The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term SaaS in IT jobs advertised for the Chester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SaaS over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software as a Service (SaaS)
Rank - - -
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 0 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester - - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category - - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Average salary - - -
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
- +5.88%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Chester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
77 39 27
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 22.78% 25.00% 10.71%
Number of salaries quoted 43 38 23
Average salary £35,000 £28,500 £34,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+22.80% -16.17%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £21,000 £25,700
10% offered a salary of more than £41,000 £48,900 £37,500
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +6.66%
SaaS
Cheshire

SaaS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester SaaS Jobs Demand Trend

SaaS
Salary Trend

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

Chester SaaS Salary Trend

SaaS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester region citing SaaS 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 SaaS.

1 5 (100.00%) C#
1 5 (100.00%) HTML
1 5 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 5 (100.00%) .NET
1 5 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 5 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 5 (100.00%) CSS
1 5 (100.00%) MS Excel
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 5 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 5 (100.00%) Ajax
1 5 (100.00%) MVC
1 5 (100.00%) jQuery
1 5 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 4 (80.00%) Unit Testing
2 4 (80.00%) C
2 4 (80.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 4 (80.00%) .NET Framework
2 4 (80.00%) WCF
2 4 (80.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 4 (80.00%) SOAP
2 4 (80.00%) Web Services
2 4 (80.00%) XML
2 4 (80.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 4 (80.00%) T-SQL
2 4 (80.00%) Java
2 4 (80.00%) C++
3 1 (20.00%) Identity Management
3 1 (20.00%) Marketing

SaaS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester region citing SaaS 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 SaaS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (100.00%) HTML
1 5 (100.00%) .NET
1 5 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 5 (100.00%) CSS
1 5 (100.00%) Ajax
1 5 (100.00%) jQuery
1 5 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 4 (80.00%) .NET Framework
2 4 (80.00%) WCF
2 4 (80.00%) SOAP
2 4 (80.00%) Web Services
2 4 (80.00%) XML
Applications
1 5 (100.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 4 (80.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Visual Studio
2 4 (80.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1 (20.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
2 4 (80.00%) .NET Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Software Developer
3 1 (20.00%) UI Developer
3 1 (20.00%) UI Programmer
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 5 (100.00%) MVC
2 4 (80.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Identity Management
3 1 (20.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) C#
1 5 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (80.00%) C
2 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 4 (80.00%) T-SQL
2 4 (80.00%) Java
2 4 (80.00%) C++
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft