England Billing Jobs

This section looks at the prevalence of the term 'Billing' in IT jobs within the England region together with a comparison to our General terms category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT job ads that have cited Billing over the 3 months to 18 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Chertsey Cheshire City of London Colchester Coventry Crewe Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Ealing East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Egham England Essex Farnborough Glasgow Gosport Great Yarmouth Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Norfolk North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Osterley Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South East South West South Yorkshire St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stoke Mandeville Suffolk Surrey Swindon Thame Thames Valley UK Uxbridge Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Woking Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 18 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	274	251
Rank change on same period last year	-23
Matching permanent IT job ads	1237	1693
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.646 %	0.698 %
As % of the category below	1.286 %	1.392 %
Salaries quoted	1032	1321
Average minimum salary	£39,126	£42,148
Average salary	£43,388	£46,387
% change on same period last year	-6.46 %
Average maximum salary	£47,649	£50,626
UK excluding London average salary	£44,412	£47,335
% change on same period last year	-6.17 %
General England
Matching permanent IT job ads	96199	121596
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	50.23 %	50.17 %
Salaries quoted	79007	95998
Average minimum salary	£43,044	£46,085
Average salary	£47,326	£50,592
% change on same period last year	-6.45 %
Average maximum salary	£51,607	£55,098
UK excluding London average salary	£40,867	£42,383
% change on same period last year	-3.57 %
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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Billing across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

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Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Billing across the England region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Billing across the England region over the 3 months to 18 July 2008.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT job ads citing Billing within the England region over the 3 months to 18 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

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
London	-15	502	£44,242	-6.07 %
South East	-35	353	£43,604	-8.80 %
East of England	+3	100	£38,082	-16.81 %
South West	-15	71	£35,549	-7.79 %
North West	-42	61	£49,939	+21.41 %
Yorkshire	+12	52	£39,150	+4.48 %
West Midlands	-1	47	£36,637	-2.01 %
Midlands	0	19	£58,333	+1.79 %
East Midlands	+15	19	£36,055	+33.53 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT jobs across the England region citing Billing 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 Billing.

1 950 (38.00 %) Telecoms 2 678 (27.12 %) Finance 3 585 (23.40 %) CRM 4 446 (17.84 %) SQL 5 410 (16.40 %) Oracle 6 310 (12.40 %) SAP 7 273 (10.92 %) SQL Server 8 249 (9.960 %) Project Management 9 243 (9.720 %) UNIX 10 229 (9.160 %) Java 11 228 (9.120 %) Marketing 12 197 (7.880 %) Internet 13 190 (7.600 %) Health 14 182 (7.280 %) Degree 14 182 (7.280 %) Microsoft

15 178 (7.120 %) .NET 16 173 (6.920 %) BSS 17 168 (6.720 %) MS Excel 18 141 (5.640 %) Retail 19 134 (5.360 %) Pensions 20 133 (5.320 %) C 21 132 (5.280 %) Siebel 22 131 (5.240 %) SLA 23 124 (4.960 %) ITIL 24 122 (4.880 %) User Acceptance Testing 25 121 (4.840 %) Business Analysis 26 108 (4.320 %) C# 27 103 (4.120 %) Broadband 28 99 (3.960 %) SAP SD 29 97 (3.880 %) XML

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT jobs across the England region citing Billing 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 Billing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 178 (7.120 %) .NET 2 97 (3.880 %) XML 3 81 (3.240 %) ASP.NET 4 67 (2.680 %) CSS 5 62 (2.480 %) HTML 6 61 (2.440 %) J2EE 7 57 (2.280 %) WebServices 8 31 (1.240 %) ASP 9 28 (1.120 %) Middleware 10 26 (1.040 %) WAP 11 21 (0.840 %) XSLT 12 19 (0.760 %) JSP 12 19 (0.760 %) Hibernate 12 19 (0.760 %) SAP ALE 13 18 (0.720 %) Spring 13 18 (0.720 %) SOAP 14 17 (0.680 %) .NET Framework 15 15 (0.600 %) MVC 16 14 (0.560 %) AJAX 16 14 (0.560 %) Servlets	Application Platforms 1 22 (0.880 %) ESB 2 20 (0.800 %) Apache 3 18 (0.720 %) WebLogic 4 15 (0.600 %) WebLogic Portal 4 15 (0.600 %) Portal Infranet 5 13 (0.520 %) IIS 6 10 (0.400 %) Oracle Workflow 7 8 (0.320 %) BizTalk Server 8 7 (0.280 %) CMS 9 6 (0.240 %) SharePoint 10 5 (0.200 %) SAS 11 4 (0.160 %) MS Exchange 11 4 (0.160 %) Tomcat 11 4 (0.160 %) Lotus Notes 11 4 (0.160 %) Exchange Server 2000 11 4 (0.160 %) Exchange Server 2003 11 4 (0.160 %) SharePoint Portal Server 12 3 (0.120 %) JBoss 12 3 (0.120 %) Tuxedo 13 2 (0.080 %) CICS
Applications 1 168 (6.720 %) MS Excel 2 86 (3.440 %) MS Office 3 62 (2.480 %) MS Visio 4 45 (1.800 %) MS Project 5 15 (0.600 %) MS PowerPoint 6 8 (0.320 %) CA Clarity	Business Applications 1 99 (3.960 %) SAP SD 2 68 (2.720 %) SAP IS-U 3 55 (2.200 %) Singl.eView 4 37 (1.480 %) SAP Oil and Gas 5 34 (1.360 %) SAP FI 6 31 (1.240 %) Oracle Financials 7 25 (1.000 %) SAP R/3 8 24 (0.960 %) SAP FI/CO 8 24 (0.960 %) SAP CO 9 20 (0.800 %) SAP CRM 10 18 (0.720 %) Oracle EBS 11 14 (0.560 %) Oracle BRM 12 9 (0.360 %) Oracle 11i 12 9 (0.360 %) Oracle Applications 13 6 (0.240 %) SAP PM 13 6 (0.240 %) Dynamics AX 13 6 (0.240 %) PeopleSoft Financials 13 6 (0.240 %) Great Plains 14 5 (0.200 %) Oracle CRM 14 5 (0.200 %) SAP MM
Communications & Networking 1 197 (7.880 %) Internet 2 173 (6.920 %) BSS 3 103 (4.120 %) Broadband 4 46 (1.840 %) LLU 5 41 (1.640 %) ADSL 6 38 (1.520 %) LAN 6 38 (1.520 %) 3G 7 36 (1.440 %) VoIP 8 25 (1.000 %) ISDN 9 23 (0.920 %) FTP 10 21 (0.840 %) WAN 10 21 (0.840 %) PSTN 11 20 (0.800 %) GSM 11 20 (0.800 %) VPN 12 19 (0.760 %) DNS 13 18 (0.720 %) MPLS 13 18 (0.720 %) Firewall 13 18 (0.720 %) Wireless 14 14 (0.560 %) INAP 14 14 (0.560 %) GPRS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 273 (10.92 %) SQL Server 2 70 (2.800 %) RDBMS 3 66 (2.640 %) SQL Server 2005 4 57 (2.280 %) SQL Server 2000 5 50 (2.000 %) BusinessObjects 5 50 (2.000 %) Datawarehouse 6 38 (1.520 %) MySQL 7 34 (1.360 %) ETL 8 27 (1.080 %) DTS 9 25 (1.000 %) Crystal Reports 10 20 (0.800 %) DB2 11 17 (0.680 %) Oracle 8/8i 12 16 (0.640 %) Oracle 10g 13 15 (0.600 %) GIS 14 14 (0.560 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 15 12 (0.480 %) Data Cleansing 15 12 (0.480 %) Informix 16 11 (0.440 %) MS Access 16 11 (0.440 %) DataStage 17 10 (0.400 %) Data Mining
Development Applications 1 29 (1.160 %) Visual Studio 2 27 (1.080 %) TestDirector 3 18 (0.720 %) Oracle Forms 4 17 (0.680 %) VSS/SourceSafe 5 14 (0.560 %) WinRunner 6 12 (0.480 %) NUnit 7 6 (0.240 %) LoadRunner 8 3 (0.120 %) Eclipse 8 3 (0.120 %) Ant 8 3 (0.120 %) Flash 8 3 (0.120 %) PeopleTools 9 2 (0.080 %) eCATT 9 2 (0.080 %) ClearCase 9 2 (0.080 %) JBuilder 9 2 (0.080 %) QuickTest Pro 10 1 (0.040 %) IntelliJ 10 1 (0.040 %) Synon 10 1 (0.040 %) Oracle Developer 2000 10 1 (0.040 %) PowerBuilder 10 1 (0.040 %) JUnit	General 1 950 (38.00 %) Telecoms 2 678 (27.12 %) Finance 3 228 (9.120 %) Marketing 4 190 (7.600 %) Health 5 141 (5.640 %) Retail 6 134 (5.360 %) Pensions 7 63 (2.520 %) Legal 8 61 (2.440 %) Back Office 8 61 (2.440 %) Banking 9 49 (1.960 %) Construction 10 46 (1.840 %) Games 11 45 (1.800 %) Law 12 44 (1.760 %) Education 13 37 (1.480 %) Insurance 14 35 (1.400 %) Financial Institution 15 29 (1.160 %) Manufacturing 16 28 (1.120 %) Interactive Media 17 21 (0.840 %) Government 18 19 (0.760 %) Pharmaceutical 19 18 (0.720 %) Electric
Job Titles 1 688 (27.52 %) Analyst 2 416 (16.64 %) Consultant 3 259 (10.36 %) Developer 4 238 (9.520 %) Business Analyst 5 156 (6.240 %) SAP Consultant 6 152 (6.080 %) Project Manager 7 140 (5.600 %) Billing Analyst 8 105 (4.200 %) Architect 9 104 (4.160 %) Support Analyst 10 72 (2.880 %) SAP SD Consultant 11 64 (2.560 %) Test Analyst 12 63 (2.520 %) Applications Support 12 63 (2.520 %) Team Leader 13 62 (2.480 %) Support Engineer 14 54 (2.160 %) SAP ISU Consultant 15 53 (2.120 %) .NET Developer 16 52 (2.080 %) Senior Manager 16 52 (2.080 %) Senior Consultant 17 51 (2.040 %) Coordinator 17 51 (2.040 %) Software Developer	Miscellaneous 1 41 (1.640 %) Management Information System 2 34 (1.360 %) Client/Server 3 32 (1.280 %) IVR 4 27 (1.080 %) Computer Science 5 25 (1.000 %) AS400 6 20 (0.800 %) DTV 7 18 (0.720 %) E-Learning 8 17 (0.680 %) PMI 9 16 (0.640 %) Mainframe 10 15 (0.600 %) EPoS 10 15 (0.600 %) Asset Management 10 15 (0.600 %) IPTV 10 15 (0.600 %) French Language 11 14 (0.560 %) VAX 11 14 (0.560 %) NGOSS 12 13 (0.520 %) Statistics 12 13 (0.520 %) IBM Mainframe 13 11 (0.440 %) German Language 13 11 (0.440 %) Mathematics 14 8 (0.320 %) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems 1 243 (9.720 %) UNIX 2 74 (2.960 %) Linux 3 70 (2.800 %) Windows 4 45 (1.800 %) Solaris 5 19 (0.760 %) HPUX 6 17 (0.680 %) VMS 7 13 (0.520 %) Windows NT 8 12 (0.480 %) Windows 2000 9 11 (0.440 %) FreeBSD 10 10 (0.400 %) Windows XP 11 7 (0.280 %) AIX 11 7 (0.280 %) Windows Server 2003 12 2 (0.080 %) Tru64	Processes & Methodologies 1 585 (23.40 %) CRM 2 249 (9.960 %) Project Management 3 124 (4.960 %) ITIL 4 122 (4.880 %) User Acceptance Testing 5 121 (4.840 %) Business Analysis 6 85 (3.400 %) Service Delivery 7 78 (3.120 %) PRINCE2 8 74 (2.960 %) ERP 9 68 (2.720 %) Systems Analysis 10 67 (2.680 %) UML 11 60 (2.400 %) Problem Management 12 57 (2.280 %) Release Management 13 56 (2.240 %) Data Management 14 52 (2.080 %) E-Commerce 14 52 (2.080 %) Change Management 15 50 (2.000 %) Workflow 16 45 (1.800 %) Test Scripting 17 43 (1.720 %) Service Management 18 42 (1.680 %) Fault Management 18 42 (1.680 %) Incident Management
Programming Languages 1 446 (17.84 %) SQL 2 229 (9.160 %) Java 3 133 (5.320 %) C 4 108 (4.320 %) C# 5 83 (3.320 %) VB 6 82 (3.280 %) C++ 7 75 (3.000 %) VB.NET 8 57 (2.280 %) PL/SQL 9 49 (1.960 %) Perl 10 46 (1.840 %) JavaScript 11 45 (1.800 %) ABAP 12 37 (1.480 %) VB6 13 35 (1.400 %) Transact-SQL 14 30 (1.200 %) PHP 15 18 (0.720 %) Shell Script 16 15 (0.600 %) Delphi 17 11 (0.440 %) DHTML 18 9 (0.360 %) VBA 19 7 (0.280 %) FoxPro (VFP) 19 7 (0.280 %) COBOL	Qualifications 1 182 (7.280 %) Degree 2 40 (1.600 %) ISEB 3 25 (1.000 %) Microsoft Certification 4 22 (0.880 %) MOS 5 16 (0.640 %) MCSD 6 14 (0.560 %) PMI Certification 7 12 (0.480 %) ACCA 7 12 (0.480 %) NVQ Level 3 8 11 (0.440 %) MBA 9 10 (0.400 %) Cisco Certification 10 9 (0.360 %) MCAD 10 9 (0.360 %) MCSE 11 8 (0.320 %) PRINCE2 Certification 11 8 (0.320 %) CIMA 12 7 (0.280 %) ISTQB 12 7 (0.280 %) CCVP 12 7 (0.280 %) CCNA 13 6 (0.240 %) ITIL Certification 13 6 (0.240 %) Oracle Certification 14 5 (0.200 %) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 131 (5.240 %) SLA 2 89 (3.560 %) QA 3 8 (0.320 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 4 4 (0.160 %) GAAP 4 4 (0.160 %) ISO9001 5 1 (0.040 %) ISO9000	System Software 1 9 (0.360 %) Active Directory 1 9 (0.360 %) VMware Infrastructure 2 5 (0.200 %) NetBackup 3 4 (0.160 %) Terminal Services 4 3 (0.120 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler 4 3 (0.120 %) Oracle RMAN 4 3 (0.120 %) Oracle RAC 5 1 (0.040 %) MSMQ 5 1 (0.040 %) AquaLogic
Systems Management 1 9 (0.360 %) Netcool 2 7 (0.280 %) Tivoli 3 4 (0.160 %) SCOM 4 3 (0.120 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 5 2 (0.080 %) MOM 5 2 (0.080 %) SCCM 6 1 (0.040 %) Nagios 6 1 (0.040 %) CiscoWorks	Vendors 1 410 (16.40 %) Oracle 2 310 (12.40 %) SAP 3 182 (7.280 %) Microsoft 4 132 (5.280 %) Siebel 5 85 (3.400 %) Remedy 6 50 (2.000 %) Business Objects 7 48 (1.920 %) Chordiant 8 40 (1.600 %) Cisco 9 39 (1.560 %) PeopleSoft 10 33 (1.320 %) CA 11 32 (1.280 %) HP 12 28 (1.120 %) TIBCO 13 27 (1.080 %) BT 14 23 (0.920 %) Cramer 15 22 (0.880 %) Amdocs 15 22 (0.880 %) Infovista 15 22 (0.880 %) Telcordia 16 21 (0.840 %) Agresso 16 21 (0.840 %) IBM 16 21 (0.840 %) Sun