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

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache Velocity
Rank 52 68 -
Rank change year-on-year
+16 -
Permanent jobs citing Velocity 14 1 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Slough 2.083% 0.147% -
As % of the Application Development category 7.955% 0.633% -
Number of salaries quoted 12 0 0
Average salary £67,500 - -
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £44,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year
+2.27% -2.22%
All Application Development
Slough
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
176 158 144
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Slough 26.19% 23.30% 29.27%
Number of salaries quoted 159 139 135
Average salary £57,500 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+43.75% -
90% offered a salary of more than £34,000 £35,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £46,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Velocity
Berkshire

Velocity
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Slough 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 Slough region.

Slough Velocity Salary Trend

Velocity
Salary Histogram

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

Slough Velocity Salary Histogram

Velocity
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Slough 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 14 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 14 (100.00%) TDD
2 8 (57.14%) Automated Testing
2 8 (57.14%) Scrum
2 8 (57.14%) User Stories
2 8 (57.14%) Mobile App
2 8 (57.14%) Mobile Application Development
2 8 (57.14%) Agile Software Development
3 6 (42.86%) Extreme Programming
3 6 (42.86%) Continuous Integration
3 6 (42.86%) Alfresco
3 6 (42.86%) Groovy
3 6 (42.86%) Liferay
3 6 (42.86%) Scala
3 6 (42.86%) Open Source
3 6 (42.86%) MongoDB
3 6 (42.86%) Web Application Development
3 6 (42.86%) Functional Testing
3 6 (42.86%) GitHub
3 6 (42.86%) Gradle
3 6 (42.86%) Jenkins
3 6 (42.86%) Degree
3 6 (42.86%) JIRA
3 6 (42.86%) Computer Science
3 6 (42.86%) GigaSpaces
3 6 (42.86%) JSR 168
3 6 (42.86%) Pair Programming
3 6 (42.86%) Subversion
3 6 (42.86%) Spring
3 6 (42.86%) Eclipse

Velocity
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Slough 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 6 (42.86%) JSR 168
1 6 (42.86%) Spring
1 6 (42.86%) HTML
1 6 (42.86%) J2EE
1 6 (42.86%) Servlets
1 6 (42.86%) Struts
1 6 (42.86%) XML
1 6 (42.86%) XSLT
1 6 (42.86%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 6 (42.86%) Alfresco
1 6 (42.86%) Liferay
1 6 (42.86%) Apache
1 6 (42.86%) Tomcat
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (42.86%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (42.86%) GitHub
1 6 (42.86%) Gradle
1 6 (42.86%) Jenkins
1 6 (42.86%) JIRA
1 6 (42.86%) Subversion
1 6 (42.86%) Eclipse
1 6 (42.86%) IntelliJ
General
1 6 (42.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (57.14%) ScrumMaster
2 6 (42.86%) Java Developer
2 6 (42.86%) Agile Java Developer
2 6 (42.86%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (57.14%) Mobile App
2 6 (42.86%) Open Source
2 6 (42.86%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 6 (42.86%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 14 (100.00%) TDD
2 8 (57.14%) Automated Testing
2 8 (57.14%) Scrum
2 8 (57.14%) User Stories
2 8 (57.14%) Mobile Application Development
2 8 (57.14%) Agile Software Development
3 6 (42.86%) Extreme Programming
3 6 (42.86%) Continuous Integration
3 6 (42.86%) Web Application Development
3 6 (42.86%) Functional Testing
3 6 (42.86%) Pair Programming
3 6 (42.86%) Quality Management
3 6 (42.86%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) Groovy
1 6 (42.86%) Scala
1 6 (42.86%) Java
1 6 (42.86%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) Degree
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) GigaSpaces
1 6 (42.86%) Cognizant