Cheshire Computer Science Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Computer Science (Computing Science) skills within the Cheshire region with a comparison to our Miscellaneous category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Computer Science over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Computer Science (Computing Science)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alcester Aldershot Altrincham Amersham Ascot Aylesbury Banbury Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Berkshire Birmingham Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chippenham Church Stretton City of London Clapham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Crewkerne Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dundee Dunfermline Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Egham Ellesmere Port England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Fife Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Horsham Hounslow Hull Humberside Ipswich Kenilworth Kent Kingswinford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton Aycliffe Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Penicuik Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redditch Reigate Renfrewshire Rochdale Romsey Royston Rugby Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Skipton Slough Smethwick Solihull Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stanmore Stevenage Stockport Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Teddington Thame Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Widnes Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	120	82
Rank change on same period last year	-38
Matching permanent IT job ads	27	61
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.014 %	0.025 %
As % of the category below	4.072 %	10.43 %
Salaries quoted	27	52
Average minimum salary	£30,571	£21,573
Average salary	£33,786	£24,678
% change on same period last year	+36.90 %
Average maximum salary	£37,000	£27,783
UK excluding London average salary	£33,613	£32,195
% change on same period last year	+4.40 %
Miscellaneous Cheshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	663	585
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.350 %	0.240 %
Salaries quoted	610	510
Average minimum salary	£36,637	£32,099
Average salary	£40,523	£35,094
% change on same period last year	+15.46 %
Average maximum salary	£44,409	£38,090
UK excluding London average salary	£38,014	£39,235
% change on same period last year	-3.11 %
Computer Science North West

Computer Science
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Computer Science across the Cheshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Computer Science
Salary Trend

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

Computer Science
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Computer Science across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

Computer Science
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Computer Science within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

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
Warrington	+1	15	£35,033	-
Macclesfield	-	3	£38,833	-
Runcorn	-	2	£33,000	-
Northwich	-	2	£33,000	-
Widnes	-	2	£33,000	-
Crewe	-	1	£20,000	-
Ellesmere Port	-	1	£27,500	-

Computer Science North West

Computer Science
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Cheshire region citing Computer Science 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 Computer Science.

1 45 (75.00 %) Degree 2 30 (50.00 %) Java 3 22 (36.67 %) SQL Server 4 17 (28.33 %) C++ 4 17 (28.33 %) J2EE 5 16 (26.67 %) Oracle 5 16 (26.67 %) Microsoft 6 15 (25.00 %) SQL 7 14 (23.33 %) Software Engineering 7 14 (23.33 %) .NET 8 13 (21.67 %) XML 9 12 (20.00 %) Windows 10 11 (18.33 %) Finance 10 11 (18.33 %) Web Development 11 10 (16.67 %) OO

12 9 (15.00 %) Linux 12 9 (15.00 %) Servlets 12 9 (15.00 %) ASP.NET 12 9 (15.00 %) JavaScript 13 8 (13.33 %) C# 13 8 (13.33 %) UML 13 8 (13.33 %) ActiveX 13 8 (13.33 %) Agile Software Development 14 7 (11.67 %) Education 14 7 (11.67 %) Electric 14 7 (11.67 %) UNIX 14 7 (11.67 %) C 15 6 (10.00 %) VC++ 15 6 (10.00 %) SharePoint 15 6 (10.00 %) SQL Server 2005

Computer Science
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Cheshire region citing Computer Science 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 Computer Science. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 17 (28.33 %) J2EE 2 14 (23.33 %) .NET 3 13 (21.67 %) XML 4 9 (15.00 %) Servlets 4 9 (15.00 %) ASP.NET 5 8 (13.33 %) ActiveX 6 5 (8.333 %) Struts 6 5 (8.333 %) JSP 6 5 (8.333 %) MFC 6 5 (8.333 %) ASP.NET 2.0 7 4 (6.667 %) JavaBeans 7 4 (6.667 %) Hibernate 7 4 (6.667 %) HTML 7 4 (6.667 %) SOAP 7 4 (6.667 %) Swing 8 3 (5.000 %) XSLT 8 3 (5.000 %) ASP 9 2 (3.333 %) CSS 9 2 (3.333 %) WebServices 9 2 (3.333 %) J2SE	Application Platforms 1 6 (10.00 %) SharePoint 2 3 (5.000 %) WebLogic 3 2 (3.333 %) IIS 4 1 (1.667 %) Apache 4 1 (1.667 %) Tomcat 4 1 (1.667 %) MS Exchange 4 1 (1.667 %) BizTalk Server 4 1 (1.667 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 1 (1.667 %) Resin
Applications 1 2 (3.333 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 1 (1.667 %) LabWindows
Communications & Networking 1 5 (8.333 %) HTTP 2 1 (1.667 %) TCP/IP 2 1 (1.667 %) Internet 2 1 (1.667 %) Wireless 2 1 (1.667 %) ATM 2 1 (1.667 %) GPRS 2 1 (1.667 %) GSM	Database & Business Intelligence 1 22 (36.67 %) SQL Server 2 6 (10.00 %) SQL Server 2005 3 5 (8.333 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 3 5 (8.333 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 3 5 (8.333 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 3 5 (8.333 %) SQL Server 7 4 4 (6.667 %) RDBMS 5 2 (3.333 %) SQL Server 2000 6 1 (1.667 %) GIS 6 1 (1.667 %) Datawarehouse
Development Applications 1 5 (8.333 %) VSS/SourceSafe 1 5 (8.333 %) NUnit 2 4 (6.667 %) Eclipse 2 4 (6.667 %) Visual Studio 3 2 (3.333 %) JUnit 4 1 (1.667 %) Rational Rose 4 1 (1.667 %) ProC 4 1 (1.667 %) LabVIEW	General 1 11 (18.33 %) Finance 2 7 (11.67 %) Education 2 7 (11.67 %) Electric 3 3 (5.000 %) Automotive 3 3 (5.000 %) Pensions 4 1 (1.667 %) Marketing 4 1 (1.667 %) Law 4 1 (1.667 %) Manufacturing 4 1 (1.667 %) Banking 4 1 (1.667 %) Electronics
Job Titles 1 29 (48.33 %) Developer 2 19 (31.67 %) Software Engineer 2 19 (31.67 %) Java Developer 3 15 (25.00 %) Java/J2EE Developer 4 14 (23.33 %) J2EE Developer 5 7 (11.67 %) Analyst 6 6 (10.00 %) C++ Software Engineer 6 6 (10.00 %) Java Team Leader 6 6 (10.00 %) Team Leader 6 6 (10.00 %) J2EE Team Leader 7 5 (8.333 %) Programmer 8 4 (6.667 %) Java Software Engineer 8 4 (6.667 %) Graduate 8 4 (6.667 %) .NET Programmer 8 4 (6.667 %) Symbian Software Engineer 8 4 (6.667 %) Web Team Leader 9 2 (3.333 %) C# Developer 9 2 (3.333 %) Senior J2EE Developer 9 2 (3.333 %) Senior Java Developer 9 2 (3.333 %) Junior	Miscellaneous 1 4 (6.667 %) Mathematics 2 3 (5.000 %) Multithreading 3 2 (3.333 %) Physics 3 2 (3.333 %) Device Driver 3 2 (3.333 %) Pocket PC 4 1 (1.667 %) Statistics 4 1 (1.667 %) Cryptography 4 1 (1.667 %) NHS
Operating Systems 1 12 (20.00 %) Windows 2 9 (15.00 %) Linux 3 7 (11.67 %) UNIX 4 4 (6.667 %) Windows XP 4 4 (6.667 %) Windows Mobile 5 3 (5.000 %) Windows 2000 6 2 (3.333 %) Embedded Linux 6 2 (3.333 %) Windows CE 7 1 (1.667 %) AIX 7 1 (1.667 %) Solaris	Processes & Methodologies 1 14 (23.33 %) Software Engineering 2 11 (18.33 %) Web Development 3 10 (16.67 %) OO 4 8 (13.33 %) UML 4 8 (13.33 %) Agile Software Development 5 5 (8.333 %) Unit Testing 5 5 (8.333 %) Business Intelligence 6 4 (6.667 %) OOD 6 4 (6.667 %) Scrum 7 3 (5.000 %) SOA 7 3 (5.000 %) Configuration Management 7 3 (5.000 %) E-business 7 3 (5.000 %) Technical Architecture 8 2 (3.333 %) Operations Research 9 1 (1.667 %) Project Planning 9 1 (1.667 %) Test Scripting 9 1 (1.667 %) Computer Security 9 1 (1.667 %) Migration 9 1 (1.667 %) PRINCE 9 1 (1.667 %) E-Commerce
Programming Languages 1 30 (50.00 %) Java 2 17 (28.33 %) C++ 3 15 (25.00 %) SQL 4 9 (15.00 %) JavaScript 5 8 (13.33 %) C# 6 7 (11.67 %) C 7 6 (10.00 %) VC++ 8 5 (8.333 %) VB 9 3 (5.000 %) VB.NET 10 2 (3.333 %) Embedded C 10 2 (3.333 %) Perl 11 1 (1.667 %) PL/SQL 11 1 (1.667 %) Transact-SQL 11 1 (1.667 %) Shell Script 11 1 (1.667 %) Ruby 11 1 (1.667 %) XPath 11 1 (1.667 %) VBA	Qualifications 1 45 (75.00 %) Degree 2 2 (3.333 %) Microsoft Certification 2 2 (3.333 %) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.667 %) JTAG	Vendors 1 16 (26.67 %) Oracle 1 16 (26.67 %) Microsoft 2 4 (6.667 %) Symbian 3 1 (1.667 %) Sun 3 1 (1.667 %) ATG