The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Cognizant products and/or services in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Cognizant over the 3 months to 17 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 currently tracked.

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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cognizant
Rank 718 755 840
Rank change year-on-year
+37 +85
Permanent jobs citing Cognizant 140 141 31
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.130% 0.117% 0.025%
As % of the Vendors category 0.270% 0.245% 0.054%
Number of salaries quoted 23 22 4
Average salary £43,700 £71,250 £54,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
-38.66% +31.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £34,250 £35,500 £43,750
10% offered a salary of more than £45,600 £80,000 £65,800
UK excluding London average salary £45,600 £70,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year
-34.85% +33.33%
All Vendors
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
51873 57633 57889
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 48.12% 47.65% 46.89%
Number of salaries quoted 42427 48577 48007
Average salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £28,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000

Cognizant
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cognizant Jobs Demand Trend

Cognizant
Salary Trend

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

Cognizant Salary Trend

Cognizant
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Cognizant over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 within the UK.

Cognizant Salary Histogram

Cognizant
Top 22 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 UK over the 3 months to 17 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 +29 136 £43,700 -38.66%
London +35 99 £43,700 -45.37%
South East +15 27 £45,600 -37.10%
Berkshire +28 22 £45,600 -
Slough - 22 £45,600 -
Hounslow - 7 - -
South West +8 5 - -
North West +1 4 - -
Bristol - 4 - -
Cheshire +2 3 - -
West Sussex -9 3 - -
Surrey +14 2 - -
Glasgow - 2 - -
Scotland - 2 - -
East of England +1 1 - -
Dorset -6 1 - -
Crawley -11 1 - -
Manchester -19 1 - -
Cambridgeshire - 1 - -
Staines - 1 - -
Cambridge - 1 - -
Burgess Hill - 1 - -

Cognizant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK 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.

1 179 (54.24%) Degree
2 117 (35.45%) Finance
3 71 (21.52%) Computer Science
4 64 (19.39%) Oracle
5 61 (18.48%) Retail
6 55 (16.67%) Banking
7 49 (14.85%) Stakeholder Management
8 46 (13.94%) Marketing
9 45 (13.64%) Business Development
9 45 (13.64%) Project Management
10 44 (13.33%) Telecoms
10 44 (13.33%) UNIX
11 40 (12.12%) Business Analysis
12 39 (11.82%) SAP
12 39 (11.82%) Change Management
13 38 (11.52%) IBM
14 36 (10.91%) Life Science
15 35 (10.61%) SQL
16 34 (10.30%) Java
16 34 (10.30%) CRM
17 30 (9.091%) Scrum
17 30 (9.091%) Information Management
17 30 (9.091%) Twitter
18 29 (8.788%) QA
18 29 (8.788%) E-Commerce
19 28 (8.485%) Microsoft
19 28 (8.485%) Business Intelligence
19 28 (8.485%) Data Warehouse
20 26 (7.879%) Service Delivery
21 25 (7.576%) Data Management

Cognizant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK 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 24 (7.273%) .NET
2 23 (6.970%) J2EE
3 20 (6.061%) Middleware
4 18 (5.455%) Spring
4 18 (5.455%) Web Services
5 17 (5.152%) XML
6 12 (3.636%) HTML
6 12 (3.636%) WebSphere
6 12 (3.636%) .NET Framework
7 11 (3.333%) SOAP
8 9 (2.727%) Oracle Fusion
9 8 (2.424%) XSLT
10 7 (2.121%) JDBC
10 7 (2.121%) WCF
10 7 (2.121%) Velocity
10 7 (2.121%) Ajax
10 7 (2.121%) Visualforce
11 6 (1.818%) REST
11 6 (1.818%) Hibernate
11 6 (1.818%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 23 (6.970%) SharePoint
2 19 (5.758%) Apache
2 19 (5.758%) Tomcat
3 11 (3.333%) WebLogic
4 8 (2.424%) WebSphere Application Server
5 7 (2.121%) IIS
6 6 (1.818%) WebLogic Portal
6 6 (1.818%) Liferay
6 6 (1.818%) Alfresco
7 5 (1.515%) Force.com
7 5 (1.515%) FileNet
7 5 (1.515%) Documentum
8 4 (1.212%) ESB
9 3 (0.909%) SAS
9 3 (0.909%) OpenEdge
10 2 (0.606%) Windows Azure
10 2 (0.606%) Amazon AWS
10 2 (0.606%) Oracle Service Bus
10 2 (0.606%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.606%) Adobe CQ
Applications
1 21 (6.364%) MS Excel
2 17 (5.152%) MS PowerPoint
3 9 (2.727%) MS Office
3 9 (2.727%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (3.030%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (1.515%) PeopleSoft Financials
2 5 (1.515%) Eagle PACE
3 4 (1.212%) SAP IS-U
4 3 (0.909%) Oracle Retail
4 3 (0.909%) SAP CRM
5 2 (0.606%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.606%) SAP MDM
5 2 (0.606%) SAP Retail
5 2 (0.606%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 2 (0.606%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.606%) Oracle BPM
5 2 (0.606%) SAP Analytics
5 2 (0.606%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.303%) SAP MRS
6 1 (0.303%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.303%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.303%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.303%) Oracle CRM
6 1 (0.303%) Tridion
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.636%) HTTP
2 10 (3.030%) Network Security
3 9 (2.727%) LDAP
3 9 (2.727%) Internet
4 5 (1.515%) DNS
4 5 (1.515%) Wireless
5 4 (1.212%) SSH
5 4 (1.212%) IMAP
5 4 (1.212%) OpenLDAP
5 4 (1.212%) SMTP
5 4 (1.212%) FTP
5 4 (1.212%) Kerberos
5 4 (1.212%) SNMP
5 4 (1.212%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.909%) ATM
6 3 (0.909%) CTI
7 2 (0.606%) BSS
8 1 (0.303%) Intranet
8 1 (0.303%) SSL
8 1 (0.303%) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (8.485%) Data Warehouse
2 17 (5.152%) SQL Server
3 14 (4.242%) Oracle 8/8i
4 13 (3.939%) Big Data
5 11 (3.333%) Oracle 11g
5 11 (3.333%) RDBMS
6 9 (2.727%) SAP Data Services
7 8 (2.424%) Oracle 10g
8 7 (2.121%) SQL Server 2008
9 6 (1.818%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.909%) SAP BW
11 2 (0.606%) DataStage
11 2 (0.606%) DB2
11 2 (0.606%) MySQL
11 2 (0.606%) QlikView
12 1 (0.303%) Ingres
12 1 (0.303%) Oracle Discoverer
12 1 (0.303%) Oracle Reports
12 1 (0.303%) Oracle 9i
12 1 (0.303%) SAP BI
Development Applications
1 11 (3.333%) Subversion
2 9 (2.727%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.121%) JIRA
4 6 (1.818%) Eclipse
4 6 (1.818%) IntelliJ
4 6 (1.818%) GitHub
4 6 (1.818%) Gradle
5 5 (1.515%) Git (software)
6 4 (1.212%) Selenium
7 3 (0.909%) QuickTest Pro
7 3 (0.909%) LoadRunner
7 3 (0.909%) WebSpeed
8 2 (0.606%) Introscope
8 2 (0.606%) ERwin
8 2 (0.606%) TestNG
8 2 (0.606%) EasyMock
8 2 (0.606%) Maven
8 2 (0.606%) Checkstyle
8 2 (0.606%) WebDriver
8 2 (0.606%) DbUnit
General
1 117 (35.45%) Finance
2 61 (18.48%) Retail
3 55 (16.67%) Banking
4 46 (13.94%) Marketing
5 44 (13.33%) Telecoms
6 22 (6.667%) Manufacturing
7 21 (6.364%) Pharmaceutical
8 18 (5.455%) Billing
9 17 (5.152%) French Language
10 14 (4.242%) German Language
11 12 (3.636%) Retail Banking
12 9 (2.727%) Corporate Banking
12 9 (2.727%) Financial Institution
12 9 (2.727%) Aerospace
13 8 (2.424%) Automotive
14 7 (2.121%) Publishing
15 6 (1.818%) Legal
16 5 (1.515%) Investment Banking
16 5 (1.515%) Arabic Language
16 5 (1.515%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 62 (18.79%) Consultant
2 45 (13.64%) Architect
3 36 (10.91%) Developer
4 22 (6.667%) Solutions Architect
5 20 (6.061%) Project Manager
5 20 (6.061%) Senior Consultant
6 18 (5.455%) Programme Manager
7 17 (5.152%) Analyst
8 15 (4.545%) Senior Manager
8 15 (4.545%) Designer
9 11 (3.333%) SAP Architect
9 11 (3.333%) SAP Manager
9 11 (3.333%) Test Manager
9 11 (3.333%) Senior Architect
10 10 (3.030%) Business Analyst
11 9 (2.727%) Management Consultant
11 9 (2.727%) Senior Solutions Architect
11 9 (2.727%) SAP Programme Manager
11 9 (2.727%) SAP Solutions Architect
12 8 (2.424%) DBA
Miscellaneous
1 71 (21.52%) Computer Science
2 36 (10.91%) Life Science
3 22 (6.667%) Social Media
4 17 (5.152%) Open Source
5 14 (4.242%) Mobile App
6 13 (3.939%) Management Information System
6 13 (3.939%) Clustering
7 12 (3.636%) Enterprise Software
8 11 (3.333%) SaaS
9 9 (2.727%) Wiki
10 8 (2.424%) Web 2.0
11 7 (2.121%) Derivative
11 7 (2.121%) Replication
11 7 (2.121%) Mainframe
12 6 (1.818%) Cloud Computing
12 6 (1.818%) Visualisation
13 5 (1.515%) Video Conferencing
13 5 (1.515%) IVR
14 3 (0.909%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 3 (0.909%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 44 (13.33%) UNIX
2 23 (6.970%) Linux
3 21 (6.364%) Windows
4 11 (3.333%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.818%) Windows 7
5 6 (1.818%) Solaris
6 5 (1.515%) Windows Server 2008
6 5 (1.515%) Windows Server 2003
7 4 (1.212%) AIX
8 1 (0.303%) Windows XP
8 1 (0.303%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (14.85%) Stakeholder Management
2 45 (13.64%) Project Management
2 45 (13.64%) Business Development
3 40 (12.12%) Business Analysis
4 39 (11.82%) Change Management
5 34 (10.30%) CRM
6 30 (9.091%) Scrum
6 30 (9.091%) Information Management
7 29 (8.788%) E-Commerce
8 28 (8.485%) Business Intelligence
9 26 (7.879%) Service Delivery
10 25 (7.576%) Data Management
10 25 (7.576%) Test Strategy
11 24 (7.273%) Content Management
11 24 (7.273%) Data Modelling
11 24 (7.273%) ITIL
12 23 (6.970%) ETL
13 22 (6.667%) Quality Management
13 22 (6.667%) TDD
13 22 (6.667%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 35 (10.61%) SQL
2 34 (10.30%) Java
3 21 (6.364%) C
4 12 (3.636%) JavaScript
5 10 (3.030%) Shell Script
6 7 (2.121%) Apex Code
7 6 (1.818%) Groovy
7 6 (1.818%) Scala
7 6 (1.818%) Perl
8 5 (1.515%) PL/SQL
8 5 (1.515%) Bash shell
9 4 (1.212%) Python
10 3 (0.909%) Progress 4GL
10 3 (0.909%) C#
11 2 (0.606%) PHP
11 2 (0.606%) XQuery
11 2 (0.606%) XPath
12 1 (0.303%) Jython
12 1 (0.303%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 179 (54.24%) Degree
2 18 (5.455%) MBA
3 13 (3.939%) MCSE
3 13 (3.939%) Microsoft Certification
4 11 (3.333%) Security Cleared
5 7 (2.121%) VCDX
5 7 (2.121%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 7 (2.121%) ISEB
5 7 (2.121%) PMI Certification
6 6 (1.818%) PMP
6 6 (1.818%) CISA
6 6 (1.818%) CIMA
6 6 (1.818%) SC Cleared
7 5 (1.515%) MCITP
7 5 (1.515%) MCSA
8 4 (1.212%) RHCE
8 4 (1.212%) CCAB
8 4 (1.212%) ACCA
8 4 (1.212%) MBCS
8 4 (1.212%) CITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (8.788%) QA
2 12 (3.636%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 8 (2.424%) SLA
4 7 (2.121%) Basel III
5 6 (1.818%) Basel II
6 5 (1.515%) Data Quality
7 4 (1.212%) GAAP
8 3 (0.909%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 2 (0.606%) GAMP
9 2 (0.606%) GMP
10 1 (0.303%) CDISC
10 1 (0.303%) Dublin Core
10 1 (0.303%) RosettaNet
10 1 (0.303%) FATCA
System Software
1 13 (3.939%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (3.636%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.515%) VMware ESX
4 4 (1.212%) NFS
4 4 (1.212%) Samba
Systems Management
1 11 (3.333%) Red Hat Satellite
2 8 (2.424%) Tivoli
3 7 (2.121%) Tivoli Monitoring
3 7 (2.121%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 7 (2.121%) SCOM
4 5 (1.515%) EMC Navisphere
4 5 (1.515%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
5 4 (1.212%) Cacti
5 4 (1.212%) Nagios
5 4 (1.212%) Puppet
6 2 (0.606%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.303%) WebInspect
7 1 (0.303%) Netcool
7 1 (0.303%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.303%) CA Wily
Vendors
1 64 (19.39%) Oracle
2 39 (11.82%) SAP
3 38 (11.52%) IBM
4 30 (9.091%) Twitter
5 28 (8.485%) Microsoft
6 16 (4.848%) Informatica
7 13 (3.939%) VMware
8 12 (3.636%) Red Hat
9 11 (3.333%) JD Edwards
9 11 (3.333%) HP
9 11 (3.333%) PeopleSoft
10 10 (3.030%) Teradata
10 10 (3.030%) Netezza
11 9 (2.727%) Amdocs
12 8 (2.424%) hybris
12 8 (2.424%) Salesforce.com
12 8 (2.424%) Citrix
12 8 (2.424%) Hitachi
13 6 (1.818%) Siebel
13 6 (1.818%) EMC
UK
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Cognizant
Posted: 14 May 2013
UK
Developer Designer with Vermillion Reporting Suite (VRS) skills required to undertake this exciting opportunity to work for one of Cognizant’s key Financial Services clients in the Enterprise...
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Posted: 2 May 2013
UK
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Good grasp of technology and tools used for development - Good design skills and architectural skills in the technical area - Fair understanding of project management skills - Fair amount of...
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UK
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UK
Experience of working in an Enterprise IT Environment - Experience of working within a structured Project Delivery Framework / Method - Technical knowledge - broad knowledge around End User Computing Technologies including...
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Posted: 25 April 2013
UK
Cognizant’s Master Data Management Practice is a leader in the IT Consulting and System Integration industry... As we strengthen our UK and European operations we want to...
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UK
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Posted: 1 May 2013
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Perform the Unit Testing of the feature/work item... Key Requirements: C# .NET. Strong experience in C# .NET (version 3.5 and above is required) Design... Unit Testing /...
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Posted: 16 May 2013
UK
Responsibilities: - Ensure that all project and program plans are accurate, appropriate and are of the required standard as defined by the Project Management Office (PMO)... - Perform risk analysis.....
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Posted: 14 May 2013
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Key sub-practices include SharePoint, ECM, Portal & Commerce... - Solid understanding of Java / J2EE, JSP in the context of FatWire, Web logic, Apache and Tomcat technologies... - Have a good...
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Posted: 26 April 2013
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Summary Cognizant’s Enterprise Application Services (EAS) is a newly formed Practice which prepares Cognizant for the future of packaged-based applications in BPM, CRM, MDM, and the...
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Posted: 14 May 2013
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Posted: 14 May 2013
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Cognizant Technology Solutions are recruiting for iOS Mobile Application Developers to join our UK Mobile Services Practice (MSP)... - Knowledge of Android and Blackberry device families and iOS versions...
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Posted: 16 May 2013
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Posted: 14 May 2013
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Posted: 9 May 2013
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Posted: 10 May 2013
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Excellent opportunity for an Agile Java, PHP and Mobile Web developer to join our Technology Practice... Candidates should be able to work in small focussed Agile project teams...
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Posted: 9 May 2013
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