Cheshire ISEB Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Information Systems Examinations Board (ISEB) in IT jobs within the Cheshire region compared to all other Qualifications we currently track. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited ISEB over the last 3 months to 22 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Information Systems Examinations Board (ISEB)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aldershot Altrincham Amersham Aylesbury Banbury Basingstoke Bath Bathgate Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Clapham Coatbridge Coulsdon Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Durham East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Hull Ipswich Isle of Man Kendal Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leeds Leicestershire Letchworth Lightwater Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Liversedge Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Reigate Rickmansworth Rugby Scotland Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport St Helens Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swindon Tadworth Teddington Telford Thames Ditton Thames Valley Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Wallington Walsall Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Winchester Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 22 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	110	107
Rank change on same period last year	-3
Matching permanent IT job ads	42	39
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.021 %	0.017 %
As % of the category below	5.433 %	6.457 %
Salaries quoted	36	31
Average minimum salary	£28,892	£28,248
Average salary	£31,986	£30,415
% change on same period last year	+5.16 %
Average maximum salary	£35,081	£32,581
UK excluding London average salary	£35,400	£36,500
% change on same period last year	-3.01 %
Qualifications Cheshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	773	604
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.382 %	0.266 %
Salaries quoted	682	540
Average minimum salary	£34,267	£30,238
Average salary	£37,740	£32,968
% change on same period last year	+14.47 %
Average maximum salary	£41,213	£35,698
UK excluding London average salary	£37,518	£38,372
% change on same period last year	-2.22 %
ISEB North West

ISEB
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of permanent IT jobs ads citing ISEB across the Cheshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

ISEB
Salary Trend

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

ISEB
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing ISEB across the Cheshire region over the past 3 months.

ISEB
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ISEB within the Cheshire region over the past 3 months.

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	-4	18	£28,167	+0.23 %
Knutsford	-23	7	£25,286	-
Chester	+2	3	£34,000	+16.06 %
Crewe	+14	3	£24,833	-37.91 %
Macclesfield	-	1	£32,000	-

ISEB North West

ISEB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the Cheshire region citing ISEB also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing ISEB.

1 39 (34.51 %) SQL 2 32 (28.32 %) Windows 3 27 (23.89 %) Finance 4 20 (17.70 %) Software Testing 5 16 (14.16 %) Automated Testing 6 15 (13.27 %) Publishing 7 14 (12.39 %) TestDirector 8 13 (11.50 %) QA 9 12 (10.62 %) Banking 10 10 (8.850 %) E-Commerce 10 10 (8.850 %) User Acceptance Testing 10 10 (8.850 %) Performance Testing 10 10 (8.850 %) Test Scripting 11 9 (7.965 %) WinRunner 11 9 (7.965 %) ITIL

11 9 (7.965 %) ISEB Practitioner 11 9 (7.965 %) ISTQB 12 8 (7.080 %) Java 13 7 (6.195 %) Microsoft 13 7 (6.195 %) Test Management 14 6 (5.310 %) Problem Management 14 6 (5.310 %) QuickTest Pro 14 6 (5.310 %) LoadRunner 14 6 (5.310 %) Citrix 14 6 (5.310 %) C# 14 6 (5.310 %) VB 14 6 (5.310 %) .NET 14 6 (5.310 %) Oracle 15 5 (4.425 %) SQL Server 15 5 (4.425 %) C++

ISEB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the Cheshire region citing ISEB also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing ISEB. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 6 (5.310 %) .NET 2 5 (4.425 %) HTML 3 3 (2.655 %) AJAX 3 3 (2.655 %) XML 4 1 (0.885 %) ASP 4 1 (0.885 %) CSS	Application Platforms 1 4 (3.540 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 3 (2.655 %) Apache 2 3 (2.655 %) JBoss 2 3 (2.655 %) Exchange Server 5.5 2 3 (2.655 %) Exchange Server 2000 3 1 (0.885 %) MS Exchange 3 1 (0.885 %) Commerce Server 3 1 (0.885 %) Tomcat 3 1 (0.885 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 3 (2.655 %) MS Excel 1 3 (2.655 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 3 (2.655 %) SAN 1 3 (2.655 %) Internet 1 3 (2.655 %) 3G 2 2 (1.770 %) DNS 3 1 (0.885 %) HTTP 3 1 (0.885 %) TCP/IP 3 1 (0.885 %) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (4.425 %) SQL Server 2 3 (2.655 %) RDBMS 3 2 (1.770 %) DB2 3 2 (1.770 %) Oracle Reports 3 2 (1.770 %) Oracle 8/8i 4 1 (0.885 %) SQL Server 2000 4 1 (0.885 %) Datawarehouse	Development Applications 1 14 (12.39 %) TestDirector 2 9 (7.965 %) WinRunner 3 6 (5.310 %) QuickTest Pro 3 6 (5.310 %) LoadRunner 4 1 (0.885 %) QALoad 4 1 (0.885 %) ClearQuest 4 1 (0.885 %) ClearCase
General 1 27 (23.89 %) Finance 2 15 (13.27 %) Publishing 3 12 (10.62 %) Banking 4 5 (4.425 %) Legal 5 3 (2.655 %) Pensions 6 1 (0.885 %) Pharmaceutical 6 1 (0.885 %) Construction 6 1 (0.885 %) Telecoms 6 1 (0.885 %) Retail	Job Titles 1 60 (53.10 %) Analyst 2 55 (48.67 %) Test Analyst 3 34 (30.09 %) Tester 4 13 (11.50 %) Senior Analyst 5 12 (10.62 %) Senior Test Analyst 6 11 (9.735 %) Software Tester 7 8 (7.080 %) Lead Test Analyst 7 8 (7.080 %) Test Manager 8 7 (6.195 %) Test Engineer 9 6 (5.310 %) Test Coordinator 9 6 (5.310 %) Coordinator 10 5 (4.425 %) Junior 10 5 (4.425 %) Infrastructure Analyst 10 5 (4.425 %) Problem Manager 11 4 (3.540 %) Portfolio Manager 11 4 (3.540 %) Manual Test Analyst 11 4 (3.540 %) Systems Tester 11 4 (3.540 %) Programme Manager 12 3 (2.655 %) Performance Tester 12 3 (2.655 %) Quality Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 3 (2.655 %) Blackberry 1 3 (2.655 %) Clustering 2 2 (1.770 %) Mainframe 3 1 (0.885 %) Client/Server	Operating Systems 1 32 (28.32 %) Windows 2 4 (3.540 %) Windows 2000 2 4 (3.540 %) Windows NT 3 3 (2.655 %) Windows Server 2003 4 1 (0.885 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 20 (17.70 %) Software Testing 2 16 (14.16 %) Automated Testing 3 10 (8.850 %) E-Commerce 3 10 (8.850 %) User Acceptance Testing 3 10 (8.850 %) Performance Testing 3 10 (8.850 %) Test Scripting 4 9 (7.965 %) ITIL 5 7 (6.195 %) Test Management 6 6 (5.310 %) Problem Management 7 4 (3.540 %) Workflow 7 4 (3.540 %) Programme Management 7 4 (3.540 %) Manual Testing 8 3 (2.655 %) Scrum 8 3 (2.655 %) Regression Testing 8 3 (2.655 %) Web Development 9 2 (1.770 %) Requirements Analysis 9 2 (1.770 %) Service Management 9 2 (1.770 %) Service Delivery 9 2 (1.770 %) Change Management 9 2 (1.770 %) PRINCE2	Programming Languages 1 39 (34.51 %) SQL 2 8 (7.080 %) Java 3 6 (5.310 %) C# 3 6 (5.310 %) VB 4 5 (4.425 %) C++ 5 4 (3.540 %) C 6 2 (1.770 %) PL/SQL 6 2 (1.770 %) VBScript 6 2 (1.770 %) VC++ 7 1 (0.885 %) COBOL
Qualifications 1 9 (7.965 %) ISEB Practitioner 1 9 (7.965 %) ISTQB 2 3 (2.655 %) MBCS 3 2 (1.770 %) Degree 4 1 (0.885 %) ITIL Certification 4 1 (0.885 %) HND	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 13 (11.50 %) QA
System Software 1 3 (2.655 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 3 (2.655 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 1 3 (2.655 %) OpenView Configuration Management
Vendors 1 7 (6.195 %) Microsoft 2 6 (5.310 %) Citrix 2 6 (5.310 %) Oracle 3 4 (3.540 %) Compuware 4 2 (1.770 %) Laserform 5 1 (0.885 %) Empirix