The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term EPoS 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 EPoS over the 3 months to 17 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 East of England region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Electronic Point Of Sale (EPoS)
Rank 247 239 236
Rank change year-on-year
-8 -3
Permanent jobs citing EPoS 22 33 25
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East of England 0.266% 0.379% 0.263%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.896% 1.269% 0.835%
Number of salaries quoted 18 27 19
Average salary £38,750 £37,500 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.33% +25.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,250 £22,500 £17,800
10% offered a salary of more than £45,750 £45,000 £47,800
UK excluding London average salary £32,000 £35,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-8.57% -6.66%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
East of England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
2455 2600 2993
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East of England 29.69% 29.90% 31.54%
Number of salaries quoted 2130 2074 2553
Average salary £38,500 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.75% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £27,500 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,815 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.96% +6.66%
EPoS
England

EPoS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England EPoS Jobs Demand Trend

EPoS
Salary Trend

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

East of England EPoS Salary Trend

EPoS
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing EPoS across the East of England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

East of England EPoS Salary Histogram

EPoS
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing EPoS within the East of England region over the 3 months to 17 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
Hertfordshire +3 13 £40,000 -5.88%
Cambridgeshire -8 6 £42,500 +21.42%
Suffolk - 2 £33,750 -
Essex +29 1 £17,000 -41.88%
EPoS
England

EPoS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the East of England region citing EPoS 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 EPoS.

1 39 (75.00%) Retail
2 26 (50.00%) Windows
3 22 (42.31%) SQL Server
4 16 (30.77%) .NET
5 15 (28.85%) Microsoft
6 13 (25.00%) MS Excel
6 13 (25.00%) Unit Testing
7 12 (23.08%) E-Commerce
8 11 (21.15%) ASP.NET
9 9 (17.31%) Web Services
9 9 (17.31%) SQL
9 9 (17.31%) C#
9 9 (17.31%) Java
9 9 (17.31%) SQL Server 2005
9 9 (17.31%) .NET Framework
9 9 (17.31%) Degree
10 8 (15.38%) Subversion
10 8 (15.38%) Finance
11 6 (11.54%) Project Management
11 6 (11.54%) VC++
11 6 (11.54%) PRINCE2
11 6 (11.54%) Windows Server 2008
12 5 (9.615%) SQL Server 2008
12 5 (9.615%) Software Testing
12 5 (9.615%) MCTS
12 5 (9.615%) QA
12 5 (9.615%) Web Development
12 5 (9.615%) Release Management
12 5 (9.615%) JavaScript
12 5 (9.615%) HTML

EPoS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the East of England region citing EPoS 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 EPoS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 16 (30.77%) .NET
2 11 (21.15%) ASP.NET
3 9 (17.31%) Web Services
3 9 (17.31%) .NET Framework
4 5 (9.615%) HTML
5 4 (7.692%) Silverlight
5 4 (7.692%) .NET Compact Framework
6 3 (5.769%) WCF
6 3 (5.769%) WPF
6 3 (5.769%) Swing
6 3 (5.769%) CSS
7 2 (3.846%) MFC
8 1 (1.923%) XML
8 1 (1.923%) Managed Extensibility Framework
Application Platforms
1 4 (7.692%) MS Exchange
2 2 (3.846%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 13 (25.00%) MS Excel
2 4 (7.692%) MS Project
3 2 (3.846%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.769%) ATM
2 2 (3.846%) LAN
2 2 (3.846%) VoIP
2 2 (3.846%) WAN
2 2 (3.846%) DHCP
2 2 (3.846%) TCP/IP
2 2 (3.846%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (42.31%) SQL Server
2 9 (17.31%) SQL Server 2005
3 5 (9.615%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (3.846%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (3.846%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 2 (3.846%) SQL Server 2000
4 2 (3.846%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (15.38%) Subversion
2 2 (3.846%) WatiN
2 2 (3.846%) NUnit
General
1 39 (75.00%) Retail
2 8 (15.38%) Finance
3 4 (7.692%) Telecoms
4 2 (3.846%) Back Office
4 2 (3.846%) Games
4 2 (3.846%) Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (21.15%) Developer
2 8 (15.38%) Field Engineer
3 7 (13.46%) Project Manager
4 6 (11.54%) Development Manager
5 5 (9.615%) Senior Developer
5 5 (9.615%) Field Service Engineer
5 5 (9.615%) C# Developer
6 4 (7.692%) .NET Developer
6 4 (7.692%) C# .NET Developer
7 3 (5.769%) Senior Development Manager
7 3 (5.769%) Head of Development
7 3 (5.769%) Senior C# Developer
7 3 (5.769%) Systems Engineer
7 3 (5.769%) Systems Development Manager
7 3 (5.769%) Systems Manager
7 3 (5.769%) Senior Project Manager
7 3 (5.769%) Help Desk Support
7 3 (5.769%) Development Project Manager
7 3 (5.769%) Support Engineer
7 3 (5.769%) 2nd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.846%) APACS
1 2 (3.846%) iPhone
1 2 (3.846%) Open Source
2 1 (1.923%) Fat Client
2 1 (1.923%) EFT
2 1 (1.923%) EFTPOS
2 1 (1.923%) Thin Client
2 1 (1.923%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 26 (50.00%) Windows
2 6 (11.54%) Windows Server 2008
3 4 (7.692%) Mac OS X Server
3 4 (7.692%) Linux
3 4 (7.692%) Windows XP
3 4 (7.692%) Mac OS X
4 2 (3.846%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (3.846%) Android
4 2 (3.846%) Windows 7
5 1 (1.923%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (25.00%) Unit Testing
2 12 (23.08%) E-Commerce
3 6 (11.54%) PRINCE2
3 6 (11.54%) Project Management
4 5 (9.615%) Software Testing
4 5 (9.615%) Web Development
4 5 (9.615%) Release Management
5 4 (7.692%) Test Strategy
5 4 (7.692%) Business Analysis
5 4 (7.692%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (5.769%) Automated Testing
6 3 (5.769%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (5.769%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (5.769%) User Acceptance Testing
7 2 (3.846%) Security Testing
7 2 (3.846%) Integration Testing
7 2 (3.846%) System Testing
7 2 (3.846%) TMap
7 2 (3.846%) User Stories
7 2 (3.846%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 9 (17.31%) C#
1 9 (17.31%) Java
1 9 (17.31%) SQL
2 6 (11.54%) VC++
3 5 (9.615%) JavaScript
4 4 (7.692%) T-SQL
5 3 (5.769%) C++
6 1 (1.923%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (17.31%) Degree
2 5 (9.615%) MCTS
3 4 (7.692%) MCITP
4 3 (5.769%) ISEB
5 2 (3.846%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.923%) A+ Certification
6 1 (1.923%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.615%) SLA
1 5 (9.615%) QA
System Software
1 5 (9.615%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (3.846%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 15 (28.85%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.692%) Apple
3 3 (5.769%) Oracle
4 2 (3.846%) Cisco
4 2 (3.846%) hybris
4 2 (3.846%) RedPrairie
4 2 (3.846%) VMware
4 2 (3.846%) Telerik
4 2 (3.846%) HP
4 2 (3.846%) Citrix
4 2 (3.846%) JDA
5 1 (1.923%) Wincor Nixdorf
5 1 (1.923%) SonicWALL
5 1 (1.923%) Draytek
5 1 (1.923%) VeriFone