Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Middleware skills in IT jobs advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Middleware over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category for the London region.

 Middleware
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank161139186
Rank change year-on-year
Down-22Up+47
Matching permanent IT job ads490466886
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London1.259 %1.467 %1.051 %
As % of the Application Development category3.471 %4.309 %3.185 %
Salaries quoted348360687
Average salary£62,500£55,000£55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+13.63 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£40,000£37,500£40,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£80,000£80,000£80,000
UK excluding London average salary£46,000£44,500£46,000
% change year-on-year
+3.370 %-3.260 %
London IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryAll Application Development
London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
141171081427820
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London36.27 %34.05 %32.99 %
Salaries quoted12077908123670
Average salary£47,000£45,000£45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.440 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£31,500£30,000£30,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£75,000£70,000£67,500
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£34,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+2.940 %-2.850 %
Middleware EnglandMiddleware
England

Middleware
Demand Trend

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

London Middleware Demand Trend

Middleware
Salary Trend

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

London Middleware Salary Trend

Middleware
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Middleware across the London region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

London Middleware Salary Histogram

Middleware
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Middleware within the London region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
City of LondonDown-9391£65,000+36.84 %
Docklands, LondonUp+414£82,500-
HarrowUp+127£47,500-5.00 %
CroydonDown-33£63,750+105.64 %
Canary WharfUp+32£85,000+41.66 %
UxbridgeDown-21--
Middleware EnglandMiddleware
England

Middleware
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the London 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.

1464 (44.49 %)Java
2331 (31.74 %)Finance
3299 (28.67 %)Banking
4284 (27.23 %)SQL
5282 (27.04 %)Oracle
6276 (26.46 %)UNIX
7218 (20.90 %)C++
8212 (20.33 %)C#
9206 (19.75 %).NET
10200 (19.18 %)J2EE
10200 (19.18 %)TIBCO
11185 (17.74 %)Investment Banking
12154 (14.77 %)XML
13148 (14.19 %)WebSphere
14145 (13.90 %)Windows
15142 (13.61 %)SOA
16138 (13.23 %)Front Office
17132 (12.66 %)Linux
18127 (12.18 %)OO
19123 (11.79 %)SQL Server
20122 (11.70 %)Agile Software Development
21117 (11.22 %)Derivative
22115 (11.03 %)Solaris
23110 (10.55 %)Degree
24104 (9.971 %)Sybase
2594 (9.012 %)IBM
2693 (8.917 %)Risk Management
2792 (8.821 %)Shell Script
2889 (8.533 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
2988 (8.437 %)MQSeries

Middleware
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the London 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.

London IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1206 (19.75 %).NET
2200 (19.18 %)J2EE
3154 (14.77 %)XML
4148 (14.19 %)WebSphere
578 (7.478 %)Spring
666 (6.328 %)Web Services
666 (6.328 %)JMS
763 (6.040 %)JSP
855 (5.273 %)JDBC
855 (5.273 %)Oracle Fusion
954 (5.177 %).NET Framework
1044 (4.219 %)HTML
1143 (4.123 %)AJAX
1242 (4.027 %)Java EE
1242 (4.027 %)ASP.NET
1334 (3.260 %)EJB
1427 (2.589 %)CSS
1427 (2.589 %)Struts
1524 (2.301 %)XSLT
1524 (2.301 %)FIX Protocol
London IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
188 (8.437 %)MQSeries
285 (8.150 %)WebLogic
361 (5.849 %)Tomcat
452 (4.986 %)TIBCO EMS
548 (4.602 %)Rendezvous
647 (4.506 %)WebSphere MQ
742 (4.027 %)Apache
839 (3.739 %)ESB
931 (2.972 %)WebLogic Portal
931 (2.972 %)AquaLogic
1024 (2.301 %)WebSphere Application Server
1024 (2.301 %)CMS
1123 (2.205 %)WebSphere Message Broker
1220 (1.918 %)WebSphere Process Server
1314 (1.342 %)JCAPS
1412 (1.151 %)WebSphere Portal
1412 (1.151 %)NetWeaver
1511 (1.055 %)Lightstreamer
1610 (0.959 %)AquaLogic Service Bus
179 (0.863 %)SmartSockets
London IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
130 (2.876 %)MS Visio
214 (1.342 %)MS Excel
35 (0.479 %)MS Project
35 (0.479 %)MS Office
42 (0.192 %)MS PowerPoint
London IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
126 (2.493 %)BusinessWorks
216 (1.534 %)RMDS
313 (1.246 %)TIBCO iProcess
411 (1.055 %)Endur
510 (0.959 %)Oracle BPM
68 (0.767 %)Staffware
77 (0.671 %)Oracle EBS
86 (0.575 %)Global One
94 (0.384 %)Oracle Applications
103 (0.288 %)Oracle Financials
103 (0.288 %)Summit
103 (0.288 %)Adaptiv
103 (0.288 %)Front Arena
112 (0.192 %)SunGard Panorama
121 (0.096 %)Maximo
121 (0.096 %)SimCorp Dimension
121 (0.096 %)Salerio
121 (0.096 %)Kondor+
121 (0.096 %)Cerner Millennium
121 (0.096 %)WebTrends
London IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
130 (2.876 %)Internet
226 (2.493 %)Firewall
316 (1.534 %)TCP/IP
415 (1.438 %)SAN
514 (1.342 %)LDAP
68 (0.767 %)DSL
76 (0.575 %)DVB
84 (0.384 %)SSH
93 (0.288 %)NAS
93 (0.288 %)Kerberos
93 (0.288 %)LAN
93 (0.288 %)WAN
102 (0.192 %)SMTP
102 (0.192 %)FTP
102 (0.192 %)HTTP
102 (0.192 %)AMQP
111 (0.096 %)BSS
London IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1123 (11.79 %)SQL Server
246 (4.410 %)RDBMS
323 (2.205 %)Datawarehouse
421 (2.013 %)Oracle 10g
421 (2.013 %)DB2
421 (2.013 %)Oracle 11g
518 (1.726 %)Oracle OLAP
518 (1.726 %)OLAP
616 (1.534 %)SQL Server 2005
715 (1.438 %)Oracle 8/8i
811 (1.055 %)SQL Server 2008
99 (0.863 %)MySQL
108 (0.767 %)Oracle Reports
108 (0.767 %)SQL Server 2000
117 (0.671 %)SAP BW
117 (0.671 %)Reference Data
125 (0.479 %)Oracle 9i
125 (0.479 %)BusinessObjects
125 (0.479 %)ETL
134 (0.384 %)InterSystems Cache
London IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
133 (3.164 %)Ant
231 (2.972 %)Maven
317 (1.630 %)Subversion
410 (0.959 %)QuickTest Pro
410 (0.959 %)Oracle Forms
59 (0.863 %)Team Foundation Server
67 (0.671 %)Oracle APEX
67 (0.671 %)Eclipse
76 (0.575 %)JDeveloper
76 (0.575 %)NUnit
84 (0.384 %)Bugzilla
84 (0.384 %)LoadRunner
93 (0.288 %)ClearCase
93 (0.288 %)JUnit
93 (0.288 %)Visual Studio
93 (0.288 %)FitNesse
102 (0.192 %)TestPartner
102 (0.192 %)WinRunner
102 (0.192 %)SilkPerformer
102 (0.192 %)SilkTest
London IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1331 (31.74 %)Finance
2299 (28.67 %)Banking
3185 (17.74 %)Investment Banking
4138 (13.23 %)Front Office
588 (8.437 %)Back Office
623 (2.205 %)Government
623 (2.205 %)Pensions
722 (2.109 %)Retail
820 (1.918 %)Games
919 (1.822 %)Financial Institution
1012 (1.151 %)Marketing
1111 (1.055 %)Health
1111 (1.055 %)Legal
1111 (1.055 %)Education
1210 (0.959 %)Publishing
1210 (0.959 %)Online Games
139 (0.863 %)Insurance
139 (0.863 %)Local Government
139 (0.863 %)Telecoms
148 (0.767 %)Manufacturing
London IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1433 (41.51 %)Developer
2180 (17.26 %)Architect
3162 (15.53 %)Java Developer
487 (8.341 %)Analyst
574 (7.095 %)C++ Developer
669 (6.616 %)Team Leader
758 (5.561 %)Technical Architect
857 (5.465 %)Middleware Developer
954 (5.177 %)C# Developer
1050 (4.794 %)Senior Developer
1146 (4.410 %)Consultant
1241 (3.931 %)Solutions Architect
1241 (3.931 %)Applications Support
1332 (3.068 %).NET Developer
1430 (2.876 %)Tester
1528 (2.685 %)Project Manager
1627 (2.589 %)Lead Architect
1723 (2.205 %)Support Analyst
1822 (2.109 %)Senior Tester
1921 (2.013 %)Senior Java Developer
London IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1117 (11.22 %)Derivative
289 (8.533 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
360 (5.753 %)Multithreading
454 (5.177 %)Fixed Income
548 (4.602 %)Equities
642 (4.027 %)Equity Derivative
736 (3.452 %)Client/Server
830 (2.876 %)Computer Science
923 (2.205 %)Credit Derivative
1020 (1.918 %)Blackberry
1020 (1.918 %)Credit Risk
1020 (1.918 %)Data Integration
1119 (1.822 %)Market Risk
1119 (1.822 %)Spread Betting
1215 (1.438 %)Grid Computing
1310 (0.959 %)DTV
149 (0.863 %)PMI
149 (0.863 %)EMC Centera
149 (0.863 %)Data Protection Act
149 (0.863 %)Symmetrix DMX
London IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1276 (26.46 %)UNIX
2145 (13.90 %)Windows
3132 (12.66 %)Linux
4115 (11.03 %)Solaris
518 (1.726 %)Windows Mobile
518 (1.726 %)Android
613 (1.246 %)Windows Server 2003
711 (1.055 %)Windows Server 2008
711 (1.055 %)AIX
89 (0.863 %)zOS
98 (0.767 %)Red Hat Linux
105 (0.479 %)VxWorks
105 (0.479 %)Nucleus RTOS
114 (0.384 %)HPUX
114 (0.384 %)OpenVMS
123 (0.288 %)Windows XP
123 (0.288 %)Windows Vista
132 (0.192 %)VMS
141 (0.096 %)Embedded Linux
141 (0.096 %)pSOS
London IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1142 (13.61 %)SOA
2127 (12.18 %)OO
3122 (11.70 %)Agile Software Development
493 (8.917 %)Risk Management
573 (6.999 %)Scrum
667 (6.424 %)Migration
766 (6.328 %)UML
851 (4.890 %)Data Modelling
945 (4.314 %)Project Management
1043 (4.123 %)E-Commerce
1138 (3.643 %)ITIL
1236 (3.452 %)RUP
1335 (3.356 %)EAI
1434 (3.260 %)Content Management
1532 (3.068 %)Technical Architecture
1631 (2.972 %)Data Migration
1729 (2.780 %)Change Management
1828 (2.685 %)Release Management
1927 (2.589 %)Electronic Trading
1927 (2.589 %)Enterprise Architecture
London IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1464 (44.49 %)Java
2284 (27.23 %)SQL
3218 (20.90 %)C++
4212 (20.33 %)C#
592 (8.821 %)Shell Script
659 (5.657 %)Perl
752 (4.986 %)C
840 (3.835 %)JavaScript
927 (2.589 %)VB
1025 (2.397 %)PL/SQL
1122 (2.109 %)ABAP
1220 (1.918 %)Python
1314 (1.342 %)VBScript
1412 (1.151 %)VBA
1511 (1.055 %)T-SQL
1511 (1.055 %)VB6
168 (0.767 %)Bash shell
177 (0.671 %)AWK
186 (0.575 %)Korn
195 (0.479 %)XPath
London IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1110 (10.55 %)Degree
213 (1.246 %)Security Cleared
39 (0.863 %)PMI Certification
47 (0.671 %)SC Cleared
55 (0.479 %)CTC Cleared
55 (0.479 %)DV Cleared
64 (0.384 %)APMP
64 (0.384 %)ITIL Certification
73 (0.288 %)MCSE
73 (0.288 %)Microsoft Certification
73 (0.288 %)Oracle Certification
73 (0.288 %)SAP Certification
82 (0.192 %)CCNA
82 (0.192 %)Cisco Certification
91 (0.096 %)IBM Certification
London IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
144 (4.219 %)QA
26 (0.575 %)SLA
31 (0.096 %)ISO27001
31 (0.096 %)PCI DSS
London IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
110 (0.959 %)Oracle RAC
29 (0.863 %)MSMQ
29 (0.863 %)SRDF
37 (0.671 %)Active Directory
45 (0.479 %)Oracle RMAN
53 (0.288 %)Veritas Volume Manager
53 (0.288 %)VMware Infrastructure
62 (0.192 %)Samba
62 (0.192 %)NFS
71 (0.096 %)VMware ESX
71 (0.096 %)Hyper-V
London IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
115 (1.438 %)AutoSys
210 (0.959 %)TIBCO Hawk
210 (0.959 %)NetBackup
38 (0.767 %)TIBCO InConcert
43 (0.288 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
43 (0.288 %)Data Guard
51 (0.096 %)HP Quality Center
51 (0.096 %)EMC NetWorker
51 (0.096 %)Legato
51 (0.096 %)Tivoli
51 (0.096 %)MOM
51 (0.096 %)BMC PATROL
51 (0.096 %)CONTROL-M
London IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1282 (27.04 %)Oracle
2200 (19.18 %)TIBCO
3104 (9.971 %)Sybase
494 (9.012 %)IBM
554 (5.177 %)SeeBeyond
647 (4.506 %)SAP
744 (4.219 %)JBoss
824 (2.301 %)BEA
923 (2.205 %)Microsoft
1022 (2.109 %)Sun
1022 (2.109 %)Murex
1022 (2.109 %)Siebel
1120 (1.918 %)Red Hat
1120 (1.918 %)VMware
1217 (1.630 %)DataSynapse
1316 (1.534 %)ION Trading
1415 (1.438 %)Sophis
1415 (1.438 %)Cisco
1415 (1.438 %)HP
1514 (1.342 %)Charles River