The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term APACS in IT jobs advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited APACS over the 3 months to 19 June 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 East of England region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Association for Payment Clearing Services (APACS)
Rank 261 263 267
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +4
Permanent jobs citing APACS 1 2 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East of England 0.012% 0.023% 0.071%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.042% 0.075% 0.223%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 6
Average salary - - £30,000
UK excluding London average salary £51,250 £35,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+44.36% -11.25%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
East of England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
2368 2663 3145
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East of England 29.41% 31.15% 31.75%
Number of salaries quoted 2024 2160 2664
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £27,500 £25,250
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
APACS
England

APACS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England APACS Jobs Demand Trend

APACS
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing APACS across the East of England region.

East of England APACS Salary Trend

APACS
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing APACS within the East of England region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
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Job
Vacancies
Hertfordshire +3 1 - -
APACS
England

APACS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the East of England region citing APACS 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 APACS.

1 3 (100.00%) ATM
1 3 (100.00%) ISEB
1 3 (100.00%) EPoS
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Validation
2 2 (66.67%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (66.67%) System Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (66.67%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (66.67%) WatiN
2 2 (66.67%) Open Source
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server 2000
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) HP
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) T-SQL
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) NUnit
2 2 (66.67%) Banking
2 2 (66.67%) Retail
2 2 (66.67%) Automated Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Software Testing
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (66.67%) Test Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) User Stories
2 2 (66.67%) Telecoms
3 1 (33.33%) Wincor Nixdorf

APACS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the East of England region citing APACS 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 APACS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server 2000
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) WatiN
1 2 (66.67%) NUnit
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) Banking
2 2 (66.67%) Retail
2 2 (66.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Analyst
2 2 (66.67%) Test Analyst
3 1 (33.33%) Business Analyst
3 1 (33.33%) Business Systems Analyst
3 1 (33.33%) Systems Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) EPoS
2 2 (66.67%) Open Source
3 1 (33.33%) Smartcard
3 1 (33.33%) EMV
3 1 (33.33%) Chip and PIN
3 1 (33.33%) EFT
3 1 (33.33%) EFTPOS
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Validation
2 2 (66.67%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (66.67%) System Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Automated Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Software Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Test Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) User Stories
3 1 (33.33%) Systems Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Business Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) UML
3 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
3 1 (33.33%) Mobile Commerce
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
1 2 (66.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) ISO 8583
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) HP
2 1 (33.33%) Wincor Nixdorf
2 1 (33.33%) Sage
2 1 (33.33%) VocaLink
2 1 (33.33%) TSYS
2 1 (33.33%) VeriFone