IT Job Market Analysis - Europe
Since 2003, we have analysed close to 5,000,000 jobs, keeping a constant track of the IT job market, of it trends and moments and have decided to share that insight with you. Please do feel free to drop us a note in case of any questions, suggestions or comments:
Weekly overview - 13th of Dec 2009
The past week ending on Sunday, the 13th of December has in general been slowing down for the holidays :
- The total number of open positions has gone down by 21.3%, with permanent roles down 25.1% and contract roles slightly better, at -15.2%.
- The average rate has been raising and again contract rates rose, while permanent rates fall, having contract rates stronger than permanent rates for the 3rd time in a row.

Monthly overview - November 2009
In general, the IT job market seems to slow down for the holidays, no exiting developments are expected for the upcoming 3 weeks..
Weekly Technology trend review - 13th of Dec 2009
Please find below the overview of the top 20 technologies in IT, the current number of the past week Some key findings from this:
- SAP has been for many years now, in our statistics back to 2003, the number one sought technology, It has been growing even stronger in numbers, from about 11% share of the job market in 2003 to today about 16%, up one more percent from last week.
- SAP rates are still among the highest in the market
- ERP, SAP and WebSphere offer the strongest rates at present
| Rank | Technologie | Total number | To prev. week | Total share | Rate EUR / month | Rate change | Of avg. rate | |
| 1 | SAP | 1,183 | -18% | 16.0% | 7,225.00 | 17% | 38% | |
| 2 | Java | 821 | -9% | 11.1% | 6,121.13 | 5% | 17% | |
| 3 | Web | 703 | -19% | 9.5% | 3,535.45 | -1% | -32% | |
| 4 | C# | 689 | -12% | 9.3% | 5,766.97 | 9% | 10% | |
| 5 | Oracle | 407 | -2% | 5.5% | 6,375.41 | 7% | 22% | |
| 6 | SQL | 345 | -27% | 4.7% | 4,467.61 | 8% | -15% | |
| 7 | .Net | 340 | -12% | 4.6% | 3,877.82 | -4% | -26% | |
| 8 | C++ | 299 | -14% | 4.0% | 5,656.67 | 1% | 8% | |
| 9 | Network | 261 | -10% | 3.5% | 4,438.84 | -3% | -15% | |
| 10 | Sharepoint | 186 | 9% | 2.5% | 5,257.42 | -9% | 0% | |
| 11 | SAS | 173 | 9% | 2.3% | 5,080.75 | 11% | -3% | |
| 12 | Linux | 172 | -6% | 2.3% | 4,547.00 | 3% | -13% | |
| 13 | PHP | 157 | -19% | 2.1% | 3,516.19 | 2% | -33% | |
| 14 | ERM | 154 | -20% | 2.1% | 4,142.89 | -5% | -21% | |
| 15 | Flash | 125 | -20% | 1.7% | 3,467.63 | -2% | -34% | |
| 16 | ERP | 120 | -23% | 1.6% | 7,842.70 | 17% | 50% | |
| 17 | Javascript | 116 | 0% | 1.6% | 3,986.71 | -9% | -24% | |
| 18 | CRM | 99 | -6% | 1.3% | 4,467.55 | -15% | -15% | |
| 19 | Citrix | 80 | 19% | 1.1% | 4,271.42 | 3% | -18% | |
| 20 | WebSphere | 70 | -21% | 0.9% | 7,331.69 | 24% | 40% | |