The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Grid Computing in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Grid Computing 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 terms in our Miscellaneous category.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Grid Computing
Rank 696 705 610
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -95
Permanent jobs citing Grid Computing 166 196 278
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.154% 0.162% 0.223%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.460% 0.490% 0.646%
Number of salaries quoted 156 175 214
Average salary £72,500 £70,000 £72,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.57% -3.44%
90% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £32,500 £50,000
10% offered a salary of more than £100,000 £90,000 £90,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £35,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year
+12.67% -21.11%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
36050 39991 43024
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 33.36% 33.14% 34.58%
Number of salaries quoted 29589 33707 36075
Average salary £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -5.26%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,000 £28,500 £28,000
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £82,500 £75,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +6.66%

Grid Computing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Grid Computing Jobs Demand Trend

Grid Computing
Salary Trend

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

Grid Computing Salary Trend

Grid Computing
Salary Histogram

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

Grid Computing Salary Histogram

Grid Computing
Top 22 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Grid Computing 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 -4 163 £72,500 +3.57%
London +63 142 £75,000 -3.22%
City of London +1 60 £72,500 -
West Midlands -17 7 £70,000 +115.38%
Stoke-on-Trent - 7 £70,000 -
Staffordshire - 7 £70,000 -
Cambridgeshire +3 4 £40,000 +29.03%
Cambridge -9 4 £40,000 +29.03%
East of England -22 4 £40,000 +23.07%
Scotland +1 3 £62,500 +13.63%
Glasgow -22 3 £62,500 +13.63%
Yorkshire - 3 £32,500 -
West Yorkshire - 3 £32,500 -
Wakefield - 3 £32,500 -
North West - 3 £35,000 -
Canary Wharf +3 2 - -
Manchester - 2 £35,000 -
South East -16 1 - -
Cheshire - 1 £32,500 -
Buckinghamshire - 1 - -
Milton Keynes - 1 - -
Macclesfield - 1 £32,500 -

Grid Computing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing Grid Computing 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 Grid Computing.

1 185 (61.06%) Java
2 119 (39.27%) C++
3 113 (37.29%) Finance
3 113 (37.29%) Degree
4 107 (35.31%) C#
5 106 (34.98%) SQL
6 97 (32.01%) Banking
7 91 (30.03%) Multithreading
8 88 (29.04%) Oracle
9 87 (28.71%) Linux
10 78 (25.74%) Computer Science
11 77 (25.41%) .NET
11 77 (25.41%) Front Office
12 75 (24.75%) UNIX
13 71 (23.43%) DataSynapse
14 65 (21.45%) Mathematics
15 62 (20.46%) Investment Banking
16 58 (19.14%) OO
17 57 (18.81%) Windows
17 57 (18.81%) Risk Management
18 55 (18.15%) Oracle Coherence
19 50 (16.50%) WCF
19 50 (16.50%) WinForms
19 50 (16.50%) SQL Server
20 47 (15.51%) Derivative
21 45 (14.85%) WPF
22 44 (14.52%) Physics
22 44 (14.52%) Python
23 41 (13.53%) Fixed Income
24 37 (12.21%) Parallel Computing

Grid Computing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 77 (25.41%) .NET
2 50 (16.50%) WCF
2 50 (16.50%) WinForms
3 45 (14.85%) WPF
4 31 (10.23%) Web Services
4 31 (10.23%) Spring
5 25 (8.251%) Hibernate
6 22 (7.261%) J2SE
7 20 (6.601%) JMS
8 15 (4.950%) Middleware
9 13 (4.290%) JDBC
10 11 (3.630%) Natural Language Processing
11 10 (3.300%) XML
12 9 (2.970%) jBPM
12 9 (2.970%) Swing
12 9 (2.970%) STL
12 9 (2.970%) Boost C++ Libraries
13 6 (1.980%) .NET Framework
14 5 (1.650%) J2EE
14 5 (1.650%) MapReduce
Application Platforms
1 55 (18.15%) Oracle Coherence
2 16 (5.281%) Apache
3 10 (3.300%) GemFire
4 8 (2.640%) IIS
5 7 (2.310%) Tomcat
6 5 (1.650%) Resin
7 4 (1.320%) MediaWiki
8 3 (0.990%) TIBCO EMS
8 3 (0.990%) ESB
8 3 (0.990%) SAS
8 3 (0.990%) MQSeries
8 3 (0.990%) Apache Pig
9 2 (0.660%) Exchange Server 2010
9 2 (0.660%) Amazon AWS
9 2 (0.660%) Confluence
9 2 (0.660%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.660%) MS Exchange
9 2 (0.660%) Exchange Server 2003
10 1 (0.330%) Rendezvous
Applications
1 6 (1.980%) MS Excel
2 5 (1.650%) MS Office
3 4 (1.320%) Google Apps
4 3 (0.990%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 5 (1.650%) Temenos Globus
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.950%) HTTP
2 9 (2.970%) TCP/IP
3 5 (1.650%) Network Security
4 2 (0.660%) NetScaler
4 2 (0.660%) NAS
4 2 (0.660%) SAN
4 2 (0.660%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.330%) DHCP
5 1 (0.330%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (16.50%) SQL Server
2 27 (8.911%) Big Data
3 18 (5.941%) DB2
4 14 (4.620%) Text Mining
5 10 (3.300%) Infinispan
6 8 (2.640%) Hadoop
6 8 (2.640%) Oracle 8/8i
7 7 (2.310%) Data Mining
7 7 (2.310%) SQL Server 2008
8 6 (1.980%) NoSQL
8 6 (1.980%) Oracle Reports
8 6 (1.980%) QlikView
9 5 (1.650%) Apache Cassandra
9 5 (1.650%) HBase
10 4 (1.320%) RDBMS
11 3 (0.990%) Apache Hive
11 3 (0.990%) Mahout
12 2 (0.660%) BigTable
12 2 (0.660%) Voldemort
12 2 (0.660%) KDB
Development Applications
1 14 (4.620%) Subversion
2 13 (4.290%) TeamCity
2 13 (4.290%) Maven
3 11 (3.630%) JUnit
4 9 (2.970%) Eclipse
5 5 (1.650%) Visual Studio
5 5 (1.650%) Mercurial
6 4 (1.320%) SCons
6 4 (1.320%) GoogleTest
6 4 (1.320%) GCC
6 4 (1.320%) Bugzilla
7 2 (0.660%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.660%) JIRA
8 1 (0.330%) Ant
8 1 (0.330%) Git (software)
8 1 (0.330%) Jenkins
General
1 113 (37.29%) Finance
2 97 (32.01%) Banking
3 77 (25.41%) Front Office
4 62 (20.46%) Investment Banking
5 12 (3.960%) Pharmaceutical
6 10 (3.300%) Financial Institution
7 5 (1.650%) Marketing
8 4 (1.320%) Back Office
9 3 (0.990%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.660%) Games
11 1 (0.330%) Retail
11 1 (0.330%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.330%) Legal
Job Titles
1 141 (46.53%) Developer
2 74 (24.42%) Java Developer
3 49 (16.17%) Analyst
4 36 (11.88%) Senior Developer
4 36 (11.88%) Support Analyst
5 34 (11.22%) C# Developer
6 30 (9.901%) Applications Support
7 27 (8.911%) Applications Support Analyst
8 24 (7.921%) Architect
9 21 (6.931%) Software Developer
9 21 (6.931%) Agile C# Developer
10 20 (6.601%) Senior C# Developer
11 16 (5.281%) C++ Developer
12 15 (4.950%) Team Leader
13 14 (4.620%) Java Software Developer
14 13 (4.290%) Technical Architect
15 12 (3.960%) Quantitative Developer
16 11 (3.630%) Front Office Developer
16 11 (3.630%) 2nd Line Support
17 10 (3.300%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 78 (25.74%) Computer Science
2 65 (21.45%) Mathematics
3 47 (15.51%) Derivative
4 44 (14.52%) Physics
5 41 (13.53%) Fixed Income
6 29 (9.571%) Market Risk
7 24 (7.921%) CMDB
8 20 (6.601%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 19 (6.271%) Interest Rate Derivative
10 15 (4.950%) Hedge funds
11 14 (4.620%) Statistics
11 14 (4.620%) Cloud Computing
12 11 (3.630%) Credit Risk
13 10 (3.300%) Clustering
13 10 (3.300%) Chemistry
13 10 (3.300%) Life Science
14 9 (2.970%) Ontologies
15 7 (2.310%) Visualisation
16 6 (1.980%) Open Source
17 5 (1.650%) Credit Derivative
Operating Systems
1 87 (28.71%) Linux
2 75 (24.75%) UNIX
3 57 (18.81%) Windows
4 18 (5.941%) Solaris
5 5 (1.650%) Debian
5 5 (1.650%) SUSE
5 5 (1.650%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.990%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (0.660%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.330%) Windows XP
8 1 (0.330%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (30.03%) Multithreading
2 58 (19.14%) OO
3 57 (18.81%) Risk Management
4 37 (12.21%) Parallel Computing
5 35 (11.55%) Agile Software Development
6 33 (10.89%) Memory Management
7 32 (10.56%) MVVM
8 25 (8.251%) Analytics
9 18 (5.941%) TDD
10 14 (4.620%) Business Analysis
11 13 (4.290%) OOD
12 11 (3.630%) Workflow
13 10 (3.300%) Bioinformatics
13 10 (3.300%) Software Testing
14 9 (2.970%) ITIL
14 9 (2.970%) E-Commerce
15 8 (2.640%) Data Security
15 8 (2.640%) Data Analysis
16 7 (2.310%) OOP
16 7 (2.310%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 185 (61.06%) Java
2 119 (39.27%) C++
3 107 (35.31%) C#
4 106 (34.98%) SQL
5 44 (14.52%) Python
6 32 (10.56%) T-SQL
7 25 (8.251%) Perl
8 18 (5.941%) MATLAB
9 16 (5.281%) R
10 11 (3.630%) Scala
11 9 (2.970%) VBA
11 9 (2.970%) F#
12 7 (2.310%) C
13 6 (1.980%) JavaScript
13 6 (1.980%) Shell Script
14 4 (1.320%) Haskell
15 3 (0.990%) AWK
15 3 (0.990%) VBScript
16 2 (0.660%) sed
16 2 (0.660%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 113 (37.29%) Degree
2 15 (4.950%) PhD
3 13 (4.290%) Postgraduate
4 6 (1.980%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.300%) QA
2 1 (0.330%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (0.660%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (0.660%) Active Directory
1 2 (0.660%) Samba
2 1 (0.330%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (0.330%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (0.660%) Puppet
1 2 (0.660%) Cacti
1 2 (0.660%) Tivoli
1 2 (0.660%) Nagios
2 1 (0.330%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 88 (29.04%) Oracle
2 71 (23.43%) DataSynapse
3 35 (11.55%) TIBCO
4 26 (8.581%) Sybase
5 21 (6.931%) Microsoft
6 17 (5.611%) GigaSpaces
7 13 (4.290%) JBoss
8 10 (3.300%) Terracotta
8 10 (3.300%) Hyperion
9 9 (2.970%) Google
10 7 (2.310%) Sun
11 6 (1.980%) Business Objects
12 5 (1.650%) Red Hat
12 5 (1.650%) Intel
13 2 (0.660%) Hortonworks
13 2 (0.660%) Cloudera
13 2 (0.660%) Azul
13 2 (0.660%) F5
13 2 (0.660%) Cisco
13 2 (0.660%) Yahoo!
City of London
C++ Developer - TIER 1 Investment Bank A leading Tier 1 Investment Bank is looking to hire a talented C++ Risk Developer to work in a multi-asset class...
Real Staffing
Salary: £65000 - £85000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
Kingston Upon Thames, Surrey
Key Words: Java, J2EE, JEE, JavaSE, Java Standard Edition, Object Orientated Design, Agile, Scrum, Science, Scientific, C++ The Company They are a world-leading organisation who are committed...
Think IT Recruitment
Salary: £45000.00 - £60000.00 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
London
Skills / Experience: Core Java development experience (preferably .net 4.0) Strong experience with implementing large-scale Windows Forms (or WPF) solutions... Experience with implementing pub/sub solutions (preferably...
Citi
Salary: Competitive salary offered
Posted: 13 May 2013
City of London
Job Title: C++ Developer - AVPLocation: London Permanent: £70-80K+BenefitsC++ Developer - AVPC++ Developer is required to work on a high profile project in a Global Risk Rates team.+...
Salary: £70000 - £80000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 14 May 2013
City of London
Job Title: C++ Developer - AVPLocation: London Permanent: £70-80K+BenefitsC++ Developer - AVPC++ Developer is required to work on a high profile project in a Risk team.
Salary: £70000 - £80000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
City of London
C++ Developer- Tier 1 Investment Bank- Windows/Linux A leading Tier 1 Investment Bank has multiple headcount for C++ developers in a multi-asset class team providing risk...
Real Staffing
Salary: £55000 - £85000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
Glasgow, Lanarkshire
This computation is extremely compute-intensive, so optimisation and parallel computation are a significant focus, and in this role you would find yourself constantly learning and pushing the...
Aston Carter
Salary: £50000 - £75000 per annum + Bonus guaranteed, 28 days hol
Posted: 17 May 2013
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
City, London
A leading investment bank are seeking a python developer with strong understanding of design patterns and multi-threading to join their Middle Office and Client Valuation team. The...
Thomson Keene Associates
Salary: £50000 - £85000 per annum + benefits + bonus
Posted: 23 May 2013
London
Knowledge/Experience: In-depth knowledge and experience of developing C++/C# grid systems... Skills: Primary: Grid, C++, C#, Subversion, MSBuild, PowerShell, Nant. Secondary: Python, XML, JIRA, TeamForge, SQL.....
Citi
Salary: Competitive salary offered.
Posted: 14 May 2013
London
Global financial institution requires a highly skilled Python developer who is comfortable working close with Quants. You must also have a strong infrastructure background working on High Performance...
Scope AT Ltd
Salary: £90 - £110000 per annum + benefits, bonus
Posted: 17 May 2013
City of London
A Lead C# developer is required for a leading Tier 1 Investment Bank based in the heart of the financial district... The C# developer's main duties will...
Real Staffing
Salary: £75000 - £90000 per annum + Bonus
Posted: 22 May 2013
Cambridgeshire, East Anglia
Essential Skills You will have an in depth knowledge of linux clustering, preferably within in a HPC / scientific environment... You should also have knowledge of high performance parallel...
The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
Salary: £36825 - £46850 per annum + plus excellent benefits
Posted: 24 May 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
You will have an in depth knowledge of linux clustering, preferably within in a HPC / scientific environment... You should also have knowledge of high performance parallel filesystems (lustre,...
Sanger Institute
Salary: From £36,825 to £46,850 per annum dependent on experience plus excelle
Posted: 21 May 2013
City, London
Desired experience of the E-Trading System/ Infrastructure Expert: * Unix Administration and Installation (system administrator/engineer experience) * Experience of hardware platforms and technologies (HP,IBM,network,SAN etc.) -...
Grey Spark
Salary: Attractive Salary + Benefits + Quarterly Bonus
Posted: 1 May 2013
City of London
You will be working very closely with the account manager to develop potential business opportunities, gather customer requirements and provide highly consultative sales skills in a technical environment...
Huxley Associates
Salary: £70000 - £80000 per annum + bonus
Posted: 24 May 2013