The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Statistics in IT jobs advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Statistics over the 3 months to 23 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Statistics
Rank 108 98 86
Rank change year-on-year
-10 -12
Permanent jobs citing Statistics 1 4 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.059% 0.272% 0.516%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.272% 1.102% 2.318%
Number of salaries quoted 1 4 6
Average salary £52,500 £50,000 £30,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.00% +62.60%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £40,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
-12.50% +23.07%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Birmingham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
367 363 302
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 21.78% 24.73% 22.25%
Number of salaries quoted 326 325 272
Average salary £44,000 £40,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+10.00% +23.07%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,250 £68,500 £82,500
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +6.66%
Statistics
West Midlands

Statistics
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham Statistics Jobs Demand Trend

Statistics
Salary Trend

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

Birmingham Statistics Salary Trend

Statistics
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham region citing Statistics 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 Statistics.

1 6 (50.00%) Business Objects
2 5 (41.67%) Data Mining
2 5 (41.67%) SPSS
2 5 (41.67%) Degree
2 5 (41.67%) Mathematics
3 3 (25.00%) SLA
3 3 (25.00%) Management Information System
4 2 (16.67%) Telecoms
4 2 (16.67%) MS Excel
4 2 (16.67%) MS Access
4 2 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (16.67%) Revenue Management
4 2 (16.67%) Migration
4 2 (16.67%) Billing
4 2 (16.67%) Finance
4 2 (16.67%) Operations Management
5 1 (8.333%) BladeLogic
5 1 (8.333%) Validation
5 1 (8.333%) Data Analysis
5 1 (8.333%) Spring
5 1 (8.333%) Maven
5 1 (8.333%) Ajax
5 1 (8.333%) Google
5 1 (8.333%) LAMP
5 1 (8.333%) Games
5 1 (8.333%) XML-RPC
5 1 (8.333%) Hibernate
5 1 (8.333%) E-Learning
5 1 (8.333%) SCORM
5 1 (8.333%) VLE

Statistics
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham region citing Statistics 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 Statistics. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (8.333%) Spring
1 1 (8.333%) Ajax
1 1 (8.333%) LAMP
1 1 (8.333%) XML-RPC
1 1 (8.333%) Hibernate
1 1 (8.333%) RESTful
1 1 (8.333%) JSON
1 1 (8.333%) ADO
1 1 (8.333%) ASP
1 1 (8.333%) CSS
1 1 (8.333%) XML
1 1 (8.333%) XHTML
1 1 (8.333%) HTML
1 1 (8.333%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 1 (8.333%) Moodle
1 1 (8.333%) Google App Engine
1 1 (8.333%) SAS
1 1 (8.333%) Apache
1 1 (8.333%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (41.67%) SPSS
2 2 (16.67%) MS Excel
3 1 (8.333%) MS Office
3 1 (8.333%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.333%) HTTP
1 1 (8.333%) TCP/IP
1 1 (8.333%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) Data Mining
2 2 (16.67%) MS Access
3 1 (8.333%) NoSQL
3 1 (8.333%) RDBMS
3 1 (8.333%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (8.333%) Maven
1 1 (8.333%) Hudson
General
1 2 (16.67%) Telecoms
1 2 (16.67%) Billing
1 2 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (8.333%) Games
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Analyst
2 5 (41.67%) Statistical Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Operations Manager
4 1 (8.333%) Payroll Manager
4 1 (8.333%) Report Analyst
4 1 (8.333%) Service Manager
4 1 (8.333%) Information Analyst
4 1 (8.333%) Designer
4 1 (8.333%) Service Operations Manager
4 1 (8.333%) Developer
4 1 (8.333%) Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Mathematics
2 3 (25.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (8.333%) E-Learning
3 1 (8.333%) SCORM
3 1 (8.333%) VLE
3 1 (8.333%) Graphic Design
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.333%) Windows
1 1 (8.333%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
1 2 (16.67%) Revenue Management
1 2 (16.67%) Migration
1 2 (16.67%) Operations Management
2 1 (8.333%) Validation
2 1 (8.333%) Data Analysis
2 1 (8.333%) Asset Management
2 1 (8.333%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (8.333%) Problem Management
2 1 (8.333%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (8.333%) Service Delivery
2 1 (8.333%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.333%) Java
1 1 (8.333%) JavaScript
1 1 (8.333%) PHP
1 1 (8.333%) SQL
1 1 (8.333%) VBScript
1 1 (8.333%) VB
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (8.333%) BladeLogic
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Business Objects
2 1 (8.333%) Google
2 1 (8.333%) Rackspace
2 1 (8.333%) BT
2 1 (8.333%) Oracle