The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Media in IT jobs advertised for the Cheltenham region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Social Media 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 Cheltenham region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Social Media
Rank 34 54 35
Rank change year-on-year
+20 -19
Permanent jobs citing Social Media 5 3 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheltenham 2.358% 0.750% 0.398%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.463% 2.174% 1.786%
Number of salaries quoted 5 2 1
Average salary £35,000 £42,500 £28,076
Average salary % change year-on-year
-17.64% +51.37%
UK excluding London average salary £34,000 £35,000 £30,500
% change year-on-year
-2.85% +14.75%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Cheltenham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
67 138 56
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheltenham 31.60% 34.50% 22.31%
Number of salaries quoted 63 101 41
Average salary £37,500 £41,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-9.63% +10.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,900 £35,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £71,500 £42,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +6.66%
Social Media
Gloucestershire

Social Media
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheltenham 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 Cheltenham region.

Cheltenham Social Media Salary Trend

Social Media
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheltenham 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 5 (100.00%) PHP
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
1 5 (100.00%) CRM
1 5 (100.00%) Internet
1 5 (100.00%) Nagios
1 5 (100.00%) Firewall
1 5 (100.00%) LAMP
1 5 (100.00%) Google
1 5 (100.00%) Ubuntu
1 5 (100.00%) Marketing
1 5 (100.00%) Drupal
1 5 (100.00%) Time Management
1 5 (100.00%) Git (software)
1 5 (100.00%) Munin
1 5 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 5 (100.00%) Google Apps
1 5 (100.00%) Twitter

Social Media
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheltenham 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 5 (100.00%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 5 (100.00%) Drupal
1 5 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Google Apps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) Internet
1 5 (100.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Git (software)
General
1 5 (100.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
1 5 (100.00%) PHP Developer
1 5 (100.00%) Drupal Developer
1 5 (100.00%) PHP Drupal Developer
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
1 5 (100.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CRM
1 5 (100.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) PHP
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Nagios
1 5 (100.00%) Munin
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Google
1 5 (100.00%) Twitter