Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for RSS skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited RSS over the 3 months to 22 March 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 Application Development category for the Cheshire region.

 Really Simple Syndication (RSS)
Location
3 months to
22 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank95102-
Rank change year-on-year
Up+7New entry-
Matching permanent IT job ads130
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire0.069 %0.209 %-
As % of the Application Development category0.200 %0.448 %-
Salaries quoted130
Average salary£30,000£22,000-
Average salary % change year-on-year
+36.36 %-
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£31,500£35,000
% change year-on-year
+11.11 %-10.00 %
Cheshire IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryAll Application Development
Cheshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
5016691118
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire34.43 %46.59 %34.52 %
Salaries quoted4566211025
Average salary£32,500£30,000£33,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.330 %-9.090 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£22,000£22,500£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£40,000£50,000£47,500
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£34,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+2.940 %-2.850 %
RSS North WestRSS
North West

RSS
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing RSS across the Cheshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Cheshire RSS Demand Trend

RSS
Salary Trend

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

Cheshire RSS Salary Trend

RSS
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing RSS within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 22 March 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
WarringtonUp+151£30,000+36.36 %
RSS North WestRSS
North West

RSS
Top 14 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 March 2010, IT jobs across the Cheshire region citing RSS 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 RSS.

11 (100.00 %)JavaScript
11 (100.00 %)PHP
11 (100.00 %)MySQL
11 (100.00 %)CSS
11 (100.00 %)XML
11 (100.00 %)Linux
11 (100.00 %)OO
11 (100.00 %)Apache
11 (100.00 %)XHTML
11 (100.00 %)E-Commerce
11 (100.00 %)CMS
11 (100.00 %)LAMP
11 (100.00 %)AJAX
11 (100.00 %)Web 2.0

RSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 March 2010, IT jobs across the Cheshire region citing RSS 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 RSS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Cheshire IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
11 (100.00 %)CSS
11 (100.00 %)XML
11 (100.00 %)XHTML
11 (100.00 %)LAMP
11 (100.00 %)AJAX
Cheshire IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
11 (100.00 %)Apache
11 (100.00 %)CMS
Cheshire IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
11 (100.00 %)MySQL
Cheshire IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
11 (100.00 %)Developer
11 (100.00 %)LAMP Developer
Cheshire IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
11 (100.00 %)Web 2.0
Cheshire IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
11 (100.00 %)Linux
Cheshire IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
11 (100.00 %)OO
11 (100.00 %)E-Commerce
Cheshire IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
11 (100.00 %)JavaScript
11 (100.00 %)PHP