The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Cognizant products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Cognizant over the 3 months to 20 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 South East region.

The figures below represent the IT job market in general and are NOT representative of salaries within Cognizant Technology Solutions.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cognizant
Rank 399 415 420
Rank change year-on-year
+16 +5
Permanent jobs citing Cognizant 27 21 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 0.123% 0.088% 0.009%
As % of the Vendors category 0.240% 0.184% 0.018%
Number of salaries quoted 4 5 2
Average salary £45,600 £72,500 £46,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
-37.10% +56.75%
UK excluding London average salary £45,600 £70,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year
-34.85% +33.33%
All Vendors
South East
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
11270 11424 11343
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 51.38% 48.07% 50.52%
Number of salaries quoted 9255 9724 9574
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +2.40%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £28,500 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Cognizant
England

Cognizant
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East Cognizant Jobs Demand Trend

Cognizant
Salary Trend

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

South East Cognizant Salary Trend

Cognizant
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cognizant within the South East region over the 3 months to 20 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
Berkshire +25 22 £45,600 -
West Sussex -9 3 - -
Surrey +13 2 - -
Cognizant
England

Cognizant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the South East region citing Cognizant 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 Cognizant.

1 33 (73.33%) Degree
2 24 (53.33%) Telecoms
3 20 (44.44%) Computer Science
4 15 (33.33%) Scrum
5 12 (26.67%) TDD
5 12 (26.67%) Pair Programming
5 12 (26.67%) Continuous Integration
5 12 (26.67%) E-Commerce
5 12 (26.67%) Java
6 9 (20.00%) J2EE
6 9 (20.00%) Wiki
6 9 (20.00%) Amdocs
6 9 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
6 9 (20.00%) Open Source
7 8 (17.78%) Project Management
8 7 (15.56%) Quality Management
8 7 (15.56%) Stakeholder Management
8 7 (15.56%) Business Analysis
9 6 (13.33%) Spring
9 6 (13.33%) JIRA
9 6 (13.33%) GigaSpaces
9 6 (13.33%) Velocity
9 6 (13.33%) JSR 168
9 6 (13.33%) Alfresco
9 6 (13.33%) MVC
9 6 (13.33%) Finance
9 6 (13.33%) Extreme Programming
9 6 (13.33%) Retail
9 6 (13.33%) Subversion
9 6 (13.33%) Oracle

Cognizant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the South East region citing Cognizant 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 Cognizant. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (20.00%) J2EE
2 6 (13.33%) Servlets
2 6 (13.33%) Struts
2 6 (13.33%) XML
2 6 (13.33%) XSLT
2 6 (13.33%) XHTML
2 6 (13.33%) HTML
2 6 (13.33%) Spring
2 6 (13.33%) Velocity
2 6 (13.33%) JSR 168
2 6 (13.33%) REST
3 3 (6.667%) .NET Framework
3 3 (6.667%) .NET
4 2 (4.444%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (4.444%) Middleware
4 2 (4.444%) Oracle ADF
5 1 (2.222%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 6 (13.33%) Apache
1 6 (13.33%) Tomcat
1 6 (13.33%) Alfresco
1 6 (13.33%) Liferay
2 3 (6.667%) SharePoint
3 2 (4.444%) Documentum
3 2 (4.444%) FileNet
4 1 (2.222%) SAS
4 1 (2.222%) Adobe CQ
4 1 (2.222%) WebSphere Portal
Business Applications
1 2 (4.444%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (4.444%) SAP Analytics
2 1 (2.222%) SAP IS-U
2 1 (2.222%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (2.222%) SAP CRM
2 1 (2.222%) Tridion
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.33%) MongoDB
2 3 (6.667%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (4.444%) SAP BW
3 2 (4.444%) QlikView
4 1 (2.222%) Base SAS
4 1 (2.222%) SAS Enterprise Miner
4 1 (2.222%) DataStage
4 1 (2.222%) SAP Data Services
4 1 (2.222%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 6 (13.33%) Subversion
1 6 (13.33%) JIRA
1 6 (13.33%) GitHub
1 6 (13.33%) Gradle
1 6 (13.33%) Jenkins
1 6 (13.33%) Eclipse
1 6 (13.33%) IntelliJ
2 1 (2.222%) ERwin
General
1 24 (53.33%) Telecoms
2 6 (13.33%) Finance
2 6 (13.33%) Retail
3 4 (8.889%) Marketing
4 2 (4.444%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (4.444%) Banking
4 2 (4.444%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.222%) Publishing
5 1 (2.222%) Billing
5 1 (2.222%) Dutch Language
5 1 (2.222%) French Language
5 1 (2.222%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 7 (15.56%) Consultant
2 6 (13.33%) Java Developer
2 6 (13.33%) Business Analyst
2 6 (13.33%) Developer
2 6 (13.33%) Analyst
2 6 (13.33%) Telecoms Business Analyst
2 6 (13.33%) Agile Java Developer
2 6 (13.33%) Agile Business Analyst
3 4 (8.889%) Test Manager
3 4 (8.889%) Programme Manager
4 3 (6.667%) Programme Test Manager
5 2 (4.444%) Oracle Consultant
5 2 (4.444%) Data Manager
5 2 (4.444%) SAP Support
5 2 (4.444%) Architect
5 2 (4.444%) Project Manager
6 1 (2.222%) Trainer
6 1 (2.222%) Technical Architect
6 1 (2.222%) Senior Consultant
6 1 (2.222%) SAP BW Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 20 (44.44%) Computer Science
2 9 (20.00%) Wiki
2 9 (20.00%) Open Source
3 6 (13.33%) Visualisation
3 6 (13.33%) Mobile App
4 3 (6.667%) Social Media
4 3 (6.667%) Life Science
4 3 (6.667%) Mainframe
4 3 (6.667%) Management Information System
5 2 (4.444%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 6 (13.33%) Solaris
2 2 (4.444%) UNIX
3 1 (2.222%) Windows
3 1 (2.222%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (33.33%) Scrum
2 12 (26.67%) TDD
2 12 (26.67%) Pair Programming
2 12 (26.67%) E-Commerce
2 12 (26.67%) Continuous Integration
3 9 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
4 8 (17.78%) Project Management
5 7 (15.56%) Quality Management
5 7 (15.56%) Stakeholder Management
5 7 (15.56%) Business Analysis
6 6 (13.33%) Extreme Programming
6 6 (13.33%) SOA
6 6 (13.33%) MVC
6 6 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
6 6 (13.33%) Web Application Development
6 6 (13.33%) Functional Testing
6 6 (13.33%) User Stories
6 6 (13.33%) Mobile Application Development
7 5 (11.11%) Service Delivery
8 4 (8.889%) Information Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (26.67%) Java
2 6 (13.33%) JavaScript
2 6 (13.33%) Groovy
2 6 (13.33%) Scala
3 1 (2.222%) C
3 1 (2.222%) PL/SQL
3 1 (2.222%) SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (73.33%) Degree
2 1 (2.222%) PRINCE2 Certification
Vendors
1 9 (20.00%) Amdocs
2 6 (13.33%) Oracle
2 6 (13.33%) GigaSpaces
3 5 (11.11%) SAP
4 3 (6.667%) Microsoft
5 2 (4.444%) PeopleSoft
5 2 (4.444%) Open Text
6 1 (2.222%) Twitter
6 1 (2.222%) Cognos
6 1 (2.222%) IBM
6 1 (2.222%) Adobe
6 1 (2.222%) FatWire
6 1 (2.222%) Teradata