The first table below looks at the demand for Benchmarking skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Benchmarking 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Cheshire region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Benchmarking
Rank 118 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing Benchmarking 2 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 0.112% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.147% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
Average salary £28,500 - -
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £45,000 £46,250
% change year-on-year
-20.00% -2.70%
All Processes & Methodologies
Cheshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1357 1486 1117
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 76.24% 76.13% 68.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1042 1303 951
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £38,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -1.31%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £52,500 £60,100
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Benchmarking
North West

Benchmarking
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Benchmarking across the Cheshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Cheshire Benchmarking Jobs Demand Trend

Benchmarking
Salary Trend

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

Cheshire Benchmarking Salary Trend

Benchmarking
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Benchmarking within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Chester - 2 £28,500 -
Benchmarking
North West

Benchmarking
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire region citing Benchmarking 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 Benchmarking.

1 10 (83.33%) UNIX
1 10 (83.33%) Solaris
1 10 (83.33%) Linux
1 10 (83.33%) Sun
1 10 (83.33%) Intel
1 10 (83.33%) Veritas
1 10 (83.33%) Red Hat
1 10 (83.33%) Shell Script
1 10 (83.33%) Software Packaging
1 10 (83.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 10 (83.33%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Data Validation
2 2 (16.67%) Statistics
2 2 (16.67%) Degree
2 2 (16.67%) Mathematics
2 2 (16.67%) Project Management
2 2 (16.67%) Pharmaceutical
2 2 (16.67%) Validation
2 2 (16.67%) Retail
2 2 (16.67%) Data Analysis
2 2 (16.67%) Economics

Benchmarking
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 10 (83.33%) Software Packaging
General
1 2 (16.67%) Pharmaceutical
1 2 (16.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (83.33%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) Data Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Economics
1 2 (16.67%) Statistics
1 2 (16.67%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 10 (83.33%) UNIX
1 10 (83.33%) Solaris
1 10 (83.33%) Linux
1 10 (83.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (16.67%) Project Management
1 2 (16.67%) Validation
1 2 (16.67%) Data Analysis
1 2 (16.67%) Data Validation
Programming Languages
1 10 (83.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
System Software
1 10 (83.33%) Veritas Volume Manager
Vendors
1 10 (83.33%) Sun
1 10 (83.33%) Intel
1 10 (83.33%) Veritas
1 10 (83.33%) Red Hat