The first table below looks at the demand for KDB skills in IT jobs advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited KDB 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 of the Database & Business Intelligence category for the England region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Kx Systems KDB
Rank 777 753 619
Rank change year-on-year
-24 -134
Permanent jobs citing KDB 64 113 236
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 0.063% 0.100% 0.200%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.204% 0.332% 0.688%
Number of salaries quoted 50 101 209
Average salary £90,000 £82,500 £75,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+9.09% +10.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
10% offered a salary of more than £107,750 £115,000 £105,000
UK excluding London average salary £62,500 £50,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year
+25.00% -20.00%
All Database & Business Intelligence
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
31345 34035 34314
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 30.99% 30.02% 29.13%
Number of salaries quoted 27431 30316 30069
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £29,500 £28,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -
KDB
UK

KDB
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing KDB across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

England KDB Jobs Demand Trend

KDB
Salary Trend

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

England KDB Salary Trend

KDB
Salary Histogram

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

England KDB Salary Histogram

KDB
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing KDB 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 +2 61 £90,000 +9.09%
East of England - 2 - -
South East +6 1 £85,000 +70.00%
KDB
UK

KDB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 83 (57.64%) Java
2 64 (44.44%) Finance
3 62 (43.06%) C++
4 59 (40.97%) Algorithmic Trading
5 50 (34.72%) Front Office
6 46 (31.94%) Multithreading
7 45 (31.25%) Banking
8 44 (30.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 44 (30.56%) C#
9 38 (26.39%) Electronic Trading
9 38 (26.39%) Degree
10 34 (23.61%) Python
11 33 (22.92%) Computer Science
12 32 (22.22%) Linux
13 30 (20.83%) Equities
14 29 (20.14%) Analytics
15 26 (18.06%) UNIX
16 23 (15.97%) Scala
17 22 (15.28%) Mathematics
18 21 (14.58%) Fixed Income
18 21 (14.58%) .NET
19 19 (13.19%) OO
20 17 (11.81%) Perl
20 17 (11.81%) Risk Management
21 16 (11.11%) SQL
22 14 (9.722%) TIBCO
22 14 (9.722%) Hedge funds
23 13 (9.028%) Clojure
23 13 (9.028%) Derivative
24 12 (8.333%) Haskell

KDB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 21 (14.58%) .NET
2 8 (5.556%) FIX Protocol
2 8 (5.556%) Spring
3 6 (4.167%) WPF
4 4 (2.778%) Hibernate
4 4 (2.778%) STL
4 4 (2.778%) WinForms
4 4 (2.778%) Boost C++ Libraries
5 3 (2.083%) WCF
5 3 (2.083%) JMS
5 3 (2.083%) Swing
5 3 (2.083%) J2SE
6 2 (1.389%) ASP.NET
6 2 (1.389%) SOAP
6 2 (1.389%) XML
6 2 (1.389%) JNI
7 1 (0.694%) Gherkin
7 1 (0.694%) Apache Flex
7 1 (0.694%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 4 (2.778%) Rendezvous
1 4 (2.778%) TIBCO EMS
2 2 (1.389%) MQSeries
3 1 (0.694%) Oracle Coherence
Business Applications
1 3 (2.083%) ION MarketView
2 1 (0.694%) RMDS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (8.333%) HTTP
2 3 (2.083%) NAS
2 3 (2.083%) FTP
2 3 (2.083%) SAN
3 1 (0.694%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.167%) SQL Server
1 6 (4.167%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (2.083%) Hadoop
2 3 (2.083%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 3 (2.083%) GIS
3 1 (0.694%) Big Data
3 1 (0.694%) HBase
3 1 (0.694%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (0.694%) QlikView
3 1 (0.694%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 3 (2.083%) Subversion
1 3 (2.083%) Ant
2 2 (1.389%) Eclipse
2 2 (1.389%) IntelliJ
General
1 64 (44.44%) Finance
2 50 (34.72%) Front Office
3 45 (31.25%) Banking
4 12 (8.333%) Investment Banking
5 11 (7.639%) Back Office
6 3 (2.083%) Retail
6 3 (2.083%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.389%) Marketing
8 1 (0.694%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 92 (63.89%) Developer
2 40 (27.78%) Java Developer
3 16 (11.11%) C++ Developer
4 15 (10.42%) Quantitative Developer
5 11 (7.639%) Computer Scientist
6 9 (6.250%) Senior Developer
7 8 (5.556%) Analyst
7 8 (5.556%) Software Engineer
7 8 (5.556%) Graduate
7 8 (5.556%) Senior Java Developer
7 8 (5.556%) Quantitative Analyst
8 7 (4.861%) Lead Architect
8 7 (4.861%) Architect
9 6 (4.167%) Junior
9 6 (4.167%) Junior Analyst
9 6 (4.167%) Junior Quantitative Analyst
10 4 (2.778%) Programmer
10 4 (2.778%) Java Architect
10 4 (2.778%) Technical Leader
11 3 (2.083%) SQL Server Data Warehouse Architect
Miscellaneous
1 44 (30.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 33 (22.92%) Computer Science
3 30 (20.83%) Equities
4 22 (15.28%) Mathematics
5 21 (14.58%) Fixed Income
6 14 (9.722%) Hedge funds
7 13 (9.028%) Derivative
8 11 (7.639%) Physics
9 8 (5.556%) Management Information System
10 3 (2.083%) Equity Derivative
11 2 (1.389%) Client/Server
11 2 (1.389%) Grid Computing
11 2 (1.389%) Open Source
12 1 (0.694%) Cloud Computing
12 1 (0.694%) Credit Derivative
12 1 (0.694%) Equity Risk
Operating Systems
1 32 (22.22%) Linux
2 26 (18.06%) UNIX
3 6 (4.167%) Windows
4 1 (0.694%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (40.97%) Algorithmic Trading
2 46 (31.94%) Multithreading
3 38 (26.39%) Electronic Trading
4 29 (20.14%) Analytics
5 19 (13.19%) OO
6 17 (11.81%) Risk Management
7 12 (8.333%) Dependency Injection
8 10 (6.944%) Statistical Analysis
9 9 (6.250%) Project Management
10 8 (5.556%) Agile Software Development
10 8 (5.556%) Regression Analysis
11 6 (4.167%) Six Sigma
11 6 (4.167%) ITIL
11 6 (4.167%) ETL
11 6 (4.167%) Problem Management
11 6 (4.167%) Lean Six Sigma
11 6 (4.167%) Incident Management
11 6 (4.167%) Knowledge Management
11 6 (4.167%) Root Cause Analysis
11 6 (4.167%) Complex Event Processing
Programming Languages
1 83 (57.64%) Java
2 62 (43.06%) C++
3 44 (30.56%) C#
4 34 (23.61%) Python
5 23 (15.97%) Scala
6 17 (11.81%) Perl
7 16 (11.11%) SQL
8 13 (9.028%) Clojure
9 12 (8.333%) Haskell
10 10 (6.944%) Shell Script
10 10 (6.944%) R
11 8 (5.556%) MATLAB
12 7 (4.861%) C
13 1 (0.694%) F#
Qualifications
1 38 (26.39%) Degree
2 3 (2.083%) PhD
Vendors
1 14 (9.722%) TIBCO
2 8 (5.556%) Sybase
2 8 (5.556%) Oracle
3 5 (3.472%) Fidessa
4 3 (2.083%) 29West
4 3 (2.083%) ION Trading
4 3 (2.083%) Teradata
4 3 (2.083%) EMC
4 3 (2.083%) Informatica
4 3 (2.083%) NetApp
5 2 (1.389%) Cognos
5 2 (1.389%) Business Objects
6 1 (0.694%) Greenplum
6 1 (0.694%) Infragistics
6 1 (0.694%) IBM
6 1 (0.694%) Reuters
6 1 (0.694%) Bloomberg
City, London
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McGregor Boyall
Salary: £55 - £75 per annum + based on experience
Posted: 23 May 2013
London
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Argyll Scott International
Salary: £85000 - £100000 per annum + bonus + benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
London
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Argyll Scott International
Posted: 20 May 2013
London
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Salary: £45000 - £85000 per annum + Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 23 May 2013
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Salary: Competitive + Bens
Posted: 24 May 2013