The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term N-Tier in IT jobs advertised for the Chester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited N-Tier over the 3 months to 23 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 Chester region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
N-Tier
Rank - 31 47
Permanent jobs citing N-Tier 0 3 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester - 1.923% 1.587%
As % of the Miscellaneous category - 7.692% 14.29%
Number of salaries quoted 0 3 4
Average salary - £30,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -7.69%
UK excluding London average salary £38,250 £40,000 £39,000
% change year-on-year
-4.37% +2.56%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Chester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
77 39 28
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 22.85% 25.00% 11.11%
Number of salaries quoted 43 37 24
Average salary £35,000 £28,750 £34,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+21.73% -15.44%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £21,000 £26,300
10% offered a salary of more than £40,700 £45,600 £37,500
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +6.66%
N-Tier
Cheshire

N-Tier
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester N-Tier Jobs Demand Trend

N-Tier
Salary Trend

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

Chester N-Tier Salary Trend

N-Tier
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester region citing N-Tier 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 N-Tier.

1 9 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 9 (100.00%) .NET
1 9 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 8 (88.89%) C#
2 8 (88.89%) JavaScript
2 8 (88.89%) SQL
3 7 (77.78%) CSS
3 7 (77.78%) SOAP
3 7 (77.78%) Web Services
3 7 (77.78%) XML
4 6 (66.67%) E-Commerce
4 6 (66.67%) MVC
4 6 (66.67%) XSLT
4 6 (66.67%) WCF
4 6 (66.67%) Degree
5 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
6 2 (22.22%) .NET Framework
6 2 (22.22%) Visual Studio
6 2 (22.22%) OO
6 2 (22.22%) SQL Server 2008
7 1 (11.11%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (11.11%) QA
7 1 (11.11%) Unit Testing
7 1 (11.11%) Multithreading
7 1 (11.11%) SQL Server 2012
7 1 (11.11%) XHTML
7 1 (11.11%) MS Excel
7 1 (11.11%) T-SQL
7 1 (11.11%) HTML
7 1 (11.11%) Windows

N-Tier
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester region citing N-Tier 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 N-Tier. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 9 (100.00%) .NET
2 7 (77.78%) CSS
2 7 (77.78%) SOAP
2 7 (77.78%) Web Services
2 7 (77.78%) XML
3 6 (66.67%) XSLT
3 6 (66.67%) WCF
4 2 (22.22%) .NET Framework
5 1 (11.11%) XHTML
5 1 (11.11%) HTML
5 1 (11.11%) Ajax
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Intranet
1 1 (11.11%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (22.22%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Visual Studio
2 1 (11.11%) Team Foundation Server
Job Titles
1 9 (100.00%) Developer
2 7 (77.78%) Web Developer
3 6 (66.67%) Lead Developer
3 6 (66.67%) ASP.NET Developer
3 6 (66.67%) .NET Developer
3 6 (66.67%) Lead Web Developer
4 5 (55.56%) C# .NET Developer
4 5 (55.56%) C# ASP.NET Developer
4 5 (55.56%) C# Developer
4 5 (55.56%) SQL Developer
4 5 (55.56%) SQL Server Developer
4 5 (55.56%) .NET Web Developer
4 5 (55.56%) C# Web Developer
5 2 (22.22%) Software Developer
6 1 (11.11%) .NET Software Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) E-Commerce
1 6 (66.67%) MVC
2 2 (22.22%) OO
3 1 (11.11%) Unit Testing
3 1 (11.11%) Multithreading
3 1 (11.11%) OOP
3 1 (11.11%) Web Development
3 1 (11.11%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) C#
1 8 (88.89%) JavaScript
1 8 (88.89%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (66.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft