The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Ab Initio products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Chester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Ab Initio 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 Vendors for the Chester region.

The figures below represent the IT job market in general and are NOT representative of salaries within the Ab Initio Software Corporation.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ab Initio
Rank 33 32 45
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +13
Permanent jobs citing Ab Initio 17 4 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 4.749% 2.469% 1.271%
As % of the Vendors category 11.49% 5.970% 3.371%
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 1
Average salary £39,500 £42,500 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.05% -
UK excluding London average salary £47,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year
-10.47% -4.54%
All Vendors
Chester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
148 67 89
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 41.34% 41.36% 37.71%
Number of salaries quoted 90 59 86
Average salary £39,500 £32,500 £37,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+21.53% -12.16%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £21,723 £22,100
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £45,000 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Ab Initio
Cheshire

Ab Initio
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Ab Initio across the Chester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Chester Ab Initio Jobs Demand Trend

Ab Initio
Salary Trend

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

Chester Ab Initio Salary Trend

Ab Initio
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester region citing Ab Initio 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 Ab Initio.

1 28 (100.00%) UNIX
2 25 (89.29%) ETL
3 23 (82.14%) Web Services
4 18 (64.29%) Shell Script
4 18 (64.29%) Requirements Management
5 14 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
6 8 (28.57%) XML
7 7 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
7 7 (25.00%) Scrum
8 5 (17.86%) E-Commerce
9 4 (14.29%) SOA
9 4 (14.29%) Finance
9 4 (14.29%) Kanban
9 4 (14.29%) Big Data
10 3 (10.71%) IBM Mainframe
10 3 (10.71%) Teradata
10 3 (10.71%) JCL
10 3 (10.71%) Mainframe
10 3 (10.71%) Financial Institution
10 3 (10.71%) Risk Management
10 3 (10.71%) IBM
10 3 (10.71%) DataStage
10 3 (10.71%) HTTP
10 3 (10.71%) RUP
10 3 (10.71%) Oracle 8/8i
10 3 (10.71%) DSDM
10 3 (10.71%) Siebel
10 3 (10.71%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (10.71%) COBOL
10 3 (10.71%) Perl

Ab Initio
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester region citing Ab Initio 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 Ab Initio. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 23 (82.14%) Web Services
2 8 (28.57%) XML
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.71%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.29%) Big Data
2 3 (10.71%) Oracle 8/8i
2 3 (10.71%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (10.71%) DataStage
General
1 4 (14.29%) Finance
2 3 (10.71%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 25 (89.29%) Developer
1 25 (89.29%) Ab Initio Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) Mainframe
1 3 (10.71%) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 28 (100.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (89.29%) ETL
2 18 (64.29%) Requirements Management
3 14 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
4 7 (25.00%) Scrum
4 7 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
5 5 (17.86%) E-Commerce
6 4 (14.29%) SOA
6 4 (14.29%) Kanban
7 3 (10.71%) RUP
7 3 (10.71%) DSDM
7 3 (10.71%) Risk Management
8 1 (3.571%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 18 (64.29%) Shell Script
2 3 (10.71%) JCL
2 3 (10.71%) COBOL
2 3 (10.71%) Perl
2 3 (10.71%) SQL
Vendors
1 3 (10.71%) Oracle
1 3 (10.71%) Siebel
1 3 (10.71%) IBM
1 3 (10.71%) Teradata
Chester, North West
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Posted: 17 May 2013