The first table below looks at the demand for ISEB in IT jobs advertised for the Chester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited ISEB over the 3 months to 18 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 Qualifications for the Chester region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Information Systems Examinations Board (ISEB)
Rank 36 34 48
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +14
Permanent jobs citing ISEB 12 3 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 3.922% 1.807% 3.472%
As % of the Qualifications category 16.44% 8.108% 17.54%
Number of salaries quoted 5 2 10
Average salary £38,500 £46,500 £16,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-17.20% +181.81%
UK excluding London average salary £36,250 £35,500 £36,500
% change year-on-year
+2.11% -2.73%
All Qualifications
Chester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
73 37 57
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 23.86% 22.29% 19.79%
Number of salaries quoted 51 36 53
Average salary £35,000 £32,500 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.69% -
90% offered a salary of more than £28,650 £23,765 £17,250
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £47,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
- +5.26%
ISEB
Cheshire

ISEB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester ISEB Jobs Demand Trend

ISEB
Salary Trend

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

Chester ISEB Salary Trend

ISEB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Chester region citing ISEB 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 ISEB.

1 7 (53.85%) SQL
1 7 (53.85%) Agile Software Development
1 7 (53.85%) ISTQB
2 6 (46.15%) Manual Testing
2 6 (46.15%) HP Quality Center
2 6 (46.15%) Selenium
2 6 (46.15%) ETL
2 6 (46.15%) SAS
2 6 (46.15%) HP
2 6 (46.15%) Finance
3 5 (38.46%) Change Management
3 5 (38.46%) MS Visio
3 5 (38.46%) Business Analysis
3 5 (38.46%) CBAP
4 4 (30.77%) Financial Analysis
4 4 (30.77%) Banking
4 4 (30.77%) Management Information System
5 3 (23.08%) HTTP
5 3 (23.08%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (15.38%) E-Commerce
6 2 (15.38%) Six Sigma
6 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
7 1 (7.692%) Scrum
7 1 (7.692%) Data Management
7 1 (7.692%) Data Analysis
7 1 (7.692%) Investment Banking
7 1 (7.692%) Risk Analysis
7 1 (7.692%) Use Case
7 1 (7.692%) User Acceptance Testing
7 1 (7.692%) Project Management

ISEB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Chester region citing ISEB 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 ISEB. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 6 (46.15%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (38.46%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) HTTP
2 1 (7.692%) Internet
Development Applications
1 6 (46.15%) Selenium
General
1 6 (46.15%) Finance
2 4 (30.77%) Banking
3 1 (7.692%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (92.31%) Analyst
2 7 (53.85%) Test Engineer
3 6 (46.15%) Test Analyst
3 6 (46.15%) Business Analyst
4 1 (7.692%) Change Analyst
4 1 (7.692%) Financial Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.692%) Digital Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Agile Software Development
2 6 (46.15%) Manual Testing
2 6 (46.15%) ETL
3 5 (38.46%) Change Management
3 5 (38.46%) Business Analysis
4 4 (30.77%) Financial Analysis
5 3 (23.08%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (15.38%) Six Sigma
6 2 (15.38%) E-Commerce
7 1 (7.692%) UML
7 1 (7.692%) Project Management
7 1 (7.692%) Scrum
7 1 (7.692%) Migration
7 1 (7.692%) Risk Analysis
7 1 (7.692%) Use Case
7 1 (7.692%) User Acceptance Testing
7 1 (7.692%) Data Migration
7 1 (7.692%) Data Management
7 1 (7.692%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (53.85%) ISTQB
2 5 (38.46%) CBAP
3 1 (7.692%) Degree
Systems Management
1 6 (46.15%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) HP
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