The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Electronics in IT jobs advertised for the Cheltenham region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Electronics over the 3 months to 22 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 General category for the Cheltenham region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Electronics
Rank 39 49 26
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -23
Permanent jobs citing Electronics 2 8 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheltenham 0.926% 1.980% 4.132%
As % of the General category 3.390% 4.545% 10.87%
Number of salaries quoted 2 4 0
Average salary £40,000 £41,250 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.03% -
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £36,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+5.55% -4.00%
All of the General Category
Cheltenham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
59 176 92
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheltenham 27.31% 43.56% 38.02%
Number of salaries quoted 55 129 53
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £23,850
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,750 £52,800
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- +3.65%
Electronics
Gloucestershire

Electronics
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Electronics across the Cheltenham region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

Cheltenham Electronics Jobs Demand Trend

Electronics
Salary Trend

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

Cheltenham Electronics Salary Trend

Electronics
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheltenham region citing Electronics 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 Electronics.

1 10 (71.43%) C++
2 9 (64.29%) C
3 7 (50.00%) Security Cleared
4 6 (42.86%) Degree
4 6 (42.86%) Aerospace
5 4 (28.57%) Manufacturing
5 4 (28.57%) Borland
5 4 (28.57%) EMC
5 4 (28.57%) C#
5 4 (28.57%) Avionics
5 4 (28.57%) Software Engineering
5 4 (28.57%) Embedded Systems
6 3 (21.43%) DO-178B
6 3 (21.43%) Computer Science
6 3 (21.43%) Ada
6 3 (21.43%) Assembly Language
6 3 (21.43%) Six Sigma
6 3 (21.43%) MATLAB
6 3 (21.43%) Simulink
6 3 (21.43%) Stateflow
6 3 (21.43%) Project Management
7 2 (14.29%) Pegasus
7 2 (14.29%) Pegasus Opera
7 2 (14.29%) Sage
7 2 (14.29%) HTTP
7 2 (14.29%) Embedded C
7 2 (14.29%) Embedded C++
7 2 (14.29%) Mandarin Language
7 2 (14.29%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (14.29%) Finance

Electronics
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheltenham region citing Electronics 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 Electronics. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (7.143%) .NET
1 1 (7.143%) COM
1 1 (7.143%) XML
Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Simulink
1 3 (21.43%) Stateflow
2 2 (14.29%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (7.143%) MS Office
3 1 (7.143%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Pegasus Opera
1 2 (14.29%) Sage 50
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) HTTP
2 1 (7.143%) Ethernet
2 1 (7.143%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.143%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 1 (7.143%) Subversion
1 1 (7.143%) Rational Rhapsody
1 1 (7.143%) Hudson
1 1 (7.143%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (42.86%) Aerospace
2 4 (28.57%) Manufacturing
2 4 (28.57%) Avionics
3 2 (14.29%) Mandarin Language
3 2 (14.29%) Finance
3 2 (14.29%) Banking
4 1 (7.143%) Military
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Software Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Electronics Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Design Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Test Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) C++ Software Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Software Test Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Software Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Administrator
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (7.143%) Embedded Software Developer
4 1 (7.143%) Real Time Software Engineer
4 1 (7.143%) Real Time Engineer
4 1 (7.143%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 1 (7.143%) Team Leader
4 1 (7.143%) Hardware Engineer
4 1 (7.143%) Senior Software Developer
4 1 (7.143%) Software Team Leader
4 1 (7.143%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Embedded Systems
2 3 (21.43%) Computer Science
3 1 (7.143%) Open Source
3 1 (7.143%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.143%) Windows
1 1 (7.143%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (28.57%) Software Engineering
2 3 (21.43%) Six Sigma
2 3 (21.43%) Project Management
3 1 (7.143%) TDD
3 1 (7.143%) SysML
3 1 (7.143%) Requirements Engineering
3 1 (7.143%) UML
Programming Languages
1 10 (71.43%) C++
2 9 (64.29%) C
3 4 (28.57%) C#
4 3 (21.43%) Ada
4 3 (21.43%) Assembly Language
4 3 (21.43%) MATLAB
5 2 (14.29%) Embedded C
5 2 (14.29%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 7 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (42.86%) Degree
3 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) DO-178B
2 1 (7.143%) IEC 61508
2 1 (7.143%) TickIT
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Borland
1 4 (28.57%) EMC
2 2 (14.29%) Pegasus
2 2 (14.29%) Sage
3 1 (7.143%) Mentor Graphics
3 1 (7.143%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.143%) Intel