The first table below looks at the demand for Postgraduate in IT jobs advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Postgraduate 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 Qualifications for the London region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Postgraduate
Rank 569 619 585
Rank change year-on-year
+50 -34
Permanent jobs citing Postgraduate 28 22 33
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 0.064% 0.041% 0.058%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.255% 0.171% 0.248%
Number of salaries quoted 27 21 24
Average salary £62,500 £70,000 £85,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-10.71% -17.64%
90% offered a salary of more than £31,500 £55,000 £43,800
10% offered a salary of more than £115,000 £90,000 £98,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,250 £35,750 £30,000
% change year-on-year
+4.19% +19.16%
All Qualifications
London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
10995 12837 13333
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 25.28% 23.85% 23.52%
Number of salaries quoted 8946 11045 11000
Average salary £50,000 £49,000 £49,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.04% -1.01%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
10% offered a salary of more than £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
Postgraduate
England

Postgraduate
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Postgraduate Jobs Demand Trend

Postgraduate
Salary Trend

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

London Postgraduate Salary Trend

Postgraduate
Salary Histogram

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

London Postgraduate Salary Histogram

Postgraduate
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Postgraduate 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
City of London +7 3 £62,500 +40.44%
Postgraduate
England

Postgraduate
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 49 (77.78%) Degree
2 25 (39.68%) SQL
3 24 (38.10%) Finance
4 18 (28.57%) C++
4 18 (28.57%) Java
5 16 (25.40%) Project Management
5 16 (25.40%) MS Excel
6 12 (19.05%) Risk Management
7 11 (17.46%) C
7 11 (17.46%) Computer Science
8 10 (15.87%) UML
9 9 (14.29%) JavaScript
9 9 (14.29%) Data Modelling
9 9 (14.29%) Market Risk
9 9 (14.29%) Statistics
9 9 (14.29%) Stress Testing
9 9 (14.29%) Integration Testing
9 9 (14.29%) Big Data
10 7 (11.11%) Telecoms
10 7 (11.11%) Python
10 7 (11.11%) HTML
10 7 (11.11%) OO
10 7 (11.11%) EJB
10 7 (11.11%) CSS
11 6 (9.524%) MySQL
11 6 (9.524%) PhD
11 6 (9.524%) Law
11 6 (9.524%) E-Learning
11 6 (9.524%) NoSQL
12 5 (7.937%) Apache Hive

Postgraduate
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 7 (11.11%) HTML
1 7 (11.11%) EJB
1 7 (11.11%) CSS
2 4 (6.349%) HTML5
2 4 (6.349%) CSS3
2 4 (6.349%) HTML5 Canvas
3 3 (4.762%) JSP
3 3 (4.762%) .NET
3 3 (4.762%) J2EE
4 2 (3.175%) ASP.NET
4 2 (3.175%) Web Services
4 2 (3.175%) Middleware
4 2 (3.175%) LAMP
4 2 (3.175%) Spring
4 2 (3.175%) jQuery
4 2 (3.175%) WebSphere
5 1 (1.587%) Java SE
5 1 (1.587%) JSON
5 1 (1.587%) Grails
5 1 (1.587%) Natural Language Processing
Application Platforms
1 2 (3.175%) ESB
1 2 (3.175%) Moodle
1 2 (3.175%) NServiceBus
2 1 (1.587%) nginx
2 1 (1.587%) Apache
2 1 (1.587%) Tomcat
2 1 (1.587%) MSMQ
2 1 (1.587%) SAS
2 1 (1.587%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 16 (25.40%) MS Excel
2 4 (6.349%) Adobe Illustrator
2 4 (6.349%) OmniGraffle
2 4 (6.349%) Photoshop
3 1 (1.587%) SPSS
3 1 (1.587%) S-PLUS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.349%) Internet
2 1 (1.587%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.587%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (14.29%) Big Data
2 6 (9.524%) MySQL
2 6 (9.524%) NoSQL
3 5 (7.937%) HBase
3 5 (7.937%) Hadoop
3 5 (7.937%) Apache Hive
4 2 (3.175%) SQL Server
4 2 (3.175%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.587%) GIS
5 1 (1.587%) Text Mining
5 1 (1.587%) SQL Server 2008
5 1 (1.587%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.587%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (6.349%) Axure RP
2 3 (4.762%) Subversion
2 3 (4.762%) JIRA
3 2 (3.175%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.587%) NUnit
4 1 (1.587%) JUnit
4 1 (1.587%) Git (software)
4 1 (1.587%) Moq
4 1 (1.587%) MbUnit
4 1 (1.587%) MSBuild
4 1 (1.587%) SpecFlow
4 1 (1.587%) Jenkins
General
1 24 (38.10%) Finance
2 7 (11.11%) Telecoms
3 6 (9.524%) Law
4 5 (7.937%) Banking
5 2 (3.175%) Music
5 2 (3.175%) Front Office
6 1 (1.587%) Military
6 1 (1.587%) Marketing
6 1 (1.587%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (36.51%) Analyst
2 12 (19.05%) Developer
3 11 (17.46%) Business Analyst
4 9 (14.29%) Market Risk Analyst
4 9 (14.29%) Market Risk Business Analyst
5 8 (12.70%) Designer
6 5 (7.937%) Java Engineer
7 4 (6.349%) Quantitative Analyst
7 4 (6.349%) User Experience Designer
7 4 (6.349%) Web Designer
8 3 (4.762%) Data Analyst
8 3 (4.762%) Senior Analyst
8 3 (4.762%) Software Developer
9 2 (3.175%) Programmer
9 2 (3.175%) Business Process Analyst
9 2 (3.175%) Management Consultant
9 2 (3.175%) Programme Manager
9 2 (3.175%) Junior
9 2 (3.175%) Systems Analyst
9 2 (3.175%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 11 (17.46%) Computer Science
2 9 (14.29%) Statistics
2 9 (14.29%) Market Risk
3 6 (9.524%) E-Learning
4 5 (7.937%) Economics
5 4 (6.349%) Management Information System
6 3 (4.762%) Mathematics
6 3 (4.762%) Open Source
6 3 (4.762%) Hedge funds
7 2 (3.175%) Machine Learning
7 2 (3.175%) Mobile App
7 2 (3.175%) VLE
7 2 (3.175%) Tandem
7 2 (3.175%) Graphic Design
7 2 (3.175%) Informatics
8 1 (1.587%) NLPG
8 1 (1.587%) Grid Computing
8 1 (1.587%) Physics
8 1 (1.587%) Chemistry
8 1 (1.587%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.349%) UNIX
2 2 (3.175%) Linux
3 1 (1.587%) Android
3 1 (1.587%) CentOS
3 1 (1.587%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (25.40%) Project Management
2 12 (19.05%) Risk Management
3 10 (15.87%) UML
4 9 (14.29%) Data Modelling
4 9 (14.29%) Stress Testing
4 9 (14.29%) Integration Testing
5 7 (11.11%) OO
6 5 (7.937%) E-Commerce
6 5 (7.937%) Migration
6 5 (7.937%) Quantitative Analysis
6 5 (7.937%) Performance Testing
6 5 (7.937%) Agile Software Development
6 5 (7.937%) TDD
6 5 (7.937%) Statistical Analysis
6 5 (7.937%) Operations Research
6 5 (7.937%) Multithreading
6 5 (7.937%) Analytics
7 3 (4.762%) MVC
7 3 (4.762%) BDD
7 3 (4.762%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 25 (39.68%) SQL
2 18 (28.57%) C++
2 18 (28.57%) Java
3 11 (17.46%) C
4 9 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 7 (11.11%) Python
6 5 (7.937%) C#
7 4 (6.349%) Perl
7 4 (6.349%) R
8 3 (4.762%) Ruby
9 2 (3.175%) PHP
10 1 (1.587%) VB
10 1 (1.587%) Groovy
10 1 (1.587%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.587%) Bash shell
10 1 (1.587%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 49 (77.78%) Degree
2 6 (9.524%) PhD
3 2 (3.175%) APMP
4 1 (1.587%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.587%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.175%) QA
2 1 (1.587%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (1.587%) ZABBIX
1 1 (1.587%) Puppet
1 1 (1.587%) CFEngine
Vendors
1 5 (7.937%) Twitter
2 2 (3.175%) Oracle
2 2 (3.175%) JBoss
2 2 (3.175%) IBM
2 2 (3.175%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.587%) Red Hat
3 1 (1.587%) Mapinfo
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