The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Mercator products and/or services in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Mercator over the 3 months to 23 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 Vendors currently tracked.

The figures below represent the IT job market in general and are NOT representative of salaries within Mercator Software, Inc.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Mercator
Rank 762 853 802
Rank change year-on-year
+91 -51
Permanent jobs citing Mercator 100 45 71
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.093% 0.037% 0.056%
As % of the Vendors category 0.193% 0.078% 0.120%
Number of salaries quoted 86 28 43
Average salary £55,000 £40,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+37.50% -5.88%
90% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £32,000 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £65,750 £54,500
UK excluding London average salary £51,000 £25,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+104.00% -37.50%
All Vendors
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
51694 57521 59159
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 48.07% 47.65% 46.93%
Number of salaries quoted 42201 48473 49150
Average salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £28,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000

Mercator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Mercator Jobs Demand Trend

Mercator
Salary Trend

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

Mercator Salary Trend

Mercator
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Mercator over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 within the UK.

Mercator Salary Histogram

Mercator
Top 21 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Mercator within the UK over the 3 months to 23 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 +76 97 £55,000 +37.50%
London +42 42 £60,000 +50.00%
East of England - 22 £55,000 -
Ealing - 21 £60,000 -
Nottinghamshire +19 20 £40,000 -27.27%
East Midlands +16 20 £40,000 -11.11%
Nottingham +16 20 £40,000 -27.27%
Dunstable - 19 £55,000 -
Bedfordshire - 19 £55,000 -
South East +13 13 £45,000 +91.48%
Oxfordshire -2 13 £45,000 +91.48%
Oxford -9 13 £45,000 +91.48%
Docklands, London - 9 £65,000 -
Norwich - 3 £32,500 -
Chichester - 3 - -
Cardiff - 3 - -
West Sussex - 3 - -
Norfolk - 3 £32,500 -
Wales - 3 - -
South Wales - 3 - -
City of London - 1 £47,500 -

Mercator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing Mercator 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 Mercator.

1 42 (29.17%) Microsoft
2 40 (27.78%) Oracle
3 38 (26.39%) VMware
4 37 (25.69%) VMware Infrastructure
5 34 (23.61%) Windows
6 32 (22.22%) Java
7 30 (20.83%) SQL Server
7 30 (20.83%) Publishing
8 27 (18.75%) Linux
9 25 (17.36%) Finance
10 23 (15.97%) Banking
11 22 (15.28%) User Acceptance Testing
11 22 (15.28%) NetBackup
11 22 (15.28%) MySQL
11 22 (15.28%) SAN
11 22 (15.28%) Veritas
12 21 (14.58%) Agile Software Development
12 21 (14.58%) Degree
13 19 (13.19%) MPLS
13 19 (13.19%) Windows Server 2003
13 19 (13.19%) VLAN
14 18 (12.50%) Load Balancing
14 18 (12.50%) Data Management
14 18 (12.50%) Replication
14 18 (12.50%) iSCSI
14 18 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 18 (12.50%) Hyper-V
14 18 (12.50%) vSphere
14 18 (12.50%) Debian
14 18 (12.50%) PostgreSQL

Mercator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing Mercator 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 Mercator. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 15 (10.42%) Spring
2 14 (9.722%) XML
3 12 (8.333%) CSS
3 12 (8.333%) Middleware
3 12 (8.333%) WebSphere
4 11 (7.639%) .NET
5 10 (6.944%) WCF
6 9 (6.250%) .NET Framework
6 9 (6.250%) HTML
7 6 (4.167%) Node.js
7 6 (4.167%) HTML5
7 6 (4.167%) CSS3
7 6 (4.167%) Ruby on Rails
8 5 (3.472%) Hibernate
9 4 (2.778%) jQuery
9 4 (2.778%) Symfony
10 3 (2.083%) CodeIgniter
10 3 (2.083%) CakePHP
10 3 (2.083%) YUI
10 3 (2.083%) JSR 170
Application Platforms
1 9 (6.250%) WebSphere MQ
2 7 (4.861%) Oracle Application Server
2 7 (4.861%) WebLogic
3 6 (4.167%) RabbitMQ
4 5 (3.472%) Apache
5 3 (2.083%) Drupal
5 3 (2.083%) Apache Solr
5 3 (2.083%) Amazon AWS
5 3 (2.083%) CMS
6 2 (1.389%) Tomcat
6 2 (1.389%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (5.556%) MS Excel
2 3 (2.083%) Spreadsheet
2 3 (2.083%) MS Visio
2 3 (2.083%) Weka
Business Applications
1 16 (11.11%) Temenos T24
2 8 (5.556%) SAP GTS
3 6 (4.167%) Oracle Applications
4 3 (2.083%) Oracle EBS R12
4 3 (2.083%) Oracle iProcurement
4 3 (2.083%) Oracle Financials
4 3 (2.083%) Oracle HRMS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (15.28%) SAN
2 19 (13.19%) MPLS
2 19 (13.19%) VLAN
3 18 (12.50%) iSCSI
3 18 (12.50%) Fibre Channel
4 5 (3.472%) LAN
4 5 (3.472%) WAN
4 5 (3.472%) Firewall
5 2 (1.389%) Internet
5 2 (1.389%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.694%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (0.694%) Network Security
6 1 (0.694%) VPN
6 1 (0.694%) DNS
6 1 (0.694%) VoIP
6 1 (0.694%) BGP
6 1 (0.694%) EIGRP
6 1 (0.694%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (20.83%) SQL Server
2 22 (15.28%) MySQL
3 18 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (8.333%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 11 (7.639%) SQL Server 2008
6 9 (6.250%) Hadoop
6 9 (6.250%) Oracle 8/8i
6 9 (6.250%) Big Data
7 7 (4.861%) Oracle 11g
7 7 (4.861%) Oracle 9i
7 7 (4.861%) Oracle 10g
7 7 (4.861%) Oracle Exadata
8 6 (4.167%) MongoDB
8 6 (4.167%) NoSQL
8 6 (4.167%) Redis
8 6 (4.167%) MarkLogic
8 6 (4.167%) Oracle Discoverer
9 3 (2.083%) Oracle Reports
9 3 (2.083%) Mahout
10 1 (0.694%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (4.167%) Cucumber
2 5 (3.472%) Selenium
3 4 (2.778%) Subversion
4 3 (2.083%) Git (software)
4 3 (2.083%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (1.389%) JIRA
6 1 (0.694%) JBehave
6 1 (0.694%) FitNesse
6 1 (0.694%) Maven
6 1 (0.694%) RequisitePro
6 1 (0.694%) Ant
6 1 (0.694%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.694%) Concordion
General
1 30 (20.83%) Publishing
2 25 (17.36%) Finance
3 23 (15.97%) Banking
4 2 (1.389%) Financial Institution
5 1 (0.694%) Marketing
5 1 (0.694%) Telecoms
5 1 (0.694%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 41 (28.47%) Developer
2 21 (14.58%) Consultant
2 21 (14.58%) Architect
3 20 (13.89%) Analyst
4 12 (8.333%) Test Analyst
4 12 (8.333%) Middleware Developer
5 9 (6.250%) Technical Leader
5 9 (6.250%) Project Manager
6 8 (5.556%) Technical Consultant
6 8 (5.556%) Service Manager
7 7 (4.861%) DBA
7 7 (4.861%) Oracle DBA
8 6 (4.167%) Lead Architect
9 5 (3.472%) Solutions Consultant
9 5 (3.472%) Team Leader
9 5 (3.472%) Technical Manager
10 4 (2.778%) Senior Developer
10 4 (2.778%) Security Manager
10 4 (2.778%) Business Manager
10 4 (2.778%) PHP Developer
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.50%) Replication
2 16 (11.11%) SWIFT
3 7 (4.861%) APACS
3 7 (4.861%) Management Information System
4 5 (3.472%) Computer Science
5 1 (0.694%) Open Source
5 1 (0.694%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 34 (23.61%) Windows
2 27 (18.75%) Linux
3 19 (13.19%) Windows Server 2003
4 18 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 18 (12.50%) Debian
5 12 (8.333%) UNIX
6 7 (4.861%) Oracle Linux
7 6 (4.167%) Solaris
8 1 (0.694%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (15.28%) User Acceptance Testing
2 21 (14.58%) Agile Software Development
3 18 (12.50%) Load Balancing
3 18 (12.50%) Data Management
4 16 (11.11%) Test Scripting
5 15 (10.42%) Project Management
6 14 (9.722%) Performance Testing
7 13 (9.028%) Network Design
8 11 (7.639%) Product Management
8 11 (7.639%) Business Analysis
9 9 (6.250%) Unit Testing
9 9 (6.250%) Change Management
10 8 (5.556%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (5.556%) Test Strategy
10 8 (5.556%) Scrum
10 8 (5.556%) TDD
10 8 (5.556%) Business Development
10 8 (5.556%) Software Testing
10 8 (5.556%) Load Testing
11 7 (4.861%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 32 (22.22%) Java
2 17 (11.81%) SQL
3 13 (9.028%) PowerShell
3 13 (9.028%) Bash shell
3 13 (9.028%) VBScript
3 13 (9.028%) Perl
3 13 (9.028%) Python
4 12 (8.333%) XQuery
5 11 (7.639%) C#
6 10 (6.944%) JavaScript
6 10 (6.944%) PL/SQL
7 7 (4.861%) PHP
7 7 (4.861%) Shell Script
8 6 (4.167%) Ruby
9 3 (2.083%) PHP5
9 3 (2.083%) R
10 1 (0.694%) XPath
10 1 (0.694%) C
Qualifications
1 21 (14.58%) Degree
2 8 (5.556%) ISTQB
3 5 (3.472%) ISEB
4 4 (2.778%) CISA
4 4 (2.778%) CISSP
4 4 (2.778%) PMP
4 4 (2.778%) PMI Certification
4 4 (2.778%) Security Cleared
4 4 (2.778%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.083%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.028%) QA
2 5 (3.472%) SLA
3 4 (2.778%) ISO/IEC 17799
System Software
1 37 (25.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (12.50%) Hyper-V
2 18 (12.50%) vSphere
2 18 (12.50%) NFS
3 15 (10.42%) VMware Server
3 15 (10.42%) XenApp
3 15 (10.42%) XenDesktop
4 7 (4.861%) Oracle RAC
4 7 (4.861%) Oracle RMAN
5 5 (3.472%) XenServer
6 1 (0.694%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 22 (15.28%) NetBackup
2 7 (4.861%) Data Guard
3 6 (4.167%) Puppet
4 4 (2.778%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 1 (0.694%) SCCM
5 1 (0.694%) WSUS
Vendors
1 42 (29.17%) Microsoft
2 40 (27.78%) Oracle
3 38 (26.39%) VMware
4 22 (15.28%) Veritas
5 18 (12.50%) Cisco
6 15 (10.42%) Citrix
6 15 (10.42%) OpenLink
7 12 (8.333%) IBM
8 11 (7.639%) T-Plan
9 8 (5.556%) SAP
10 6 (4.167%) Rackspace
10 6 (4.167%) Red Hat
11 5 (3.472%) CheckPoint
12 4 (2.778%) Zend
13 3 (2.083%) Genesys
13 3 (2.083%) Business Objects
13 3 (2.083%) Akamai
14 1 (0.694%) NetApp
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