The first table below looks at the demand for SPARQL skills in IT jobs advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SPARQL over the 3 months to 22 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 of the Programming Languages category for the London region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SPARQL
Rank 584 617 -
Rank change year-on-year
+33 -
Permanent jobs citing SPARQL 17 32 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 0.039% 0.059% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.072% 0.109% -
Number of salaries quoted 11 32 0
Average salary £57,500 £60,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.16% -
UK excluding London average salary - £29,750 -
All Programming Languages
London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
23596 29475 31178
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 53.62% 54.12% 54.60%
Number of salaries quoted 20277 26175 26689
Average salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £32,500 £33,500
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
SPARQL
England

SPARQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London SPARQL Jobs Demand Trend

SPARQL
Salary Trend

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

London SPARQL Salary Trend

SPARQL
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SPARQL across the London region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

London SPARQL Salary Histogram

SPARQL
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SPARQL within the London region over the 3 months to 22 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 +16 4 £57,500 -4.16%
SPARQL
England

SPARQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the London region citing SPARQL 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 SPARQL.

1 40 (100.00%) Java
2 39 (97.50%) RDF
3 32 (80.00%) Scala
4 31 (77.50%) NoSQL
5 29 (72.50%) Big Data
5 29 (72.50%) XML
6 26 (65.00%) Linux
6 26 (65.00%) Web Services
6 26 (65.00%) MarkLogic
7 24 (60.00%) Linked Data
7 24 (60.00%) JavaScript
7 24 (60.00%) SQL
7 24 (60.00%) Tomcat
7 24 (60.00%) Content Management
8 23 (57.50%) BBC
8 23 (57.50%) RESTful
9 22 (55.00%) Agile Software Development
10 21 (52.50%) Open Source
11 20 (50.00%) Ruby
11 20 (50.00%) C++
11 20 (50.00%) Perl
11 20 (50.00%) .NET
12 19 (47.50%) PHP
12 19 (47.50%) ActionScript
12 19 (47.50%) UNIX
12 19 (47.50%) Windows
12 19 (47.50%) Scrum
12 19 (47.50%) Internet
12 19 (47.50%) Benchmarking
12 19 (47.50%) Unit Testing

SPARQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the London region citing SPARQL 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 SPARQL. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 29 (72.50%) XML
2 26 (65.00%) Web Services
3 23 (57.50%) RESTful
4 20 (50.00%) .NET
5 18 (45.00%) REST
6 13 (32.50%) Spring
7 9 (22.50%) XSLT
8 7 (17.50%) J2EE
9 5 (12.50%) JMS
9 5 (12.50%) JSR 170
10 4 (10.00%) jQuery
10 4 (10.00%) HTML5
11 2 (5.000%) Lucene
11 2 (5.000%) CSS
11 2 (5.000%) HTML
11 2 (5.000%) OSGi
12 1 (2.500%) JSTL
12 1 (2.500%) JSP
Application Platforms
1 24 (60.00%) Tomcat
2 15 (37.50%) Apache
3 6 (15.00%) Jetty
4 4 (10.00%) Apache Solr
5 1 (2.500%) CMS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (47.50%) Internet
2 5 (12.50%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (77.50%) NoSQL
2 29 (72.50%) Big Data
3 26 (65.00%) MarkLogic
4 19 (47.50%) CouchDB
5 18 (45.00%) MySQL
6 5 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (10.00%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 15 (37.50%) Subversion
2 13 (32.50%) Maven
2 13 (32.50%) Cucumber
2 13 (32.50%) Hudson
2 13 (32.50%) Jenkins
3 9 (22.50%) JUnit
4 7 (17.50%) Mockito
5 6 (15.00%) Log4j
6 2 (5.000%) Eclipse
6 2 (5.000%) Ant
6 2 (5.000%) ANTLR
General
1 17 (42.50%) Publishing
2 2 (5.000%) Banking
2 2 (5.000%) Telecoms
2 2 (5.000%) Finance
Job Titles
1 19 (47.50%) Software Engineer
2 11 (27.50%) Developer
3 9 (22.50%) Java Developer
4 5 (12.50%) Technical Architect
4 5 (12.50%) Architect
5 2 (5.000%) Senior Java Developer
5 2 (5.000%) Team Leader
5 2 (5.000%) Senior Developer
6 1 (2.500%) Web Engineer
6 1 (2.500%) Java/J2EE Developer
6 1 (2.500%) Semantic Web Developer
6 1 (2.500%) C# Developer
6 1 (2.500%) Programmer
6 1 (2.500%) Web Developer
6 1 (2.500%) Java Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 24 (60.00%) Linked Data
2 23 (57.50%) BBC
3 21 (52.50%) Open Source
4 19 (47.50%) MHEG
4 19 (47.50%) Digital Media
5 17 (42.50%) Semantic Web
6 5 (12.50%) Ontologies
6 5 (12.50%) New Media
7 4 (10.00%) Interactive TV
8 2 (5.000%) Client/Server
9 1 (2.500%) Artificial Intelligence
Operating Systems
1 26 (65.00%) Linux
2 19 (47.50%) UNIX
2 19 (47.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (97.50%) RDF
2 24 (60.00%) Content Management
3 22 (55.00%) Agile Software Development
4 19 (47.50%) Scrum
4 19 (47.50%) Benchmarking
4 19 (47.50%) Unit Testing
4 19 (47.50%) Continuous Integration
4 19 (47.50%) Kanban
5 13 (32.50%) TDD
5 13 (32.50%) Pair Programming
5 13 (32.50%) BDD
6 5 (12.50%) Software Engineering
6 5 (12.50%) SOA
6 5 (12.50%) Technical Architecture
7 4 (10.00%) Supplier Management
8 2 (5.000%) E-Commerce
8 2 (5.000%) Multithreading
9 1 (2.500%) Quantitative Analysis
9 1 (2.500%) Web Development
9 1 (2.500%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 40 (100.00%) Java
2 32 (80.00%) Scala
3 24 (60.00%) JavaScript
3 24 (60.00%) SQL
4 20 (50.00%) Ruby
4 20 (50.00%) C++
4 20 (50.00%) Perl
5 19 (47.50%) PHP
5 19 (47.50%) ActionScript
5 19 (47.50%) Groovy
5 19 (47.50%) Clojure
6 10 (25.00%) XQuery
7 5 (12.50%) XPath
8 1 (2.500%) C#
8 1 (2.500%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (5.000%) Degree
Vendors
1 18 (45.00%) Oracle
London
Comfortable developing software in a primarily Linux-based environment with tooling based around Eclipse, Subversion, JUnit, Ant etc... Experience with any / all of the following technologies is highly...
Client Server
Salary: £75k to £90k + options + benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
London
Job Role: Java Developer / Java Technical LeadLocation: London, CentralSalary: £75k to £90k + options + benefitsSenior Java Developer / Lead Java Software Engineer (Semantic Modelling Java 7). Innovative software house that...
Client Server
Salary: £75k to £90k + options + benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013