The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Rackspace products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Rackspace over the 3 months to 24 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 Vendors for the Birmingham region.

The figures below represent the IT job market in general and are NOT representative of salaries within Rackspace.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Rackspace
Rank - - -
Permanent jobs citing Rackspace 0 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham - - -
As % of the Vendors category - - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Average salary - - -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £65,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year
-38.46% -13.33%
All Vendors
Birmingham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
989 720 737
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 58.18% 48.58% 54.84%
Number of salaries quoted 806 616 618
Average salary £45,000 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.50% -
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £26,500 £26,250
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £62,500 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Rackspace
West Midlands

Rackspace
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Rackspace across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Birmingham Rackspace Jobs Demand Trend

Rackspace
Salary Trend

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

Birmingham Rackspace Salary Trend

Rackspace
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham region citing Rackspace 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 Rackspace.

1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (100.00%) XHTML
1 1 (100.00%) SEO
1 1 (100.00%) LAMP
1 1 (100.00%) Games
1 1 (100.00%) XML-RPC
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
1 1 (100.00%) Ajax
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Statistics
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Google App Engine
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Hudson

Rackspace
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham region citing Rackspace 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 Rackspace. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) XHTML
1 1 (100.00%) LAMP
1 1 (100.00%) XML-RPC
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Ajax
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (100.00%) Google App Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
1 1 (100.00%) Hudson
General
1 1 (100.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) SEO
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google