The first table below looks at the demand for Velocity skills in IT jobs advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Velocity over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Application Development category for the Reading region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache Velocity
Rank - 128 116
Permanent jobs citing Velocity 0 4 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading - 0.170% 0.262%
As % of the Application Development category - 0.406% 0.665%
Number of salaries quoted 0 4 5
Average salary - £53,750 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +19.44%
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £45,000 £41,250
% change year-on-year
- +9.09%
All Application Development
Reading
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
671 985 752
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 30.01% 41.88% 39.35%
Number of salaries quoted 588 887 652
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +13.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £31,500 £30,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £55,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £36,500
% change year-on-year
- +2.73%
Velocity
Berkshire

Velocity
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Velocity across the Reading region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Reading Velocity Jobs Demand Trend

Velocity
Salary Trend

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

Reading Velocity Salary Trend

Velocity
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Reading region citing Velocity 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 Velocity.

1 5 (100.00%) Java
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
1 5 (100.00%) Ant
1 5 (100.00%) JUnit
1 5 (100.00%) JDBC
1 5 (100.00%) UNIX
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
1 5 (100.00%) Tomcat
1 5 (100.00%) LDAP
1 5 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 5 (100.00%) Finance
1 5 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 5 (100.00%) JSON
1 5 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 5 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 5 (100.00%) Jetty
1 5 (100.00%) Multithreading
1 5 (100.00%) OWASP
1 5 (100.00%) Open Source
1 5 (100.00%) Bash shell

Velocity
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Reading region citing Velocity 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 Velocity. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (100.00%) JDBC
1 5 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 5 (100.00%) JSON
Application Platforms
1 5 (100.00%) Tomcat
1 5 (100.00%) Jetty
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) LDAP
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Ant
1 5 (100.00%) JUnit
General
1 5 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
1 5 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 5 (100.00%) Programmer
1 5 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 5 (100.00%) Java Programmer
1 5 (100.00%) Senior Java Developer
1 5 (100.00%) Senior Programmer
1 5 (100.00%) Senior Java Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) UNIX
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 5 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 5 (100.00%) Multithreading
1 5 (100.00%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
1 5 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 5 (100.00%) Bash shell