The first table below looks at the demand for OSGi skills in IT jobs advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited OSGi over the 3 months to 20 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
OSGi
Rank 800 807 766
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -41
Permanent jobs citing OSGi 44 63 82
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 0.044% 0.055% 0.071%
As % of the Application Development category 0.108% 0.131% 0.176%
Number of salaries quoted 41 55 80
Average salary £40,000 £43,750 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-8.57% +25.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £34,000 £25,000 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £92,500 £62,500 £63,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £40,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +14.28%
All Application Development
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
40930 48053 46722
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 40.76% 42.26% 40.54%
Number of salaries quoted 35954 42924 41426
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%
OSGi
UK

OSGi
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England OSGi Jobs Demand Trend

OSGi
Salary Trend

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

England OSGi Salary Trend

OSGi
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing OSGi across the England region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

England OSGi Salary Histogram

OSGi
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OSGi within the England region over the 3 months to 20 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
Yorkshire +18 21 £35,000 +11.11%
London +32 15 £75,000 +42.85%
South East -12 5 £38,500 -3.75%
West Midlands - 2 £50,000 -
East Midlands - 1 - -
OSGi
UK

OSGi
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the England region citing OSGi 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 OSGi.

1 72 (100.00%) Java
2 55 (76.39%) Eclipse
3 49 (68.06%) Hibernate
4 44 (61.11%) JUnit
5 36 (50.00%) Eclipse RCP
6 35 (48.61%) Swing
7 34 (47.22%) Subversion
8 31 (43.06%) Open Source
9 29 (40.28%) GWT
10 26 (36.11%) Spring
11 25 (34.72%) JFace
12 20 (27.78%) QA
12 20 (27.78%) Web Development
13 19 (26.39%) OO
13 19 (26.39%) JavaFX
13 19 (26.39%) JProfiler
13 19 (26.39%) Qt
14 17 (23.61%) Vaadin
14 17 (23.61%) QuickTest Pro
15 16 (22.22%) J2EE
16 15 (20.83%) Oracle
16 15 (20.83%) Maven
17 14 (19.44%) Continuous Integration
18 13 (18.06%) EJB
18 13 (18.06%) SOA
19 11 (15.28%) Jenkins
19 11 (15.28%) REST
19 11 (15.28%) Apache
19 11 (15.28%) Linux
19 11 (15.28%) SOAP

OSGi
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 49 (68.06%) Hibernate
2 35 (48.61%) Swing
3 29 (40.28%) GWT
4 26 (36.11%) Spring
5 25 (34.72%) JFace
6 19 (26.39%) JavaFX
6 19 (26.39%) Qt
7 17 (23.61%) Vaadin
8 16 (22.22%) J2EE
9 13 (18.06%) EJB
10 11 (15.28%) SOAP
10 11 (15.28%) Ajax
10 11 (15.28%) REST
11 10 (13.89%) XML
11 10 (13.89%) JMS
12 9 (12.50%) Web Services
12 9 (12.50%) JPA
13 7 (9.722%) Struts
14 6 (8.333%) XSLT
14 6 (8.333%) jBPM
Application Platforms
1 11 (15.28%) Apache
2 9 (12.50%) Tomcat
3 5 (6.944%) Oracle Coherence
4 3 (4.167%) Jetty
5 2 (2.778%) CMS
5 2 (2.778%) Adobe CQ
6 1 (1.389%) ActiveMQ
6 1 (1.389%) ESB
6 1 (1.389%) Mule
6 1 (1.389%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 6 (8.333%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.389%) LDAP
1 1 (1.389%) HTTP
1 1 (1.389%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.333%) Oracle 11g
1 6 (8.333%) NoSQL
2 5 (6.944%) TOAD
3 4 (5.556%) MySQL
3 4 (5.556%) Big Data
4 3 (4.167%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.778%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (2.778%) Jackrabbit
6 1 (1.389%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.389%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 55 (76.39%) Eclipse
2 44 (61.11%) JUnit
3 36 (50.00%) Eclipse RCP
4 34 (47.22%) Subversion
5 19 (26.39%) JProfiler
6 17 (23.61%) QuickTest Pro
7 15 (20.83%) Maven
8 11 (15.28%) Jenkins
9 9 (12.50%) Ant
10 5 (6.944%) Log4j
10 5 (6.944%) Git (software)
10 5 (6.944%) Cucumber
10 5 (6.944%) JBehave
11 3 (4.167%) ANTLR
11 3 (4.167%) IntelliJ
12 2 (2.778%) Hudson
12 2 (2.778%) FindBugs
13 1 (1.389%) NetBeans IDE
13 1 (1.389%) JIRA
13 1 (1.389%) NetBeans
General
1 11 (15.28%) Finance
2 8 (11.11%) Banking
3 5 (6.944%) Investment Banking
4 2 (2.778%) Marketing
4 2 (2.778%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.389%) Advertising
5 1 (1.389%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 61 (84.72%) Developer
2 60 (83.33%) Java Developer
3 12 (16.67%) Java Swing Developer
4 11 (15.28%) Architect
5 8 (11.11%) Software Developer
5 8 (11.11%) Senior Developer
5 8 (11.11%) Java Software Developer
6 7 (9.722%) Java Architect
6 7 (9.722%) Senior Java Developer
7 5 (6.944%) Lead Developer
7 5 (6.944%) Technical Team Leader
7 5 (6.944%) Java Team Leader
7 5 (6.944%) Programmer
7 5 (6.944%) Team Leader
7 5 (6.944%) Software Architect
7 5 (6.944%) Java Programmer
7 5 (6.944%) Software Team Leader
7 5 (6.944%) Java Software Architect
8 4 (5.556%) Java/J2EE Developer
9 3 (4.167%) Senior Architect
Miscellaneous
1 31 (43.06%) Open Source
2 5 (6.944%) Clustering
3 4 (5.556%) Client/Server
3 4 (5.556%) Chemistry
4 2 (2.778%) Computer Science
4 2 (2.778%) Mathematics
4 2 (2.778%) Applied Mathematics
5 1 (1.389%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.389%) NHS
5 1 (1.389%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.389%) Artificial Intelligence
5 1 (1.389%) Web 2.0
5 1 (1.389%) Inversion of Control
5 1 (1.389%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 11 (15.28%) Linux
2 10 (13.89%) UNIX
3 4 (5.556%) Windows
4 1 (1.389%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (27.78%) Web Development
2 19 (26.39%) OO
3 14 (19.44%) Continuous Integration
4 13 (18.06%) SOA
5 9 (12.50%) UML
6 8 (11.11%) TDD
7 6 (8.333%) OOD
7 6 (8.333%) Agile Software Development
8 5 (6.944%) BDD
8 5 (6.944%) Parallel Processing
8 5 (6.944%) BPEL
9 4 (5.556%) Multithreading
9 4 (5.556%) Scrum
10 3 (4.167%) Unit Testing
10 3 (4.167%) E-Commerce
10 3 (4.167%) RDF
11 2 (2.778%) Project Management
11 2 (2.778%) OOP
11 2 (2.778%) OOA/OOD
11 2 (2.778%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 72 (100.00%) Java
2 6 (8.333%) SQL
3 3 (4.167%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.778%) C
4 2 (2.778%) C++
4 2 (2.778%) Shell Script
4 2 (2.778%) Groovy
4 2 (2.778%) SPARQL
5 1 (1.389%) Scala
5 1 (1.389%) Bash shell
5 1 (1.389%) Clojure
5 1 (1.389%) xBase
5 1 (1.389%) Korn
5 1 (1.389%) Perl
Qualifications
1 4 (5.556%) Degree
2 2 (2.778%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (27.78%) QA
System Software
1 5 (6.944%) Oracle RAC
2 3 (4.167%) Varnish
Vendors
1 15 (20.83%) Oracle
2 10 (13.89%) JBoss
3 3 (4.167%) HP
3 3 (4.167%) Rackspace
4 2 (2.778%) Adobe
5 1 (1.389%) Sun
5 1 (1.389%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.389%) Omniture
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TRG
Salary: 40000 Per Annum Excellent benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
West Yorkshire
Essential Experience: * Experience developing applications in Java 6 * Knowledge of Swing or Eclipse RCP * Eclipse IDE Advantageous experience: * OSGI * GWT * JUnit The role offers a vibrant and social...
TRG
Salary: £40000 Per Annum Excellent benefits
Posted: 19 May 2013
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Harvey Nash plc
Salary: £28000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
London
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Client Server
Salary: £75k to £90k + options + benefits
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Leeds, Bradford, Yorkshire, York, Wakefield,...
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Salary: £30,000 - £38,000 per year
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