The first table below looks at the demand for Mercurial skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Mercurial over the 3 months to 24 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 of the Development Applications category.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Mercurial
Rank 670 700 792
Rank change year-on-year
+30 +92
Permanent jobs citing Mercurial 193 201 89
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.179% 0.167% 0.072%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.210% 1.176% 0.560%
Number of salaries quoted 164 168 79
Average salary £50,000 £45,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.11% +12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £34,550 £29,400
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £65,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £47,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-17.89% +35.71%
All Development Applications
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
15947 17092 15900
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 14.75% 14.16% 12.78%
Number of salaries quoted 13623 14969 13983
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +1.33%

Mercurial
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Mercurial Jobs Demand Trend

Mercurial
Salary Trend

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

Mercurial Salary Trend

Mercurial
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Mercurial over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 within the UK.

Mercurial Salary Histogram

Mercurial
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Mercurial within the UK over the 3 months to 24 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 +9 186 £50,500 +12.22%
London +72 139 £55,000 +22.22%
City of London +35 45 £62,500 +35.13%
East of England -7 14 £40,000 +6.66%
South East -12 9 £62,500 -3.84%
North West +5 8 £37,500 +25.00%
Surrey +5 6 £62,500 -3.84%
Cambridgeshire 0 6 £40,000 +6.66%
Guildford -4 6 £62,500 -3.84%
Yorkshire +2 5 £32,500 -18.75%
South West -10 5 £30,000 -14.89%
Cambridge -13 5 £40,000 +6.66%
Wiltshire - 5 £30,000 -
Suffolk - 5 £40,000 -
Manchester -16 4 £37,500 -28.57%
North Yorkshire - 4 £32,500 -
Malmesbury - 4 £30,000 -
Cheshire - 4 £37,500 -
York - 4 £32,500 -
Stowmarket - 3 £40,000 -
Derbyshire - 3 £29,500 -
East Midlands - 3 £29,500 -
Hertfordshire +6 2 £50,000 -
Staffordshire 0 2 £32,500 -21.21%
West Midlands -19 2 £32,500 -21.21%
Edinburgh - 2 £40,000 -
Chester - 2 £42,500 -
Alfreton - 2 £29,500 -
Scotland - 2 £40,000 -
Hammersmith - 2 £49,250 -

Mercurial
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing Mercurial 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 Mercurial.

1 285 (67.06%) Git (software)
2 245 (57.65%) Subversion
3 203 (47.76%) Java
4 171 (40.24%) JavaScript
5 149 (35.06%) XML
6 143 (33.65%) OO
7 138 (32.47%) Agile Software Development
8 135 (31.76%) MVC
9 128 (30.12%) Linux
10 126 (29.65%) JSON
11 123 (28.94%) Python
12 122 (28.71%) HTML
13 121 (28.47%) JUnit
14 116 (27.29%) Maven
15 113 (26.59%) PHP
16 111 (26.12%) CSS
17 110 (25.88%) jQuery
18 109 (25.65%) Scrum
19 102 (24.00%) OOP
20 97 (22.82%) Continuous Integration
21 89 (20.94%) SQL
22 87 (20.47%) Ajax
23 81 (19.06%) Mobile App
24 77 (18.12%) Apache
25 76 (17.88%) MySQL
25 76 (17.88%) Degree
26 75 (17.65%) Web Services
27 73 (17.18%) XHTML
27 73 (17.18%) Jenkins
28 71 (16.71%) REST

Mercurial
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing Mercurial 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 Mercurial. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 149 (35.06%) XML
2 126 (29.65%) JSON
3 122 (28.71%) HTML
4 111 (26.12%) CSS
5 110 (25.88%) jQuery
6 87 (20.47%) Ajax
7 75 (17.65%) Web Services
8 73 (17.18%) XHTML
9 71 (16.71%) REST
10 60 (14.12%) .NET
11 59 (13.88%) Spring
12 56 (13.18%) Hibernate
13 52 (12.24%) HTML5
14 50 (11.76%) JSP
15 39 (9.176%) Velocity
16 38 (8.941%) SOAP
17 37 (8.706%) CSS3
18 35 (8.235%) Google Maps API
18 35 (8.235%) WML
19 28 (6.588%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 77 (18.12%) Apache
2 33 (7.765%) Tomcat
3 30 (7.059%) Amazon AWS
4 18 (4.235%) Confluence
5 17 (4.000%) nginx
6 12 (2.824%) Magento
6 12 (2.824%) Drupal
6 12 (2.824%) Amazon SQS
7 10 (2.353%) SAS
7 10 (2.353%) WebLogic
7 10 (2.353%) CMS
8 9 (2.118%) IIS
9 5 (1.176%) Gunicorn
9 5 (1.176%) WordPress
9 5 (1.176%) Sitecore CMS
9 5 (1.176%) SharePoint
10 4 (0.941%) ActiveMQ
10 4 (0.941%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (0.941%) Apache Solr
10 4 (0.941%) MediaWiki
Applications
1 21 (4.941%) Photoshop
2 8 (1.882%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (0.941%) InDesign
3 4 (0.941%) MS Office
3 4 (0.941%) Fireworks
3 4 (0.941%) Google Apps
4 3 (0.706%) MS Excel
5 1 (0.235%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.471%) SunGard Stream Clearvision
Communications & Networking
1 35 (8.235%) NFC
2 26 (6.118%) VoIP
3 22 (5.176%) RTP
4 15 (3.529%) LDAP
4 15 (3.529%) DNS
5 13 (3.059%) SMTP
6 12 (2.824%) Internet
7 9 (2.118%) HTTP
8 6 (1.412%) Asterisk PBX
9 5 (1.176%) GSM
10 4 (0.941%) Firewall
11 3 (0.706%) OpenVPN
11 3 (0.706%) Intranet
11 3 (0.706%) TCP/IP
11 3 (0.706%) SMS
12 2 (0.471%) IP Telephony
12 2 (0.471%) Wi-Fi
12 2 (0.471%) X.500
12 2 (0.471%) VPN
12 2 (0.471%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (17.88%) MySQL
2 35 (8.235%) SQLite
2 35 (8.235%) SQL Server
3 22 (5.176%) NoSQL
4 11 (2.588%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (2.118%) Big Data
6 8 (1.882%) Oracle 10g
7 7 (1.647%) Oracle 11g
8 5 (1.176%) SQL Server 2008
9 4 (0.941%) Text Mining
9 4 (0.941%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (0.941%) Data Mining
10 3 (0.706%) Redis
10 3 (0.706%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.706%) Oracle 8/8i
10 3 (0.706%) GIS
11 2 (0.471%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.471%) DB2
11 2 (0.471%) RDBMS
11 2 (0.471%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 285 (67.06%) Git (software)
2 245 (57.65%) Subversion
3 121 (28.47%) JUnit
4 116 (27.29%) Maven
5 73 (17.18%) Jenkins
6 56 (13.18%) Ant
6 56 (13.18%) Hudson
7 55 (12.94%) JIRA
8 53 (12.47%) GitHub
9 50 (11.76%) Eclipse
10 30 (7.059%) TeamCity
11 29 (6.824%) Xcode
11 29 (6.824%) Selenium
12 24 (5.647%) CruiseControl
13 20 (4.706%) Team Foundation Server
14 19 (4.471%) Trac
14 19 (4.471%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 17 (4.000%) ClearCase
16 14 (3.294%) MSBuild
16 14 (3.294%) Redmine
General
1 36 (8.471%) Finance
2 17 (4.000%) Banking
3 14 (3.294%) Games
4 13 (3.059%) Legal
5 12 (2.824%) Telecoms
6 10 (2.353%) Retail
6 10 (2.353%) Marketing
7 7 (1.647%) Publishing
8 6 (1.412%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.471%) Advertising
9 2 (0.471%) Front Office
10 1 (0.235%) Music
10 1 (0.235%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.235%) Back Office
10 1 (0.235%) Electronics
10 1 (0.235%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 301 (70.82%) Developer
2 82 (19.29%) Senior Developer
3 52 (12.24%) Java Developer
4 48 (11.29%) PHP Developer
5 29 (6.824%) iOS Developer
6 25 (5.882%) Android Developer
7 24 (5.647%) .NET Developer
8 21 (4.941%) Front-End Developer
9 19 (4.471%) Senior PHP Developer
9 19 (4.471%) Python Developer
10 18 (4.235%) Systems Administrator
10 18 (4.235%) Linux Administrator
11 16 (3.765%) Linux Systems Administrator
11 16 (3.765%) Software Engineer
12 13 (3.059%) Senior Java Developer
13 11 (2.588%) Web Developer
13 11 (2.588%) Administrator
13 11 (2.588%) C# Developer
13 11 (2.588%) Systems Developer
14 10 (2.353%) Senior .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 81 (19.06%) Mobile App
2 59 (13.88%) Computer Science
3 51 (12.00%) Open Source
4 35 (8.235%) Java Card
5 34 (8.000%) iPhone
6 29 (6.824%) iPad
7 22 (5.176%) Blackberry
8 16 (3.765%) Client/Server
9 15 (3.529%) Mobile Banking
10 13 (3.059%) Statistics
11 11 (2.588%) New Media
11 11 (2.588%) Cryptography
12 10 (2.353%) Mathematics
13 8 (1.882%) Data Integration
14 7 (1.647%) Enterprise Software
14 7 (1.647%) Management Information System
15 6 (1.412%) Visualisation
15 6 (1.412%) Graphic Design
16 5 (1.176%) Animation
16 5 (1.176%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 128 (30.12%) Linux
2 62 (14.59%) Android
3 61 (14.35%) Windows
4 55 (12.94%) Apple iOS
5 30 (7.059%) UNIX
6 26 (6.118%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 22 (5.176%) CentOS
8 15 (3.529%) Mac OS
9 12 (2.824%) Solaris
9 12 (2.824%) Windows Phone
10 10 (2.353%) Mac OS X
11 8 (1.882%) Fedora
11 8 (1.882%) Ubuntu
12 5 (1.176%) VMS
13 4 (0.941%) Windows 7
13 4 (0.941%) Windows Server 2008
14 3 (0.706%) Windows Mobile
14 3 (0.706%) Debian
15 2 (0.471%) Windows Phone 8
15 2 (0.471%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (33.65%) OO
2 138 (32.47%) Agile Software Development
3 135 (31.76%) MVC
4 109 (25.65%) Scrum
5 102 (24.00%) OOP
6 97 (22.82%) Continuous Integration
7 56 (13.18%) Multithreading
8 55 (12.94%) Test Scripting
9 47 (11.06%) Configuration Management
9 47 (11.06%) TDD
10 36 (8.471%) Unit Testing
11 35 (8.235%) E-Commerce
12 27 (6.353%) OOD
12 27 (6.353%) Data Management
13 26 (6.118%) Automated Testing
14 24 (5.647%) Data Modelling
15 23 (5.412%) Web Development
16 21 (4.941%) Test Automation
17 15 (3.529%) Automation Testing
18 14 (3.294%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 203 (47.76%) Java
2 171 (40.24%) JavaScript
3 123 (28.94%) Python
4 113 (26.59%) PHP
5 89 (20.94%) SQL
6 55 (12.94%) C++
7 48 (11.29%) Objective-C
8 47 (11.06%) PHP5
9 46 (10.82%) Shell Script
10 43 (10.12%) Perl
11 42 (9.882%) C#
12 38 (8.941%) Bash shell
13 36 (8.471%) C
13 36 (8.471%) Ruby
14 22 (5.176%) Groovy
15 16 (3.765%) ActionScript
15 16 (3.765%) T-SQL
15 16 (3.765%) Korn
16 13 (3.059%) PowerShell
17 9 (2.118%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 76 (17.88%) Degree
2 14 (3.294%) Security Cleared
3 11 (2.588%) SC Cleared
4 3 (0.706%) Postgraduate
5 2 (0.471%) ISEB
6 1 (0.235%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (6.353%) QA
2 13 (3.059%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (0.941%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.235%) ISO/IEC 14443
4 1 (0.235%) ISO/IEC 7816
System Software
1 22 (5.176%) VMware Infrastructure
2 21 (4.941%) VirtualBox
3 18 (4.235%) NFS
4 6 (1.412%) Kamailio
4 6 (1.412%) OpenSIPS
5 3 (0.706%) Postfix
5 3 (0.706%) Varnish
6 2 (0.471%) Active Directory
6 2 (0.471%) Squid
7 1 (0.235%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 32 (7.529%) Puppet
2 6 (1.412%) Nagios
3 5 (1.176%) ZABBIX
4 2 (0.471%) Tivoli
5 1 (0.235%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 57 (13.41%) Google
2 27 (6.353%) Oracle
3 26 (6.118%) Zend
4 24 (5.647%) VMware
5 19 (4.471%) Red Hat
6 18 (4.235%) Apple
7 15 (3.529%) JBoss
8 14 (3.294%) Microsoft
8 14 (3.294%) AccuRev
9 13 (3.059%) Adobe
10 12 (2.824%) Perforce
11 10 (2.353%) Salesforce.com
12 9 (2.118%) Facebook
12 9 (2.118%) IBM
13 5 (1.176%) Rackspace
13 5 (1.176%) Twitter
13 5 (1.176%) Sitecore
13 5 (1.176%) Remedy
14 4 (0.941%) Cisco
14 4 (0.941%) Norkom
London
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Epsilium Recruitment
Salary: From £50,000 to £75,000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Helath+ 23-28 Da
Posted: 18 May 2013
London
Working for a dynamic Global ecommerce payments provider... Good understanding of the full software development lifecycle Extensive experience of Java programming language Android application development Experience of developing...
Epsilium Recruitment
Salary: From £50,000 to £75,000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Helath+ 23-28 Da
Posted: 20 May 2013
London
Working for a dynamic Global ecommerce payments provider... Good understanding of the full software development lifecycle Extensive experience of Java programming language Android application development Experience of developing...
Epsilium Recruitment
Salary: From £50,000 to £75,000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Helath+ 23-28 Da
Posted: 20 May 2013
City of London
Python Developer - Python, Django, Twisted, svn / git / mercurialMy client who are a leading innovator in the VoIP field are looking for an experienced Python / Django Developer who has...
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Salary: £40000 - £55000 per annum + package
Posted: 6 May 2013
London
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Salary: £45000 - £60000 per annum
Posted: 23 May 2013
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Burns Sheehan
Salary: £50000 - £75000 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013
London
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Progressive Recruitment
Salary: £40000 - £55000 per annum + Bens
Posted: 15 May 2013
Suffolk Stowmarket Bury St Edmunds, East Anglia
Key Words: HTML, CSS, javascript, Adobe Photoshop or similar, prototyping HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, modernizr, KnockoutJS, AngularJS, responsive design, mobile platforms Web Designer cross browser Agile techniques such as...
Questor Resourcing
Salary: To £40k + Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
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Claremont Consulting
Salary: £55000 - £65000 per annum + Bonus, benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
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Salary: £20000.00 - £40000.00 per annum + excellent benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
London
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Salary: £45000.00 - £65000.00 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
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Burns Sheehan
Salary: £75000 - £85000 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013
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Computer Futures
Salary: £40000 - £47000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
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Exposure to front end technologies (HTML5, CSS3, Javascript) -Experience integrating XML or JSON-based web services... -CMS (preferably Drupal 7) and/or e-Commerce development. -PHP frameworks such...
MBN Recruitment Solutions
Salary: Unspecified Negotiable (dependent on experience)
Posted: 23 May 2013
City, London
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Aston Carter
Salary: £45000 - £60000 per annum + benefits, bonus, perks
Posted: 21 May 2013
London
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Opilio Recruitment
Salary: £28000 - 45000 Per Annum dependent on Experience and Seniority
Posted: 20 May 2013
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Posted: 29 April 2013
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Truphone
Salary: From £45,000 to £70,000 per annum
Posted: 9 May 2013
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Futureheads Recruitment Ltd
Salary: From £50,000 to £55,000 per annum DOE
Posted: 20 May 2013