The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Google products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Colchester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Google over the 3 months to 21 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 Vendors for the Colchester region.

The figures below represent the IT job market in general and are NOT representative of salaries within Google.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Google
Rank 27 37 38
Rank change year-on-year
+10 +1
Permanent jobs citing Google 1 6 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Colchester 0.606% 3.352% 0.893%
As % of the Vendors category 1.493% 6.742% 1.786%
Number of salaries quoted 1 6 2
Average salary £35,000 £27,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+29.62% -22.85%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £32,500 £32,500
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -
All Vendors
Colchester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
67 89 112
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Colchester 40.61% 49.72% 50.00%
Number of salaries quoted 60 77 85
Average salary £34,000 £38,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-10.52% -10.58%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £26,500 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,350 £55,000 £48,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Google
Essex

Google
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Google across the Colchester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Colchester Google Jobs Demand Trend

Google
Salary Trend

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

Colchester Google Salary Trend

Google
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Colchester region citing Google 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 Google.

1 2 (66.67%) SEO
1 2 (66.67%) CMS
1 2 (66.67%) Adobe Illustrator
1 2 (66.67%) Dreamweaver
1 2 (66.67%) Fireworks
1 2 (66.67%) HTML
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 2 (66.67%) PHP
1 2 (66.67%) MySQL
1 2 (66.67%) Photoshop
1 2 (66.67%) CSS
1 2 (66.67%) Marketing
1 2 (66.67%) Web Development
1 2 (66.67%) Joomla!
1 2 (66.67%) Google Analytics
1 2 (66.67%) jQuery
1 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) Google Maps API
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (33.33%) WPF
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (33.33%) VB.NET
2 1 (33.33%) .NET

Google
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Colchester region citing Google 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 Google. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (66.67%) HTML
1 2 (66.67%) CSS
1 2 (66.67%) jQuery
2 1 (33.33%) Google Maps API
2 1 (33.33%) WPF
2 1 (33.33%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) CMS
1 2 (66.67%) Joomla!
Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Adobe Illustrator
1 2 (66.67%) Fireworks
1 2 (66.67%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Google Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) MySQL
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Dreamweaver
General
1 2 (66.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Web Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Web Designer
2 2 (66.67%) Designer
3 1 (33.33%) Mid-Level .NET Developer
3 1 (33.33%) WPF Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Junior Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Junior .NET Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Junior
3 1 (33.33%) .NET Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) SEO
1 2 (66.67%) Web Development
1 2 (66.67%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 2 (66.67%) PHP
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) VB.NET