Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Web Services 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 Web Services over the 3 months to 15 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category for the City of London region.

 Web Services
Location
3 months to
15 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank686685
Rank change year-on-year
Down-2Up+19
Matching permanent IT job ads351251410
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London3.093 %3.033 %2.211 %
As % of the Application Development category8.526 %8.993 %7.069 %
Salaries quoted331220356
Average salary£45,000£46,750£55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.740 %-15.00 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£31,500£37,500£37,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£70,000£67,750£77,500
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£35,000£36,500
% change year-on-year
--4.100 %
City of London IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryAll Application Development
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
411727915800
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London36.27 %33.72 %31.28 %
Salaries quoted373423884919
Average salary£47,500£47,500£50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
--5.000 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£31,000£32,500£32,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£75,000£75,000£75,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£34,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+2.940 %-2.850 %
Web Services LondonWeb Services
London

Web Services
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Web Services across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

City of London Web Services Demand Trend

Web Services
Salary Trend

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

City of London Web Services Salary Trend

Web Services
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Web Services across the City of London region over the 3 months to 15 March 2010.

City of London Web Services Salary Histogram

Web Services
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 15 March 2010, IT jobs across the City of London region citing Web Services 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 Web Services.

1346 (52.58 %).NET
2341 (51.82 %)C#
3273 (41.49 %)XML
4225 (34.19 %)Java
5214 (32.52 %)SQL
6213 (32.37 %)SQL Server
7196 (29.79 %)ASP.NET
8172 (26.14 %)Finance
9136 (20.67 %)HTML
10133 (20.21 %)CSS
11129 (19.60 %)OO
12127 (19.30 %)JavaScript
13123 (18.69 %)Scrum
14120 (18.24 %)TDD
15118 (17.93 %)SOA
16110 (16.72 %)Agile Software Development
16110 (16.72 %)AJAX
17109 (16.57 %)Oracle
17109 (16.57 %)Windows
18101 (15.35 %)WCF
1994 (14.29 %)Microsoft
2085 (12.92 %)J2EE
2183 (12.61 %)E-Commerce
2280 (12.16 %).NET Framework
2379 (12.01 %)PHP
2478 (11.85 %)Visual Studio
2478 (11.85 %)Banking
2576 (11.55 %)MVC
2675 (11.40 %)Spring
2774 (11.25 %)Linux

Web Services
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 15 March 2010, IT jobs across the City of London region citing Web Services 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 Web Services. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

City of London IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1346 (52.58 %).NET
2273 (41.49 %)XML
3196 (29.79 %)ASP.NET
4136 (20.67 %)HTML
5133 (20.21 %)CSS
6110 (16.72 %)AJAX
7101 (15.35 %)WCF
885 (12.92 %)J2EE
980 (12.16 %).NET Framework
1076 (11.55 %)MVC
1175 (11.40 %)Spring
1266 (10.03 %)Hibernate
1363 (9.574 %)SOAP
1459 (8.967 %)XSLT
1553 (8.055 %)jQuery
1651 (7.751 %)WPF
1745 (6.839 %)JMS
1745 (6.839 %)WinForms
1841 (6.231 %)Flash
1841 (6.231 %)ASP
City of London IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
144 (6.687 %)CMS
241 (6.231 %)SharePoint
339 (5.927 %)Apache
436 (5.471 %)IIS
535 (5.319 %)BizTalk Server
626 (3.951 %)SharePoint Server 2007
725 (3.799 %)WebLogic
823 (3.495 %)Tomcat
922 (3.343 %)ESB
1010 (1.520 %)EPiServer
119 (1.368 %)Umbraco
119 (1.368 %)MQSeries
127 (1.064 %)Drupal
135 (0.760 %)WebSphere Application Server
144 (0.608 %)nginx
153 (0.456 %)TIBCO EMS
153 (0.456 %)WebLogic Portal
153 (0.456 %)JRun
153 (0.456 %)Documentum
153 (0.456 %)Force.com
City of London IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
117 (2.584 %)Photoshop
216 (2.432 %)MS Office
312 (1.824 %)MS Excel
410 (1.520 %)Adobe Illustrator
55 (0.760 %)MS Visio
55 (0.760 %)Fireworks
63 (0.456 %)MS Project
72 (0.304 %)MS PowerPoint
81 (0.152 %)InfoPath
81 (0.152 %)Spreadsheet
City of London IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
111 (1.672 %)Oracle BPM
23 (0.456 %)Bond Adapt
23 (0.456 %)Temenos T24
32 (0.304 %)WebTrends
41 (0.152 %)Oracle EBS
41 (0.152 %)Oracle EBS R12
41 (0.152 %)Oracle Financials
City of London IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
135 (5.319 %)Internet
233 (5.015 %)SAN
315 (2.280 %)Broadband
413 (1.976 %)HTTP
512 (1.824 %)NAS
610 (1.520 %)TCP/IP
75 (0.760 %)Intranet
83 (0.456 %)Extranet
92 (0.304 %)FTP
92 (0.304 %)DNS
92 (0.304 %)LDAP
101 (0.152 %)Bluetooth
101 (0.152 %)SMS
101 (0.152 %)Network Security
City of London IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1213 (32.37 %)SQL Server
271 (10.79 %)SQL Server 2005
355 (8.359 %)SQL Server 2008
355 (8.359 %)MySQL
419 (2.888 %)RDBMS
515 (2.280 %)Oracle 10g
515 (2.280 %)MS Access
515 (2.280 %)Datawarehouse
614 (2.128 %)Oracle 8/8i
614 (2.128 %)OLAP
614 (2.128 %)Oracle 11g
713 (1.976 %)Oracle OLAP
713 (1.976 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
713 (1.976 %)PostgreSQL
812 (1.824 %)SQL Server Integration Services
812 (1.824 %)ETL
911 (1.672 %)SQL Server 2000
109 (1.368 %)Oracle 9i
109 (1.368 %)Oracle Reports
117 (1.064 %)Crystal Reports
City of London IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
178 (11.85 %)Visual Studio
268 (10.33 %)Subversion
351 (7.751 %)Ant
438 (5.775 %)JUnit
531 (4.711 %)NUnit
624 (3.647 %)Team Foundation Server
723 (3.495 %)ClearCase
723 (3.495 %)Log4j
815 (2.280 %)ClearQuest
914 (2.128 %)Maven
914 (2.128 %)Eclipse
1010 (1.520 %)CruiseControl
117 (1.064 %)jMock
126 (0.912 %)PVCS
134 (0.608 %)TeamCity
143 (0.456 %)FxCop
143 (0.456 %)IntelliJ
143 (0.456 %)JIRA
152 (0.304 %)Oracle APEX
152 (0.304 %)AdminStudio
City of London IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1172 (26.14 %)Finance
278 (11.85 %)Banking
369 (10.49 %)Games
438 (5.775 %)Front Office
537 (5.623 %)Education
634 (5.167 %)Insurance
727 (4.103 %)Investment Banking
826 (3.951 %)Back Office
923 (3.495 %)Marketing
1021 (3.191 %)Online Games
1021 (3.191 %)Retail
1119 (2.888 %)Telecoms
1218 (2.736 %)Music
1314 (2.128 %)Financial Institution
1411 (1.672 %)Health
159 (1.368 %)Advertising
168 (1.216 %)Law
168 (1.216 %)Online Betting
175 (0.760 %)Government
184 (0.608 %)Publishing
City of London IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1433 (65.81 %)Developer
2117 (17.78 %).NET Developer
3108 (16.41 %)C# Developer
489 (13.53 %)Java Developer
576 (11.55 %)Senior Developer
663 (9.574 %)Architect
734 (5.167 %)ASP.NET Developer
830 (4.559 %)PHP Developer
929 (4.407 %)Senior .NET Developer
1027 (4.103 %)Consultant
1027 (4.103 %)C# ASP.NET Developer
1126 (3.951 %)Team Leader
1225 (3.799 %)Web Developer
1324 (3.647 %)Analyst
1421 (3.191 %)Software Engineer
1421 (3.191 %)Technical Leader
1520 (3.040 %)Lead Developer
1618 (2.736 %)Flash Developer
1618 (2.736 %)WinForms Developer
1717 (2.584 %)Java Team Leader
City of London IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
149 (7.447 %)Derivative
231 (4.711 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
327 (4.103 %)Multithreading
426 (3.951 %)Social Network
523 (3.495 %)Credit Derivative
619 (2.888 %)Equities
619 (2.888 %)N-Tier
718 (2.736 %)Computer Science
815 (2.280 %)Credit Risk
815 (2.280 %)Interest Rate Derivative
815 (2.280 %)Learning Management System
914 (2.128 %)iPhone
1013 (1.976 %)Mathematics
1112 (1.824 %)Spread Betting
1211 (1.672 %)Blackberry
1211 (1.672 %)Management Information System
1211 (1.672 %)Client/Server
1211 (1.672 %)SaaS
1310 (1.520 %)Equity Derivative
148 (1.216 %)Open Source
City of London IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1109 (16.57 %)Windows
274 (11.25 %)Linux
353 (8.055 %)UNIX
48 (1.216 %)Windows XP
48 (1.216 %)Windows Server 2003
56 (0.912 %)Ubuntu
65 (0.760 %)Android
74 (0.608 %)FreeBSD
83 (0.456 %)Solaris
83 (0.456 %)Windows Server 2008
83 (0.456 %)Windows Vista
92 (0.304 %)Red Hat Linux
92 (0.304 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
92 (0.304 %)Windows Mobile
101 (0.152 %)Windows 2000 Server
101 (0.152 %)Windows 7
101 (0.152 %)Windows 2000
101 (0.152 %)Mac OS X
City of London IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1129 (19.60 %)OO
2123 (18.69 %)Scrum
3120 (18.24 %)TDD
4118 (17.93 %)SOA
5110 (16.72 %)Agile Software Development
683 (12.61 %)E-Commerce
735 (5.319 %)Project Management
834 (5.167 %)OOP
834 (5.167 %)Unit Testing
933 (5.015 %)Continuous Integration
933 (5.015 %)Web Development
1031 (4.711 %)Content Management
1130 (4.559 %)UML
1228 (4.255 %)OOD
1326 (3.951 %)Configuration Management
1420 (3.040 %)Business Analysis
1518 (2.736 %)CRM
1617 (2.584 %)Migration
1716 (2.432 %)User Acceptance Testing
1815 (2.280 %)Pair Programming
City of London IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1341 (51.82 %)C#
2225 (34.19 %)Java
3214 (32.52 %)SQL
4127 (19.30 %)JavaScript
579 (12.01 %)PHP
654 (8.207 %)C++
734 (5.167 %)T-SQL
832 (4.863 %)VB.NET
929 (4.407 %)PL/SQL
929 (4.407 %)C
1022 (3.343 %)ActionScript
1119 (2.888 %)ActionScript 3.0
1119 (2.888 %)XPath
1218 (2.736 %)ActionScript 2.0
1218 (2.736 %)Shell Script
1218 (2.736 %)Perl
1314 (2.128 %)VB
148 (1.216 %)Python
148 (1.216 %)PHP5
148 (1.216 %)F#
City of London IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
149 (7.447 %)Degree
244 (6.687 %)Microsoft Certification
327 (4.103 %)MCSD
425 (3.799 %)MCAD
521 (3.191 %)MCP
521 (3.191 %)MCTS
614 (2.128 %)MCSE
75 (0.760 %)MCPD
83 (0.456 %)PRINCE2 Certification
91 (0.152 %)Sun Certification
91 (0.152 %)PMI Certification
91 (0.152 %)CISM
91 (0.152 %)CCNA
91 (0.152 %)ISEB
91 (0.152 %)CISSP
91 (0.152 %)Cisco Certification
City of London IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
118 (2.736 %)QA
21 (0.152 %)MiFID
City of London IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
115 (2.280 %)Active Directory
22 (0.304 %)VMware Infrastructure
31 (0.152 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
City of London IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
13 (0.456 %)SCCM
21 (0.152 %)Zenoss
21 (0.152 %)Nagios
21 (0.152 %)Backup Exec
City of London IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1109 (16.57 %)Oracle
294 (14.29 %)Microsoft
324 (3.647 %)Sybase
422 (3.343 %)TIBCO
512 (1.824 %)Citrix
611 (1.672 %)JBoss
79 (1.368 %)Google
87 (1.064 %)Adobe
96 (0.912 %)Informatica
96 (0.912 %)Zend
105 (0.760 %)Calypso
105 (0.760 %)Fidessa
105 (0.760 %)Symbian
105 (0.760 %)SAP
114 (0.608 %)Business Objects
114 (0.608 %)Yahoo!
123 (0.456 %)DataSynapse
123 (0.456 %)Sitecore
123 (0.456 %)IBM
123 (0.456 %)webMethods