The first table below looks at the demand for the Junior role in IT jobs advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Junior in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised for the Edinburgh region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Junior
Rank 70 50 85
Rank change year-on-year
-20 +35
Permanent jobs requiring a Junior 22 42 20
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 2.022% 3.032% 1.309%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.111% 3.182% 1.374%
Number of salaries quoted 9 26 18
Average salary £22,000 £24,750 £22,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-11.11% +10.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £21,500 £21,000 £19,850
10% offered a salary of more than £26,200 £27,500 £32,250
UK excluding London average salary £25,000 £25,000 £24,000
% change year-on-year
- +4.16%
All Job Titles
Edinburgh
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1042 1320 1456
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 95.77% 95.31% 95.29%
Number of salaries quoted 604 965 1058
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% -6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £26,000 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Junior
Scotland

Junior
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh Junior Jobs Demand Trend

Junior
Salary Trend

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

Edinburgh Junior Salary Trend

Junior
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh region that cited Junior in their job title 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 with Junior in their job title.

1 26 (63.41%) .NET
2 25 (60.98%) C#
3 19 (46.34%) ASP.NET
3 19 (46.34%) Degree
4 18 (43.90%) Microsoft
5 15 (36.59%) MS Excel
6 14 (34.15%) SQL Server
6 14 (34.15%) HTML
7 13 (31.71%) JavaScript
8 12 (29.27%) CSS
8 12 (29.27%) Visual Studio
8 12 (29.27%) Finance
8 12 (29.27%) .NET Framework
9 10 (24.39%) MVC
9 10 (24.39%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
10 9 (21.95%) Computer Science
10 9 (21.95%) WCF
10 9 (21.95%) jQuery
10 9 (21.95%) SQL
11 7 (17.07%) Ajax
11 7 (17.07%) Team Foundation Server
11 7 (17.07%) ASP.NET MVC
11 7 (17.07%) ASP.NET MVC 3
12 6 (14.63%) MSTest
12 6 (14.63%) CSS3
12 6 (14.63%) Mathematics
12 6 (14.63%) Unit Testing
13 5 (12.20%) Software Engineering
14 4 (9.756%) Telecoms
14 4 (9.756%) Business Intelligence

Junior
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh region that cited Junior in their job title 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 with Junior in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 26 (63.41%) .NET
2 19 (46.34%) ASP.NET
3 14 (34.15%) HTML
4 12 (29.27%) CSS
4 12 (29.27%) .NET Framework
5 10 (24.39%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 9 (21.95%) WCF
6 9 (21.95%) jQuery
7 7 (17.07%) Ajax
7 7 (17.07%) ASP.NET MVC
7 7 (17.07%) ASP.NET MVC 3
8 6 (14.63%) CSS3
9 2 (4.878%) Web Services
10 1 (2.439%) Regular Expression
Application Platforms
1 3 (7.317%) IIS
2 2 (4.878%) CMS
3 1 (2.439%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (2.439%) SharePoint
Applications
1 15 (36.59%) MS Excel
2 2 (4.878%) MS Office
2 2 (4.878%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.439%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (34.15%) SQL Server
2 3 (7.317%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.439%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (2.439%) OLAP
3 1 (2.439%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.439%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 12 (29.27%) Visual Studio
2 7 (17.07%) Team Foundation Server
3 6 (14.63%) MSTest
4 1 (2.439%) Hudson
4 1 (2.439%) PowerBuilder
General
1 12 (29.27%) Finance
2 4 (9.756%) Telecoms
2 4 (9.756%) Retail
3 1 (2.439%) Banking
3 1 (2.439%) Billing
Miscellaneous
1 9 (21.95%) Computer Science
2 6 (14.63%) Mathematics
3 4 (9.756%) Web 2.0
3 4 (9.756%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (4.878%) N-Tier
5 1 (2.439%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.439%) UNIX
1 1 (2.439%) Windows
1 1 (2.439%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (24.39%) MVC
2 6 (14.63%) Unit Testing
3 5 (12.20%) Software Engineering
4 4 (9.756%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (4.878%) SIEM
5 2 (4.878%) Web Application Development
6 1 (2.439%) Manual Testing
6 1 (2.439%) OOP
6 1 (2.439%) OO
6 1 (2.439%) Configuration Management
6 1 (2.439%) Project Management
6 1 (2.439%) Process Management
6 1 (2.439%) Change Management
6 1 (2.439%) Workflow
6 1 (2.439%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 25 (60.98%) C#
2 13 (31.71%) JavaScript
3 9 (21.95%) SQL
4 3 (7.317%) PL/SQL
4 3 (7.317%) Java
5 2 (4.878%) VBA
5 2 (4.878%) VB
6 1 (2.439%) Bash shell
6 1 (2.439%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 19 (46.34%) Degree
2 1 (2.439%) PhD
2 1 (2.439%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.439%) PCI DSS
1 1 (2.439%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 18 (43.90%) Microsoft
2 4 (9.756%) Oracle
3 1 (2.439%) Sybase
3 1 (2.439%) Informatica
3 1 (2.439%) Salesforce.com
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