The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Facebook products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Facebook over the 3 months to 22 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 Edinburgh region.

The figures below represent the IT job market in general and are NOT representative of salaries within Facebook, Inc.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Facebook
Rank - - 80
Permanent jobs citing Facebook 0 0 25
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh - - 1.636%
As % of the Vendors category - - 4.554%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 25
Average salary - - £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £33,000 £32,000
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +3.12%
All Vendors
Edinburgh
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
466 601 549
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 42.83% 43.39% 35.93%
Number of salaries quoted 300 441 402
Average salary £41,500 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.75% -
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £27,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £59,250 £60,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Facebook
Scotland

Facebook
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh Facebook Jobs Demand Trend

Facebook
Salary Trend

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

Edinburgh Facebook Salary Trend

Facebook
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Facebook 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 Facebook.

1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Project Management
2 2 (66.67%) Management Information System
2 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (66.67%) MySQL
2 2 (66.67%) NoSQL
2 2 (66.67%) Regular Expression
3 1 (33.33%) Twitter
3 1 (33.33%) Mobile App
3 1 (33.33%) PHP
3 1 (33.33%) REST
3 1 (33.33%) XML
3 1 (33.33%) Cocoa
3 1 (33.33%) Objective-C
3 1 (33.33%) Ruby
3 1 (33.33%) JSON
3 1 (33.33%) Drupal
3 1 (33.33%) Open Source
3 1 (33.33%) Workflow
3 1 (33.33%) CMS
3 1 (33.33%) LAMP

Facebook
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Facebook 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 Facebook. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (66.67%) Regular Expression
2 1 (33.33%) REST
2 1 (33.33%) XML
2 1 (33.33%) Cocoa
2 1 (33.33%) JSON
2 1 (33.33%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Drupal
1 1 (33.33%) CMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (66.67%) MySQL
1 2 (66.67%) NoSQL
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Software Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Python Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Mobile Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (33.33%) Mobile App
2 1 (33.33%) Open Source
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) PHP
2 1 (33.33%) Objective-C
2 1 (33.33%) Ruby
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Twitter