The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of IBM 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 IBM over the 3 months to 18 June 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 the International Business Machines Corporation.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM
Rank 47 43 30
Rank change year-on-year
-4 -13
Permanent jobs citing IBM 80 110 115
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 4.310% 5.159% 6.621%
As % of the Vendors category 9.357% 10.97% 15.33%
Number of salaries quoted 65 100 110
Average salary £46,500 £46,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.08% +2.22%
90% offered a salary of more than £34,700 £32,750 £37,000
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £61,750 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
All Vendors
Cheshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
855 1003 750
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 46.07% 47.05% 43.18%
Number of salaries quoted 682 889 652
Average salary £37,000 £37,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -7.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,500 £25,000 £25,450
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
IBM
North West

IBM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire IBM Jobs Demand Trend

IBM
Salary Trend

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

Cheshire IBM Salary Trend

IBM
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing IBM across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Cheshire IBM Salary Histogram

IBM
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IBM within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Warrington +33 21 £45,000 +32.35% 3
Chester -11 12 £56,250 +40.62% 2
Knutsford -18 11 £50,000 +5.26%
Northwich +6 5 £42,500 +25.00% 1
Wilmslow -8 1 £35,000 +40.00% 2
IBM
North West

IBM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire region citing IBM 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 IBM.

1 80 (46.24%) Finance
2 70 (40.46%) Linux
3 64 (36.99%) SAN
4 59 (34.10%) SQL
5 57 (32.95%) AIX
6 49 (28.32%) Oracle
7 47 (27.17%) UNIX
7 47 (27.17%) HP
7 47 (27.17%) WebSphere
8 44 (25.43%) Windows
9 42 (24.28%) EMC
10 35 (20.23%) Perl
11 33 (19.08%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 32 (18.50%) WebSphere MQ
12 32 (18.50%) Tivoli
13 31 (17.92%) Java
14 30 (17.34%) High Availability
15 29 (16.76%) Configuration Management
16 28 (16.18%) PHP
17 26 (15.03%) Red Hat
17 26 (15.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
18 25 (14.45%) VMware
18 25 (14.45%) Clustering
18 25 (14.45%) Mainframe
18 25 (14.45%) ITIL
19 24 (13.87%) JSP
20 23 (13.29%) Replication
21 22 (12.72%) Microsoft
21 22 (12.72%) IBM Mainframe
22 21 (12.14%) J2EE

IBM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire region citing IBM 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 IBM. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 47 (27.17%) WebSphere
2 32 (18.50%) WebSphere MQ
3 24 (13.87%) JSP
4 21 (12.14%) J2EE
5 18 (10.40%) .NET
6 17 (9.827%) JDBC
6 17 (9.827%) XML
7 14 (8.092%) HTML
8 13 (7.514%) Web Services
9 11 (6.358%) Spring
10 10 (5.780%) Middleware
10 10 (5.780%) JMS
11 9 (5.202%) Struts
12 8 (4.624%) Ajax
12 8 (4.624%) jQuery
13 7 (4.046%) WSDL
14 6 (3.468%) Apache Flex
14 6 (3.468%) JNDI
15 3 (1.734%) Hibernate
16 2 (1.156%) EDIFACT
Application Platforms
1 14 (8.092%) CICS
2 9 (5.202%) SharePoint
2 9 (5.202%) WebSphere Message Broker
3 8 (4.624%) Tomcat
4 3 (1.734%) ESB
5 2 (1.156%) WebLogic
5 2 (1.156%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.578%) IBM HTTP Server
6 1 (0.578%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 1 (0.578%) IIS
6 1 (0.578%) Apache
6 1 (0.578%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 10 (5.780%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.578%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.578%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.156%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.578%) Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 64 (36.99%) SAN
2 11 (6.358%) NAS
3 9 (5.202%) HTTP
4 8 (4.624%) WAN
4 8 (4.624%) Firewall
4 8 (4.624%) Cisco Nexus
5 7 (4.046%) Internet
6 5 (2.890%) VoIP
6 5 (2.890%) DHCP
6 5 (2.890%) DNS
7 3 (1.734%) NetScaler
8 2 (1.156%) FTP
9 1 (0.578%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.578%) DMZ
9 1 (0.578%) Wireless
9 1 (0.578%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (11.56%) DB2
2 14 (8.092%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.734%) Oracle 8/8i
3 3 (1.734%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.734%) DataStage
4 2 (1.156%) MySQL
5 1 (0.578%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.578%) SQL Server 2000
5 1 (0.578%) GIS
5 1 (0.578%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 1 (0.578%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.578%) SQL Server 2005
5 1 (0.578%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.578%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (0.578%) SQL Server 2008
5 1 (0.578%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 14 (8.092%) Ant
2 8 (4.624%) JUnit
2 8 (4.624%) Eclipse
3 6 (3.468%) Synon
3 6 (3.468%) Subversion
3 6 (3.468%) ClearCase
4 5 (2.890%) Mercurial
4 5 (2.890%) JIRA
4 5 (2.890%) Git (software)
5 2 (1.156%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 80 (46.24%) Finance
2 21 (12.14%) Banking
3 17 (9.827%) Financial Institution
4 2 (1.156%) Back Office
4 2 (1.156%) Telecoms
4 2 (1.156%) Retail
4 2 (1.156%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (0.578%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (0.578%) Retail Banking
5 1 (0.578%) Legal
5 1 (0.578%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 36 (20.81%) Consultant
2 30 (17.34%) Administrator
3 26 (15.03%) Systems Administrator
4 22 (12.72%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 22 (12.72%) Linux Administrator
5 17 (9.827%) Java Developer
5 17 (9.827%) Architect
5 17 (9.827%) Developer
6 14 (8.092%) Applications Support
6 14 (8.092%) Storage Consultant
7 13 (7.514%) Tivoli Consultant
7 13 (7.514%) UNIX Administrator
7 13 (7.514%) Backup Consultant
8 12 (6.936%) Analyst
9 11 (6.358%) Technical Consultant
9 11 (6.358%) UNIX Systems Administrator
9 11 (6.358%) J2EE Developer
9 11 (6.358%) Java/J2EE Developer
10 10 (5.780%) Team Leader
11 9 (5.202%) Support Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 25 (14.45%) Mainframe
1 25 (14.45%) Clustering
2 23 (13.29%) Replication
3 22 (12.72%) IBM Mainframe
4 17 (9.827%) iSeries
5 7 (4.046%) CLARiiON
5 7 (4.046%) Celerra
6 6 (3.468%) Derivative
6 6 (3.468%) Management Information System
6 6 (3.468%) PMI
7 4 (2.312%) Tandem
8 3 (1.734%) Cryptography
9 2 (1.156%) SWIFT
10 1 (0.578%) Symmetrix DMX
10 1 (0.578%) Symmetrix
10 1 (0.578%) VSAM
10 1 (0.578%) PKI
10 1 (0.578%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 70 (40.46%) Linux
2 57 (32.95%) AIX
3 47 (27.17%) UNIX
4 44 (25.43%) Windows
5 26 (15.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (6.358%) Windows Server 2008
7 4 (2.312%) Windows Server 2003
7 4 (2.312%) VMS
7 4 (2.312%) OpenVMS
8 3 (1.734%) Solaris
8 3 (1.734%) Windows 2000 Server
9 2 (1.156%) CentOS
9 2 (1.156%) Fedora
10 1 (0.578%) Debian
10 1 (0.578%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.578%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (17.34%) High Availability
2 29 (16.76%) Configuration Management
3 25 (14.45%) ITIL
4 18 (10.40%) Risk Management
5 16 (9.249%) Disaster Recovery
6 15 (8.671%) Validation
6 15 (8.671%) Business Continuity
7 13 (7.514%) Project Management
8 12 (6.936%) Incident Management
9 11 (6.358%) Agile Software Development
10 10 (5.780%) Problem Management
10 10 (5.780%) Performance Management
11 9 (5.202%) Migration
12 8 (4.624%) Service Management
12 8 (4.624%) GAP Analysis
12 8 (4.624%) ITSM
12 8 (4.624%) WAN Optimisation
13 7 (4.046%) Continuous Improvement
13 7 (4.046%) PRINCE2
13 7 (4.046%) PRINCE
Programming Languages
1 59 (34.10%) SQL
2 35 (20.23%) Perl
3 31 (17.92%) Java
4 28 (16.18%) PHP
5 21 (12.14%) C
6 15 (8.671%) JavaScript
7 10 (5.780%) COBOL
8 9 (5.202%) Shell Script
9 8 (4.624%) PL/SQL
10 7 (4.046%) RPG
10 7 (4.046%) VBA
10 7 (4.046%) JCL
10 7 (4.046%) RPG IV
11 6 (3.468%) PowerShell
11 6 (3.468%) RPG/400
11 6 (3.468%) Python
11 6 (3.468%) VB
12 5 (2.890%) VBScript
12 5 (2.890%) C#
13 2 (1.156%) C++
Qualifications
1 10 (5.780%) Security Cleared
2 7 (4.046%) Degree
3 6 (3.468%) ITIL Certification
3 6 (3.468%) PMI Certification
4 5 (2.890%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 4 (2.312%) MCITP
6 3 (1.734%) Sun Certification
6 3 (1.734%) Citrix Certification
6 3 (1.734%) CCEA
6 3 (1.734%) CCEE
6 3 (1.734%) CCIA
7 2 (1.156%) CCAA
7 2 (1.156%) SC Cleared
7 2 (1.156%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.156%) MCSE
7 2 (1.156%) IBM Certification
8 1 (0.578%) EMC Certification
8 1 (0.578%) CCA
8 1 (0.578%) MCTS
8 1 (0.578%) VCP4
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.046%) SLA
2 5 (2.890%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 19 (10.98%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (5.780%) Xen
3 5 (2.890%) vSphere
4 4 (2.312%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.734%) XenApp
5 3 (1.734%) XenServer
5 3 (1.734%) XenDesktop
6 1 (0.578%) Forefront TMG
6 1 (0.578%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.578%) vCloud
6 1 (0.578%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.578%) VMware ESX
6 1 (0.578%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 33 (19.08%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 32 (18.50%) Tivoli
3 15 (8.671%) EMC NetWorker
4 7 (4.046%) NetBackup
5 5 (2.890%) Nagios
5 5 (2.890%) MOM
6 4 (2.312%) Tivoli Monitoring
7 1 (0.578%) OpenView Configuration Management
7 1 (0.578%) Foglight
7 1 (0.578%) BladeLogic
Vendors
1 49 (28.32%) Oracle
2 47 (27.17%) HP
3 42 (24.28%) EMC
4 26 (15.03%) Red Hat
5 25 (14.45%) VMware
6 22 (12.72%) Microsoft
7 20 (11.56%) Brocade
8 19 (10.98%) Cisco
9 13 (7.514%) Sun
10 9 (5.202%) Citrix
11 8 (4.624%) Juniper
11 8 (4.624%) Cognos
11 8 (4.624%) Riverbed
11 8 (4.624%) Isilon
11 8 (4.624%) Lotus
12 6 (3.468%) JD Edwards
13 5 (2.890%) BMC
13 5 (2.890%) Avaya
13 5 (2.890%) Dell
13 5 (2.890%) Veeam
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