Bedfordshire Graduate Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for the Graduate role in IT jobs within the Bedfordshire region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Graduate in their job title over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aldershot Altrincham Argyll and Bute Aylesbury Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carmarthenshire Channel Islands Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Coalville Cobham Corby County Londonderry Coventry Cranleigh Crawley Croydon Darlington Dartford Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Egham Ellesmere Port England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Felixstowe Fife Gateshead Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Goole Gosport Grantham Guernsey Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hartlepool Hastings Haverhill Haywards Heath Helensburgh Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Kent Kettering Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Llanelli London Loughborough Lowestoft Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Malvern Manchester Mansfield Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes Nantwich Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newport Pagnell Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Romford Royston Rugby Sale Scotland Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwold St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Thame Thatcham Tonbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells Welwyn West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Wrexham York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	69	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching permanent IT job ads	7	0
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.765 %	0.000 %
Salaries quoted	6	0
Average minimum salary	£19,333	-
Average salary	£21,000	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum salary	£22,667	-
UK excluding London average salary	£23,095	£22,094
% change on same period last year	+4.53 %
Job Titles Bedfordshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	915	812
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.530 %	0.349 %
Salaries quoted	745	728
Average minimum salary	£34,814	£33,849
Average salary	£37,527	£36,874
% change on same period last year	+1.77 %
Average maximum salary	£40,241	£39,900
UK excluding London average salary	£38,208	£39,261
% change on same period last year	-2.68 %
Graduate East of England

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Graduate across the Bedfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Graduate across the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

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Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Graduate within the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Bedford	-	2	£25,000	-

Graduate East of England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire region that cited Graduate in their job title 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 with Graduate in their job title.

1 6 (42.86 %) C 1 6 (42.86 %) C# 1 6 (42.86 %) C++ 2 5 (35.71 %) Degree 2 5 (35.71 %) OpenGL 3 4 (28.57 %) WebServices 3 4 (28.57 %) Asset Management 3 4 (28.57 %) COBOL 3 4 (28.57 %) Oracle 3 4 (28.57 %) SQL Server 3 4 (28.57 %) ActiveX 3 4 (28.57 %) Pensions 4 3 (21.43 %) Avionics 5 2 (14.29 %) Mathematics 5 2 (14.29 %) Computer Science

5 2 (14.29 %) Windows 6 1 (7.143 %) Electronics 6 1 (7.143 %) Finance 6 1 (7.143 %) 3D Graphics 6 1 (7.143 %) VHDL 6 1 (7.143 %) MS Excel 6 1 (7.143 %) PhD 6 1 (7.143 %) Microsoft 6 1 (7.143 %) Visual Studio 6 1 (7.143 %) CSS 6 1 (7.143 %) DHTML 6 1 (7.143 %) HTML 6 1 (7.143 %) Java 6 1 (7.143 %) JavaScript 6 1 (7.143 %) SQL

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire region that cited Graduate in their job title 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 with Graduate in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 5 (35.71 %) OpenGL 2 4 (28.57 %) WebServices 2 4 (28.57 %) ActiveX 3 1 (7.143 %) HTML 3 1 (7.143 %) CSS	Applications 1 1 (7.143 %) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (28.57 %) SQL Server	Development Applications 1 1 (7.143 %) Visual Studio
General 1 4 (28.57 %) Pensions 2 3 (21.43 %) Avionics 3 1 (7.143 %) Marketing 3 1 (7.143 %) Electronics 3 1 (7.143 %) Finance 3 1 (7.143 %) 3D Graphics	Miscellaneous 1 2 (14.29 %) Mathematics 1 2 (14.29 %) Computer Science 2 1 (7.143 %) Physics 2 1 (7.143 %) Chemistry 2 1 (7.143 %) VHDL 2 1 (7.143 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array
Operating Systems 1 2 (14.29 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (28.57 %) Asset Management 2 1 (7.143 %) Web Development 2 1 (7.143 %) SC Cleared 2 1 (7.143 %) Security Cleared
Programming Languages 1 6 (42.86 %) C 1 6 (42.86 %) C# 1 6 (42.86 %) C++ 2 4 (28.57 %) COBOL 3 1 (7.143 %) DHTML 3 1 (7.143 %) Java 3 1 (7.143 %) JavaScript 3 1 (7.143 %) SQL 3 1 (7.143 %) VB	Qualifications 1 5 (35.71 %) Degree 2 1 (7.143 %) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (7.143 %) QA 1 1 (7.143 %) JTAG	Vendors 1 4 (28.57 %) Oracle 2 1 (7.143 %) Microsoft