The first table below looks at the demand for Eclipse RCP skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Eclipse RCP over the 3 months to 24 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 Development Applications category.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP)
Rank 814 865 811
Rank change year-on-year
+51 -54
Permanent jobs citing Eclipse RCP 48 34 70
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.044% 0.028% 0.056%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.301% 0.199% 0.440%
Number of salaries quoted 44 33 64
Average salary £35,000 £42,500 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-17.64% -5.55%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £35,200 £34,000
10% offered a salary of more than £53,500 £50,000 £80,500
UK excluding London average salary £34,000 £40,000 £35,500
% change year-on-year
-15.00% +12.67%
All Development Applications
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
15947 17092 15900
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 14.75% 14.16% 12.78%
Number of salaries quoted 13623 14969 13983
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +1.33%

Eclipse RCP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Eclipse RCP Jobs Demand Trend

Eclipse RCP
Salary Trend

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

Eclipse RCP Salary Trend

Eclipse RCP
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Eclipse RCP over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 within the UK.

Eclipse RCP Salary Histogram

Eclipse RCP
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Eclipse RCP within the UK over the 3 months to 24 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 +41 48 £35,000 -17.64%
Yorkshire +20 22 £34,500 +1.47%
West Yorkshire +14 22 £34,500 +1.47%
Leeds +3 22 £34,500 +1.47%
London +55 10 £55,000 +29.41%
South West -9 9 £35,000 -15.15%
South East +11 7 £32,500 -40.90%
Oxfordshire - 7 £32,500 -
Oxford - 6 £32,500 -
Bristol - 5 £32,500 -
Gloucester +5 4 £42,500 +6.25%
Gloucestershire -6 4 £42,500 +3.03%
Canary Wharf - 3 £85,000 -
City of London - 3 £45,000 -

Eclipse RCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing Eclipse RCP 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 Eclipse RCP.

1 89 (100.00%) Java
1 89 (100.00%) Eclipse
2 59 (66.29%) Swing
3 42 (47.19%) JUnit
4 38 (42.70%) GWT
5 36 (40.45%) OSGi
6 35 (39.33%) Oracle
7 34 (38.20%) Degree
8 33 (37.08%) JBoss
9 32 (35.96%) J2EE
10 29 (32.58%) WebLogic
10 29 (32.58%) WebSphere
10 29 (32.58%) Agile Software Development
10 29 (32.58%) Open Source
11 28 (31.46%) Hibernate
12 25 (28.09%) Subversion
13 24 (26.97%) JFace
14 23 (25.84%) SWT
15 20 (22.47%) Spring
16 19 (21.35%) Web Development
16 19 (21.35%) QA
16 19 (21.35%) SQL Server
16 19 (21.35%) SQL
16 19 (21.35%) JProfiler
16 19 (21.35%) Qt
16 19 (21.35%) JavaFX
17 18 (20.22%) Vaadin
17 18 (20.22%) Sybase
17 18 (20.22%) QuickTest Pro
18 15 (16.85%) Enterprise Software

Eclipse RCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing Eclipse RCP 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 Eclipse RCP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 59 (66.29%) Swing
2 38 (42.70%) GWT
3 36 (40.45%) OSGi
4 32 (35.96%) J2EE
5 29 (32.58%) WebSphere
6 28 (31.46%) Hibernate
7 24 (26.97%) JFace
8 23 (25.84%) SWT
9 20 (22.47%) Spring
10 19 (21.35%) Qt
10 19 (21.35%) JavaFX
11 18 (20.22%) Vaadin
12 14 (15.73%) JMS
12 14 (15.73%) EJB
13 9 (10.11%) HTML
13 9 (10.11%) CSS
14 7 (7.865%) JSP
14 7 (7.865%) Servlets
15 6 (6.742%) Web Services
15 6 (6.742%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 29 (32.58%) WebLogic
2 14 (15.73%) GlassFish
3 10 (11.24%) WebSphere MQ
4 6 (6.742%) Tomcat
4 6 (6.742%) Apache
5 5 (5.618%) WebSphere Application Server
6 3 (3.371%) TIBCO EMS
7 1 (1.124%) Mule
7 1 (1.124%) ActiveMQ
Business Applications
1 1 (1.124%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.124%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (21.35%) SQL Server
2 11 (12.36%) RDBMS
3 6 (6.742%) MySQL
4 5 (5.618%) DB2
5 1 (1.124%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 89 (100.00%) Eclipse
2 42 (47.19%) JUnit
3 25 (28.09%) Subversion
4 19 (21.35%) JProfiler
5 18 (20.22%) QuickTest Pro
6 4 (4.494%) Jenkins
7 3 (3.371%) Selenium
7 3 (3.371%) Ant
8 2 (2.247%) NetBeans
8 2 (2.247%) CruiseControl
8 2 (2.247%) Maven
8 2 (2.247%) Hudson
9 1 (1.124%) ANTLR
9 1 (1.124%) ProC
General
1 6 (6.742%) Finance
2 5 (5.618%) Games
3 3 (3.371%) Front Office
4 1 (1.124%) Financial Institution
4 1 (1.124%) Telecoms
4 1 (1.124%) Banking
Job Titles
1 76 (85.39%) Developer
2 74 (83.15%) Java Developer
3 17 (19.10%) Java Swing Developer
4 13 (14.61%) Java Software Engineer
4 13 (14.61%) Java Programmer
4 13 (14.61%) Software Engineer
4 13 (14.61%) Programmer
5 9 (10.11%) Senior Developer
6 8 (8.989%) Senior Java Developer
6 8 (8.989%) Software Developer
6 8 (8.989%) Java Software Developer
6 8 (8.989%) Agile Java Developer
7 7 (7.865%) GUI Developer
7 7 (7.865%) Software Programmer
8 6 (6.742%) Java/J2EE Developer
9 4 (4.494%) Architect
10 3 (3.371%) Lead Java Developer
10 3 (3.371%) Solutions Architect
10 3 (3.371%) Lead Developer
11 2 (2.247%) Technical Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 29 (32.58%) Open Source
2 15 (16.85%) Enterprise Software
2 15 (16.85%) Computer Science
3 14 (15.73%) Mathematics
4 3 (3.371%) Chemistry
4 3 (3.371%) Fixed Income
5 2 (2.247%) Client/Server
5 2 (2.247%) Physics
5 2 (2.247%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.124%) Inversion of Control
6 1 (1.124%) SaaS
6 1 (1.124%) Web 2.0
Operating Systems
1 12 (13.48%) Linux
2 9 (10.11%) UNIX
3 2 (2.247%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (32.58%) Agile Software Development
2 19 (21.35%) Web Development
3 14 (15.73%) TDD
3 14 (15.73%) Continuous Integration
4 10 (11.24%) Unit Testing
4 10 (11.24%) Problem Management
4 10 (11.24%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 7 (7.865%) Project Management
6 6 (6.742%) OO
7 5 (5.618%) Multithreading
7 5 (5.618%) Web Application Development
7 5 (5.618%) MVC
7 5 (5.618%) Regression Testing
7 5 (5.618%) Pair Programming
7 5 (5.618%) E-Commerce
8 4 (4.494%) Software Engineering
9 3 (3.371%) User Acceptance Testing
9 3 (3.371%) Performance Testing
9 3 (3.371%) Extreme Programming
9 3 (3.371%) UML
Programming Languages
1 89 (100.00%) Java
2 19 (21.35%) SQL
3 10 (11.24%) JavaScript
4 7 (7.865%) Python
5 4 (4.494%) PL/SQL
6 3 (3.371%) Groovy
6 3 (3.371%) C++
7 2 (2.247%) Scala
8 1 (1.124%) Clojure
8 1 (1.124%) xBase
8 1 (1.124%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.124%) ActionScript
8 1 (1.124%) C
Qualifications
1 34 (38.20%) Degree
2 13 (14.61%) Security Cleared
3 6 (6.742%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.494%) DV Cleared
5 3 (3.371%) SCJP
5 3 (3.371%) Sun Certification
6 1 (1.124%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (21.35%) QA
System Software
1 10 (11.24%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 35 (39.33%) Oracle
2 33 (37.08%) JBoss
3 18 (20.22%) Sybase
4 15 (16.85%) BEA
5 10 (11.24%) VMware
5 10 (11.24%) Google
6 6 (6.742%) Microsoft
7 5 (5.618%) IBM
8 4 (4.494%) Sun
9 3 (3.371%) TIBCO
10 2 (2.247%) HP
10 2 (2.247%) GigaSpaces
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