The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Hedge funds in IT jobs advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Hedge funds 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 terms in our Miscellaneous category for the Scotland region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Hedge fund
Rank 147 149 152
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +3
Permanent jobs citing Hedge funds 7 4 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 0.219% 0.114% 0.117%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.749% 0.437% 0.442%
Number of salaries quoted 4 1 3
Average salary £66,000 £60,000 £55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+10.00% +9.09%
UK excluding London average salary £50,000 £47,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year
+5.26% -20.83%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Scotland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
935 916 905
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 29.30% 26.17% 26.47%
Number of salaries quoted 544 635 641
Average salary £42,500 £37,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+13.33% -
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £25,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,250 £55,000 £57,125
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +6.66%
Hedge funds
UK

Hedge funds
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Hedge funds across the Scotland region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Scotland Hedge funds Jobs Demand Trend

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Salary Trend

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

Scotland Hedge funds Salary Trend

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Salary Histogram

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

Scotland Hedge funds Salary Histogram

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Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Hedge funds within the Scotland 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
Edinburgh +2 4 £42,000 -
Stirling +18 2 £100,000 +66.66%
Glasgow - 1 - -
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UK

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland region citing Hedge funds 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 Hedge funds.

1 18 (90.00%) Finance
2 16 (80.00%) Java
3 13 (65.00%) Banking
3 13 (65.00%) Asset Management
3 13 (65.00%) Investment Banking
4 10 (50.00%) Oracle
5 7 (35.00%) SQL
5 7 (35.00%) UNIX
6 6 (30.00%) Microsoft
6 6 (30.00%) ETL
6 6 (30.00%) Spring
6 6 (30.00%) Maven
7 5 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
7 5 (25.00%) Investment Management
7 5 (25.00%) Data Modelling
7 5 (25.00%) Web Services
7 5 (25.00%) Sybase
7 5 (25.00%) Scrum
8 4 (20.00%) Fixed Income
8 4 (20.00%) Informatica
8 4 (20.00%) C#
8 4 (20.00%) Time Management
8 4 (20.00%) Reference Data
8 4 (20.00%) Subversion
9 3 (15.00%) Hibernate
9 3 (15.00%) Ajax
9 3 (15.00%) Automated Testing
9 3 (15.00%) Continuous Integration
9 3 (15.00%) Multithreading
9 3 (15.00%) Mule

Hedge funds
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 6 (30.00%) Spring
2 5 (25.00%) Web Services
3 3 (15.00%) Hibernate
3 3 (15.00%) Ajax
3 3 (15.00%) JMS
3 3 (15.00%) J2EE
4 2 (10.00%) XML
4 2 (10.00%) jQuery
4 2 (10.00%) WebSphere
4 2 (10.00%) JSON
5 1 (5.000%) JSTL
5 1 (5.000%) JDBC
5 1 (5.000%) JSP
5 1 (5.000%) Servlets
5 1 (5.000%) Struts
5 1 (5.000%) Java RMI
Application Platforms
1 3 (15.00%) Mule
2 2 (10.00%) WebSphere MQ
2 2 (10.00%) Tomcat
2 2 (10.00%) MQSeries
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) MS Excel
1 2 (10.00%) MS Project
1 2 (10.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) SAN
1 2 (10.00%) Internet
2 1 (5.000%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) OLTP
1 2 (10.00%) MS Access
1 2 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (5.000%) Oracle 11g
2 1 (5.000%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 6 (30.00%) Maven
2 4 (20.00%) Subversion
3 3 (15.00%) JUnit
4 2 (10.00%) QuickTest Pro
4 2 (10.00%) LoadRunner
4 2 (10.00%) PowerDesigner
4 2 (10.00%) Eclipse
4 2 (10.00%) MagicDraw
4 2 (10.00%) JIRA
5 1 (5.000%) CruiseControl
5 1 (5.000%) Ant
General
1 18 (90.00%) Finance
2 13 (65.00%) Banking
2 13 (65.00%) Investment Banking
3 2 (10.00%) Games
3 2 (10.00%) Front Office
3 2 (10.00%) Back Office
3 2 (10.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (35.00%) Developer
2 5 (25.00%) Architect
3 4 (20.00%) Software Developer
3 4 (20.00%) Analyst
4 3 (15.00%) Java Developer
4 3 (15.00%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (10.00%) Data Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Head of Architecture
5 2 (10.00%) Scala Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Agile Java Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Incident Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Problem Management Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Performance Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Problem Analyst
6 1 (5.000%) Oracle Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Fixed Income
1 4 (20.00%) Reference Data
2 2 (10.00%) Clustering
2 2 (10.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (10.00%) Client/Server
2 2 (10.00%) N-Tier
2 2 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (10.00%) Online Games
2 2 (10.00%) Visualisation
2 2 (10.00%) Derivative
2 2 (10.00%) Mathematics
2 2 (10.00%) Physics
2 2 (10.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (5.000%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 7 (35.00%) UNIX
2 2 (10.00%) Linux
2 2 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (65.00%) Asset Management
2 6 (30.00%) ETL
3 5 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
3 5 (25.00%) Investment Management
3 5 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 5 (25.00%) Scrum
4 4 (20.00%) Time Management
5 3 (15.00%) Automated Testing
5 3 (15.00%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (15.00%) Multithreading
5 3 (15.00%) OO
6 2 (10.00%) Service Management
6 2 (10.00%) Change Management
6 2 (10.00%) Extreme Programming
6 2 (10.00%) Validation
6 2 (10.00%) Benchmarking
6 2 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (10.00%) SOA
6 2 (10.00%) ITIL
6 2 (10.00%) Data Validation
Programming Languages
1 16 (80.00%) Java
2 7 (35.00%) SQL
3 4 (20.00%) C#
4 3 (15.00%) PL/SQL
4 3 (15.00%) Shell Script
5 2 (10.00%) JavaScript
5 2 (10.00%) T-SQL
5 2 (10.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) ITIL Certification
1 2 (10.00%) PhD
1 2 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) GAAP
1 2 (10.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Data Guard
1 2 (10.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 10 (50.00%) Oracle
2 6 (30.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (25.00%) Sybase
4 4 (20.00%) Informatica
5 2 (10.00%) HP
5 2 (10.00%) Reuters
5 2 (10.00%) Bloomberg
5 2 (10.00%) Red Hat