The first table below looks at the demand for Postgraduate 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 Postgraduate over the 3 months to 23 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 Qualifications for the East of England region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Postgraduate
Rank 237 249 280
Rank change year-on-year
+12 +31
Permanent jobs citing Postgraduate 25 23 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East of England 0.305% 0.264% 0.031%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.041% 0.860% 0.096%
Number of salaries quoted 23 20 3
Average salary £40,000 £32,500 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+23.07% +8.33%
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £37,500 £30,000
% change year-on-year
+1.33% +25.00%
All Qualifications
East of England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
2402 2673 3129
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East of England 29.32% 30.64% 32.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1993 2202 2757
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +3.89%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £26,500 £25,500
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
- +5.26%
Postgraduate
England

Postgraduate
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England Postgraduate Jobs Demand Trend

Postgraduate
Salary Trend

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

East of England Postgraduate Salary Trend

Postgraduate
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Postgraduate across the East of England region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

East of England Postgraduate Salary Histogram

Postgraduate
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Postgraduate within the East of England region over the 3 months to 23 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
Cambridgeshire +6 20 £36,250 +16.93%
Bedfordshire -8 4 £56,250 -
Hertfordshire +1 1 £37,500 -6.25%
Postgraduate
England

Postgraduate
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the East of England region citing Postgraduate 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 Postgraduate.

1 69 (88.46%) Degree
2 33 (42.31%) Windows
3 32 (41.03%) Python
4 31 (39.74%) Linux
5 29 (37.18%) QA
5 29 (37.18%) Software Testing
6 28 (35.90%) MySQL
7 27 (34.62%) Bash shell
8 25 (32.05%) SAN
9 24 (30.77%) NFS
9 24 (30.77%) Firewall
9 24 (30.77%) Samba
10 23 (29.49%) Big Data
11 18 (23.08%) Text Mining
12 17 (21.79%) PHP
13 16 (20.51%) C++
13 16 (20.51%) Wiki
13 16 (20.51%) Network Security
14 15 (19.23%) Web Services
15 13 (16.67%) OO
16 12 (15.38%) UNIX
16 12 (15.38%) Grid Computing
16 12 (15.38%) Semantic Web
17 11 (14.10%) PhD
18 10 (12.82%) Red Hat
18 10 (12.82%) Natural Language Processing
19 9 (11.54%) Java
19 9 (11.54%) Chemistry
19 9 (11.54%) Computer Science
19 9 (11.54%) Life Science

Postgraduate
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the East of England region citing Postgraduate 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 Postgraduate. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 15 (19.23%) Web Services
2 10 (12.82%) Natural Language Processing
3 5 (6.410%) STL
3 5 (6.410%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 4 (5.128%) .NET
5 3 (3.846%) REST
6 2 (2.564%) Struts
6 2 (2.564%) XML
6 2 (2.564%) Flash
6 2 (2.564%) XHTML
6 2 (2.564%) Swing
6 2 (2.564%) EJB
6 2 (2.564%) CSS
6 2 (2.564%) JSP
6 2 (2.564%) HTML
6 2 (2.564%) J2EE
6 2 (2.564%) Hibernate
6 2 (2.564%) jQuery
6 2 (2.564%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 3 (3.846%) Apache
1 3 (3.846%) Tomcat
1 3 (3.846%) nginx
1 3 (3.846%) MediaWiki
Applications
1 3 (3.846%) MS Office
1 3 (3.846%) Google Apps
Communications & Networking
1 25 (32.05%) SAN
2 24 (30.77%) Firewall
3 16 (20.51%) Network Security
4 4 (5.128%) GPRS
4 4 (5.128%) GSM
4 4 (5.128%) 3GPP
4 4 (5.128%) Internet
4 4 (5.128%) 3G
4 4 (5.128%) UTRAN
4 4 (5.128%) 2G
4 4 (5.128%) 2.5G
4 4 (5.128%) Wireless
5 3 (3.846%) TCP/IP
5 3 (3.846%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (35.90%) MySQL
2 23 (29.49%) Big Data
3 18 (23.08%) Text Mining
4 3 (3.846%) Data Mining
4 3 (3.846%) Redis
4 3 (3.846%) MongoDB
4 3 (3.846%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.282%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.282%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.282%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 5 (6.410%) JUnit
2 3 (3.846%) Subversion
2 3 (3.846%) Bugzilla
2 3 (3.846%) Visual Studio
2 3 (3.846%) Eclipse
2 3 (3.846%) Mercurial
2 3 (3.846%) GCC
2 3 (3.846%) SCons
2 3 (3.846%) GoogleTest
2 3 (3.846%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.564%) JIRA
4 1 (1.282%) Maven
4 1 (1.282%) GitHub
General
1 4 (5.128%) Telecoms
2 2 (2.564%) Pharmaceutical
2 2 (2.564%) Retail
Job Titles
1 24 (30.77%) QA Engineer
2 18 (23.08%) Support Engineer
3 14 (17.95%) Developer
4 11 (14.10%) IT Support
4 11 (14.10%) IT Support Engineer
5 9 (11.54%) Analyst
5 9 (11.54%) Systems Administrator
5 9 (11.54%) Administrator
6 7 (8.974%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 7 (8.974%) 2nd Line Support
7 6 (7.692%) Test Engineer
7 6 (7.692%) QA Analyst
8 5 (6.410%) C++ Developer
8 5 (6.410%) QA Tester
8 5 (6.410%) Graduate
8 5 (6.410%) Systems Support
8 5 (6.410%) Systems Engineer
8 5 (6.410%) Software Developer
8 5 (6.410%) Tester
9 4 (5.128%) Linux Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 16 (20.51%) Wiki
2 12 (15.38%) Grid Computing
2 12 (15.38%) Semantic Web
3 9 (11.54%) Chemistry
3 9 (11.54%) Computer Science
3 9 (11.54%) Life Science
4 4 (5.128%) Mathematics
5 3 (3.846%) Open Source
5 3 (3.846%) Visualisation
6 1 (1.282%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1 (1.282%) Statistics
6 1 (1.282%) Physics
6 1 (1.282%) Java Card
6 1 (1.282%) Biometrics
6 1 (1.282%) Smartcard
6 1 (1.282%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (1.282%) Machine Learning
Operating Systems
1 33 (42.31%) Windows
2 31 (39.74%) Linux
3 12 (15.38%) UNIX
4 7 (8.974%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (3.846%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (37.18%) Software Testing
2 13 (16.67%) OO
3 8 (10.26%) Data Protection
4 7 (8.974%) Disaster Recovery
5 5 (6.410%) TDD
5 5 (6.410%) Automated Testing
5 5 (6.410%) Multithreading
5 5 (6.410%) E-Commerce
6 4 (5.128%) Change Management
6 4 (5.128%) Requirements Analysis
6 4 (5.128%) Performance Management
7 3 (3.846%) Agile Software Development
7 3 (3.846%) OOP
7 3 (3.846%) Configuration Management
7 3 (3.846%) Test Automation
7 3 (3.846%) Software Architecture
8 2 (2.564%) BDD
8 2 (2.564%) Domain-Driven Design
8 2 (2.564%) OOD
8 2 (2.564%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 32 (41.03%) Python
2 27 (34.62%) Bash shell
3 17 (21.79%) PHP
4 16 (20.51%) C++
5 9 (11.54%) Java
6 7 (8.974%) Perl
7 6 (7.692%) C
8 5 (6.410%) SQL
8 5 (6.410%) JavaScript
9 4 (5.128%) C#
10 3 (3.846%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 69 (88.46%) Degree
2 11 (14.10%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (37.18%) QA
2 4 (5.128%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 24 (30.77%) NFS
1 24 (30.77%) Samba
Systems Management
1 3 (3.846%) ZABBIX
1 3 (3.846%) CFEngine
1 3 (3.846%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (12.82%) Red Hat
2 5 (6.410%) JBoss
3 4 (5.128%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.846%) Google
4 3 (3.846%) Oracle
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