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This section looks at the demand for the Graduate role in IT jobs within the England region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT job ads that have cited Graduate in their job title over the 3 months to 18 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

 Graduate
Location
3 months to 18 Jul 2008Same period last year
Rank148167
Rank change on same period last yearUp+19
Matching permanent IT job ads24822695
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled1.296 %1.112 %
As % of the category below1.496 %1.281 %
Salaries quoted22152229
Average minimum salary£22,555£21,848
Average salary£24,952£23,915
% change on same period last year+4.33 %
Average maximum salary£27,349£25,983
UK excluding London average salary£22,689£22,440
% change on same period last year+1.10 %
Job Titles EnglandJob Titles
England
Matching permanent IT job ads165898210449
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled86.61 %86.82 %
Salaries quoted137742168606
Average minimum salary£38,946£40,805
Average salary£42,588£44,619
% change on same period last year-4.55 %
Average maximum salary£46,231£48,433
UK excluding London average salary£38,227£39,513
% change on same period last year-3.25 %
Graduate UKGraduate
UK

Graduate
Demand Trend

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

England Graduate Demand Trend

Graduate
Salary Trend

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

England Graduate Salary Trend

Graduate
Salary Histogram

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

England Graduate Salary Histogram

Graduate
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT job ads citing Graduate 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.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Last
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
LondonUp+53960£28,950+7.83 %
South EastUp+18697£23,757+1.62 %
East of EnglandDown-33217£23,743+3.91 %
North WestDown-4178£20,696+2.17 %
South WestDown-13163£21,161-1.67 %
YorkshireDown-24126£20,787-3.61 %
West MidlandsUp+11106£22,591+5.39 %
East MidlandsDown-1641£20,777+0.40 %
North EastUp+924£23,729+46.02 %
MidlandsUp+84£23,750+3.26 %
HumbersideNew entry-1£25,000-
Graduate UKGraduate
UK

Graduate
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT jobs across the England region that cited Graduate in their job title 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 with Graduate in their job title.

12343 (48.25 %)Degree
21331 (27.41 %).NET
31297 (26.71 %)Java
41200 (24.71 %)SQL
51118 (23.02 %)C++
61090 (22.45 %)C#
71028 (21.17 %)Finance
8889 (18.31 %)Computer Science
9824 (16.97 %)SQL Server
10657 (13.53 %)Windows
11619 (12.75 %)ASP.NET
12569 (11.72 %)Mathematics
13536 (11.04 %)UNIX
14532 (10.96 %)C
15481 (9.905 %)OO
16474 (9.761 %)Microsoft
17470 (9.679 %)XML
18458 (9.432 %)VB
19454 (9.349 %)VB.NET
20451 (9.287 %)HTML
21421 (8.670 %)Oracle
22415 (8.546 %)Linux
23341 (7.022 %)JavaScript
24301 (6.199 %)MS Excel
25278 (5.725 %)PHP
26276 (5.684 %)Pensions
27253 (5.210 %)CSS
28248 (5.107 %)J2EE
29246 (5.066 %)Banking
30229 (4.716 %)Marketing

Graduate
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT jobs across the England region that cited Graduate in their job title 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 with Graduate in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
11331 (27.41 %).NET
2619 (12.75 %)ASP.NET
3470 (9.679 %)XML
4451 (9.287 %)HTML
5253 (5.210 %)CSS
6248 (5.107 %)J2EE
7214 (4.407 %)ASP
8179 (3.686 %)AJAX
9112 (2.306 %)WebServices
1099 (2.039 %)XHTML
1185 (1.750 %)JSP
1281 (1.668 %)Spring
1379 (1.627 %)STL
1476 (1.565 %).NET Framework
1571 (1.462 %)XSLT
1664 (1.318 %)Hibernate
1763 (1.297 %)WinForms
1859 (1.215 %)Servlets
1859 (1.215 %)MFC
1956 (1.153 %)JDBC
Application Platforms
186 (1.771 %)SAS
282 (1.689 %)SharePoint
341 (0.844 %)MS Exchange
439 (0.803 %)IIS
533 (0.680 %)ColdFusion
632 (0.659 %)Apache
731 (0.638 %)WebLogic
821 (0.432 %)Lotus Notes
821 (0.432 %)BizTalk Server
918 (0.371 %)CMS
918 (0.371 %)JBoss
1015 (0.309 %)Tomcat
1113 (0.268 %)Exchange Server 2003
1212 (0.247 %)SharePoint Server 2007
139 (0.185 %)SharePoint Portal Server
139 (0.185 %)WebSphere MQ
146 (0.124 %)Mathematica
155 (0.103 %)Papyrus
155 (0.103 %)StreamWeaver
155 (0.103 %)LiveLink
Applications
1301 (6.199 %)MS Excel
2143 (2.945 %)MS Office
364 (1.318 %)Photoshop
460 (1.236 %)SPSS
538 (0.783 %)MS Visio
633 (0.680 %)Adobe Illustrator
732 (0.659 %)MS PowerPoint
828 (0.577 %)MATLAB
911 (0.227 %)Acrobat
1010 (0.206 %)InDesign
119 (0.185 %)S-PLUS
128 (0.165 %)RoboHelp
137 (0.144 %)Fireworks
137 (0.144 %)FrameMaker
137 (0.144 %)PrintSoft PReS
145 (0.103 %)DOC1
145 (0.103 %)3ds Max
145 (0.103 %)MS Project
153 (0.062 %)Quicktime
161 (0.021 %)AutoCAD
Business Applications
114 (0.288 %)RMDS
114 (0.288 %)Kondor+
114 (0.288 %)Misys Midas
211 (0.227 %)Microsoft CRM
39 (0.185 %)Navision
48 (0.165 %)Oracle Applications
48 (0.165 %)Summit
48 (0.165 %)Dynamics NAV
57 (0.144 %)Thomson PORTIA
66 (0.124 %)Oracle Financials
66 (0.124 %)Line 500
73 (0.062 %)SAP HR
82 (0.041 %)SAP Payroll
82 (0.041 %)Applix TM1
82 (0.041 %)Dynamics CRM
82 (0.041 %)Oracle Manufacturing
82 (0.041 %)Siebel Analytics
91 (0.021 %)Google Analytics
91 (0.021 %)HFM
91 (0.021 %)SAP Business One
Communications & Networking
1167 (3.439 %)TCP/IP
2129 (2.657 %)Internet
354 (1.112 %)VoIP
452 (1.071 %)Intranet
542 (0.865 %)Wireless
634 (0.700 %)HTTP
726 (0.535 %)DNS
820 (0.412 %)DHCP
918 (0.371 %)LAN
1017 (0.350 %)Ethernet
1115 (0.309 %)WAN
1213 (0.268 %)GSM
1213 (0.268 %)ADSL
1312 (0.247 %)H.323
1312 (0.247 %)Firewall
1411 (0.227 %)Wi-Fi
1411 (0.227 %)SAN
1411 (0.227 %)ISDN
159 (0.185 %)iSCSI
168 (0.165 %)VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1824 (16.97 %)SQL Server
2137 (2.821 %)SQL Server 2005
3128 (2.636 %)MySQL
490 (1.853 %)SQL Server 2000
569 (1.421 %)RDBMS
656 (1.153 %)Crystal Reports
734 (0.700 %)MS Access
831 (0.638 %)Datawarehouse
929 (0.597 %)Oracle 10g
1027 (0.556 %)SQL Server 7
1125 (0.515 %)BusinessObjects
1224 (0.494 %)DB2
1323 (0.474 %)Oracle 8/8i
1323 (0.474 %)Oracle 9i
1420 (0.412 %)Oracle Reports
1519 (0.391 %)GIS
1616 (0.329 %)DTS
1714 (0.288 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
1811 (0.227 %)Data Cleansing
1910 (0.206 %)Informix
Development Applications
1133 (2.739 %)Visual Studio
267 (1.380 %)Flash
327 (0.556 %)Dreamweaver
425 (0.515 %)VSS/SourceSafe
516 (0.329 %)JUnit
516 (0.329 %)NUnit
613 (0.268 %)Eclipse
78 (0.165 %)TestDirector
78 (0.165 %)Subversion
78 (0.165 %)Rational Rose
85 (0.103 %)Rational Robot
85 (0.103 %)Selenium
85 (0.103 %)FitNesse
85 (0.103 %)QuickTest Pro
94 (0.082 %)Ant
103 (0.062 %)Oracle Forms
103 (0.062 %)IntelliJ
103 (0.062 %)Bugzilla
103 (0.062 %)CruiseControl
112 (0.041 %)LabVIEW
General
11028 (21.17 %)Finance
2276 (5.684 %)Pensions
3246 (5.066 %)Banking
4229 (4.716 %)Marketing
5215 (4.428 %)Education
6178 (3.666 %)Health
7135 (2.780 %)Telecoms
8132 (2.718 %)Games
9122 (2.512 %)Insurance
1096 (1.977 %)Investment Banking
1192 (1.895 %)Retail
1278 (1.606 %)Front Office
1369 (1.421 %)Financial Institution
1369 (1.421 %)Electronics
1452 (1.071 %)Manufacturing
1551 (1.050 %)Advertising
1647 (0.968 %)Back Office
1738 (0.783 %)Law
1738 (0.783 %)Government
1832 (0.659 %)Billing
Miscellaneous
1889 (18.31 %)Computer Science
2569 (11.72 %)Mathematics
3205 (4.222 %)Physics
4100 (2.059 %)Derivative
590 (1.853 %)Statistics
665 (1.339 %)Equities
758 (1.194 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
844 (0.906 %)Client/Server
938 (0.783 %)Multithreading
1036 (0.741 %)Economics
1134 (0.700 %)German Language
1231 (0.638 %)French Language
1324 (0.494 %)Spanish Language
1421 (0.432 %)Web 2.0
1520 (0.412 %)Italian Language
1619 (0.391 %)Management Information System
1619 (0.391 %)Credit Risk
1718 (0.371 %)Asset Management
1816 (0.329 %)Fixed Income
1913 (0.268 %)Firmware
Operating Systems
1657 (13.53 %)Windows
2536 (11.04 %)UNIX
3415 (8.546 %)Linux
4103 (2.121 %)Windows XP
586 (1.771 %)Solaris
684 (1.730 %)Windows 2000
758 (1.194 %)Windows NT
827 (0.556 %)Windows Server 2003
912 (0.247 %)HPUX
108 (0.165 %)VMS
117 (0.144 %)AIX
125 (0.103 %)MVS
125 (0.103 %)Windows Mobile
134 (0.082 %)Mac OS X
134 (0.082 %)Symbian OS
143 (0.062 %)Windows CE
143 (0.062 %)Windows Vista
151 (0.021 %)Nucleus RTOS
151 (0.021 %)VxWorks
151 (0.021 %)pSOS
Processes & Methodologies
1481 (9.905 %)OO
2206 (4.242 %)Software Engineering
3166 (3.418 %)Web Development
4134 (2.759 %)UML
5104 (2.142 %)E-Commerce
699 (2.039 %)Project Management
795 (1.956 %)Agile Software Development
881 (1.668 %)Security Cleared
979 (1.627 %)Data Analysis
1074 (1.524 %)Algorithmic Trading
1160 (1.236 %)Business Analysis
1257 (1.174 %)CRM
1356 (1.153 %)Software Testing
1454 (1.112 %)OOD
1553 (1.091 %)Business Intelligence
1650 (1.030 %)Risk Management
1746 (0.947 %)OOP
1746 (0.947 %)OOA/OOD
1841 (0.844 %)Content Management
1937 (0.762 %)SEO
Programming Languages
11297 (26.71 %)Java
21200 (24.71 %)SQL
31118 (23.02 %)C++
41090 (22.45 %)C#
5532 (10.96 %)C
6458 (9.432 %)VB
7454 (9.349 %)VB.NET
8341 (7.022 %)JavaScript
9278 (5.725 %)PHP
10141 (2.904 %)Perl
1187 (1.792 %)Transact-SQL
1283 (1.709 %)VBA
1283 (1.709 %)VB6
1377 (1.586 %)Delphi
1463 (1.297 %)PL/SQL
1554 (1.112 %)Python
1652 (1.071 %)VBScript
1652 (1.071 %)VC++
1740 (0.824 %)DHTML
1833 (0.680 %)Shell Script
Qualifications
12343 (48.25 %)Degree
2129 (2.657 %)PhD
399 (2.039 %)Microsoft Certification
443 (0.886 %)MCP
538 (0.783 %)MCSE
626 (0.535 %)HND
626 (0.535 %)ISEB
720 (0.412 %)Cisco Certification
720 (0.412 %)CCNA
818 (0.371 %)MCSD
914 (0.288 %)MCAD
1012 (0.247 %)PRINCE2 Certification
118 (0.165 %)ISEB Practitioner
118 (0.165 %)Postgraduate
127 (0.144 %)Citrix Certification
127 (0.144 %)CCEA
134 (0.082 %)MCDBA
134 (0.082 %)HNC
143 (0.062 %)ISTQB
143 (0.062 %)SCJA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1100 (2.059 %)QA
210 (0.206 %)Basel II
38 (0.165 %)ISO9001
45 (0.103 %)SLA
52 (0.041 %)GCP
System Software
192 (1.895 %)Active Directory
28 (0.165 %)NDS
36 (0.124 %)MSMQ
44 (0.082 %)Nmap
53 (0.062 %)Squid
53 (0.062 %)VMware Infrastructure
53 (0.062 %)Backup Exec
62 (0.041 %)Xen
71 (0.021 %)Oracle RMAN
71 (0.021 %)MetaFrame
71 (0.021 %)Terminal Services
71 (0.021 %)NetBackup
Systems Management
17 (0.144 %)SCOM
25 (0.103 %)Tivoli
34 (0.082 %)Tivoli Remote Control
34 (0.082 %)Nessus
42 (0.041 %)Norton AntiVirus
51 (0.021 %)EMC NetWorker
51 (0.021 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
51 (0.021 %)Netcool
Vendors
1474 (9.761 %)Microsoft
2421 (8.670 %)Oracle
356 (1.153 %)IBM
455 (1.133 %)SAP
541 (0.844 %)Cisco
632 (0.659 %)Adobe
728 (0.577 %)OutlookSoft
825 (0.515 %)Sun
825 (0.515 %)Business Objects
924 (0.494 %)Bloomberg
1023 (0.474 %)Lotus
1122 (0.453 %)Citrix
1220 (0.412 %)Sybase
1319 (0.391 %)Siebel
1417 (0.350 %)Cognos
1417 (0.350 %)Reuters
1516 (0.329 %)HP
1516 (0.329 %)Sage
1612 (0.247 %)VMware
178 (0.165 %)Hummingbird
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