The first table below looks at the demand for Motif skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Motif over the 3 months to 20 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 Application Development category.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Motif
Rank 849 895 849
Rank change year-on-year
+46 -46
Permanent jobs citing Motif 10 17 15
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.009% 0.014% 0.012%
As % of the Application Development category 0.023% 0.034% 0.031%
Number of salaries quoted 6 8 2
Average salary £40,000 £90,000 £75,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-55.55% +20.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £90,000 £67,000
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £90,000 £83,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 - -
All Application Development
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
43529 50523 48732
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 40.54% 41.72% 40.04%
Number of salaries quoted 37840 44944 43044
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £28,000 £28,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%

Motif
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Motif Jobs Demand Trend

Motif
Salary Trend

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

Motif Salary Trend

Motif
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Motif over the 3 months to 20 May 2013 within the UK.

Motif Salary Histogram

Motif
Top 4 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Motif within the UK over the 3 months to 20 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 +14 5 £45,000 -50.00%
South East - 4 £40,000 -
Hampshire - 4 £40,000 -
London +28 1 £70,000 -22.22%

Motif
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing Motif 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 Motif.

1 17 (70.83%) UML
2 15 (62.50%) ClearCase
3 13 (54.17%) OOD
3 13 (54.17%) Linux
3 13 (54.17%) UNIX
3 13 (54.17%) C++
3 13 (54.17%) C
3 13 (54.17%) NUnit
3 13 (54.17%) wxWidgets
3 13 (54.17%) CppUnit
3 13 (54.17%) GoogleTest
4 12 (50.00%) Microsoft
5 11 (45.83%) Configuration Management
5 11 (45.83%) Finance
5 11 (45.83%) Perforce
5 11 (45.83%) Oracle
5 11 (45.83%) Java
5 11 (45.83%) SQL
5 11 (45.83%) XML
5 11 (45.83%) Security Cleared
5 11 (45.83%) User Acceptance Testing
5 11 (45.83%) QA
5 11 (45.83%) Banking
5 11 (45.83%) Investment Banking
5 11 (45.83%) Degree
5 11 (45.83%) TDD
5 11 (45.83%) Oracle BPM
6 10 (41.67%) CruiseControl
6 10 (41.67%) Continuous Integration
6 10 (41.67%) OO

Motif
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 13 (54.17%) wxWidgets
2 11 (45.83%) XML
3 6 (25.00%) WCF
3 6 (25.00%) WPF
3 6 (25.00%) .NET
3 6 (25.00%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 6 (25.00%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 1 (4.167%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (45.83%) Oracle BPM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (41.67%) Ingres
1 10 (41.67%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (25.00%) Oracle 11g
2 6 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 6 (25.00%) Oracle Exadata
2 6 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (25.00%) Oracle 8/8i
3 5 (20.83%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 15 (62.50%) ClearCase
2 13 (54.17%) NUnit
2 13 (54.17%) CppUnit
2 13 (54.17%) GoogleTest
3 10 (41.67%) CruiseControl
4 9 (37.50%) ClearQuest
5 8 (33.33%) Ant
6 4 (16.67%) Subversion
6 4 (16.67%) PyUnit
7 1 (4.167%) Hudson
7 1 (4.167%) GDB
7 1 (4.167%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (45.83%) Finance
1 11 (45.83%) Banking
1 11 (45.83%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 19 (79.17%) Developer
2 6 (25.00%) Software Developer
2 6 (25.00%) C# Developer
2 6 (25.00%) WPF Developer
3 5 (20.83%) Java Developer
4 3 (12.50%) C++ Developer
4 3 (12.50%) Software Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) C++ Software Engineer
5 1 (4.167%) C++ Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (25.00%) Management Information System
1 6 (25.00%) Derivative
2 5 (20.83%) Mathematics
2 5 (20.83%) Economics
Operating Systems
1 13 (54.17%) UNIX
1 13 (54.17%) Linux
2 6 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (70.83%) UML
2 13 (54.17%) OOD
3 11 (45.83%) TDD
3 11 (45.83%) Configuration Management
3 11 (45.83%) User Acceptance Testing
4 10 (41.67%) Continuous Integration
4 10 (41.67%) OO
5 9 (37.50%) Multithreading
6 7 (29.17%) Project Management
6 7 (29.17%) Software Engineering
7 6 (25.00%) Requirements Analysis
7 6 (25.00%) Use Case
7 6 (25.00%) Release Management
7 6 (25.00%) Test Automation
7 6 (25.00%) Memory Management
7 6 (25.00%) Integration Testing
8 5 (20.83%) Problem Management
9 3 (12.50%) Agile Software Development
10 2 (8.333%) Analytics
10 2 (8.333%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 13 (54.17%) C++
1 13 (54.17%) C
2 11 (45.83%) Java
2 11 (45.83%) SQL
3 9 (37.50%) Python
4 6 (25.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 11 (45.83%) Degree
1 11 (45.83%) Security Cleared
2 7 (29.17%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (45.83%) QA
Vendors
1 12 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 11 (45.83%) Perforce
2 11 (45.83%) Oracle
3 6 (25.00%) Red Hat
4 2 (8.333%) Coverity