The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Cognizant products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Cognizant over the 3 months to 22 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 Vendors for the Cheshire region.

The figures below represent the IT job market in general and are NOT representative of salaries within Cognizant Technology Solutions.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cognizant
Rank 118 126 115
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -11
Permanent jobs citing Cognizant 2 5 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 0.111% 0.249% 0.062%
As % of the Vendors category 0.239% 0.549% 0.146%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Average salary - - -
UK excluding London average salary £45,600 £70,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year
-34.85% +33.33%
All Vendors
Cheshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
837 910 687
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 46.47% 45.32% 42.46%
Number of salaries quoted 651 792 577
Average salary £36,500 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.28% -
90% offered a salary of more than £24,500 £25,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £48,200 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Cognizant
North West

Cognizant
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire Cognizant Jobs Demand Trend

Cognizant
Salary Trend

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

Cheshire Cognizant Salary Trend

Cognizant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire region citing Cognizant 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 Cognizant.

1 13 (72.22%) Life Science
2 12 (66.67%) Pharmaceutical
3 9 (50.00%) Degree
4 6 (33.33%) Project Management
4 6 (33.33%) Manufacturing
5 5 (27.78%) Microsoft
5 5 (27.78%) Portfolio Management
6 4 (22.22%) QA
6 4 (22.22%) Big Data
6 4 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (16.67%) HP
7 3 (16.67%) Validation
7 3 (16.67%) Migration
7 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (16.67%) Primavera
7 3 (16.67%) Finance
7 3 (16.67%) Marketing
7 3 (16.67%) Project Planning
7 3 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
8 2 (11.11%) Data Management
8 2 (11.11%) BPEL
8 2 (11.11%) Information Management
8 2 (11.11%) Document Management
8 2 (11.11%) Technical Architecture
8 2 (11.11%) XPath
8 2 (11.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (11.11%) Change Management
8 2 (11.11%) GAP Analysis
8 2 (11.11%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (11.11%) Risk Assessment

Cognizant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire region citing Cognizant 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 Cognizant. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (11.11%) Middleware
1 2 (11.11%) WSDL
1 2 (11.11%) SOAP
1 2 (11.11%) Web Services
1 2 (11.11%) XML
1 2 (11.11%) XSD
1 2 (11.11%) XSLT
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle Fusion
Application Platforms
1 2 (11.11%) WebLogic
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle Service Bus
2 1 (5.556%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) MS Visio
1 2 (11.11%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (5.556%) BASE24
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) Big Data
1 4 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (11.11%) MySQL
2 2 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle 8/8i
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle 11g
General
1 12 (66.67%) Pharmaceutical
2 6 (33.33%) Manufacturing
3 3 (16.67%) Finance
3 3 (16.67%) Marketing
4 1 (5.556%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (16.67%) Architect
2 2 (11.11%) Lead Architect
2 2 (11.11%) Support Specialist
3 1 (5.556%) Senior Architect
3 1 (5.556%) Test Architect
3 1 (5.556%) Senior Test Architect
3 1 (5.556%) Business Intelligence Manager
3 1 (5.556%) Data Warehouse Manager
3 1 (5.556%) Project Manager
3 1 (5.556%) Business Analyst
3 1 (5.556%) Programme Manager
3 1 (5.556%) Analyst
3 1 (5.556%) Account Manager
3 1 (5.556%) Programmer
3 1 (5.556%) SAS Programmer
3 1 (5.556%) Data Manager
3 1 (5.556%) Information Manager
3 1 (5.556%) Business Manager
Miscellaneous
1 13 (72.22%) Life Science
2 1 (5.556%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (5.556%) Mainframe
2 1 (5.556%) Mathematics
2 1 (5.556%) Computer Science
2 1 (5.556%) Statistics
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) Project Management
2 5 (27.78%) Portfolio Management
3 3 (16.67%) Validation
3 3 (16.67%) Migration
3 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (16.67%) Project Planning
3 3 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (11.11%) Data Management
4 2 (11.11%) BPEL
4 2 (11.11%) Information Management
4 2 (11.11%) Document Management
4 2 (11.11%) Technical Architecture
4 2 (11.11%) Change Management
4 2 (11.11%) GAP Analysis
4 2 (11.11%) Risk Assessment
4 2 (11.11%) Programme Management
4 2 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (11.11%) B2B
4 2 (11.11%) EAI
4 2 (11.11%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) XPath
1 2 (11.11%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 9 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) QA
2 2 (11.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (11.11%) 21 CFR Part 11
2 2 (11.11%) GAMP
2 2 (11.11%) GMP
3 1 (5.556%) CDISC
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) Microsoft
2 3 (16.67%) HP
2 3 (16.67%) Primavera
3 2 (11.11%) Oracle
3 2 (11.11%) Business Objects
4 1 (5.556%) Twitter
4 1 (5.556%) SAP