The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Grid Computing in IT jobs advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Grid Computing over the 3 months to 22 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 terms in our Miscellaneous category for the Cambridge region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Grid Computing
Rank 115 112 128
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +16
Permanent jobs citing Grid Computing 4 15 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 0.217% 0.735% 0.047%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.642% 1.884% 0.123%
Number of salaries quoted 4 14 1
Average salary £40,000 £30,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+31.14% -18.66%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £35,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year
+12.67% -21.11%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Cambridge
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
623 796 811
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 33.75% 38.98% 38.16%
Number of salaries quoted 534 619 731
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +6.66%
Grid Computing
Cambridgeshire

Grid Computing
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Grid Computing across the Cambridge region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Cambridge Grid Computing Jobs Demand Trend

Grid Computing
Salary Trend

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

Cambridge Grid Computing Salary Trend

Grid Computing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge region citing Grid Computing 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 Grid Computing.

1 13 (100.00%) Web Services
1 13 (100.00%) Text Mining
2 12 (92.31%) Degree
2 12 (92.31%) Postgraduate
3 10 (76.92%) Natural Language Processing
4 9 (69.23%) Chemistry
4 9 (69.23%) Life Science
4 9 (69.23%) QA
4 9 (69.23%) Software Testing
5 4 (30.77%) Agile Software Development
5 4 (30.77%) TDD
5 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
5 4 (30.77%) Bugzilla
5 4 (30.77%) Google
5 4 (30.77%) Automated Testing
5 4 (30.77%) Python
5 4 (30.77%) Data Mining
5 4 (30.77%) Eclipse
5 4 (30.77%) Windows
5 4 (30.77%) Linux
5 4 (30.77%) OOP
5 4 (30.77%) OO
5 4 (30.77%) C
5 4 (30.77%) C++
5 4 (30.77%) Java
5 4 (30.77%) JavaScript
5 4 (30.77%) Perl
5 4 (30.77%) JUnit
5 4 (30.77%) MS Office
5 4 (30.77%) Visual Studio

Grid Computing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge region citing Grid Computing 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 Grid Computing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 13 (100.00%) Web Services
2 10 (76.92%) Natural Language Processing
Application Platforms
1 4 (30.77%) MediaWiki
Applications
1 4 (30.77%) MS Office
1 4 (30.77%) Google Apps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (100.00%) Text Mining
2 4 (30.77%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Bugzilla
1 4 (30.77%) Eclipse
1 4 (30.77%) JUnit
1 4 (30.77%) Visual Studio
1 4 (30.77%) Mercurial
1 4 (30.77%) GCC
1 4 (30.77%) SCons
1 4 (30.77%) GoogleTest
General
1 1 (7.692%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 9 (69.23%) QA Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Software Developer
2 4 (30.77%) Developer
2 4 (30.77%) Senior Developer
2 4 (30.77%) Senior Software Developer
3 1 (7.692%) Senior QA Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (69.23%) Chemistry
1 9 (69.23%) Life Science
2 4 (30.77%) Semantic Web
2 4 (30.77%) Visualisation
3 3 (23.08%) Computer Science
3 3 (23.08%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 4 (30.77%) Windows
1 4 (30.77%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) Software Testing
2 4 (30.77%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (30.77%) TDD
2 4 (30.77%) Automated Testing
2 4 (30.77%) OOP
2 4 (30.77%) OO
2 4 (30.77%) Test Automation
2 4 (30.77%) Software Architecture
3 1 (7.692%) Bioinformatics
3 1 (7.692%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) Python
1 4 (30.77%) C
1 4 (30.77%) C++
1 4 (30.77%) Java
1 4 (30.77%) JavaScript
1 4 (30.77%) Perl
Qualifications
1 12 (92.31%) Degree
1 12 (92.31%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (69.23%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
1 4 (30.77%) Google
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