Mercator Job Trends

Mercator
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of Mercator products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Mercator over the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within Mercator Software, Inc.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 634 701 705
Rank change year-on-year +67 +4 -
Permanent jobs citing Mercator 15 10 8
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.025% 0.019% 0.014%
As % of the Vendors category 0.079% 0.050% 0.037%
Number of salaries quoted 9 2 6
10th Percentile - - £72,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £40,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +31.25% -50.00% -
75th Percentile £56,250 £42,500 £85,313
90th Percentile - - £86,250
UK excluding London median annual salary - - -

All Vendors
UK

Mercator falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,917 19,991 21,817
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.38% 37.30% 39.34%
Number of salaries quoted 10,706 10,124 16,690
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £33,500 £42,000 £38,084
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,860 £57,471 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.50% +4.49% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £76,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,778 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,750 £50,055 £47,565
% change year-on-year -14.59% +5.23% -4.87%

Mercator
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Mercator relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Mercator job vacancy trend in the UK

Mercator
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Mercator.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Mercator

Mercator
Top 3 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Mercator within the UK over the 6 months to 15 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Work from Home +71 9 £52,500 +31.25%
London +69 6 £47,500 -
England +58 6 £47,500 -

Mercator
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (20.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (20.00%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 6 (40.00%) AWS
2 4 (26.67%) Azure
2 4 (26.67%) GitHub
3 3 (20.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 3 (20.00%) GCP
3 3 (20.00%) Google Analytics
3 3 (20.00%) Google Data Studio
3 3 (20.00%) Google Sheets
3 3 (20.00%) Google Tag Manager
3 3 (20.00%) PaaS
3 3 (20.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Functions
4 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (20.00%) Power BI
1 3 (20.00%) Power Query
2 1 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) JIRA
1 3 (20.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (6.67%) GitLab
General
1 14 (93.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Public Sector
3 3 (20.00%) Marketing
4 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) Developer
1 9 (60.00%) Java Developer
2 3 (20.00%) Analyst
2 3 (20.00%) Performance Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) User Researcher
4 1 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) JSON
2 1 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Public Cloud
2 3 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (20.00%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) Agile
2 13 (86.67%) Scrum
3 9 (60.00%) Collaborative Working
4 5 (33.33%) Decision-Making
4 5 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
4 5 (33.33%) Service Delivery
5 3 (20.00%) Analytics
5 3 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (20.00%) Dashboard Development
5 3 (20.00%) Data Collection
5 3 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
5 3 (20.00%) ETL
5 3 (20.00%) Kanban
5 3 (20.00%) Machine Learning
5 3 (20.00%) Personalization
5 3 (20.00%) Segmentation Analysis
5 3 (20.00%) Social Media Analytics
5 3 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
5 3 (20.00%) Visualisation
5 3 (20.00%) Web Analytics
Programming Languages
1 9 (60.00%) Java
2 3 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (40.00%) Terraform
2 1 (6.67%) Ansible
2 1 (6.67%) Grafana
2 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Google
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft