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The first part of the table below looks at the prevalence of the term Physics in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Physics 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 Miscellaneous category.

LinkPhysics
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank311269430
Rank change year-on-year
Down-42Up+161
Matching permanent IT job ads463534734
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK0.539 %0.630 %0.360 %
As % of the Miscellaneous category1.976 %2.656 %1.610 %
Salaries quoted387471577
Average salary£33,000£35,000£35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.710 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£26,500£26,000£24,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£55,000£54,550£65,000
UK excluding London average salary£32,500£32,500£33,000
% change year-on-year
--1.510 %
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryAll Miscellaneous Category
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
234272010245597
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK27.27 %23.70 %22.34 %
Salaries quoted190361643836023
Average salary£50,000£42,500£45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+17.64 %-5.550 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£28,000£26,500£27,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£85,000£80,000£75,000
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£37,000£36,000
% change year-on-year
+1.350 %+2.770 %

Physics
Demand Trend

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

Physics Demand Trend

Physics
Salary Trend

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

Physics Salary Trend

Physics
Salary Histogram

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

Physics Salary Histogram

Physics
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Physics 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-37451£33,000-5.71 %
LondonDown-9195£35,000-6.66 %
East of EnglandUp+49142£36,000+9.92 %
CambridgeshireUp+1784£33,000-2.94 %
South EastDown-4870£32,500-
CambridgeUp+967£34,000+4.61 %
HertfordshireUp+4957£45,000+38.46 %
OxfordshireDown-331£30,000+1.69 %
City of LondonDown-7329£60,000+33.33 %
OxfordUp+524£30,000+1.69 %
South WestDown-6024£32,500-7.14 %
BristolUp+216£33,750-6.25 %
West MidlandsUp+3010£30,000-14.28 %
BerkshireDown-29£42,500+54.54 %
West SussexUp+68£55,000+37.50 %
BuckinghamshireDown-97£32,500-45.83 %
SurreyDown-97£32,500-15.03 %
ScotlandNo change06--
East MidlandsDown-36£30,500+1.66 %
BirminghamUp+195£30,000-16.08 %
High WycombeUp+135£32,500+8.33 %
DorsetDown-15£22,000-40.93 %
HampshireDown-15£22,500-35.71 %
GlasgowDown-35--
Docklands, LondonNew entry-5--
Channel IslandsNew entry-5--
Canary WharfNew entry-5--
LeicestershireUp+134£30,500-30.68 %
LeicesterUp+84£30,500-30.68 %
GuildfordUp+223£50,000+30.71 %

Physics
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1797 (84.88 %)Mathematics
2633 (67.41 %)Degree
3568 (60.49 %)Computer Science
4423 (45.05 %)C++
5292 (31.10 %)Java
6234 (24.92 %)C#
7224 (23.86 %)Finance
8221 (23.54 %)PhD
9218 (23.22 %)C
10141 (15.02 %)Education
11127 (13.53 %)SQL
12117 (12.46 %)OO
13103 (10.97 %).NET
1496 (10.22 %)UNIX
1591 (9.691 %)Electric
1678 (8.307 %)Linux
1776 (8.094 %)Economics
1874 (7.881 %)Oracle
1970 (7.455 %)Pensions
2065 (6.922 %)Chemistry
2163 (6.709 %)Health
2259 (6.283 %)VBA
2357 (6.070 %)Electronics
2455 (5.857 %)Project Management
2455 (5.857 %)Retail
2553 (5.644 %)Front Office
2652 (5.538 %)Derivative
2751 (5.431 %)Banking
2751 (5.431 %)Windows
2849 (5.218 %)SQL Server

Physics
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1103 (10.97 %).NET
247 (5.005 %)ASP.NET
346 (4.899 %)XML
433 (3.514 %)Spring
524 (2.556 %)J2EE
622 (2.343 %)HTML
718 (1.917 %)Adobe Flex
718 (1.917 %)PureMVC
817 (1.810 %)Papervision3D
817 (1.810 %)Hibernate
916 (1.704 %)Flash
916 (1.704 %)MFC
1015 (1.597 %)Servlets
1114 (1.491 %)STL
1114 (1.491 %)LINQ
1212 (1.278 %)WinForms
1311 (1.171 %)OpenGL
1410 (1.065 %)Struts
1410 (1.065 %)Web Services
159 (0.958 %)CSS
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
142 (4.473 %)SAS
213 (1.384 %)SharePoint
312 (1.278 %)CMS
312 (1.278 %)EPiServer
312 (1.278 %)Immediacy CMS
312 (1.278 %)Sitecore CMS
410 (1.065 %)Tomcat
55 (0.532 %)WebLogic
55 (0.532 %)Apache
61 (0.106 %)SharePoint Server 2007
61 (0.106 %)Flash Media Server
61 (0.106 %)Rendezvous
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
141 (4.366 %)MS Excel
235 (3.727 %)SPSS
326 (2.769 %)MATLAB
417 (1.810 %)MS Office
56 (0.639 %)S-PLUS
65 (0.532 %)MS Visio
65 (0.532 %)MS Project
74 (0.426 %)FrameMaker
74 (0.426 %)CATIA
74 (0.426 %)Pro/ENGINEER
82 (0.213 %)Spreadsheet
82 (0.213 %)Stata
91 (0.106 %)Photoshop
91 (0.106 %)MS PowerPoint
91 (0.106 %)Simulink
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
13 (0.319 %)Cognos Business Intelligence
21 (0.106 %)ION MarketView
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
126 (2.769 %)Wireless
220 (2.130 %)Internet
317 (1.810 %)TCP/IP
414 (1.491 %)Firewall
59 (0.958 %)OSPF
68 (0.852 %)FTP
77 (0.745 %)PBX
77 (0.745 %)BGP
77 (0.745 %)IP Telephony
77 (0.745 %)Wireless Security
77 (0.745 %)NAS
86 (0.639 %)Asterisk PBX
86 (0.639 %)LTE
86 (0.639 %)802.11
86 (0.639 %)VPN
86 (0.639 %)3GPP
95 (0.532 %)LAN
95 (0.532 %)WAN
95 (0.532 %)DNS
104 (0.426 %)SAN
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
149 (5.218 %)SQL Server
228 (2.982 %)Data Mining
322 (2.343 %)Oracle 11g
418 (1.917 %)PostgreSQL
418 (1.917 %)Oracle 8/8i
517 (1.810 %)SQL Server 2005
517 (1.810 %)Oracle 10g
612 (1.278 %)RDBMS
78 (0.852 %)SQL Server 2008
86 (0.639 %)MySQL
94 (0.426 %)MS Access
94 (0.426 %)Datawarehouse
103 (0.319 %)OLAP
103 (0.319 %)Oracle OLAP
111 (0.106 %)Base SAS
111 (0.106 %)GIS
111 (0.106 %)Informix
111 (0.106 %)DB2
111 (0.106 %)ETL
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
137 (3.940 %)Eclipse
229 (3.088 %)Subversion
327 (2.875 %)Maven
420 (2.130 %)Visual Studio
517 (1.810 %)Flex Builder
614 (1.491 %)Git (software)
712 (1.278 %)Ant
85 (0.532 %)JUnit
94 (0.426 %)TeamCity
103 (0.319 %)Log4j
111 (0.106 %)MagicDraw
111 (0.106 %)Selenium
111 (0.106 %)Atlassian Bamboo
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1224 (23.86 %)Finance
2141 (15.02 %)Education
391 (9.691 %)Electric
470 (7.455 %)Pensions
563 (6.709 %)Health
657 (6.070 %)Electronics
755 (5.857 %)Retail
853 (5.644 %)Front Office
951 (5.431 %)Banking
1042 (4.473 %)Marketing
1133 (3.514 %)Investment Banking
1228 (2.982 %)Government
1325 (2.662 %)Games
1417 (1.810 %)Manufacturing
1417 (1.810 %)Insurance
1516 (1.704 %)Telecoms
1516 (1.704 %)Financial Institution
1614 (1.491 %)Aerospace
1614 (1.491 %)3D Graphics
1712 (1.278 %)Automotive
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1332 (35.36 %)Developer
2212 (22.58 %)Graduate
3154 (16.40 %)Software Engineer
4133 (14.16 %)Analyst
591 (9.691 %)C++ Developer
688 (9.372 %)Consultant
783 (8.839 %)Java Developer
871 (7.561 %)Software Developer
955 (5.857 %)Programmer
1051 (5.431 %)Graduate Developer
1149 (5.218 %)Graduate Software Engineer
1248 (5.112 %)Junior
1339 (4.153 %)C# Developer
1433 (3.514 %)Technical Consultant
1532 (3.408 %)Senior Developer
1532 (3.408 %)Quantitative Developer
1629 (3.088 %)Graduate Software Developer
1629 (3.088 %).NET Developer
1629 (3.088 %)C Developer
1728 (2.982 %)C++/Java Developer
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1797 (84.88 %)Mathematics
2568 (60.49 %)Computer Science
376 (8.094 %)Economics
465 (6.922 %)Chemistry
552 (5.538 %)Derivative
644 (4.686 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
738 (4.047 %)Multithreading
835 (3.727 %)Statistics
934 (3.621 %)Open Source
1021 (2.236 %)Management Information System
1118 (1.917 %)Applied Mathematics
1217 (1.810 %)Fixed Income
1217 (1.810 %)RIA
1316 (1.704 %)Equities
1414 (1.491 %)Credit Risk
1511 (1.171 %)Visualisation
169 (0.958 %)Client/Server
178 (0.852 %)Equity Derivative
186 (0.639 %)SCADA
186 (0.639 %)Artificial Intelligence
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
196 (10.22 %)UNIX
278 (8.307 %)Linux
351 (5.431 %)Windows
46 (0.639 %)Solaris
55 (0.532 %)Embedded Linux
62 (0.213 %)Red Hat Linux
62 (0.213 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
62 (0.213 %)Debian
62 (0.213 %)Fedora
62 (0.213 %)AIX
71 (0.106 %)Windows CE
71 (0.106 %)Windows Server 2003
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1117 (12.46 %)OO
255 (5.857 %)Project Management
338 (4.047 %)UML
436 (3.834 %)Business Analysis
534 (3.621 %)Software Engineering
534 (3.621 %)CRM
633 (3.514 %)E-Commerce
633 (3.514 %)Data Analysis
731 (3.301 %)Market Research
830 (3.195 %)Agile Software Development
928 (2.982 %)Logistic Regression
1026 (2.769 %)OOA/OOD
1124 (2.556 %)OOD
1222 (2.343 %)Unit Testing
1222 (2.343 %)Continuous Integration
1319 (2.023 %)Risk Management
1319 (2.023 %)Performance Management
1416 (1.704 %)Electronic Trading
1416 (1.704 %)IC Design
1515 (1.597 %)Finite Element Analysis
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1423 (45.05 %)C++
2292 (31.10 %)Java
3234 (24.92 %)C#
4218 (23.22 %)C
5127 (13.53 %)SQL
659 (6.283 %)VBA
735 (3.727 %)Perl
834 (3.621 %)Python
933 (3.514 %)PL/SQL
1030 (3.195 %)Embedded C
1128 (2.982 %)PHP
1219 (2.023 %)ActionScript
1219 (2.023 %)ActionScript 3.0
1318 (1.917 %)Embedded C++
1417 (1.810 %)VB.NET
1516 (1.704 %)T-SQL
1516 (1.704 %)Fortran
1615 (1.597 %)VB
1615 (1.597 %)JavaScript
1712 (1.278 %)Assembly Language
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1633 (67.41 %)Degree
2221 (23.54 %)PhD
317 (1.810 %)Security Cleared
414 (1.491 %)Cisco Certification
414 (1.491 %)Microsoft Certification
513 (1.384 %)CCIE
513 (1.384 %)CCNP
612 (1.278 %)MCP
612 (1.278 %)MCPD
612 (1.278 %)DV Cleared
710 (1.065 %)SC Cleared
85 (0.532 %)CCNA
94 (0.426 %)PMI Certification
94 (0.426 %)HND
94 (0.426 %)CCIP
102 (0.213 %)Postgraduate
102 (0.213 %)MCSE
111 (0.106 %)CIMA
111 (0.106 %)CFA
111 (0.106 %)CISSP
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
130 (3.195 %)QA
211 (1.171 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
35 (0.532 %)ISO9000
43 (0.319 %)ISO9001
43 (0.319 %)ISO9002
51 (0.106 %)SLA
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
18 (0.852 %)Xen
18 (0.852 %)Oracle RAC
18 (0.852 %)VMware Infrastructure
27 (0.745 %)VMware ESX
31 (0.106 %)Active Directory
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
117 (1.810 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
28 (0.852 %)Data Guard
31 (0.106 %)SolarWinds Orion
31 (0.106 %)CiscoWorks
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
174 (7.881 %)Oracle
238 (4.047 %)Microsoft
321 (2.236 %)Cisco
420 (2.130 %)Aruba
519 (2.023 %)Juniper
618 (1.917 %)Foundry
714 (1.491 %)NetApp
812 (1.278 %)Sitecore
812 (1.278 %)Ektron
910 (1.065 %)Cadence
108 (0.852 %)VMware
117 (0.745 %)Sybase
126 (0.639 %)Siebel
135 (0.532 %)Adobe
135 (0.532 %)TIBCO
135 (0.532 %)HP
135 (0.532 %)Wall Street Systems
144 (0.426 %)SolidWorks
144 (0.426 %)GL TRADE
144 (0.426 %)Reuters