The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of IBM products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Croydon region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited IBM over the 3 months to 24 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 Vendors for the Croydon region.

The figures below represent the IT job market in general and are NOT representative of salaries within the International Business Machines Corporation.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM
Rank 36 44 34
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -10
Permanent jobs citing IBM 4 4 9
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Croydon 1.356% 1.201% 3.203%
As % of the Vendors category 2.878% 2.532% 5.625%
Number of salaries quoted 3 2 7
Average salary £75,000 £55,000 £77,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+36.36% -29.03%
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
All Vendors
Croydon
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
139 158 160
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Croydon 47.12% 47.45% 56.94%
Number of salaries quoted 120 144 151
Average salary £45,000 £39,000 £42,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+15.38% -7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £30,000 £23,250
10% offered a salary of more than £71,000 £75,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
IBM
London

IBM
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing IBM across the Croydon region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Croydon IBM Jobs Demand Trend

IBM
Salary Trend

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

Croydon IBM Salary Trend

IBM
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing IBM across the Croydon region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Croydon IBM Salary Histogram

IBM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Croydon region citing IBM 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 IBM.

1 8 (88.89%) Middleware
2 7 (77.78%) Windows
2 7 (77.78%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (77.78%) E-Commerce
2 7 (77.78%) Mainframe
3 6 (66.67%) Microsoft
3 6 (66.67%) EMC
3 6 (66.67%) Citrix
3 6 (66.67%) Solaris
3 6 (66.67%) iSeries
3 6 (66.67%) Enterprise Storage
3 6 (66.67%) zOS
3 6 (66.67%) Intranet
3 6 (66.67%) Internet
3 6 (66.67%) Enterprise Architecture
4 4 (44.44%) Retail
5 3 (33.33%) Oracle
5 3 (33.33%) UNIX
6 2 (22.22%) Java
6 2 (22.22%) J2EE
7 1 (11.11%) MySQL
7 1 (11.11%) .NET
7 1 (11.11%) DB2
7 1 (11.11%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (11.11%) IIS
7 1 (11.11%) XML
7 1 (11.11%) ITIL
7 1 (11.11%) JBoss
7 1 (11.11%) Apache
7 1 (11.11%) Oracle Financials

IBM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Croydon region citing IBM 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 IBM. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (88.89%) Middleware
2 2 (22.22%) J2EE
3 1 (11.11%) .NET
3 1 (11.11%) XML
3 1 (11.11%) JRules
3 1 (11.11%) WebSphere
3 1 (11.11%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) WebSphere Application Server
1 1 (11.11%) IIS
1 1 (11.11%) Apache
1 1 (11.11%) Tomcat
1 1 (11.11%) MQSeries
1 1 (11.11%) SAS
1 1 (11.11%) Adobe CQ
1 1 (11.11%) WebSphere MQ
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking
1 6 (66.67%) Intranet
1 6 (66.67%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (77.78%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (11.11%) MySQL
2 1 (11.11%) DB2
2 1 (11.11%) RDBMS
General
1 4 (44.44%) Retail
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Middleware Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Design Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Release Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Applications Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Database Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Database Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (77.78%) Mainframe
2 6 (66.67%) iSeries
2 6 (66.67%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (11.11%) Client/Server
3 1 (11.11%) HACMP
3 1 (11.11%) DataPower
Operating Systems
1 7 (77.78%) Windows
2 6 (66.67%) Solaris
2 6 (66.67%) zOS
3 3 (33.33%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) E-Commerce
2 6 (66.67%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (11.11%) ITIL
3 1 (11.11%) SOA
3 1 (11.11%) ETL
3 1 (11.11%) Change Management
3 1 (11.11%) Validation
3 1 (11.11%) Migration
3 1 (11.11%) Content Management
3 1 (11.11%) Configuration Management
3 1 (11.11%) Project Management
3 1 (11.11%) High Availability
3 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (11.11%) Release Management
3 1 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) Java
2 1 (11.11%) C
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle Certification
1 1 (11.11%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle RAC
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 6 (66.67%) EMC
1 6 (66.67%) Citrix
2 3 (33.33%) Oracle
3 1 (11.11%) JBoss
3 1 (11.11%) TOWER Software
3 1 (11.11%) Adobe
3 1 (11.11%) Informatica
3 1 (11.11%) Fujitsu