The first table below looks at the demand for VxWorks skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VxWorks over the 3 months to 24 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 Operating Systems category.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Wind River VxWorks
Rank 769 826 809
Rank change year-on-year
+57 -17
Permanent jobs citing VxWorks 93 73 72
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.086% 0.060% 0.058%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.316% 0.227% 0.232%
Number of salaries quoted 59 70 62
Average salary £45,000 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.50% -
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £36,350 £37,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £47,750 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-6.25% -
All Operating Systems
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
29395 32200 30988
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 27.20% 26.68% 24.91%
Number of salaries quoted 24824 27612 26147
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £24,500
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%

VxWorks
Jobs Demand Trend

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

VxWorks Jobs Demand Trend

VxWorks
Salary Trend

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

VxWorks Salary Trend

VxWorks
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VxWorks over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 within the UK.

VxWorks Salary Histogram

VxWorks
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VxWorks within the UK over the 3 months to 24 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 +44 90 £40,000 -
South East +3 46 £35,000 -12.50%
East of England +5 20 £37,500 -16.66%
South West +15 17 £50,000 +19.04%
Surrey +9 17 £35,000 -15.15%
Leatherhead +9 17 £35,000 -6.66%
Gloucestershire - 17 £50,000 -
West Sussex - 15 - -
Crawley - 15 - -
Essex +24 12 £37,500 -11.76%
Cheltenham - 12 £50,000 -
Reading -12 7 £50,000 +21.21%
Berkshire -19 7 £50,000 +25.00%
Colchester +18 6 £37,500 -25.00%
Hertfordshire +11 6 £43,750 -2.77%
Stevenage +12 5 £35,000 -22.22%
Buckinghamshire - 5 - -
Gloucester - 5 - -
Milton Keynes - 5 - -
London - 5 £50,000 -
Stafford +2 2 - -
Staffordshire -1 2 - -
West Midlands -20 2 - -
South Wales - 2 £51,250 -
Wales - 2 £51,250 -
Cardiff - 2 £51,250 -
Cambridgeshire +8 1 - -
Scotland +1 1 £45,000 +29.49%
Cambridge -4 1 - -
Bedfordshire -15 1 £50,000 -1.47%

VxWorks
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing VxWorks 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 VxWorks.

1 149 (90.30%) C++
2 126 (76.36%) Linux
3 125 (75.76%) C
4 93 (56.36%) Windows
5 67 (40.61%) Degree
6 63 (38.18%) UML
7 61 (36.97%) Embedded C
8 58 (35.15%) Aerospace
9 54 (32.73%) Military
10 50 (30.30%) DO-178B
11 48 (29.09%) Device Driver
12 47 (28.48%) C#
13 46 (27.88%) ClearCase
14 43 (26.06%) Ada
15 40 (24.24%) Firmware
15 40 (24.24%) OO
15 40 (24.24%) Software Engineering
15 40 (24.24%) Waterfall
16 39 (23.64%) QNX
16 39 (23.64%) Electronics
17 38 (23.03%) Embedded Software Development
18 35 (21.21%) Software Testing
18 35 (21.21%) Middleware
19 34 (20.61%) Java
19 34 (20.61%) Computer Science
20 33 (20.00%) Rational DOORS
21 31 (18.79%) UNIX
21 31 (18.79%) Python
21 31 (18.79%) Telecoms
22 30 (18.18%) .NET

VxWorks
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing VxWorks 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 VxWorks. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 35 (21.21%) Middleware
2 30 (18.18%) .NET
3 22 (13.33%) JSF
4 17 (10.30%) Spring
5 12 (7.273%) CGI
6 10 (6.061%) POSIX
7 7 (4.242%) XML
8 5 (3.030%) SOAP
8 5 (3.030%) STL
8 5 (3.030%) REST
8 5 (3.030%) Qt
9 4 (2.424%) GStreamer
10 2 (1.212%) ICEfaces
Application Platforms
1 1 (0.606%) CM System
Applications
1 24 (14.55%) MS Office
2 18 (10.91%) MS Excel
3 13 (7.879%) MS PowerPoint
4 8 (4.848%) Simulink
5 2 (1.212%) Stateflow
Communications & Networking
1 29 (17.58%) Ethernet
2 10 (6.061%) HTTP
3 8 (4.848%) DVB
4 7 (4.242%) Wi-Fi
4 7 (4.242%) Bluetooth
4 7 (4.242%) GSM
4 7 (4.242%) TCP/IP
4 7 (4.242%) ZigBee
5 5 (3.030%) Firewall
5 5 (3.030%) UMTS
5 5 (3.030%) FTP
5 5 (3.030%) VPN
5 5 (3.030%) DNS
5 5 (3.030%) IPv6
5 5 (3.030%) RTP
5 5 (3.030%) Network Security
5 5 (3.030%) LTE
6 4 (2.424%) NAS
7 3 (1.818%) ASN.1
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.606%) GIS
1 1 (0.606%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 46 (27.88%) ClearCase
2 33 (20.00%) Rational DOORS
3 26 (15.76%) ClearQuest
4 21 (12.73%) Subversion
5 18 (10.91%) Git (software)
6 17 (10.30%) Eclipse
6 17 (10.30%) Bugzilla
7 15 (9.091%) Maven
7 15 (9.091%) Ant
8 7 (4.242%) Rational Rhapsody
9 6 (3.636%) PVCS
10 5 (3.030%) CodeWarrior
11 1 (0.606%) JIRA
General
1 58 (35.15%) Aerospace
2 54 (32.73%) Military
3 39 (23.64%) Electronics
4 31 (18.79%) Telecoms
5 24 (14.55%) Avionics
6 6 (3.636%) Marketing
7 4 (2.424%) Finance
8 3 (1.818%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.606%) Publishing
9 1 (0.606%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 84 (50.91%) Software Engineer
2 47 (28.48%) Developer
3 43 (26.06%) Software Developer
4 24 (14.55%) Real Time Software Engineer
4 24 (14.55%) Real Time Engineer
5 17 (10.30%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 13 (7.879%) C++ Software Engineer
7 10 (6.061%) Embedded Software Developer
8 9 (5.455%) Technical Architect
8 9 (5.455%) Architect
9 8 (4.848%) Embedded C Engineer
10 7 (4.242%) C Software Engineer
10 7 (4.242%) Software Architect
11 6 (3.636%) Embedded C/C++ Engineer
11 6 (3.636%) Embedded C++ Engineer
11 6 (3.636%) Ada Developer
11 6 (3.636%) Design Engineer
12 4 (2.424%) Embedded C Software Engineer
13 3 (1.818%) Systems Engineer
13 3 (1.818%) Development Manager
Miscellaneous
1 48 (29.09%) Device Driver
2 40 (24.24%) Firmware
3 34 (20.61%) Computer Science
4 30 (18.18%) CAN bus
5 27 (16.36%) Embedded Systems
6 25 (15.15%) Chip and PIN
7 24 (14.55%) Management Information System
8 20 (12.12%) Mathematics
9 16 (9.697%) Physics
10 15 (9.091%) Handset
11 8 (4.848%) MPEG
11 8 (4.848%) STB
12 5 (3.030%) Streaming Video
12 5 (3.030%) DTV
13 4 (2.424%) Open Source
14 3 (1.818%) IPTV
14 3 (1.818%) MHEG
15 2 (1.212%) Data Protection Act
16 1 (0.606%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 126 (76.36%) Linux
2 93 (56.36%) Windows
3 31 (18.79%) UNIX
4 21 (12.73%) Embedded Linux
5 17 (10.30%) LynxOS
6 8 (4.848%) ThreadX
7 7 (4.242%) Windows CE
8 4 (2.424%) Windows 7
9 3 (1.818%) Solaris
10 1 (0.606%) Nucleus RTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (38.18%) UML
2 40 (24.24%) OO
2 40 (24.24%) Software Engineering
2 40 (24.24%) Waterfall
3 38 (23.03%) Embedded Software Development
4 35 (21.21%) Software Testing
5 27 (16.36%) Configuration Management
6 25 (15.15%) Requirements Management
7 24 (14.55%) Information Management
7 24 (14.55%) Communications Security
8 19 (11.52%) Continuous Integration
9 17 (10.30%) RUP
9 17 (10.30%) Agile Software Development
9 17 (10.30%) TDD
10 15 (9.091%) Validation
10 15 (9.091%) MODAF
11 14 (8.485%) Digital Signal Processing
11 14 (8.485%) Signal Processing
12 13 (7.879%) SSADM
12 13 (7.879%) Yourdon
Programming Languages
1 149 (90.30%) C++
2 125 (75.76%) C
3 61 (36.97%) Embedded C
4 47 (28.48%) C#
5 43 (26.06%) Ada
6 34 (20.61%) Java
7 31 (18.79%) Python
8 20 (12.12%) MATLAB
9 19 (11.52%) Perl
10 10 (6.061%) Delphi
11 9 (5.455%) Embedded C++
12 2 (1.212%) SQL
Qualifications
1 67 (40.61%) Degree
2 19 (11.52%) SC Cleared
2 19 (11.52%) Security Cleared
3 17 (10.30%) PhD
4 1 (0.606%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (30.30%) DO-178B
2 11 (6.667%) IEC 61508
3 7 (4.242%) TickIT
4 4 (2.424%) 21 CFR Part 11
Systems Management
1 17 (10.30%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 39 (23.64%) QNX
2 17 (10.30%) HP
3 13 (7.879%) Intel
4 5 (3.030%) Green Hills
4 5 (3.030%) IBM
4 5 (3.030%) MathWorks
5 4 (2.424%) Wind River
6 3 (1.818%) Microsoft
7 1 (0.606%) Huawei
Cheltenham, South West
Required Experience Real Time Embedded C for 8,16 and 32 bit microcontrollers including Power PC... Familiarity with C++, C# & .NET frameworks. Familiarity with Operating Systems - DOS, Windows,...
ITS Ingenium
Salary: £0 - £50,000 per year
Posted: 21 May 2013
Colchester, Essex
Global Company seek talented C / C++ Embedded Engineer to work on products for Blue Chip International clients. This position will see a talented C / C++ Developer move their...
Senitor Associates
Salary: £38000 - £42000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 18 May 2013
Essex
Skills:Embedded C and Degree in embedded systems... Skills Required: Engineering graduate, Embedded C (at least 1 years commercial experience) Desirable Experience… C++ programming, primarily for the Intel...
Stafford-Sharp Associates
Salary: From £20,000 to £27,000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Stevenage, Hertfordshire
Awareness of Model Based Design and associated tools such as, MATLAB, Simulink, Stateflow... Ada / C / C++ / JAVA... Linux, VxWorks. Requirements management e.g. DOORS. Configuration Management e.g...
MBDA UK Ltd
Posted: 7 May 2013
Central London / West End
We are looking for strong C++ Software Engineers with exposure to any of the following being highly desirable: STL, including Maps and Vectors, exposure using embedded compilers and...
Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Salary: Circa 40,00-60,000
Posted: 21 May 2013
London
Implement functionality using C++ and Python... Software testing tools experience: (LDRA TBrun, IBM Rational Test Real, Time Parasoft C++test, Parasoft Concerto, IPL Cantata++, Razorcat Development Tessy) Other...
JPS Selection
Salary: From £50,000 to £75,000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013