The first table below looks at the demand for RDF skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited RDF over the 3 months to 22 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 Processes & Methodologies category.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Resource Description Framework (RDF)
Rank 787 792 850
Rank change year-on-year
+5 +58
Permanent jobs citing RDF 77 108 20
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.071% 0.088% 0.016%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.093% 0.118% 0.022%
Number of salaries quoted 69 97 13
Average salary £45,000 £42,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% +29.23%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £29,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £76,500 £70,200 £53,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £35,250 £32,000
% change year-on-year
+20.56% +10.15%
All Processes & Methodologies
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
83042 91442 90017
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 76.35% 74.55% 73.64%
Number of salaries quoted 68087 77706 75411
Average salary £45,000 £47,250 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.76% -0.52%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%

RDF
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing RDF within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

RDF Jobs Demand Trend

RDF
Salary Trend

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

RDF Salary Trend

RDF
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing RDF over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 within the UK.

RDF Salary Histogram

RDF
Top 27 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing RDF within the UK over the 3 months to 22 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 +5 73 £45,000 +5.88%
South East +38 34 £40,000 -
London +10 29 £52,500 +10.52%
Berkshire - 22 £42,500 -
Wokingham - 12 £45,000 -
Reading - 10 £40,000 -
East Sussex +11 7 £16,000 -53.62%
Brighton +8 7 £16,000 -53.62%
City of London +11 6 £57,500 -
Buckinghamshire - 4 £85,000 -
East of England -5 3 £50,000 +69.49%
North East - 3 £27,500 -
Tyne and Wear - 3 £27,500 -
Newcastle upon Tyne - 3 £27,500 -
Milton Keynes - 3 £85,000 -
Norwich +3 2 £50,000 +69.49%
South West +1 2 £44,250 +7.27%
Norfolk 0 2 £50,000 +69.49%
North West - 2 £85,000 -
Bath - 2 £44,250 -
Manchester - 2 £85,000 -
Somerset - 2 £44,250 -
Cambridgeshire +1 1 £25,000 -33.33%
Edinburgh -4 1 £27,500 -1.78%
Scotland -6 1 £27,500 -1.78%
West Sussex - 1 £40,000 -
Haywards Heath - 1 £40,000 -

RDF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing RDF 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 RDF.

1 95 (44.39%) Java
2 86 (40.19%) XML
3 67 (31.31%) JavaScript
4 57 (26.64%) Semantic Web
5 55 (25.70%) Linux
6 54 (25.23%) .NET
6 54 (25.23%) SPARQL
7 52 (24.30%) RESTful
8 51 (23.83%) Ontologies
9 47 (21.96%) SQL
9 47 (21.96%) C++
9 47 (21.96%) Web Services
9 47 (21.96%) Scrum
10 45 (21.03%) XSLT
11 43 (20.09%) Agile Software Development
12 42 (19.63%) Finance
12 42 (19.63%) Publishing
12 42 (19.63%) Windows
12 42 (19.63%) Degree
13 40 (18.69%) NoSQL
13 40 (18.69%) CSS
14 39 (18.22%) Perl
14 39 (18.22%) Unit Testing
15 38 (17.76%) Oracle
16 37 (17.29%) UNIX
16 37 (17.29%) Spring
17 36 (16.82%) Banking
17 36 (16.82%) MarkLogic
18 33 (15.42%) Continuous Integration
19 32 (14.95%) Scala

RDF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing RDF 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 RDF. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 86 (40.19%) XML
2 54 (25.23%) .NET
3 52 (24.30%) RESTful
4 47 (21.96%) Web Services
5 45 (21.03%) XSLT
6 40 (18.69%) CSS
7 37 (17.29%) Spring
8 26 (12.15%) XML Schema
9 23 (10.75%) XHTML
10 20 (9.346%) HTML
11 19 (8.879%) REST
11 19 (8.879%) SOAP
12 18 (8.411%) Hibernate
12 18 (8.411%) JSON
13 14 (6.542%) soapUI
13 14 (6.542%) Gherkin
14 11 (5.140%) J2EE
14 11 (5.140%) XSL
15 9 (4.206%) JMS
15 9 (4.206%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 29 (13.55%) Tomcat
2 21 (9.813%) Apache
3 14 (6.542%) SharePoint
4 13 (6.075%) Amazon AWS
5 12 (5.607%) Amazon SQS
5 12 (5.607%) Amazon EMR
6 11 (5.140%) SAS
7 7 (3.271%) Jetty
8 4 (1.869%) Apache Solr
9 3 (1.402%) IIS
9 3 (1.402%) WebSphere Message Broker
10 2 (0.935%) ESB
10 2 (0.935%) Exchange Server 2007
10 2 (0.935%) Drupal
10 2 (0.935%) Exchange Server 2010
10 2 (0.935%) SharePoint 2010
10 2 (0.935%) MS Exchange
10 2 (0.935%) Exchange Server 2003
11 1 (0.467%) ActiveMQ
11 1 (0.467%) CMS
Applications
1 13 (6.075%) MS Office
2 11 (5.140%) XMetaL
3 3 (1.402%) MS Excel
4 1 (0.467%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.467%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.467%) Revit
Business Applications
1 8 (3.738%) RMDS
2 2 (0.935%) Google Analytics
3 1 (0.467%) Oracle Retail
3 1 (0.467%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 31 (14.49%) HTTP
2 26 (12.15%) Internet
3 16 (7.477%) SAN
4 15 (7.009%) TCP/IP
5 12 (5.607%) DNS
6 7 (3.271%) Firewall
7 5 (2.336%) LAN
8 3 (1.402%) WAN
8 3 (1.402%) FTP
9 2 (0.935%) DHCP
10 1 (0.467%) DSL
10 1 (0.467%) VPN
10 1 (0.467%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (18.69%) NoSQL
2 36 (16.82%) MarkLogic
3 29 (13.55%) Big Data
4 28 (13.08%) MySQL
5 19 (8.879%) CouchDB
6 14 (6.542%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (5.607%) Hadoop
7 12 (5.607%) MongoDB
7 12 (5.607%) Amazon DynamoDB
8 11 (5.140%) Oracle Exadata
9 8 (3.738%) Apache Cassandra
10 7 (3.271%) SQL Server
11 5 (2.336%) SQL Server 2005
11 5 (2.336%) SQL Server 2008
12 4 (1.869%) Oracle 8/8i
13 3 (1.402%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 2 (0.935%) RDBMS
14 2 (0.935%) NonStop SQL
15 1 (0.467%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 26 (12.15%) Visual Studio
2 24 (11.21%) Maven
3 23 (10.75%) Cucumber
4 20 (9.346%) Subversion
5 15 (7.009%) Hudson
6 14 (6.542%) Team Foundation Server
6 14 (6.542%) Selenium
6 14 (6.542%) Jenkins
6 14 (6.542%) QuickTest Pro
7 13 (6.075%) JUnit
8 7 (3.271%) Mockito
8 7 (3.271%) SpecFlow
9 6 (2.804%) Log4j
10 4 (1.869%) JIRA
10 4 (1.869%) Talend Open Studio
11 3 (1.402%) Eclipse
11 3 (1.402%) Ant
11 3 (1.402%) ANTLR
12 2 (0.935%) Firebug
13 1 (0.467%) Eclipse RCP
General
1 42 (19.63%) Finance
1 42 (19.63%) Publishing
2 36 (16.82%) Banking
3 15 (7.009%) Investment Banking
4 9 (4.206%) Multimedia
4 9 (4.206%) Legal
5 5 (2.336%) Marketing
5 5 (2.336%) Retail
6 3 (1.402%) Games
6 3 (1.402%) Telecoms
6 3 (1.402%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 83 (38.79%) Developer
2 35 (16.36%) Software Engineer
3 32 (14.95%) Java Developer
4 17 (7.944%) Analyst
5 14 (6.542%) XML Developer
5 14 (6.542%) Architect
5 14 (6.542%) QA Engineer
5 14 (6.542%) UNIX Systems Administrator
5 14 (6.542%) Quality Engineer
6 13 (6.075%) Web Developer
6 13 (6.075%) Software Developer
6 13 (6.075%) Semantic Web Developer
7 12 (5.607%) Designer
7 12 (5.607%) Technical Developer
7 12 (5.607%) C++ Developer
7 12 (5.607%) Technical Designer
8 10 (4.673%) Graduate
9 8 (3.738%) Programmer
9 8 (3.738%) Support Analyst
9 8 (3.738%) Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 57 (26.64%) Semantic Web
2 51 (23.83%) Ontologies
3 26 (12.15%) Open Source
4 25 (11.68%) Linked Data
4 25 (11.68%) Digital Media
5 23 (10.75%) BBC
6 19 (8.879%) MHEG
7 14 (6.542%) Symmetrix DMX
8 12 (5.607%) EMV
9 11 (5.140%) New Media
9 11 (5.140%) Taxonomies
9 11 (5.140%) Wiki
10 10 (4.673%) Kindle
11 7 (3.271%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (3.271%) Machine Learning
12 6 (2.804%) W3C
13 5 (2.336%) Artificial Intelligence
13 5 (2.336%) Client/Server
14 4 (1.869%) Interactive TV
15 2 (0.935%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 55 (25.70%) Linux
2 42 (19.63%) Windows
3 37 (17.29%) UNIX
4 19 (8.879%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (7.009%) AIX
5 15 (7.009%) Solaris
6 14 (6.542%) SUSE
7 13 (6.075%) Windows XP
8 5 (2.336%) Windows Server 2003
8 5 (2.336%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.935%) Android
9 2 (0.935%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.467%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (21.96%) Scrum
2 43 (20.09%) Agile Software Development
3 39 (18.22%) Unit Testing
4 33 (15.42%) Continuous Integration
5 31 (14.49%) ITIL
6 28 (13.08%) TDD
6 28 (13.08%) Content Management
7 24 (11.21%) Integration Testing
8 22 (10.28%) Manual Testing
9 21 (9.813%) Benchmarking
10 19 (8.879%) Kanban
10 19 (8.879%) Performance Testing
10 19 (8.879%) Software Engineering
11 17 (7.944%) Test Scripting
11 17 (7.944%) Automated Testing
12 15 (7.009%) BDD
13 14 (6.542%) Security Testing
13 14 (6.542%) Usability Testing
13 14 (6.542%) Problem Management
13 14 (6.542%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 95 (44.39%) Java
2 67 (31.31%) JavaScript
3 54 (25.23%) SPARQL
4 47 (21.96%) SQL
4 47 (21.96%) C++
5 39 (18.22%) Perl
6 32 (14.95%) Scala
6 32 (14.95%) C#
7 31 (14.49%) PHP
8 25 (11.68%) Ruby
9 20 (9.346%) Groovy
9 20 (9.346%) Clojure
10 19 (8.879%) ActionScript
10 19 (8.879%) Python
10 19 (8.879%) Shell Script
11 14 (6.542%) VBA
11 14 (6.542%) T-SQL
11 14 (6.542%) Korn
12 13 (6.075%) XQuery
13 10 (4.673%) XPath
Qualifications
1 42 (19.63%) Degree
2 8 (3.738%) ISEB
3 5 (2.336%) ITIL Certification
3 5 (2.336%) ISTQB
4 4 (1.869%) Six Sigma Green Belt
4 4 (1.869%) RHCE
5 3 (1.402%) ISEB Practitioner
6 2 (0.935%) MCSE
6 2 (0.935%) MCP
6 2 (0.935%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (9.813%) QA
2 12 (5.607%) Dublin Core
3 10 (4.673%) ISO 9001
4 7 (3.271%) SLA
5 4 (1.869%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.935%) COBIT
7 1 (0.467%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 14 (6.542%) Veritas Volume Manager
1 14 (6.542%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 11 (5.140%) Veritas File System
3 4 (1.869%) Gluster
4 3 (1.402%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.935%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.935%) vSphere
5 2 (0.935%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 5 (2.336%) Puppet
2 4 (1.869%) Zenoss
3 3 (1.402%) WMI
4 2 (0.935%) OpenView
4 2 (0.935%) MOM
5 1 (0.467%) Nagios
5 1 (0.467%) Ganglia
5 1 (0.467%) Dollar Universe
Vendors
1 38 (17.76%) Oracle
2 31 (14.49%) Microsoft
3 16 (7.477%) VMware
4 15 (7.009%) Sun
4 15 (7.009%) Red Hat
4 15 (7.009%) Sybase
5 14 (6.542%) Veritas
5 14 (6.542%) EMC
6 12 (5.607%) MKS
7 6 (2.804%) Zend
8 5 (2.336%) Cisco
8 5 (2.336%) JBoss
9 4 (1.869%) Atlassian
9 4 (1.869%) Kalahari
9 4 (1.869%) Riverbed
9 4 (1.869%) Talend
9 4 (1.869%) IBM
9 4 (1.869%) Reuters
9 4 (1.869%) Bloomberg
9 4 (1.869%) Caplin
London
Comfortable developing software in a primarily Linux-based environment with tooling based around Eclipse, Subversion, JUnit, Ant etc... Experience with any / all of the following technologies is highly...
Client Server
Salary: £75k to £90k + options + benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
London
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Client Server
Salary: £75k to £90k + options + benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
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Thomson Keene Associates
Salary: £70000 - £90000 per annum + Excellent Banking Benefits + Bonus
Posted: 21 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands
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Scope AT Ltd
Salary: £45 - £55 per annum + benefits, bonus
Posted: 22 May 2013
Wokingham, Berkshire
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RDF Resources
Salary: Bonus and benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire
This role will include liaisons with other technical teams under I.T Infrastructure & Networks such as Unix Services, Database Services, Essential: *3-4 years' experience in a demanding,...
RDF Resources
Salary: £50000 per annum + £59,000 package
Posted: 21 May 2013
Cambridgeshire
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Computer People
Salary: £22000.00 - £28000.00 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013