The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term New Media in IT jobs advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited New Media over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all terms in our Miscellaneous category for the Birmingham region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
New Media
Rank 116 90 88
Rank change year-on-year
-26 -2
Permanent jobs citing New Media 2 10 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.118% 0.675% 0.223%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.539% 2.747% 1.000%
Number of salaries quoted 2 10 3
Average salary £38,500 £45,000 £27,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-14.44% +63.63%
UK excluding London average salary £32,000 £37,250 £36,000
% change year-on-year
-14.09% +3.47%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Birmingham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
371 364 300
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 21.82% 24.56% 22.32%
Number of salaries quoted 330 325 270
Average salary £45,000 £40,157 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.05% +23.56%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £67,700 £82,500
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +6.66%
New Media
West Midlands

New Media
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing New Media across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Birmingham New Media Jobs Demand Trend

New Media
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing New Media across the Birmingham region.

Birmingham New Media Salary Trend

New Media
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham region citing New Media 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 New Media.

1 9 (90.00%) JavaScript
1 9 (90.00%) PHP
1 9 (90.00%) OOP
1 9 (90.00%) Subversion
1 9 (90.00%) Ajax
1 9 (90.00%) jQuery
1 9 (90.00%) Facebook
2 6 (60.00%) XHTML
2 6 (60.00%) Photoshop
2 6 (60.00%) CSS
2 6 (60.00%) Sass
2 6 (60.00%) LESS
2 6 (60.00%) Semantic HTML
2 6 (60.00%) CSS3
2 6 (60.00%) WordPress
2 6 (60.00%) Open Source
2 6 (60.00%) HTML5
3 3 (30.00%) Heroku
3 3 (30.00%) BDD
3 3 (30.00%) Node.js
3 3 (30.00%) Git (software)
3 3 (30.00%) TDD
3 3 (30.00%) Social Network
3 3 (30.00%) MySQL
4 1 (10.00%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (10.00%) Games
4 1 (10.00%) PRINCE2
4 1 (10.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 1 (10.00%) Project Management
4 1 (10.00%) Redis

New Media
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham region citing New Media 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 New Media. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (90.00%) Ajax
1 9 (90.00%) jQuery
2 6 (60.00%) XHTML
2 6 (60.00%) CSS
2 6 (60.00%) Sass
2 6 (60.00%) LESS
2 6 (60.00%) Semantic HTML
2 6 (60.00%) CSS3
2 6 (60.00%) HTML5
3 3 (30.00%) Node.js
Application Platforms
1 6 (60.00%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (60.00%) Photoshop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) MySQL
2 1 (10.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (90.00%) Subversion
2 3 (30.00%) Git (software)
General
1 1 (10.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Developer
1 7 (70.00%) Programmer
2 3 (30.00%) Front-End Developer
2 3 (30.00%) PHP Developer
2 3 (30.00%) PHP Programmer
3 1 (10.00%) JavaScript Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) Open Source
2 3 (30.00%) Heroku
2 3 (30.00%) Social Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) OOP
2 3 (30.00%) BDD
2 3 (30.00%) TDD
3 1 (10.00%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (10.00%) PRINCE2
3 1 (10.00%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) JavaScript
1 9 (90.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
Vendors
1 9 (90.00%) Facebook
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