The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of VocaLink products and/or services in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VocaLink over the 3 months to 17 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 Vendors currently tracked.

The figures below represent the IT job market in general and are NOT representative of salaries within VocaLink Limited.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VocaLink
Rank 854 881 849
Rank change year-on-year
+27 -32
Permanent jobs citing VocaLink 4 15 22
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.004% 0.012% 0.018%
As % of the Vendors category 0.008% 0.026% 0.038%
Number of salaries quoted 2 11 21
Average salary £32,000 £55,000 £57,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-41.81% -3.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,600 £55,000 £45,000
10% offered a salary of more than £34,400 £55,000 £75,000
UK excluding London average salary £32,000 £55,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-41.81% +29.41%
All Vendors
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
51873 57633 57889
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 48.12% 47.65% 46.89%
Number of salaries quoted 42427 48577 48007
Average salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £28,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000

VocaLink
Jobs Demand Trend

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

VocaLink Jobs Demand Trend

VocaLink
Salary Trend

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

VocaLink Salary Trend

VocaLink
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VocaLink within the UK over the 3 months to 17 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 +22 4 £32,000 -41.81%
South East +9 3 £35,000 -
East of England - 1 £29,000 -
Bedfordshire - 1 £29,000 -
Dunstable - 1 £29,000 -

VocaLink
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing VocaLink 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 VocaLink.

1 9 (47.37%) E-Commerce
1 9 (47.37%) Mobile Commerce
1 9 (47.37%) Finance
2 7 (36.84%) Shell Script
2 7 (36.84%) Oracle
2 7 (36.84%) UNIX
3 6 (31.58%) Solaris
3 6 (31.58%) Python
3 6 (31.58%) Perl
3 6 (31.58%) Red Hat
4 5 (26.32%) Smartcard
4 5 (26.32%) EFT
4 5 (26.32%) EFTPOS
4 5 (26.32%) Java
4 5 (26.32%) SQL
4 5 (26.32%) J2EE
4 5 (26.32%) WebLogic
4 5 (26.32%) Tomcat
4 5 (26.32%) Ant
4 5 (26.32%) ISO 8583
4 5 (26.32%) Scrum
4 5 (26.32%) Retail
4 5 (26.32%) WebSphere
5 4 (21.05%) Ruby
5 4 (21.05%) Korn
5 4 (21.05%) Retail Banking
5 4 (21.05%) Online Banking
5 4 (21.05%) NFC
5 4 (21.05%) Banking
5 4 (21.05%) Project Management

VocaLink
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing VocaLink 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 VocaLink. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (26.32%) J2EE
1 5 (26.32%) WebSphere
2 4 (21.05%) Middleware
3 1 (5.263%) JAAS
3 1 (5.263%) Hibernate
3 1 (5.263%) TopLink
3 1 (5.263%) Spring
3 1 (5.263%) JSF
3 1 (5.263%) Ajax
3 1 (5.263%) Java EE
3 1 (5.263%) Velocity
3 1 (5.263%) Apache Axis
3 1 (5.263%) jQuery
3 1 (5.263%) JAX-WS
3 1 (5.263%) JPA
3 1 (5.263%) OC4J
3 1 (5.263%) Facelets
3 1 (5.263%) EJB
3 1 (5.263%) JDBC
3 1 (5.263%) JSP
Application Platforms
1 5 (26.32%) WebLogic
1 5 (26.32%) Tomcat
2 4 (21.05%) Apache
2 4 (21.05%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 1 (5.263%) ESB
3 1 (5.263%) Oracle BPEL
3 1 (5.263%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (5.263%) Office Communications Server
3 1 (5.263%) Lync
3 1 (5.263%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (5.263%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 1 (5.263%) MS Excel
1 1 (5.263%) Mingle
Communications & Networking
1 4 (21.05%) HTTP
1 4 (21.05%) NFC
1 4 (21.05%) Internet
2 3 (15.79%) TCP/IP
2 3 (15.79%) DNS
2 3 (15.79%) LDAP
2 3 (15.79%) ATM
3 2 (10.53%) SSH
4 1 (5.263%) Firewall
4 1 (5.263%) Network Security
4 1 (5.263%) iSCSI
4 1 (5.263%) NAS
4 1 (5.263%) DHCP
4 1 (5.263%) FTP
4 1 (5.263%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (21.05%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (5.263%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (5.263%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (5.263%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.263%) DB2
Development Applications
1 5 (26.32%) Ant
2 1 (5.263%) JUnit
2 1 (5.263%) Eclipse
2 1 (5.263%) QuickTest Pro
2 1 (5.263%) Subversion
2 1 (5.263%) Maven
2 1 (5.263%) JIRA
2 1 (5.263%) Selenium
2 1 (5.263%) jMock
2 1 (5.263%) TeamCity
2 1 (5.263%) Git (software)
2 1 (5.263%) JProfiler
2 1 (5.263%) Gerrit
General
1 9 (47.37%) Finance
2 5 (26.32%) Retail
3 4 (21.05%) Retail Banking
3 4 (21.05%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (21.05%) Analyst
1 4 (21.05%) Business Analyst
1 4 (21.05%) Banking Business Analyst
1 4 (21.05%) Middleware Engineer
2 2 (10.53%) Senior UNIX Engineer
2 2 (10.53%) UNIX Engineer
3 1 (5.263%) Wintel Support
3 1 (5.263%) Tester
3 1 (5.263%) Developer
3 1 (5.263%) Programmer
3 1 (5.263%) Support Engineer
3 1 (5.263%) Java Developer
3 1 (5.263%) J2EE Developer
3 1 (5.263%) Java Programmer
3 1 (5.263%) Wintel Support Engineer
3 1 (5.263%) Java/J2EE Developer
3 1 (5.263%) Wintel Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) EFT
1 5 (26.32%) EFTPOS
1 5 (26.32%) Smartcard
2 4 (21.05%) Online Banking
2 4 (21.05%) Mobile Banking
2 4 (21.05%) Mobile Payment
3 3 (15.79%) EPoS
3 3 (15.79%) EMV
3 3 (15.79%) Chip and PIN
3 3 (15.79%) APACS
Operating Systems
1 7 (36.84%) UNIX
2 6 (31.58%) Solaris
3 3 (15.79%) Linux
4 1 (5.263%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (5.263%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (5.263%) Windows 7
4 1 (5.263%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) E-Commerce
1 9 (47.37%) Mobile Commerce
2 5 (26.32%) Scrum
3 4 (21.05%) Project Management
3 4 (21.05%) Waterfall
4 2 (10.53%) CMMI
4 2 (10.53%) Software Engineering
5 1 (5.263%) Business Development
5 1 (5.263%) Network Load Balancing
5 1 (5.263%) Problem Management
5 1 (5.263%) Multithreading
5 1 (5.263%) Time Management
5 1 (5.263%) Business Continuity
5 1 (5.263%) TDD
5 1 (5.263%) BPEL
5 1 (5.263%) Configuration Management
5 1 (5.263%) SOA
5 1 (5.263%) ITIL
5 1 (5.263%) UML
5 1 (5.263%) OO
Programming Languages
1 7 (36.84%) Shell Script
2 6 (31.58%) Perl
2 6 (31.58%) Python
3 5 (26.32%) SQL
3 5 (26.32%) Java
4 4 (21.05%) PL/SQL
4 4 (21.05%) Ruby
4 4 (21.05%) Korn
4 4 (21.05%) Bash shell
4 4 (21.05%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
5 2 (10.53%) Bourne shell
5 2 (10.53%) C-shell
6 1 (5.263%) Groovy
6 1 (5.263%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (5.263%) MCP
1 1 (5.263%) MCSE
1 1 (5.263%) MCSA
1 1 (5.263%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (5.263%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1 1 (5.263%) MCTS
1 1 (5.263%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (26.32%) ISO 8583
2 3 (15.79%) QA
3 2 (10.53%) ISO 9000
4 1 (5.263%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (21.05%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
2 3 (15.79%) Hyper-V
3 2 (10.53%) VMware ESX
3 2 (10.53%) vSphere
4 1 (5.263%) NFS
4 1 (5.263%) Active Directory
4 1 (5.263%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (5.263%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (5.263%) XenApp
4 1 (5.263%) XenServer
4 1 (5.263%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 4 (21.05%) Tivoli
2 1 (5.263%) WSUS
Vendors
1 7 (36.84%) Oracle
2 6 (31.58%) Red Hat
3 4 (21.05%) JBoss
3 4 (21.05%) IBM
4 3 (15.79%) HP
4 3 (15.79%) EMC
4 3 (15.79%) Sage
4 3 (15.79%) VMware
4 3 (15.79%) Wincor Nixdorf
4 3 (15.79%) TSYS
4 3 (15.79%) VeriFone
5 2 (10.53%) Sun
5 2 (10.53%) Cisco
6 1 (5.263%) Microsoft
6 1 (5.263%) Citrix
6 1 (5.263%) CommVault
6 1 (5.263%) LANDesk