The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term LIMS in IT jobs advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited LIMS over the 3 months to 20 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 terms in our Miscellaneous category for the Cheshire region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS)
Rank 115 118 -
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -
Permanent jobs citing LIMS 5 3 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 0.281% 0.154% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.142% 0.578% -
Number of salaries quoted 5 2 0
Average salary £35,000 £30,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.75% -
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £43,000 £31,750
% change year-on-year
-18.60% +35.43%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Cheshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
438 519 333
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 24.61% 26.59% 20.44%
Number of salaries quoted 325 451 276
Average salary £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.66% +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,500 £21,500 £24,775
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £55,000 £58,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,625 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-3.43% +6.66%
LIMS
North West

LIMS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire LIMS Jobs Demand Trend

LIMS
Salary Trend

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

Cheshire LIMS Salary Trend

LIMS
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing LIMS within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 20 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
Macclesfield - 1 £37,500 -
LIMS
North West

LIMS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire region citing LIMS 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 LIMS.

1 5 (83.33%) Java
1 5 (83.33%) Oracle
1 5 (83.33%) WebLogic
1 5 (83.33%) Web Services
1 5 (83.33%) Pharmaceutical
1 5 (83.33%) Workflow
1 5 (83.33%) Oracle 10g
1 5 (83.33%) Agile Software Development
1 5 (83.33%) Spring
1 5 (83.33%) JSF
1 5 (83.33%) Life Science
1 5 (83.33%) User Acceptance Testing
1 5 (83.33%) Performance Testing
1 5 (83.33%) Java EE
1 5 (83.33%) ICEfaces
2 4 (66.67%) Mockito
2 4 (66.67%) REST
2 4 (66.67%) JIRA
2 4 (66.67%) JPA
2 4 (66.67%) Git (software)
2 4 (66.67%) Maven
2 4 (66.67%) SOAP
2 4 (66.67%) Eclipse
2 4 (66.67%) JUnit
3 1 (16.67%) EJB
3 1 (16.67%) SOA
3 1 (16.67%) e-Health
3 1 (16.67%) NHS
3 1 (16.67%) PACS
3 1 (16.67%) Marketing

LIMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 5 (83.33%) Web Services
1 5 (83.33%) Spring
1 5 (83.33%) JSF
1 5 (83.33%) Java EE
1 5 (83.33%) ICEfaces
2 4 (66.67%) REST
2 4 (66.67%) SOAP
2 4 (66.67%) JPA
3 1 (16.67%) EJB
Application Platforms
1 5 (83.33%) WebLogic
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) JUnit
1 4 (66.67%) Eclipse
1 4 (66.67%) Maven
1 4 (66.67%) JIRA
1 4 (66.67%) Git (software)
1 4 (66.67%) Mockito
General
1 5 (83.33%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (16.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Developer
1 5 (83.33%) Java Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Product Manager
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Life Science
2 1 (16.67%) NHS
2 1 (16.67%) PACS
2 1 (16.67%) e-Health
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Workflow
1 5 (83.33%) Agile Software Development
1 5 (83.33%) User Acceptance Testing
1 5 (83.33%) Performance Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Product Management
2 1 (16.67%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Java
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Oracle