The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Media in IT jobs advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Social 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
Social Media
Rank 94 88 87
Rank change year-on-year
-6 -1
Permanent jobs citing Social Media 24 12 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 1.412% 0.810% 0.298%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.469% 3.297% 1.333%
Number of salaries quoted 17 11 4
Average salary £45,000 £25,500 £42,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
+76.47% -39.64%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,500 £29,600
10% offered a salary of more than £46,000 £32,000 £60,500
UK excluding London average salary £34,000 £35,000 £30,500
% change year-on-year
-2.85% +14.75%
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%
Social Media
West Midlands

Social Media
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham Social Media Jobs Demand Trend

Social Media
Salary Trend

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

Birmingham Social Media Salary Trend

Social Media
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Social Media across the Birmingham region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Birmingham Social Media Salary Histogram

Social Media
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 19 (45.24%) MySQL
2 18 (42.86%) Subversion
3 15 (35.71%) Oracle
3 15 (35.71%) Marketing
4 13 (30.95%) JavaScript
5 12 (28.57%) Java
5 12 (28.57%) Eclipse
6 11 (26.19%) PHP
6 11 (26.19%) Degree
7 10 (23.81%) Computer Science
7 10 (23.81%) Java EE
7 10 (23.81%) jQuery
7 10 (23.81%) Erlang
7 10 (23.81%) Alfresco
7 10 (23.81%) Jackrabbit
7 10 (23.81%) Cloud Computing
7 10 (23.81%) Scala
7 10 (23.81%) CouchDB
7 10 (23.81%) Clojure
7 10 (23.81%) MongoDB
7 10 (23.81%) NoSQL
7 10 (23.81%) CSS
7 10 (23.81%) Agile Software Development
7 10 (23.81%) Spring
7 10 (23.81%) Maven
7 10 (23.81%) Ruby
7 10 (23.81%) Hibernate
8 9 (21.43%) HTML
8 9 (21.43%) Analytics
9 8 (19.05%) Git (software)

Social Media
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 10 (23.81%) Java EE
1 10 (23.81%) jQuery
1 10 (23.81%) CSS
1 10 (23.81%) Spring
1 10 (23.81%) Hibernate
2 9 (21.43%) HTML
3 8 (19.05%) Ajax
4 5 (11.90%) HTML5
5 4 (9.524%) Node.js
5 4 (9.524%) Zend Framework
5 4 (9.524%) Web Services
6 3 (7.143%) Flash
6 3 (7.143%) XHTML
6 3 (7.143%) CSS3
6 3 (7.143%) Sass
6 3 (7.143%) LESS
7 2 (4.762%) iOS SDK
7 2 (4.762%) J2ME
7 2 (4.762%) .NET
7 2 (4.762%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 10 (23.81%) Alfresco
2 4 (9.524%) WordPress
2 4 (9.524%) Apache
3 3 (7.143%) CMS
Applications
1 6 (14.29%) Photoshop
2 2 (4.762%) MS Excel
3 1 (2.381%) MS Office
3 1 (2.381%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (14.29%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.381%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (45.24%) MySQL
2 10 (23.81%) Jackrabbit
2 10 (23.81%) CouchDB
2 10 (23.81%) MongoDB
2 10 (23.81%) NoSQL
3 4 (9.524%) Redis
4 2 (4.762%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 18 (42.86%) Subversion
2 12 (28.57%) Eclipse
3 10 (23.81%) Maven
4 8 (19.05%) Git (software)
5 1 (2.381%) Appcelerator Titanium
General
1 15 (35.71%) Marketing
2 5 (11.90%) Finance
3 3 (7.143%) Publishing
4 1 (2.381%) Law
4 1 (2.381%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.381%) Advertising
4 1 (2.381%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (64.29%) Developer
2 10 (23.81%) Java Developer
3 7 (16.67%) Project Manager
4 5 (11.90%) JavaScript Developer
5 4 (9.524%) PHP Developer
6 3 (7.143%) Front-End Developer
7 2 (4.762%) Web Content Specialist
7 2 (4.762%) Mobile Applications Developer
7 2 (4.762%) Mobile Developer
7 2 (4.762%) Android Developer
7 2 (4.762%) PHP MySQL Developer
7 2 (4.762%) Web Developer
7 2 (4.762%) Development Specialist
7 2 (4.762%) Applications Developer
7 2 (4.762%) Development Manager
8 1 (2.381%) Programmer
8 1 (2.381%) Consultant
8 1 (2.381%) Development Project Manager
8 1 (2.381%) HTML Developer
8 1 (2.381%) Web Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (23.81%) Computer Science
1 10 (23.81%) Cloud Computing
2 4 (9.524%) Open Source
3 3 (7.143%) Mashup
3 3 (7.143%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.381%) Copywriting
4 1 (2.381%) Blog
4 1 (2.381%) Social Network
4 1 (2.381%) SaaS
4 1 (2.381%) Heroku
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.524%) Linux
2 2 (4.762%) Apple iOS
2 2 (4.762%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (23.81%) Agile Software Development
2 9 (21.43%) Analytics
3 8 (19.05%) SEO
4 7 (16.67%) Social Media Marketing
4 7 (16.67%) Online Marketing
5 6 (14.29%) Pay per click
5 6 (14.29%) OOP
5 6 (14.29%) CRM
6 5 (11.90%) MVC
6 5 (11.90%) Content Management
7 4 (9.524%) BDD
7 4 (9.524%) Business Development
7 4 (9.524%) TDD
7 4 (9.524%) OO
8 3 (7.143%) Project Management
8 3 (7.143%) Scrum
9 2 (4.762%) Time Management
9 2 (4.762%) Risk Assessment
9 2 (4.762%) E-Commerce
10 1 (2.381%) B2B
Programming Languages
1 13 (30.95%) JavaScript
2 12 (28.57%) Java
3 11 (26.19%) PHP
4 10 (23.81%) Erlang
4 10 (23.81%) Scala
4 10 (23.81%) Clojure
4 10 (23.81%) Ruby
5 4 (9.524%) PHP5
6 1 (2.381%) C
6 1 (2.381%) C#
Qualifications
1 11 (26.19%) Degree
Vendors
1 15 (35.71%) Oracle
2 6 (14.29%) Zend
2 6 (14.29%) Google
2 6 (14.29%) BT
3 5 (11.90%) PeopleSoft
4 2 (4.762%) Facebook
4 2 (4.762%) Adobe
5 1 (2.381%) Microsoft
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