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The table below looks at the demand for the Graduate role in IT jobs within the London region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Graduate in their job title over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

 Graduate
Location
3 months to
10 Oct 2008
Same period last year
Rank178225
Rank change on same period last yearUp+47
Matching permanent IT job ads803903
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled0.465 %0.389 %
As % of the category below1.263 %0.946 %
Salaries quoted725709
Average minimum salary£25,695£24,919
Average salary£28,674£26,889
% change on same period last year+6.63 %
Average maximum salary£31,653£28,860
UK excluding London average salary£23,095£22,094
% change on same period last year+4.53 %
London IT Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
London
Matching permanent IT job ads6357295461
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled36.80 %41.08 %
Salaries quoted5330674301
Average minimum salary£45,799£47,221
Average salary£50,111£51,761
% change on same period last year-3.18 %
Average maximum salary£54,423£56,301
UK excluding London average salary£38,208£39,261
% change on same period last year-2.68 %
Graduate EnglandGraduate
England

Graduate
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Graduate across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

London Graduate Demand Trend

Graduate
Salary Trend

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

London Graduate Salary Trend

Graduate
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Graduate across the London region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

London Graduate Salary Histogram

Graduate
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Graduate within the London region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Last
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
City of LondonUp+77292£31,849+5.62 %
CroydonDown-210£20,625-6.72 %
Docklands, LondonUp+386£24,333+10.60 %
BromleyNew entry-5£21,500-
LutonDown-105£23,500+5.38 %
Canary WharfUp+104£26,250-36.04 %
WimbledonUp+203£21,500+1.17 %
HammersmithUp+53£20,167-15.08 %
Kingston Upon ThamesNew entry-1£27,000-
UxbridgeNew entry-1£23,500-
RomfordNew entry-1£21,000-
PaddingtonDown-101£40,000+60.00 %
ClaphamNew entry-1£29,000-
Graduate EnglandGraduate
England

Graduate
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the London region that cited Graduate in their job title 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 with Graduate in their job title.

1899 (50.91 %)Degree
2590 (33.41 %)Finance
3480 (27.18 %)Java
4478 (27.07 %)C++
5452 (25.59 %)SQL
6414 (23.44 %).NET
7360 (20.39 %)C#
8341 (19.31 %)Computer Science
9240 (13.59 %)Windows
10233 (13.19 %)SQL Server
11229 (12.97 %)OO
12223 (12.63 %)Mathematics
13216 (12.23 %)ASP.NET
14215 (12.17 %)UNIX
15173 (9.796 %)Banking
16172 (9.740 %)Microsoft
17162 (9.173 %)HTML
18157 (8.890 %)Linux
19133 (7.531 %)VB
20126 (7.135 %)MS Excel
21122 (6.908 %)C
22116 (6.569 %)Oracle
23114 (6.455 %)JavaScript
24109 (6.172 %)VB.NET
24109 (6.172 %)XML
24109 (6.172 %)Marketing
2597 (5.493 %)Education
2695 (5.379 %)J2EE
2794 (5.323 %)CSS
2890 (5.096 %)Software Engineering

Graduate
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the London region that cited Graduate in their job title 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 with Graduate in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

London IT Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
1414 (23.44 %).NET
2216 (12.23 %)ASP.NET
3162 (9.173 %)HTML
4109 (6.172 %)XML
595 (5.379 %)J2EE
694 (5.323 %)CSS
761 (3.454 %)AJAX
856 (3.171 %)STL
949 (2.775 %)WinForms
1048 (2.718 %)Swing
1147 (2.661 %)ASP
1244 (2.492 %)XHTML
1340 (2.265 %)JSP
1340 (2.265 %)MFC
1437 (2.095 %)Spring
1535 (1.982 %)WebServices
1631 (1.755 %)Hibernate
1631 (1.755 %)Servlets
1730 (1.699 %)J2SE
1825 (1.416 %)COM
London IT Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
141 (2.322 %)SAS
229 (1.642 %)MS Exchange
327 (1.529 %)SharePoint
426 (1.472 %)Exchange Server 2003
520 (1.133 %)IIS
613 (0.736 %)CMS
712 (0.680 %)WebLogic
811 (0.623 %)Apache
97 (0.396 %)Exchange Server 2000
105 (0.283 %)ColdFusion
105 (0.283 %)WebSphere MQ
105 (0.283 %)Mathematica
113 (0.170 %)SharePoint Portal Server
113 (0.170 %)JBoss
113 (0.170 %)DotNetNuke
122 (0.113 %)Lotus Notes
122 (0.113 %)SharePoint Server 2007
131 (0.057 %)Exchange Server 5.5
131 (0.057 %)LiveLink
131 (0.057 %)Tomcat
London IT Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
1126 (7.135 %)MS Excel
249 (2.775 %)MS Office
333 (1.869 %)SPSS
429 (1.642 %)Photoshop
520 (1.133 %)MS Visio
616 (0.906 %)MS PowerPoint
711 (0.623 %)S-PLUS
87 (0.396 %)Adobe Illustrator
96 (0.340 %)Fireworks
104 (0.227 %)Acrobat
104 (0.227 %)RoboHelp
104 (0.227 %)FrameMaker
112 (0.113 %)CA Clarity
112 (0.113 %)Spreadsheet
121 (0.057 %)3ds Max
121 (0.057 %)MATLAB
London IT Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
18 (0.453 %)RMDS
18 (0.453 %)Kondor+
18 (0.453 %)Misys Midas
27 (0.396 %)Microsoft CRM
35 (0.283 %)Unica Affinium
42 (0.113 %)Siebel Analytics
42 (0.113 %)Line 500
42 (0.113 %)GoldMine
51 (0.057 %)Google Analytics
51 (0.057 %)HFM
51 (0.057 %)Oracle Financials
London IT Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
176 (4.304 %)TCP/IP
250 (2.831 %)Internet
319 (1.076 %)Intranet
417 (0.963 %)HTTP
512 (0.680 %)DNS
512 (0.680 %)DHCP
611 (0.623 %)WAN
79 (0.510 %)Firewall
88 (0.453 %)LAN
97 (0.396 %)VPN
105 (0.283 %)Wireless
105 (0.283 %)DVB
114 (0.227 %)VoIP
114 (0.227 %)FTP
114 (0.227 %)ADSL
122 (0.113 %)Broadband
122 (0.113 %)PBX
122 (0.113 %)SAN
122 (0.113 %)SSH
131 (0.057 %)Cisco PIX
London IT Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
1233 (13.19 %)SQL Server
248 (2.718 %)SQL Server 2005
336 (2.039 %)RDBMS
428 (1.586 %)SQL Server 2000
527 (1.529 %)MySQL
619 (1.076 %)Datawarehouse
712 (0.680 %)Crystal Reports
810 (0.566 %)Oracle Reports
97 (0.396 %)OLAP
105 (0.283 %)DTS
105 (0.283 %)MS Access
114 (0.227 %)DB2
123 (0.170 %)BusinessObjects
123 (0.170 %)Data Mining
123 (0.170 %)GIS
123 (0.170 %)KDB
123 (0.170 %)Reference Data
132 (0.113 %)Crystal Enterprise
132 (0.113 %)Oracle 8/8i
132 (0.113 %)Oracle 9i
London IT Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
144 (2.492 %)Visual Studio
241 (2.322 %)Flash
315 (0.849 %)Dreamweaver
413 (0.736 %)TestDirector
512 (0.680 %)VSS/SourceSafe
512 (0.680 %)JUnit
69 (0.510 %)QuickTest Pro
77 (0.396 %)Rational Robot
77 (0.396 %)Selenium
77 (0.396 %)FitNesse
83 (0.170 %)Rational Rose
83 (0.170 %)Bugzilla
92 (0.113 %)Ant
92 (0.113 %)Eclipse
London IT Job Market, GeneralGeneral
1590 (33.41 %)Finance
2173 (9.796 %)Banking
3109 (6.172 %)Marketing
497 (5.493 %)Education
584 (4.757 %)Financial Institution
678 (4.417 %)Investment Banking
678 (4.417 %)Games
769 (3.907 %)Front Office
853 (3.001 %)Pensions
952 (2.945 %)Insurance
1050 (2.831 %)Telecoms
1141 (2.322 %)Health
1223 (1.302 %)Law
1322 (1.246 %)Online Games
1421 (1.189 %)Retail
1518 (1.019 %)Advertising
1616 (0.906 %)Legal
1715 (0.849 %)Online Gambling
1814 (0.793 %)Government
1814 (0.793 %)Back Office
London IT Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
1341 (19.31 %)Computer Science
2223 (12.63 %)Mathematics
369 (3.907 %)Derivative
444 (2.492 %)Equities
540 (2.265 %)Physics
637 (2.095 %)Statistics
728 (1.586 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
825 (1.416 %)Economics
918 (1.019 %)Client/Server
1017 (0.963 %)Multithreading
1114 (0.793 %)Fixed Income
1212 (0.680 %)Grid Computing
1311 (0.623 %)W3C
1410 (0.566 %)Social Network
159 (0.510 %)Blackberry
168 (0.453 %)German Language
177 (0.396 %)Exotic Derivative
177 (0.396 %)Credit Derivative
186 (0.340 %)IPTV
186 (0.340 %)French Language
London IT Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
1240 (13.59 %)Windows
2215 (12.17 %)UNIX
3157 (8.890 %)Linux
472 (4.077 %)Windows Server 2003
472 (4.077 %)Windows XP
536 (2.039 %)Windows 2000
632 (1.812 %)Solaris
79 (0.510 %)Windows Vista
87 (0.396 %)Windows 2000 Server
95 (0.283 %)AIX
104 (0.227 %)Windows NT
113 (0.170 %)Red Hat Linux
113 (0.170 %)VMS
122 (0.113 %)HPUX
122 (0.113 %)Debian
131 (0.057 %)Ubuntu
131 (0.057 %)SUSE
131 (0.057 %)OpenVMS
131 (0.057 %)Mac OS X
London IT Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
1229 (12.97 %)OO
290 (5.096 %)Software Engineering
361 (3.454 %)Web Development
457 (3.228 %)Algorithmic Trading
543 (2.435 %)Data Analysis
543 (2.435 %)Agile Software Development
638 (2.152 %)Project Management
729 (1.642 %)CRM
729 (1.642 %)E-Commerce
828 (1.586 %)OOA/OOD
927 (1.529 %)OOD
1024 (1.359 %)Software Testing
1123 (1.302 %)Investment Management
1221 (1.189 %)Business Analysis
1320 (1.133 %)UML
1418 (1.019 %)OOP
1418 (1.019 %)Electronic Trading
1517 (0.963 %)Business Intelligence
1616 (0.906 %)Statistical Analysis
1616 (0.906 %)Automated Testing
London IT Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
1480 (27.18 %)Java
2478 (27.07 %)C++
3452 (25.59 %)SQL
4360 (20.39 %)C#
5133 (7.531 %)VB
6122 (6.908 %)C
7114 (6.455 %)JavaScript
8109 (6.172 %)VB.NET
975 (4.247 %)PHP
1063 (3.567 %)Perl
1152 (2.945 %)VC++
1242 (2.378 %)Transact-SQL
1338 (2.152 %)Python
1432 (1.812 %)VB6
1525 (1.416 %)Shell Script
1623 (1.302 %)ActionScript
1719 (1.076 %)VBA
1719 (1.076 %)Tcl
1818 (1.019 %)Ruby
1914 (0.793 %)Delphi
London IT Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
1899 (50.91 %)Degree
251 (2.888 %)Microsoft Certification
343 (2.435 %)PhD
428 (1.586 %)MCP
527 (1.529 %)ISEB
624 (1.359 %)CCNA
624 (1.359 %)Cisco Certification
624 (1.359 %)MCSE
79 (0.510 %)Citrix Certification
79 (0.510 %)CCEA
88 (0.453 %)ISEB Practitioner
97 (0.396 %)MCAD
106 (0.340 %)CCNP
106 (0.340 %)CCDP
113 (0.170 %)MCDBA
113 (0.170 %)MCTS
122 (0.113 %)PRINCE2 Certification
122 (0.113 %)MCSA
131 (0.057 %)MCSD
131 (0.057 %)HND
London IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
144 (2.492 %)QA
27 (0.396 %)ISO9001
32 (0.113 %)SLA
London IT Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
148 (2.718 %)Active Directory
25 (0.283 %)MSMQ
33 (0.170 %)Backup Exec
41 (0.057 %)Oracle RMAN
41 (0.057 %)Xen
41 (0.057 %)Terminal Services
41 (0.057 %)NetBackup
London IT Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
15 (0.283 %)Tivoli
15 (0.283 %)Netcool
23 (0.170 %)Netcool/OMNIbus
23 (0.170 %)Netcool/Proviso
23 (0.170 %)Netcool/Webtop
31 (0.057 %)EMC NetWorker
London IT Job Market, VendorsVendors
1172 (9.740 %)Microsoft
2116 (6.569 %)Oracle
332 (1.812 %)SAP
332 (1.812 %)OutlookSoft
420 (1.133 %)Citrix
514 (0.793 %)Reuters
613 (0.736 %)Cisco
712 (0.680 %)Bloomberg
810 (0.566 %)Adobe
99 (0.510 %)IBM
108 (0.453 %)Siebel
116 (0.340 %)HP
116 (0.340 %)Avaya
125 (0.283 %)Cognos
125 (0.283 %)Sybase
125 (0.283 %)Unica
134 (0.227 %)Apple
143 (0.170 %)Business Objects
143 (0.170 %)Progress
143 (0.170 %)Red Hat