The first table below looks at the demand for the Chief Technology Officer role in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Chief Technology Officer in their job title 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 Job Titles currently tracked.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
Rank 800 801 794
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -7
Permanent jobs requiring a Chief Technology Officer 64 99 76
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.059% 0.081% 0.062%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.062% 0.085% 0.066%
Number of salaries quoted 54 87 63
Average salary £82,500 £90,000 £70,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-8.33% +28.57%
90% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £50,000
10% offered a salary of more than £110,000 £151,000 £144,000
UK excluding London average salary £96,250 £105,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year
-8.33% +27.27%
All Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
102708 116230 115193
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 94.43% 94.76% 94.23%
Number of salaries quoted 85414 99672 97379
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,500 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%

Chief Technology Officer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Chief Technology Officer within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Chief Technology Officer Jobs Demand Trend

Chief Technology Officer
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Chief Technology Officer within the UK.

Chief Technology Officer Salary Trend

Chief Technology Officer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Chief Technology Officer over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 within the UK.

Chief Technology Officer Salary Histogram

Chief Technology Officer
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Chief Technology Officer within the UK over the 3 months to 22 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
England -4 59 £80,000 -11.11%
London +14 37 £80,000 -
City of London +26 14 £80,000 -46.66%
South East +11 7 £60,000 -11.11%
Surrey +20 6 £60,000 -22.58%
West Midlands -6 5 £100,000 -16.66%
Staines - 5 £60,000 -
East of England +10 2 - -
Scotland -2 2 - -
Suffolk -13 2 - -
Glasgow - 2 - -
Birmingham -13 1 £95,000 -20.83%
Hackney - 1 £45,000 -
South West - 1 £45,000 -
Warwickshire - 1 £55,000 -
Somerset - 1 £45,000 -
Berkshire - 1 £85,000 -
Bath - 1 £45,000 -

Chief Technology Officer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Chief Technology Officer in their job title 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 with Chief Technology Officer in their job title.

1 25 (17.86%) Microsoft
2 23 (16.43%) Java
3 22 (15.71%) Agile Software Development
4 19 (13.57%) .NET
4 19 (13.57%) Linux
5 16 (11.43%) MySQL
5 16 (11.43%) C#
6 15 (10.71%) Computer Science
7 14 (10.00%) Degree
7 14 (10.00%) PHP
8 13 (9.286%) VMware
8 13 (9.286%) Finance
8 13 (9.286%) Apple iOS
9 12 (8.571%) Telecoms
9 12 (8.571%) Banking
9 12 (8.571%) Enterprise Architecture
10 11 (7.857%) MVC
10 11 (7.857%) Android
11 10 (7.143%) SaaS
11 10 (7.143%) HTML5
11 10 (7.143%) Business Transformation
11 10 (7.143%) Mobile App
11 10 (7.143%) Marketing
11 10 (7.143%) Retail
11 10 (7.143%) Oracle
12 9 (6.429%) C++
12 9 (6.429%) SQL
12 9 (6.429%) ASP.NET
12 9 (6.429%) Windows
12 9 (6.429%) Apache

Chief Technology Officer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Chief Technology Officer in their job title 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 with Chief Technology Officer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 19 (13.57%) .NET
2 10 (7.143%) HTML5
3 9 (6.429%) ASP.NET
3 9 (6.429%) ASP.NET MVC
4 6 (4.286%) WCF
4 6 (4.286%) CSS
5 5 (3.571%) Hibernate
5 5 (3.571%) Spring
5 5 (3.571%) Web Services
5 5 (3.571%) JPA
5 5 (3.571%) Java EE
5 5 (3.571%) JSON
5 5 (3.571%) Node.js
6 4 (2.857%) CSS3
6 4 (2.857%) WPF
6 4 (2.857%) jQuery
6 4 (2.857%) RESTful
7 3 (2.143%) Ajax
7 3 (2.143%) BREW
7 3 (2.143%) J2ME
Application Platforms
1 9 (6.429%) Apache
2 8 (5.714%) SharePoint
3 6 (4.286%) OpenStack
3 6 (4.286%) Windows Azure
4 4 (2.857%) MS Exchange
5 3 (2.143%) CMS
6 2 (1.429%) Lync
6 2 (1.429%) Exchange Server 2010
6 2 (1.429%) Office Communications Server
6 2 (1.429%) Confluence
6 2 (1.429%) Exchange Server 2007
6 2 (1.429%) Tomcat
6 2 (1.429%) Exchange Server 2003
6 2 (1.429%) StreamWeaver
7 1 (0.714%) Joomla!
7 1 (0.714%) WordPress
7 1 (0.714%) Amazon AWS
7 1 (0.714%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.714%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.714%) nginx
Applications
1 7 (5.000%) MS Office
2 5 (3.571%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (2.857%) Office 365
4 2 (1.429%) Google Apps
4 2 (1.429%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (2.143%) Oracle ERP
1 3 (2.143%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.714%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.714%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.571%) HTTP
1 5 (3.571%) Internet
2 2 (1.429%) Unified Communications
2 2 (1.429%) Reverse Proxy
2 2 (1.429%) SSL
2 2 (1.429%) SSH
3 1 (0.714%) LAN
3 1 (0.714%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (11.43%) MySQL
2 8 (5.714%) SQL Server
3 6 (4.286%) Hadoop
4 4 (2.857%) MongoDB
4 4 (2.857%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (1.429%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.429%) Oracle 8/8i
5 2 (1.429%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.714%) SQL Server 2012
6 1 (0.714%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.714%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 4 (2.857%) Maven
2 2 (1.429%) Hudson
2 2 (1.429%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.429%) GitHub
2 2 (1.429%) JIRA
3 1 (0.714%) Xcode
3 1 (0.714%) Bugzilla
3 1 (0.714%) Subversion
3 1 (0.714%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.714%) Git (software)
General
1 13 (9.286%) Finance
2 12 (8.571%) Telecoms
2 12 (8.571%) Banking
3 10 (7.143%) Marketing
3 10 (7.143%) Retail
4 6 (4.286%) Multimedia
5 5 (3.571%) Front Office
5 5 (3.571%) Back Office
6 4 (2.857%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.143%) Games
7 3 (2.143%) Music
8 2 (1.429%) French Language
8 2 (1.429%) German Language
8 2 (1.429%) Spanish Language
9 1 (0.714%) Law
9 1 (0.714%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.714%) Advertising
9 1 (0.714%) Publishing
Miscellaneous
1 15 (10.71%) Computer Science
2 10 (7.143%) SaaS
2 10 (7.143%) Mobile App
3 7 (5.000%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (5.000%) Open Source
3 7 (5.000%) Hedge funds
4 6 (4.286%) AS400
5 5 (3.571%) iPhone
5 5 (3.571%) Digital Media
6 4 (2.857%) iPad
7 3 (2.143%) Handset
7 3 (2.143%) EPoS
7 3 (2.143%) Blackberry
8 2 (1.429%) Social Media
8 2 (1.429%) Social Gaming
8 2 (1.429%) Mobile Banking
8 2 (1.429%) Mathematics
8 2 (1.429%) CMDB
8 2 (1.429%) Wiki
8 2 (1.429%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 19 (13.57%) Linux
2 13 (9.286%) Apple iOS
3 11 (7.857%) Android
4 9 (6.429%) Windows
5 8 (5.714%) UNIX
6 3 (2.143%) Windows Mobile
7 2 (1.429%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (1.429%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (15.71%) Agile Software Development
2 12 (8.571%) Enterprise Architecture
3 11 (7.857%) MVC
4 10 (7.143%) Business Transformation
5 8 (5.714%) Service Delivery
5 8 (5.714%) Programme Management
6 7 (5.000%) Stakeholder Management
6 7 (5.000%) ITIL
6 7 (5.000%) E-Commerce
6 7 (5.000%) Mobile Application Development
7 6 (4.286%) Portfolio Management
7 6 (4.286%) Technical Architecture
7 6 (4.286%) Software Engineering
7 6 (4.286%) Risk Management
8 5 (3.571%) TDD
8 5 (3.571%) Zachman Framework
8 5 (3.571%) TOGAF
8 5 (3.571%) PRINCE2
8 5 (3.571%) Project Management
8 5 (3.571%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 23 (16.43%) Java
2 16 (11.43%) C#
3 14 (10.00%) PHP
4 9 (6.429%) C++
4 9 (6.429%) SQL
5 8 (5.714%) Python
6 6 (4.286%) JavaScript
7 4 (2.857%) C
8 3 (2.143%) Perl
9 2 (1.429%) JCL
10 1 (0.714%) Objective-C
10 1 (0.714%) Ruby
10 1 (0.714%) Scala
10 1 (0.714%) F#
Qualifications
1 14 (10.00%) Degree
2 2 (1.429%) SC Cleared
2 2 (1.429%) DV Cleared
2 2 (1.429%) Security Cleared
2 2 (1.429%) PhD
3 1 (0.714%) MCSE
3 1 (0.714%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (0.714%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.000%) QA
2 2 (1.429%) SLA
3 1 (0.714%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (2.143%) Active Directory
1 3 (2.143%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.429%) Hyper-V
2 2 (1.429%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.714%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 2 (1.429%) SCOM
1 2 (1.429%) Nagios
Vendors
1 25 (17.86%) Microsoft
2 13 (9.286%) VMware
3 10 (7.143%) Oracle
4 7 (5.000%) Citrix
5 2 (1.429%) Zend
5 2 (1.429%) Atlassian
5 2 (1.429%) HP
5 2 (1.429%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.429%) SAP
5 2 (1.429%) Google
6 1 (0.714%) Cisco
6 1 (0.714%) Joyent
6 1 (0.714%) Facebook
6 1 (0.714%) Twitter
City, London
CTO required for an expanding company in Central London. Hands on CTO/Development Manager needed to lead a team of developers and help drive this expanding start up...
ISL
Salary: £75000 - £85000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
London
In terms of the successful candidate, my client is looking for someone ideally from a games or betting background, with a wealth of Java experience in this field...
Aston Carter
Salary: £70000 - £100000 per annum + bonus and shares and equity
Posted: 21 May 2013
Warwickshire
Experienced scrum master... computer science, computer games, maths, science) iOS, Android, Window Phone or interactive touch screen development experience... SQLLite, MS SQL or MongoDB/Redis... MVC, WPF, WCF.....
Tinderstone
Salary: From £50,000 to £65,000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
London
NET Development Manager (Chief Technology Officer, CTO, Director, Team Leader, Technical Lead, .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4, C#, WCF, RESTful, Web API, SQL Server 2012, Agile,...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £70000 - £100000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
London
NET Development Manager (Chief Technology Officer, CTO, Director, Team Leader, Technical Lead, .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4, C#, WCF, RESTful, Web API, SQL Server 2012, Agile,...
Dawson & Walsh
Salary: £70000 - £100000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Isle of Man
TOGAF architectural certification preferred... Previous hands on low level design and coding experience of MySQL, PHP, Java and Objective-C... Familiarity with information security vulnerabilities and risk management.
Betting Appointments
Salary: From £70,000 to £75,000 per annum
Posted: 24 April 2013
London
Key Skills: * High level Node.JS expertise with JavaScript * The ability to lead a team and get things done, no matter what. * Ideal - mobile expertise - iOS, native * An...
Explore Recruitment Solutions
Salary: £50000 - £75000 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
London, Central London, South East England
From a strategic standpoint you will be familiar with more than one software development methodology; knowledge of web standards and skills in the following: CSS, XHTML, Javascript and...
Big Wednesday
Salary: £0 - £175,000+ per year
Posted: 8 May 2013
London
You will be responsible for implementing and managing the technology build (customer facing websites and mobile apps) overseeing and directing a team of Software Developers, Web and UI...
TRG
Salary: 90000-100000 Per Annum Bonus, shares etc.
Posted: 23 April 2013
London
Arthur Stewart is currently working with a VC backed start-up company in the Maritime industry. Our client is currently searching for a Chief Technology Officer to lead...
Arthur Stewart & Co.
Salary: £0 - £120,000+ per year
Posted: 13 May 2013