The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Informatics in IT jobs advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Informatics 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 terms in our Miscellaneous category for the Edinburgh region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Informatics
Rank - 91 74
Permanent jobs citing Informatics 0 1 31
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh - 0.072% 2.029%
As % of the Miscellaneous category - 0.246% 6.998%
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 15
Average salary - £22,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -40.00%
UK excluding London average salary £42,997 £39,220 £42,736
% change year-on-year
+9.63% -8.22%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Edinburgh
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
317 406 443
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 29.14% 29.31% 28.99%
Number of salaries quoted 190 301 303
Average salary £40,000 £36,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.11% -4.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £22,700 £28,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,900 £50,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +6.66%
Informatics
Scotland

Informatics
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh Informatics Jobs Demand Trend

Informatics
Salary Trend

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

Edinburgh Informatics Salary Trend

Informatics
Top 20 Related IT Skills

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

1 3 (100.00%) MS Excel
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Web Services
2 2 (66.67%) ITIL
2 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Service Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) Management Information System
2 2 (66.67%) Google
2 2 (66.67%) Degree
2 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Open Source
2 2 (66.67%) Google Apps
3 1 (33.33%) Load Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Test Scripting
3 1 (33.33%) Bioinformatics
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (33.33%) SLA

Informatics
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 2 (66.67%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon AWS
Applications
1 3 (100.00%) MS Excel
2 2 (66.67%) Google Apps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Systems Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Operations Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Management Information System
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (66.67%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) ITIL
1 2 (66.67%) Service Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Load Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Test Scripting
2 1 (33.33%) Bioinformatics
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) SLA
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Google