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 22 May 2012 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.

Grid Computing
Location
3 months to
22 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank686599545
Rank change year-on-year
Down-87Down-54
Matching permanent IT job ads191275211
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK0.158 %0.224 %0.221 %
As % of the Miscellaneous category0.505 %0.681 %0.673 %
Number of salaries quoted171214182
Average salary£70,000£72,500£75,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.44 %-3.33 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£32,500£50,000£55,250
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£90,000£90,000£95,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,500£45,000£32,829
% change year-on-year
-21.11 %+37.07 %
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryAll Miscellaneous Category
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
377854035731337
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK31.33 %32.91 %32.82 %
Number of salaries quoted317933387625593
Average salary£45,000£47,500£50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.26 %-5.00 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£28,500£27,962£28,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£75,000£85,000£82,500
UK excluding London average salary£40,000£37,500£37,500
% change year-on-year
+6.66 %-

Grid Computing
Demand Trend

The 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 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 22 May 2012 within the UK.

Grid Computing Salary Histogram

Grid Computing
Top 26 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 22 May 2012. 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-82187£70,000-5.08 %
LondonDown-117127£77,500+3.33 %
City of LondonDown-959£72,500-3.33 %
East of EnglandUp+3431£32,500-13.33 %
South EastDown-2722£62,500+4.16 %
SurreyDown-820£60,000-7.69 %
CambridgeUp+1515£30,500-18.66 %
CambridgeshireUp+815£30,500-18.66 %
NorfolkNew entry-14£34,750-
NorwichNew entry-14£34,750-
ReigateDown-109£52,500-12.50 %
EpsomNew entry-7£62,500-
GlasgowUp+44£55,000+22.22 %
ScotlandUp+34£55,000+22.22 %
West MidlandsDown-184£32,500+3.17 %
WarwickNew entry-4£32,500-
WarwickshireNew entry-4£32,500-
South WestNew entry-3£30,000-
Docklands, LondonUp+152£75,000-
East AngliaNew entry-2£29,000-
GloucestershireNew entry-2£30,000-
OxfordUp+141--
OxfordshireNo change01--
Canary WharfDown-101£60,000-
HampshireDown-131£70,000+80.64 %
BristolNew entry-1£30,000-

Grid Computing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, 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.

1197 (48.40 %)Java
2146 (35.87 %)Finance
3137 (33.66 %)C#
4131 (32.19 %)C++
4131 (32.19 %)Degree
5115 (28.26 %)SQL
5115 (28.26 %)Linux
693 (22.85 %)Windows
693 (22.85 %)Front Office
792 (22.60 %)Python
891 (22.36 %)OO
987 (21.38 %)Agile Software Development
1084 (20.64 %)Derivative
1084 (20.64 %).NET
1181 (19.90 %)Banking
1279 (19.41 %)Spring
1377 (18.92 %)Web Services
1476 (18.67 %)DataSynapse
1575 (18.43 %)Oracle
1575 (18.43 %)UNIX
1575 (18.43 %)Microsoft
1674 (18.18 %)Perl
1768 (16.71 %)Multithreading
1859 (14.50 %)Google
1958 (14.25 %)Hadoop
2057 (14.00 %)Oracle Coherence
2155 (13.51 %)Text Mining
2254 (13.27 %)Risk Management
2351 (12.53 %)Postgraduate
2450 (12.29 %)C

Grid Computing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, 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
184 (20.64 %).NET
279 (19.41 %)Spring
377 (18.92 %)Web Services
449 (12.04 %)XML
542 (10.32 %)Ajax
638 (9.337 %)Lucene
736 (8.845 %)J2SE
835 (8.600 %)WCF
934 (8.354 %)REST
1033 (8.108 %)Hibernate
1131 (7.617 %)WPF
1230 (7.371 %)Swing
1326 (6.388 %)J2EE
1418 (4.423 %)Natural Language Processing
1516 (3.931 %)JMS
1613 (3.194 %)Java EE
1613 (3.194 %)Guice
1711 (2.703 %)Task Parallel Library
189 (2.211 %)EJB
189 (2.211 %)JDBC
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
157 (14.00 %)Oracle Coherence
234 (8.354 %)Jetty
234 (8.354 %)MediaWiki
234 (8.354 %)SharePoint
234 (8.354 %)Documentum
315 (3.686 %)GemFire
47 (1.720 %)Confluence
47 (1.720 %)Tomcat
56 (1.474 %)Apache
63 (0.737 %)WebLogic
72 (0.491 %)IIS
72 (0.491 %)Rendezvous
72 (0.491 %)CMS
72 (0.491 %)Resin
81 (0.246 %)MS Exchange
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
135 (8.600 %)MS Office
234 (8.354 %)Google Apps
333 (8.108 %)MS Excel
413 (3.194 %)MATLAB
52 (0.491 %)Spreadsheet
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
15 (1.229 %)WAN
15 (1.229 %)AMQP
23 (0.737 %)Broadband
32 (0.491 %)TCP/IP
32 (0.491 %)SAN
32 (0.491 %)NAS
41 (0.246 %)Firewall
41 (0.246 %)Network Security
41 (0.246 %)VPN
41 (0.246 %)LAN
41 (0.246 %)HTTP
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
158 (14.25 %)Hadoop
255 (13.51 %)Text Mining
348 (11.79 %)SQL Server
437 (9.091 %)Data Mining
534 (8.354 %)HSQLDB
613 (3.194 %)MySQL
78 (1.966 %)Oracle 10g
87 (1.720 %)SQL Server 2005
96 (1.474 %)Oracle 8/8i
96 (1.474 %)Oracle 11g
105 (1.229 %)QlikView
114 (0.983 %)Oracle OLAP
114 (0.983 %)Apache Cassandra
114 (0.983 %)NoSQL
114 (0.983 %)Data Warehouse
114 (0.983 %)OLAP
114 (0.983 %)SQL Server 2000
114 (0.983 %)ETL
123 (0.737 %)HBase
123 (0.737 %)SQLite
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
136 (8.845 %)JUnit
234 (8.354 %)Visual Studio
234 (8.354 %)Eclipse
234 (8.354 %)Bugzilla
234 (8.354 %)Mercurial
234 (8.354 %)Mockito
234 (8.354 %)GCC
234 (8.354 %)SCons
234 (8.354 %)GoogleTest
312 (2.948 %)Maven
49 (2.211 %)Subversion
58 (1.966 %)Ant
65 (1.229 %)TeamCity
73 (0.737 %)Git (software)
73 (0.737 %)CruiseControl
82 (0.491 %)JIRA
82 (0.491 %)Hudson
91 (0.246 %)Build Forge
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1146 (35.87 %)Finance
293 (22.85 %)Front Office
381 (19.90 %)Banking
443 (10.57 %)Investment Banking
511 (2.703 %)Telecoms
68 (1.966 %)Advertising
77 (1.720 %)Billing
86 (1.474 %)Aerospace
93 (0.737 %)French Language
93 (0.737 %)Spanish Language
102 (0.491 %)Games
111 (0.246 %)Financial Institution
111 (0.246 %)Back Office
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1193 (47.42 %)Developer
289 (21.87 %)Java Developer
349 (12.04 %)Senior Developer
441 (10.07 %)C# Developer
538 (9.337 %)Consultant
631 (7.617 %)C++ Developer
728 (6.880 %)Senior Java Developer
826 (6.388 %)Software Developer
925 (6.143 %)Analyst
1024 (5.897 %)Administrator
1121 (5.160 %)Team Leader
1219 (4.668 %)Architect
1318 (4.423 %)Systems Administrator
1318 (4.423 %)Quantitative Developer
1318 (4.423 %)QA Engineer
1417 (4.177 %)Linux Systems Administrator
1417 (4.177 %)Senior Software Developer
1417 (4.177 %)Linux Administrator
1516 (3.931 %)Java Architect
1614 (3.440 %)Technical Leader
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
184 (20.64 %)Derivative
241 (10.07 %)Computer Science
340 (9.828 %)Hedge funds
340 (9.828 %)Fixed Income
340 (9.828 %)Credit Derivative
437 (9.091 %)Visualisation
534 (8.354 %)Semantic Web
630 (7.371 %)Cloud Computing
725 (6.143 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
725 (6.143 %)Mathematics
822 (5.405 %)Chemistry
822 (5.405 %)Life Science
921 (5.160 %)Credit Risk
921 (5.160 %)Open Source
921 (5.160 %)Enterprise Storage
921 (5.160 %)Interest Rate Derivative
1016 (3.931 %)Physics
1114 (3.440 %)Market Risk
1213 (3.194 %)CMDB
1312 (2.948 %)Equity Derivative
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1115 (28.26 %)Linux
293 (22.85 %)Windows
375 (18.43 %)UNIX
49 (2.211 %)Solaris
54 (0.983 %)Windows 7
54 (0.983 %)FreeBSD
63 (0.737 %)Windows Server 2003
63 (0.737 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
191 (22.36 %)OO
287 (21.38 %)Agile Software Development
368 (16.71 %)Multithreading
454 (13.27 %)Risk Management
543 (10.57 %)Algorithmic Trading
639 (9.582 %)TDD
736 (8.845 %)Database Caching
835 (8.600 %)Automated Testing
934 (8.354 %)OOP
934 (8.354 %)RDF
1032 (7.862 %)SOA
1032 (7.862 %)Software Architecture
1032 (7.862 %)Test Automation
1126 (6.388 %)Scrum
1222 (5.405 %)Software Testing
1222 (5.405 %)Financial Modelling
1320 (4.914 %)Data Modelling
1417 (4.177 %)ETRM
1511 (2.703 %)Data Management
169 (2.211 %)Change Management
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1197 (48.40 %)Java
2137 (33.66 %)C#
3131 (32.19 %)C++
4115 (28.26 %)SQL
592 (22.60 %)Python
674 (18.18 %)Perl
750 (12.29 %)C
840 (9.828 %)Scala
937 (9.091 %)JavaScript
1034 (8.354 %)SPARQL
1129 (7.125 %)VBA
1218 (4.423 %)Clojure
138 (1.966 %)Shell Script
146 (1.474 %)Ruby
155 (1.229 %)VBScript
155 (1.229 %)Groovy
163 (0.737 %)Prolog
163 (0.737 %)F#
163 (0.737 %)VB
163 (0.737 %)Lua
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1131 (32.19 %)Degree
251 (12.53 %)Postgraduate
330 (7.371 %)PhD
421 (5.160 %)HND
57 (1.720 %)ITIL Certification
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
128 (6.880 %)QA
24 (0.983 %)Data Quality
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
121 (5.160 %)Active Directory
21 (0.246 %)VMware Infrastructure
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
176 (18.67 %)DataSynapse
275 (18.43 %)Oracle
275 (18.43 %)Microsoft
359 (14.50 %)Google
436 (8.845 %)JBoss
535 (8.600 %)Sybase
610 (2.457 %)Cisco
610 (2.457 %)TIBCO
77 (1.720 %)GigaSpaces
86 (1.474 %)Terracotta
95 (1.229 %)MKS
95 (1.229 %)Cadis
103 (0.737 %)Red Hat
103 (0.737 %)Adobe
112 (0.491 %)Sun
112 (0.491 %)Mercator
112 (0.491 %)Azul
121 (0.246 %)VMware
121 (0.246 %)Murex
121 (0.246 %)Nortel