East Midlands DirectX Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft DirectX skills within the East Midlands region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited DirectX over the last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft DirectX
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Banchory Bath Berkshire Bracknell Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Channel Islands Cheshire City of London Coventry Doncaster East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Farnham Grampian Guernsey Hertfordshire Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle North East North West Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Reading Scotland Scunthorpe Sheffield Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Surrey Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington West Midlands Wigan Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	168	168
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching permanent IT job ads	20	11
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.010 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	1.112 %	0.588 %
Salaries quoted	7	9
Average minimum salary	£20,143	£27,818
Average salary	£24,571	£30,955
% change on same period last year	-20.62 %
Average maximum salary	£29,000	£34,091
UK excluding London average salary	£36,851	£37,390
% change on same period last year	-1.44 %
Application Development East Midlands
Matching permanent IT job ads	1799	1872
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.882 %	0.829 %
Salaries quoted	1510	1628
Average minimum salary	£30,256	£28,889
Average salary	£32,791	£31,019
% change on same period last year	+5.71 %
Average maximum salary	£35,326	£33,148
UK excluding London average salary	£35,972	£36,627
% change on same period last year	-1.78 %
DirectX England

DirectX
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of permanent IT jobs ads citing DirectX across the East Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

DirectX
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs ads citing DirectX across the East Midlands region.

DirectX
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing DirectX across the East Midlands region over the past 3 months.

DirectX
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DirectX within the East Midlands region over the past 3 months.

Rank	Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
1	Nottinghamshire	-3	6	£25,100	-15.39 %
2	Lincolnshire	-	1	£25,000	-
2	Leicestershire	-9	1	£21,500	-33.50 %

DirectX England

DirectX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the East Midlands region citing DirectX also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing DirectX.

1 35 (89.74 %) C++ 2 32 (82.05 %) Games 3 23 (58.97 %) C 3 23 (58.97 %) OpenGL 4 20 (51.28 %) OO 5 19 (48.72 %) Visual Studio 5 19 (48.72 %) Microsoft 6 15 (38.46 %) Windows 6 15 (38.46 %) Software Engineering 7 10 (25.64 %) Pensions 8 6 (15.38 %) Health 8 6 (15.38 %) QA 9 4 (10.26 %) Physics 9 4 (10.26 %) Adobe Director 9 4 (10.26 %) Electric

9 4 (10.26 %) Flash 9 4 (10.26 %) Macromedia 9 4 (10.26 %) Authorware 9 4 (10.26 %) C# 9 4 (10.26 %) .NET 10 3 (7.692 %) JavaScript 10 3 (7.692 %) MATLAB 10 3 (7.692 %) Adobe 10 3 (7.692 %) 3D Graphics 10 3 (7.692 %) 3ds Max 10 3 (7.692 %) Degree 10 3 (7.692 %) Interactive Media 10 3 (7.692 %) Mathematics 10 3 (7.692 %) Computer Science 10 3 (7.692 %) Lua

DirectX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the East Midlands region citing DirectX also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing DirectX. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 23 (58.97 %) OpenGL 2 4 (10.26 %) .NET 3 1 (2.564 %) ATL 3 1 (2.564 %) STL	Applications 1 4 (10.26 %) Authorware 1 4 (10.26 %) Adobe Director 2 3 (7.692 %) MATLAB 2 3 (7.692 %) 3ds Max
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (2.564 %) MySQL 1 1 (2.564 %) SQL Server 1 1 (2.564 %) Oracle 8/8i 1 1 (2.564 %) PostgreSQL	Development Applications 1 19 (48.72 %) Visual Studio 2 4 (10.26 %) Flash
General 1 32 (82.05 %) Games 2 10 (25.64 %) Pensions 3 6 (15.38 %) Health 4 4 (10.26 %) Electric 5 3 (7.692 %) 3D Graphics 5 3 (7.692 %) Interactive Media	Job Titles 1 16 (41.03 %) Software Engineer 2 15 (38.46 %) Developer 3 10 (25.64 %) Programmer 4 8 (20.51 %) C++ Developer 5 7 (17.95 %) Games Developer 5 7 (17.95 %) Graduate 6 5 (12.82 %) Graduate Programmer 7 4 (10.26 %) Software Developer 8 3 (7.692 %) Web Developer 8 3 (7.692 %) C++ Programmer 9 2 (5.128 %) C++ Software Developer 10 1 (2.564 %) Graduate Software Developer 10 1 (2.564 %) Graduate Developer 10 1 (2.564 %) Software Programmer 10 1 (2.564 %) Games Programmer 10 1 (2.564 %) C++ Software Engineer 10 1 (2.564 %) Delphi Developer
Miscellaneous 1 4 (10.26 %) Physics 2 3 (7.692 %) Computer Science 2 3 (7.692 %) Mathematics 3 1 (2.564 %) E-Learning	Operating Systems 1 15 (38.46 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 20 (51.28 %) OO 2 15 (38.46 %) Software Engineering 3 1 (2.564 %) OOP	Programming Languages 1 35 (89.74 %) C++ 2 23 (58.97 %) C 3 4 (10.26 %) C# 4 3 (7.692 %) JavaScript 4 3 (7.692 %) Lua 5 2 (5.128 %) SQL 6 1 (2.564 %) Delphi
Qualifications 1 3 (7.692 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 6 (15.38 %) QA
Vendors 1 19 (48.72 %) Microsoft 2 4 (10.26 %) Macromedia 3 3 (7.692 %) Adobe 4 1 (2.564 %) Oracle