The first table below looks at the demand for B2B skills in IT jobs advertised for the Chester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited B2B over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Chester region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
B2B (Business-to-Business)
Rank 41 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing B2B 5 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 1.678% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.101% - -
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 0
Average salary £45,000 - -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £35,000 £42,000
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -16.66%
All Processes & Methodologies
Chester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
238 120 202
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 79.87% 72.29% 69.42%
Number of salaries quoted 135 108 193
Average salary £37,500 £37,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.35% -12.94%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £25,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £48,000 £50,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
B2B
Cheshire

B2B
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing B2B across the Chester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Chester B2B Jobs Demand Trend

B2B
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing B2B across the Chester region.

Chester B2B Salary Trend

B2B
Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Chester region citing B2B 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 B2B.

1 7 (58.33%) PHP
2 5 (41.67%) XML
2 5 (41.67%) EDI
2 5 (41.67%) Customer Engagement
3 3 (25.00%) Marketing
3 3 (25.00%) Waterfall
4 2 (16.67%) MVC
4 2 (16.67%) Digital Marketing
4 2 (16.67%) C#
4 2 (16.67%) SQL
4 2 (16.67%) .NET
4 2 (16.67%) MySQL
5 1 (8.333%) Photoshop
5 1 (8.333%) CSS
5 1 (8.333%) HTML
5 1 (8.333%) JavaScript
5 1 (8.333%) E-Commerce
5 1 (8.333%) Ajax
5 1 (8.333%) B2C
5 1 (8.333%) jQuery
5 1 (8.333%) JSON
5 1 (8.333%) HTML5
5 1 (8.333%) CSS3

B2B
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Chester region citing B2B 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 B2B. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (41.67%) XML
1 5 (41.67%) EDI
2 2 (16.67%) .NET
3 1 (8.333%) CSS
3 1 (8.333%) HTML
3 1 (8.333%) Ajax
3 1 (8.333%) jQuery
3 1 (8.333%) JSON
3 1 (8.333%) HTML5
3 1 (8.333%) CSS3
Applications
1 1 (8.333%) Photoshop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) MySQL
General
1 3 (25.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 10 (83.33%) Project Manager
2 5 (41.67%) Software Project Manager
2 5 (41.67%) Software Manager
3 3 (25.00%) Digital Project Manager
4 1 (8.333%) Senior Account Manager
4 1 (8.333%) Developer
4 1 (8.333%) Account Manager
4 1 (8.333%) Senior Manager
4 1 (8.333%) Senior Developer
4 1 (8.333%) Designer
4 1 (8.333%) Senior Designer
4 1 (8.333%) User Experience Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Customer Engagement
2 3 (25.00%) Waterfall
3 2 (16.67%) MVC
3 2 (16.67%) Digital Marketing
4 1 (8.333%) E-Commerce
4 1 (8.333%) B2C
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) PHP
2 2 (16.67%) C#
2 2 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (8.333%) JavaScript