In London right now? Sitting on your couch reading Startup Cafe whilst yet again trying to water down that ever worse Sunday morning hangover? Thinking this is another week end wasted away, another week is about to start; your shirts are not ironed and the prospects of that corporate job of yours aren’t that bright? Well get up, brush your teeth and head East. Silicon Milkroundabout brings together 100+ UK start-ups offering 500+ technical jobs.Where
The Old Truman Brewery, T1 space
Entry at 81 Brick Lane, London
When
Sunday the 30th of October until 5pm
- There are over 150 companies hiring at SiliconMilkRoundabout this weekend with over 500 technical jobs up for grabs at London start ups (with salaries from £20k to £100k
- There are 3,134 Graduate technical jobs available in the UK and over 1,000 in London currently listed on Adzuna.co.uk, the UK’s most comprehensive job search engine.
- The average Banking IT salary is £57k which is 19% higher than the average tech start up salary. Tech startups offer greater job satisfaction and the upside of options, but this salary gap is what the start hiring community is up against.
- 23% of start ups currently hiring in London are offering stock to graduate tech employees; 0% of banks hiring graduates are offering stock.
- Despite their age, workhorse languages such as C and C++ continue to remain at the top end of the software development landscape in terms of use and job potential. That being said, Ruby, Hadoop and HTML5 are the fastest growing “in demand” tech skills with employer demand up 70%+ year on year for all of these search terms
- Graduate Mobile developers can demand a premium, with the average graduate salary for iPhone developers at £34k and Android developers at £35k, 20% higher than the average graduate tech job.
- Despite what appears to be an abundance of tech jobs in the UK, 13.1% of computer science graduates remain unemployed (source: HESA). 7,000+ computer scientists graduated this summer from University in the UK.
Adzuna.co.uk collated every single tech job advertisement posted in the last month on over 150 different UK job boards, a total of 100,000 tech job ads. Using the advanced search technology that powers its job search engine, the data was semantically analysed based on “ad content” and salary rates. This data was then matched to the annnual statistics published by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) and the Office of National Statistics.
Avg. Salaries and # Vacancies by job type in London:
|
Job Type |
Avg. Salary (Graduate Job) |
Avg. Salary |
No. of live vacancies in London |
|
HTML jobs |
£25,428 |
£40,243 |
3,991 |
|
HTML5 jobs |
£28,101 |
£44,332 |
798 |
|
Perl developer |
£31,441 |
£47,677 |
801 |
|
Ruby developer |
£26,300 |
£51,060 |
512 |
|
Python developer |
£31,021 |
£50,036 |
829 |
|
iPhone / iPad developer |
£34,010 |
£45,169 |
301 |
|
Android developer |
£35,277 |
£46,780 |
535 |
|
Games developer |
£32,430 |
£44,967 |
109 |
|
Startup developer |
£28,736 |
£48,162 |
603 |
|
Java developer |
£30,955 |
£43,031 |
433 |
|
Hadoop jobs |
£25,428 |
£51,145 |
88 |
About Adzuna
Adzuna.co.uk is a comprehensive search engine for job ads used by hundreds of thousands of jobseekers every month which makes it easier for users to find the right job locally. We search hundreds of sites so you don’t have to, bring together hundreds of thousands of ads so you can find them all in one place, and organize them with useful and unique features so that you can easily find what you need.
Adzuna was founded by Andrew Hunter and Doug Monro, formerly of eBay, Gumtree, Qype and Zoopla and is backed by leading Venture Capital firm Passion Capital.
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