The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of DataSynapse 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 DataSynapse over the 3 months to 23 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 DataSynapse Inc.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
DataSynapse
Rank 730 771 721
Rank change year-on-year
+41 -50
Permanent jobs citing DataSynapse 132 127 152
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.123% 0.105% 0.121%
As % of the Vendors category 0.255% 0.221% 0.257%
Number of salaries quoted 119 117 135
Average salary £85,000 £80,000 £75,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £60,000 £59,400
10% offered a salary of more than £105,000 £100,000 £101,500
UK excluding London average salary £55,000 - £62,500
All Vendors
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
51694 57521 59159
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 48.07% 47.65% 46.93%
Number of salaries quoted 42201 48473 49150
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

DataSynapse
Jobs Demand Trend

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

DataSynapse Jobs Demand Trend

DataSynapse
Salary Trend

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

DataSynapse Salary Trend

DataSynapse
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing DataSynapse over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 within the UK.

DataSynapse Salary Histogram

DataSynapse
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DataSynapse within the UK over the 3 months to 23 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
London +38 128 £85,000 +6.25%
England +25 128 £85,000 +6.25%
City of London +2 40 £80,000 -
Canary Wharf +23 19 £115,000 +91.66%
Northern Ireland - 4 £55,000 -
Belfast - 4 £55,000 -
County Antrim - 4 £55,000 -
Docklands, London - 1 - -

DataSynapse
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing DataSynapse 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 DataSynapse.

1 127 (63.82%) Front Office
2 115 (57.79%) Java
3 100 (50.25%) Oracle
4 98 (49.25%) Oracle Coherence
5 88 (44.22%) C#
6 83 (41.71%) Banking
7 80 (40.20%) Derivative
8 70 (35.18%) Finance
9 68 (34.17%) Grid Computing
10 65 (32.66%) SQL
11 59 (29.65%) C++
11 59 (29.65%) UNIX
11 59 (29.65%) Linux
12 54 (27.14%) Windows
12 54 (27.14%) .NET
12 54 (27.14%) Investment Banking
13 44 (22.11%) Credit Risk
13 44 (22.11%) Risk Management
14 43 (21.61%) Spring
14 43 (21.61%) Multithreading
15 42 (21.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 41 (20.60%) TIBCO
16 41 (20.60%) GemFire
17 35 (17.59%) Sybase
18 33 (16.58%) SQL Server
18 33 (16.58%) Solaris
18 33 (16.58%) Agile Software Development
19 30 (15.08%) WCF
20 29 (14.57%) IIS
21 28 (14.07%) Apache

DataSynapse
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing DataSynapse 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 DataSynapse. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 54 (27.14%) .NET
2 43 (21.61%) Spring
3 30 (15.08%) WCF
4 25 (12.56%) XML
5 21 (10.55%) Middleware
6 17 (8.543%) WebSphere
7 16 (8.040%) WinForms
7 16 (8.040%) Hibernate
8 13 (6.533%) J2SE
9 12 (6.030%) XSLT
9 12 (6.030%) HTML
10 10 (5.025%) Web Services
11 7 (3.518%) RESTful
11 7 (3.518%) WPF
11 7 (3.518%) JMS
12 5 (2.513%) Castle Windsor
13 4 (2.010%) Java SE
14 3 (1.508%) Ehcache
15 2 (1.005%) JDBC
15 2 (1.005%) MapReduce
Application Platforms
1 98 (49.25%) Oracle Coherence
2 41 (20.60%) GemFire
3 29 (14.57%) IIS
4 28 (14.07%) Apache
5 19 (9.548%) WebLogic
6 5 (2.513%) Resin
6 5 (2.513%) Tomcat
7 3 (1.508%) ESB
7 3 (1.508%) MQSeries
8 2 (1.005%) Confluence
8 2 (1.005%) Amazon AWS
8 2 (1.005%) TIBCO EMS
9 1 (0.503%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 6 (3.015%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 17 (8.543%) RMDS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (10.55%) HTTP
2 19 (9.548%) NAS
2 19 (9.548%) SAN
3 5 (2.513%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.503%) DSL
4 1 (0.503%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (16.58%) SQL Server
2 26 (13.07%) Hadoop
3 22 (11.06%) Big Data
4 11 (5.528%) Infinispan
5 10 (5.025%) Oracle 8/8i
6 8 (4.020%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (3.518%) Oracle Reports
8 6 (3.015%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.005%) DB2
9 2 (1.005%) RDBMS
9 2 (1.005%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (1.005%) HBase
9 2 (1.005%) Voldemort
9 2 (1.005%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (1.005%) BigTable
9 2 (1.005%) SQL Server 2008
9 2 (1.005%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (1.005%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 16 (8.040%) Subversion
1 16 (8.040%) Maven
2 14 (7.035%) TeamCity
3 2 (1.005%) CruiseControl
3 2 (1.005%) MSBuild
3 2 (1.005%) Hudson
3 2 (1.005%) JIRA
4 1 (0.503%) Eclipse
General
1 127 (63.82%) Front Office
2 83 (41.71%) Banking
3 70 (35.18%) Finance
4 54 (27.14%) Investment Banking
5 14 (7.035%) Financial Institution
6 7 (3.518%) Back Office
7 2 (1.005%) Billing
8 1 (0.503%) Games
8 1 (0.503%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 110 (55.28%) Developer
2 66 (33.17%) Java Developer
3 27 (13.57%) Architect
4 21 (10.55%) Technical Leader
5 17 (8.543%) C# Developer
6 10 (5.025%) Analyst
7 9 (4.523%) Senior Developer
8 8 (4.020%) Infrastructure Architect
9 7 (3.518%) Java Architect
10 6 (3.015%) Software Engineer
10 6 (3.015%) Solutions Architect
10 6 (3.015%) Front Office Developer
10 6 (3.015%) Support Analyst
10 6 (3.015%) C++ Developer
10 6 (3.015%) SQL Developer
10 6 (3.015%) Lead Architect
11 5 (2.513%) Java Software Engineer
11 5 (2.513%) Support Engineer
11 5 (2.513%) Applications Support
11 5 (2.513%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 80 (40.20%) Derivative
2 68 (34.17%) Grid Computing
3 44 (22.11%) Credit Risk
4 42 (21.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 20 (10.05%) Fixed Income
6 19 (9.548%) Interest Rate Derivative
7 11 (5.528%) Market Risk
8 8 (4.020%) Hedge funds
9 7 (3.518%) Statistics
10 5 (2.513%) Inversion of Control
11 4 (2.010%) Management Information System
12 3 (1.508%) Mathematics
12 3 (1.508%) Computer Science
12 3 (1.508%) Open Source
12 3 (1.508%) Cloud Computing
13 2 (1.005%) Mainframe
13 2 (1.005%) Equities
13 2 (1.005%) Wiki
14 1 (0.503%) Equity Derivative
14 1 (0.503%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 59 (29.65%) UNIX
1 59 (29.65%) Linux
2 54 (27.14%) Windows
3 33 (16.58%) Solaris
4 1 (0.503%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (22.11%) Risk Management
2 43 (21.61%) Multithreading
3 33 (16.58%) Agile Software Development
4 27 (13.57%) Analytics
5 21 (10.55%) OO
6 20 (10.05%) Monte Carlo Method
7 18 (9.045%) Risk Analytics
8 17 (8.543%) Complex Event Processing
8 17 (8.543%) Benchmarking
9 13 (6.533%) TDD
9 13 (6.533%) Electronic Trading
10 7 (3.518%) Algorithmic Trading
10 7 (3.518%) Greeks
10 7 (3.518%) SOA
11 6 (3.015%) Data Modelling
11 6 (3.015%) Configuration Management
11 6 (3.015%) Technical Architecture
12 5 (2.513%) Capacity Management
12 5 (2.513%) Scrum
13 4 (2.010%) UML
Programming Languages
1 115 (57.79%) Java
2 88 (44.22%) C#
3 65 (32.66%) SQL
4 59 (29.65%) C++
5 21 (10.55%) Clojure
6 13 (6.533%) Python
7 9 (4.523%) JavaScript
8 7 (3.518%) VBA
9 6 (3.015%) Perl
10 3 (1.508%) Scala
10 3 (1.508%) VBScript
11 2 (1.005%) VC++
11 2 (1.005%) Groovy
12 1 (0.503%) Haskell
12 1 (0.503%) F#
12 1 (0.503%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (2.513%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.010%) SLA
2 1 (0.503%) QA
2 1 (0.503%) Basel III
2 1 (0.503%) Basel II
Vendors
1 100 (50.25%) Oracle
2 41 (20.60%) TIBCO
3 35 (17.59%) Sybase
4 18 (9.045%) Terracotta
5 17 (8.543%) 29West
5 17 (8.543%) NetApp
5 17 (8.543%) Cisco
5 17 (8.543%) EMC
6 16 (8.040%) Microsoft
6 16 (8.040%) GigaSpaces
7 11 (5.528%) JBoss
8 5 (2.513%) Sun
9 2 (1.005%) Azul
9 2 (1.005%) Hortonworks
9 2 (1.005%) Cloudera
9 2 (1.005%) Yahoo!
9 2 (1.005%) Google
10 1 (0.503%) Twitter
10 1 (0.503%) Remedy
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