The first part of the table below looks at the prevalence of the term Informatics in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Informatics 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.

Informatics
Location
3 months to
22 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank819748682
Rank change year-on-year
Down-71Down-66
Matching permanent IT job ads5611770
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK0.046 %0.095 %0.073 %
As % of the Miscellaneous category0.148 %0.290 %0.223 %
Number of salaries quoted477241
Average salary£45,000£42,500£37,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.88 %+14.86 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£27,795£29,859£30,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£60,000£52,310£52,500
UK excluding London average salary£39,220£42,736£35,000
% change year-on-year
-8.22 %+22.10 %
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 %-

Informatics
Demand Trend

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

Informatics Demand Trend

Informatics
Salary Trend

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

Informatics Salary Trend

Informatics
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Informatics over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 within the UK.

Informatics Salary Histogram

Informatics
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Informatics 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-4852£46,250-2.63 %
LondonDown-2017£50,000+25.00 %
South EastDown-6812£31,500-26.29 %
OxfordshireDown-26£27,795-41.48 %
East of EnglandUp+85£35,000-33.33 %
CambridgeshireDown-25£35,000-33.33 %
South WestNew entry-5£47,500-
GloucestershireNew entry-5£47,500-
NottinghamshireNew entry-5£50,000-
East MidlandsNew entry-5£50,000-
NottinghamNew entry-5£50,000-
WallingfordNew entry-5£27,795-
CheltenhamNew entry-5£47,500-
CambridgeUp+44£33,914-35.40 %
North WestDown-183£32,500-31.57 %
BerkshireNew entry-3£52,500-
ReadingNew entry-3£52,500-
CheshireDown-182£32,500-31.57 %
MacclesfieldNew entry-2£32,500-
City of LondonNew entry-2£77,500-
HampshireDown-161£53,000+5.47 %
EdinburghDown-181£22,500-40.00 %
SurreyDown-191£52,216+4.43 %
ScotlandDown-221£22,500-40.00 %
West MidlandsNew entry-1£40,000-
East SussexNew entry-1£31,500-
SouthamptonNew entry-1£53,000-
ManchesterNew entry-1£33,000-
GuildfordNew entry-1£52,216-
BrightonNew entry-1£31,500-

Informatics
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK citing Informatics 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 Informatics.

152 (39.10 %)SQL
152 (39.10 %)Degree
228 (21.05 %).NET
228 (21.05 %)SQL Server
325 (18.80 %)Microsoft
421 (15.79 %)Windows
421 (15.79 %)Health Informatics
520 (15.04 %)Computer Science
619 (14.29 %)C#
619 (14.29 %)NHS
718 (13.53 %)Java
718 (13.53 %)UNIX
817 (12.78 %)Business Intelligence
817 (12.78 %)Project Management
817 (12.78 %)Finance
817 (12.78 %)SQL Server 2008
916 (12.03 %)JavaScript
1015 (11.28 %)Data Management
1015 (11.28 %)SQL Server Integration Services
1114 (10.53 %)QA
1114 (10.53 %)HTML
1114 (10.53 %)Oracle
1213 (9.774 %)T-SQL
1213 (9.774 %)SQL Server 2005
1312 (9.023 %)Pharmaceutical
1312 (9.023 %)CSS
1312 (9.023 %)Linux
1411 (8.271 %)ITIL
1411 (8.271 %)Management Information System
1411 (8.271 %)Bioinformatics

Informatics
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK citing Informatics 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 Informatics. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
128 (21.05 %).NET
214 (10.53 %)HTML
312 (9.023 %)CSS
410 (7.519 %)ASP.NET
410 (7.519 %)jQuery
58 (6.015 %)XML
67 (5.263 %)Ruby on Rails
76 (4.511 %).NET Framework
76 (4.511 %)ASP.NET MVC
76 (4.511 %)Web Services
76 (4.511 %)Ajax
85 (3.759 %)SOAP
85 (3.759 %)ADO.NET Entity Framework
85 (3.759 %)ASP.NET MVC 3
94 (3.008 %)Dojo
94 (3.008 %)Swing
103 (2.256 %)OpenGL
103 (2.256 %)Middleware
103 (2.256 %)MDX
103 (2.256 %)Sinatra
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
110 (7.519 %)SAS
27 (5.263 %)IIS
34 (3.008 %)Google App Engine
43 (2.256 %)SharePoint
43 (2.256 %)Amazon EC2
52 (1.504 %)Force.com
52 (1.504 %)FileNet
61 (0.752 %)Exchange Server 2003
61 (0.752 %)MS Exchange
61 (0.752 %)Apache
61 (0.752 %)Amazon AWS
61 (0.752 %)Exchange Server 2010
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
18 (6.015 %)MS Office
27 (5.263 %)Adobe Illustrator
27 (5.263 %)Photoshop
35 (3.759 %)MS Excel
44 (3.008 %)MS Visio
51 (0.752 %)SPSS
51 (0.752 %)S-PLUS
51 (0.752 %)MS PowerPoint
51 (0.752 %)Google Apps
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
12 (1.504 %)SAP CRM
12 (1.504 %)Google Analytics
12 (1.504 %)SAP FS
21 (0.752 %)TrackWise
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
16 (4.511 %)LAN
16 (4.511 %)WAN
25 (3.759 %)SAN
34 (3.008 %)Internet
34 (3.008 %)Firewall
34 (3.008 %)Wireless
34 (3.008 %)IP Telephony
43 (2.256 %)DNS
51 (0.752 %)HTTPS
51 (0.752 %)BIG-IP
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
128 (21.05 %)SQL Server
217 (12.78 %)SQL Server 2008
315 (11.28 %)SQL Server Integration Services
413 (9.774 %)SQL Server 2005
58 (6.015 %)OLAP
67 (5.263 %)Data Mining
67 (5.263 %)Base SAS
75 (3.759 %)ETL
84 (3.008 %)Data Warehouse
84 (3.008 %)PostgreSQL
93 (2.256 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
93 (2.256 %)MySQL
102 (1.504 %)SAP BW
111 (0.752 %)RDBMS
111 (0.752 %)DTS
111 (0.752 %)MS Access
111 (0.752 %)Hadoop
111 (0.752 %)Text Mining
111 (0.752 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
111 (0.752 %)QlikView
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
15 (3.759 %)Subversion
24 (3.008 %)TortoiseSVN
24 (3.008 %)QuickTest Pro
24 (3.008 %)LoadRunner
24 (3.008 %)NUnit
33 (2.256 %)CruiseControl
33 (2.256 %)FxCop
41 (0.752 %)Moq
41 (0.752 %)Rational Rose
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
117 (12.78 %)Finance
212 (9.023 %)Pharmaceutical
36 (4.511 %)Banking
43 (2.256 %)Automotive
52 (1.504 %)Front Office
52 (1.504 %)Games
52 (1.504 %)Marketing
61 (0.752 %)German Language
61 (0.752 %)Polish Language
61 (0.752 %)Russian Language
61 (0.752 %)Spanish Language
61 (0.752 %)Investment Banking
61 (0.752 %)Back Office
61 (0.752 %)Telecoms
61 (0.752 %)Law
61 (0.752 %)Legal
61 (0.752 %)Manufacturing
61 (0.752 %)Publishing
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
141 (30.83 %)Developer
229 (21.80 %)Analyst
313 (9.774 %)Senior Developer
411 (8.271 %)Consultant
510 (7.519 %)Software Engineer
68 (6.015 %)C# Developer
68 (6.015 %)C# .NET Developer
77 (5.263 %)Java Developer
77 (5.263 %).NET Developer
77 (5.263 %)Business Intelligence (BI) Developer
86 (4.511 %)Software Developer
86 (4.511 %)Architect
95 (3.759 %)Lead Developer
95 (3.759 %)Senior C# Developer
95 (3.759 %)SQL Developer
104 (3.008 %)Senior Software Developer
104 (3.008 %)SQL Server Developer
104 (3.008 %)Database Developer
104 (3.008 %)SQL Database Developer
104 (3.008 %)Senior .NET Developer
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
121 (15.79 %)Health Informatics
220 (15.04 %)Computer Science
319 (14.29 %)NHS
411 (8.271 %)Management Information System
59 (6.767 %)Cloud Computing
68 (6.015 %)Data Integration
68 (6.015 %)Statistics
77 (5.263 %)Mainframe
85 (3.759 %)Mathematics
94 (3.008 %)Thin Client
94 (3.008 %)Blog
94 (3.008 %)Fat Client
103 (2.256 %)3D Graphics
103 (2.256 %)e-Health
103 (2.256 %)Economics
112 (1.504 %)Data Protection Act
112 (1.504 %)Freedom of Information
112 (1.504 %)PMI
112 (1.504 %)Biology
121 (0.752 %)Proteomics
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
121 (15.79 %)Windows
218 (13.53 %)UNIX
312 (9.023 %)Linux
45 (3.759 %)Debian
45 (3.759 %)Ubuntu
51 (0.752 %)Android
51 (0.752 %)Apple iOS
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
117 (12.78 %)Project Management
117 (12.78 %)Business Intelligence
215 (11.28 %)Data Management
311 (8.271 %)Bioinformatics
311 (8.271 %)ITIL
410 (7.519 %)Information Management
59 (6.767 %)Data Analysis
59 (6.767 %)Performance Testing
68 (6.015 %)Software Testing
77 (5.263 %)Software Architecture
77 (5.263 %)Software Engineering
77 (5.263 %)Agile Software Development
86 (4.511 %)MVC
86 (4.511 %)Scrum
86 (4.511 %)OO
86 (4.511 %)Data Modelling
86 (4.511 %)Statistical Modelling
86 (4.511 %)Data Protection
95 (3.759 %)Continuous Integration
95 (3.759 %)Technical Architecture
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
152 (39.10 %)SQL
219 (14.29 %)C#
318 (13.53 %)Java
416 (12.03 %)JavaScript
513 (9.774 %)T-SQL
610 (7.519 %)Perl
79 (6.767 %)Python
79 (6.767 %)Ruby
87 (5.263 %)SAS Macro
87 (5.263 %)PHP
96 (4.511 %)R
105 (3.759 %)VBScript
113 (2.256 %)VB
113 (2.256 %)C
113 (2.256 %)C++
122 (1.504 %)Lua
122 (1.504 %)VB.NET
131 (0.752 %)VBA
131 (0.752 %)RPG
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
152 (39.10 %)Degree
26 (4.511 %)CEH
35 (3.759 %)ISEB
43 (2.256 %)Microsoft Certification
43 (2.256 %)ISTQB
52 (1.504 %)Security Cleared
52 (1.504 %)PMI Certification
52 (1.504 %)CISSP
52 (1.504 %)MCP
61 (0.752 %)Postgraduate
61 (0.752 %)MCSE
61 (0.752 %)MCSA
61 (0.752 %)PhD
61 (0.752 %)CCNA
61 (0.752 %)Cisco Certification
61 (0.752 %)CCA
61 (0.752 %)Citrix Certification
61 (0.752 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
61 (0.752 %)PRINCE2 Practitioner
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
114 (10.53 %)QA
22 (1.504 %)ISO/IEC 27001
31 (0.752 %)HL7
31 (0.752 %)ISO 9001
31 (0.752 %)BS7799
31 (0.752 %)Basel II
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
16 (4.511 %)VMware Infrastructure
23 (2.256 %)Active Directory
31 (0.752 %)XenApp
31 (0.752 %)XenDesktop
31 (0.752 %)vSphere
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
17 (5.263 %)HP Quality Center
24 (3.008 %)NetBackup
31 (0.752 %)SCCM
31 (0.752 %)SCOM
31 (0.752 %)HP Data Protector
31 (0.752 %)Tivoli
31 (0.752 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
125 (18.80 %)Microsoft
214 (10.53 %)Oracle
310 (7.519 %)HP
310 (7.519 %)Google
49 (6.767 %)Citrix
57 (5.263 %)Cisco
66 (4.511 %)VMware
74 (3.008 %)Sybase
74 (3.008 %)CommVault
83 (2.256 %)Business Objects
83 (2.256 %)SAP
83 (2.256 %)Adobe
92 (1.504 %)Informatica
101 (0.752 %)iSOFT
101 (0.752 %)Infragistics
101 (0.752 %)Juniper
101 (0.752 %)Veeam
101 (0.752 %)F5
101 (0.752 %)IBM