The first table below looks at the demand for Postgraduate in IT jobs advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Postgraduate over the 3 months to 20 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 Qualifications for the Cambridge region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Postgraduate
Rank 104 109 119
Rank change year-on-year
+5 +10
Permanent jobs citing Postgraduate 18 19 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 0.974% 0.950% 0.140%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.590% 2.077% 0.325%
Number of salaries quoted 16 17 3
Average salary £35,000 £31,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.90% +3.33%
UK excluding London average salary £37,250 £35,750 £30,000
% change year-on-year
+4.19% +19.16%
All Qualifications
Cambridge
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
695 915 922
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 37.61% 45.77% 43.08%
Number of salaries quoted 585 754 851
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
Postgraduate
Cambridgeshire

Postgraduate
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Postgraduate across the Cambridge region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

Cambridge Postgraduate Jobs Demand Trend

Postgraduate
Salary Trend

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

Cambridge Postgraduate Salary Trend

Postgraduate
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge region citing Postgraduate 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 Postgraduate.

1 56 (86.15%) Degree
2 29 (44.62%) Python
3 28 (43.08%) Windows
3 28 (43.08%) Linux
4 26 (40.00%) Software Testing
4 26 (40.00%) QA
5 25 (38.46%) MySQL
5 25 (38.46%) SAN
6 24 (36.92%) NFS
6 24 (36.92%) Samba
6 24 (36.92%) Firewall
6 24 (36.92%) Bash shell
7 23 (35.38%) Big Data
8 18 (27.69%) Text Mining
9 17 (26.15%) PHP
10 16 (24.62%) Wiki
10 16 (24.62%) Network Security
11 13 (20.00%) Web Services
12 12 (18.46%) C++
12 12 (18.46%) Grid Computing
12 12 (18.46%) Semantic Web
13 10 (15.38%) PhD
13 10 (15.38%) Natural Language Processing
14 9 (13.85%) Life Science
14 9 (13.85%) Chemistry
14 9 (13.85%) UNIX
15 8 (12.31%) Data Protection
16 7 (10.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 7 (10.77%) Disaster Recovery
16 7 (10.77%) OO

Postgraduate
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 13 (20.00%) Web Services
2 10 (15.38%) Natural Language Processing
3 5 (7.692%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 5 (7.692%) STL
4 4 (6.154%) .NET
5 1 (1.538%) REST
Application Platforms
1 3 (4.615%) MediaWiki
Applications
1 3 (4.615%) MS Office
1 3 (4.615%) Google Apps
Communications & Networking
1 25 (38.46%) SAN
2 24 (36.92%) Firewall
3 16 (24.62%) Network Security
4 1 (1.538%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (38.46%) MySQL
2 23 (35.38%) Big Data
3 18 (27.69%) Text Mining
4 3 (4.615%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 3 (4.615%) JUnit
1 3 (4.615%) Visual Studio
1 3 (4.615%) Eclipse
1 3 (4.615%) Bugzilla
1 3 (4.615%) Mercurial
1 3 (4.615%) GCC
1 3 (4.615%) SCons
1 3 (4.615%) GoogleTest
General
1 1 (1.538%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 22 (33.85%) QA Engineer
2 18 (27.69%) Support Engineer
3 12 (18.46%) Developer
4 11 (16.92%) IT Support Engineer
4 11 (16.92%) IT Support
5 8 (12.31%) Administrator
5 8 (12.31%) Systems Administrator
6 7 (10.77%) 2nd Line Support
6 7 (10.77%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 6 (9.231%) Test Engineer
7 6 (9.231%) Analyst
8 5 (7.692%) Graduate
8 5 (7.692%) Systems Support
8 5 (7.692%) C++ Developer
9 4 (6.154%) Systems Tester
9 4 (6.154%) Tester
9 4 (6.154%) QA Tester
9 4 (6.154%) Linux Support Engineer
9 4 (6.154%) Graduate Developer
9 4 (6.154%) QA Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 16 (24.62%) Wiki
2 12 (18.46%) Semantic Web
2 12 (18.46%) Grid Computing
3 9 (13.85%) Chemistry
3 9 (13.85%) Life Science
4 5 (7.692%) Computer Science
5 4 (6.154%) Mathematics
6 3 (4.615%) Visualisation
7 1 (1.538%) Machine Learning
7 1 (1.538%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (1.538%) Java Card
7 1 (1.538%) Physics
7 1 (1.538%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1 (1.538%) Statistics
7 1 (1.538%) Biometrics
7 1 (1.538%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 28 (43.08%) Windows
1 28 (43.08%) Linux
2 9 (13.85%) UNIX
3 7 (10.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (40.00%) Software Testing
2 8 (12.31%) Data Protection
3 7 (10.77%) OO
3 7 (10.77%) Disaster Recovery
4 5 (7.692%) Automated Testing
4 5 (7.692%) Multithreading
5 3 (4.615%) Test Automation
5 3 (4.615%) Software Architecture
5 3 (4.615%) OOP
5 3 (4.615%) Agile Software Development
5 3 (4.615%) TDD
6 1 (1.538%) DRM
6 1 (1.538%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 29 (44.62%) Python
2 24 (36.92%) Bash shell
3 17 (26.15%) PHP
4 12 (18.46%) C++
5 7 (10.77%) Java
6 4 (6.154%) C
6 4 (6.154%) C#
6 4 (6.154%) Perl
7 3 (4.615%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 56 (86.15%) Degree
2 10 (15.38%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (40.00%) QA
System Software
1 24 (36.92%) NFS
1 24 (36.92%) Samba
Vendors
1 7 (10.77%) Red Hat
2 4 (6.154%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.615%) Google
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