The first table below looks at the demand for the Author role in IT jobs advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Author in their job title over the 3 months to 21 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 Job Titles advertised for the City of London region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Author
Rank 309 319 328
Rank change year-on-year
+10 +9
Permanent jobs requiring an Author 9 5 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.076% 0.038% 0.040%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.082% 0.041% 0.042%
Number of salaries quoted 9 5 5
Average salary £32,000 £40,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-20.00% +23.07%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £31,000 £31,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,000 £49,000 £44,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £31,000 £34,000
% change year-on-year
+12.90% -8.82%
All Job Titles
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
10921 12230 14187
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 92.83% 93.10% 93.61%
Number of salaries quoted 9422 11124 12765
Average salary £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -4.54%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,521 £32,500 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Author
London

Author
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Author across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

City of London Author Jobs Demand Trend

Author
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Author across the City of London region.

City of London Author Salary Trend

Author
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Author across the City of London region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

City of London Author Salary Histogram

Author
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region that cited Author in their job title 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 with Author in their job title.

1 6 (66.67%) HTML
2 4 (44.44%) Finance
3 3 (33.33%) CSS
3 3 (33.33%) XML
3 3 (33.33%) MS Excel
3 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
4 2 (22.22%) Windows
4 2 (22.22%) SQL
4 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
4 2 (22.22%) Asset Management
4 2 (22.22%) TCP/IP
5 1 (11.11%) Degree
5 1 (11.11%) Wiki
5 1 (11.11%) Wealth Management
5 1 (11.11%) Time Management
5 1 (11.11%) Computer Security
5 1 (11.11%) Change Control
5 1 (11.11%) Agile Project Management
5 1 (11.11%) Risk Analytics
5 1 (11.11%) Analytics
5 1 (11.11%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (11.11%) Advertising
5 1 (11.11%) Scrum
5 1 (11.11%) Service Delivery
5 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
5 1 (11.11%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (11.11%) MS Office
5 1 (11.11%) ITIL
5 1 (11.11%) Java
5 1 (11.11%) C++

Author
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region that cited Author in their job title 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 with Author in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (66.67%) HTML
2 3 (33.33%) CSS
2 3 (33.33%) XML
Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (33.33%) MS Excel
2 1 (11.11%) MS Office
2 1 (11.11%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 1 (11.11%) Crystal Reports
General
1 4 (44.44%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Advertising
2 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (22.22%) Asset Management
2 1 (11.11%) Wealth Management
2 1 (11.11%) Time Management
2 1 (11.11%) Computer Security
2 1 (11.11%) Change Control
2 1 (11.11%) Agile Project Management
2 1 (11.11%) Risk Analytics
2 1 (11.11%) Analytics
2 1 (11.11%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (11.11%) Scrum
2 1 (11.11%) Service Delivery
2 1 (11.11%) ITIL
2 1 (11.11%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) Java
2 1 (11.11%) C++
2 1 (11.11%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft