The first table below looks at the demand for DRM skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited DRM over the 3 months to 21 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Digital Rights Management (DRM)
Rank - - -
Permanent jobs citing DRM 0 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire - - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Average salary - - -
UK excluding London average salary £60,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year
+33.33% -5.26%
All Processes & Methodologies
Cheshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1369 1493 1122
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 75.93% 76.21% 68.58%
Number of salaries quoted 1056 1313 954
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 £60,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
DRM
North West

DRM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire DRM Jobs Demand Trend

DRM
Salary Trend

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

Cheshire DRM Salary Trend

DRM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire region citing DRM 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 DRM.

1 10 (100.00%) Windows
2 5 (50.00%) Linux
2 5 (50.00%) Lotus Domino
2 5 (50.00%) Flash
2 5 (50.00%) J2ME
2 5 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 5 (50.00%) Bluetooth
2 5 (50.00%) GPRS
2 5 (50.00%) GSM
2 5 (50.00%) LAN
2 5 (50.00%) MPEG
2 5 (50.00%) UMTS
2 5 (50.00%) VoIP
2 5 (50.00%) WLAN
2 5 (50.00%) SVG
2 5 (50.00%) Cisco
2 5 (50.00%) IBM
2 5 (50.00%) HP
2 5 (50.00%) EMC
2 5 (50.00%) Tivoli
2 5 (50.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 5 (50.00%) OpenGL
2 5 (50.00%) Middleware
2 5 (50.00%) Mobile Commerce
2 5 (50.00%) DVB
2 5 (50.00%) C
2 5 (50.00%) C++
2 5 (50.00%) Java
2 5 (50.00%) SQL
2 5 (50.00%) Oracle

DRM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire region citing DRM 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 DRM. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (50.00%) Flash
1 5 (50.00%) J2ME
1 5 (50.00%) SVG
1 5 (50.00%) OpenGL
1 5 (50.00%) Middleware
1 5 (50.00%) BREW
1 5 (50.00%) Qt
1 5 (50.00%) OpenAL
Application Platforms
1 5 (50.00%) Lotus Domino
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) Bluetooth
1 5 (50.00%) GPRS
1 5 (50.00%) GSM
1 5 (50.00%) LAN
1 5 (50.00%) UMTS
1 5 (50.00%) VoIP
1 5 (50.00%) WLAN
1 5 (50.00%) DVB
1 5 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
1 5 (50.00%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) DB2
General
1 5 (50.00%) Electronics
1 5 (50.00%) Multimedia
2 3 (30.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Software Developer
1 5 (50.00%) Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Tivoli Specialist
2 3 (30.00%) Storage Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) Storage Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) MPEG
1 5 (50.00%) Device Driver
1 5 (50.00%) Replication
1 5 (50.00%) Speech Recognition
1 5 (50.00%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Windows
2 5 (50.00%) Linux
2 5 (50.00%) UNIX
2 5 (50.00%) Windows Mobile
2 5 (50.00%) Nucleus RTOS
2 5 (50.00%) Android
2 5 (50.00%) Windows 7
2 5 (50.00%) Windows Phone 7
2 5 (50.00%) Windows 8
2 5 (50.00%) Windows Phone 8
2 5 (50.00%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) E-Commerce
1 5 (50.00%) Mobile Commerce
1 5 (50.00%) Migration
1 5 (50.00%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) C
1 5 (50.00%) C++
1 5 (50.00%) Java
1 5 (50.00%) SQL
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Tivoli
1 5 (50.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
1 5 (50.00%) HP Data Protector
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Cisco
1 5 (50.00%) IBM
1 5 (50.00%) HP
1 5 (50.00%) EMC
1 5 (50.00%) Oracle
1 5 (50.00%) SAP
1 5 (50.00%) VMware
1 5 (50.00%) Brocade