Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the prevalence of the term Pensions in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Pensions over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all terms in our General category.

LinkPension
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank483133
Rank change year-on-year
Down-17Up+2
Matching permanent IT job ads333440829367
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK3.880 %4.813 %4.590 %
As % of the General category7.519 %9.841 %9.044 %
Salaries quoted288635868269
Average salary£40,000£37,500£36,135
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.660 %+3.770 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£25,000£25,000£24,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£65,000£60,000£60,000
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£35,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.140 %-
IT Job Market, General CategoryAll General Category
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
4434241481103576
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK51.61 %48.91 %50.75 %
Salaries quoted360643365383727
Average salary£49,725£44,000£45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+13.01 %-2.220 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£28,000£27,000£27,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£80,000£73,000£70,500
UK excluding London average salary£40,000£38,000£37,500
% change year-on-year
+5.260 %+1.330 %

Pensions
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Pensions within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

Pensions Demand Trend

Pensions
Salary Trend

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

Pensions Salary Trend

Pensions
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Pensions over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 within the UK.

Pensions Salary Histogram

Pensions
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Pensions within the UK over the 3 months to 19 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandDown-193187£40,000+6.66 %
LondonNo change01245£50,000+7.52 %
South EastDown-15737£40,000+6.66 %
City of LondonUp+12370£50,000-1.47 %
South WestDown-13292£33,000-10.81 %
East of EnglandUp+8266£40,000+8.84 %
SurreyDown-5244£42,500+10.38 %
West MidlandsUp+8214£35,000+2.94 %
North WestDown-23209£35,000-
BerkshireDown-7122£40,875+16.78 %
YorkshireDown-18122£32,500-0.87 %
East MidlandsDown-3116£33,000+3.12 %
HertfordshireUp+20112£42,750+6.87 %
ManchesterDown-14109£36,250+2.11 %
HampshireDown-2799£37,500+2.04 %
BuckinghamshireUp+1089£35,000+14.75 %
WiltshireUp+183£31,750-25.29 %
CambridgeshireDown-2183£35,000-12.50 %
West YorkshireUp+182£35,000-
ScotlandDown-477£39,000+20.00 %
LeedsUp+1069£45,000+20.00 %
BristolDown-1166£35,000+4.47 %
BirminghamUp+1262£40,250+20.14 %
CambridgeDown-2556£40,000-
OxfordshireUp+1451£33,000-17.50 %
GloucestershireDown-2148£30,000-33.33 %
CheshireDown-3048£34,000+4.61 %
MiddlesexUp+2946£45,000+5.88 %
West SussexDown-1346£44,500+11.25 %
SomersetDown-1740£31,500-14.86 %

Pensions
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs within the UK citing Pensions 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 Pensions.

12609 (40.83 %)Health
21826 (28.58 %)Finance
31437 (22.49 %).NET
41188 (18.59 %)C#
51177 (18.42 %)SQL Server
61087 (17.01 %)SQL
71027 (16.07 %)Insurance
8970 (15.18 %)Java
9943 (14.76 %)Degree
10715 (11.19 %)Windows
11713 (11.16 %)ASP.NET
12692 (10.83 %)Microsoft
13619 (9.687 %)Oracle
14613 (9.593 %)C++
15572 (8.951 %)XML
16561 (8.779 %)Project Management
17549 (8.592 %)HTML
18540 (8.451 %)C
19506 (7.919 %)JavaScript
20498 (7.793 %)Client/Server
21495 (7.746 %)CSS
22454 (7.105 %)Agile Software Development
23449 (7.027 %)Linux
24448 (7.011 %)OO
25433 (6.776 %)Banking
26419 (6.557 %)UNIX
27389 (6.088 %)MS Excel
27389 (6.088 %)Marketing
28363 (5.681 %)AJAX
29348 (5.446 %)Spring

Pensions
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs within the UK citing Pensions 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 Pensions. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
11437 (22.49 %).NET
2713 (11.16 %)ASP.NET
3572 (8.951 %)XML
4549 (8.592 %)HTML
5495 (7.746 %)CSS
6363 (5.681 %)AJAX
7348 (5.446 %)Spring
8259 (4.053 %)J2EE
9255 (3.991 %)Web Services
10185 (2.895 %)JSP
11176 (2.754 %)XHTML
12173 (2.707 %).NET Framework
13171 (2.676 %)WPF
14165 (2.582 %)WCF
15154 (2.410 %)Silverlight
16147 (2.300 %)Hibernate
17133 (2.081 %)XSLT
18131 (2.050 %)WinForms
19124 (1.941 %)WebSphere
20107 (1.674 %)ASP
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1171 (2.676 %)SharePoint
2153 (2.394 %)IIS
3147 (2.300 %)SAS
4126 (1.972 %)CMS
5119 (1.862 %)MS Exchange
6110 (1.721 %)WebLogic
791 (1.424 %)Apache
888 (1.377 %)Tomcat
945 (0.704 %)Exchange Server 2003
1044 (0.689 %)BizTalk Server
1138 (0.595 %)WebSphere MQ
1138 (0.595 %)SharePoint Server 2007
1232 (0.501 %)Exchange Server 2007
1330 (0.469 %)ColdFusion
1427 (0.423 %)Rendezvous
1427 (0.423 %)DotNetNuke
1523 (0.360 %)NetWeaver
1618 (0.282 %)WebSphere Message Broker
1717 (0.266 %)ArcGIS
1816 (0.250 %)MQSeries
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1389 (6.088 %)MS Excel
2113 (1.768 %)MS Office
374 (1.158 %)MS Visio
445 (0.704 %)Photoshop
536 (0.563 %)MS Project
621 (0.329 %)Adobe Illustrator
621 (0.329 %)MS PowerPoint
719 (0.297 %)Spreadsheet
812 (0.188 %)CA Clarity
911 (0.172 %)FrameMaker
107 (0.110 %)InfoPath
107 (0.110 %)RoboHelp
107 (0.110 %)Fireworks
116 (0.094 %)SPSS
124 (0.063 %)QuarkXPress
124 (0.063 %)AutoCAD
133 (0.047 %)MATLAB
142 (0.031 %)S-PLUS
142 (0.031 %)InDesign
142 (0.031 %)Paint Shop Pro
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
182 (1.283 %)Unica Affinium
254 (0.845 %)Dynamics CRM
343 (0.673 %)Dynamics AX
343 (0.673 %)Oracle EBS
438 (0.595 %)Axapta
520 (0.313 %)Navision
619 (0.297 %)SAP CO
717 (0.266 %)Dynamics NAV
717 (0.266 %)SAP IS-U
717 (0.266 %)SAP BPC
717 (0.266 %)Oracle Financials
717 (0.266 %)Microsoft CRM
717 (0.266 %)SAP FI
717 (0.266 %)SAP FI/CO
815 (0.235 %)HFM
914 (0.219 %)Oracle Applications
1013 (0.203 %)SAP CRM
118 (0.125 %)SAP APO
118 (0.125 %)Oracle 11i
118 (0.125 %)Cognos Planning
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1190 (2.973 %)Internet
2149 (2.332 %)TCP/IP
3132 (2.066 %)Firewall
4116 (1.815 %)SAN
592 (1.440 %)LAN
670 (1.095 %)Network Security
767 (1.049 %)WAN
864 (1.002 %)DNS
955 (0.861 %)Wireless
1051 (0.798 %)Intranet
1144 (0.689 %)DHCP
1144 (0.689 %)VoIP
1241 (0.642 %)VPN
1330 (0.469 %)HTTP
1425 (0.391 %)Broadband
1524 (0.376 %)Ethernet
1524 (0.376 %)Cisco ASA
1623 (0.360 %)VLAN
1720 (0.313 %)GSM
1819 (0.297 %)IP Telephony
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
11177 (18.42 %)SQL Server
2332 (5.196 %)SQL Server 2005
3190 (2.973 %)MySQL
4150 (2.347 %)Datawarehouse
5148 (2.316 %)SQL Server Integration Services
6127 (1.987 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
7120 (1.878 %)SQL Server 2008
8100 (1.565 %)SQL Server 2000
983 (1.299 %)RDBMS
983 (1.299 %)Oracle 8/8i
1081 (1.268 %)BusinessObjects
1173 (1.142 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
1267 (1.049 %)ETL
1362 (0.970 %)Crystal Reports
1461 (0.955 %)OLAP
1551 (0.798 %)Oracle Reports
1639 (0.610 %)Oracle 10g
1733 (0.516 %)GIS
1733 (0.516 %)PostgreSQL
1733 (0.516 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1142 (2.222 %)JUnit
1142 (2.222 %)Visual Studio
1142 (2.222 %)QuickTest Pro
2128 (2.003 %)Subversion
3113 (1.768 %)Selenium
483 (1.299 %)Maven
561 (0.955 %)NUnit
561 (0.955 %)LoadRunner
561 (0.955 %)TestDirector
654 (0.845 %)WinRunner
748 (0.751 %)Eclipse
845 (0.704 %)Ant
921 (0.329 %)TestComplete
1016 (0.250 %)Team Foundation Server
1115 (0.235 %)ClearCase
1214 (0.219 %)IntelliJ
1214 (0.219 %)WebSpeed
1214 (0.219 %)jMock
1313 (0.203 %)VSS/SourceSafe
1412 (0.188 %)JIRA
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
12609 (40.83 %)Health
21826 (28.58 %)Finance
31027 (16.07 %)Insurance
4433 (6.776 %)Banking
5389 (6.088 %)Marketing
6275 (4.304 %)Telecoms
7273 (4.272 %)Retail
8216 (3.380 %)Education
9151 (2.363 %)Government
10108 (1.690 %)Investment Banking
11105 (1.643 %)Games
1286 (1.346 %)Manufacturing
1379 (1.236 %)Electronics
1466 (1.033 %)Advertising
1560 (0.939 %)Publishing
1659 (0.923 %)Financial Institution
1756 (0.876 %)Legal
1855 (0.861 %)Law
1946 (0.720 %)Back Office
1946 (0.720 %)Billing
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
12078 (32.52 %)Developer
21114 (17.43 %)Analyst
3461 (7.214 %)Business Analyst
4413 (6.463 %)Consultant
5398 (6.228 %).NET Developer
6388 (6.072 %)Architect
7375 (5.869 %)Project Manager
8333 (5.211 %)Java Developer
9326 (5.102 %)Web Developer
10320 (5.008 %)Senior Developer
11302 (4.726 %)Software Engineer
12296 (4.632 %)Software Developer
13279 (4.366 %)C# Developer
14182 (2.848 %)Team Leader
15153 (2.394 %)Administrator
16152 (2.379 %)Senior Analyst
16152 (2.379 %)Support Analyst
17147 (2.300 %)Programmer
18143 (2.238 %)Graduate
19136 (2.128 %)Tester
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1498 (7.793 %)Client/Server
2254 (3.975 %)Mathematics
3240 (3.756 %)Derivative
4236 (3.693 %)Computer Science
5115 (1.800 %)Fixed Income
6114 (1.784 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
7104 (1.628 %)Open Source
887 (1.362 %)Management Information System
974 (1.158 %)N-Tier
1070 (1.095 %)Physics
1168 (1.064 %)Statistics
1263 (0.986 %)Web 2.0
1357 (0.892 %)Multithreading
1455 (0.861 %)Social Network
1554 (0.845 %)Clustering
1653 (0.829 %)Blackberry
1751 (0.798 %)W3C
1850 (0.782 %)Replication
1948 (0.751 %)Spread Betting
2046 (0.720 %)iPhone
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1715 (11.19 %)Windows
2449 (7.027 %)Linux
3419 (6.557 %)UNIX
4185 (2.895 %)Windows Server 2003
5116 (1.815 %)Windows Server 2008
689 (1.393 %)Solaris
769 (1.080 %)Windows XP
860 (0.939 %)Windows 2000
940 (0.626 %)AIX
1032 (0.501 %)Windows 2000 Server
1130 (0.469 %)Windows Vista
1227 (0.423 %)HPUX
1326 (0.407 %)Android
1424 (0.376 %)Red Hat Linux
1521 (0.329 %)Windows Mobile
1617 (0.266 %)Windows 7
178 (0.125 %)VMS
187 (0.110 %)Windows NT
195 (0.078 %)SUSE
195 (0.078 %)Mac OS X
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1561 (8.779 %)Project Management
2454 (7.105 %)Agile Software Development
3448 (7.011 %)OO
4341 (5.336 %)E-Commerce
5332 (5.196 %)Business Analysis
6296 (4.632 %)PRINCE2
7244 (3.818 %)Web Development
8223 (3.490 %)UML
9209 (3.271 %)ITIL
10198 (3.099 %)CRM
10198 (3.099 %)Business Intelligence
11188 (2.942 %)Scrum
12176 (2.754 %)SOA
13139 (2.175 %)User Acceptance Testing
14137 (2.144 %)Data Management
15133 (2.081 %)Software Engineering
16132 (2.066 %)MVC
17129 (2.019 %)OOD
17129 (2.019 %)Content Management
18121 (1.894 %)Stakeholder Management
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
11188 (18.59 %)C#
21087 (17.01 %)SQL
3970 (15.18 %)Java
4613 (9.593 %)C++
5540 (8.451 %)C
6506 (7.919 %)JavaScript
7336 (5.258 %)VB.NET
8273 (4.272 %)PHP
9186 (2.911 %)VB
10140 (2.191 %)T-SQL
1196 (1.502 %)Perl
1285 (1.330 %)PL/SQL
1370 (1.095 %)VBA
1464 (1.002 %)ActionScript
1562 (0.970 %)Delphi
1660 (0.939 %)VC++
1759 (0.923 %)Python
1853 (0.829 %)PHP5
1952 (0.814 %)VBScript
2046 (0.720 %)Ruby
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1943 (14.76 %)Degree
2256 (4.006 %)ISEB
3255 (3.991 %)Microsoft Certification
4154 (2.410 %)MCSE
5141 (2.207 %)Security Cleared
6128 (2.003 %)Cisco Certification
795 (1.487 %)CCNA
874 (1.158 %)MCP
958 (0.908 %)MCSA
1056 (0.876 %)PMI Certification
1152 (0.814 %)CCNP
1241 (0.642 %)MCTS
1339 (0.610 %)ISTQB
1436 (0.563 %)CCDP
1535 (0.548 %)PRINCE2 Certification
1535 (0.548 %)PRINCE2 Practitioner
1535 (0.548 %)ITIL Certification
1634 (0.532 %)SC Cleared
1733 (0.516 %)MCPD
1832 (0.501 %)PMP
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1185 (2.895 %)QA
277 (1.205 %)SLA
324 (0.376 %)Basel II
418 (0.282 %)ISO27001
516 (0.250 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
69 (0.141 %)ISO9001
78 (0.125 %)BS7799
78 (0.125 %)JSP 440
87 (0.110 %)WCAG
95 (0.078 %)ISO9000
104 (0.063 %)HL7
104 (0.063 %)PCI DSS
104 (0.063 %)JTAG
113 (0.047 %)BS25999
122 (0.031 %)ISO14001
122 (0.031 %)GAMP
131 (0.016 %)ISO17799
131 (0.016 %)GAAP
131 (0.016 %)TickIT
131 (0.016 %)WAI
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1227 (3.552 %)Active Directory
270 (1.095 %)VMware Infrastructure
345 (0.704 %)VMware ESX
442 (0.657 %)MetaFrame
529 (0.454 %)MSMQ
619 (0.297 %)XenApp
715 (0.235 %)Hyper-V
715 (0.235 %)Citrix Presentation Server
811 (0.172 %)Sendmail
910 (0.156 %)OpenSSO
109 (0.141 %)Oracle RAC
109 (0.141 %)VMware Workstation
109 (0.141 %)Oracle RMAN
117 (0.110 %)Terminal Services
117 (0.110 %)Xen
125 (0.078 %)Terminal Server
134 (0.063 %)ISA Server
134 (0.063 %)vSphere
143 (0.047 %)XenDesktop
143 (0.047 %)Veritas Volume Manager
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
131 (0.485 %)WSUS
228 (0.438 %)SCCM
321 (0.329 %)Tivoli
417 (0.266 %)MSI
514 (0.219 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
514 (0.219 %)NetBackup
69 (0.141 %)CONTROL-M
77 (0.110 %)OpenView Configuration Management
77 (0.110 %)OpenView
77 (0.110 %)SCOM
77 (0.110 %)Data Guard
86 (0.094 %)HP Quality Center
95 (0.078 %)MAILsweeper
95 (0.078 %)Legato
104 (0.063 %)MOM
104 (0.063 %)DameWare
104 (0.063 %)Backup Exec
113 (0.047 %)Netcool/Proviso
113 (0.047 %)Nagios
113 (0.047 %)ZENworks
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1692 (10.83 %)Microsoft
2619 (9.687 %)Oracle
3243 (3.803 %)Cisco
4218 (3.412 %)SAP
5178 (2.786 %)VMware
6153 (2.394 %)Citrix
782 (1.283 %)Unica
881 (1.268 %)Business Objects
977 (1.205 %)HP
1058 (0.908 %)Adobe
1156 (0.876 %)IBM
1254 (0.845 %)Cognos
1352 (0.814 %)EMC
1352 (0.814 %)Atos Origin
1436 (0.563 %)Siebel
1530 (0.469 %)Red Hat
1628 (0.438 %)TIBCO
1628 (0.438 %)JBoss
1726 (0.407 %)BEA
1726 (0.407 %)Hyperion