The first table below looks at the demand for Drools skills in IT jobs advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Drools over the 3 months to 21 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Drools
Rank 805 801 801
Rank change year-on-year
-4 0
Permanent jobs citing Drools 42 55 61
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 0.041% 0.048% 0.053%
As % of the Application Development category 0.101% 0.114% 0.130%
Number of salaries quoted 35 37 49
Average salary £52,500 £47,500 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+10.52% +5.55%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,400 £38,000 £40,000
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £90,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £35,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -22.22%
All Application Development
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
41391 48120 46855
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 40.73% 42.30% 40.54%
Number of salaries quoted 36371 42977 41535
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%
Drools
UK

Drools
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Drools Jobs Demand Trend

Drools
Salary Trend

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

England Drools Salary Trend

Drools
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Drools across the England region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

England Drools Salary Histogram

Drools
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Drools within the England region over the 3 months to 21 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 +26 27 £52,500 +5.00%
South East +2 8 £43,000 +7.50%
South West - 4 £20,000 -
North West -25 2 - -
East Midlands -1 1 £52,500 -
Drools
UK

Drools
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the England region citing Drools 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 Drools.

1 69 (60.00%) Java
2 52 (45.22%) Degree
3 51 (44.35%) Spring
3 51 (44.35%) XML
4 48 (41.74%) Finance
5 47 (40.87%) SQL
6 46 (40.00%) Banking
7 44 (38.26%) Data Modelling
8 43 (37.39%) Agile Software Development
9 39 (33.91%) Investment Banking
10 38 (33.04%) JRules
11 37 (32.17%) Derivative
12 36 (31.30%) Business Transformation
12 36 (31.30%) FpML
13 35 (30.43%) Oracle
14 34 (29.57%) jBPM
15 33 (28.70%) Maven
16 32 (27.83%) JUnit
17 31 (26.96%) J2EE
17 31 (26.96%) Legal
18 29 (25.22%) Subversion
19 28 (24.35%) Hibernate
20 21 (18.26%) Eclipse
20 21 (18.26%) Unit Testing
20 21 (18.26%) REST
21 20 (17.39%) JPA
22 19 (16.52%) Computer Science
22 19 (16.52%) Web Services
23 18 (15.65%) TDD
23 18 (15.65%) JBoss

Drools
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the England region citing Drools 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 Drools. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 51 (44.35%) Spring
1 51 (44.35%) XML
2 38 (33.04%) JRules
3 36 (31.30%) FpML
4 34 (29.57%) jBPM
5 31 (26.96%) J2EE
6 28 (24.35%) Hibernate
7 21 (18.26%) REST
8 20 (17.39%) JPA
9 19 (16.52%) Web Services
10 17 (14.78%) SOAP
11 16 (13.91%) iBATIS
12 12 (10.43%) Ajax
13 11 (9.565%) HTML
14 10 (8.696%) JMS
14 10 (8.696%) Middleware
14 10 (8.696%) JSON
15 9 (7.826%) HTML5
16 8 (6.957%) FreeMarker
17 7 (6.087%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 11 (9.565%) Apache
2 10 (8.696%) Tomcat
3 8 (6.957%) Oracle Coherence
4 7 (6.087%) ESB
5 6 (5.217%) TIBCO EMS
6 5 (4.348%) GemFire
7 4 (3.478%) ActiveMQ
7 4 (3.478%) GlassFish
8 3 (2.609%) Mule
9 2 (1.739%) Liferay
9 2 (1.739%) Apache Solr
9 2 (1.739%) Alfresco
10 1 (0.870%) WebSphere MQ
10 1 (0.870%) SAS
Business Applications
1 2 (1.739%) TIBCO iProcess
2 1 (0.870%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
2 1 (0.870%) BusinessWorks
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.826%) Internet
2 7 (6.087%) BSS
3 4 (3.478%) SSH
3 4 (3.478%) DVB
3 4 (3.478%) DHCP
3 4 (3.478%) HTTP
3 4 (3.478%) SNMP
3 4 (3.478%) TCP/IP
3 4 (3.478%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.696%) Oracle 11g
2 8 (6.957%) MySQL
3 5 (4.348%) TOAD
4 4 (3.478%) Voldemort
4 4 (3.478%) Hadoop
5 2 (1.739%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.739%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.870%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.870%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.870%) Oracle 8/8i
6 1 (0.870%) DB2
Development Applications
1 33 (28.70%) Maven
2 32 (27.83%) JUnit
3 29 (25.22%) Subversion
4 21 (18.26%) Eclipse
5 15 (13.04%) Git (software)
6 11 (9.565%) JIRA
7 8 (6.957%) TeamCity
8 5 (4.348%) Jenkins
8 5 (4.348%) IntelliJ
8 5 (4.348%) Ant
8 5 (4.348%) Log4j
9 4 (3.478%) ProC
9 4 (3.478%) Cucumber
10 2 (1.739%) CruiseControl
10 2 (1.739%) SpecFlow
10 2 (1.739%) Selenium
11 1 (0.870%) EasyMock
General
1 48 (41.74%) Finance
2 46 (40.00%) Banking
3 39 (33.91%) Investment Banking
4 31 (26.96%) Legal
5 9 (7.826%) Billing
6 6 (5.217%) Telecoms
7 5 (4.348%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.609%) Front Office
9 1 (0.870%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.870%) Marketing
9 1 (0.870%) Retail
Job Titles
1 42 (36.52%) Developer
2 38 (33.04%) Analyst
2 38 (33.04%) Business Analyst
3 34 (29.57%) Java Developer
4 19 (16.52%) Java Software Engineer
4 19 (16.52%) Software Engineer
5 18 (15.65%) Banking Business Analyst
6 16 (13.91%) Senior Developer
6 16 (13.91%) Agile Business Analyst
7 14 (12.17%) Senior Java Developer
8 13 (11.30%) Java/J2EE Developer
8 13 (11.30%) Trainee Software Engineer
8 13 (11.30%) Trainee
9 9 (7.826%) J2EE Developer
9 9 (7.826%) Project Manager
10 8 (6.957%) Senior Java/J2EE Developer
11 7 (6.087%) Senior J2EE Developer
12 5 (4.348%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
13 4 (3.478%) Senior Systems Administrator
13 4 (3.478%) Linux Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 37 (32.17%) Derivative
2 19 (16.52%) Computer Science
3 17 (14.78%) Open Source
4 9 (7.826%) PMI
5 5 (4.348%) Online Banking
5 5 (4.348%) Mobile Banking
5 5 (4.348%) W3C
5 5 (4.348%) Fixed Income
6 4 (3.478%) DTV
7 2 (1.739%) Data Integration
8 1 (0.870%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.870%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 17 (14.78%) Linux
1 17 (14.78%) UNIX
2 5 (4.348%) Android
2 5 (4.348%) Apple iOS
3 4 (3.478%) Scientific Linux
3 4 (3.478%) CentOS
4 2 (1.739%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (38.26%) Data Modelling
2 43 (37.39%) Agile Software Development
3 36 (31.30%) Business Transformation
4 21 (18.26%) Unit Testing
5 18 (15.65%) TDD
5 18 (15.65%) SOA
6 16 (13.91%) Problem Management
7 15 (13.04%) Scrum
8 11 (9.565%) OO
9 9 (7.826%) Multithreading
9 9 (7.826%) Business Analysis
9 9 (7.826%) PRINCE2
9 9 (7.826%) Project Management
9 9 (7.826%) Workflow
10 8 (6.957%) MVC
10 8 (6.957%) Dependency Injection
11 7 (6.087%) Web Development
11 7 (6.087%) CRM
11 7 (6.087%) UML
12 6 (5.217%) OOD
Programming Languages
1 69 (60.00%) Java
2 47 (40.87%) SQL
3 13 (11.30%) JavaScript
4 6 (5.217%) Python
5 5 (4.348%) XPath
5 5 (4.348%) Scala
5 5 (4.348%) C#
6 4 (3.478%) Perl
6 4 (3.478%) Ruby
7 3 (2.609%) Bash shell
7 3 (2.609%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.870%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 52 (45.22%) Degree
2 9 (7.826%) PMI Certification
3 1 (0.870%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (13.91%) QA
System Software
1 4 (3.478%) NFS
Systems Management
1 4 (3.478%) Nagios
1 4 (3.478%) Splunk
1 4 (3.478%) Puppet
2 1 (0.870%) SCOM
2 1 (0.870%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 35 (30.43%) Oracle
2 18 (15.65%) JBoss
3 8 (6.957%) TIBCO
4 4 (3.478%) IBM
4 4 (3.478%) Red Hat
4 4 (3.478%) Netezza
5 2 (1.739%) ILOG
5 2 (1.739%) Foundry
5 2 (1.739%) Lombardi
South West London
Ideally you will be educated to degree or equivalent level or have relevant experience in an IT discipline and be able to demonstrate experience in developing Java based...
Reed Technology
Salary: £35000 - £43000 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013
London
Languages: Java 6/7, J2EE, HTML XSLT SQL XML. Middleware / DB: JMS/EMS, Oracle. GWT, Ajax clients. Drools App server: Weblogic, IBM Websphere. O/S: Solaris 10, Linux.
Citi
Salary: Competitive salary offer
Posted: 9 May 2013
Bournemouth, South East
Exciting Investment Bank application support role encompassing JAVA, Flex, GWT and Oracle... Keywords: Technical and Project Support Analyst, Java, Oracle, J2EE, Hibernate, Flex, GWT, ROOLS/jBPM, Spring Framework.
J.P. Morgan
Salary: JPMorgan offers an exceptional benefits program and a highly competitive compensation package
Posted: 20 May 2013
London
You will work with internal and external teams to deliver working software according to business priorities and timely deliver of quality software in partnership with internal Scrum Masters...
Claremont Consulting
Salary: £50000 - £55000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 11 May 2013
City, London
development, test, UI etc.) - Experience of delivering integration and middleware projects (Fuse/Camel/Servicemix ideally) - Experience of BPM and Rules (jBPM/Drools ideally) - Experience in representing software teams...
Truphone
Salary: From £50,000 to £55,000 per annum
Posted: 30 April 2013
City, London
My client who are a mobile operator are seeking a Technical Project Manager with a strong BSS / Billing / CRM background who has a strong development background that has...
Claremont Consulting Ltd
Salary: £45000 - £55000 per annum + Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 14 May 2013