The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Heroku in IT jobs advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Heroku over the 3 months to 24 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 England region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Heroku
Rank 763 841 844
Rank change year-on-year
+78 +3
Permanent jobs citing Heroku 78 25 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 0.077% 0.022% 0.005%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.228% 0.066% 0.015%
Number of salaries quoted 66 24 6
Average salary £46,250 £47,500 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.63% +58.33%
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £47,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year
-5.26% -17.39%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
34213 38163 41237
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 33.83% 33.66% 35.00%
Number of salaries quoted 28337 32394 34737
Average salary £45,000 £45,000 £48,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -6.73%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,000 £29,000 £28,000
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £82,500 £75,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +6.66%
Heroku
UK

Heroku
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Heroku Jobs Demand Trend

Heroku
Salary Trend

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

England Heroku Salary Trend

Heroku
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Heroku across the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

England Heroku Salary Histogram

Heroku
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Heroku within the England region over the 3 months to 24 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 +105 69 £47,500 -13.63%
South East - 7 £40,000 -
West Midlands -20 2 £38,500 -67.91%
Heroku
UK

Heroku
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the England region citing Heroku 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 Heroku.

1 65 (63.73%) Ruby
2 60 (58.82%) Ruby on Rails
3 57 (55.88%) Java
4 51 (50.00%) TDD
5 45 (44.12%) jQuery
6 43 (42.16%) Git (software)
6 43 (42.16%) JavaScript
7 42 (41.18%) Linux
8 38 (37.25%) .NET
9 36 (35.29%) Amazon AWS
9 36 (35.29%) Continuous Integration
9 36 (35.29%) Amazon EC2
10 35 (34.31%) SaaS
10 35 (34.31%) Node.js
10 35 (34.31%) CSS
11 34 (33.33%) Subversion
12 33 (32.35%) Force.com
12 33 (32.35%) UNIX
13 32 (31.37%) Agile Software Development
13 32 (31.37%) PaaS
14 30 (29.41%) Scrum
15 29 (28.43%) MySQL
15 29 (28.43%) C#
15 29 (28.43%) Waterfall
16 28 (27.45%) HTML
16 28 (27.45%) J2EE
16 28 (27.45%) JSP
16 28 (27.45%) Banking
16 28 (27.45%) Investment Banking
16 28 (27.45%) Visualforce

Heroku
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the England region citing Heroku 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 Heroku. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 60 (58.82%) Ruby on Rails
2 45 (44.12%) jQuery
3 38 (37.25%) .NET
4 35 (34.31%) Node.js
4 35 (34.31%) CSS
5 28 (27.45%) HTML
5 28 (27.45%) J2EE
5 28 (27.45%) JSP
5 28 (27.45%) Visualforce
6 25 (24.51%) HTML5
6 25 (24.51%) CSS3
7 24 (23.53%) Web Services
8 23 (22.55%) Ajax
9 20 (19.61%) XML
10 18 (17.65%) REST
11 14 (13.73%) Hibernate
11 14 (13.73%) Spring
11 14 (13.73%) JSLint
12 12 (11.76%) XHTML
12 12 (11.76%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 36 (35.29%) Amazon AWS
1 36 (35.29%) Amazon EC2
2 33 (32.35%) Force.com
3 16 (15.69%) Apache
4 12 (11.76%) Tomcat
5 9 (8.824%) nginx
6 6 (5.882%) Windows Azure
7 5 (4.902%) Rackspace Cloud
8 4 (3.922%) IIS
8 4 (3.922%) Drupal
9 3 (2.941%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.961%) Apache Solr
10 2 (1.961%) Jetty
10 2 (1.961%) RabbitMQ
Applications
1 1 (0.980%) Google Apps
Communications & Networking
1 14 (13.73%) HTTP
2 13 (12.75%) Internet
3 4 (3.922%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (28.43%) MySQL
2 12 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (9.804%) NoSQL
4 8 (7.843%) Redis
5 7 (6.863%) MongoDB
6 6 (5.882%) Big Data
7 5 (4.902%) RDBMS
8 4 (3.922%) SQL Server
8 4 (3.922%) SQL Server 2012
9 2 (1.961%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.961%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.980%) BigTable
10 1 (0.980%) Riak
10 1 (0.980%) ObjectStore
Development Applications
1 43 (42.16%) Git (software)
2 34 (33.33%) Subversion
3 26 (25.49%) Maven
4 24 (23.53%) Ant
5 14 (13.73%) QUnit
5 14 (13.73%) RSpec
6 7 (6.863%) Capistrano
7 5 (4.902%) Capybara
8 3 (2.941%) Cucumber
8 3 (2.941%) GitHub
9 2 (1.961%) Gradle
9 2 (1.961%) Mockito
10 1 (0.980%) PhoneGap
10 1 (0.980%) Xcode
General
1 28 (27.45%) Banking
1 28 (27.45%) Investment Banking
2 4 (3.922%) Finance
2 4 (3.922%) Legal
2 4 (3.922%) Advertising
2 4 (3.922%) Retail
3 1 (0.980%) Marketing
3 1 (0.980%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 75 (73.53%) Developer
2 21 (20.59%) Front-End Developer
3 16 (15.69%) Ruby Developer
4 11 (10.78%) Ruby on Rails Developer
5 10 (9.804%) Architect
5 10 (9.804%) Technical Architect
6 9 (8.824%) Senior Developer
6 9 (8.824%) Java Developer
7 8 (7.843%) Senior Architect
7 8 (7.843%) Agile Java Developer
7 8 (7.843%) Senior Technical Architect
8 7 (6.863%) Web Developer
9 5 (4.902%) Technical Leader
9 5 (4.902%) Software Developer
10 4 (3.922%) Software Engineer
10 4 (3.922%) JavaScript Developer
10 4 (3.922%) DevOps Engineer
11 3 (2.941%) Senior Ruby on Rails Developer
11 3 (2.941%) Front-End Web Developer
11 3 (2.941%) Agile .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 35 (34.31%) SaaS
2 32 (31.37%) PaaS
3 26 (25.49%) Cloud Computing
4 20 (19.61%) Computer Science
5 12 (11.76%) RIA
5 12 (11.76%) Digital Media
5 12 (11.76%) Mobile App
6 3 (2.941%) Social Media
6 3 (2.941%) New Media
6 3 (2.941%) Social Network
7 2 (1.961%) Engine Yard
8 1 (0.980%) iPad
8 1 (0.980%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 42 (41.18%) Linux
2 33 (32.35%) UNIX
3 23 (22.55%) Apple iOS
4 6 (5.882%) Windows
5 4 (3.922%) Ubuntu
5 4 (3.922%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.980%) Windows Phone
6 1 (0.980%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (50.00%) TDD
2 36 (35.29%) Continuous Integration
3 32 (31.37%) Agile Software Development
4 30 (29.41%) Scrum
5 29 (28.43%) Waterfall
6 26 (25.49%) OO
7 24 (23.53%) Kanban
8 18 (17.65%) Pair Programming
9 14 (13.73%) Unit Testing
9 14 (13.73%) Software Engineering
10 12 (11.76%) BDD
11 11 (10.78%) CRM
12 10 (9.804%) Project Management
13 6 (5.882%) OOP
14 5 (4.902%) Web Development
15 4 (3.922%) MVC
15 4 (3.922%) SEO
15 4 (3.922%) Data Management
15 4 (3.922%) Security Testing
15 4 (3.922%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 65 (63.73%) Ruby
2 57 (55.88%) Java
3 43 (42.16%) JavaScript
4 29 (28.43%) C#
5 28 (27.45%) Apex Code
6 20 (19.61%) PHP
7 11 (10.78%) SQL
8 10 (9.804%) C++
9 9 (8.824%) C
9 9 (8.824%) Python
10 7 (6.863%) CoffeeScript
11 4 (3.922%) Haskell
11 4 (3.922%) Erlang
11 4 (3.922%) Scala
11 4 (3.922%) Clojure
12 2 (1.961%) Groovy
13 1 (0.980%) R
13 1 (0.980%) XAML
Qualifications
1 19 (18.63%) Degree
2 2 (1.961%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (18.63%) QA
System Software
1 2 (1.961%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (3.922%) Puppet
Vendors
1 19 (18.63%) Salesforce.com
2 13 (12.75%) Google
3 11 (10.78%) Rackspace
4 10 (9.804%) Facebook
5 4 (3.922%) Microsoft
5 4 (3.922%) Zend
5 4 (3.922%) Twitter
6 2 (1.961%) VMware
7 1 (0.980%) Joyent
7 1 (0.980%) Apple
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