The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of VocaLink 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 VocaLink over the 3 months to 21 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 VocaLink Limited.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VocaLink
Rank 843 841 841
Rank change year-on-year
-2 0
Permanent jobs citing VocaLink 4 15 21
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 0.004% 0.013% 0.018%
As % of the Vendors category 0.008% 0.028% 0.039%
Number of salaries quoted 2 11 21
Average salary £32,000 £55,000 £57,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-41.81% -3.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,600 £55,000 £45,000
10% offered a salary of more than £34,400 £55,000 £75,000
UK excluding London average salary £32,000 £55,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-41.81% +29.41%
All Vendors
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
48596 53685 53817
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 47.82% 47.19% 46.56%
Number of salaries quoted 40225 45643 44955
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
VocaLink
UK

VocaLink
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England VocaLink Jobs Demand Trend

VocaLink
Salary Trend

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

England VocaLink Salary Trend

VocaLink
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VocaLink within the England region over the 3 months to 21 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
South East -1 3 £35,000 -
East of England - 1 £29,000 -
VocaLink
UK

VocaLink
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the England region citing VocaLink 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 VocaLink.

1 9 (47.37%) E-Commerce
1 9 (47.37%) Mobile Commerce
1 9 (47.37%) Finance
2 7 (36.84%) Shell Script
2 7 (36.84%) Oracle
2 7 (36.84%) UNIX
3 6 (31.58%) Solaris
3 6 (31.58%) Python
3 6 (31.58%) Perl
3 6 (31.58%) Red Hat
4 5 (26.32%) Smartcard
4 5 (26.32%) EFT
4 5 (26.32%) EFTPOS
4 5 (26.32%) Java
4 5 (26.32%) SQL
4 5 (26.32%) J2EE
4 5 (26.32%) WebLogic
4 5 (26.32%) Tomcat
4 5 (26.32%) Ant
4 5 (26.32%) ISO 8583
4 5 (26.32%) Scrum
4 5 (26.32%) Retail
4 5 (26.32%) WebSphere
5 4 (21.05%) Ruby
5 4 (21.05%) Korn
5 4 (21.05%) Retail Banking
5 4 (21.05%) Online Banking
5 4 (21.05%) NFC
5 4 (21.05%) Banking
5 4 (21.05%) Project Management

VocaLink
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the England region citing VocaLink 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 VocaLink. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (26.32%) J2EE
1 5 (26.32%) WebSphere
2 4 (21.05%) Middleware
3 1 (5.263%) Velocity
3 1 (5.263%) Apache Axis
3 1 (5.263%) jQuery
3 1 (5.263%) JMS
3 1 (5.263%) EJB
3 1 (5.263%) JDBC
3 1 (5.263%) JSP
3 1 (5.263%) Servlets
3 1 (5.263%) SOAP
3 1 (5.263%) Web Services
3 1 (5.263%) XML
3 1 (5.263%) Hibernate
3 1 (5.263%) TopLink
3 1 (5.263%) JAAS
3 1 (5.263%) Spring
3 1 (5.263%) JSF
3 1 (5.263%) JAX-WS
Application Platforms
1 5 (26.32%) WebLogic
1 5 (26.32%) Tomcat
2 4 (21.05%) Apache
2 4 (21.05%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 1 (5.263%) Lync
3 1 (5.263%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (5.263%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (5.263%) MS Exchange
3 1 (5.263%) Office Communications Server
3 1 (5.263%) ESB
3 1 (5.263%) Oracle BPEL
Applications
1 1 (5.263%) Mingle
1 1 (5.263%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (21.05%) NFC
1 4 (21.05%) Internet
1 4 (21.05%) HTTP
2 3 (15.79%) TCP/IP
2 3 (15.79%) DNS
2 3 (15.79%) ATM
2 3 (15.79%) LDAP
3 2 (10.53%) SSH
4 1 (5.263%) NAS
4 1 (5.263%) DHCP
4 1 (5.263%) FTP
4 1 (5.263%) SAN
4 1 (5.263%) Firewall
4 1 (5.263%) Network Security
4 1 (5.263%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (21.05%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (5.263%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.263%) DB2
2 1 (5.263%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (5.263%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 5 (26.32%) Ant
2 1 (5.263%) Gerrit
2 1 (5.263%) Selenium
2 1 (5.263%) jMock
2 1 (5.263%) Git (software)
2 1 (5.263%) JProfiler
2 1 (5.263%) Eclipse
2 1 (5.263%) QuickTest Pro
2 1 (5.263%) JUnit
2 1 (5.263%) Maven
2 1 (5.263%) Subversion
2 1 (5.263%) TeamCity
2 1 (5.263%) JIRA
General
1 9 (47.37%) Finance
2 5 (26.32%) Retail
3 4 (21.05%) Retail Banking
3 4 (21.05%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (21.05%) Banking Business Analyst
1 4 (21.05%) Business Analyst
1 4 (21.05%) Analyst
1 4 (21.05%) Middleware Engineer
2 2 (10.53%) UNIX Engineer
2 2 (10.53%) Senior UNIX Engineer
3 1 (5.263%) Wintel Support Engineer
3 1 (5.263%) Java Developer
3 1 (5.263%) J2EE Developer
3 1 (5.263%) Java Programmer
3 1 (5.263%) Programmer
3 1 (5.263%) Support Engineer
3 1 (5.263%) Tester
3 1 (5.263%) Developer
3 1 (5.263%) Wintel Support
3 1 (5.263%) Wintel Engineer
3 1 (5.263%) Java/J2EE Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) Smartcard
1 5 (26.32%) EFT
1 5 (26.32%) EFTPOS
2 4 (21.05%) Online Banking
2 4 (21.05%) Mobile Banking
2 4 (21.05%) Mobile Payment
3 3 (15.79%) EPoS
3 3 (15.79%) EMV
3 3 (15.79%) Chip and PIN
3 3 (15.79%) APACS
Operating Systems
1 7 (36.84%) UNIX
2 6 (31.58%) Solaris
3 3 (15.79%) Linux
4 1 (5.263%) Windows 7
4 1 (5.263%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (5.263%) Windows
4 1 (5.263%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) E-Commerce
1 9 (47.37%) Mobile Commerce
2 5 (26.32%) Scrum
3 4 (21.05%) Project Management
3 4 (21.05%) Waterfall
4 2 (10.53%) Software Engineering
4 2 (10.53%) CMMI
5 1 (5.263%) Problem Management
5 1 (5.263%) SOA
5 1 (5.263%) UML
5 1 (5.263%) OO
5 1 (5.263%) RAD
5 1 (5.263%) ITIL
5 1 (5.263%) Change Management
5 1 (5.263%) Business Continuity
5 1 (5.263%) Configuration Management
5 1 (5.263%) TDD
5 1 (5.263%) BPEL
5 1 (5.263%) Multithreading
5 1 (5.263%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (36.84%) Shell Script
2 6 (31.58%) Python
2 6 (31.58%) Perl
3 5 (26.32%) Java
3 5 (26.32%) SQL
4 4 (21.05%) Ruby
4 4 (21.05%) Korn
4 4 (21.05%) PL/SQL
4 4 (21.05%) Bash shell
4 4 (21.05%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
5 2 (10.53%) Bourne shell
5 2 (10.53%) C-shell
6 1 (5.263%) JavaScript
6 1 (5.263%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1 (5.263%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (5.263%) MCSE
1 1 (5.263%) MCSA
1 1 (5.263%) MCP
1 1 (5.263%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1 1 (5.263%) MCTS
1 1 (5.263%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (26.32%) ISO 8583
2 3 (15.79%) QA
3 2 (10.53%) ISO 9000
4 1 (5.263%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (21.05%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
2 3 (15.79%) Hyper-V
3 2 (10.53%) VMware ESX
3 2 (10.53%) vSphere
4 1 (5.263%) XenApp
4 1 (5.263%) XenServer
4 1 (5.263%) XenDesktop
4 1 (5.263%) Active Directory
4 1 (5.263%) NFS
4 1 (5.263%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (5.263%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (21.05%) Tivoli
2 1 (5.263%) WSUS
Vendors
1 7 (36.84%) Oracle
2 6 (31.58%) Red Hat
3 4 (21.05%) JBoss
3 4 (21.05%) IBM
4 3 (15.79%) Wincor Nixdorf
4 3 (15.79%) TSYS
4 3 (15.79%) VeriFone
4 3 (15.79%) Sage
4 3 (15.79%) HP
4 3 (15.79%) EMC
4 3 (15.79%) VMware
5 2 (10.53%) Cisco
5 2 (10.53%) Sun
6 1 (5.263%) LANDesk
6 1 (5.263%) Microsoft
6 1 (5.263%) Citrix
6 1 (5.263%) CommVault