The first table below looks at the demand for Drools skills in IT jobs advertised for the Bristol region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Drools 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 Bristol region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Drools
Rank 112 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing Drools 5 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bristol 0.286% - -
As % of the Application Development category 0.520% - -
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 0
Average salary £20,000 - -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £37,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -16.66%
All Application Development
Bristol
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
961 717 771
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bristol 54.98% 40.90% 42.81%
Number of salaries quoted 888 671 686
Average salary £35,000 £34,000 £34,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.94% -2.15%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £26,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Drools
South West

Drools
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bristol Drools Jobs Demand Trend

Drools
Salary Trend

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

Bristol Drools Salary Trend

Drools
Top 14 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bristol region citing Drools 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 Drools.

1 16 (100.00%) Java
1 16 (100.00%) SQL
1 16 (100.00%) Oracle
1 16 (100.00%) JUnit
1 16 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 16 (100.00%) Subversion
1 16 (100.00%) Spring
1 16 (100.00%) Degree
1 16 (100.00%) iBATIS
1 16 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 16 (100.00%) QA
1 16 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 16 (100.00%) Unit Testing
2 3 (18.75%) Open Source

Drools
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 16 (100.00%) Spring
1 16 (100.00%) iBATIS
Development Applications
1 16 (100.00%) JUnit
1 16 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 16 (100.00%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 16 (100.00%) Software Engineer
1 16 (100.00%) Java Software Engineer
2 13 (81.25%) Trainee Software Engineer
2 13 (81.25%) Trainee
3 3 (18.75%) Graduate Software Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Graduate
Miscellaneous
1 16 (100.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (18.75%) Open Source
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 16 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 16 (100.00%) Java
1 16 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 16 (100.00%) Oracle