Bedfordshire Lotus Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Lotus products and/or services in IT jobs within the Bedfordshire region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Lotus over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Altrincham Basildon Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Bingley Birmingham Bolton Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burton-upon-Trent Bury Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Carlisle Cheadle Cheltenham Cheshire Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Clevedon Congleton Coventry Crewe Croydon Cumbria Dartford Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham England Essex Fareham Farnborough Feltham Fife Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Greenford Grimsby Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Hartlepool Havant Haverhill Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire Home Counties Hull Isle of Man Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Macclesfield Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Perth and Kinross Portsmouth Potters Bar Reading Redhill Reigate Sale Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Surrey Swindon Telford Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Bromwich West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Woking Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	64	54
Rank change on same period last year	-10
Matching permanent IT job ads	12	13
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.007 %	0.006 %
As % of the category below	2.691 %	3.976 %
Salaries quoted	12	11
Average minimum salary	£26,667	£26,818
Average salary	£26,667	£27,727
% change on same period last year	-3.82 %
Average maximum salary	£26,667	£28,636
UK excluding London average salary	£29,868	£33,253
% change on same period last year	-10.18 %
Vendors Bedfordshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	446	327
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.258 %	0.141 %
Salaries quoted	385	284
Average minimum salary	£35,062	£34,048
Average salary	£37,423	£36,634
% change on same period last year	+2.15 %
Average maximum salary	£39,785	£39,220
UK excluding London average salary	£40,460	£41,836
% change on same period last year	-3.28 %
Lotus East of England

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within IBM Lotus Software.

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Demand Trend

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

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Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Lotus 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 Lotus 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	-13	12	£26,667	+6.66 %

Lotus 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 citing Lotus 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 Lotus.

1 16 (100.00 %) Lotus Notes 1 16 (100.00 %) Windows 2 13 (81.25 %) Microsoft 3 12 (75.00 %) Citrix 3 12 (75.00 %) AS400 4 11 (68.75 %) VMware 4 11 (68.75 %) Blackberry 5 8 (50.00 %) Pensions 5 8 (50.00 %) MS Office 6 7 (43.75 %) Microsoft Certification 7 3 (18.75 %) VERITAS 7 3 (18.75 %) Intel 7 3 (18.75 %) McAfee Security 7 3 (18.75 %) Active Directory 7 3 (18.75 %) Windows 2000

7 3 (18.75 %) IBM 7 3 (18.75 %) Lotus Domino 7 3 (18.75 %) MCSE 7 3 (18.75 %) Windows XP 7 3 (18.75 %) DHCP 7 3 (18.75 %) DNS 7 3 (18.75 %) MCDST 7 3 (18.75 %) Backup Exec 8 2 (12.50 %) Mitel 8 2 (12.50 %) Brocade 8 2 (12.50 %) Wireless 8 2 (12.50 %) Cisco 8 2 (12.50 %) LAN 8 2 (12.50 %) WAN 8 2 (12.50 %) MCSA

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing Lotus 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 Lotus. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 16 (100.00 %) Lotus Notes 2 3 (18.75 %) Lotus Domino 3 1 (6.250 %) MS Exchange	Applications 1 8 (50.00 %) MS Office 2 1 (6.250 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 3 (18.75 %) DHCP 1 3 (18.75 %) DNS 2 2 (12.50 %) SAN 2 2 (12.50 %) Wireless 2 2 (12.50 %) LAN 2 2 (12.50 %) WAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (6.250 %) SQL Server
General 1 8 (50.00 %) Pensions	Job Titles 1 10 (62.50 %) Desktop Support 2 3 (18.75 %) Analyst 2 3 (18.75 %) Server Support 2 3 (18.75 %) Support Technician 2 3 (18.75 %) Network Technician 2 3 (18.75 %) Network Support 2 3 (18.75 %) Network Support Technician 3 2 (12.50 %) Desktop Support Technician 3 2 (12.50 %) Server Support Technician 3 2 (12.50 %) Windows Administrator 3 2 (12.50 %) Helpdesk Analyst 3 2 (12.50 %) Administrator 4 1 (6.250 %) Infrastructure Analyst 4 1 (6.250 %) 2nd Line Support 4 1 (6.250 %) IT Support Technician 4 1 (6.250 %) Support Analyst 4 1 (6.250 %) Server Analyst 4 1 (6.250 %) Server Support Analyst 4 1 (6.250 %) Infrastructure Support Analyst 4 1 (6.250 %) 2nd Line Support Technician
Miscellaneous 1 12 (75.00 %) AS400 2 11 (68.75 %) Blackberry	Operating Systems 1 16 (100.00 %) Windows 2 3 (18.75 %) Windows 2000 2 3 (18.75 %) Windows XP 3 1 (6.250 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (6.250 %) Windows 2000 Server 3 1 (6.250 %) HPUX 3 1 (6.250 %) Solaris 3 1 (6.250 %) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (12.50 %) ITIL 2 1 (6.250 %) Disaster Recovery	Qualifications 1 7 (43.75 %) Microsoft Certification 2 3 (18.75 %) MCDST 2 3 (18.75 %) MCSE 3 2 (12.50 %) MCSA 3 2 (12.50 %) CCNA 3 2 (12.50 %) Cisco Certification
System Software 1 3 (18.75 %) Active Directory 1 3 (18.75 %) Backup Exec	Vendors 1 13 (81.25 %) Microsoft 2 12 (75.00 %) Citrix 3 11 (68.75 %) VMware 4 3 (18.75 %) VERITAS 4 3 (18.75 %) McAfee Security 4 3 (18.75 %) IBM 4 3 (18.75 %) Intel 5 2 (12.50 %) Hitachi 5 2 (12.50 %) Siemens 5 2 (12.50 %) Cisco 5 2 (12.50 %) Mitel 5 2 (12.50 %) Brocade 6 1 (6.250 %) Oracle 6 1 (6.250 %) HP