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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache Velocity
Rank 197 214 184
Rank change year-on-year
+17 -30
Permanent jobs citing Velocity 18 9 12
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.350% 0.147% 0.233%
As % of the Application Development category 1.066% 0.367% 0.602%
Number of salaries quoted 16 7 9
Average salary £60,000 £45,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+33.33% -
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £44,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year
+2.27% -2.22%
All Application Development
Berkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
1688 2450 1993
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 32.81% 39.95% 38.70%
Number of salaries quoted 1516 2212 1785
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £39,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% +2.56%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,500 £30,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £55,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Velocity
South East

Velocity
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Velocity across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Berkshire Velocity Jobs Demand Trend

Velocity
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Velocity across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire Velocity Salary Trend

Velocity
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Velocity across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Berkshire Velocity Salary Histogram

Velocity
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Velocity within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 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
Slough +10 13 £67,500 -
Reading -2 1 £50,000 +11.11%
Maidenhead - 1 £60,000 -
Velocity
South East

Velocity
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire region citing Velocity 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 Velocity.

1 19 (65.52%) TDD
2 18 (62.07%) Java
2 18 (62.07%) Tomcat
2 18 (62.07%) Open Source
3 16 (55.17%) E-Commerce
4 13 (44.83%) Agile Software Development
5 12 (41.38%) Continuous Integration
6 11 (37.93%) XML
7 10 (34.48%) JavaScript
7 10 (34.48%) HTML
7 10 (34.48%) Servlets
7 10 (34.48%) Struts
7 10 (34.48%) Spring
7 10 (34.48%) Scrum
8 9 (31.03%) Extreme Programming
8 9 (31.03%) Hibernate
8 9 (31.03%) Pair Programming
8 9 (31.03%) Integration Testing
8 9 (31.03%) Jetty
8 9 (31.03%) Multithreading
8 9 (31.03%) Alfresco
8 9 (31.03%) Groovy
8 9 (31.03%) OWASP
8 9 (31.03%) Subversion
8 9 (31.03%) JIRA
8 9 (31.03%) GigaSpaces
8 9 (31.03%) SQL
8 9 (31.03%) J2EE
8 9 (31.03%) Ant
8 9 (31.03%) JUnit

Velocity
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire region citing Velocity 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 Velocity. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 11 (37.93%) XML
2 10 (34.48%) HTML
2 10 (34.48%) Servlets
2 10 (34.48%) Struts
2 10 (34.48%) Spring
3 9 (31.03%) Hibernate
3 9 (31.03%) J2EE
3 9 (31.03%) XSLT
3 9 (31.03%) XHTML
4 8 (27.59%) JDBC
4 8 (27.59%) JSON
5 6 (20.69%) JSR 168
6 1 (3.448%) FreeMarker
6 1 (3.448%) Ajax
6 1 (3.448%) JMS
6 1 (3.448%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 18 (62.07%) Tomcat
2 9 (31.03%) Jetty
2 9 (31.03%) Alfresco
2 9 (31.03%) Liferay
2 9 (31.03%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (3.448%) NASTRAN
1 1 (3.448%) Solid Edge
Business Applications
1 1 (3.448%) Teamcenter
Communications & Networking
1 9 (31.03%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (31.03%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 9 (31.03%) Ant
1 9 (31.03%) JUnit
1 9 (31.03%) Eclipse
1 9 (31.03%) IntelliJ
1 9 (31.03%) Subversion
1 9 (31.03%) JIRA
1 9 (31.03%) GitHub
1 9 (31.03%) Gradle
1 9 (31.03%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.897%) Hudson
General
1 9 (31.03%) Finance
2 6 (20.69%) Telecoms
3 1 (3.448%) Manufacturing
3 1 (3.448%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (62.07%) Developer
1 18 (62.07%) Java Developer
2 10 (34.48%) ScrumMaster
3 9 (31.03%) Agile Java Developer
4 8 (27.59%) Senior Java Developer
4 8 (27.59%) Senior Developer
5 6 (20.69%) Programmer
5 6 (20.69%) Senior Programmer
5 6 (20.69%) Senior Java Programmer
5 6 (20.69%) Java Programmer
6 1 (3.448%) Senior Sales Consultant
6 1 (3.448%) Product Consultant
6 1 (3.448%) Pre Sales Consultant
6 1 (3.448%) Senior Consultant
6 1 (3.448%) Consultant
6 1 (3.448%) Sales Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 18 (62.07%) Open Source
2 8 (27.59%) Mobile App
3 6 (20.69%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 9 (31.03%) Solaris
2 8 (27.59%) Linux
2 8 (27.59%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (65.52%) TDD
2 16 (55.17%) E-Commerce
3 13 (44.83%) Agile Software Development
4 12 (41.38%) Continuous Integration
5 10 (34.48%) Scrum
6 9 (31.03%) Extreme Programming
6 9 (31.03%) Quality Management
6 9 (31.03%) Multithreading
6 9 (31.03%) OWASP
6 9 (31.03%) Pair Programming
6 9 (31.03%) Integration Testing
6 9 (31.03%) Web Application Development
6 9 (31.03%) Functional Testing
7 8 (27.59%) Performance Testing
7 8 (27.59%) Mobile Application Development
8 7 (24.14%) User Stories
8 7 (24.14%) Automated Testing
8 7 (24.14%) MVC
9 3 (10.34%) Project Management
9 3 (10.34%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 18 (62.07%) Java
2 10 (34.48%) JavaScript
3 9 (31.03%) SQL
3 9 (31.03%) Groovy
3 9 (31.03%) Scala
3 9 (31.03%) Bash shell
4 8 (27.59%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (20.69%) Degree
Vendors
1 9 (31.03%) GigaSpaces
2 6 (20.69%) Cognizant