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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Informatics
Rank 123 121 123
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +2
Permanent jobs citing Informatics 4 4 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 0.213% 0.202% 0.046%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.629% 0.519% 0.118%
Number of salaries quoted 4 2 1
Average salary £35,250 £33,914 £52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.93% -35.40%
UK excluding London average salary £40,995 £38,220 £42,736
% change year-on-year
+7.25% -10.56%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Cambridge
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
636 770 847
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 33.79% 38.91% 38.84%
Number of salaries quoted 542 594 767
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 £27,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,815 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.96% +6.66%
Informatics
Cambridgeshire

Informatics
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge Informatics Jobs Demand Trend

Informatics
Salary Trend

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

Cambridge Informatics Salary Trend

Informatics
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge region citing Informatics 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 Informatics.

1 6 (85.71%) Java
1 6 (85.71%) Python
1 6 (85.71%) RESTful
2 5 (71.43%) Degree
2 5 (71.43%) Computer Science
2 5 (71.43%) PhD
2 5 (71.43%) Linux
2 5 (71.43%) Perl
2 5 (71.43%) SQL
2 5 (71.43%) MySQL
2 5 (71.43%) Oracle
2 5 (71.43%) Oracle 8/8i
3 4 (57.14%) C#
3 4 (57.14%) Lisp
3 4 (57.14%) MVC
3 4 (57.14%) Hibernate
3 4 (57.14%) VMware
3 4 (57.14%) Agile Software Development
3 4 (57.14%) TDD
3 4 (57.14%) Subversion
3 4 (57.14%) Information Management
3 4 (57.14%) Spring
3 4 (57.14%) Maven
3 4 (57.14%) Web Services
3 4 (57.14%) J2EE
3 4 (57.14%) Apache
3 4 (57.14%) Swing
3 4 (57.14%) Tomcat
3 4 (57.14%) JSON
3 4 (57.14%) Ruby

Informatics
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 6 (85.71%) RESTful
2 4 (57.14%) J2EE
2 4 (57.14%) Web Services
2 4 (57.14%) Swing
2 4 (57.14%) Hibernate
2 4 (57.14%) Spring
2 4 (57.14%) Ruby on Rails
2 4 (57.14%) JSON
3 2 (28.57%) XML
4 1 (14.29%) CGI
Application Platforms
1 4 (57.14%) Apache
1 4 (57.14%) Tomcat
1 4 (57.14%) RabbitMQ
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) HTTP
1 2 (28.57%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) MySQL
1 5 (71.43%) Oracle 8/8i
2 2 (28.57%) Text Mining
2 2 (28.57%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Subversion
1 4 (57.14%) Maven
1 4 (57.14%) Git (software)
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Developer
2 4 (57.14%) Java Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Python Developer
4 1 (14.29%) SQL Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Perl Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Computer Science
2 2 (28.57%) Life Science
2 2 (28.57%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) MVC
1 4 (57.14%) Agile Software Development
1 4 (57.14%) TDD
1 4 (57.14%) Information Management
1 4 (57.14%) Unit Testing
2 2 (28.57%) Analytics
2 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (28.57%) B2B
3 1 (14.29%) Information Security
3 1 (14.29%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Java
1 6 (85.71%) Python
2 5 (71.43%) Perl
2 5 (71.43%) SQL
3 4 (57.14%) Lisp
3 4 (57.14%) Ruby
3 4 (57.14%) C#
4 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) PhD
1 5 (71.43%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Oracle
2 4 (57.14%) VMware