The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Reuters products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Reuters over the 3 months to 21 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 Vendors for the Scotland region.

The figures below represent the IT job market in general and are NOT representative of salaries within Reuters Group PLC.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Reuters
Rank 140 146 150
Rank change year-on-year
+6 +4
Permanent jobs citing Reuters 15 5 9
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 0.473% 0.143% 0.264%
As % of the Vendors category 0.940% 0.297% 0.580%
Number of salaries quoted 1 4 5
Average salary £40,000 £42,250 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.32% +5.62%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £41,250 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-15.15% +3.12%
All Vendors
Scotland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
1595 1686 1552
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 50.35% 48.32% 45.61%
Number of salaries quoted 987 1183 1160
Average salary £40,000 £38,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.89% -3.75%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £26,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Reuters
UK

Reuters
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland Reuters Jobs Demand Trend

Reuters
Salary Trend

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

Scotland Reuters Salary Trend

Reuters
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Reuters within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 21 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
Glasgow -16 6 £40,000 -
Edinburgh - 4 - -
Stirling +16 2 - -
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UK

Reuters
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland region citing Reuters 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 Reuters.

1 27 (100.00%) Bloomberg
2 17 (62.96%) Finance
3 15 (55.56%) Degree
4 10 (37.04%) Banking
5 6 (22.22%) Investment Banking
6 5 (18.52%) Change Management
6 5 (18.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 5 (18.52%) SQL
6 5 (18.52%) Linux
6 5 (18.52%) MS Excel
6 5 (18.52%) Change Control
7 4 (14.81%) Capacity Management
7 4 (14.81%) Sun
7 4 (14.81%) ITIL
7 4 (14.81%) Workflow
7 4 (14.81%) Firewall
7 4 (14.81%) Knowledge Management
8 3 (11.11%) Front Office
8 3 (11.11%) Risk Management
8 3 (11.11%) Oracle
8 3 (11.11%) Sybase
8 3 (11.11%) Red Hat
8 3 (11.11%) Shell Script
8 3 (11.11%) Blackberry
8 3 (11.11%) eSpeed
8 3 (11.11%) CQG
8 3 (11.11%) Tradeweb
8 3 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (11.11%) MarketAxess
8 3 (11.11%) Fund Accounting

Reuters
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland region citing Reuters 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 Reuters. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (7.407%) Murex Flex
1 2 (7.407%) Spring Integration
1 2 (7.407%) JMS
1 2 (7.407%) XML
1 2 (7.407%) XSL
1 2 (7.407%) Hibernate
1 2 (7.407%) WebSphere
1 2 (7.407%) Java SE
1 2 (7.407%) Java EE
1 2 (7.407%) Spring
1 2 (7.407%) JNI
Application Platforms
1 2 (7.407%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (18.52%) MS Excel
2 1 (3.704%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (7.407%) Murex MxG2000
1 2 (7.407%) RMDS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.81%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.407%) MS Access
2 1 (3.704%) Oracle 11g
General
1 17 (62.96%) Finance
2 10 (37.04%) Banking
3 6 (22.22%) Investment Banking
4 3 (11.11%) Front Office
5 2 (7.407%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 7 (25.93%) Analyst
2 5 (18.52%) Data Administrator
2 5 (18.52%) Data Analyst
2 5 (18.52%) Administrator
2 5 (18.52%) Market Data Administrator
3 3 (11.11%) Market Data Analyst
3 3 (11.11%) Data Manager
3 3 (11.11%) Market Analyst
4 2 (7.407%) Market Data Manager
4 2 (7.407%) Developer
4 2 (7.407%) Support Analyst
4 2 (7.407%) Service Manager
4 2 (7.407%) Java Developer
5 1 (3.704%) Applications Support Analyst
5 1 (3.704%) Technical Analyst
5 1 (3.704%) Technical Support Analyst
5 1 (3.704%) Technical Support
5 1 (3.704%) Applications Support
5 1 (3.704%) Test Manager
5 1 (3.704%) UAT Manager
Miscellaneous
1 5 (18.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (11.11%) Blackberry
3 2 (7.407%) Mathematics
3 2 (7.407%) Hedge funds
4 1 (3.704%) Derivative
4 1 (3.704%) Fixed Income
4 1 (3.704%) Equities
4 1 (3.704%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 5 (18.52%) Linux
2 3 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (7.407%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (18.52%) Change Management
1 5 (18.52%) Change Control
2 4 (14.81%) Capacity Management
2 4 (14.81%) ITIL
2 4 (14.81%) Workflow
2 4 (14.81%) Knowledge Management
3 3 (11.11%) Risk Management
3 3 (11.11%) Fund Accounting
4 2 (7.407%) Investment Management
4 2 (7.407%) Time Management
4 2 (7.407%) Data Validation
4 2 (7.407%) Service Delivery
4 2 (7.407%) Validation
4 2 (7.407%) Incident Management
5 1 (3.704%) Business Analysis
5 1 (3.704%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (3.704%) Data Management
5 1 (3.704%) Regression Testing
5 1 (3.704%) CRM
5 1 (3.704%) UML
Programming Languages
1 5 (18.52%) SQL
2 3 (11.11%) Shell Script
3 2 (7.407%) C#
3 2 (7.407%) C++
3 2 (7.407%) Java
Qualifications
1 15 (55.56%) Degree
2 1 (3.704%) ISTQB
2 1 (3.704%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.407%) GAAP
2 1 (3.704%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (11.11%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 27 (100.00%) Bloomberg
2 4 (14.81%) Sun
3 3 (11.11%) Oracle
3 3 (11.11%) Sybase
3 3 (11.11%) Red Hat
3 3 (11.11%) eSpeed
3 3 (11.11%) CQG
3 3 (11.11%) Tradeweb
3 3 (11.11%) MarketAxess
4 2 (7.407%) Radianz
4 2 (7.407%) Microsoft
4 2 (7.407%) Adobe
4 2 (7.407%) Murex
5 1 (3.704%) Charles River
5 1 (3.704%) Cadis
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