The first table below looks at the demand for DirectX skills in IT jobs advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited DirectX 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 of the Application Development category for the England region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft DirectX
Rank 787 831 750
Rank change year-on-year
+44 -81
Permanent jobs citing DirectX 53 41 88
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 0.052% 0.036% 0.076%
As % of the Application Development category 0.128% 0.084% 0.188%
Number of salaries quoted 48 32 79
Average salary £45,000 £40,750 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+10.42% -4.11%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,650 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £52,500 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £43,250 £33,000 £41,000
% change year-on-year
+31.06% -19.51%
All Application Development
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
41399 48641 46913
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 40.69% 42.22% 40.52%
Number of salaries quoted 36373 43410 41619
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £28,000 £28,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
DirectX
UK

DirectX
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing DirectX across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

England DirectX Jobs Demand Trend

DirectX
Salary Trend

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

England DirectX Salary Trend

DirectX
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing DirectX across the England region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

England DirectX Salary Histogram

DirectX
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DirectX within the England region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
London +49 16 £50,000 +5.26%
East of England +15 14 £50,000 +11.11%
South East +11 8 £50,000 +100.00%
North West -3 8 £27,500 -16.66%
West Midlands -6 7 £30,000 -20.00%
South West +2 3 £29,500 -1.66%
East Midlands +1 1 £27,500 -17.29%
DirectX
UK

DirectX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the England region citing DirectX 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 DirectX.

1 95 (82.61%) OpenGL
2 92 (80.00%) C++
3 69 (60.00%) C#
4 49 (42.61%) Games
5 45 (39.13%) Windows
6 35 (30.43%) Visual Studio
6 35 (30.43%) .NET
7 32 (27.83%) Degree
8 30 (26.09%) 3D Graphics
9 28 (24.35%) WinForms
10 25 (21.74%) C
11 24 (20.87%) CAD
12 22 (19.13%) Multithreading
13 20 (17.39%) OO
14 19 (16.52%) Software Engineering
14 19 (16.52%) Direct3D
15 18 (15.65%) Mathematics
16 17 (14.78%) Physics
16 17 (14.78%) Agile Software Development
17 16 (13.91%) Image Processing
18 15 (13.04%) Linux
19 14 (12.17%) VB.NET
20 13 (11.30%) Team Foundation Server
21 12 (10.43%) Visualisation
21 12 (10.43%) Android
21 12 (10.43%) Apple iOS
21 12 (10.43%) GIS
21 12 (10.43%) Computer Science
21 12 (10.43%) Java
21 12 (10.43%) VSS/SourceSafe

DirectX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 95 (82.61%) OpenGL
2 35 (30.43%) .NET
3 28 (24.35%) WinForms
4 19 (16.52%) Direct3D
5 11 (9.565%) XML
6 10 (8.696%) MFC
7 9 (7.826%) WPF
8 7 (6.087%) Qt
9 6 (5.217%) CSS
10 5 (4.348%) STL
10 5 (4.348%) Web Services
10 5 (4.348%) ASP
11 4 (3.478%) OpenGL ES
11 4 (3.478%) GWT
11 4 (3.478%) XNA
11 4 (3.478%) Boost C++ Libraries
11 4 (3.478%) SOAP
11 4 (3.478%) HTML
12 3 (2.609%) .NET Framework
12 3 (2.609%) OpenCL
Applications
1 7 (6.087%) Maya
2 6 (5.217%) 3ds Max
3 4 (3.478%) MS Excel
4 2 (1.739%) MS Office
5 1 (0.870%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.870%) Blender
Communications & Networking
1 11 (9.565%) HTTP
2 7 (6.087%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (10.43%) GIS
2 7 (6.087%) SQL Server
3 4 (3.478%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 35 (30.43%) Visual Studio
2 13 (11.30%) Team Foundation Server
3 12 (10.43%) VSS/SourceSafe
4 4 (3.478%) Rational DOORS
5 3 (2.609%) Subversion
6 2 (1.739%) Eclipse
6 2 (1.739%) Xcode
7 1 (0.870%) JIRA
General
1 49 (42.61%) Games
2 8 (6.957%) Electronics
3 5 (4.348%) Aerospace
4 4 (3.478%) Finance
5 2 (1.739%) Music
5 2 (1.739%) Music Industry
5 2 (1.739%) French Language
5 2 (1.739%) Italian Language
5 2 (1.739%) Automotive
5 2 (1.739%) Military
6 1 (0.870%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.870%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 62 (53.91%) Developer
2 33 (28.70%) Software Engineer
3 20 (17.39%) Programmer
4 19 (16.52%) C++ Developer
5 14 (12.17%) Software Developer
6 13 (11.30%) .NET Developer
6 13 (11.30%) C# Developer
7 12 (10.43%) C++ Programmer
8 11 (9.565%) C++ Software Engineer
9 7 (6.087%) Tools Programmer
9 7 (6.087%) Tools Developer
10 6 (5.217%) C# .NET Developer
10 6 (5.217%) Senior Software Engineer
11 5 (4.348%) Team Leader
11 5 (4.348%) WinForms Developer
11 5 (4.348%) Software Team Leader
12 4 (3.478%) Graduate
12 4 (3.478%) C Software Engineer
13 3 (2.609%) Embedded Software Engineer
13 3 (2.609%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 30 (26.09%) 3D Graphics
2 18 (15.65%) Mathematics
3 17 (14.78%) Physics
4 12 (10.43%) Visualisation
4 12 (10.43%) Computer Science
5 10 (8.696%) Animation
6 7 (6.087%) Mobile Games
7 6 (5.217%) Mobile App
8 5 (4.348%) Client/Server
8 5 (4.348%) GPGPU
9 4 (3.478%) CUDA
9 4 (3.478%) Device Driver
10 3 (2.609%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (1.739%) Embedded Systems
11 2 (1.739%) Augmented Reality
11 2 (1.739%) Social Gaming
11 2 (1.739%) Online Games
11 2 (1.739%) Blackberry
12 1 (0.870%) Streaming Video
12 1 (0.870%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 45 (39.13%) Windows
2 15 (13.04%) Linux
3 12 (10.43%) Android
3 12 (10.43%) Apple iOS
4 6 (5.217%) Windows 7
5 5 (4.348%) Embedded Linux
6 2 (1.739%) Windows 8
6 2 (1.739%) UNIX
7 1 (0.870%) Windows Mobile
7 1 (0.870%) Windows CE
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (20.87%) CAD
2 22 (19.13%) Multithreading
3 20 (17.39%) OO
4 19 (16.52%) Software Engineering
5 17 (14.78%) Agile Software Development
6 16 (13.91%) Image Processing
7 11 (9.565%) Game Development
8 10 (8.696%) Unit Testing
9 7 (6.087%) UML
9 7 (6.087%) 3D Programming
10 5 (4.348%) Scrum
10 5 (4.348%) OOD
11 4 (3.478%) Mobile Application Development
11 4 (3.478%) Parallel Programming
11 4 (3.478%) Network Design
11 4 (3.478%) Refactoring
11 4 (3.478%) Requirements Management
12 3 (2.609%) OOP
12 3 (2.609%) 3D Rendering
12 3 (2.609%) Cyber Security
Programming Languages
1 92 (80.00%) C++
2 69 (60.00%) C#
3 25 (21.74%) C
4 14 (12.17%) VB.NET
5 12 (10.43%) Java
6 8 (6.957%) VC++
7 7 (6.087%) Fortran
8 5 (4.348%) GLSL
9 4 (3.478%) Python
9 4 (3.478%) MATLAB
9 4 (3.478%) JavaScript
9 4 (3.478%) SQL
9 4 (3.478%) Objective-C
10 3 (2.609%) Embedded C
11 2 (1.739%) HLSL
11 2 (1.739%) Embedded C++
11 2 (1.739%) PHP
12 1 (0.870%) XAML
12 1 (0.870%) Assembly Language
Qualifications
1 32 (27.83%) Degree
2 7 (6.087%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.739%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.870%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.478%) ISO 9001
1 4 (3.478%) TickIT
2 3 (2.609%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (3.478%) Intel
1 4 (3.478%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.609%) Apple
3 2 (1.739%) Oracle
4 1 (0.870%) QNX
4 1 (0.870%) Sony
4 1 (0.870%) Symbian
4 1 (0.870%) Twitter
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Salary: £25000 - £35000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
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Salary: From £30,000 to £35,000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Essex, South East
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Salary: £45000 - £55000 per annum
Posted: 16 May 2013
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Posted: 22 May 2013
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Salary: From £24,000 to £50,000 per annum outstanding benefits package
Posted: 21 May 2013
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Salary: £70k + top benefits
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