Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for RMDS skills in IT jobs advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited RMDS over the 3 months to 17 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Business Applications category for the England region.

 Reuters Market Data System (RMDS)
Location
3 months to
17 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank520559684
Rank change year-on-year
Up+39Up+125
Matching permanent IT job ads151107258
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England0.186 %0.133 %0.135 %
As % of the Business Applications category3.053 %1.936 %2.078 %
Salaries quoted12364200
Average salary£67,500£65,000£52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.840 %+23.80 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£51,000£40,000£45,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£87,500£75,000£75,000
UK excluding London average salary£47,500£30,000-
% change year-on-year
+58.33 %-
England IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryAll Business Applications
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Business Applications category
4946552712413
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England6.087 %6.881 %6.500 %
Salaries quoted386541959684
Average salary£50,000£50,000£50,000
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£32,500£32,500£34,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£75,000£70,000£70,000
UK excluding London average salary£50,000£50,000£50,000
RMDS UKRMDS
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RMDS
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing RMDS across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Business Applications category.

England RMDS Demand Trend

RMDS
Salary Trend

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

England RMDS Salary Trend

RMDS
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing RMDS across the England region over the 3 months to 17 March 2010.

England RMDS Salary Histogram

RMDS
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing RMDS within the England region over the 3 months to 17 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
LondonUp+26150£68,750+5.76 %
South EastNew entry-1£47,500-
RMDS UKRMDS
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RMDS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 March 2010, IT jobs across the England region citing RMDS 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 RMDS.

1180 (55.05 %)Linux
2169 (51.68 %)Reuters
3162 (49.54 %)Finance
4138 (42.20 %)UNIX
5133 (40.67 %)Java
5133 (40.67 %)Bloomberg
6113 (34.56 %)C++
789 (27.22 %)C#
885 (25.99 %)Windows
981 (24.77 %)Solaris
981 (24.77 %)Banking
1079 (24.16 %)TCP/IP
1167 (20.49 %)QA
1262 (18.96 %)Perl
1361 (18.65 %)TIBCO
1451 (15.60 %)Investment Banking
1547 (14.37 %)Shell Script
1644 (13.46 %)Windows XP
1742 (12.84 %)VPN
1742 (12.84 %)DNS
1841 (12.54 %)Front Office
1940 (12.23 %)Tcl
2039 (11.93 %)Blackberry
2138 (11.62 %)SQL
2237 (11.31 %)Microsoft
2237 (11.31 %)Telerate
2333 (10.09 %)Syntegra
2429 (8.869 %)Financial Institution
2429 (8.869 %)Windows 2000
2527 (8.257 %)Rendezvous

RMDS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 March 2010, IT jobs across the England region citing RMDS 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 RMDS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

England IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
117 (5.199 %)Middleware
213 (3.976 %)Swing
311 (3.364 %)WebSphere
46 (1.835 %)Spring
54 (1.223 %)JMS
63 (0.917 %)J2EE
72 (0.612 %).NET
72 (0.612 %)ASP.NET
81 (0.306 %)Silverlight
81 (0.306 %)XML
81 (0.306 %)XSLT
81 (0.306 %)HTML
England IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
127 (8.257 %)Rendezvous
24 (1.223 %)TIBCO EMS
31 (0.306 %)WebLogic
31 (0.306 %)IIS
31 (0.306 %)MQSeries
31 (0.306 %)Apache
England IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
121 (6.422 %)MS Excel
215 (4.587 %)MS Office
England IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
13 (0.917 %)3000 Xtra
21 (0.306 %)ION MarketView
England IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
179 (24.16 %)TCP/IP
242 (12.84 %)VPN
242 (12.84 %)DNS
320 (6.116 %)VoIP
410 (3.058 %)Internet
58 (2.446 %)Firewall
58 (2.446 %)DHCP
63 (0.917 %)SSL
63 (0.917 %)FTP
63 (0.917 %)SNMP
72 (0.612 %)LAN
72 (0.612 %)WAN
81 (0.306 %)NAS
81 (0.306 %)SAN
England IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
111 (3.364 %)SQL Server
24 (1.223 %)RDBMS
33 (0.917 %)Sybase ASE
33 (0.917 %)SQLPlus
33 (0.917 %)Sybase IQ
42 (0.612 %)InterBase
42 (0.612 %)InterSystems Cache
England IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
16 (1.835 %)Ant
16 (1.835 %)JUnit
24 (1.223 %)Maven
33 (0.917 %)JIRA
England IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1162 (49.54 %)Finance
281 (24.77 %)Banking
351 (15.60 %)Investment Banking
441 (12.54 %)Front Office
529 (8.869 %)Financial Institution
62 (0.612 %)Telecoms
71 (0.306 %)Marketing
71 (0.306 %)Government
71 (0.306 %)Law
England IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1108 (33.03 %)Developer
249 (14.98 %)C++ Developer
336 (11.01 %)Java Developer
430 (9.174 %)Market Data Engineer
528 (8.563 %)Analyst
625 (7.645 %)Architect
718 (5.505 %)Technical Specialist
817 (5.199 %)Data Architect
817 (5.199 %)Support Analyst
912 (3.670 %)Systems Engineer
1011 (3.364 %)Implementation Engineer
1110 (3.058 %)C# Developer
128 (2.446 %)Support Engineer
137 (2.141 %)Front Office Developer
137 (2.141 %)Technical Analyst
146 (1.835 %)Technical Support
146 (1.835 %)Applications Developer
146 (1.835 %)Market Analyst
155 (1.529 %)Integration Engineer
155 (1.529 %)Market Data Analyst
England IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
139 (11.93 %)Blackberry
221 (6.422 %)Fixed Income
315 (4.587 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
413 (3.976 %)Equities
511 (3.364 %)Computer Science
63 (0.917 %)Multithreading
63 (0.917 %)Replication
71 (0.306 %)Derivative
71 (0.306 %)Equity Derivative
71 (0.306 %)Mathematics
71 (0.306 %)Mandarin Language
England IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1180 (55.05 %)Linux
2138 (42.20 %)UNIX
385 (25.99 %)Windows
481 (24.77 %)Solaris
544 (13.46 %)Windows XP
629 (8.869 %)Windows 2000
78 (2.446 %)Red Hat Linux
82 (0.612 %)Windows Server 2003
91 (0.306 %)HPUX
England IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
121 (6.422 %)E-Commerce
215 (4.587 %)CRM
215 (4.587 %)Migration
314 (4.281 %)Data Migration
413 (3.976 %)TDD
413 (3.976 %)Project Management
511 (3.364 %)Algorithmic Trading
610 (3.058 %)Electronic Trading
610 (3.058 %)ITIL
74 (1.223 %)Service Management
83 (0.917 %)Integration Testing
83 (0.917 %)Workflow
92 (0.612 %)E-business
92 (0.612 %)OO
92 (0.612 %)Technical Architecture
101 (0.306 %)Capacity Planning
101 (0.306 %)Investment Management
101 (0.306 %)Problem Management
101 (0.306 %)OOP
101 (0.306 %)Benchmarking
England IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1133 (40.67 %)Java
2113 (34.56 %)C++
389 (27.22 %)C#
462 (18.96 %)Perl
547 (14.37 %)Shell Script
640 (12.23 %)Tcl
738 (11.62 %)SQL
89 (2.752 %)Bash shell
95 (1.529 %)Korn
104 (1.223 %)C
104 (1.223 %)Bourne shell
113 (0.917 %)C-shell
121 (0.306 %)JavaScript
England IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
119 (5.810 %)Degree
22 (0.612 %)HP ASE
England IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
167 (20.49 %)QA
21 (0.306 %)MiFID
England IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
18 (2.446 %)Active Directory
England IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
13 (0.917 %)OpenView
22 (0.612 %)Nagios
22 (0.612 %)TIBCO Hawk
22 (0.612 %)Zenoss
England IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1169 (51.68 %)Reuters
2133 (40.67 %)Bloomberg
361 (18.65 %)TIBCO
437 (11.31 %)Microsoft
437 (11.31 %)Telerate
533 (10.09 %)Syntegra
623 (7.034 %)Fidessa
720 (6.116 %)Oracle
819 (5.810 %)Cisco
913 (3.976 %)Sophis
913 (3.976 %)Charles River
1011 (3.364 %)Sybase
1110 (3.058 %)IBM
128 (2.446 %)Sun
128 (2.446 %)Red Hat
137 (2.141 %)HP
144 (1.223 %)Calypso
144 (1.223 %)Murex
153 (0.917 %)Peregrine
153 (0.917 %)Remedy