The first table below looks at the demand for ISEB in IT jobs advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited ISEB 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 Qualifications for the Edinburgh region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Information Systems Examinations Board (ISEB)
Rank 61 49 37
Rank change year-on-year
-12 -12
Permanent jobs citing ISEB 31 46 78
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 2.933% 3.433% 5.058%
As % of the Qualifications category 10.92% 10.65% 15.42%
Number of salaries quoted 13 37 67
Average salary £40,000 £47,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-15.78% +26.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,100 £27,800 £24,600
10% offered a salary of more than £46,900 £70,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £36,500 £37,000
% change year-on-year
-1.36% -1.35%
All Qualifications
Edinburgh
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
284 432 506
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 26.87% 32.24% 32.81%
Number of salaries quoted 165 332 366
Average salary £37,500 £39,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.84% -13.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,600 £27,300 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
ISEB
Scotland

ISEB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh ISEB Jobs Demand Trend

ISEB
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing ISEB across the Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh ISEB Salary Trend

ISEB
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing ISEB across the Edinburgh region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Edinburgh ISEB Salary Histogram

ISEB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh region citing ISEB 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 ISEB.

1 63 (54.78%) Finance
2 57 (49.57%) Business Analysis
3 41 (35.65%) Banking
4 31 (26.96%) Software Testing
5 30 (26.09%) SQL
6 27 (23.48%) User Acceptance Testing
7 26 (22.61%) Degree
8 20 (17.39%) UML
9 19 (16.52%) Stakeholder Management
10 18 (15.65%) ISTQB
11 15 (13.04%) Project Management
11 15 (13.04%) Basel II
12 14 (12.17%) Mainframe
12 14 (12.17%) Process Management
12 14 (12.17%) MS Visio
12 14 (12.17%) Requirements Management
12 14 (12.17%) Enterprise Architecture
12 14 (12.17%) DMAIC
12 14 (12.17%) Agile Software Development
12 14 (12.17%) Zachman Framework
12 14 (12.17%) TOGAF
12 14 (12.17%) BPMN
12 14 (12.17%) CBAP
13 13 (11.30%) ISEB Practitioner
13 13 (11.30%) .NET
14 12 (10.43%) C#
14 12 (10.43%) Data Mining
14 12 (10.43%) SAS
14 12 (10.43%) Business Objects
14 12 (10.43%) Linux

ISEB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh region citing ISEB 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 ISEB. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 13 (11.30%) .NET
2 3 (2.609%) ASP.NET
3 1 (0.870%) CSS
3 1 (0.870%) XML
3 1 (0.870%) Flash
3 1 (0.870%) XHTML
3 1 (0.870%) Middleware
3 1 (0.870%) LAMP
3 1 (0.870%) JSON
3 1 (0.870%) WCF
3 1 (0.870%) jQuery
3 1 (0.870%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (0.870%) ASP.NET MVC 3
3 1 (0.870%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 12 (10.43%) SAS
2 1 (0.870%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (0.870%) MQSeries
2 1 (0.870%) SharePoint
Applications
1 14 (12.17%) MS Visio
2 3 (2.609%) MS Excel
3 1 (0.870%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.609%) Temenos T24
1 3 (2.609%) SAP HCM
2 1 (0.870%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.870%) Oracle iRecruitment
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.870%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (10.43%) Data Warehouse
1 12 (10.43%) Data Mining
2 9 (7.826%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.870%) MySQL
3 1 (0.870%) RDBMS
3 1 (0.870%) Oracle BI EE
3 1 (0.870%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 7 (6.087%) QuickTest Pro
2 4 (3.478%) Selenium
3 3 (2.609%) LoadRunner
3 3 (2.609%) Bugzilla
4 1 (0.870%) NUnit
4 1 (0.870%) Rational Robot
4 1 (0.870%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.870%) TestDirector
4 1 (0.870%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.870%) WatiN
4 1 (0.870%) MSTest
General
1 63 (54.78%) Finance
2 41 (35.65%) Banking
3 7 (6.087%) Legal
4 5 (4.348%) Retail
5 3 (2.609%) Retail Banking
5 3 (2.609%) Electronics
6 2 (1.739%) Financial Institution
6 2 (1.739%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (0.870%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 90 (78.26%) Analyst
2 68 (59.13%) Business Analyst
3 22 (19.13%) Test Analyst
4 21 (18.26%) Senior Analyst
5 17 (14.78%) Banking Business Analyst
6 15 (13.04%) Senior Business Analyst
7 13 (11.30%) Technical Analyst
8 12 (10.43%) Technical Business Analyst
9 7 (6.087%) Tester
9 7 (6.087%) Payments Business Analyst
10 6 (5.217%) Software Tester
10 6 (5.217%) Senior Test Analyst
11 5 (4.348%) Test Team Leader
11 5 (4.348%) Team Leader
11 5 (4.348%) Test Manager
12 4 (3.478%) Financial Business Analyst
12 4 (3.478%) Financial Services Business Analyst
13 3 (2.609%) Lead Business Analyst
13 3 (2.609%) Test Engineer
13 3 (2.609%) Software Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 14 (12.17%) Mainframe
2 7 (6.087%) SWIFT
3 2 (1.739%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (1.739%) Credit Risk
4 1 (0.870%) EPoS
4 1 (0.870%) AS400
4 1 (0.870%) Blog
4 1 (0.870%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 12 (10.43%) Linux
2 11 (9.565%) UNIX
3 2 (1.739%) Windows
4 1 (0.870%) VxWorks
4 1 (0.870%) Android
4 1 (0.870%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (49.57%) Business Analysis
2 31 (26.96%) Software Testing
3 27 (23.48%) User Acceptance Testing
4 20 (17.39%) UML
5 19 (16.52%) Stakeholder Management
6 15 (13.04%) Project Management
7 14 (12.17%) Process Management
7 14 (12.17%) DMAIC
7 14 (12.17%) Enterprise Architecture
7 14 (12.17%) Requirements Management
7 14 (12.17%) Agile Software Development
7 14 (12.17%) Zachman Framework
7 14 (12.17%) TOGAF
7 14 (12.17%) BPMN
8 12 (10.43%) Business Intelligence
9 11 (9.565%) Performance Testing
10 10 (8.696%) Use Case
10 10 (8.696%) Test Strategy
11 9 (7.826%) System Testing
12 7 (6.087%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (26.09%) SQL
2 12 (10.43%) C#
3 6 (5.217%) Java
4 5 (4.348%) C++
5 3 (2.609%) JavaScript
5 3 (2.609%) Perl
6 2 (1.739%) Python
6 2 (1.739%) Ruby
7 1 (0.870%) PHP
7 1 (0.870%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.870%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 26 (22.61%) Degree
2 18 (15.65%) ISTQB
3 14 (12.17%) CBAP
4 13 (11.30%) ISEB Practitioner
5 2 (1.739%) HND
6 1 (0.870%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (13.04%) Basel II
2 12 (10.43%) Solvency II
3 8 (6.957%) QA
4 7 (6.087%) FATCA
System Software
1 1 (0.870%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (6.087%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 12 (10.43%) Business Objects
2 9 (7.826%) HP
3 7 (6.087%) Fundtech
4 3 (2.609%) Oracle
4 3 (2.609%) SAP
5 1 (0.870%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.870%) Reuters
5 1 (0.870%) Bloomberg
5 1 (0.870%) VMware
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