The first table below looks at the demand for SOA skills in IT jobs advertised for the West Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SOA over the 3 months to 20 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 for the West Yorkshire region.

Location
3 months to
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Rank 95 124 84
Rank change year-on-year
+29 -40
Permanent jobs citing SOA 84 44 70
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 2.339% 1.390% 2.316%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.952% 1.784% 3.285%
Number of salaries quoted 48 42 59
Average salary £37,750 £37,750 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -24.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,850 £30,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £69,000 £47,000 £76,000
UK excluding London average salary £48,000 £48,750 £47,500
% change year-on-year
-1.53% +2.63%
All Processes & Methodologies
West Yorkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
2846 2466 2131
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 79.25% 77.91% 70.49%
Number of salaries quoted 2195 2027 1777
Average salary £37,500 £36,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.73% +4.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £26,000 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £57,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
SOA
Yorkshire

SOA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire 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 West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire SOA Salary Trend

SOA
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SOA across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

West Yorkshire SOA Salary Histogram

SOA
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 West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 20 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
Leeds +20 49 £38,000 -2.56% 3
Bradford +9 26 £37,000 -1.33% 1
SOA
Yorkshire

SOA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the West Yorkshire 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.

1 110 (60.11%) Oracle
2 88 (48.09%) Middleware
3 69 (37.70%) WebLogic
4 63 (34.43%) Java
4 63 (34.43%) Shell Script
5 60 (32.79%) UNIX
6 57 (31.15%) Oracle BPM
7 52 (28.42%) SQL
8 44 (24.04%) Finance
9 42 (22.95%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 40 (21.86%) .NET
11 37 (20.22%) Oracle Fusion
12 36 (19.67%) PL/SQL
13 35 (19.13%) Oracle Service Bus
14 34 (18.58%) Linux
15 32 (17.49%) HPUX
15 32 (17.49%) TCP/IP
15 32 (17.49%) DNS
15 32 (17.49%) Red Hat
16 31 (16.94%) Firewall
16 31 (16.94%) Python
16 31 (16.94%) Perl
17 30 (16.39%) JMS
18 29 (15.85%) Jython
18 29 (15.85%) UML
18 29 (15.85%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
18 29 (15.85%) Stress Testing
19 27 (14.75%) C#
19 27 (14.75%) Microsoft
20 25 (13.66%) OO

SOA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 88 (48.09%) Middleware
2 40 (21.86%) .NET
3 37 (20.22%) Oracle Fusion
4 30 (16.39%) JMS
5 25 (13.66%) XML
5 25 (13.66%) Java EE
6 24 (13.11%) Web Services
7 23 (12.57%) REST
8 20 (10.93%) WebSphere
9 19 (10.38%) ASP.NET
10 16 (8.743%) J2EE
11 15 (8.197%) SOAP
11 15 (8.197%) WinForms
12 14 (7.650%) WCF
12 14 (7.650%) WPF
12 14 (7.650%) ASP.NET MVC
13 13 (7.104%) XSLT
14 8 (4.372%) HTML
15 6 (3.279%) ActiveMQ
15 6 (3.279%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 69 (37.70%) WebLogic
2 42 (22.95%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 35 (19.13%) Oracle Service Bus
4 19 (10.38%) WebSphere Application Server
5 14 (7.650%) SharePoint
6 8 (4.372%) ESB
7 4 (2.186%) WebLogic Portal
8 2 (1.093%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.546%) CMS
9 1 (0.546%) Joomla!
9 1 (0.546%) Drupal
9 1 (0.546%) WordPress
9 1 (0.546%) Magento
Applications
1 22 (12.02%) MS Excel
2 3 (1.639%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 57 (31.15%) Oracle BPM
2 14 (7.650%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (3.279%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (2.732%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 32 (17.49%) TCP/IP
1 32 (17.49%) DNS
2 31 (16.94%) Firewall
3 9 (4.918%) Internet
4 7 (3.825%) HTTP
5 4 (2.186%) Intranet
6 2 (1.093%) BSS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (13.66%) SQL Server
2 20 (10.93%) Oracle 11g
3 10 (5.464%) Oracle 10g
4 6 (3.279%) Oracle Reports
5 5 (2.732%) Oracle ODI
6 4 (2.186%) SQL Server 2005
6 4 (2.186%) GIS
7 2 (1.093%) SQL Server 2008
7 2 (1.093%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (1.093%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.093%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.546%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 25 (13.66%) Subversion
2 14 (7.650%) JIRA
3 6 (3.279%) Oracle Forms
4 5 (2.732%) JDeveloper
5 1 (0.546%) JUnit
5 1 (0.546%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.546%) Selenium
5 1 (0.546%) FitNesse
5 1 (0.546%) Rational Performance Tester
5 1 (0.546%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 44 (24.04%) Finance
2 4 (2.186%) Billing
2 4 (2.186%) Telecoms
3 3 (1.639%) Banking
4 2 (1.093%) Retail
5 1 (0.546%) Advertising
5 1 (0.546%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 62 (33.88%) Administrator
2 35 (19.13%) Analyst
2 35 (19.13%) Architect
3 31 (16.94%) Server Administrator
4 30 (16.39%) Developer
5 22 (12.02%) Business Analyst
6 17 (9.290%) Middleware Administrator
7 13 (7.104%) Technical Administrator
7 13 (7.104%) WebLogic Administrator
7 13 (7.104%) Solutions Architect
7 13 (7.104%) Senior Business Analyst
7 13 (7.104%) Senior Analyst
8 11 (6.011%) Financial Business Analyst
8 11 (6.011%) Financial Services Business Analyst
9 9 (4.918%) .NET Developer
9 9 (4.918%) C# Developer
9 9 (4.918%) Senior Developer
9 9 (4.918%) SOA Architect
9 9 (4.918%) Microsoft Developer
9 9 (4.918%) C# .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.918%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (2.732%) N-Tier
3 4 (2.186%) SaaS
3 4 (2.186%) Computer Science
4 2 (1.093%) Open Source
4 2 (1.093%) NHS
5 1 (0.546%) Client/Server
5 1 (0.546%) IIBA
Operating Systems
1 60 (32.79%) UNIX
2 34 (18.58%) Linux
3 32 (17.49%) HPUX
4 23 (12.57%) Windows
5 13 (7.104%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (15.85%) UML
1 29 (15.85%) Stress Testing
2 25 (13.66%) OO
3 23 (12.57%) TOGAF
4 21 (11.48%) CRM
5 20 (10.93%) Service Delivery
5 20 (10.93%) Stakeholder Management
6 19 (10.38%) Scrum
7 17 (9.290%) MVC
7 17 (9.290%) Agile Software Development
7 17 (9.290%) BPMN
8 16 (8.743%) Business Analysis
9 15 (8.197%) Service Management
10 14 (7.650%) CMMI
10 14 (7.650%) OOD
10 14 (7.650%) RUP
10 14 (7.650%) Multithreading
11 13 (7.104%) Systems Analysis
12 9 (4.918%) Unit Testing
13 7 (3.825%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 63 (34.43%) Java
1 63 (34.43%) Shell Script
2 52 (28.42%) SQL
3 36 (19.67%) PL/SQL
4 31 (16.94%) Python
4 31 (16.94%) Perl
5 29 (15.85%) Jython
5 29 (15.85%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
6 27 (14.75%) C#
7 9 (4.918%) JavaScript
8 6 (3.279%) VB.NET
9 3 (1.639%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.639%) XQuery
9 3 (1.639%) XPath
10 2 (1.093%) Groovy
11 1 (0.546%) VB
11 1 (0.546%) PHP
11 1 (0.546%) VB6
Qualifications
1 11 (6.011%) ISEB
2 8 (4.372%) Degree
3 3 (1.639%) APMP
4 2 (1.093%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (0.546%) Postgraduate
5 1 (0.546%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.186%) EFQM
2 1 (0.546%) QA
System Software
1 6 (3.279%) Oracle RAC
1 6 (3.279%) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management
1 6 (3.279%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 110 (60.11%) Oracle
2 32 (17.49%) Red Hat
3 27 (14.75%) Microsoft
4 19 (10.38%) JBoss
5 16 (8.743%) Perforce
6 3 (1.639%) IBM
6 3 (1.639%) BEA
6 3 (1.639%) Salesforce.com
7 1 (0.546%) Zend
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