The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of VocaLink 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 VocaLink 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 South East region.

The figures below represent the IT job market in general and are NOT representative of salaries within VocaLink Limited.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VocaLink
Rank 438 437 -
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -
Permanent jobs citing VocaLink 3 1 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 0.014% 0.004% -
As % of the Vendors category 0.026% 0.009% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 0
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 -
UK excluding London average salary £32,000 £55,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-41.81% +29.41%
All Vendors
South East
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
11424 11421 11383
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 51.50% 48.11% 50.56%
Number of salaries quoted 9378 9725 9605
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 £61,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
VocaLink
England

VocaLink
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East VocaLink Jobs Demand Trend

VocaLink
Salary Trend

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

South East VocaLink Salary Trend

VocaLink
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the South East region citing VocaLink 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 VocaLink.

1 6 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 6 (100.00%) Mobile Commerce
2 5 (83.33%) ISO 8583
2 5 (83.33%) EFT
2 5 (83.33%) EFTPOS
2 5 (83.33%) Smartcard
3 3 (50.00%) APACS
3 3 (50.00%) TSYS
3 3 (50.00%) VeriFone
3 3 (50.00%) Sage
3 3 (50.00%) EPoS
3 3 (50.00%) EMV
3 3 (50.00%) Chip and PIN
3 3 (50.00%) ATM
3 3 (50.00%) Wincor Nixdorf
4 2 (33.33%) Retail
4 2 (33.33%) Scrum
5 1 (16.67%) Gerrit
5 1 (16.67%) Mingle
5 1 (16.67%) Mobile Banking
5 1 (16.67%) Mobile Payment
5 1 (16.67%) Subversion
5 1 (16.67%) BPEL
5 1 (16.67%) Spring
5 1 (16.67%) JSF
5 1 (16.67%) Maven
5 1 (16.67%) Ajax
5 1 (16.67%) TopLink
5 1 (16.67%) TDD
5 1 (16.67%) Banking

VocaLink
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (16.67%) Spring
1 1 (16.67%) JSF
1 1 (16.67%) Ajax
1 1 (16.67%) TopLink
1 1 (16.67%) JAAS
1 1 (16.67%) Hibernate
1 1 (16.67%) WebSphere
1 1 (16.67%) Java EE
1 1 (16.67%) Velocity
1 1 (16.67%) Apache Axis
1 1 (16.67%) jQuery
1 1 (16.67%) JAX-WS
1 1 (16.67%) JPA
1 1 (16.67%) OC4J
1 1 (16.67%) Facelets
1 1 (16.67%) JMS
1 1 (16.67%) J2EE
1 1 (16.67%) EJB
1 1 (16.67%) JDBC
1 1 (16.67%) JSP
Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) ESB
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle BPEL
1 1 (16.67%) WebLogic
1 1 (16.67%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Mingle
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) ATM
2 1 (16.67%) NFC
2 1 (16.67%) FTP
2 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
2 1 (16.67%) Internet
2 1 (16.67%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Gerrit
1 1 (16.67%) Subversion
1 1 (16.67%) Maven
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
1 1 (16.67%) Selenium
1 1 (16.67%) jMock
1 1 (16.67%) TeamCity
1 1 (16.67%) Git (software)
1 1 (16.67%) JProfiler
1 1 (16.67%) QuickTest Pro
1 1 (16.67%) Eclipse
1 1 (16.67%) Ant
1 1 (16.67%) JUnit
General
1 2 (33.33%) Retail
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
1 1 (16.67%) J2EE Developer
1 1 (16.67%) Java Programmer
1 1 (16.67%) Business Analyst
1 1 (16.67%) Tester
1 1 (16.67%) Developer
1 1 (16.67%) Analyst
1 1 (16.67%) Programmer
1 1 (16.67%) Banking Business Analyst
1 1 (16.67%) Java/J2EE Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) EFT
1 5 (83.33%) EFTPOS
1 5 (83.33%) Smartcard
2 3 (50.00%) APACS
2 3 (50.00%) EPoS
2 3 (50.00%) EMV
2 3 (50.00%) Chip and PIN
3 1 (16.67%) Mobile Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Mobile Payment
3 1 (16.67%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) UNIX
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 6 (100.00%) Mobile Commerce
2 2 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (16.67%) BPEL
3 1 (16.67%) TDD
3 1 (16.67%) Project Management
3 1 (16.67%) Multithreading
3 1 (16.67%) Waterfall
3 1 (16.67%) SOA
3 1 (16.67%) UML
3 1 (16.67%) OO
3 1 (16.67%) RAD
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Groovy
1 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
1 1 (16.67%) Java
1 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (83.33%) ISO 8583
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) TSYS
1 3 (50.00%) VeriFone
1 3 (50.00%) Sage
1 3 (50.00%) Wincor Nixdorf
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle