The first table below looks at the demand for RMDS skills 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 RMDS 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 of the Business Applications category for the City of London region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Reuters Market Data System (RMDS)
Rank 299 305 296
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -9
Permanent jobs citing RMDS 19 19 38
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.161% 0.145% 0.251%
As % of the Business Applications category 2.554% 2.070% 3.333%
Number of salaries quoted 12 19 35
Average salary £80,000 £57,500 £57,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+39.13% -
90% offered a salary of more than £70,500 £55,000 £50,000
10% offered a salary of more than £91,350 £85,000 £80,000
UK excluding London average salary £75,000 - -
All Business Applications
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Business Applications category
744 918 1140
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 6.324% 6.988% 7.522%
Number of salaries quoted 636 810 999
Average salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-8.33% -
90% offered a salary of more than £36,500 £41,000 £40,000
10% offered a salary of more than £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
UK excluding London average salary £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -
RMDS
London

RMDS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London RMDS Jobs Demand Trend

RMDS
Salary Trend

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

City of London RMDS Salary Trend

RMDS
Salary Histogram

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

City of London RMDS Salary Histogram

RMDS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region citing RMDS 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 RMDS.

1 23 (67.65%) Finance
2 21 (61.76%) TIBCO
3 14 (41.18%) C#
3 14 (41.18%) Oracle
4 13 (38.24%) .NET
4 13 (38.24%) Middleware
5 12 (35.29%) Reuters
5 12 (35.29%) WPF
6 11 (32.35%) Agile Software Development
6 11 (32.35%) TIBCO EMS
6 11 (32.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 11 (32.35%) SQL
7 10 (29.41%) Windows
7 10 (29.41%) Microsoft
7 10 (29.41%) Bloomberg
7 10 (29.41%) LINQ
7 10 (29.41%) .NET Framework
8 9 (26.47%) TeamCity
8 9 (26.47%) HTML5
8 9 (26.47%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
8 9 (26.47%) ReSharper
8 9 (26.47%) Silverlight
8 9 (26.47%) NHibernate
8 9 (26.47%) TDD
8 9 (26.47%) Games
8 9 (26.47%) Scrum
8 9 (26.47%) MOM
8 9 (26.47%) OO
8 9 (26.47%) SOA
8 9 (26.47%) JavaScript

RMDS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region citing RMDS 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 RMDS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 13 (38.24%) .NET
1 13 (38.24%) Middleware
2 12 (35.29%) WPF
3 10 (29.41%) LINQ
3 10 (29.41%) .NET Framework
4 9 (26.47%) HTML5
4 9 (26.47%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 9 (26.47%) Silverlight
4 9 (26.47%) NHibernate
5 3 (8.824%) XML
5 3 (8.824%) WinForms
6 2 (5.882%) WebSphere
6 2 (5.882%) XSLT
6 2 (5.882%) HTML
7 1 (2.941%) JMS
7 1 (2.941%) Web Services
7 1 (2.941%) XSD
7 1 (2.941%) WCF
7 1 (2.941%) FIX Protocol
7 1 (2.941%) Reactive Extensions
Application Platforms
1 11 (32.35%) TIBCO EMS
2 3 (8.824%) Rendezvous
3 2 (5.882%) WebLogic
3 2 (5.882%) IIS
3 2 (5.882%) Apache
4 1 (2.941%) ActiveMQ
Applications
1 3 (8.824%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.941%) ION MarketView
Communications & Networking
1 6 (17.65%) Firewall
2 5 (14.71%) Cisco Nexus
3 4 (11.76%) TCP/IP
3 4 (11.76%) DNS
4 3 (8.824%) DHCP
5 2 (5.882%) NAS
5 2 (5.882%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (5.882%) SAN
6 1 (2.941%) SSL
6 1 (2.941%) VPN
6 1 (2.941%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.824%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.941%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (2.941%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (2.941%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 9 (26.47%) TeamCity
1 9 (26.47%) ReSharper
1 9 (26.47%) CodeRush
2 1 (2.941%) Visual Studio
General
1 23 (67.65%) Finance
2 9 (26.47%) Games
3 5 (14.71%) Banking
4 4 (11.76%) Front Office
5 2 (5.882%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (20.59%) Developer
2 6 (17.65%) C# Developer
3 5 (14.71%) Market Data Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) Senior C# Developer
4 4 (11.76%) Senior Developer
5 3 (8.824%) Support Engineer
5 3 (8.824%) Network Support Engineer
5 3 (8.824%) Network Support
5 3 (8.824%) Network Engineer
5 3 (8.824%) Agile C# Developer
6 2 (5.882%) Market Data Manager
6 2 (5.882%) WPF Developer
6 2 (5.882%) Lead Architect
6 2 (5.882%) Data Manager
6 2 (5.882%) Architect
6 2 (5.882%) C# .NET Developer
7 1 (2.941%) Software Engineer
7 1 (2.941%) Systems Administrator
7 1 (2.941%) Administrator
7 1 (2.941%) Operations Manager
Miscellaneous
1 11 (32.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 7 (20.59%) RIA
3 2 (5.882%) Computer Science
3 2 (5.882%) Fixed Income
3 2 (5.882%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.941%) Blackberry
4 1 (2.941%) AS400
4 1 (2.941%) Credit Derivative
4 1 (2.941%) Derivative
4 1 (2.941%) Equities
4 1 (2.941%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 10 (29.41%) Windows
2 7 (20.59%) Linux
2 7 (20.59%) UNIX
3 3 (8.824%) Solaris
4 2 (5.882%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.941%) Windows 2000
5 1 (2.941%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (32.35%) Agile Software Development
2 9 (26.47%) TDD
2 9 (26.47%) Scrum
2 9 (26.47%) OO
2 9 (26.47%) SOA
2 9 (26.47%) Memory Management
3 2 (5.882%) Complex Event Processing
3 2 (5.882%) Multithreading
3 2 (5.882%) Problem Management
3 2 (5.882%) Investment Management
3 2 (5.882%) Incident Management
3 2 (5.882%) ITIL
3 2 (5.882%) Benchmarking
3 2 (5.882%) RDF
3 2 (5.882%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (2.941%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (2.941%) Data Modelling
4 1 (2.941%) Business Analysis
4 1 (2.941%) Network Design
4 1 (2.941%) Algorithmic Trading
Programming Languages
1 14 (41.18%) C#
2 11 (32.35%) SQL
3 9 (26.47%) JavaScript
4 5 (14.71%) Perl
5 4 (11.76%) Java
6 2 (5.882%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.941%) C
7 1 (2.941%) VBA
7 1 (2.941%) Korn
7 1 (2.941%) C-shell
Qualifications
1 4 (11.76%) Degree
2 2 (5.882%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.824%) SLA
Systems Management
1 9 (26.47%) MOM
2 2 (5.882%) Zenoss
3 1 (2.941%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 21 (61.76%) TIBCO
2 14 (41.18%) Oracle
3 12 (35.29%) Reuters
4 10 (29.41%) Microsoft
4 10 (29.41%) Bloomberg
5 8 (23.53%) Cisco
6 4 (11.76%) Red Hat
7 3 (8.824%) 29West
8 2 (5.882%) Kalahari
8 2 (5.882%) DataSynapse
8 2 (5.882%) Caplin
8 2 (5.882%) Sybase
8 2 (5.882%) EMC
8 2 (5.882%) NetApp
9 1 (2.941%) IBM
9 1 (2.941%) BT
9 1 (2.941%) ION Trading
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