2. About Us
• Mortimer Spinks are the leading innovators in technology recruitment. Our business consultants,
organised into specialist technology teams, are genuine experts in what they do.
• Being part of the Harvey Nash Group, we offer the stability, infrastructure and quality of a major
plc, whilst remaining true to our technology roots. Our clients benefit from access to our unique portfolio
of services, including technology skills in Vietnam, recruitment solutions from managed service provision,
contractor payrolling and business process outsourcing.
• We work with some of the most innovative companies in the world. The majority of our customers
are defined as entrepreneurial technology organisations, where technology is core to the growth of their
businesses.
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Lewis Breslin on lewis.breslin@mortimerspinks.com or visit our website - www.mortimerspinks.com
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3. Contents
About Mortimer Spinks
Introduction
Summary of Findings
Trends in Technology
Trends in eCommerce
Trends in Banking
About Vacancysoft
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We’re delighted to be partnering with Vacancysoft to provide
insight on recruitment activity within the Technology Industry.
For this report, we’ve been looking at activity in the Java/Scala
market in London, an area where we’ve witnessed massive
growth this year.
What we’ve found particularly interesting is how activity
varies by sector, where hiring priorities are incredibly different
depending on whether you’re talking about a bank, a technology
company or an eCommerce organisation.
We’ve also seen that salary offers for the same positions vary significantly by sector,
showing that the choices people make about which sector to enter can massively impact
on their career earnings.
I hope you find the report as interesting as we did. Feel free to contact me about current market
activity at lewis.breslin@mortimerspinks.com
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Overall, demand for people is now
approaching levels not seen since before
the financial crisis, and natural pressure
points are starting to form on salaries.
As such, companies will have to pay well
to guarantee that they secure the best talent,
or, alternatively, invest in training.
In banks, the largest organisations have
the majority of the positions; in technology,
start-up hiring means there are significantly
more roles in small businesses.
Pay rises will continue to outstrip inflation
where the premium being offered for people
to move positions will increase significantly
as the war for talent intensifies.
Personally, of the three sectors featured
in this report, I believe that ecommerce
will grow quickest in both roles and salaries.
In a world that’s becoming increasingly
digital and with more business and content
moving online, eCommerce – with its ahead-
of-the-curve thinking and cutting-edge
technology infrastructure- is looking ever
more attractive to switched-on tech talent.
Do you think eCommerce is winning
this race? Tweet me your opinion
@LewisBreslinMS using #TheTalentWar.
Summary of
FindingsVacancies by Sector and Size Company as %
2015 Sector Breakdown of Vacancies by Month
2014 Sector Breakdown of Vacancies by Month
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There has been a 19% increase year on year
for development roles requiring Java,
while Scala has also increased significantly
last year.
This consistent growth in Java development
roles shows that Java is not fading away,
but in fact is becoming more prominent
within the tech community.
Also, there is a limited correlation between
the size of a company and the volume
of Java roles, whereby even start ups can
be in the top 5 ahead of giants like Google.
This could potentially be due to larger
companies having the pull of people
applying directly to them, while start-ups
have to actively post roles to entice
applications.
While year on year changes in salaries
are not as big in technology as in other
sectors, we anticipate offers increasing
as tech companies become forced to keep
pace with other sectors so as not to be left
behind.
Senior developers have seen the largest
increase in salary range, up by 3.4% year
on year.
Trends in
Technology
TOP 5 TECH FOR JAVA JAVA ALL %
Dell 6 18 33.33%
Excelian Ltd 5 10 50.00%
Intuit Inc 5 8 62.50%
Worldpay Ltd 5 7 71.43%
Google Inc 5 6 83.33%
2014 v 2015 Salary Ranges by Seniority
Vacancy Volumes by Java v Scala
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Top 5 eCommerce companies
Java
roles
Development
roles
Java %
Gamesys 13 39 33.33%
Expedia Inc 10 31 32.26%
Betfair International PLC 8 9 88.89%
OpenBet Technologies Ltd 7 19 36.84%
Kingcom 5 9 62.50%
Despite the banks dominating when it
comes to sheer number of Java vacancies,
eCommerce is the area where the greater
variety of positions lie: for every 5 banking
companies that are hiring, there are 10
eCommerce companies.
So far this year, 4 of the top 5 eCommerce
companies that are hiring for java are
gaming or gambling companies.
Salaries are broadly on a par with those
offered in technology companies, whereby
year-on-year increases are between 1-3%.
Aligned with the banks, again it is
the mid-level where the largest salary
increases are happening, where, depending
on the company, offers range from £45-53k.
There is no huge disparity between salaries
for mid-level and senior positions,
with the highest salary being posted
being less than 10k difference.
Trends in
eCommerce
2014 v 2015 Salary Ranges by Seniority
Rolling 12 Month Vacancy Totals (Java v Scala)
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TOP 5 BANKS FOR JAVA JAVA ALL %
Goldman Sachs Group Inc 31 45 68.89%
JP Morgan Chase and Co 24 62 38.71%
Nomura Holdings Inc 16 35 45.71%
Morgan Stanley and Co 11 19 57.89%
Lloyds Bank PLC 8 21 38.10%
To date, 2015 has seen a 16.8% increase
in Java roles compared to last year in the
banking sector.
30% of technology roles in banks require
Java, and have done for the past year and
a half, showing that Java is the preferred
language in this industry.
As Scala becomes a more prominent and
trusted language, growth of this area has
duly responded, with double the roles per
month being advertised compared to 2014.
With the huge spending power behind the
banks, it is unsurprising that 47% of all Java
vacancies this year have been in the top 5
hiring banks.
Goldman Sachs tops the theoretical ‘banking
league table’, with over 68% of all their
development roles being in the Java space.
Meanwhile, Morgan Stanley have been
leading the way in Scala hiring this year.
Salaries are also increasing faster than in
any other sector, a sign of the war for talent
intensifying in banking.
The peak growth that we are witnessing is
for mid-level positions, where the higher
salary range on offer has risen by 6.3%
compared to the previous year. This could
be because now there is a premium on
securing top senior talent, so companies
may be more inclined to invest heavily
in mid-level developers and bring them
through the ranks.
Trends in
Banking
2014 v 2015 Salary Ranges by Seniority
Volume of all development Vacancies by Month
Volume of Java Vacancies by Month
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