Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Degree in IT jobs within the London region compared to all other Qualifications we currently track. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Degree over the 3 months to 8 January 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkDegree
Location
3 months to
8 Jan 2009
Same period last year
Rank1413
Rank change on same period last yearDown-1
Matching permanent IT job ads45868952
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled3.964 %4.569 %
As % of the category below50.20 %53.34 %
Salaries quoted39327117
Average minimum salary£42,415£43,717
Average salary£47,287£49,139
% change on same period last year-3.76 %
Average maximum salary£52,159£54,561
UK excluding London average salary£36,646£36,975
% change on same period last year-0.88 %
London IT Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
London
Matching permanent IT job ads913616783
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled7.896 %8.565 %
Salaries quoted783213554
Average minimum salary£42,008£43,030
Average salary£45,893£46,991
% change on same period last year-2.33 %
Average maximum salary£49,777£50,953
UK excluding London average salary£38,607£38,188
% change on same period last year+1.09 %
Degree EnglandDegree
England

Degree
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Degree across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

London Degree Demand Trend

Degree
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Degree across the London region.

London Degree Salary Trend

Degree
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Degree across the London region over the 3 months to 8 January 2009.

London Degree Salary Histogram

Degree
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Degree within the London region over the 3 months to 8 January 2009. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
City of LondonNo change01188£49,899-6.52 %
Docklands, LondonDown-1050£65,579+21.42 %
CroydonUp+147£36,011-6.35 %
UxbridgeUp+739£40,675-25.63 %
ClaphamUp+2127£37,212-12.44 %
Canary WharfDown-725£61,471+10.83 %
BrentfordUp+1124£39,583-14.87 %
LutonUp+1220£44,763+32.76 %
HammersmithDown-217£41,150+1.97 %
BromleyUp+1015£30,542-16.70 %
FelthamUp+313£35,269-21.62 %
BexleyNew entry-9£33,222-
Kingston Upon ThamesDown-89£41,944+28.34 %
OrpingtonNo change07£28,071+15.04 %
New MaldenUp+26£44,750+17.18 %
StanmoreNew entry-6--
HarrowUp+105£38,400+27.09 %
HounslowDown-54£27,500-41.48 %
WembleyNew entry-4£29,000-
EalingUp+64£35,000-48.52 %
OsterleyUp+34--
WimbledonUp+103£48,333+14.53 %
WellingNew entry-3£39,500-
RomfordDown-43£26,833-48.88 %
SidcupNew entry-3£39,500-
South CroydonUp+43£40,000-5.88 %
IlfordNew entry-3£27,200-
MitchamDown-63£34,167+13.88 %
SouthwarkNew entry-2£27,500-
HillingdonNew entry-1£30,000-
PaddingtonUp+21£47,500+39.70 %
SurbitonUp+31£28,500-28.75 %
EnfieldDown-111£27,500-11.29 %
GreenfordUp+81£40,000-15.11 %
BexleyheathNew entry-1£40,000-
Degree EnglandDegree
England

Degree
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 January 2009, IT jobs across the London region citing Degree 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 Degree.

14191 (35.89 %)Finance
22919 (25.00 %)SQL
32340 (20.04 %).NET
42268 (19.42 %)C#
52257 (19.33 %)Java
61972 (16.89 %)SQL Server
71740 (14.90 %)Windows
81738 (14.88 %)C++
91735 (14.86 %)Banking
101544 (13.22 %)Computer Science
111430 (12.25 %)Oracle
121354 (11.60 %)UNIX
131330 (11.39 %)XML
141276 (10.93 %)Microsoft
151198 (10.26 %)OO
161106 (9.472 %)ASP.NET
171099 (9.412 %)Front Office
181050 (8.992 %)Education
191020 (8.735 %)Derivative
20929 (7.956 %)Mathematics
21896 (7.673 %)HTML
22895 (7.665 %)Linux
23893 (7.648 %)Project Management
24890 (7.622 %)MS Excel
25825 (7.065 %)JavaScript
26752 (6.440 %)Marketing
27748 (6.406 %)J2EE
28649 (5.558 %)Investment Banking
29618 (5.292 %)WebServices
30606 (5.190 %)C

Degree
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 January 2009, IT jobs across the London region citing Degree 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 Degree. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

London IT Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
12340 (20.04 %).NET
21330 (11.39 %)XML
31106 (9.472 %)ASP.NET
4896 (7.673 %)HTML
5748 (6.406 %)J2EE
6618 (5.292 %)WebServices
7600 (5.138 %)CSS
8401 (3.434 %)AJAX
9351 (3.006 %)Spring
10333 (2.852 %)WinForms
11316 (2.706 %)ASP
12262 (2.244 %)JSP
13259 (2.218 %)Hibernate
14258 (2.209 %)XHTML
15256 (2.192 %)Flash
16219 (1.875 %)XSLT
17218 (1.867 %)STL
18195 (1.670 %).NET Framework
19177 (1.516 %)WebSphere
20157 (1.345 %)Servlets
London IT Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
1361 (3.092 %)SAS
2305 (2.612 %)MS Exchange
3251 (2.150 %)SharePoint
4222 (1.901 %)Exchange Server 2003
5217 (1.858 %)Apache
6216 (1.850 %)IIS
7157 (1.345 %)WebLogic
8143 (1.225 %)Tomcat
9102 (0.874 %)BizTalk Server
1085 (0.728 %)CMS
1180 (0.685 %)Exchange Server 2007
1264 (0.548 %)SharePoint Server 2007
1355 (0.471 %)ColdFusion
1450 (0.428 %)JBoss
1546 (0.394 %)WebSphere Application Server
1636 (0.308 %)Exchange Server 2000
1733 (0.283 %)Lotus Notes
1829 (0.248 %)MQSeries
1928 (0.240 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
2021 (0.180 %)Documentum
London IT Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
1890 (7.622 %)MS Excel
2414 (3.545 %)MS Office
3192 (1.644 %)Photoshop
4150 (1.285 %)SPSS
5142 (1.216 %)MS Visio
6107 (0.916 %)Spreadsheet
7106 (0.908 %)MS Project
871 (0.608 %)MS PowerPoint
957 (0.488 %)Adobe Illustrator
1047 (0.403 %)MATLAB
1145 (0.385 %)CA Clarity
1213 (0.111 %)Fireworks
1312 (0.103 %)AutoCAD
1410 (0.086 %)FrameMaker
159 (0.077 %)Maya
159 (0.077 %)RoboHelp
165 (0.043 %)Acrobat
165 (0.043 %)Stata
173 (0.026 %)InfoPath
173 (0.026 %)3ds Max
London IT Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
133 (0.283 %)Summit
133 (0.283 %)Kondor+
230 (0.257 %)SAP SD
328 (0.240 %)SAP HR
328 (0.240 %)SoftGrid
328 (0.240 %)RMDS
427 (0.231 %)SAP CO
427 (0.231 %)SAP FI/CO
427 (0.231 %)SAP FI
524 (0.206 %)Oracle Financials
524 (0.206 %)Oracle Applications
524 (0.206 %)Temenos Globus
524 (0.206 %)Temenos T24
623 (0.197 %)Misys Opics
623 (0.197 %)SunGard AvantGard
623 (0.197 %)Murex MxG2000
718 (0.154 %)Microsoft CRM
815 (0.128 %)Endur
912 (0.103 %)SAP MM
912 (0.103 %)WebTrends
London IT Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
1485 (4.153 %)Internet
2426 (3.648 %)TCP/IP
3250 (2.141 %)WAN
4236 (2.021 %)LAN
5161 (1.379 %)DNS
6141 (1.208 %)Firewall
7110 (0.942 %)HTTP
8107 (0.916 %)Intranet
9101 (0.865 %)SAN
1088 (0.754 %)VoIP
1180 (0.685 %)VPN
1267 (0.574 %)Wireless
1360 (0.514 %)Network Security
1458 (0.497 %)DHCP
1552 (0.445 %)MPLS
1647 (0.403 %)SMS
1745 (0.385 %)SMTP
1839 (0.334 %)IP Telephony
1936 (0.308 %)BGP
2035 (0.300 %)SSL
London IT Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
11972 (16.89 %)SQL Server
2592 (5.070 %)SQL Server 2005
3374 (3.203 %)Datawarehouse
4322 (2.758 %)MySQL
5295 (2.526 %)SQL Server 2000
6285 (2.441 %)RDBMS
7242 (2.072 %)ETL
8225 (1.927 %)BusinessObjects
9151 (1.293 %)Oracle 10g
10117 (1.002 %)MS Access
11116 (0.993 %)SQL Server Integration Services
12107 (0.916 %)Crystal Reports
13100 (0.856 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
1487 (0.745 %)Oracle 8/8i
1576 (0.651 %)DTS
1674 (0.634 %)OLAP
1770 (0.599 %)DB2
1868 (0.582 %)Oracle Reports
1959 (0.505 %)Base SAS
2058 (0.497 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
London IT Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
1213 (1.824 %)Visual Studio
2117 (1.002 %)JUnit
3115 (0.985 %)Eclipse
4103 (0.882 %)Subversion
582 (0.702 %)Selenium
680 (0.685 %)VSS/SourceSafe
775 (0.642 %)TestDirector
864 (0.548 %)QuickTest Pro
949 (0.420 %)Dreamweaver
1047 (0.403 %)Ant
1047 (0.403 %)NUnit
1144 (0.377 %)Oracle Forms
1237 (0.317 %)LoadRunner
1330 (0.257 %)IntelliJ
1427 (0.231 %)FitNesse
1524 (0.206 %)ClearCase
1524 (0.206 %)WinRunner
1623 (0.197 %)Rational Rose
1721 (0.180 %)Log4j
1721 (0.180 %)JIRA
London IT Job Market, GeneralGeneral
14191 (35.89 %)Finance
21735 (14.86 %)Banking
31099 (9.412 %)Front Office
41050 (8.992 %)Education
5752 (6.440 %)Marketing
6649 (5.558 %)Investment Banking
7538 (4.607 %)Telecoms
8438 (3.751 %)Insurance
9369 (3.160 %)Retail
10360 (3.083 %)Games
11328 (2.809 %)Back Office
12319 (2.732 %)Health
13306 (2.621 %)Pensions
14251 (2.150 %)Government
15246 (2.107 %)Financial Institution
16168 (1.439 %)Legal
17158 (1.353 %)Law
18141 (1.208 %)Advertising
19103 (0.882 %)Publishing
2073 (0.625 %)Manufacturing
London IT Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
13937 (33.72 %)Developer
22233 (19.12 %)Analyst
3965 (8.264 %)C# Developer
4921 (7.887 %)Consultant
5802 (6.868 %)Java Developer
6742 (6.354 %).NET Developer
7642 (5.498 %)Graduate
8593 (5.078 %)Business Analyst
9556 (4.761 %)C++ Developer
10520 (4.453 %)Senior Developer
11511 (4.376 %)Project Manager
12431 (3.691 %)Architect
13412 (3.528 %)Junior
14345 (2.955 %)Support Analyst
15319 (2.732 %)Administrator
16317 (2.715 %)Programmer
17314 (2.689 %)SQL Developer
18294 (2.518 %)Web Developer
19231 (1.978 %)Software Engineer
20222 (1.901 %)Graduate Developer
London IT Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
11544 (13.22 %)Computer Science
21020 (8.735 %)Derivative
3929 (7.956 %)Mathematics
4542 (4.642 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
5472 (4.042 %)Fixed Income
6417 (3.571 %)Equities
7257 (2.201 %)Physics
8215 (1.841 %)Credit Derivative
9207 (1.773 %)Multithreading
10201 (1.721 %)Equity Derivative
11157 (1.345 %)Management Information System
12149 (1.276 %)Client/Server
13148 (1.267 %)Economics
14142 (1.216 %)Statistics
15134 (1.148 %)Credit Risk
16126 (1.079 %)Market Risk
17125 (1.070 %)N-Tier
18120 (1.028 %)Web 2.0
19102 (0.874 %)French Language
20101 (0.865 %)Blackberry
London IT Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
11740 (14.90 %)Windows
21354 (11.60 %)UNIX
3895 (7.665 %)Linux
4497 (4.256 %)Windows Server 2003
5350 (2.997 %)Windows XP
6295 (2.526 %)Solaris
7206 (1.764 %)Windows 2000
873 (0.625 %)Windows Vista
964 (0.548 %)Windows NT
1060 (0.514 %)Red Hat Linux
1159 (0.505 %)Windows 2000 Server
1235 (0.300 %)AIX
1332 (0.274 %)Windows Server 2008
1428 (0.240 %)VMS
1527 (0.231 %)Windows Mobile
1622 (0.188 %)OpenVMS
1721 (0.180 %)HPUX
1721 (0.180 %)Mac OS X
188 (0.069 %)Ubuntu
197 (0.060 %)Debian
London IT Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
11198 (10.26 %)OO
2893 (7.648 %)Project Management
3528 (4.522 %)Agile Software Development
4505 (4.325 %)Business Analysis
5484 (4.145 %)PRINCE2
6429 (3.674 %)UML
7418 (3.580 %)Business Intelligence
8407 (3.485 %)E-Commerce
9366 (3.134 %)Risk Management
10314 (2.689 %)ITIL
10314 (2.689 %)Software Engineering
11286 (2.449 %)CRM
12254 (2.175 %)Web Development
13243 (2.081 %)Data Analysis
14237 (2.030 %)SOA
15227 (1.944 %)OOD
16200 (1.713 %)Asset Management
17195 (1.670 %)Business Development
18182 (1.559 %)Algorithmic Trading
19174 (1.490 %)Workflow
London IT Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
12919 (25.00 %)SQL
22268 (19.42 %)C#
32257 (19.33 %)Java
41738 (14.88 %)C++
5825 (7.065 %)JavaScript
6606 (5.190 %)C
7534 (4.573 %)VB
8533 (4.565 %)VBA
9438 (3.751 %)VB.NET
10421 (3.605 %)Perl
11382 (3.271 %)Transact-SQL
12340 (2.912 %)PHP
13220 (1.884 %)Python
14196 (1.679 %)PL/SQL
15143 (1.225 %)Shell Script
16129 (1.105 %)ActionScript
17124 (1.062 %)VBScript
18118 (1.011 %)Delphi
19117 (1.002 %)VC++
20107 (0.916 %)VB6
London IT Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
1606 (5.190 %)Microsoft Certification
2324 (2.775 %)MCSE
3199 (1.704 %)MCP
4197 (1.687 %)Cisco Certification
5147 (1.259 %)CCNA
5147 (1.259 %)ISEB
6118 (1.011 %)PhD
7117 (1.002 %)MCSA
8105 (0.899 %)HND
8105 (0.899 %)Security Cleared
993 (0.796 %)CISSP
1077 (0.659 %)MCSD
1176 (0.651 %)PRINCE2 Certification
1271 (0.608 %)CISA
1370 (0.599 %)MCTS
1468 (0.582 %)MBA
1565 (0.557 %)Citrix Certification
1661 (0.522 %)CCNP
1759 (0.505 %)CCEA
1850 (0.428 %)ITIL Certification
London IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
1307 (2.629 %)QA
2111 (0.951 %)SLA
366 (0.565 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
438 (0.325 %)Basel II
526 (0.223 %)PCI DSS
622 (0.188 %)ISO27001
721 (0.180 %)WAI
818 (0.154 %)COBIT
917 (0.146 %)ISO9001
1010 (0.086 %)ISO17799
119 (0.077 %)MiFID
128 (0.069 %)EFQM
137 (0.060 %)PCI QSA
146 (0.051 %)IAS 39
146 (0.051 %)BS7799
155 (0.043 %)HL7
164 (0.034 %)ISO9000
173 (0.026 %)GMP
173 (0.026 %)TickIT
182 (0.017 %)DICOM
London IT Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
1498 (4.265 %)Active Directory
263 (0.540 %)VMware Infrastructure
354 (0.462 %)Oracle RAC
451 (0.437 %)Backup Exec
532 (0.274 %)Oracle RMAN
621 (0.180 %)VMware ESX
720 (0.171 %)ISA Server
819 (0.163 %)MSMQ
918 (0.154 %)NFS
918 (0.154 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
1016 (0.137 %)NetBackup
1112 (0.103 %)Citrix Presentation Server
1210 (0.086 %)AquaLogic
135 (0.043 %)MetaFrame
135 (0.043 %)Cronacle
144 (0.034 %)Terminal Server
153 (0.026 %)Terminal Services
153 (0.026 %)NDS
153 (0.026 %)Samba
162 (0.017 %)Xen
London IT Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
132 (0.274 %)AutoSys
226 (0.223 %)Data Guard
319 (0.163 %)OpenView
415 (0.128 %)SCCM
513 (0.111 %)Tivoli
513 (0.111 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
612 (0.103 %)CONTROL-M
710 (0.086 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
89 (0.077 %)Nagios
98 (0.069 %)WSUS
106 (0.051 %)BMC PATROL
114 (0.034 %)HP Data Protector
123 (0.026 %)ZENworks
123 (0.026 %)Unicenter
132 (0.017 %)Tivoli Monitoring
132 (0.017 %)MOM
132 (0.017 %)Netcool
132 (0.017 %)Netcool/Webtop
132 (0.017 %)Veritas Storage Foundation
141 (0.009 %)DameWare
London IT Job Market, VendorsVendors
11430 (12.25 %)Oracle
21276 (10.93 %)Microsoft
3372 (3.186 %)Sybase
4321 (2.749 %)Cisco
5271 (2.321 %)SAP
6225 (1.927 %)Business Objects
7198 (1.696 %)Citrix
8189 (1.619 %)IBM
9163 (1.396 %)VMware
10142 (1.216 %)Cognos
11121 (1.036 %)HP
12110 (0.942 %)Murex
13103 (0.882 %)Sun
1492 (0.788 %)Reuters
1582 (0.702 %)Bloomberg
1681 (0.694 %)TIBCO
1780 (0.685 %)Adobe
1879 (0.677 %)Informatica
1969 (0.591 %)Red Hat
2050 (0.428 %)Lotus