The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term SaaS in IT jobs advertised for the Dorset region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SaaS 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 terms in our Miscellaneous category for the Dorset region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software as a Service (SaaS)
Rank 66 57 61
Rank change year-on-year
-9 +4
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 1 1 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Dorset 0.163% 0.203% 0.868%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.870% 0.794% 2.262%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 4
Average salary £22,500 £31,500 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-28.57% -30.00%
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
- +5.88%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Dorset
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
115 126 221
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Dorset 18.79% 25.56% 38.37%
Number of salaries quoted 91 80 152
Average salary £35,000 £32,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.69% -7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £23,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £54,500 £50,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +6.66%
SaaS
South West

SaaS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Dorset 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 Dorset region.

Dorset SaaS Salary Trend

SaaS
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SaaS within the Dorset region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Bournemouth -1 1 £22,500 -28.57%
SaaS
South West

SaaS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Dorset 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 (71.43%) MS Excel
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
1 5 (71.43%) Telecoms
1 5 (71.43%) ERP
2 4 (57.14%) SharePoint
3 2 (28.57%) Java
3 2 (28.57%) Linux
4 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (14.29%) Back Office
4 1 (14.29%) PL/SQL
4 1 (14.29%) SQL
4 1 (14.29%) .NET
4 1 (14.29%) MySQL
4 1 (14.29%) Oracle
4 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
4 1 (14.29%) JUnit
4 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (14.29%) C#
4 1 (14.29%) C++
4 1 (14.29%) Oracle 10g
4 1 (14.29%) Extranet
4 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
4 1 (14.29%) Legal
4 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
4 1 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (14.29%) TDD
4 1 (14.29%) Spring
4 1 (14.29%) Automated Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Oracle Application Server
4 1 (14.29%) Marketing

SaaS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Dorset 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 1 (14.29%) .NET
1 1 (14.29%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 4 (57.14%) SharePoint
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle Application Server
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle 10gAS
Applications
1 5 (71.43%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) MySQL
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
1 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle 10g
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle 11g
1 1 (14.29%) Hadoop
1 1 (14.29%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) JUnit
1 1 (14.29%) EasyMock
General
1 5 (71.43%) Telecoms
2 1 (14.29%) Back Office
2 1 (14.29%) Legal
2 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
2 1 (14.29%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Sales Executive
2 2 (28.57%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Junior
3 1 (14.29%) Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Database Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle Database Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Development Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) ERP
2 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (14.29%) TDD
2 1 (14.29%) Automated Testing
2 1 (14.29%) Unit Testing
2 1 (14.29%) Multithreading
2 1 (14.29%) Build Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) PL/SQL
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) C#
2 1 (14.29%) C++
2 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle RAC
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle