The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Heroku in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Heroku over the 3 months to 21 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Heroku
Rank 778 865 864
Rank change year-on-year
+87 -1
Permanent jobs citing Heroku 82 22 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.075% 0.018% 0.006%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.226% 0.055% 0.017%
Number of salaries quoted 69 22 7
Average salary £47,500 £47,500 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +58.33%
UK excluding London average salary £80,000 £47,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year
+68.42% -17.39%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
36262 40019 42312
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 33.38% 33.02% 34.67%
Number of salaries quoted 29773 33735 35431
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%

Heroku
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Heroku Jobs Demand Trend

Heroku
Salary Trend

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

Heroku Salary Trend

Heroku
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Heroku over the 3 months to 21 May 2013 within the UK.

Heroku Salary Histogram

Heroku
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Heroku within the UK over the 3 months to 21 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 +61 74 £47,500 -
London +86 69 £47,500 -13.63%
City of London - 25 £47,500 -
South East - 4 £42,500 -
Surrey - 4 £42,500 -
Farnham - 2 £40,000 -
Birmingham -15 1 £38,500 -67.91%
West Midlands -23 1 £38,500 -67.91%

Heroku
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing Heroku 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 Heroku.

1 63 (57.80%) Ruby
2 59 (54.13%) Ruby on Rails
3 54 (49.54%) Java
4 50 (45.87%) TDD
5 47 (43.12%) SaaS
6 45 (41.28%) jQuery
6 45 (41.28%) Force.com
7 43 (39.45%) JavaScript
7 43 (39.45%) PaaS
8 38 (34.86%) .NET
8 38 (34.86%) Cloud Computing
9 36 (33.03%) Git (software)
9 36 (33.03%) Continuous Integration
9 36 (33.03%) CSS
9 36 (33.03%) Linux
10 35 (32.11%) Amazon EC2
10 35 (32.11%) Amazon AWS
11 32 (29.36%) Node.js
12 31 (28.44%) Subversion
12 31 (28.44%) Salesforce.com
13 30 (27.52%) UNIX
14 29 (26.61%) C#
14 29 (26.61%) Agile Software Development
15 28 (25.69%) Banking
15 28 (25.69%) Investment Banking
15 28 (25.69%) Apex Code
15 28 (25.69%) Visualforce
15 28 (25.69%) HTML
15 28 (25.69%) JSP
15 28 (25.69%) J2EE

Heroku
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing Heroku 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 Heroku. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 59 (54.13%) Ruby on Rails
2 45 (41.28%) jQuery
3 38 (34.86%) .NET
4 36 (33.03%) CSS
5 32 (29.36%) Node.js
6 28 (25.69%) Visualforce
6 28 (25.69%) HTML
6 28 (25.69%) JSP
6 28 (25.69%) J2EE
7 26 (23.85%) HTML5
8 25 (22.94%) CSS3
9 24 (22.02%) Web Services
10 23 (21.10%) Ajax
11 18 (16.51%) XML
12 14 (12.84%) REST
13 13 (11.93%) JSLint
14 12 (11.01%) Spring
14 12 (11.01%) Hibernate
15 11 (10.09%) XHTML
15 11 (10.09%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 45 (41.28%) Force.com
2 35 (32.11%) Amazon EC2
2 35 (32.11%) Amazon AWS
3 17 (15.60%) Windows Azure
4 15 (13.76%) Apache
5 12 (11.01%) Google App Engine
6 11 (10.09%) Tomcat
7 6 (5.505%) nginx
8 4 (3.670%) IIS
8 4 (3.670%) Drupal
9 3 (2.752%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.835%) Rackspace Cloud
10 2 (1.835%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.917%) Jetty
11 1 (0.917%) RabbitMQ
Applications
1 1 (0.917%) Google Apps
Communications & Networking
1 14 (12.84%) HTTP
1 14 (12.84%) Internet
2 3 (2.752%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (23.85%) MySQL
2 9 (8.257%) NoSQL
2 9 (8.257%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (7.339%) Redis
4 7 (6.422%) MongoDB
5 5 (4.587%) RDBMS
6 4 (3.670%) SQL Server 2012
6 4 (3.670%) Big Data
6 4 (3.670%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.917%) ObjectStore
7 1 (0.917%) BigTable
7 1 (0.917%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.917%) Riak
7 1 (0.917%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 36 (33.03%) Git (software)
2 31 (28.44%) Subversion
3 23 (21.10%) Maven
4 22 (20.18%) Ant
5 13 (11.93%) QUnit
6 12 (11.01%) Talend Open Studio
6 12 (11.01%) RSpec
7 4 (3.670%) Cucumber
8 3 (2.752%) Xcode
8 3 (2.752%) Capistrano
9 2 (1.835%) GitHub
9 2 (1.835%) Capybara
10 1 (0.917%) Gradle
10 1 (0.917%) PhoneGap
10 1 (0.917%) RubyGems
10 1 (0.917%) Mockito
General
1 28 (25.69%) Banking
1 28 (25.69%) Investment Banking
2 4 (3.670%) Finance
2 4 (3.670%) Legal
2 4 (3.670%) Advertising
2 4 (3.670%) Retail
3 3 (2.752%) Marketing
4 1 (0.917%) Publishing
4 1 (0.917%) Games
Job Titles
1 72 (66.06%) Developer
2 19 (17.43%) Front-End Developer
3 17 (15.60%) Technical Leader
4 16 (14.68%) Ruby Developer
5 13 (11.93%) Ruby on Rails Developer
6 10 (9.174%) Technical Architect
6 10 (9.174%) Architect
7 9 (8.257%) Java Developer
8 8 (7.339%) Senior Technical Architect
8 8 (7.339%) Senior Architect
8 8 (7.339%) Agile Java Developer
9 7 (6.422%) Senior Developer
10 6 (5.505%) Web Developer
11 4 (3.670%) Software Engineer
11 4 (3.670%) JavaScript Developer
12 3 (2.752%) .NET Developer
12 3 (2.752%) Agile .NET Developer
12 3 (2.752%) DevOps Engineer
13 2 (1.835%) Senior Ruby on Rails Developer
13 2 (1.835%) Cloud Developer
Miscellaneous
1 47 (43.12%) SaaS
2 43 (39.45%) PaaS
3 38 (34.86%) Cloud Computing
4 19 (17.43%) Computer Science
5 13 (11.93%) Open Source
6 11 (10.09%) Digital Media
6 11 (10.09%) RIA
7 9 (8.257%) Mobile App
8 5 (4.587%) Social Media
9 3 (2.752%) iPhone
10 2 (1.835%) Engine Yard
10 2 (1.835%) New Media
10 2 (1.835%) Social Network
11 1 (0.917%) Social Gaming
11 1 (0.917%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 36 (33.03%) Linux
2 30 (27.52%) UNIX
3 23 (21.10%) Apple iOS
4 6 (5.505%) Windows
5 4 (3.670%) Ubuntu
5 4 (3.670%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.917%) Android
6 1 (0.917%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (45.87%) TDD
2 36 (33.03%) Continuous Integration
3 29 (26.61%) Agile Software Development
4 27 (24.77%) Scrum
4 27 (24.77%) Waterfall
5 25 (22.94%) OO
6 22 (20.18%) Kanban
7 18 (16.51%) Pair Programming
8 14 (12.84%) Unit Testing
9 13 (11.93%) BDD
9 13 (11.93%) Software Engineering
10 11 (10.09%) CRM
11 10 (9.174%) Project Management
12 5 (4.587%) Web Development
12 5 (4.587%) OOP
13 4 (3.670%) Progressive Enhancement
13 4 (3.670%) MVC
13 4 (3.670%) SEO
13 4 (3.670%) Data Management
13 4 (3.670%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 63 (57.80%) Ruby
2 54 (49.54%) Java
3 43 (39.45%) JavaScript
4 29 (26.61%) C#
5 28 (25.69%) Apex Code
6 16 (14.68%) PHP
7 11 (10.09%) SQL
8 10 (9.174%) C++
9 9 (8.257%) C
10 8 (7.339%) Python
11 4 (3.670%) Clojure
11 4 (3.670%) CoffeeScript
11 4 (3.670%) Scala
11 4 (3.670%) Haskell
11 4 (3.670%) Erlang
12 1 (0.917%) Groovy
12 1 (0.917%) XAML
12 1 (0.917%) R
Qualifications
1 18 (16.51%) Degree
2 2 (1.835%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (16.51%) QA
System Software
1 2 (1.835%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (2.752%) Puppet
Vendors
1 31 (28.44%) Salesforce.com
2 24 (22.02%) Google
3 12 (11.01%) Informatica
3 12 (11.01%) Talend
3 12 (11.01%) Eloqua
4 10 (9.174%) Facebook
5 8 (7.339%) Rackspace
6 4 (3.670%) Twitter
6 4 (3.670%) Microsoft
6 4 (3.670%) Zend
7 2 (1.835%) VMware
8 1 (0.917%) Apple
8 1 (0.917%) Joyent
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