 (70.00%) Unit Testing
2 7 (70.00%) OO
3 6 (60.00%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (20.00%) Performance Testing
4 2 (20.00%) ERP
4 2 (20.00%) MVC
4 2 (20.00%) Migration
5 1 (10.00%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (10.00%) Project Management
5 1 (10.00%) RUP
5 1 (10.00%) PRINCE2
5 1 (10.00%) UML
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) C#
2 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (30.00%) VB.NET
3 1 (10.00%) VB6
3 1 (10.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (10.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle