The first table below looks at the demand for Drools skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Drools 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 of the Application Development category.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Drools
Rank 811 835 802
Rank change year-on-year
+24 -33
Permanent jobs citing Drools 53 65 68
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.049% 0.053% 0.056%
As % of the Application Development category 0.120% 0.127% 0.139%
Number of salaries quoted 45 47 54
Average salary £50,000 £42,500 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+17.64% -5.55%
90% offered a salary of more than £34,500 £35,000 £40,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,500 £90,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,250 £37,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year
+4.66% -16.66%
All Application Development
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
44030 51132 48922
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 40.48% 41.69% 40.02%
Number of salaries quoted 38280 45443 43240
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £28,000 £28,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%

Drools
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Drools Jobs Demand Trend

Drools
Salary Trend

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

Drools Salary Trend

Drools
Salary Histogram

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

Drools Salary Histogram

Drools
Top 14 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 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 +16 41 £52,500 +10.52%
London +43 27 £52,500 +5.00%
Scotland - 11 £40,000 -
Edinburgh - 9 £40,000 -
South East +14 8 £43,000 +7.50%
City of London +25 6 £50,000 +5.26%
Surrey +19 4 £50,000 +58.79%
South West - 4 £20,000 -
Bristol - 4 £20,000 -
Berkshire - 4 £38,500 -
Reading - 4 £38,500 -
Manchester -15 2 - -
North West -25 2 - -
Glasgow - 1 £40,000 -

Drools
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK 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 81 (63.78%) Java
2 63 (49.61%) XML
3 62 (48.82%) Spring
4 54 (42.52%) Degree
5 48 (37.80%) Finance
5 48 (37.80%) SQL
6 46 (36.22%) Banking
7 45 (35.43%) jBPM
7 45 (35.43%) Data Modelling
8 44 (34.65%) Maven
9 43 (33.86%) Agile Software Development
10 40 (31.50%) Hibernate
11 39 (30.71%) Investment Banking
12 38 (29.92%) JRules
13 37 (29.13%) Derivative
14 36 (28.35%) Business Transformation
14 36 (28.35%) FpML
15 35 (27.56%) J2EE
15 35 (27.56%) Oracle
16 32 (25.20%) JUnit
16 32 (25.20%) Eclipse
17 31 (24.41%) Legal
18 29 (22.83%) TDD
18 29 (22.83%) SOA
18 29 (22.83%) JBoss
18 29 (22.83%) Subversion
19 24 (18.90%) JavaScript
20 23 (18.11%) Ajax
21 21 (16.54%) REST
21 21 (16.54%) Unit Testing

Drools
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK 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 63 (49.61%) XML
2 62 (48.82%) Spring
3 45 (35.43%) jBPM
4 40 (31.50%) Hibernate
5 38 (29.92%) JRules
6 36 (28.35%) FpML
7 35 (27.56%) J2EE
8 23 (18.11%) Ajax
9 21 (16.54%) REST
10 20 (15.75%) Web Services
10 20 (15.75%) JPA
11 18 (14.17%) XSLT
12 17 (13.39%) Java EE
12 17 (13.39%) SOAP
13 16 (12.60%) Middleware
13 16 (12.60%) iBATIS
13 16 (12.60%) JSF
14 12 (9.449%) HTML
15 11 (8.661%) JSP
15 11 (8.661%) Servlets
Application Platforms
1 18 (14.17%) ESB
2 11 (8.661%) Apache
2 11 (8.661%) Drupal
3 10 (7.874%) Tomcat
4 8 (6.299%) Oracle Coherence
5 6 (4.724%) TIBCO EMS
6 5 (3.937%) GemFire
7 4 (3.150%) ActiveMQ
7 4 (3.150%) GlassFish
8 3 (2.362%) Mule
9 2 (1.575%) Liferay
9 2 (1.575%) Apache Solr
9 2 (1.575%) Alfresco
10 1 (0.787%) WebSphere Application Server
10 1 (0.787%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.787%) WebSphere MQ
10 1 (0.787%) SAS
10 1 (0.787%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.787%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.575%) TIBCO iProcess
2 1 (0.787%) BusinessWorks
2 1 (0.787%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.874%) Internet
2 7 (5.512%) BSS
3 4 (3.150%) SSH
3 4 (3.150%) DVB
3 4 (3.150%) DNS
3 4 (3.150%) DHCP
3 4 (3.150%) HTTP
3 4 (3.150%) SNMP
3 4 (3.150%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.874%) Oracle 11g
2 9 (7.087%) MySQL
3 5 (3.937%) TOAD
4 4 (3.150%) Voldemort
4 4 (3.150%) Hadoop
5 2 (1.575%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.575%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.787%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.787%) DB2
6 1 (0.787%) Oracle 8/8i
6 1 (0.787%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.787%) SQL Server 2005
6 1 (0.787%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.787%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.787%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 44 (34.65%) Maven
2 32 (25.20%) JUnit
2 32 (25.20%) Eclipse
3 29 (22.83%) Subversion
4 15 (11.81%) Git (software)
5 11 (8.661%) JIRA
6 8 (6.299%) TeamCity
7 5 (3.937%) Ant
7 5 (3.937%) IntelliJ
7 5 (3.937%) Log4j
7 5 (3.937%) Jenkins
8 4 (3.150%) Cucumber
8 4 (3.150%) ProC
9 2 (1.575%) SpecFlow
9 2 (1.575%) CruiseControl
9 2 (1.575%) Selenium
10 1 (0.787%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.787%) Visual Studio Team System
10 1 (0.787%) EasyMock
General
1 48 (37.80%) Finance
2 46 (36.22%) Banking
3 39 (30.71%) Investment Banking
4 31 (24.41%) Legal
5 9 (7.087%) Billing
6 6 (4.724%) Telecoms
7 5 (3.937%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.362%) Front Office
8 3 (2.362%) Advertising
9 1 (0.787%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.787%) Marketing
9 1 (0.787%) Retail
Job Titles
1 52 (40.94%) Developer
2 44 (34.65%) Java Developer
3 38 (29.92%) Analyst
3 38 (29.92%) Business Analyst
4 19 (14.96%) Java Software Engineer
4 19 (14.96%) Software Engineer
5 18 (14.17%) Banking Business Analyst
6 16 (12.60%) Senior Developer
6 16 (12.60%) Java/J2EE Developer
6 16 (12.60%) Agile Business Analyst
7 14 (11.02%) Senior Java Developer
8 13 (10.24%) Trainee Software Engineer
8 13 (10.24%) Trainee
9 9 (7.087%) J2EE Developer
9 9 (7.087%) Project Manager
10 8 (6.299%) Senior Java/J2EE Developer
11 7 (5.512%) Senior J2EE Developer
12 5 (3.937%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
13 4 (3.150%) Linux Administrator
13 4 (3.150%) Senior Linux Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 37 (29.13%) Derivative
2 20 (15.75%) Computer Science
3 18 (14.17%) Open Source
4 9 (7.087%) PMI
5 5 (3.937%) Fixed Income
5 5 (3.937%) W3C
5 5 (3.937%) Online Banking
5 5 (3.937%) Mobile Banking
6 4 (3.150%) DTV
7 2 (1.575%) Data Integration
8 1 (0.787%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.787%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.787%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 17 (13.39%) UNIX
1 17 (13.39%) Linux
2 5 (3.937%) Android
2 5 (3.937%) Apple iOS
3 4 (3.150%) Scientific Linux
3 4 (3.150%) CentOS
4 3 (2.362%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (35.43%) Data Modelling
2 43 (33.86%) Agile Software Development
3 36 (28.35%) Business Transformation
4 29 (22.83%) TDD
4 29 (22.83%) SOA
5 21 (16.54%) Unit Testing
5 21 (16.54%) Workflow
6 16 (12.60%) Scrum
6 16 (12.60%) Problem Management
6 16 (12.60%) Continuous Integration
7 11 (8.661%) OO
7 11 (8.661%) BPMN
8 10 (7.874%) PRINCE2
9 9 (7.087%) Project Management
9 9 (7.087%) Business Analysis
9 9 (7.087%) Multithreading
10 8 (6.299%) Dependency Injection
10 8 (6.299%) MVC
11 7 (5.512%) UML
11 7 (5.512%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 81 (63.78%) Java
2 48 (37.80%) SQL
3 24 (18.90%) JavaScript
4 6 (4.724%) Python
4 6 (4.724%) C#
5 5 (3.937%) XPath
5 5 (3.937%) Scala
6 4 (3.150%) Ruby
6 4 (3.150%) Perl
7 3 (2.362%) PL/SQL
7 3 (2.362%) Bash shell
8 1 (0.787%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 54 (42.52%) Degree
2 9 (7.087%) PMI Certification
3 1 (0.787%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (12.60%) QA
System Software
1 4 (3.150%) NFS
Systems Management
1 4 (3.150%) Splunk
1 4 (3.150%) Puppet
1 4 (3.150%) Nagios
2 1 (0.787%) TIBCO Hawk
2 1 (0.787%) SCOM
Vendors
1 35 (27.56%) Oracle
2 29 (22.83%) JBoss
3 8 (6.299%) TIBCO
4 4 (3.150%) Netezza
4 4 (3.150%) IBM
4 4 (3.150%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.575%) Foundry
5 2 (1.575%) Lombardi
5 2 (1.575%) ILOG
6 1 (0.787%) Microsoft
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Posted: 9 May 2013
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Salary: From £50,000 to £55,000 per annum
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