The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Tandem in IT jobs advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Tandem over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Tandem
Rank 120 99 112
Rank change year-on-year
-21 +13
Permanent jobs citing Tandem 3 29 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 0.167% 1.444% 0.424%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.676% 5.390% 2.029%
Number of salaries quoted 1 29 7
Average salary £55,000 £46,000 £53,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+19.56% -14.01%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +6.66%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Cheshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
444 538 345
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 24.68% 26.79% 20.90%
Number of salaries quoted 332 474 284
Average salary £37,250 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-0.66% +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,500 £23,250 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £59,200 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +6.66%
Tandem
North West

Tandem
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire Tandem Jobs Demand Trend

Tandem
Salary Trend

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

Cheshire Tandem Salary Trend

Tandem
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire region citing Tandem 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 Tandem.

1 11 (78.57%) UNIX
2 10 (71.43%) Windows
3 9 (64.29%) IBM
3 9 (64.29%) Mainframe
4 7 (50.00%) Service Delivery
5 6 (42.86%) Risk Management
5 6 (42.86%) Middleware
5 6 (42.86%) Banking
5 6 (42.86%) Java
5 6 (42.86%) IBM Mainframe
6 5 (35.71%) WebSphere
7 4 (28.57%) Internet
7 4 (28.57%) Project Management
8 3 (21.43%) Cryptography
8 3 (21.43%) Content Management
8 3 (21.43%) Management Information System
8 3 (21.43%) Validation
8 3 (21.43%) IBM HTTP Server
8 3 (21.43%) Tivoli
8 3 (21.43%) Shell Script
8 3 (21.43%) Sun
8 3 (21.43%) SSL
8 3 (21.43%) WebSphere Application Server
8 3 (21.43%) C++
8 3 (21.43%) COBOL
8 3 (21.43%) .NET
8 3 (21.43%) AIX
8 3 (21.43%) HPUX
8 3 (21.43%) Solaris
8 3 (21.43%) JBoss

Tandem
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire region citing Tandem 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 Tandem. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (42.86%) Middleware
2 5 (35.71%) WebSphere
3 3 (21.43%) .NET
4 2 (14.29%) ASP.NET MVC
4 2 (14.29%) Castle Windsor
4 2 (14.29%) Razor View Engine
4 2 (14.29%) ASP.NET MVC 4
4 2 (14.29%) NHibernate
4 2 (14.29%) WCF
4 2 (14.29%) MonoRail
4 2 (14.29%) ASP.NET
4 2 (14.29%) EDIFACT
Application Platforms
1 3 (21.43%) IBM HTTP Server
1 3 (21.43%) WebSphere Application Server
1 3 (21.43%) Apache
2 2 (14.29%) WebSphere MQ
2 2 (14.29%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 1 (7.143%) BASE24
Communications & Networking
1 4 (28.57%) Internet
2 3 (21.43%) SSL
2 3 (21.43%) LDAP
3 1 (7.143%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) SQL Server 2012
1 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
1 2 (14.29%) DB2
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Rhino Mocks
1 2 (14.29%) Team Foundation Server
1 2 (14.29%) NUnit
General
1 6 (42.86%) Banking
2 2 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (7.143%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Architect
2 3 (21.43%) Designer
3 2 (14.29%) Middleware Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Designer
3 2 (14.29%) WebSphere Architect
3 2 (14.29%) .NET Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Project Manager
3 2 (14.29%) Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.143%) Solutions Designer
4 1 (7.143%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (7.143%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.143%) Security Engineer
4 1 (7.143%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.143%) Senior Infrastructure Designer
4 1 (7.143%) Information Security Engineer
4 1 (7.143%) Senior Designer
4 1 (7.143%) Middleware Specialist
4 1 (7.143%) Integration Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 9 (64.29%) Mainframe
2 6 (42.86%) IBM Mainframe
3 3 (21.43%) Cryptography
3 3 (21.43%) Management Information System
4 2 (14.29%) SWIFT
4 2 (14.29%) PMI
5 1 (7.143%) PKI
5 1 (7.143%) EMV
Operating Systems
1 11 (78.57%) UNIX
2 10 (71.43%) Windows
3 3 (21.43%) AIX
3 3 (21.43%) HPUX
3 3 (21.43%) Solaris
4 1 (7.143%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 6 (42.86%) Risk Management
3 4 (28.57%) Project Management
4 3 (21.43%) Content Management
4 3 (21.43%) Validation
5 2 (14.29%) Test Strategy
5 2 (14.29%) Web Application Development
5 2 (14.29%) System Testing
5 2 (14.29%) Requirements Analysis
5 2 (14.29%) Problem Management
5 2 (14.29%) TDD
5 2 (14.29%) ITIL
5 2 (14.29%) PRINCE2
5 2 (14.29%) Scrum
5 2 (14.29%) MVC
5 2 (14.29%) Supply Chain Management
5 2 (14.29%) Information Security
5 2 (14.29%) Workflow
5 2 (14.29%) Change Management
5 2 (14.29%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) Java
2 3 (21.43%) Shell Script
2 3 (21.43%) C++
2 3 (21.43%) COBOL
3 2 (14.29%) C#
4 1 (7.143%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) MCP
1 2 (14.29%) MCAD
1 2 (14.29%) MCSD
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (14.29%) PMI Certification
1 2 (14.29%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.143%) SLA
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Tivoli
1 3 (21.43%) CA Wily
Vendors
1 9 (64.29%) IBM
2 3 (21.43%) Sun
2 3 (21.43%) JBoss
3 2 (14.29%) Pega
3 2 (14.29%) Oracle
3 2 (14.29%) Microsoft