The first table below looks at the demand for TopLink skills in IT jobs advertised for the West Midlands region. 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 for the West Midlands region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle TopLink
Rank 203 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing TopLink 1 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.020% - -
As % of the Application Development category 0.049% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Average salary £35,000 - -
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £43,750 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-14.28% +16.66%
All Application Development
West Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
2032 1945 1582
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 40.58% 42.84% 37.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1815 1745 1445
Average salary £37,500 £36,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.16% +2.85%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £25,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
TopLink
England

TopLink
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands TopLink Jobs Demand Trend

TopLink
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing TopLink across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands TopLink Salary Trend

TopLink
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 West Midlands region 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
Wolverhampton - 1 £35,000 -
TopLink
England

TopLink
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands region 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 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software

TopLink
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands region 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 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) DBA
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle