The first table below looks at the demand for TopLink skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited TopLink over the 3 months to 23 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle TopLink
Rank 858 850 846
Rank change year-on-year
-8 -4
Permanent jobs citing TopLink 4 48 27
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.004% 0.040% 0.021%
As % of the Application Development category 0.009% 0.095% 0.054%
Number of salaries quoted 3 41 16
Average salary £37,500 £47,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-21.05% +26.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,500 £40,000 £33,500
10% offered a salary of more than £53,500 £52,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £43,750 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-14.28% +16.66%
All Application Development
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
43651 50308 50336
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 40.59% 41.67% 39.93%
Number of salaries quoted 37945 44694 44510
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £27,844 £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%

TopLink
Jobs Demand Trend

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

TopLink Jobs Demand Trend

TopLink
Salary Trend

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

TopLink Salary Trend

TopLink
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing TopLink over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 within the UK.

TopLink Salary Histogram

TopLink
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing TopLink within the UK over the 3 months to 23 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 -15 4 £37,500 -21.05%
Tyne and Wear - 2 £37,500 -
North East - 2 £37,500 -
Sunderland - 2 £37,500 -
Epsom +18 1 £57,500 +27.77%
Surrey +8 1 £57,500 +27.77%
South East -5 1 £57,500 +27.77%
West Midlands - 1 £35,000 -
Wolverhampton - 1 £35,000 -

TopLink
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing TopLink 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 TopLink.

1 7 (100.00%) Hibernate
2 6 (85.71%) Spring
2 6 (85.71%) Java
2 6 (85.71%) Oracle
2 6 (85.71%) OO
3 5 (71.43%) Web Services
3 5 (71.43%) XML
3 5 (71.43%) JMS
3 5 (71.43%) SQL
3 5 (71.43%) EJB
3 5 (71.43%) JDBC
3 5 (71.43%) JSP
3 5 (71.43%) Servlets
3 5 (71.43%) Java EE
3 5 (71.43%) JSF
3 5 (71.43%) Maven
3 5 (71.43%) Agile Software Development
3 5 (71.43%) TDD
3 5 (71.43%) Scrum
3 5 (71.43%) MVC
3 5 (71.43%) UML
3 5 (71.43%) JPA
3 5 (71.43%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (57.14%) BDD
4 4 (57.14%) User Acceptance Testing
4 4 (57.14%) Unit Testing
4 4 (57.14%) XMLBeans
4 4 (57.14%) CSS
4 4 (57.14%) HTML
4 4 (57.14%) PL/SQL

TopLink
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing TopLink 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 TopLink. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (100.00%) Hibernate
2 6 (85.71%) Spring
3 5 (71.43%) Web Services
3 5 (71.43%) XML
3 5 (71.43%) JMS
3 5 (71.43%) EJB
3 5 (71.43%) JDBC
3 5 (71.43%) JSP
3 5 (71.43%) Servlets
3 5 (71.43%) Java EE
3 5 (71.43%) JSF
3 5 (71.43%) JPA
4 4 (57.14%) XMLBeans
4 4 (57.14%) CSS
4 4 (57.14%) HTML
5 3 (42.86%) SOAP
6 2 (28.57%) Ajax
6 2 (28.57%) jQuery
7 1 (14.29%) JAX-WS
7 1 (14.29%) iBATIS
Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle BPEL
1 1 (14.29%) ESB
1 1 (14.29%) Tomcat
1 1 (14.29%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Mingle
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) LDAP
1 1 (14.29%) FTP
1 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle 11g
1 1 (14.29%) RDBMS
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle 10g
1 1 (14.29%) MySQL
1 1 (14.29%) DB2
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Maven
2 2 (28.57%) JIRA
2 2 (28.57%) Selenium
3 1 (14.29%) JProfiler
3 1 (14.29%) Gerrit
3 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 1 (14.29%) jMock
3 1 (14.29%) TeamCity
3 1 (14.29%) Git (software)
3 1 (14.29%) CruiseControl
3 1 (14.29%) Subversion
3 1 (14.29%) Eclipse
3 1 (14.29%) Ant
3 1 (14.29%) JUnit
3 1 (14.29%) PVCS
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Developer
2 6 (85.71%) Java Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Senior Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Programmer
4 1 (14.29%) DBA
4 1 (14.29%) Java/J2EE Developer
4 1 (14.29%) J2EE Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Java Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) N-Tier
2 2 (28.57%) W3C
2 2 (28.57%) Open Source
3 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (14.29%) iPhone
3 1 (14.29%) Smartcard
3 1 (14.29%) Replication
3 1 (14.29%) Clustering
3 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
3 1 (14.29%) EFT
3 1 (14.29%) EFTPOS
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) UNIX
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) OO
2 5 (71.43%) Agile Software Development
2 5 (71.43%) TDD
2 5 (71.43%) Scrum
2 5 (71.43%) MVC
2 5 (71.43%) UML
2 5 (71.43%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (57.14%) BDD
3 4 (57.14%) User Acceptance Testing
3 4 (57.14%) Unit Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Web Design
5 1 (14.29%) Multithreading
5 1 (14.29%) Kanban
5 1 (14.29%) Capacity Management
5 1 (14.29%) Mobile Commerce
5 1 (14.29%) Project Management
5 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (14.29%) Validation
5 1 (14.29%) BPEL
5 1 (14.29%) RAD
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Java
2 5 (71.43%) SQL
3 4 (57.14%) PL/SQL
4 1 (14.29%) Groovy
4 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
4 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 1 (14.29%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) WCAG
2 1 (14.29%) ISO 8583
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) VocaLink
2 1 (14.29%) JBoss
2 1 (14.29%) HP
2 1 (14.29%) Red Hat