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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Khronos Group OpenCL
Rank 859 879 861
Rank change year-on-year
+20 -18
Permanent jobs citing OpenCL 3 20 20
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.003% 0.017% 0.016%
As % of the Application Development category 0.007% 0.040% 0.040%
Number of salaries quoted 3 13 20
Average salary £50,000 £44,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+13.63% +10.00%
UK excluding London average salary £50,000 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+25.00% -
All Application Development
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
43855 50279 49692
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 40.58% 41.66% 39.94%
Number of salaries quoted 38118 44664 43948
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%

OpenCL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

OpenCL Jobs Demand Trend

OpenCL
Salary Trend

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

OpenCL Salary Trend

OpenCL
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OpenCL 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 +8 3 £50,000 +13.63%
East of England 0 3 £50,000 +25.00%
Essex - 2 £50,000 -
Cambridgeshire +7 1 £60,000 +50.00%
Cambridge -3 1 £60,000 +20.00%

OpenCL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 4 (100.00%) OpenGL
2 3 (75.00%) DirectX
2 3 (75.00%) C++
2 3 (75.00%) Visual Studio
2 3 (75.00%) Windows
3 2 (50.00%) Electronics
3 2 (50.00%) Subversion
3 2 (50.00%) Degree
3 2 (50.00%) Multithreading
3 2 (50.00%) Image Processing
3 2 (50.00%) Windows 7
3 2 (50.00%) GPGPU
3 2 (50.00%) CUDA
3 2 (50.00%) C#
3 2 (50.00%) MS Excel
3 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (50.00%) MS Office
4 1 (25.00%) Windows CE
4 1 (25.00%) Symbian
4 1 (25.00%) Benchmarking
4 1 (25.00%) C
4 1 (25.00%) Photoshop
4 1 (25.00%) Linux
4 1 (25.00%) VC++
4 1 (25.00%) Apple iOS
4 1 (25.00%) GLSL
4 1 (25.00%) Direct3D
4 1 (25.00%) Software Architecture
4 1 (25.00%) Android
4 1 (25.00%) Business Development

OpenCL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 4 (100.00%) OpenGL
2 3 (75.00%) DirectX
3 1 (25.00%) Direct3D
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) MS Excel
1 2 (50.00%) MS Office
2 1 (25.00%) Photoshop
2 1 (25.00%) 3ds Max
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Visual Studio
2 2 (50.00%) Subversion
General
1 2 (50.00%) Electronics
2 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (25.00%) Games
2 1 (25.00%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) GPGPU
1 2 (50.00%) CUDA
2 1 (25.00%) 3D Graphics
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Windows 7
3 1 (25.00%) Windows CE
3 1 (25.00%) Linux
3 1 (25.00%) Apple iOS
3 1 (25.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Multithreading
1 2 (50.00%) Image Processing
2 1 (25.00%) Benchmarking
2 1 (25.00%) Software Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Business Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) C++
2 2 (50.00%) C#
3 1 (25.00%) C
3 1 (25.00%) VC++
3 1 (25.00%) GLSL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Symbian
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