Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Refactoring skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Refactoring over the 3 months to 3 September 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Cheshire region.

 Refactoring
Location
3 months to
3 Sep 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank98--
Rank change year-on-year
New entry-No change0
Matching permanent IT job ads2100
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire1.183 %--
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category1.781 %--
Salaries quoted1900
Average salary£32,000--
UK excluding London average salary£38,000£35,000£40,000
% change year-on-year
+8.570 %-12.50 %
Cheshire IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryAll Processes & Methodologies
Cheshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
11797451983
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire66.42 %67.00 %61.91 %
Salaries quoted9896861823
Average salary£38,500£36,000£38,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.940 %-6.490 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£27,500£23,500£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£58,000£57,500£50,000
UK excluding London average salary£40,000£40,000£40,000
Refactoring North WestRefactoring
North West

Refactoring
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Refactoring across the Cheshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Cheshire Refactoring Demand Trend

Refactoring
Salary Trend

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

Cheshire Refactoring Salary Trend

Refactoring
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Refactoring across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 3 September 2010.

Cheshire Refactoring Salary Histogram

Refactoring
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Refactoring within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 3 September 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
NorthwichNew entry-5£30,000-
CreweNew entry-1£32,000-
Refactoring North WestRefactoring
North West

Refactoring
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 3 September 2010, IT jobs across the Cheshire region citing Refactoring 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 Refactoring.

135 (92.11 %)Java
135 (92.11 %)Pair Programming
234 (89.47 %)E-Commerce
333 (86.84 %)TDD
432 (84.21 %)Agile Software Development
432 (84.21 %)Scrum
432 (84.21 %)SQL Server
531 (81.58 %)Oracle
629 (76.32 %)CSS
629 (76.32 %)JSP
629 (76.32 %)Retail
629 (76.32 %)XHTML
728 (73.68 %)J2EE
728 (73.68 %)QA
827 (71.05 %)HTML
827 (71.05 %)XML
827 (71.05 %)Spring
924 (63.16 %)Apache
924 (63.16 %)T-SQL
1023 (60.53 %)PHP
1121 (55.26 %)Oracle 8/8i
1121 (55.26 %)Continuous Integration
1220 (52.63 %)Struts
1318 (47.37 %).NET
1417 (44.74 %)MySQL
1417 (44.74 %)Linux
1417 (44.74 %)LAMP
1417 (44.74 %)Maven
1417 (44.74 %)ANTLR
1515 (39.47 %)VB.NET

Refactoring
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 3 September 2010, IT jobs across the Cheshire region citing Refactoring 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 Refactoring. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Cheshire IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
129 (76.32 %)CSS
129 (76.32 %)JSP
129 (76.32 %)XHTML
228 (73.68 %)J2EE
327 (71.05 %)HTML
327 (71.05 %)XML
327 (71.05 %)Spring
420 (52.63 %)Struts
518 (47.37 %).NET
617 (44.74 %)LAMP
711 (28.95 %)ASP.NET
810 (26.32 %)AJAX
97 (18.42 %)Servlets
97 (18.42 %)ASP
106 (15.79 %)Hibernate
106 (15.79 %)jQuery
114 (10.53 %)JPA
114 (10.53 %)JSTL
114 (10.53 %)JAXP
114 (10.53 %)Ruby on Rails
Cheshire IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
124 (63.16 %)Apache
24 (10.53 %)ESB
24 (10.53 %)ActiveMQ
24 (10.53 %)Tomcat
Cheshire IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
14 (10.53 %)MS Visio
Cheshire IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
17 (18.42 %)Internet
Cheshire IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
132 (84.21 %)SQL Server
221 (55.26 %)Oracle 8/8i
317 (44.74 %)MySQL
Cheshire IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
117 (44.74 %)Maven
117 (44.74 %)ANTLR
27 (18.42 %)JUnit
34 (10.53 %)Eclipse
43 (7.895 %)IntelliJ
43 (7.895 %)Ant
43 (7.895 %)Subversion
43 (7.895 %)Selenium
43 (7.895 %)jMock
51 (2.632 %)NUnit
Cheshire IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
129 (76.32 %)Retail
Cheshire IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
135 (92.11 %)Developer
213 (34.21 %)Java Developer
39 (23.68 %)Web Developer
39 (23.68 %)Java/J2EE Developer
48 (21.05 %)Senior Developer
48 (21.05 %)J2EE Developer
54 (10.53 %)Technical Leader
62 (5.263 %)Agile Java Developer
71 (2.632 %)Technical Development Manager
71 (2.632 %)Junior Developer
71 (2.632 %)Technical Manager
71 (2.632 %)Junior Java Developer
71 (2.632 %)Senior Java Developer
71 (2.632 %)Junior
71 (2.632 %)Lead Developer
71 (2.632 %)Development Manager
71 (2.632 %)Technical Developer
71 (2.632 %)Senior Java/J2EE Developer
Cheshire IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
18 (21.05 %)Open Source
22 (5.263 %)Blog
Cheshire IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
117 (44.74 %)Linux
Cheshire IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
135 (92.11 %)Pair Programming
234 (89.47 %)E-Commerce
333 (86.84 %)TDD
432 (84.21 %)Agile Software Development
432 (84.21 %)Scrum
521 (55.26 %)Continuous Integration
614 (36.84 %)Unit Testing
74 (10.53 %)MVC
74 (10.53 %)SOA
83 (7.895 %)B2C
83 (7.895 %)Extreme Programming
83 (7.895 %)Web Development
83 (7.895 %)BDD
91 (2.632 %)Requirements Management
91 (2.632 %)Automated Testing
Cheshire IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
135 (92.11 %)Java
224 (63.16 %)T-SQL
323 (60.53 %)PHP
415 (39.47 %)VB.NET
415 (39.47 %)C#
59 (23.68 %)JavaScript
67 (18.42 %)VBScript
74 (10.53 %)Ruby
83 (7.895 %)C
92 (5.263 %)SQL
Cheshire IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
128 (73.68 %)QA
Cheshire IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
131 (81.58 %)Oracle
23 (7.895 %)JBoss