Mercator Jobs

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 21 May 2025, 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
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 700 866 909
Rank change year-on-year +166 +43 +270
Permanent jobs citing Mercator 18 18 67
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.032% 0.018% 0.067%
As % of the Vendors category 0.083% 0.050% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 11 3 46
10th Percentile £42,500 - £40,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £65,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £70,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -35.71% +27.27% -
75th Percentile £53,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £70,000 - £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary - - £24,500

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 21,727 36,304 41,634
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 38.89% 36.33% 41.86%
Number of salaries quoted 11,989 24,824 23,918
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,700 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,750 £36,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,600 £68,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £88,760 £87,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,543 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.79% -8.91% +5.26%

Mercator
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Mercator as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Mercator in the UK

Mercator
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Mercator.

Salary trend for Mercator in the UK

Mercator
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Mercator over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Mercator in the UK

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 21 May 2025. 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 +119 11 £48,750 -
England +159 7 £45,000 -35.71%
London +118 7 £45,000 -35.71%

Mercator
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (11.11%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 3 (16.67%) JUnit
2 2 (11.11%) Git
2 2 (11.11%) JIRA
2 2 (11.11%) Subversion
3 1 (5.56%) Cucumber
3 1 (5.56%) RSpec
3 1 (5.56%) Selenium
3 1 (5.56%) WebDriver
General
1 15 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 8 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (16.67%) Finance
4 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 2 (11.11%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) User Researcher
2 4 (22.22%) Developer
3 3 (16.67%) Analyst
3 3 (16.67%) Business Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Content Designer
4 2 (11.11%) Designer
4 2 (11.11%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 2 (11.11%) Lead
4 2 (11.11%) Lead Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Lead Software Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Senior
4 2 (11.11%) Senior User Researcher
4 2 (11.11%) Software Developer
5 1 (5.56%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) JSON
2 2 (11.11%) Ajax
2 2 (11.11%) CSS
2 2 (11.11%) CSS3
2 2 (11.11%) Django
2 2 (11.11%) Guice
2 2 (11.11%) HTML
2 2 (11.11%) HTML5
2 2 (11.11%) Play Framework
2 2 (11.11%) REST
2 2 (11.11%) Ruby on Rails
2 2 (11.11%) Spring
2 2 (11.11%) Spring MVC
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (100.00%) Agile
2 13 (72.22%) User Research
3 10 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (55.56%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 8 (44.44%) Actionable Customer Insight
4 8 (44.44%) Actionable Insight
4 8 (44.44%) Customer Insight
4 8 (44.44%) Decision-Making
4 8 (44.44%) Design Persona
4 8 (44.44%) Ergonomics
4 8 (44.44%) Ethnography
4 8 (44.44%) Human Factors
4 8 (44.44%) Usability Testing
4 8 (44.44%) Workshop Facilitation
5 7 (38.89%) Scrum
5 7 (38.89%) User Experience
6 5 (27.78%) Collaborative Working
6 5 (27.78%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (27.78%) User Stories
7 4 (22.22%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) C#
1 2 (11.11%) Python
1 2 (11.11%) Ruby
2 1 (5.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 16 (88.89%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (55.56%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.56%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Google