The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Informatics in IT jobs advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Informatics 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
Informatics
Rank 152 152 125
Rank change year-on-year
0 -27
Permanent jobs citing Informatics 2 1 31
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 0.063% 0.029% 0.907%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.214% 0.109% 3.425%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 15
Average salary £40,995 £22,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+82.19% -40.00%
UK excluding London average salary £42,997 £39,220 £42,736
% change year-on-year
+9.63% -8.22%
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%
Informatics
UK

Informatics
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland Informatics Jobs Demand Trend

Informatics
Salary Trend

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

Scotland Informatics Salary Trend

Informatics
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Informatics 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
Dundee - 2 £40,995 -
Informatics
UK

Informatics
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 4 (80.00%) Linux
2 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (60.00%) MS Excel
3 2 (40.00%) Ethernet
3 2 (40.00%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (40.00%) Service Delivery
3 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (40.00%) VMware
3 2 (40.00%) JBoss
3 2 (40.00%) Apache
3 2 (40.00%) Java
3 2 (40.00%) IIS
3 2 (40.00%) Web Services
3 2 (40.00%) ITIL
3 2 (40.00%) Windows
3 2 (40.00%) Google
3 2 (40.00%) Ubuntu
3 2 (40.00%) Degree
3 2 (40.00%) Biotechnology
3 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (40.00%) Life Science
3 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (40.00%) CentOS
3 2 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (40.00%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon AWS
3 2 (40.00%) Open Source
3 2 (40.00%) Fibre Channel
3 2 (40.00%) Google Apps

Informatics
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 2 (40.00%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) Apache
1 2 (40.00%) IIS
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon AWS
Applications
1 3 (60.00%) MS Excel
2 2 (40.00%) Google Apps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Ethernet
1 2 (40.00%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (40.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Systems Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Infrastructure Specialist
1 2 (40.00%) Operations Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (40.00%) Biotechnology
1 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (40.00%) Life Science
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (40.00%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) Ubuntu
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (40.00%) CentOS
2 2 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Service Delivery
1 2 (40.00%) ITIL
2 1 (20.00%) Load Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (20.00%) Bioinformatics
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) VMware
2 2 (40.00%) JBoss
2 2 (40.00%) Google