The first table below looks at the demand for the Graduate role in IT jobs advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Graduate in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised for the Cheshire region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Graduate
Rank 96 68 95
Rank change year-on-year
-28 +27
Permanent jobs requiring a Graduate 24 58 21
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 1.342% 3.010% 1.267%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.401% 3.145% 1.345%
Number of salaries quoted 21 55 17
Average salary £25,000 £22,000 £20,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+13.63% +10.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £20,000 £20,000 £17,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £25,000 £21,400
UK excluding London average salary £22,500 £23,000 £22,500
% change year-on-year
-2.17% +2.22%
All Job Titles
Cheshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1713 1844 1561
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 95.75% 95.69% 94.21%
Number of salaries quoted 1350 1624 1327
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
90% offered a salary of more than £23,000 £22,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Graduate
North West

Graduate
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire Graduate Jobs Demand Trend

Graduate
Salary Trend

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

Cheshire Graduate Salary Trend

Graduate
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Graduate across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Cheshire Graduate Salary Histogram

Graduate
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Graduate 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
Warrington 0 5 £25,000 +16.27%
Crewe -8 5 £23,000 +4.54%
Macclesfield -9 4 £21,500 -14.00%
Chester -18 2 £24,750 +20.73%
Nantwich - 2 £20,000 -
Northwich - 2 £22,500 -
Graduate
North West

Graduate
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire region that cited Graduate in their job title 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 with Graduate in their job title.

1 48 (54.55%) Computer Science
2 46 (52.27%) C#
2 46 (52.27%) .NET
3 44 (50.00%) ASP.NET
4 31 (35.23%) MVC
5 30 (34.09%) SQL
6 29 (32.95%) Degree
7 27 (30.68%) Web Application Development
8 26 (29.55%) Windows
9 25 (28.41%) ASP.NET MVC
9 25 (28.41%) .NET Framework
10 24 (27.27%) WinForms
11 23 (26.14%) WPF
12 22 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
12 22 (25.00%) HTML
13 20 (22.73%) SQL Server
13 20 (22.73%) Microsoft Certification
13 20 (22.73%) TDD
13 20 (22.73%) WCF
14 19 (21.59%) Continuous Integration
14 19 (21.59%) Kanban
14 19 (21.59%) Dependency Injection
14 19 (21.59%) Inversion of Control
14 19 (21.59%) MSTest
14 19 (21.59%) MVVM
14 19 (21.59%) Rhino Mocks
14 19 (21.59%) Moq
14 19 (21.59%) Spring.NET
14 19 (21.59%) Razor View Engine
14 19 (21.59%) Castle Windsor

Graduate
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire region that cited Graduate in their job title 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 with Graduate in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 46 (52.27%) .NET
2 44 (50.00%) ASP.NET
3 25 (28.41%) .NET Framework
3 25 (28.41%) ASP.NET MVC
4 24 (27.27%) WinForms
5 23 (26.14%) WPF
6 22 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
6 22 (25.00%) HTML
7 20 (22.73%) WCF
8 19 (21.59%) Spring.NET
8 19 (21.59%) Unity DI Container
8 19 (21.59%) Castle Windsor
8 19 (21.59%) Ninject
8 19 (21.59%) Razor View Engine
9 14 (15.91%) Web Services
9 14 (15.91%) XML
10 12 (13.64%) Ajax
11 10 (11.36%) CSS
12 7 (7.955%) JSP
13 6 (6.818%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 4 (4.545%) WebSphere Application Server
1 4 (4.545%) WebLogic
2 2 (2.273%) IIS
2 2 (2.273%) Apache
2 2 (2.273%) IBM HTTP Server
3 1 (1.136%) Joomla!
3 1 (1.136%) WordPress
3 1 (1.136%) Magento
3 1 (1.136%) MSMQ
3 1 (1.136%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (3.409%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.136%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.136%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.818%) Internet
2 4 (4.545%) LDAP
3 2 (2.273%) Broadband
3 2 (2.273%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (22.73%) SQL Server
2 11 (12.50%) SQL Server 2008
3 7 (7.955%) SQL Server 2005
4 5 (5.682%) RDBMS
4 5 (5.682%) MySQL
5 2 (2.273%) SQL Server 2012
6 1 (1.136%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.136%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 19 (21.59%) NUnit
1 19 (21.59%) MSTest
1 19 (21.59%) Rhino Mocks
1 19 (21.59%) Moq
2 7 (7.955%) Team Foundation Server
3 6 (6.818%) Ant
3 6 (6.818%) Synon
4 5 (5.682%) VSS/SourceSafe
5 3 (3.409%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.136%) PHPUnit
6 1 (1.136%) Selenium
6 1 (1.136%) Behat
General
1 16 (18.18%) Finance
2 4 (4.545%) Games
3 3 (3.409%) Telecoms
3 3 (3.409%) Retail
4 1 (1.136%) Banking
4 1 (1.136%) Legal
4 1 (1.136%) Advertising
Miscellaneous
1 48 (54.55%) Computer Science
2 19 (21.59%) Inversion of Control
3 14 (15.91%) Digital Media
4 12 (13.64%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (6.818%) iSeries
5 6 (6.818%) Derivative
5 6 (6.818%) Mathematics
6 5 (5.682%) Physics
7 4 (4.545%) 3D Graphics
8 1 (1.136%) Economics
8 1 (1.136%) Chemistry
Operating Systems
1 26 (29.55%) Windows
2 4 (4.545%) AIX
2 4 (4.545%) Linux
2 4 (4.545%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (35.23%) MVC
2 27 (30.68%) Web Application Development
3 20 (22.73%) TDD
4 19 (21.59%) Scrum
4 19 (21.59%) Continuous Integration
4 19 (21.59%) Kanban
4 19 (21.59%) Dependency Injection
4 19 (21.59%) MVVM
5 14 (15.91%) Information Security
5 14 (15.91%) E-Commerce
6 11 (12.50%) Agile Software Development
6 11 (12.50%) Unit Testing
7 6 (6.818%) Integration Testing
7 6 (6.818%) Software Engineering
8 4 (4.545%) Information Management
8 4 (4.545%) Game Development
9 2 (2.273%) Problem Management
9 2 (2.273%) ERP
10 1 (1.136%) Project Management
10 1 (1.136%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 46 (52.27%) C#
2 30 (34.09%) SQL
3 17 (19.32%) JavaScript
4 16 (18.18%) Java
5 13 (14.77%) VB.NET
6 11 (12.50%) VB
7 10 (11.36%) C++
7 10 (11.36%) PHP
8 7 (7.955%) VBA
9 6 (6.818%) Python
9 6 (6.818%) RPG
9 6 (6.818%) Perl
9 6 (6.818%) RPG/400
9 6 (6.818%) RPG IV
10 5 (5.682%) T-SQL
11 4 (4.545%) C
12 2 (2.273%) Shell Script
12 2 (2.273%) PHP5
13 1 (1.136%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (32.95%) Degree
2 20 (22.73%) Microsoft Certification
3 19 (21.59%) MCP
3 19 (21.59%) MCAD
3 19 (21.59%) MCSD
3 19 (21.59%) MCTS
4 1 (1.136%) SCJA
4 1 (1.136%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.136%) SCJP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (15.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 2 (2.273%) Tivoli
1 2 (2.273%) CA Wily
Vendors
1 13 (14.77%) Microsoft
2 9 (10.23%) Oracle
3 8 (9.091%) IBM
4 6 (6.818%) JD Edwards
5 2 (2.273%) FatWire
5 2 (2.273%) Sun
5 2 (2.273%) JBoss
6 1 (1.136%) SAP
6 1 (1.136%) Twitter
Macclesfield, Cheshire
The role would suit a candidate with a .NET and SQL background. The successful candidate will have had some working experience as a developer, perhaps as part of...
Adria Solutions Ltd
Salary: £20000 - £23000 per annum
Posted: 14 May 2013
Macclesfield, North West
Our client, a steadily growing and successful financial organisation based in Macclesfield, Cheshire currently requires a Graduate .NET Developer. You will join a passionate team and assist in...
Adria Solutions Ltd
Salary: £20000 - £23000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
Cheshire, North West
C#/ASP.NET Associate Developer : to suit Graduate Trainee. Gain MVC Near Northwich, Cheshire - Commutable from Warrington, Altrincham, Macclesfield, Stoke, Chester. To £25K + Great benefits package Innovative Information...
Applause IT Ltd
Salary: £20000 - £25000 per annum + +Great Benefits
Posted: 25 April 2013
Northwich, Cheshire
C#/ASP.NET Associate Developer : to suit Graduate Trainee. Gain MVC. Near Northwich, Cheshire To £25K + Great benefits package Innovative Information Management Solutions Company requires 2 new budding...
Applause IT Innovation
Salary: £20000 - £25000 per annum + +Great Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Cheshire, North West
To £25K + Great benefits package Innovative Information Management Solutions Company requires 2 new budding C#.Net , ASP.Net Software Developers to join a steadily growing team, working on...
Applause IT Ltd
Salary: £20000 - £25000 per annum + +Great Benefits
Posted: 2 May 2013