The first table below looks at the demand for Middleware skills in IT jobs advertised for the Glasgow region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Middleware 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 of the Application Development category for the Glasgow region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Middleware
Rank 82 73 62
Rank change year-on-year
-9 -11
Permanent jobs citing Middleware 13 3 25
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Glasgow 1.130% 0.357% 2.572%
As % of the Application Development category 2.080% 0.761% 6.443%
Number of salaries quoted 4 1 17
Average salary £50,000 £52,500 £75,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.76% -30.00%
UK excluding London average salary £47,000 £47,500 £46,500
% change year-on-year
-1.05% +2.15%
All Application Development
Glasgow
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
625 394 388
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Glasgow 54.35% 46.90% 39.92%
Number of salaries quoted 347 327 301
Average salary £40,000 £35,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.28% -12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,000 £28,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £57,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Middleware
Scotland

Middleware
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Glasgow Middleware Jobs Demand Trend

Middleware
Salary Trend

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

Glasgow Middleware Salary Trend

Middleware
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Middleware across the Glasgow region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Glasgow Middleware Salary Histogram

Middleware
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 11 (64.71%) XML
2 9 (52.94%) C#
2 9 (52.94%) SQL
2 9 (52.94%) NoSQL
3 8 (47.06%) Web Services
3 8 (47.06%) Finance
4 7 (41.18%) Java
4 7 (41.18%) SOA
5 6 (35.29%) JavaScript
5 6 (35.29%) jQuery
5 6 (35.29%) Unit Testing
5 6 (35.29%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (29.41%) JSON
6 5 (29.41%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (29.41%) TeamCity
6 5 (29.41%) Couchbase
6 5 (29.41%) ASP.NET MVC
6 5 (29.41%) MVC
6 5 (29.41%) Banking
6 5 (29.41%) .NET
6 5 (29.41%) ASP.NET
7 4 (23.53%) Python
7 4 (23.53%) Agile Software Development
7 4 (23.53%) Subversion
7 4 (23.53%) Lucene
7 4 (23.53%) Complex Event Processing
7 4 (23.53%) Git (software)
7 4 (23.53%) Apache Solr
7 4 (23.53%) CouchDB
7 4 (23.53%) YUI

Middleware
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 11 (64.71%) XML
2 8 (47.06%) Web Services
3 6 (35.29%) jQuery
4 5 (29.41%) JSON
4 5 (29.41%) .NET
4 5 (29.41%) ASP.NET
4 5 (29.41%) ASP.NET MVC
5 4 (23.53%) YUI
5 4 (23.53%) Lucene
6 2 (11.76%) soapUI
7 1 (5.882%) CSS3
7 1 (5.882%) ASP.NET MVC 3
7 1 (5.882%) HTML5
7 1 (5.882%) Ajax
7 1 (5.882%) Ext JS
7 1 (5.882%) Apache CXF
7 1 (5.882%) RESTful
7 1 (5.882%) CSS
7 1 (5.882%) SOAP
7 1 (5.882%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 5 (29.41%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (23.53%) Apache Solr
3 3 (17.65%) MQSeries
4 1 (5.882%) ESB
4 1 (5.882%) Mule
4 1 (5.882%) Apache
4 1 (5.882%) MSMQ
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (52.94%) NoSQL
2 5 (29.41%) Couchbase
3 4 (23.53%) Apache Cassandra
3 4 (23.53%) CouchDB
4 2 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (11.76%) OLTP
4 2 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (11.76%) BigTable
5 1 (5.882%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (29.41%) TeamCity
2 4 (23.53%) Git (software)
2 4 (23.53%) Subversion
3 2 (11.76%) JDeveloper
4 1 (5.882%) TestDirector
4 1 (5.882%) QuickTest Pro
4 1 (5.882%) NUnit
4 1 (5.882%) CruiseControl
4 1 (5.882%) JBehave
4 1 (5.882%) Jasmine
4 1 (5.882%) Selenium
4 1 (5.882%) JUnit
General
1 8 (47.06%) Finance
2 5 (29.41%) Banking
3 3 (17.65%) Investment Banking
4 2 (11.76%) Back Office
5 1 (5.882%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Developer
2 5 (29.41%) Software Engineer
3 4 (23.53%) C# Software Engineer
3 4 (23.53%) .NET Software Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Python Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Test Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Oracle SOA Developer
4 2 (11.76%) SOA Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Java Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Oracle Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Architecture Manager
5 1 (5.882%) Designer
5 1 (5.882%) Test Engineer
5 1 (5.882%) Automation Analyst
5 1 (5.882%) Solutions Designer
5 1 (5.882%) Automation Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Fixed Income
1 2 (11.76%) Computer Science
1 2 (11.76%) Market Risk
1 2 (11.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (5.882%) AS400
2 1 (5.882%) Open Source
2 1 (5.882%) Inversion of Control
2 1 (5.882%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) SOA
2 6 (35.29%) Unit Testing
2 6 (35.29%) Continuous Integration
3 5 (29.41%) MVC
4 4 (23.53%) Agile Software Development
4 4 (23.53%) Web Development
4 4 (23.53%) Complex Event Processing
5 3 (17.65%) TDD
5 3 (17.65%) OO
6 2 (11.76%) Risk Management
6 2 (11.76%) Workflow
6 2 (11.76%) Migration
6 2 (11.76%) DoDAF
6 2 (11.76%) MODAF
6 2 (11.76%) Asset Management
6 2 (11.76%) Zachman Framework
6 2 (11.76%) TOGAF
6 2 (11.76%) BPEL
6 2 (11.76%) Network Design
6 2 (11.76%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 9 (52.94%) C#
1 9 (52.94%) SQL
2 7 (41.18%) Java
3 6 (35.29%) JavaScript
4 4 (23.53%) Python
5 3 (17.65%) Perl
5 3 (17.65%) C++
5 3 (17.65%) Ruby
6 2 (11.76%) XPath
6 2 (11.76%) Shell Script
7 1 (5.882%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) Degree
2 1 (5.882%) ISEB
2 1 (5.882%) ISTQB
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) MOM
2 1 (5.882%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Oracle
2 1 (5.882%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.882%) TIBCO
2 1 (5.882%) Casewise
2 1 (5.882%) Pega