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The first part of the 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 9 September 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all terms in our Miscellaneous category.

LinkGrid Computing
Location
3 months to
9 Sep 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank579550612
Rank change year-on-year
Down-29Up+62
Matching permanent IT job ads238103332
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK0.220 %0.151 %0.187 %
As % of the Miscellaneous category0.679 %0.515 %0.799 %
Salaries quoted18681285
Average salary£72,500£75,000£65,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.330 %+15.38 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£45,000£55,000£47,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£90,000£115,000£87,500
UK excluding London average salary£55,000£42,500£38,250
% change year-on-year
+29.41 %+11.11 %
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryAll Miscellaneous Category
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
350371998541537
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK32.36 %29.39 %23.37 %
Salaries quoted282871623233920
Average salary£50,000£45,000£45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.11 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£28,500£27,500£26,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£85,000£77,500£80,000
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£35,500£35,000
% change year-on-year
+5.630 %+1.420 %

Grid Computing
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Grid Computing within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Grid Computing Demand Trend

Grid Computing
Salary Trend

The 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

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Grid Computing over the 3 months to 9 September 2010 within the UK.

Grid Computing Salary Histogram

Grid Computing
Top 16 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 9 September 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandDown-30236£72,500-3.33 %
LondonDown-28207£75,000-
City of LondonDown-7359£75,000-6.25 %
West MidlandsDown-717£45,000+12.50 %
StaffordshireDown-214£45,000+12.50 %
CambridgeshireDown-246£55,000-31.25 %
CambridgeDown-286£55,000-31.25 %
East of EnglandDown-536£55,000-31.25 %
South EastDown-575£85,000+115.18 %
OxfordNew entry-5£85,000-
Canary WharfNew entry-5£60,000-
OxfordshireNew entry-5£85,000-
Stoke-on-TrentUp+62£55,000+29.41 %
Docklands, LondonNew entry-2£60,000-
South WestNew entry-1£42,000-
BristolNew entry-1£42,000-

Grid Computing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 9 September 2010, 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.

1280 (57.97 %)Java
2221 (45.76 %)Finance
3197 (40.79 %)Banking
4190 (39.34 %)C++
5163 (33.75 %)C#
6148 (30.64 %)UNIX
7133 (27.54 %)Linux
8129 (26.71 %)DataSynapse
9122 (25.26 %)Oracle
10110 (22.77 %)SQL
1199 (20.50 %).NET
1298 (20.29 %)Spring
1382 (16.98 %)Investment Banking
1382 (16.98 %)Derivative
1480 (16.56 %)OO
1579 (16.36 %)Windows
1677 (15.94 %)Fixed Income
1774 (15.32 %)Front Office
1774 (15.32 %)Oracle Coherence
1872 (14.91 %)Multithreading
1965 (13.46 %)XML
2064 (13.25 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
2163 (13.04 %)Hibernate
2163 (13.04 %)Degree
2261 (12.63 %)Adobe Flex
2261 (12.63 %)Perl
2360 (12.42 %)JMS
2455 (11.39 %)Risk Management
2455 (11.39 %)Middleware
2553 (10.97 %)J2SE

Grid Computing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 9 September 2010, 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.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
199 (20.50 %).NET
298 (20.29 %)Spring
374 (15.32 %)Oracle Coherence
465 (13.46 %)XML
563 (13.04 %)Hibernate
661 (12.63 %)Adobe Flex
760 (12.42 %)JMS
855 (11.39 %)Middleware
953 (10.97 %)J2SE
953 (10.97 %)Guice
1028 (5.797 %)STL
1126 (5.383 %)Web Services
1223 (4.762 %)Java EE
1317 (3.520 %)ASP.NET
1416 (3.313 %)SOAP
1416 (3.313 %)WCF
1416 (3.313 %)Boost C++ Libraries
1515 (3.106 %)XSLT
1612 (2.484 %)JDBC
1612 (2.484 %)Silverlight
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
131 (6.418 %)Rendezvous
26 (1.242 %)MQSeries
26 (1.242 %)Oracle Workflow
26 (1.242 %)TIBCO EMS
34 (0.828 %)WebLogic
34 (0.828 %)CMS
34 (0.828 %)ESB
42 (0.414 %)SharePoint
42 (0.414 %)IIS
51 (0.207 %)Sonic ESB
51 (0.207 %)DotNetNuke
51 (0.207 %)Resin
51 (0.207 %)Apache
51 (0.207 %)Tomcat
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
117 (3.520 %)MS Excel
212 (2.484 %)MS Visio
36 (1.242 %)MATLAB
44 (0.828 %)Spreadsheet
51 (0.207 %)S-PLUS
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
122 (4.555 %)TCP/IP
220 (4.141 %)Internet
311 (2.277 %)HTTP
47 (1.449 %)SAN
52 (0.414 %)FTP
52 (0.414 %)SMTP
61 (0.207 %)NAS
61 (0.207 %)VPLS
61 (0.207 %)IP Telephony
61 (0.207 %)MPLS
61 (0.207 %)Firewall
61 (0.207 %)ADSL
61 (0.207 %)Broadband
61 (0.207 %)LAN
61 (0.207 %)VoIP
61 (0.207 %)WAN
61 (0.207 %)Ethernet
61 (0.207 %)VPN
61 (0.207 %)SNMP
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
144 (9.110 %)RDBMS
234 (7.039 %)SQL Server
320 (4.141 %)Oracle 10g
413 (2.692 %)MySQL
54 (0.828 %)OLAP
63 (0.621 %)Reference Data
63 (0.621 %)InterSystems Cache
63 (0.621 %)DB2
72 (0.414 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
72 (0.414 %)SQL Server 2005
81 (0.207 %)Oracle 11g
81 (0.207 %)Oracle BI EE
81 (0.207 %)SQLPlus
81 (0.207 %)Data Warehouse (DWH)
81 (0.207 %)Oracle 8/8i
81 (0.207 %)ETL
81 (0.207 %)TOAD
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
125 (5.176 %)Ant
224 (4.969 %)Maven
322 (4.555 %)Subversion
45 (1.035 %)Selenium
45 (1.035 %)NUnit
45 (1.035 %)QuickTest Pro
45 (1.035 %)LoadRunner
54 (0.828 %)CruiseControl
61 (0.207 %)Atlassian Bamboo
61 (0.207 %)JUnit
61 (0.207 %)Visual Studio
61 (0.207 %)Dreamweaver
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1221 (45.76 %)Finance
2197 (40.79 %)Banking
382 (16.98 %)Investment Banking
474 (15.32 %)Front Office
527 (5.590 %)Games
619 (3.934 %)Education
717 (3.520 %)Pensions
812 (2.484 %)Telecoms
911 (2.277 %)Financial Institution
108 (1.656 %)Insurance
114 (0.828 %)Private Banking
123 (0.621 %)Back Office
123 (0.621 %)Government
123 (0.621 %)Health
123 (0.621 %)Advertising
132 (0.414 %)International Banking
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1316 (65.42 %)Developer
2183 (37.89 %)Java Developer
359 (12.22 %)C++ Developer
451 (10.56 %)Architect
546 (9.524 %)Senior Developer
642 (8.696 %)Senior Java Developer
741 (8.489 %)C# Developer
827 (5.590 %)Support Engineer
923 (4.762 %)Analyst
1020 (4.141 %)Technical Architect
1118 (3.727 %).NET Developer
1217 (3.520 %)Software Developer
1315 (3.106 %)Products Support Engineer
1414 (2.899 %)Quantitative Developer
1513 (2.692 %)Software Engineer
1612 (2.484 %)Graduate
1612 (2.484 %)ASP.NET Developer
1612 (2.484 %)Graduate Developer
1612 (2.484 %)C# ASP.NET Developer
1612 (2.484 %)C++/Java Developer
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
182 (16.98 %)Derivative
277 (15.94 %)Fixed Income
372 (14.91 %)Multithreading
464 (13.25 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
541 (8.489 %)Mathematics
637 (7.660 %)Open Source
729 (6.004 %)Client/Server
828 (5.797 %)Cloud Computing
921 (4.348 %)Equity Derivative
1018 (3.727 %)Credit Derivative
1114 (2.899 %)Equities
1213 (2.692 %)Blog
1312 (2.484 %)Hedge funds
1411 (2.277 %)N-Tier
159 (1.863 %)Computer Science
159 (1.863 %)Interest Rate Derivative
159 (1.863 %)Replication
168 (1.656 %)Statistics
168 (1.656 %)RIA
175 (1.035 %)Amazon EC2
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1148 (30.64 %)UNIX
2133 (27.54 %)Linux
379 (16.36 %)Windows
47 (1.449 %)Solaris
54 (0.828 %)Windows Server 2003
54 (0.828 %)Red Hat Linux
62 (0.414 %)HPUX
71 (0.207 %)SUSE
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
180 (16.56 %)OO
255 (11.39 %)Risk Management
353 (10.97 %)Database Caching
452 (10.77 %)TDD
540 (8.282 %)Scrum
639 (8.075 %)Agile Software Development
730 (6.211 %)Data Modelling
730 (6.211 %)Continuous Integration
823 (4.762 %)SOA
823 (4.762 %)Project Management
920 (4.141 %)OOD
1018 (3.727 %)Configuration Management
1115 (3.106 %)UML
1214 (2.899 %)System Testing
1214 (2.899 %)Technical Architecture
1313 (2.692 %)Memory Management
1412 (2.484 %)Unit Testing
1511 (2.277 %)Workflow
1610 (2.070 %)Change Management
1610 (2.070 %)ERD
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1280 (57.97 %)Java
2190 (39.34 %)C++
3163 (33.75 %)C#
4110 (22.77 %)SQL
561 (12.63 %)Perl
640 (8.282 %)Scala
640 (8.282 %)Python
725 (5.176 %)C
823 (4.762 %)VBA
918 (3.727 %)Korn
1016 (3.313 %)Haskell
1016 (3.313 %)F#
1110 (2.070 %)Bash shell
129 (1.863 %)Ruby
129 (1.863 %)Lisp
137 (1.449 %)Shell Script
144 (0.828 %)PHP
153 (0.621 %)Erlang
162 (0.414 %)VBScript
162 (0.414 %)XPath
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
163 (13.04 %)Degree
210 (2.070 %)PhD
34 (0.828 %)Sun Certification
43 (0.621 %)MCSA
43 (0.621 %)RHCE
43 (0.621 %)Microsoft Certification
52 (0.414 %)SC Cleared
52 (0.414 %)Security Cleared
61 (0.207 %)CCVP
61 (0.207 %)HND
61 (0.207 %)CCNP
61 (0.207 %)CCNA
61 (0.207 %)CCDA
61 (0.207 %)CCDP
61 (0.207 %)Cisco Certification
61 (0.207 %)OCP
61 (0.207 %)Oracle Certification
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
17 (1.449 %)QA
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
18 (1.656 %)VMware Infrastructure
18 (1.656 %)Hadoop
25 (1.035 %)Xen
34 (0.828 %)MSMQ
34 (0.828 %)VMware ESX
34 (0.828 %)vSphere
43 (0.621 %)NFS
51 (0.207 %)Hyper-V
51 (0.207 %)XenServer
51 (0.207 %)Veritas Volume Manager
51 (0.207 %)Oracle RAC
51 (0.207 %)VMware Server
51 (0.207 %)Oracle RMAN
51 (0.207 %)VMware Workstation
51 (0.207 %)Samba
51 (0.207 %)Active Directory
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
132 (6.625 %)AutoSys
28 (1.656 %)MOM
33 (0.621 %)Netcool
33 (0.621 %)Tivoli
42 (0.414 %)Nagios
42 (0.414 %)OpenView
51 (0.207 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1129 (26.71 %)DataSynapse
2122 (25.26 %)Oracle
353 (10.97 %)Google
443 (8.903 %)Adobe
541 (8.489 %)GigaSpaces
638 (7.867 %)TIBCO
734 (7.039 %)Sybase
89 (1.863 %)Microsoft
98 (1.656 %)VMware
98 (1.656 %)Terracotta
107 (1.449 %)Bloomberg
116 (1.242 %)IBM
116 (1.242 %)DevExpress
125 (1.035 %)Infragistics
125 (1.035 %)HP
134 (0.828 %)Red Hat
134 (0.828 %)Murex
143 (0.621 %)Yolus
143 (0.621 %)Reuters
143 (0.621 %)Sun