The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Mercator products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Mercator over the 3 months to 20 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 London region.

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

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Mercator
Rank 562 600 559
Rank change year-on-year
+38 -41
Permanent jobs citing Mercator 35 41 59
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 0.080% 0.076% 0.104%
As % of the Vendors category 0.173% 0.162% 0.233%
Number of salaries quoted 27 25 40
Average salary £60,000 £40,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+50.00% -5.88%
90% offered a salary of more than £49,000 £37,500 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £66,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £55,000 £32,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+69.23% -18.75%
All Vendors
London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
20262 25275 25350
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 46.58% 46.96% 44.73%
Number of salaries quoted 16725 21666 21075
Average salary £50,500 £52,500 £52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.80% -
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £32,500 £32,000
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Mercator
England

Mercator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Mercator Jobs Demand Trend

Mercator
Salary Trend

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

London Mercator Salary Trend

Mercator
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Mercator across the London region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

London Mercator Salary Histogram

Mercator
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Mercator within the London region over the 3 months to 20 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
Ealing - 16 £60,000 -
Docklands, London - 7 £65,000 -
City of London - 1 £47,500 -
Mercator
England

Mercator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the London region citing Mercator 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 Mercator.

1 30 (38.46%) Java
2 25 (32.05%) Finance
3 23 (29.49%) Banking
4 22 (28.21%) User Acceptance Testing
5 20 (25.64%) Publishing
6 19 (24.36%) Oracle
7 17 (21.79%) Windows
8 16 (20.51%) SQL Server
8 16 (20.51%) Temenos T24
8 16 (20.51%) SWIFT
9 15 (19.23%) Test Scripting
9 15 (19.23%) OpenLink
10 14 (17.95%) Agile Software Development
11 13 (16.67%) Spring
11 13 (16.67%) Microsoft
11 13 (16.67%) Performance Testing
12 12 (15.38%) WebSphere
12 12 (15.38%) IBM
12 12 (15.38%) Middleware
12 12 (15.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 11 (14.10%) .NET
13 11 (14.10%) C#
13 11 (14.10%) XML
13 11 (14.10%) SQL Server 2008
13 11 (14.10%) T-Plan
14 10 (12.82%) QA
14 10 (12.82%) WCF
14 10 (12.82%) SQL
15 9 (11.54%) UNIX
15 9 (11.54%) Oracle 8/8i

Mercator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 13 (16.67%) Spring
2 12 (15.38%) Middleware
2 12 (15.38%) WebSphere
3 11 (14.10%) .NET
3 11 (14.10%) XML
4 10 (12.82%) WCF
5 9 (11.54%) .NET Framework
6 7 (8.974%) HTML
6 7 (8.974%) CSS
7 6 (7.692%) Ruby on Rails
7 6 (7.692%) Node.js
8 5 (6.410%) Hibernate
9 4 (5.128%) jQuery
9 4 (5.128%) Symfony
10 3 (3.846%) CodeIgniter
10 3 (3.846%) CakePHP
10 3 (3.846%) YUI
10 3 (3.846%) JSR 170
10 3 (3.846%) Spring MVC
10 3 (3.846%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 9 (11.54%) WebSphere MQ
2 6 (7.692%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (3.846%) Apache
3 3 (3.846%) CMS
3 3 (3.846%) Apache Solr
3 3 (3.846%) Amazon AWS
4 2 (2.564%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (10.26%) MS Excel
2 3 (3.846%) Weka
Business Applications
1 16 (20.51%) Temenos T24
2 8 (10.26%) SAP GTS
3 6 (7.692%) Oracle Applications
4 3 (3.846%) Oracle EBS R12
4 3 (3.846%) Oracle iProcurement
4 3 (3.846%) Oracle Financials
4 3 (3.846%) Oracle HRMS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.974%) SAN
2 5 (6.410%) VLAN
2 5 (6.410%) MPLS
3 4 (5.128%) LAN
3 4 (5.128%) WAN
3 4 (5.128%) iSCSI
3 4 (5.128%) Firewall
3 4 (5.128%) Fibre Channel
4 2 (2.564%) Internet
5 1 (1.282%) Network Security
5 1 (1.282%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (1.282%) VPN
5 1 (1.282%) DNS
5 1 (1.282%) VoIP
5 1 (1.282%) OSPF
5 1 (1.282%) BGP
5 1 (1.282%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (20.51%) SQL Server
2 12 (15.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 11 (14.10%) SQL Server 2008
4 9 (11.54%) Hadoop
4 9 (11.54%) Oracle 8/8i
4 9 (11.54%) Big Data
5 8 (10.26%) MySQL
6 6 (7.692%) Oracle Discoverer
6 6 (7.692%) MongoDB
6 6 (7.692%) NoSQL
6 6 (7.692%) Redis
7 5 (6.410%) MarkLogic
8 4 (5.128%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (3.846%) Mahout
9 3 (3.846%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (1.282%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (7.692%) Cucumber
2 5 (6.410%) Selenium
3 4 (5.128%) Subversion
4 3 (3.846%) Oracle Forms
4 3 (3.846%) Git (software)
5 2 (2.564%) JIRA
6 1 (1.282%) Ant
6 1 (1.282%) FitNesse
6 1 (1.282%) RequisitePro
6 1 (1.282%) Maven
6 1 (1.282%) JBehave
6 1 (1.282%) Concordion
6 1 (1.282%) SpecFlow
General
1 25 (32.05%) Finance
2 23 (29.49%) Banking
3 20 (25.64%) Publishing
4 2 (2.564%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.282%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.282%) Advertising
5 1 (1.282%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 24 (30.77%) Developer
2 17 (21.79%) Analyst
3 12 (15.38%) Test Analyst
3 12 (15.38%) Middleware Developer
4 7 (8.974%) Technical Leader
5 6 (7.692%) Architect
5 6 (7.692%) Lead Architect
6 4 (5.128%) Consultant
6 4 (5.128%) PHP Developer
6 4 (5.128%) Technical Manager
6 4 (5.128%) Solutions Consultant
7 3 (3.846%) Oracle Analyst
7 3 (3.846%) Senior Developer
7 3 (3.846%) Lead Developer
7 3 (3.846%) Team Leader
7 3 (3.846%) Systems Architect
7 3 (3.846%) Oracle Applications Developer
7 3 (3.846%) Oracle Financials Developer
7 3 (3.846%) Senior Java Developer
7 3 (3.846%) Technical Services Manager
Miscellaneous
1 16 (20.51%) SWIFT
2 7 (8.974%) APACS
3 4 (5.128%) Replication
4 3 (3.846%) Computer Science
5 1 (1.282%) Open Source
5 1 (1.282%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.282%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 17 (21.79%) Windows
2 9 (11.54%) UNIX
3 5 (6.410%) Windows Server 2003
4 4 (5.128%) Debian
4 4 (5.128%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (5.128%) Linux
5 3 (3.846%) Solaris
6 1 (1.282%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (28.21%) User Acceptance Testing
2 15 (19.23%) Test Scripting
3 14 (17.95%) Agile Software Development
4 13 (16.67%) Performance Testing
5 9 (11.54%) Unit Testing
5 9 (11.54%) Change Management
5 9 (11.54%) Product Management
6 8 (10.26%) TDD
6 8 (10.26%) Scrum
6 8 (10.26%) Software Testing
7 7 (8.974%) Business Development
7 7 (8.974%) Load Testing
7 7 (8.974%) MVC
7 7 (8.974%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (8.974%) Test Strategy
8 6 (7.692%) BDD
8 6 (7.692%) Web Development
8 6 (7.692%) Project Management
8 6 (7.692%) Business Analysis
9 5 (6.410%) Automated Testing
Programming Languages
1 30 (38.46%) Java
2 11 (14.10%) C#
3 10 (12.82%) SQL
4 9 (11.54%) XQuery
5 6 (7.692%) Ruby
6 5 (6.410%) JavaScript
7 4 (5.128%) PHP
8 3 (3.846%) PL/SQL
8 3 (3.846%) PHP5
8 3 (3.846%) R
9 1 (1.282%) C
Qualifications
1 8 (10.26%) ISTQB
2 5 (6.410%) Degree
2 5 (6.410%) ISEB
3 4 (5.128%) Security Cleared
3 4 (5.128%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.846%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (12.82%) QA
2 4 (5.128%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (8.974%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (5.128%) Hyper-V
2 4 (5.128%) XenServer
2 4 (5.128%) vSphere
2 4 (5.128%) NFS
3 1 (1.282%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (8.974%) NetBackup
2 6 (7.692%) Puppet
3 3 (3.846%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 1 (1.282%) WSUS
4 1 (1.282%) SCCM
Vendors
1 19 (24.36%) Oracle
2 15 (19.23%) OpenLink
3 13 (16.67%) Microsoft
4 12 (15.38%) IBM
5 11 (14.10%) T-Plan
6 8 (10.26%) VMware
6 8 (10.26%) SAP
7 7 (8.974%) Veritas
8 6 (7.692%) Rackspace
9 4 (5.128%) CheckPoint
9 4 (5.128%) Zend
9 4 (5.128%) Cisco
10 3 (3.846%) Business Objects
10 3 (3.846%) Red Hat
10 3 (3.846%) Akamai
11 1 (1.282%) NetApp
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