The first table below looks at the demand for Broadband skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Broadband over the 3 months to 17 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 Communications & Networking category for the Cheshire region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Broadband
Rank 119 - 115
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing Broadband 1 0 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 0.056% - 0.060%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.247% - 0.334%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
Average salary £27,000 - £17,500
UK excluding London average salary £35,250 £35,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+0.71% -6.66%
All Communications & Networking
Cheshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
405 242 299
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 22.64% 12.56% 18.04%
Number of salaries quoted 307 219 249
Average salary £32,000 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-8.57% -
90% offered a salary of more than £22,000 £24,000 £27,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £44,800 £60,500
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
Broadband
North West

Broadband
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire Broadband Jobs Demand Trend

Broadband
Salary Trend

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

Cheshire Broadband Salary Trend

Broadband
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Broadband within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 17 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 - 1 £27,000 -
Broadband
North West

Broadband
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire region citing Broadband 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 Broadband.

1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2012
2 2 (50.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) .NET
2 2 (50.00%) MySQL
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (50.00%) IIS
2 2 (50.00%) Visual Studio
2 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 2 (50.00%) Web Services
2 2 (50.00%) XML
2 2 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 2 (50.00%) MVC
2 2 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (50.00%) Ajax
2 2 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 2 (50.00%) Degree
2 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (25.00%) CIPD
3 1 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) VMware
3 1 (25.00%) ISDN
3 1 (25.00%) LAN

Broadband
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire region citing Broadband 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 Broadband. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (50.00%) .NET
1 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (50.00%) Web Services
1 2 (50.00%) XML
1 2 (50.00%) Ajax
1 2 (50.00%) .NET Framework
1 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (25.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) ISDN
1 1 (25.00%) LAN
1 1 (25.00%) VoIP
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) MySQL
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Visual Studio
1 2 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Graduate
1 2 (50.00%) Software Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Graduate Software Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Graduate Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Support
2 1 (25.00%) Support Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Team Leader
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Support Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) MVC
1 2 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C#
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) CIPD
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) VMware