The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Hedge funds in IT jobs advertised for the Glasgow region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Hedge funds over the 3 months to 17 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 terms in our Miscellaneous category for the Glasgow region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Hedge fund
Rank 94 73 -
Rank change year-on-year
-21 -
Permanent jobs citing Hedge funds 1 3 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Glasgow 0.087% 0.357% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.261% 1.546% -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Average salary - - -
UK excluding London average salary £50,000 £41,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year
+21.21% -31.25%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Glasgow
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
383 194 218
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Glasgow 33.30% 23.10% 22.43%
Number of salaries quoted 204 126 163
Average salary £45,000 £35,000 £36,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+28.57% -2.77%
90% offered a salary of more than £31,500 £25,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £45,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,815 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.96% +6.66%
Hedge funds
Scotland

Hedge funds
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Hedge funds across the Glasgow region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Glasgow Hedge funds Jobs Demand Trend

Hedge funds
Salary Trend

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

Glasgow Hedge funds Salary Trend

Hedge funds
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Glasgow region citing Hedge funds 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 Hedge funds.

1 14 (100.00%) Java
1 14 (100.00%) Finance
2 13 (92.86%) Banking
2 13 (92.86%) Asset Management
2 13 (92.86%) Investment Banking
3 8 (57.14%) Oracle
4 7 (50.00%) UNIX
5 6 (42.86%) Microsoft
5 6 (42.86%) Spring
5 6 (42.86%) Maven
6 5 (35.71%) Agile Software Development
6 5 (35.71%) Scrum
6 5 (35.71%) Web Services
6 5 (35.71%) Sybase
6 5 (35.71%) SQL
7 4 (28.57%) ETL
7 4 (28.57%) Informatica
7 4 (28.57%) Fixed Income
7 4 (28.57%) Investment Management
7 4 (28.57%) Reference Data
7 4 (28.57%) Subversion
8 3 (21.43%) Mule
8 3 (21.43%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (21.43%) Multithreading
8 3 (21.43%) Automated Testing
8 3 (21.43%) Ajax
8 3 (21.43%) Shell Script
8 3 (21.43%) Hibernate
8 3 (21.43%) Data Modelling
8 3 (21.43%) JMS

Hedge funds
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Glasgow region citing Hedge funds 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 Hedge funds. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (42.86%) Spring
2 5 (35.71%) Web Services
3 3 (21.43%) JMS
3 3 (21.43%) J2EE
3 3 (21.43%) Ajax
3 3 (21.43%) Hibernate
4 2 (14.29%) jQuery
4 2 (14.29%) WebSphere
4 2 (14.29%) JSON
4 2 (14.29%) XML
5 1 (7.143%) Java RMI
5 1 (7.143%) JDBC
5 1 (7.143%) JSP
5 1 (7.143%) Servlets
5 1 (7.143%) Struts
5 1 (7.143%) JSTL
Application Platforms
1 3 (21.43%) Mule
2 2 (14.29%) Tomcat
2 2 (14.29%) MQSeries
2 2 (14.29%) WebSphere MQ
Applications
1 2 (14.29%) MS Project
1 2 (14.29%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) SAN
2 1 (7.143%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.143%) Oracle 10g
1 1 (7.143%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 6 (42.86%) Maven
2 4 (28.57%) Subversion
3 3 (21.43%) JUnit
4 2 (14.29%) Eclipse
4 2 (14.29%) QuickTest Pro
4 2 (14.29%) LoadRunner
4 2 (14.29%) PowerDesigner
4 2 (14.29%) MagicDraw
4 2 (14.29%) JIRA
5 1 (7.143%) Ant
5 1 (7.143%) CruiseControl
General
1 14 (100.00%) Finance
2 13 (92.86%) Banking
2 13 (92.86%) Investment Banking
3 2 (14.29%) Front Office
3 2 (14.29%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Architect
1 5 (35.71%) Developer
2 3 (21.43%) Solutions Architect
2 3 (21.43%) Java Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Performance Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Problem Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Incident Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Problem Management Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Agile Java Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Software Developer
4 1 (7.143%) Oracle Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Fixed Income
1 4 (28.57%) Reference Data
2 2 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (14.29%) Clustering
2 2 (14.29%) Derivative
2 2 (14.29%) Client/Server
2 2 (14.29%) N-Tier
3 1 (7.143%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 7 (50.00%) UNIX
2 2 (14.29%) Linux
2 2 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (92.86%) Asset Management
2 5 (35.71%) Scrum
2 5 (35.71%) Agile Software Development
3 4 (28.57%) ETL
3 4 (28.57%) Investment Management
4 3 (21.43%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (21.43%) Multithreading
4 3 (21.43%) Data Modelling
4 3 (21.43%) Automated Testing
5 2 (14.29%) Software Testing
5 2 (14.29%) Incident Management
5 2 (14.29%) Load Balancing
5 2 (14.29%) Problem Management
5 2 (14.29%) Extreme Programming
5 2 (14.29%) SOA
5 2 (14.29%) ITIL
5 2 (14.29%) Benchmarking
5 2 (14.29%) Service Management
5 2 (14.29%) Change Management
5 2 (14.29%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (100.00%) Java
2 5 (35.71%) SQL
3 3 (21.43%) Shell Script
3 3 (21.43%) PL/SQL
4 2 (14.29%) C#
4 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 2 (14.29%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 8 (57.14%) Oracle
2 6 (42.86%) Microsoft
3 5 (35.71%) Sybase
4 4 (28.57%) Informatica
5 2 (14.29%) Red Hat
5 2 (14.29%) HP