The first table below looks at the demand for the Infrastructure Specialist role in IT jobs advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Infrastructure Specialist in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Infrastructure Specialist
Rank 122 114 115
Rank change year-on-year
-8 +1
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Specialist 1 14 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 0.056% 0.697% 0.242%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.058% 0.731% 0.257%
Number of salaries quoted 1 14 4
Average salary £48,500 £67,500 £38,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-28.14% +77.63%
UK excluding London average salary £35,500 £42,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-16.47% +13.33%
All Job Titles
Cheshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1725 1916 1556
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 95.89% 95.42% 94.25%
Number of salaries quoted 1371 1684 1327
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
90% offered a salary of more than £23,100 £23,000 £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%
Infrastructure Specialist
North West

Infrastructure Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire Infrastructure Specialist Jobs Demand Trend

Infrastructure Specialist
Salary Trend

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

Cheshire Infrastructure Specialist Salary Trend

Infrastructure Specialist
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire region that cited Infrastructure Specialist 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 Infrastructure Specialist in their job title.

1 4 (57.14%) Middleware
2 3 (42.86%) Red Hat
2 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (42.86%) UNIX
2 3 (42.86%) MQSeries
3 2 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (28.57%) AIX
3 2 (28.57%) Linux
4 1 (14.29%) Content Management
4 1 (14.29%) MS PowerPoint
4 1 (14.29%) ISPF
4 1 (14.29%) Requirements Management
4 1 (14.29%) WebSphere
4 1 (14.29%) IBM HTTP Server
4 1 (14.29%) Legal
4 1 (14.29%) Internet
4 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
4 1 (14.29%) JCL
4 1 (14.29%) Mainframe
4 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (14.29%) Firewall
4 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
4 1 (14.29%) JBoss
4 1 (14.29%) Apache
4 1 (14.29%) Java
4 1 (14.29%) VBA
4 1 (14.29%) Oracle
4 1 (14.29%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (14.29%) WebLogic

Infrastructure Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire region that cited Infrastructure Specialist 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 Infrastructure Specialist in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (57.14%) Middleware
2 1 (14.29%) ISPF
2 1 (14.29%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 3 (42.86%) MQSeries
2 1 (14.29%) IBM HTTP Server
2 1 (14.29%) Apache
2 1 (14.29%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (14.29%) WebLogic
2 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle HTTP Server
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) MS PowerPoint
1 1 (14.29%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Internet
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) LAN
1 1 (14.29%) HTTP
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Mainframe
1 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) UNIX
2 2 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (28.57%) AIX
2 2 (28.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (14.29%) Content Management
2 1 (14.29%) Requirements Management
2 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (14.29%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
1 1 (14.29%) JCL
1 1 (14.29%) Java
1 1 (14.29%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) CCNP
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Red Hat
2 1 (14.29%) JBoss
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco
2 1 (14.29%) IBM
2 1 (14.29%) Sun
2 1 (14.29%) Juniper