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

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware vFabric GemFire
Rank 815 869 829
Rank change year-on-year
+54 -40
Permanent jobs citing GemFire 49 31 41
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.045% 0.025% 0.034%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.210% 0.123% 0.176%
Number of salaries quoted 44 28 38
Average salary £85,000 £80,000 £65,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% +23.07%
90% offered a salary of more than £64,500 £50,000 £45,000
10% offered a salary of more than £130,000 £95,000 £90,000
UK excluding London average salary £41,500 - £45,000
All Application Platforms
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
23351 25169 23274
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 21.47% 20.52% 19.04%
Number of salaries quoted 19847 21860 20067
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -

GemFire
Jobs Demand Trend

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

GemFire Jobs Demand Trend

GemFire
Salary Trend

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

GemFire Salary Trend

GemFire
Salary Histogram

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

GemFire Salary Histogram

GemFire
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GemFire 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
London +63 46 £85,000 +6.25%
England +47 46 £85,000 +6.25%
Canary Wharf - 14 £130,000 -
City of London +30 12 £80,000 +6.66%
Scotland - 3 £41,500 -
Glasgow - 3 £41,500 -

GemFire
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing GemFire 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 GemFire.

1 96 (92.31%) Java
2 53 (50.96%) Finance
2 53 (50.96%) Oracle
3 47 (45.19%) Spring
4 44 (42.31%) Oracle Coherence
5 40 (38.46%) DataSynapse
6 39 (37.50%) Front Office
6 39 (37.50%) C#
7 33 (31.73%) OO
8 32 (30.77%) Derivative
9 31 (29.81%) Banking
9 31 (29.81%) SQL
10 28 (26.92%) Multithreading
11 26 (25.00%) Hadoop
12 25 (24.04%) Fixed Income
13 23 (22.12%) Big Data
14 22 (21.15%) Investment Banking
15 21 (20.19%) Clojure
16 20 (19.23%) Credit Risk
17 19 (18.27%) Terracotta
18 17 (16.35%) GigaSpaces
19 16 (15.38%) Degree
19 16 (15.38%) JMS
20 15 (14.42%) Linux
21 14 (13.46%) Computer Science
22 13 (12.50%) Financial Institution
22 13 (12.50%) J2SE
22 13 (12.50%) HTTP
22 13 (12.50%) TIBCO
23 12 (11.54%) Agile Software Development

GemFire
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing GemFire 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 GemFire. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 47 (45.19%) Spring
2 16 (15.38%) JMS
3 13 (12.50%) J2SE
4 11 (10.58%) XML
5 9 (8.654%) Web Services
6 8 (7.692%) Middleware
6 8 (7.692%) Hibernate
6 8 (7.692%) WebSphere
6 8 (7.692%) RESTful
7 6 (5.769%) Guava
8 5 (4.808%) Guice
8 5 (4.808%) Drools
9 4 (3.846%) HTML
9 4 (3.846%) Java SE
9 4 (3.846%) JSON
10 3 (2.885%) FIX Protocol
10 3 (2.885%) Apache CXF
10 3 (2.885%) Swing
10 3 (2.885%) DHTML
10 3 (2.885%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 44 (42.31%) Oracle Coherence
2 8 (7.692%) TIBCO EMS
3 7 (6.731%) WebLogic Portal
3 7 (6.731%) WebLogic
4 6 (5.769%) WebSphere Portal
5 5 (4.808%) Rendezvous
6 4 (3.846%) WebSphere Application Server
6 4 (3.846%) MQSeries
7 3 (2.885%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (2.885%) ActiveMQ
7 3 (2.885%) Apache
7 3 (2.885%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.962%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.962%) WebSphere MQ
Applications
1 3 (2.885%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.962%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 13 (12.50%) HTTP
2 2 (1.923%) Intranet
3 1 (0.962%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (25.00%) Hadoop
2 23 (22.12%) Big Data
3 11 (10.58%) Infinispan
4 5 (4.808%) Oracle 11g
5 4 (3.846%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.923%) Oracle 10g
6 2 (1.923%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.923%) Oracle 8/8i
7 1 (0.962%) Redis
7 1 (0.962%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (0.962%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (10.58%) Maven
2 8 (7.692%) JIRA
3 6 (5.769%) Subversion
4 5 (4.808%) TeamCity
4 5 (4.808%) Git (software)
4 5 (4.808%) IntelliJ
5 3 (2.885%) JUnit
General
1 53 (50.96%) Finance
2 39 (37.50%) Front Office
3 31 (29.81%) Banking
4 22 (21.15%) Investment Banking
5 13 (12.50%) Financial Institution
6 2 (1.923%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 67 (64.42%) Developer
2 56 (53.85%) Java Developer
3 11 (10.58%) Architect
3 11 (10.58%) Technical Architect
4 10 (9.615%) Senior Architect
4 10 (9.615%) Senior Technical Architect
5 8 (7.692%) Senior Developer
5 8 (7.692%) Senior Java Developer
6 7 (6.731%) Middleware Administrator
6 7 (6.731%) Administrator
7 5 (4.808%) Java Software Engineer
7 5 (4.808%) Software Engineer
8 4 (3.846%) Software Developer
8 4 (3.846%) Data Architect
8 4 (3.846%) C++ Developer
8 4 (3.846%) C# Developer
8 4 (3.846%) C++/Java Developer
8 4 (3.846%) C++/C# Developer
8 4 (3.846%) Java Software Developer
8 4 (3.846%) Senior Data Architect
Miscellaneous
1 32 (30.77%) Derivative
2 25 (24.04%) Fixed Income
3 20 (19.23%) Credit Risk
4 14 (13.46%) Computer Science
5 10 (9.615%) Market Risk
6 9 (8.654%) Grid Computing
6 9 (8.654%) Equities
7 7 (6.731%) Reference Data
8 5 (4.808%) Hedge funds
8 5 (4.808%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (3.846%) Equity Derivative
10 1 (0.962%) SWIFT
10 1 (0.962%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.962%) Interest Rate Derivative
10 1 (0.962%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 15 (14.42%) Linux
2 11 (10.58%) UNIX
3 3 (2.885%) Solaris
4 2 (1.923%) Windows
5 1 (0.962%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (31.73%) OO
2 28 (26.92%) Multithreading
3 12 (11.54%) Agile Software Development
4 11 (10.58%) Risk Management
4 11 (10.58%) OOD
5 10 (9.615%) Technical Architecture
6 7 (6.731%) TDD
7 6 (5.769%) Problem Management
7 6 (5.769%) Algorithmic Trading
8 5 (4.808%) BDD
9 4 (3.846%) Workflow
9 4 (3.846%) Asset Management
9 4 (3.846%) Scrum
9 4 (3.846%) Release Management
9 4 (3.846%) Web Development
9 4 (3.846%) Capacity Planning
9 4 (3.846%) Build Automation
10 3 (2.885%) Performance Testing
10 3 (2.885%) Stakeholder Management
10 3 (2.885%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 96 (92.31%) Java
2 39 (37.50%) C#
3 31 (29.81%) SQL
4 21 (20.19%) Clojure
5 11 (10.58%) Python
6 10 (9.615%) Scala
6 10 (9.615%) C++
7 5 (4.808%) JavaScript
7 5 (4.808%) Perl
8 3 (2.885%) VBA
9 1 (0.962%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.962%) XPath
9 1 (0.962%) C
9 1 (0.962%) PHP
9 1 (0.962%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.962%) XQuery
9 1 (0.962%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (15.38%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.962%) QA
System Software
1 3 (2.885%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.962%) vCloud
2 1 (0.962%) vSphere
2 1 (0.962%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (2.885%) Nagios
1 3 (2.885%) Control-M
Vendors
1 53 (50.96%) Oracle
2 40 (38.46%) DataSynapse
3 19 (18.27%) Terracotta
4 17 (16.35%) GigaSpaces
5 13 (12.50%) TIBCO
6 9 (8.654%) Sybase
7 3 (2.885%) JBoss
7 3 (2.885%) Sun
8 1 (0.962%) VMware
8 1 (0.962%) ION Trading
8 1 (0.962%) Microsoft
8 1 (0.962%) EMC
London
Java software developer/ programmer / software engineer / architect, investment banking, market risk, credit risk, Java, J2SE, grid computing, caching, optimisation, parallel computation, big data, Oracle Coherence, Terracotta, Infinispan, Gemfire,...
Aston Carter
Salary: £70000 - £100000 per annum + + bonus + benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
London
Senior Java Developer/Programmer/Software Engineer/Architect, Spring, Hibernate, Oracle Coherence, Caching, In-memory, Messaging, Middleware, JMS, Websphere MQ, RDBMS, Oracle, PL-SQL, Compliance, Payment Sanctions, AML, Anti-...
Aston Carter
Salary: £70000 - £90000 per annum + bonus+benefits
Posted: 18 May 2013
City of London
The ideal candidate will have strong familiarity with middleware architecture and it's components, with prior experience in Websphere (Application Server & Portal Server) and WebLogic. Knowledge of SpringSourceTC,...
IT Human Resources
Salary: £55000 - £60000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
London
Looking for a system engineer who ideally has a financial background and experience around WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Portal Server, WebLogic, SpringSourceTC, RobbitMQ, Gemfire etc... - Familiarity with...
Coal IT Services
Salary: From £55,000 to £60,000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
London
A leading financial organisation based in the City require a Senior Middleware Administrator to join them on a permanent basis. The Middleware Application Administrator is a primary resource...
Coal IT Services
Salary: £60,000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
London
My client, one of the UKs leading brokerage firms are currently looking to recruit a Senior Middleware Administrator / Engineer to join the on a permanent basis. Responsibilities * Provide...
Stott & May
Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum
Posted: 16 May 2013
City, London
Global brokerage requires a Senior Middleware Administrator. For the brokerage, the Middleware Application Administrator is a primary resource in engineering and supporting the core middleware architecture and application...
iKas International
Salary: Negotiable
Posted: 20 May 2013