The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Facebook products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Kent region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Facebook over the 3 months to 24 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 Kent region.

The figures below represent the IT job market in general and are NOT representative of salaries within Facebook, Inc.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Facebook
Rank 79 64 101
Rank change year-on-year
-15 +37
Permanent jobs citing Facebook 8 8 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 0.691% 1.116% 0.094%
As % of the Vendors category 1.504% 2.292% 0.165%
Number of salaries quoted 7 8 1
Average salary £37,500 £47,000 £25,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-20.21% +88.00%
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £34,500 £32,500
% change year-on-year
-5.79% +6.15%
All Vendors
Kent
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
532 349 605
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 45.98% 48.68% 56.91%
Number of salaries quoted 457 317 539
Average salary £42,500 £37,500 £38,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+13.33% -1.31%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £25,000 £23,500
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £47,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Facebook
South East

Facebook
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kent Facebook Jobs Demand Trend

Facebook
Salary Trend

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

Kent Facebook Salary Trend

Facebook
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent region citing Facebook 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 Facebook.

1 11 (68.75%) JavaScript
1 11 (68.75%) CSS
1 11 (68.75%) Agile Software Development
2 8 (50.00%) Retail
2 8 (50.00%) Ajax
2 8 (50.00%) Marketing
2 8 (50.00%) jQuery
2 8 (50.00%) Smarty
2 8 (50.00%) SOAP
2 8 (50.00%) UML
2 8 (50.00%) OOP
2 8 (50.00%) OO
2 8 (50.00%) Apache
2 8 (50.00%) PHP
2 8 (50.00%) HTML
2 8 (50.00%) MySQL
2 8 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 8 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 8 (50.00%) REST
3 6 (37.50%) Salesforce.com
3 6 (37.50%) .NET
3 6 (37.50%) Linux
3 6 (37.50%) CRM
3 6 (37.50%) PhD
3 6 (37.50%) SQL Server
3 6 (37.50%) Cloud Computing
3 6 (37.50%) Social Media
3 6 (37.50%) Unit Testing
3 6 (37.50%) JIRA
3 6 (37.50%) Advertising

Facebook
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent region citing Facebook 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 Facebook. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 11 (68.75%) CSS
2 8 (50.00%) Ajax
2 8 (50.00%) jQuery
2 8 (50.00%) Smarty
2 8 (50.00%) SOAP
2 8 (50.00%) HTML
2 8 (50.00%) REST
3 6 (37.50%) .NET
4 3 (18.75%) LINQ
4 3 (18.75%) Memcached
4 3 (18.75%) ASP.NET MVC
4 3 (18.75%) HTML5
4 3 (18.75%) ASP.NET
4 3 (18.75%) COM
4 3 (18.75%) Esper
4 3 (18.75%) Task Parallel Library
4 3 (18.75%) AppFabric
4 3 (18.75%) LINQ to SQL
Application Platforms
1 8 (50.00%) Apache
2 3 (18.75%) MTS
2 3 (18.75%) MSMQ
2 3 (18.75%) RabbitMQ
Applications
1 5 (31.25%) MS Excel
2 2 (12.50%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (50.00%) MySQL
2 6 (37.50%) SQL Server
3 3 (18.75%) Hadoop
3 3 (18.75%) Big Data
3 3 (18.75%) Redis
3 3 (18.75%) StreamInsight
3 3 (18.75%) MongoDB
3 3 (18.75%) Apache Cassandra
3 3 (18.75%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (37.50%) JIRA
2 4 (25.00%) Subversion
General
1 8 (50.00%) Retail
1 8 (50.00%) Marketing
2 6 (37.50%) Advertising
2 6 (37.50%) Games
3 2 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (87.50%) Developer
2 7 (43.75%) Web Developer
3 6 (37.50%) PHP Developer
4 5 (31.25%) PHP Web Developer
5 3 (18.75%) .NET Developer
5 3 (18.75%) Senior .NET Developer
5 3 (18.75%) Front-End Developer
5 3 (18.75%) Senior Developer
6 2 (12.50%) Digital Marketing Executive
6 2 (12.50%) Marketing Executive
7 1 (6.250%) PHP Programmer
7 1 (6.250%) Web Programmer
7 1 (6.250%) Web Engineer
7 1 (6.250%) Mobile Developer
7 1 (6.250%) Software Engineer
7 1 (6.250%) Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Cloud Computing
1 6 (37.50%) Social Media
1 6 (37.50%) Social Gaming
2 2 (12.50%) Copywriting
2 2 (12.50%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 6 (37.50%) Linux
2 5 (31.25%) Apple iOS
2 5 (31.25%) Windows 8
2 5 (31.25%) Android
2 5 (31.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) Agile Software Development
2 8 (50.00%) UML
2 8 (50.00%) OOP
2 8 (50.00%) OO
2 8 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 8 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 6 (37.50%) CRM
3 6 (37.50%) Unit Testing
4 3 (18.75%) Scrum
4 3 (18.75%) Multithreading
4 3 (18.75%) MVC
5 2 (12.50%) SEO
5 2 (12.50%) Digital Marketing
5 2 (12.50%) Business Development
5 2 (12.50%) Pay per click
5 2 (12.50%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 11 (68.75%) JavaScript
2 8 (50.00%) PHP
3 3 (18.75%) C#
3 3 (18.75%) SQL
3 3 (18.75%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) PhD
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) Salesforce.com
1 6 (37.50%) Twitter
2 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
2 5 (31.25%) Apple
3 2 (12.50%) Google
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