Cheshire B2B Jobs

This section looks at the demand for B2B (Business-to-Business) skills within the Cheshire region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited B2B over the last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

B2B (Business-to-Business)
Location Aberdeen Amersham Aylesbury Barnet Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester City of London Corby Coventry Croydon Deeside Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Flintshire Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenford Guildford Halifax Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Huddersfield Ipswich Kent Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicester Leicestershire London M4 Corridor Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Norfolk North East North Wales North West Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oswestry Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Rochdale Rugby Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stroud Suffolk Surrey Swindon Telford Thames Ditton Thames Valley Tonbridge Towcester Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimborne Woking Worcester Worcestershire Wrexham Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	127	134
Rank change on same period last year	+7
Matching permanent IT job ads	18	15
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.009 %	0.007 %
As % of the category below	0.884 %	0.693 %
Salaries quoted	15	12
Average minimum salary	£27,467	£32,667
Average salary	£28,867	£36,042
% change on same period last year	-19.90 %
Average maximum salary	£30,267	£39,417
UK excluding London average salary	£35,920	£39,701
% change on same period last year	-9.52 %
Processes & Methodologies Cheshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	2036	2163
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.998 %	0.958 %
Salaries quoted	1810	1839
Average minimum salary	£36,888	£37,455
Average salary	£40,560	£40,999
% change on same period last year	-1.07 %
Average maximum salary	£44,232	£44,543
UK excluding London average salary	£42,840	£44,076
% change on same period last year	-2.80 %
B2B North West

B2B
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of permanent IT jobs ads citing B2B across the Cheshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

B2B
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs ads citing B2B across the Cheshire region.

B2B
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing B2B across the Cheshire region over the past 3 months.

B2B
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing B2B within the Cheshire region over the past 3 months.

Rank	Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
1	Warrington	-14	5	£20,000	-50.00 %
2	Chester	-	3	£25,333	-
3	Wilmslow	-	1	£34,000	-

B2B North West

B2B
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the Cheshire region citing B2B also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing B2B.

1 26 (68.42 %) B2C 2 22 (57.89 %) SQL 3 17 (44.74 %) SQL Server 4 14 (36.84 %) .NET 5 12 (31.58 %) C# 5 12 (31.58 %) Marketing 6 11 (28.95 %) Direct Marketing 6 11 (28.95 %) Data Management 6 11 (28.95 %) ASP.NET 7 10 (26.32 %) XML 7 10 (26.32 %) XHTML 7 10 (26.32 %) IIS 7 10 (26.32 %) SLA 7 10 (26.32 %) Telecoms 7 10 (26.32 %) Fault Management

8 7 (18.42 %) Crystal Reports 9 6 (15.79 %) Microsoft 9 6 (15.79 %) CSS 9 6 (15.79 %) WebServices 10 5 (13.16 %) MS Excel 10 5 (13.16 %) SSL 10 5 (13.16 %) Intranet 10 5 (13.16 %) Extranet 10 5 (13.16 %) System Testing 11 3 (7.895 %) E-Commerce 11 3 (7.895 %) ASP 11 3 (7.895 %) HTML 11 3 (7.895 %) AJAX 11 3 (7.895 %) Finance 12 2 (5.263 %) Automated Testing

B2B
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the Cheshire region citing B2B also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing B2B. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 14 (36.84 %) .NET 2 11 (28.95 %) ASP.NET 3 10 (26.32 %) XML 3 10 (26.32 %) XHTML 4 6 (15.79 %) CSS 4 6 (15.79 %) WebServices 5 3 (7.895 %) ASP 5 3 (7.895 %) AJAX 5 3 (7.895 %) HTML 6 2 (5.263 %) ASP.NET 2.0	Application Platforms 1 10 (26.32 %) IIS
Applications 1 5 (13.16 %) MS Excel 2 1 (2.632 %) Fireworks 2 1 (2.632 %) Adobe Illustrator 2 1 (2.632 %) Photoshop	Communications & Networking 1 5 (13.16 %) SSL 1 5 (13.16 %) Intranet 1 5 (13.16 %) Extranet 2 1 (2.632 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 17 (44.74 %) SQL Server 2 7 (18.42 %) Crystal Reports 3 2 (5.263 %) SQL Server 2005	Development Applications 1 1 (2.632 %) Dreamweaver 1 1 (2.632 %) TestDirector 1 1 (2.632 %) QuickTest Pro
General 1 12 (31.58 %) Marketing 2 10 (26.32 %) Telecoms 3 3 (7.895 %) Finance 4 1 (2.632 %) Health 4 1 (2.632 %) Graphic Design	Job Titles 1 11 (28.95 %) Developer 1 11 (28.95 %) Web Developer 2 10 (26.32 %) Technical Support 3 7 (18.42 %) Technical Customer Support 4 6 (15.79 %) Programmer 5 5 (13.16 %) Database Designer 5 5 (13.16 %) Team Leader 6 3 (7.895 %) 1st Line Support 6 3 (7.895 %) Technical Support Analyst 6 3 (7.895 %) Technical Analyst 6 3 (7.895 %) Support Analyst 6 3 (7.895 %) Analyst 6 3 (7.895 %) Telecoms Analyst 7 2 (5.263 %) Tester 8 1 (2.632 %) Photoshop Designer 8 1 (2.632 %) IT Manager 8 1 (2.632 %) Consultant 8 1 (2.632 %) Account Manager 8 1 (2.632 %) Sales Consultant 8 1 (2.632 %) Development Manager
Operating Systems 1 1 (2.632 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 26 (68.42 %) B2C 2 11 (28.95 %) Data Management 2 11 (28.95 %) Direct Marketing 3 10 (26.32 %) Fault Management 4 5 (13.16 %) System Testing 5 3 (7.895 %) E-Commerce 6 2 (5.263 %) OO 6 2 (5.263 %) Automated Testing 7 1 (2.632 %) Business Development 7 1 (2.632 %) Logistics 7 1 (2.632 %) Web Design 7 1 (2.632 %) User Acceptance Testing 7 1 (2.632 %) Test Management 7 1 (2.632 %) Internet Marketing
Programming Languages 1 22 (57.89 %) SQL 2 12 (31.58 %) C# 3 2 (5.263 %) JavaScript	Qualifications 1 2 (5.263 %) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 10 (26.32 %) SLA	Vendors 1 6 (15.79 %) Microsoft 2 1 (2.632 %) Empirix 2 1 (2.632 %) Quark 2 1 (2.632 %) Google