The first table below looks at the demand for Velocity 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 Velocity 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 Application Development category for the City of London region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache Velocity
Rank 310 313 294
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -19
Permanent jobs citing Velocity 8 11 40
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.068% 0.084% 0.264%
As % of the Application Development category 0.178% 0.225% 0.719%
Number of salaries quoted 8 11 38
Average salary £60,000 £45,000 £57,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+33.33% -21.73%
90% offered a salary of more than £49,600 £37,500 £45,000
10% offered a salary of more than £66,500 £62,500 £60,750
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £44,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year
+2.27% -2.22%
All Application Development
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
4500 4897 5563
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 38.25% 37.28% 36.71%
Number of salaries quoted 3964 4592 5122
Average salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.00% -4.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £72,500 £80,000 £75,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Velocity
London

Velocity
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Velocity Jobs Demand Trend

Velocity
Salary Trend

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

City of London Velocity Salary Trend

Velocity
Salary Histogram

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

City of London Velocity Salary Histogram

Velocity
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 18 (75.00%) Agile Software Development
2 15 (62.50%) Scrum
2 15 (62.50%) Java
3 13 (54.17%) XML
3 13 (54.17%) Hibernate
3 13 (54.17%) Spring
4 11 (45.83%) HTML
4 11 (45.83%) CSS
4 11 (45.83%) JSP
4 11 (45.83%) JSON
5 10 (41.67%) jQuery
5 10 (41.67%) Degree
5 10 (41.67%) Ruby
5 10 (41.67%) Ajax
6 9 (37.50%) Ruby on Rails
6 9 (37.50%) Web 2.0
6 9 (37.50%) CMS
6 9 (37.50%) WAI
6 9 (37.50%) Computer Science
6 9 (37.50%) Unit Testing
6 9 (37.50%) Drupal
6 9 (37.50%) WordPress
7 5 (20.83%) Project Management
7 5 (20.83%) E-Commerce
8 4 (16.67%) MVC
8 4 (16.67%) TDD
9 3 (12.50%) Games
9 3 (12.50%) SQL Server
9 3 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
9 3 (12.50%) Online Games

Velocity
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 13 (54.17%) XML
1 13 (54.17%) Hibernate
1 13 (54.17%) Spring
2 11 (45.83%) HTML
2 11 (45.83%) CSS
2 11 (45.83%) JSP
2 11 (45.83%) JSON
3 10 (41.67%) jQuery
3 10 (41.67%) Ajax
4 9 (37.50%) Ruby on Rails
5 2 (8.333%) Spring MVC
5 2 (8.333%) FreeMarker
5 2 (8.333%) Web Services
5 2 (8.333%) Lucene
6 1 (4.167%) NHibernate
6 1 (4.167%) LAMP
6 1 (4.167%) XHTML
6 1 (4.167%) WSDL
6 1 (4.167%) .NET
6 1 (4.167%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 9 (37.50%) CMS
1 9 (37.50%) Drupal
1 9 (37.50%) WordPress
2 2 (8.333%) Apache Solr
3 1 (4.167%) SAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 2 (8.333%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (8.333%) Apache Cassandra
2 2 (8.333%) MySQL
2 2 (8.333%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (4.167%) RDBMS
3 1 (4.167%) Oracle BI EE
3 1 (4.167%) BusinessObjects XI
3 1 (4.167%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 2 (8.333%) Subversion
1 2 (8.333%) Maven
2 1 (4.167%) NUnit
2 1 (4.167%) CruiseControl
2 1 (4.167%) Visual Studio
2 1 (4.167%) Rhino Mocks
2 1 (4.167%) JIRA
2 1 (4.167%) FitNesse
General
1 3 (12.50%) Games
2 1 (4.167%) Banking
2 1 (4.167%) Publishing
2 1 (4.167%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 14 (58.33%) Developer
2 11 (45.83%) Senior Developer
3 9 (37.50%) Ruby Developer
4 3 (12.50%) ScrumMaster
5 2 (8.333%) Java Developer
5 2 (8.333%) Technical Manager
6 1 (4.167%) Informatica Consultant
6 1 (4.167%) Product Manager
6 1 (4.167%) Delivery Manager
6 1 (4.167%) Senior Web Developer
6 1 (4.167%) Technical Account Manager
6 1 (4.167%) Architect
6 1 (4.167%) Project Manager
6 1 (4.167%) Web Developer
6 1 (4.167%) Consultant
6 1 (4.167%) Account Manager
6 1 (4.167%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.167%) UI Programmer
6 1 (4.167%) Scala Developer
6 1 (4.167%) Technical Delivery Manager
Miscellaneous
1 9 (37.50%) Web 2.0
1 9 (37.50%) Computer Science
2 3 (12.50%) Online Games
3 1 (4.167%) Social Gaming
3 1 (4.167%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.167%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (75.00%) Agile Software Development
2 15 (62.50%) Scrum
3 9 (37.50%) Unit Testing
4 5 (20.83%) Project Management
4 5 (20.83%) E-Commerce
5 4 (16.67%) MVC
5 4 (16.67%) TDD
6 3 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (12.50%) Business Analysis
7 2 (8.333%) Business Development
7 2 (8.333%) Multithreading
7 2 (8.333%) Test Automation
7 2 (8.333%) Product Management
7 2 (8.333%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (8.333%) User Stories
7 2 (8.333%) BDD
7 2 (8.333%) OO
7 2 (8.333%) Extreme Programming
8 1 (4.167%) Automated Testing
8 1 (4.167%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 15 (62.50%) Java
2 10 (41.67%) Ruby
3 2 (8.333%) Scala
3 2 (8.333%) Groovy
3 2 (8.333%) JavaScript
3 2 (8.333%) PHP
3 2 (8.333%) SQL
4 1 (4.167%) VB
4 1 (4.167%) PL/SQL
4 1 (4.167%) C#
Qualifications
1 10 (41.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (37.50%) WAI
Vendors
1 2 (8.333%) Oracle
2 1 (4.167%) Informatica
2 1 (4.167%) Business Objects
2 1 (4.167%) Facebook
2 1 (4.167%) Zend