The first table below looks at the demand for Drools skills in IT jobs advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Drools over the 3 months to 24 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 South East region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Drools
Rank 427 436 402
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -34
Permanent jobs citing Drools 6 3 22
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 0.027% 0.013% 0.096%
As % of the Application Development category 0.071% 0.031% 0.230%
Number of salaries quoted 5 3 19
Average salary £43,000 £40,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.50% -11.11%
90% offered a salary of more than £38,500 £33,190 £44,300
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £42,000 £46,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,250 £37,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year
+4.66% -16.66%
All Application Development
South East
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
8454 9700 9545
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 38.20% 40.79% 41.60%
Number of salaries quoted 7487 8799 8652
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £28,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Drools
England

Drools
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East Drools Jobs Demand Trend

Drools
Salary Trend

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

South East Drools Salary Trend

Drools
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Drools across the South East region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

South East Drools Salary Histogram

Drools
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Drools within the South East region over the 3 months to 24 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
Surrey +9 3 £50,000 +58.79%
Berkshire - 3 £38,500 -
Drools
England

Drools
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the South East region citing Drools 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 Drools.

1 14 (100.00%) Java
1 14 (100.00%) REST
2 13 (92.86%) Spring
2 13 (92.86%) Maven
3 11 (78.57%) Hibernate
3 11 (78.57%) J2EE
4 10 (71.43%) SOAP
4 10 (71.43%) Web Services
4 10 (71.43%) Ajax
5 8 (57.14%) JPA
5 8 (57.14%) Oracle
5 8 (57.14%) UNIX
5 8 (57.14%) HTML5
6 6 (42.86%) UML
6 6 (42.86%) Tomcat
6 6 (42.86%) JSON
6 6 (42.86%) Banking
7 5 (35.71%) TDD
7 5 (35.71%) Scrum
7 5 (35.71%) Log4j
7 5 (35.71%) Subversion
7 5 (35.71%) jBPM
7 5 (35.71%) Online Banking
7 5 (35.71%) WebSphere
7 5 (35.71%) Web Development
7 5 (35.71%) Java EE
7 5 (35.71%) Android
7 5 (35.71%) Oracle 11g
7 5 (35.71%) jQuery
7 5 (35.71%) Unit Testing

Drools
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the South East region citing Drools 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 Drools. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 14 (100.00%) REST
2 13 (92.86%) Spring
3 11 (78.57%) Hibernate
3 11 (78.57%) J2EE
4 10 (71.43%) SOAP
4 10 (71.43%) Web Services
4 10 (71.43%) Ajax
5 8 (57.14%) JPA
5 8 (57.14%) HTML5
6 6 (42.86%) JSON
7 5 (35.71%) jBPM
7 5 (35.71%) WebSphere
7 5 (35.71%) Java EE
7 5 (35.71%) jQuery
7 5 (35.71%) HTML
7 5 (35.71%) EJB
7 5 (35.71%) CSS
7 5 (35.71%) CSS3
7 5 (35.71%) OSGi
8 4 (28.57%) XML
Application Platforms
1 6 (42.86%) Tomcat
2 5 (35.71%) Apache
3 1 (7.143%) ActiveMQ
Communications & Networking
1 5 (35.71%) Internet
2 3 (21.43%) DVB
2 3 (21.43%) HTTP
2 3 (21.43%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) Oracle 11g
1 5 (35.71%) TOAD
2 1 (7.143%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (92.86%) Maven
2 5 (35.71%) Log4j
2 5 (35.71%) Subversion
2 5 (35.71%) Eclipse
2 5 (35.71%) Ant
2 5 (35.71%) JUnit
2 5 (35.71%) Jenkins
3 3 (21.43%) Git (software)
3 3 (21.43%) Cucumber
General
1 6 (42.86%) Banking
2 3 (21.43%) Telecoms
3 1 (7.143%) Finance
Job Titles
1 13 (92.86%) Developer
1 13 (92.86%) Java Developer
2 6 (42.86%) Senior Developer
2 6 (42.86%) Senior Java Developer
3 3 (21.43%) Java/J2EE Developer
3 3 (21.43%) Software Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Java Software Engineer
4 1 (7.143%) Software Programmer
4 1 (7.143%) Java Software Developer
4 1 (7.143%) Java Programmer
4 1 (7.143%) Programmer
4 1 (7.143%) Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Online Banking
1 5 (35.71%) W3C
1 5 (35.71%) Mobile Banking
2 3 (21.43%) DTV
3 2 (14.29%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 8 (57.14%) UNIX
2 5 (35.71%) Android
2 5 (35.71%) Apple iOS
3 3 (21.43%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) UML
2 5 (35.71%) TDD
2 5 (35.71%) Scrum
2 5 (35.71%) Web Development
2 5 (35.71%) Unit Testing
2 5 (35.71%) Continuous Integration
2 5 (35.71%) MVC
2 5 (35.71%) SOA
2 5 (35.71%) BDD
3 3 (21.43%) OO
3 3 (21.43%) Multithreading
4 2 (14.29%) Software Engineering
5 1 (7.143%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (100.00%) Java
2 5 (35.71%) JavaScript
3 4 (28.57%) SQL
4 3 (21.43%) XPath
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (7.143%) SCOM
Vendors
1 8 (57.14%) Oracle
2 1 (7.143%) JBoss