The first table below looks at the demand for OSGi skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited OSGi 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
OSGi
Rank 815 849 778
Rank change year-on-year
+34 -71
Permanent jobs citing OSGi 44 63 86
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.041% 0.052% 0.071%
As % of the Application Development category 0.101% 0.125% 0.176%
Number of salaries quoted 41 55 80
Average salary £40,000 £43,750 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-8.57% +25.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £34,000 £25,000 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £92,500 £62,500 £63,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £40,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +14.28%
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%

OSGi
Jobs Demand Trend

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

OSGi Jobs Demand Trend

OSGi
Salary Trend

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

OSGi Salary Trend

OSGi
Salary Histogram

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

OSGi Salary Histogram

OSGi
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OSGi 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 +7 44 £40,000 -8.57%
Yorkshire +18 21 £35,000 +11.11%
West Yorkshire +16 21 £35,000 +11.11%
Leeds +4 21 £35,000 +11.11%
London +32 15 £75,000 +42.85%
Berkshire +5 5 £38,500 -
South East -12 5 £38,500 -3.75%
Reading - 5 £38,500 -
Docklands, London - 5 £92,500 -
West Midlands - 2 £50,000 -
East Midlands - 1 - -
Nottinghamshire - 1 - -
Nottingham - 1 - -
Birmingham - 1 £50,000 -

OSGi
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 75 (98.68%) Java
2 55 (72.37%) Eclipse
3 51 (67.11%) Hibernate
4 44 (57.89%) JUnit
5 36 (47.37%) Eclipse RCP
6 35 (46.05%) Swing
7 34 (44.74%) Subversion
8 31 (40.79%) Open Source
9 29 (38.16%) GWT
10 28 (36.84%) Spring
11 25 (32.89%) JFace
12 21 (27.63%) OO
13 20 (26.32%) Web Development
13 20 (26.32%) QA
14 19 (25.00%) JavaFX
14 19 (25.00%) Qt
14 19 (25.00%) JProfiler
15 17 (22.37%) Vaadin
15 17 (22.37%) Oracle
15 17 (22.37%) QuickTest Pro
16 16 (21.05%) J2EE
17 15 (19.74%) Maven
18 14 (18.42%) Continuous Integration
19 13 (17.11%) EJB
19 13 (17.11%) Linux
19 13 (17.11%) SOA
19 13 (17.11%) Apache
20 12 (15.79%) XML
21 11 (14.47%) Jenkins
21 11 (14.47%) REST

OSGi
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 51 (67.11%) Hibernate
2 35 (46.05%) Swing
3 29 (38.16%) GWT
4 28 (36.84%) Spring
5 25 (32.89%) JFace
6 19 (25.00%) JavaFX
6 19 (25.00%) Qt
7 17 (22.37%) Vaadin
8 16 (21.05%) J2EE
9 13 (17.11%) EJB
10 12 (15.79%) XML
11 11 (14.47%) Web Services
11 11 (14.47%) SOAP
11 11 (14.47%) Ajax
11 11 (14.47%) REST
12 10 (13.16%) JMS
13 9 (11.84%) Struts
13 9 (11.84%) JPA
14 7 (9.211%) CSS
14 7 (9.211%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 13 (17.11%) Apache
2 9 (11.84%) Tomcat
3 5 (6.579%) Oracle Coherence
4 4 (5.263%) Adobe CQ
5 3 (3.947%) Jetty
6 2 (2.632%) Apache Solr
6 2 (2.632%) CMS
7 1 (1.316%) ActiveMQ
7 1 (1.316%) ESB
7 1 (1.316%) Confluence
7 1 (1.316%) Mule
Business Applications
1 6 (7.895%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (2.632%) Tridion
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.632%) ADSL
1 2 (2.632%) PPP
1 2 (2.632%) xDSL
2 1 (1.316%) LDAP
2 1 (1.316%) DSL
2 1 (1.316%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.895%) Oracle 11g
1 6 (7.895%) NoSQL
2 5 (6.579%) TOAD
3 4 (5.263%) MySQL
3 4 (5.263%) Big Data
4 3 (3.947%) SQL Server
4 3 (3.947%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.632%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (2.632%) Jackrabbit
6 1 (1.316%) Oracle 8/8i
6 1 (1.316%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 55 (72.37%) Eclipse
2 44 (57.89%) JUnit
3 36 (47.37%) Eclipse RCP
4 34 (44.74%) Subversion
5 19 (25.00%) JProfiler
6 17 (22.37%) QuickTest Pro
7 15 (19.74%) Maven
8 11 (14.47%) Jenkins
9 9 (11.84%) Ant
10 5 (6.579%) Log4j
10 5 (6.579%) Git (software)
10 5 (6.579%) Cucumber
10 5 (6.579%) JBehave
11 3 (3.947%) ANTLR
11 3 (3.947%) IntelliJ
12 2 (2.632%) Hudson
12 2 (2.632%) FindBugs
13 1 (1.316%) NetBeans IDE
13 1 (1.316%) JIRA
13 1 (1.316%) NetBeans
General
1 11 (14.47%) Finance
2 8 (10.53%) Banking
3 5 (6.579%) Investment Banking
4 2 (2.632%) Marketing
4 2 (2.632%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.316%) Advertising
5 1 (1.316%) Publishing
5 1 (1.316%) Dutch Language
Job Titles
1 64 (84.21%) Developer
2 61 (80.26%) Java Developer
3 12 (15.79%) Java Swing Developer
4 11 (14.47%) Architect
5 9 (11.84%) Senior Developer
6 8 (10.53%) Software Developer
6 8 (10.53%) Senior Java Developer
6 8 (10.53%) Java Software Developer
7 7 (9.211%) Java Architect
8 5 (6.579%) Lead Developer
8 5 (6.579%) Technical Team Leader
8 5 (6.579%) Java Team Leader
8 5 (6.579%) Software Architect
8 5 (6.579%) Programmer
8 5 (6.579%) Team Leader
8 5 (6.579%) Java Programmer
8 5 (6.579%) Java Software Architect
8 5 (6.579%) Software Team Leader
9 4 (5.263%) Java/J2EE Developer
10 3 (3.947%) Senior Architect
Miscellaneous
1 31 (40.79%) Open Source
2 5 (6.579%) Computer Science
2 5 (6.579%) Clustering
3 4 (5.263%) Client/Server
3 4 (5.263%) Chemistry
4 3 (3.947%) Mathematics
5 2 (2.632%) Applied Mathematics
5 2 (2.632%) STB
6 1 (1.316%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1 (1.316%) Web 2.0
6 1 (1.316%) NHS
6 1 (1.316%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.316%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.316%) Inversion of Control
6 1 (1.316%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 13 (17.11%) Linux
2 10 (13.16%) UNIX
3 4 (5.263%) Windows
4 1 (1.316%) AIX
4 1 (1.316%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (27.63%) OO
2 20 (26.32%) Web Development
3 14 (18.42%) Continuous Integration
4 13 (17.11%) SOA
5 9 (11.84%) UML
6 8 (10.53%) Agile Software Development
6 8 (10.53%) TDD
7 6 (7.895%) OOD
8 5 (6.579%) BPEL
8 5 (6.579%) Unit Testing
8 5 (6.579%) BDD
8 5 (6.579%) Parallel Processing
8 5 (6.579%) E-Commerce
9 4 (5.263%) Scrum
9 4 (5.263%) Multithreading
9 4 (5.263%) Analytics
10 3 (3.947%) Content Management
10 3 (3.947%) RDF
11 2 (2.632%) DRM
11 2 (2.632%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 75 (98.68%) Java
2 6 (7.895%) SQL
3 5 (6.579%) JavaScript
4 4 (5.263%) C
4 4 (5.263%) C++
5 3 (3.947%) Shell Script
6 2 (2.632%) Groovy
6 2 (2.632%) SPARQL
7 1 (1.316%) Scala
7 1 (1.316%) Bash shell
7 1 (1.316%) Clojure
7 1 (1.316%) xBase
7 1 (1.316%) Korn
7 1 (1.316%) Perl
Qualifications
1 7 (9.211%) Degree
2 2 (2.632%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (26.32%) QA
System Software
1 5 (6.579%) Oracle RAC
2 3 (3.947%) Varnish
Vendors
1 17 (22.37%) Oracle
2 10 (13.16%) JBoss
3 4 (5.263%) Adobe
4 3 (3.947%) HP
4 3 (3.947%) Rackspace
5 2 (2.632%) Google
5 2 (2.632%) Alterian
6 1 (1.316%) Omniture
6 1 (1.316%) Sun
6 1 (1.316%) Microsoft
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