The first table below looks at the demand for the Junior role in IT jobs advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Junior 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
Junior
Rank 76 73 69
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -4
Permanent jobs requiring a Junior 45 53 47
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 2.515% 2.750% 2.836%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.627% 2.874% 3.011%
Number of salaries quoted 32 51 43
Average salary £22,250 £23,000 £21,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.26% +9.52%
90% offered a salary of more than £18,000 £19,000 £17,200
10% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,250 £27,000
UK excluding London average salary £25,000 £25,000 £24,000
% change year-on-year
- +4.16%
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%
Junior
North West

Junior
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire Junior Jobs Demand Trend

Junior
Salary Trend

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

Cheshire Junior Salary Trend

Junior
Salary Histogram

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

Cheshire Junior Salary Histogram

Junior
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Junior 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
Crewe +5 11 £20,000 -20.00%
Chester -5 11 £21,750 -5.43%
Warrington +7 7 £25,000 +16.27%
Macclesfield -11 4 £22,500 -10.00%
Knutsford 0 1 £21,000 -16.00%
Wilmslow - 1 £27,500 -
Junior
North West

Junior
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 69 (66.99%) .NET
2 68 (66.02%) C#
3 65 (63.11%) ASP.NET
4 41 (39.81%) SQL Server
5 35 (33.98%) MVC
5 35 (33.98%) SQL
6 33 (32.04%) Computer Science
7 29 (28.16%) Windows
8 26 (25.24%) Microsoft Certification
8 26 (25.24%) Scrum
9 24 (23.30%) ASP.NET MVC
10 22 (21.36%) .NET Framework
10 22 (21.36%) JavaScript
10 22 (21.36%) TDD
11 21 (20.39%) WPF
11 21 (20.39%) Web Application Development
12 20 (19.42%) ASP.NET MVC 4
12 20 (19.42%) Kanban
12 20 (19.42%) Degree
12 20 (19.42%) WCF
12 20 (19.42%) Web Services
13 19 (18.45%) MCP
13 19 (18.45%) MCAD
13 19 (18.45%) MCSD
13 19 (18.45%) NUnit
13 19 (18.45%) Agile Software Development
13 19 (18.45%) MCTS
13 19 (18.45%) WinForms
13 19 (18.45%) Continuous Integration
13 19 (18.45%) Dependency Injection

Junior
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 69 (66.99%) .NET
2 65 (63.11%) ASP.NET
3 24 (23.30%) ASP.NET MVC
4 22 (21.36%) .NET Framework
5 21 (20.39%) WPF
6 20 (19.42%) WCF
6 20 (19.42%) Web Services
6 20 (19.42%) ASP.NET MVC 4
7 19 (18.45%) Unity DI Container
7 19 (18.45%) Spring.NET
7 19 (18.45%) Razor View Engine
7 19 (18.45%) Castle Windsor
7 19 (18.45%) Ninject
7 19 (18.45%) WinForms
8 15 (14.56%) HTML
8 15 (14.56%) XML
9 14 (13.59%) jQuery
10 11 (10.68%) CSS
11 7 (6.796%) LINQ
12 4 (3.883%) Open Graph
Application Platforms
1 4 (3.883%) SharePoint
1 4 (3.883%) nginx
2 2 (1.942%) IIS
2 2 (1.942%) CMS
3 1 (0.971%) Joomla!
3 1 (0.971%) WordPress
3 1 (0.971%) Magento
Applications
1 3 (2.913%) MS Office
1 3 (2.913%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.971%) Fireworks
2 1 (0.971%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.971%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (3.883%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.942%) SAP SD
2 2 (1.942%) SAP CRM
Communications & Networking
1 18 (17.48%) Internet
2 6 (5.825%) TCP/IP
3 5 (4.854%) HTTP
4 2 (1.942%) FTP
5 1 (0.971%) PABX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (39.81%) SQL Server
2 9 (8.738%) SQL Server 2008
3 6 (5.825%) MySQL
4 4 (3.883%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (2.913%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (1.942%) SQL Server 2005
6 2 (1.942%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 2 (1.942%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.971%) SQL Server 2000
7 1 (0.971%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 19 (18.45%) NUnit
1 19 (18.45%) MSTest
1 19 (18.45%) Rhino Mocks
1 19 (18.45%) Moq
2 6 (5.825%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.971%) Eclipse
3 1 (0.971%) Selenium
3 1 (0.971%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (0.971%) Behat
3 1 (0.971%) JUnit
General
1 17 (16.50%) Finance
2 4 (3.883%) Telecoms
3 3 (2.913%) Retail
4 1 (0.971%) Local Government
4 1 (0.971%) Marketing
4 1 (0.971%) Legal
4 1 (0.971%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 33 (32.04%) Computer Science
2 19 (18.45%) Inversion of Control
3 14 (13.59%) W3C
4 12 (11.65%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (4.854%) Open Source
5 5 (4.854%) Mobile App
6 4 (3.883%) iPhone
7 2 (1.942%) Mathematics
8 1 (0.971%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 29 (28.16%) Windows
2 4 (3.883%) Android
2 4 (3.883%) Windows Phone
3 2 (1.942%) Linux
4 1 (0.971%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (0.971%) SUSE
4 1 (0.971%) Solaris
4 1 (0.971%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (33.98%) MVC
2 26 (25.24%) Scrum
3 22 (21.36%) TDD
4 21 (20.39%) Web Application Development
5 20 (19.42%) Kanban
6 19 (18.45%) Dependency Injection
6 19 (18.45%) MVVM
6 19 (18.45%) Agile Software Development
6 19 (18.45%) Continuous Integration
7 17 (16.50%) OO
8 14 (13.59%) Configuration Management
8 14 (13.59%) Integration Testing
9 6 (5.825%) CRM
10 5 (4.854%) E-Commerce
11 4 (3.883%) Stakeholder Management
11 4 (3.883%) Software Testing
11 4 (3.883%) Software Engineering
11 4 (3.883%) Mobile Application Development
12 3 (2.913%) Project Management
12 3 (2.913%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 68 (66.02%) C#
2 35 (33.98%) SQL
3 22 (21.36%) JavaScript
4 3 (2.913%) PHP
4 3 (2.913%) Java
5 2 (1.942%) VB.NET
5 2 (1.942%) PL/SQL
5 2 (1.942%) C++
6 1 (0.971%) PHP5
Qualifications
1 26 (25.24%) Microsoft Certification
2 20 (19.42%) Degree
3 19 (18.45%) MCTS
3 19 (18.45%) MCP
3 19 (18.45%) MCAD
3 19 (18.45%) MCSD
4 7 (6.796%) Security Cleared
5 2 (1.942%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.971%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 1 (0.971%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.825%) SLA
2 2 (1.942%) QA
Vendors
1 15 (14.56%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.854%) Twitter
3 4 (3.883%) Sitecore
3 4 (3.883%) Facebook
4 3 (2.913%) Oracle
4 3 (2.913%) SAP
5 2 (1.942%) Fujitsu
6 1 (0.971%) Avaya
Chester, Cheshire
Full training will be provided in order to help you expand your working technical knowledge in the development of RDBMS's. Desired Skills Include -Computing related Degree -Solid...
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Salary: £18000 - £22000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
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Mint
Salary: £18000 - £23000 per annum + benefits and training
Posted: 8 May 2013
Knutsford, Cheshire
1st/ 2nd line support, incident management, trend analysis, windows, SQL My client is one of the world's leading engineering and consultancy firms who deal primarily with blue...
TEKsystems
Salary: £18000 - £24000 per annum + Package
Posted: 14 May 2013