The first table below looks at the demand for OpenGL skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited OpenGL 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
OpenGL
Rank 701 667 638
Rank change year-on-year
-34 -29
Permanent jobs citing OpenGL 161 236 246
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.149% 0.196% 0.198%
As % of the Application Development category 0.367% 0.469% 0.495%
Number of salaries quoted 133 189 217
Average salary £47,500 £40,000 £38,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+18.75% +3.89%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,000 £27,500 £26,600
10% offered a salary of more than £59,250 £52,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -6.25%
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%

OpenGL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

OpenGL Jobs Demand Trend

OpenGL
Salary Trend

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

OpenGL Salary Trend

OpenGL
Salary Histogram

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

OpenGL Salary Histogram

OpenGL
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OpenGL 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 -40 156 £50,000 +25.00%
London +48 81 £50,000 +11.11%
South East -9 30 £46,250 +2.77%
City of London +18 24 £50,000 +5.26%
East of England -28 21 £50,000 +28.20%
Surrey +12 10 £50,000 -
South West -4 10 £32,500 +6.55%
Bristol 0 9 £32,500 +30.00%
Hampshire -5 9 £36,250 -23.68%
Cambridgeshire -8 9 £55,000 +22.22%
Essex +9 8 £50,000 +33.33%
Cambridge -20 8 £50,000 +11.11%
West Midlands -23 8 £33,750 +8.00%
Middlesex +2 7 £50,000 +25.00%
North West +2 6 £27,500 -31.25%
Manchester -20 6 £27,500 -26.66%
Feltham - 6 £50,000 -
Scotland -7 5 £35,000 +1.44%
Hertfordshire +7 4 £35,000 +27.27%
Worcestershire +3 4 - -
East Midlands -1 4 £37,500 +17.18%
Malvern - 4 - -
Farnborough - 4 - -
Oxfordshire -19 3 £42,500 +6.25%
Birmingham -20 3 £30,000 -20.00%
Oxford -23 3 £42,500 +21.42%
Northamptonshire - 3 £37,500 -
Towcester - 3 £37,500 -
Glasgow - 3 £35,000 -
Southampton - 3 £40,000 -

OpenGL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 267 (78.07%) C++
2 131 (38.30%) Games
3 125 (36.55%) OO
4 118 (34.50%) Apple iOS
5 110 (32.16%) Degree
6 106 (30.99%) C
7 101 (29.53%) C#
8 96 (28.07%) Objective-C
9 90 (26.32%) JSON
10 89 (26.02%) DirectX
11 87 (25.44%) Agile Software Development
12 84 (24.56%) Android
13 77 (22.51%) Computer Science
13 77 (22.51%) Java
13 77 (22.51%) Qt
14 74 (21.64%) Linux
15 73 (21.35%) HTTP
16 65 (19.01%) iPad
17 64 (18.71%) Windows
17 64 (18.71%) 3D Graphics
18 61 (17.84%) Mathematics
19 59 (17.25%) Multithreading
20 54 (15.79%) iPhone
21 52 (15.20%) Mobile App
22 51 (14.91%) Unit Testing
23 50 (14.62%) OpenGL ES
24 46 (13.45%) Scrum
25 43 (12.57%) XML
25 43 (12.57%) .NET
26 40 (11.70%) TDD

OpenGL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 90 (26.32%) JSON
2 89 (26.02%) DirectX
3 77 (22.51%) Qt
4 50 (14.62%) OpenGL ES
5 43 (12.57%) XML
5 43 (12.57%) .NET
6 38 (11.11%) Web Services
7 33 (9.649%) HTML5
8 32 (9.357%) Direct3D
8 32 (9.357%) Ajax
9 31 (9.064%) REST
10 28 (8.187%) STL
11 25 (7.310%) Middleware
12 24 (7.018%) Cocoa
12 24 (7.018%) Google Maps API
13 23 (6.725%) CSS
14 21 (6.140%) MFC
14 21 (6.140%) WPF
15 20 (5.848%) XSD
15 20 (5.848%) Cocoa Touch
Application Platforms
1 2 (0.585%) Mathematica
Applications
1 9 (2.632%) Maya
2 8 (2.339%) MS Excel
2 8 (2.339%) 3ds Max
3 7 (2.047%) Photoshop
4 3 (0.877%) Adobe Illustrator
4 3 (0.877%) MS Office
5 1 (0.292%) Blender
5 1 (0.292%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 1 (0.292%) Taleo
Communications & Networking
1 73 (21.35%) HTTP
2 27 (7.895%) Broadband
3 17 (4.971%) DVB
4 14 (4.094%) Internet
5 11 (3.216%) TCP/IP
6 9 (2.632%) Ethernet
6 9 (2.632%) VoIP
7 6 (1.754%) IGMP
8 5 (1.462%) NFC
8 5 (1.462%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (1.462%) Bluetooth
8 5 (1.462%) WLAN
8 5 (1.462%) GPRS
8 5 (1.462%) GSM
8 5 (1.462%) UMTS
9 2 (0.585%) RTSP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (3.509%) SQLite
2 11 (3.216%) GIS
3 9 (2.632%) CouchDB
3 9 (2.632%) MySQL
4 5 (1.462%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.170%) Data Mining
5 4 (1.170%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.292%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 36 (10.53%) Visual Studio
2 35 (10.23%) Git (software)
3 29 (8.480%) Subversion
4 18 (5.263%) Team Foundation Server
5 17 (4.971%) Xcode
6 9 (2.632%) Trac
6 9 (2.632%) JIRA
7 8 (2.339%) Eclipse
7 8 (2.339%) VSS/SourceSafe
7 8 (2.339%) StarTeam
8 4 (1.170%) Rational DOORS
9 3 (0.877%) JsTestDriver
9 3 (0.877%) Maven
9 3 (0.877%) Selenium
9 3 (0.877%) EasyMock
9 3 (0.877%) JUnit
General
1 131 (38.30%) Games
2 30 (8.772%) Electronics
3 21 (6.140%) Finance
4 12 (3.509%) Marketing
5 9 (2.632%) Multimedia
6 8 (2.339%) Aerospace
7 7 (2.047%) Retail
7 7 (2.047%) Music
7 7 (2.047%) Music Industry
8 5 (1.462%) Automotive
9 4 (1.170%) Military
10 2 (0.585%) Legal
10 2 (0.585%) French Language
10 2 (0.585%) Italian Language
11 1 (0.292%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 186 (54.39%) Developer
2 95 (27.78%) Software Engineer
3 69 (20.18%) iOS Developer
4 30 (8.772%) C++ Developer
4 30 (8.772%) C++ Software Engineer
5 29 (8.480%) Senior Developer
6 27 (7.895%) Software Developer
6 27 (7.895%) Mobile Developer
7 26 (7.602%) Senior Software Engineer
8 25 (7.310%) Programmer
9 19 (5.556%) Android Developer
10 15 (4.386%) Senior iOS Developer
10 15 (4.386%) C++ Programmer
11 13 (3.801%) Mobile Applications Developer
11 13 (3.801%) Games Developer
12 10 (2.924%) iPhone Developer
13 9 (2.632%) C++ Games Developer
14 8 (2.339%) Junior
14 8 (2.339%) Lead Developer
14 8 (2.339%) Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 77 (22.51%) Computer Science
2 65 (19.01%) iPad
3 64 (18.71%) 3D Graphics
4 61 (17.84%) Mathematics
5 54 (15.79%) iPhone
6 52 (15.20%) Mobile App
7 32 (9.357%) Streaming Video
7 32 (9.357%) Device Driver
8 30 (8.772%) Animation
9 29 (8.480%) Visualisation
10 28 (8.187%) Social Gaming
10 28 (8.187%) Embedded Systems
11 25 (7.310%) Digital Media
12 21 (6.140%) Physics
13 19 (5.556%) Social Media
13 19 (5.556%) DTV
13 19 (5.556%) STB
14 15 (4.386%) Augmented Reality
15 11 (3.216%) Online Games
15 11 (3.216%) Mobile Games
Operating Systems
1 118 (34.50%) Apple iOS
2 84 (24.56%) Android
3 74 (21.64%) Linux
4 64 (18.71%) Windows
5 35 (10.23%) Embedded Linux
6 15 (4.386%) UNIX
7 11 (3.216%) Windows 7
8 9 (2.632%) Windows Phone
9 8 (2.339%) bada
10 7 (2.047%) Mac OS X
11 6 (1.754%) Windows Mobile
11 6 (1.754%) Windows 8
12 5 (1.462%) Windows Phone 8
12 5 (1.462%) Windows Phone 7
12 5 (1.462%) Nucleus RTOS
13 1 (0.292%) Windows CE
13 1 (0.292%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (36.55%) OO
2 87 (25.44%) Agile Software Development
3 59 (17.25%) Multithreading
4 51 (14.91%) Unit Testing
5 46 (13.45%) Scrum
6 40 (11.70%) TDD
7 39 (11.40%) Software Engineering
8 37 (10.82%) OOD
9 33 (9.649%) Memory Management
9 33 (9.649%) Game Development
10 27 (7.895%) MVC
11 20 (5.848%) Software Architecture
12 19 (5.556%) Image Processing
12 19 (5.556%) Continuous Integration
13 17 (4.971%) CAD
14 14 (4.094%) Web Development
14 14 (4.094%) OOP
14 14 (4.094%) Business Intelligence
15 13 (3.801%) E-Commerce
16 12 (3.509%) OOA/OOD
Programming Languages
1 267 (78.07%) C++
2 106 (30.99%) C
3 101 (29.53%) C#
4 96 (28.07%) Objective-C
5 77 (22.51%) Java
6 33 (9.649%) JavaScript
7 16 (4.678%) Python
8 15 (4.386%) Embedded C++
9 14 (4.094%) GLSL
10 13 (3.801%) Embedded C
11 9 (2.632%) HLSL
11 9 (2.632%) SQL
11 9 (2.632%) VB.NET
12 7 (2.047%) PHP
12 7 (2.047%) VC++
13 5 (1.462%) Ruby
14 4 (1.170%) Fortran
14 4 (1.170%) ActionScript
14 4 (1.170%) ActionScript 3.0
15 2 (0.585%) Lua
Qualifications
1 110 (32.16%) Degree
2 12 (3.509%) Security Cleared
3 10 (2.924%) SC Cleared
4 8 (2.339%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.216%) QA
2 4 (1.170%) ISO 9001
2 4 (1.170%) TickIT
3 2 (0.585%) JTAG
Vendors
1 29 (8.480%) Google
2 28 (8.187%) Apple
3 27 (7.895%) Facebook
4 13 (3.801%) Symbian
5 12 (3.509%) Twitter
6 9 (2.632%) Sony
7 8 (2.339%) Ericsson
8 7 (2.047%) Microsoft
9 3 (0.877%) Oracle
10 2 (0.585%) QNX
10 2 (0.585%) SGI
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