The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Biology in IT jobs advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Biology over the 3 months to 24 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 Cheshire region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Biology
Rank - - -
Permanent jobs citing Biology 0 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire - - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category - - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Average salary - - -
UK excluding London average salary £33,500 £43,042 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-22.16% +22.97%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Cheshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
444 538 345
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 24.68% 26.79% 20.90%
Number of salaries quoted 332 474 284
Average salary £37,250 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-0.66% +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,500 £23,250 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £59,200 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +6.66%
Biology
North West

Biology
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire Biology Jobs Demand Trend

Biology
Salary Trend

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

Cheshire Biology Salary Trend

Biology
Top 12 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire region citing Biology 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 Biology.

1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) MATLAB
1 2 (100.00%) Pharmaceutical
1 2 (100.00%) Neural Network
1 2 (100.00%) Bioinformatics
1 2 (100.00%) Statistics
1 2 (100.00%) Mathematics
1 2 (100.00%) SciPy
1 2 (100.00%) NumPy
1 2 (100.00%) R
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Statistical Modelling

Biology
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire region citing Biology 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 Biology. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (100.00%) SciPy
1 2 (100.00%) NumPy
General
1 2 (100.00%) Pharmaceutical
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Neural Network
1 2 (100.00%) Statistics
1 2 (100.00%) Mathematics
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Bioinformatics
1 2 (100.00%) Statistical Modelling
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) MATLAB
1 2 (100.00%) R