The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Mercator products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Mercator 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 Vendors for the England region.

The figures below represent the IT job market in general and are NOT representative of salaries within Mercator Software, Inc.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Mercator
Rank 752 823 767
Rank change year-on-year
+71 -56
Permanent jobs citing Mercator 88 49 71
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 0.087% 0.043% 0.061%
As % of the Vendors category 0.181% 0.090% 0.132%
Number of salaries quoted 77 31 43
Average salary £55,000 £39,500 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+39.24% -7.05%
90% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £32,500 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £65,000 £54,500
UK excluding London average salary £55,000 £28,750 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+91.30% -28.12%
All Vendors
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
48664 54364 53959
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 47.84% 47.19% 46.61%
Number of salaries quoted 40235 46227 45126
Average salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £28,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Mercator
UK

Mercator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Mercator Jobs Demand Trend

Mercator
Salary Trend

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

England Mercator Salary Trend

Mercator
Salary Histogram

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

England Mercator Salary Histogram

Mercator
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Mercator 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 +46 38 £60,000 +50.00%
East of England +28 20 £55,000 +69.23%
East Midlands +18 18 £40,000 -11.11%
South East +18 12 £45,000 +91.48%
Mercator
UK

Mercator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 40 (30.30%) Microsoft
2 37 (28.03%) Oracle
3 35 (26.52%) VMware
4 34 (25.76%) VMware Infrastructure
5 31 (23.48%) Java
6 30 (22.73%) Windows
7 29 (21.97%) Publishing
8 28 (21.21%) SQL Server
9 25 (18.94%) Finance
10 23 (17.42%) Linux
10 23 (17.42%) Banking
11 22 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
12 20 (15.15%) MySQL
13 19 (14.39%) Veritas
13 19 (14.39%) NetBackup
13 19 (14.39%) SAN
13 19 (14.39%) Agile Software Development
14 18 (13.64%) Degree
15 17 (12.88%) VLAN
15 17 (12.88%) Cisco
15 17 (12.88%) Windows Server 2003
15 17 (12.88%) MPLS
16 16 (12.12%) Debian
16 16 (12.12%) PostgreSQL
16 16 (12.12%) NFS
16 16 (12.12%) SQL
16 16 (12.12%) Load Balancing
16 16 (12.12%) Replication
16 16 (12.12%) Data Management
16 16 (12.12%) Temenos T24

Mercator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 14 (10.61%) Spring
2 13 (9.848%) XML
3 12 (9.091%) Middleware
3 12 (9.091%) WebSphere
4 11 (8.333%) .NET
5 10 (7.576%) CSS
5 10 (7.576%) WCF
6 9 (6.818%) .NET Framework
7 8 (6.061%) HTML
8 6 (4.545%) Node.js
8 6 (4.545%) Ruby on Rails
9 5 (3.788%) HTML5
9 5 (3.788%) Hibernate
9 5 (3.788%) CSS3
10 4 (3.030%) Symfony
10 4 (3.030%) jQuery
11 3 (2.273%) YUI
11 3 (2.273%) CodeIgniter
11 3 (2.273%) CakePHP
11 3 (2.273%) JSR 170
Application Platforms
1 9 (6.818%) WebSphere MQ
2 6 (4.545%) RabbitMQ
2 6 (4.545%) WebLogic
2 6 (4.545%) Oracle Application Server
3 4 (3.030%) Apache
4 3 (2.273%) Apache Solr
4 3 (2.273%) Amazon AWS
4 3 (2.273%) CMS
5 2 (1.515%) Drupal
5 2 (1.515%) Confluence
6 1 (0.758%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (6.061%) MS Excel
2 3 (2.273%) Spreadsheet
2 3 (2.273%) MS Visio
2 3 (2.273%) Weka
Business Applications
1 16 (12.12%) Temenos T24
2 8 (6.061%) SAP GTS
3 6 (4.545%) Oracle Applications
4 3 (2.273%) Oracle iProcurement
4 3 (2.273%) Oracle EBS R12
4 3 (2.273%) Oracle Financials
4 3 (2.273%) Oracle HRMS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (14.39%) SAN
2 17 (12.88%) VLAN
2 17 (12.88%) MPLS
3 16 (12.12%) iSCSI
3 16 (12.12%) Fibre Channel
4 4 (3.030%) Firewall
4 4 (3.030%) LAN
4 4 (3.030%) WAN
5 2 (1.515%) Internet
6 1 (0.758%) Network Security
6 1 (0.758%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (0.758%) BGP
6 1 (0.758%) EIGRP
6 1 (0.758%) OSPF
6 1 (0.758%) VoIP
6 1 (0.758%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.758%) VPN
6 1 (0.758%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (21.21%) SQL Server
2 20 (15.15%) MySQL
3 16 (12.12%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (9.091%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 11 (8.333%) SQL Server 2008
6 9 (6.818%) Hadoop
6 9 (6.818%) Oracle 8/8i
6 9 (6.818%) Big Data
7 6 (4.545%) Redis
7 6 (4.545%) Oracle Exadata
7 6 (4.545%) MongoDB
7 6 (4.545%) NoSQL
7 6 (4.545%) Oracle 9i
7 6 (4.545%) Oracle 10g
7 6 (4.545%) Oracle Discoverer
7 6 (4.545%) Oracle 11g
8 5 (3.788%) MarkLogic
9 3 (2.273%) Oracle Reports
9 3 (2.273%) Mahout
10 1 (0.758%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (4.545%) Cucumber
2 5 (3.788%) Selenium
3 4 (3.030%) Subversion
4 3 (2.273%) Git (software)
4 3 (2.273%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (1.515%) JIRA
6 1 (0.758%) JBehave
6 1 (0.758%) FitNesse
6 1 (0.758%) Maven
6 1 (0.758%) RequisitePro
6 1 (0.758%) Ant
6 1 (0.758%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.758%) Concordion
General
1 29 (21.97%) Publishing
2 25 (18.94%) Finance
3 23 (17.42%) Banking
4 2 (1.515%) Financial Institution
5 1 (0.758%) Marketing
5 1 (0.758%) Telecoms
5 1 (0.758%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 39 (29.55%) Developer
2 20 (15.15%) Analyst
2 20 (15.15%) Architect
3 17 (12.88%) Consultant
4 12 (9.091%) Test Analyst
4 12 (9.091%) Middleware Developer
5 9 (6.818%) Project Manager
6 8 (6.061%) Technical Consultant
6 8 (6.061%) Technical Leader
7 7 (5.303%) Service Manager
8 6 (4.545%) Oracle DBA
8 6 (4.545%) DBA
8 6 (4.545%) Lead Architect
9 4 (3.030%) Senior Developer
9 4 (3.030%) Business Manager
9 4 (3.030%) Team Leader
9 4 (3.030%) PHP Developer
9 4 (3.030%) Technical Manager
9 4 (3.030%) Business Project Manager
9 4 (3.030%) Solutions Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 16 (12.12%) Replication
1 16 (12.12%) SWIFT
2 7 (5.303%) APACS
3 6 (4.545%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.030%) Computer Science
5 1 (0.758%) Open Source
5 1 (0.758%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 30 (22.73%) Windows
2 23 (17.42%) Linux
3 17 (12.88%) Windows Server 2003
4 16 (12.12%) Debian
4 16 (12.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (7.576%) UNIX
6 6 (4.545%) Oracle Linux
7 4 (3.030%) Solaris
8 1 (0.758%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
2 19 (14.39%) Agile Software Development
3 16 (12.12%) Load Balancing
3 16 (12.12%) Data Management
3 16 (12.12%) Test Scripting
4 15 (11.36%) Project Management
5 14 (10.61%) Performance Testing
6 12 (9.091%) Network Design
7 11 (8.333%) Business Analysis
8 10 (7.576%) Product Management
9 9 (6.818%) Unit Testing
9 9 (6.818%) Change Management
10 8 (6.061%) Test Strategy
10 8 (6.061%) Scrum
10 8 (6.061%) Business Development
10 8 (6.061%) Software Testing
10 8 (6.061%) TDD
10 8 (6.061%) Load Testing
11 7 (5.303%) Use Case
11 7 (5.303%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 31 (23.48%) Java
2 16 (12.12%) SQL
3 12 (9.091%) VBScript
3 12 (9.091%) Perl
3 12 (9.091%) Python
3 12 (9.091%) PowerShell
3 12 (9.091%) Bash shell
4 11 (8.333%) XQuery
4 11 (8.333%) C#
5 9 (6.818%) PL/SQL
6 8 (6.061%) JavaScript
7 6 (4.545%) Shell Script
7 6 (4.545%) PHP
7 6 (4.545%) Ruby
8 3 (2.273%) PHP5
8 3 (2.273%) R
9 1 (0.758%) XPath
9 1 (0.758%) C
Qualifications
1 18 (13.64%) Degree
2 8 (6.061%) ISTQB
3 5 (3.788%) ISEB
4 4 (3.030%) PMP
4 4 (3.030%) PMI Certification
4 4 (3.030%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.030%) Security Cleared
5 3 (2.273%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.273%) CISSP
5 3 (2.273%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.091%) QA
2 4 (3.030%) SLA
3 3 (2.273%) ISO/IEC 17799
System Software
1 34 (25.76%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (12.12%) NFS
2 16 (12.12%) Hyper-V
2 16 (12.12%) vSphere
3 15 (11.36%) XenApp
3 15 (11.36%) XenDesktop
3 15 (11.36%) VMware Server
4 6 (4.545%) Oracle RMAN
4 6 (4.545%) Oracle RAC
5 4 (3.030%) XenServer
6 1 (0.758%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (14.39%) NetBackup
2 6 (4.545%) Puppet
2 6 (4.545%) Data Guard
3 3 (2.273%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 1 (0.758%) SCCM
4 1 (0.758%) WSUS
Vendors
1 40 (30.30%) Microsoft
2 37 (28.03%) Oracle
3 35 (26.52%) VMware
4 19 (14.39%) Veritas
5 17 (12.88%) Cisco
6 15 (11.36%) Citrix
6 15 (11.36%) OpenLink
7 12 (9.091%) IBM
8 11 (8.333%) T-Plan
9 8 (6.061%) SAP
10 6 (4.545%) Rackspace
11 4 (3.030%) CheckPoint
11 4 (3.030%) Red Hat
11 4 (3.030%) Zend
12 3 (2.273%) Business Objects
12 3 (2.273%) Akamai
13 1 (0.758%) NetApp
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