The first table below looks at the demand for the Graduate role in IT jobs advertised for the Chester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Graduate in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised for the Chester region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Graduate
Rank 48 30 38
Rank change year-on-year
-18 +8
Permanent jobs requiring a Graduate 2 6 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 0.559% 3.704% 4.237%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.597% 3.704% 4.566%
Number of salaries quoted 2 6 8
Average salary £24,750 £20,500 £21,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+20.73% -2.38%
UK excluding London average salary £22,500 £23,000 £22,500
% change year-on-year
-2.17% +2.22%
All Job Titles
Chester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
335 162 219
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 93.58% 100.00% 92.80%
Number of salaries quoted 180 134 211
Average salary £35,000 £31,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.90% +3.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £21,500 £21,000
10% offered a salary of more than £46,500 £45,900 £41,800
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Graduate
Cheshire

Graduate
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester Graduate Jobs Demand Trend

Graduate
Salary Trend

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

Chester Graduate Salary Trend

Graduate
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester region that cited Graduate in their job title 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 with Graduate in their job title.

1 4 (80.00%) C#
1 4 (80.00%) .NET
1 4 (80.00%) SQL Server
1 4 (80.00%) ASP.NET
1 4 (80.00%) MVC
2 3 (60.00%) Retail
2 3 (60.00%) .NET Framework
2 3 (60.00%) jQuery
2 3 (60.00%) Unit Testing
2 3 (60.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 3 (60.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 3 (60.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 3 (60.00%) Web Application Development
2 3 (60.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
2 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (60.00%) WPF
3 1 (20.00%) XML
3 1 (20.00%) XSLT
3 1 (20.00%) Degree
3 1 (20.00%) Chemistry
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (20.00%) LINQ

Graduate
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester region that cited Graduate in their job title 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 with Graduate in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (80.00%) .NET
1 4 (80.00%) ASP.NET
2 3 (60.00%) jQuery
2 3 (60.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 3 (60.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 3 (60.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
2 3 (60.00%) .NET Framework
2 3 (60.00%) WPF
3 1 (20.00%) LINQ
3 1 (20.00%) XML
3 1 (20.00%) XSLT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (60.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2005
General
1 3 (60.00%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Chemistry
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) MVC
2 3 (60.00%) Unit Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft