The first table below looks at the demand for Text Mining skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Text Mining over the 3 months to 23 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 Database & Business Intelligence category for the Cambridge region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Text Mining
Rank 111 101 -
Rank change year-on-year
-10 -
Permanent jobs citing Text Mining 11 29 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 0.609% 1.436% -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.830% 4.932% -
Number of salaries quoted 10 20 0
Average salary £38,750 £32,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+19.23% -
UK excluding London average salary £41,250 £31,000 -
% change year-on-year
+33.06% -
All Database & Business Intelligence
Cambridge
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
601 588 468
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 33.30% 29.11% 21.47%
Number of salaries quoted 561 538 423
Average salary £40,000 £38,500 £35,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.89% +8.45%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £30,000 £29,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -
Text Mining
Cambridgeshire

Text Mining
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Text Mining across the Cambridge region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

Cambridge Text Mining Jobs Demand Trend

Text Mining
Salary Trend

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

Cambridge Text Mining Salary Trend

Text Mining
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge region citing Text Mining 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 Text Mining.

1 21 (70.00%) Python
1 21 (70.00%) Degree
2 18 (60.00%) Postgraduate
3 16 (53.33%) Web Services
3 16 (53.33%) Big Data
4 15 (50.00%) Natural Language Processing
5 14 (46.67%) Java
6 13 (43.33%) Grid Computing
7 11 (36.67%) JavaScript
7 11 (36.67%) Windows
7 11 (36.67%) Linux
7 11 (36.67%) Life Science
8 9 (30.00%) QA
8 9 (30.00%) Chemistry
8 9 (30.00%) Microsoft
8 9 (30.00%) Software Testing
9 8 (26.67%) Business Intelligence
9 8 (26.67%) Data Mining
10 7 (23.33%) XML
10 7 (23.33%) B2B
10 7 (23.33%) HTTPS
10 7 (23.33%) HTTP
10 7 (23.33%) NFS
10 7 (23.33%) SAN
10 7 (23.33%) Pharmaceutical
10 7 (23.33%) MySQL
10 7 (23.33%) C++
10 7 (23.33%) Samba
10 7 (23.33%) Firewall
10 7 (23.33%) SaaS

Text Mining
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge region citing Text Mining 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 Text Mining. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 16 (53.33%) Web Services
2 15 (50.00%) Natural Language Processing
3 7 (23.33%) XML
4 5 (16.67%) HTML
4 5 (16.67%) .NET
4 5 (16.67%) REST
5 2 (6.667%) RESTful
Application Platforms
1 5 (16.67%) SharePoint
2 4 (13.33%) MediaWiki
Applications
1 4 (13.33%) Google Apps
1 4 (13.33%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 7 (23.33%) HTTPS
1 7 (23.33%) HTTP
1 7 (23.33%) SAN
1 7 (23.33%) Firewall
1 7 (23.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (53.33%) Big Data
2 8 (26.67%) Data Mining
3 7 (23.33%) MySQL
4 3 (10.00%) Hadoop
4 3 (10.00%) HBase
Development Applications
1 4 (13.33%) SCons
1 4 (13.33%) GoogleTest
1 4 (13.33%) GCC
1 4 (13.33%) Mercurial
1 4 (13.33%) Eclipse
1 4 (13.33%) JUnit
1 4 (13.33%) Visual Studio
1 4 (13.33%) Bugzilla
General
1 7 (23.33%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 14 (46.67%) Developer
2 9 (30.00%) Senior Developer
2 9 (30.00%) QA Engineer
3 5 (16.67%) Systems Support
4 4 (13.33%) IT Support
4 4 (13.33%) Software Developer
4 4 (13.33%) Support Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) Administrator
4 4 (13.33%) Systems Administrator
4 4 (13.33%) IT Support Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) Senior Software Developer
5 3 (10.00%) Linux Administrator
5 3 (10.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 3 (10.00%) Systems Support Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) Linux Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) Linux Support
5 3 (10.00%) Java Developer
5 3 (10.00%) C# Developer
5 3 (10.00%) Systems Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) C++/Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 13 (43.33%) Grid Computing
2 11 (36.67%) Life Science
3 9 (30.00%) Chemistry
4 7 (23.33%) SaaS
4 7 (23.33%) Wiki
5 6 (20.00%) Mathematics
6 4 (13.33%) Visualisation
6 4 (13.33%) Semantic Web
7 3 (10.00%) Physics
7 3 (10.00%) Computer Science
7 3 (10.00%) Machine Learning
8 2 (6.667%) Informatics
9 1 (3.333%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 11 (36.67%) Windows
1 11 (36.67%) Linux
2 4 (13.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (10.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (30.00%) Software Testing
2 8 (26.67%) Business Intelligence
3 7 (23.33%) B2B
3 7 (23.33%) Analytics
4 6 (20.00%) Bioinformatics
5 5 (16.67%) Business Development
6 4 (13.33%) Data Protection
6 4 (13.33%) Test Automation
6 4 (13.33%) Software Architecture
6 4 (13.33%) OOP
6 4 (13.33%) OO
6 4 (13.33%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (13.33%) Automated Testing
6 4 (13.33%) Agile Software Development
6 4 (13.33%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 21 (70.00%) Python
2 14 (46.67%) Java
3 11 (36.67%) JavaScript
4 7 (23.33%) C++
4 7 (23.33%) Bash shell
5 4 (13.33%) C
5 4 (13.33%) Perl
6 3 (10.00%) PHP
6 3 (10.00%) C#
6 3 (10.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 21 (70.00%) Degree
2 18 (60.00%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (30.00%) QA
System Software
1 7 (23.33%) NFS
1 7 (23.33%) Samba
Vendors
1 9 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (13.33%) Red Hat
2 4 (13.33%) Google
Cambridge, East Anglia
Summary: Linux & Windows, networking protocols & security, Python / Scripting experience, Cambridge, to £40k + benefits... Python, bash, or other language; - Understanding of installation/management/backup of fileservers and databases, e...
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Posted: 23 April 2013