Berkshire Degree Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Degree in IT jobs within the Berkshire region compared to all other Qualifications we currently track. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Degree over the last 3 months to 12 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Degree
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Altrincham Amersham Aylesbury Banbury Barnet Barnsley Barry Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Berkhamsted Berkshire Bingley Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckingham Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Cheshunt Chessington Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Cobham Colchester Corby Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Crewkerne Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Dagenham Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Dunfermline Dunstable Durham Ealing East Anglia East Grinstead East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Ellesmere Port Ely Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Felixstowe Fife Folkestone Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Glenrothes Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Greenford Greenock Guernsey Guildford Halesowen Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Hastings Havant Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Hendon Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highland Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Hungerford Huntingdon Ilford Inverclyde Inverness Ipswich Isle of Wight Kent Kidlington Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Lowestoft Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Marlow Matlock Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Middlewich Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newmarket Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Paignton Paisley Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redditch Reigate Renfrewshire Rhondda Cynon Taff Rickmansworth Romford Rotherham Royston Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southam Southampton Southport St Albans St Andrews St Helens St Ives Staffordshire Staines Stanmore Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stratford-upon-Avon Stroud Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swindon Tamworth Teddington Telford Tewkesbury Thame Thames Ditton Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Vale of Glamorgan Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Widnes Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Winsford Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 12 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	15	17
Rank change on same period last year	+2
Matching permanent IT job ads	963	1147
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.464 %	0.510 %
As % of the category below	39.48 %	40.94 %
Salaries quoted	847	830
Average minimum salary	£35,025	£36,055
Average salary	£38,175	£39,029
% change on same period last year	-2.18 %
Average maximum salary	£41,325	£42,003
UK excluding London average salary	£35,922	£37,131
% change on same period last year	-3.25 %
Qualifications Berkshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	2439	2802
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.176 %	1.245 %
Salaries quoted	2144	2197
Average minimum salary	£38,876	£38,499
Average salary	£42,129	£41,601
% change on same period last year	+1.26 %
Average maximum salary	£45,382	£44,704
UK excluding London average salary	£37,474	£38,471
% change on same period last year	-2.59 %
Degree South East

Degree
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of permanent IT jobs ads citing Degree across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

Degree
Salary Trend

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

Degree
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Degree across the Berkshire region over the past 3 months.

Degree
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Degree within the Berkshire region over the past 3 months.

Rank	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
1	Reading	-9	228	£36,247	-5.62 %
2	Slough	-6	90	£37,950	+1.20 %
3	Bracknell	+4	81	£42,947	+14.96 %
4	Newbury	+1	56	£37,816	-2.12 %
5	Maidenhead	-2	55	£43,557	+13.90 %
6	Windsor	-3	23	£34,789	-8.66 %
7	Wokingham	-11	18	£33,167	-16.03 %
8	Hungerford	-	3	£22,333	-
9	Ascot	-	2	£26,500	-

Degree South East

Degree
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the Berkshire region citing Degree also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Degree.

1 396 (19.67 %) Computer Science 2 385 (19.13 %) SQL 3 369 (18.33 %) .NET 4 315 (15.65 %) C++ 5 275 (13.66 %) SQL Server 6 273 (13.56 %) Oracle 6 273 (13.56 %) Java 7 269 (13.36 %) Windows 8 255 (12.67 %) C# 8 255 (12.67 %) Finance 9 242 (12.02 %) Mathematics 10 235 (11.67 %) C 11 218 (10.83 %) Microsoft 12 215 (10.68 %) Telecoms 13 207 (10.28 %) XML

14 175 (8.693 %) Education 15 163 (8.097 %) HTML 16 149 (7.402 %) Project Management 17 146 (7.253 %) VB 18 142 (7.054 %) ASP.NET 19 139 (6.905 %) Unix 20 132 (6.557 %) MS Excel 21 127 (6.309 %) JavaScript 22 122 (6.061 %) Health 23 120 (5.961 %) VB.NET 24 117 (5.812 %) TCP/IP 24 117 (5.812 %) Microsoft Certification 25 115 (5.713 %) Marketing 26 111 (5.514 %) Pensions 26 111 (5.514 %) Business Intelligence

Degree
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the Berkshire region citing Degree also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Degree. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 369 (18.33 %) .NET 2 207 (10.28 %) XML 3 163 (8.097 %) HTML 4 142 (7.054 %) ASP.NET 5 89 (4.421 %) J2EE 5 89 (4.421 %) CSS 6 69 (3.428 %) WebServices 7 53 (2.633 %) ASP 8 47 (2.335 %) AJAX 9 41 (2.037 %) JDBC 10 39 (1.937 %) JSP 11 29 (1.441 %) EJB 12 28 (1.391 %) SOAP 13 23 (1.143 %) Servlets 14 21 (1.043 %) WinForms 15 19 (0.944 %) DirectX 16 17 (0.845 %) EDI 17 15 (0.745 %) XHTML 18 14 (0.695 %) WebSphere 18 14 (0.695 %) Java EE	Application Platforms 1 104 (5.166 %) SAS 2 56 (2.782 %) MS Exchange 3 42 (2.086 %) IIS 4 29 (1.441 %) Tomcat 5 27 (1.341 %) SharePoint 6 25 (1.242 %) Oracle Workflow 7 24 (1.192 %) JBoss 8 23 (1.143 %) WebLogic 9 19 (0.944 %) Exchange Server 2003 10 17 (0.845 %) Lotus Domino 11 16 (0.795 %) Lotus Notes 11 16 (0.795 %) ESB 11 16 (0.795 %) Oracle BPEL 12 14 (0.695 %) SharePoint Server 2007 12 14 (0.695 %) Apache 13 10 (0.497 %) BizTalk Server 14 7 (0.348 %) Exchange Server 2000 14 7 (0.348 %) Documentum 15 6 (0.298 %) Oracle Application Server 15 6 (0.298 %) Exchange Server 2007
Applications 1 132 (6.557 %) MS Excel 2 63 (3.130 %) MS Office 3 28 (1.391 %) Photoshop 4 27 (1.341 %) MS PowerPoint 5 22 (1.093 %) Adobe Illustrator 6 21 (1.043 %) MS Visio 7 15 (0.745 %) MS Project 8 13 (0.646 %) MATLAB 9 12 (0.596 %) Simulink 9 12 (0.596 %) SPSS 10 11 (0.546 %) Quicktime 11 4 (0.199 %) AutoCAD 11 4 (0.199 %) FrameMaker 12 2 (0.099 %) InDesign 12 2 (0.099 %) Fireworks 12 2 (0.099 %) ImageReady 13 1 (0.050 %) RoboHelp 13 1 (0.050 %) S-PLUS	Business Applications 1 41 (2.037 %) Oracle Financials 2 39 (1.937 %) Oracle Applications 3 18 (0.894 %) Microsoft CRM 3 18 (0.894 %) Siebel Analytics 4 10 (0.497 %) Oracle 11i 5 6 (0.298 %) SAP HR 6 5 (0.248 %) SAP R/3 6 5 (0.248 %) PeopleSoft Financials 6 5 (0.248 %) Dynamics CRM 6 5 (0.248 %) Oracle Clinical 7 4 (0.199 %) SAP CRM 8 3 (0.149 %) BPCS 9 2 (0.099 %) GoldMine 9 2 (0.099 %) SAP SD 9 2 (0.099 %) SageBI 10 1 (0.050 %) SAP FI 10 1 (0.050 %) Navision 10 1 (0.050 %) SageCRM MME 10 1 (0.050 %) SAP FI/CO 10 1 (0.050 %) SAP CO
Communications & Networking 1 117 (5.812 %) TCP/IP 2 86 (4.272 %) Internet 3 62 (3.080 %) VoIP 4 57 (2.832 %) Firewall 5 47 (2.335 %) Ethernet 6 41 (2.037 %) 3G 7 40 (1.987 %) ISDN 8 37 (1.838 %) PBX 8 37 (1.838 %) H.323 8 37 (1.838 %) Ethereal 9 33 (1.639 %) VPN 10 27 (1.341 %) LAN 11 25 (1.242 %) DNS 12 24 (1.192 %) GSM 13 23 (1.143 %) Wireless 14 22 (1.093 %) UMTS 15 21 (1.043 %) GPRS 15 21 (1.043 %) WAN 16 20 (0.994 %) ADSL 16 20 (0.994 %) Wireshark	Database & Business Intelligence 1 275 (13.66 %) SQL Server 2 83 (4.123 %) BusinessObjects 2 83 (4.123 %) SQL Server 2005 3 71 (3.527 %) Datawarehouse 4 67 (3.328 %) SQL Server 2000 5 61 (3.030 %) OLAP 6 40 (1.987 %) RDBMS 7 37 (1.838 %) Oracle 10g 8 35 (1.739 %) ETL 8 35 (1.739 %) MySQL 9 25 (1.242 %) Oracle Reports 10 24 (1.192 %) SQL Server Integration Services 11 21 (1.043 %) Base SAS 11 21 (1.043 %) DTS 12 19 (0.944 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 13 18 (0.894 %) Oracle OLAP 13 18 (0.894 %) Oracle Discoverer 13 18 (0.894 %) Star Schema 13 18 (0.894 %) Oracle OWB 13 18 (0.894 %) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications 1 49 (2.434 %) Visual Studio 2 19 (0.944 %) Oracle Forms 2 19 (0.944 %) Dreamweaver 3 16 (0.795 %) JDeveloper 3 16 (0.795 %) Flash 4 12 (0.596 %) TestDirector 5 10 (0.497 %) Eclipse 6 9 (0.447 %) JUnit 7 7 (0.348 %) Rational Rose 7 7 (0.348 %) ClearCase 8 6 (0.298 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer 8 6 (0.298 %) Ant 8 6 (0.298 %) Bugzilla 9 5 (0.248 %) PowerBuilder 9 5 (0.248 %) ClearQuest 10 4 (0.199 %) Subversion 10 4 (0.199 %) WinRunner 11 1 (0.050 %) RequisitePro 11 1 (0.050 %) Rational Robot	General 1 255 (12.67 %) Finance 2 215 (10.68 %) Telecoms 3 175 (8.693 %) Education 4 122 (6.061 %) Health 5 115 (5.713 %) Marketing 6 111 (5.514 %) Pensions 7 61 (3.030 %) Insurance 8 55 (2.732 %) Retail 9 54 (2.683 %) Electronics 10 53 (2.633 %) Manufacturing 11 35 (1.739 %) Electric 12 29 (1.441 %) Government 13 23 (1.143 %) Pharmaceutical 13 23 (1.143 %) Banking 14 22 (1.093 %) Military 15 20 (0.994 %) Aerospace 16 19 (0.944 %) Automotive 17 16 (0.795 %) Multimedia 17 16 (0.795 %) Billing 18 15 (0.745 %) Back Office
Job Titles 1 447 (22.21 %) Developer 2 286 (14.21 %) Analyst 3 208 (10.33 %) Consultant 4 182 (9.041 %) Graduate 5 166 (8.246 %) Software Engineer 6 126 (6.259 %) Support Engineer 7 121 (6.011 %) .NET Developer 8 104 (5.166 %) Junior 9 92 (4.570 %) Technical Support 10 83 (4.123 %) Software Developer 11 76 (3.775 %) Web Developer 12 74 (3.676 %) C# Developer 13 73 (3.626 %) Graduate Developer 14 72 (3.577 %) Architect 15 68 (3.378 %) Project Manager 16 62 (3.080 %) Business Analyst 17 57 (2.832 %) Technical Consultant 18 53 (2.633 %) Support Analyst 18 53 (2.633 %) SAS Analyst 18 53 (2.633 %) Junior Developer	Miscellaneous 1 396 (19.67 %) Computer Science 2 242 (12.02 %) Mathematics 3 59 (2.931 %) Video Conferencing 4 57 (2.832 %) German Language 5 53 (2.633 %) French Language 6 39 (1.937 %) VHDL 7 34 (1.689 %) Statistics 8 27 (1.341 %) Handset 8 27 (1.341 %) Life Science 8 27 (1.341 %) Physics 9 23 (1.143 %) Spanish Language 9 23 (1.143 %) Web 2.0 10 22 (1.093 %) Management Information System 10 22 (1.093 %) Italian Language 11 20 (0.994 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array 12 16 (0.795 %) NPfIT 12 16 (0.795 %) NHS 12 16 (0.795 %) Korean Language 12 16 (0.795 %) Data Integration 13 14 (0.695 %) PMI
Operating Systems 1 269 (13.36 %) Windows 2 139 (6.905 %) Unix 3 86 (4.272 %) Linux 4 56 (2.782 %) Windows 2000 4 56 (2.782 %) Windows NT 5 36 (1.788 %) Solaris 6 35 (1.739 %) Windows XP 7 17 (0.845 %) VxWorks 8 12 (0.596 %) Windows Server 2003 9 9 (0.447 %) Windows CE 9 9 (0.447 %) QNX Neutrino 10 7 (0.348 %) VMS 11 5 (0.248 %) AIX 11 5 (0.248 %) Windows Vista 12 1 (0.050 %) Symbian OS 12 1 (0.050 %) Windows Mobile 12 1 (0.050 %) HPUX 12 1 (0.050 %) OpenVMS 12 1 (0.050 %) OS/2	Processes & Methodologies 1 149 (7.402 %) Project Management 2 111 (5.514 %) Business Intelligence 3 101 (5.017 %) OO 4 92 (4.570 %) CRM 5 74 (3.676 %) Software Engineering 6 64 (3.179 %) PRINCE2 7 57 (2.832 %) Project Planning 8 56 (2.782 %) Workflow 9 48 (2.385 %) Validation 10 45 (2.235 %) CAD 11 40 (1.987 %) E-business 11 40 (1.987 %) Web Development 12 38 (1.888 %) ITIL 12 38 (1.888 %) SOA 13 34 (1.689 %) UML 13 34 (1.689 %) CHAID 13 34 (1.689 %) Data Management 14 32 (1.590 %) OOD 15 31 (1.540 %) Risk Management 16 30 (1.490 %) Web Design
Programming Languages 1 385 (19.13 %) SQL 2 315 (15.65 %) C++ 3 273 (13.56 %) Java 4 255 (12.67 %) C# 5 235 (11.67 %) C 6 146 (7.253 %) VB 7 127 (6.309 %) JavaScript 8 120 (5.961 %) VB.NET 9 88 (4.372 %) PL/SQL 10 58 (2.881 %) Perl 11 47 (2.335 %) PHP 12 43 (2.136 %) Python 13 38 (1.888 %) Transact-SQL 14 32 (1.590 %) VBScript 15 29 (1.441 %) VB6 16 26 (1.292 %) SAS Macro 17 22 (1.093 %) Delphi 18 20 (0.994 %) Embedded C 19 18 (0.894 %) Shell Script 20 15 (0.745 %) VC++	Qualifications 1 117 (5.812 %) Microsoft Certification 2 62 (3.080 %) MCSE 3 32 (1.590 %) HND 4 30 (1.490 %) MCP 5 26 (1.292 %) ISEB 6 24 (1.192 %) MCSD 6 24 (1.192 %) Oracle Certification 6 24 (1.192 %) Cisco Certification 7 21 (1.043 %) HNC 8 18 (0.894 %) PhD 9 16 (0.795 %) MCDBA 10 15 (0.745 %) Postgraduate 11 14 (0.695 %) CISSP 11 14 (0.695 %) CISM 12 11 (0.546 %) CISA 13 9 (0.447 %) PRINCE2 Certification 14 8 (0.397 %) CCNA 14 8 (0.397 %) NVQ Level 3 15 7 (0.348 %) MBA 15 7 (0.348 %) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 40 (1.987 %) QA 2 24 (1.192 %) SLA 3 7 (0.348 %) ISO27001 4 4 (0.199 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 5 3 (0.149 %) GCP 6 2 (0.099 %) ISO9001 6 2 (0.099 %) HMG Infosec 7 1 (0.050 %) TickIT	System Software 1 46 (2.285 %) Active Directory 2 13 (0.646 %) ISA Server 3 7 (0.348 %) VMware ESX 4 5 (0.248 %) Oracle RAC 5 3 (0.149 %) Xen 6 2 (0.099 %) Citrix Presentation Server 6 2 (0.099 %) VMware Workstation 6 2 (0.099 %) NFS 6 2 (0.099 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler 7 1 (0.050 %) MetaFrame 7 1 (0.050 %) Terminal Services 7 1 (0.050 %) Squid
Systems Management 1 9 (0.447 %) Tivoli 2 8 (0.397 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 3 6 (0.298 %) Unicenter 4 5 (0.248 %) Legato 4 5 (0.248 %) EMC NetWorker 5 3 (0.149 %) ServiceCenter 5 3 (0.149 %) OpenView 5 3 (0.149 %) MOM 5 3 (0.149 %) Norton AntiVirus 5 3 (0.149 %) MAILsweeper 6 1 (0.050 %) Netcool 6 1 (0.050 %) SCCM	Vendors 1 273 (13.56 %) Oracle 2 218 (10.83 %) Microsoft 3 85 (4.223 %) Cisco 4 83 (4.123 %) Business Objects 5 57 (2.832 %) Cognos 6 42 (2.086 %) SAP 7 33 (1.639 %) Hyperion 8 29 (1.441 %) Lotus 8 29 (1.441 %) Mapinfo 9 28 (1.391 %) Kalido 9 28 (1.391 %) Ascential 10 25 (1.242 %) Siebel 10 25 (1.242 %) Chordiant 11 23 (1.143 %) Intel 12 22 (1.093 %) PeopleSoft 12 22 (1.093 %) VMware 13 20 (0.994 %) IBM 14 18 (0.894 %) Sybase 14 18 (0.894 %) Informatica 14 18 (0.894 %) Sunopsis