England ISEB Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Information Systems Examinations Board (ISEB) in IT jobs within the England region compared to all other Qualifications we currently track. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited ISEB over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Information Systems Examinations Board (ISEB)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Avon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Caerphilly Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Coatbridge Colchester Coventry Crawley Croydon Cwmbran Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Durham East Anglia East Grinstead East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Elland England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Greenford Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hastings Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Liversedge Livingston London Luton Lymm Macclesfield Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newmarket Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Retford Rickmansworth Rotherham Royston Rugby Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Selby Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Helens Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stowmarket Stratford-upon-Avon Street Stroud Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swadlincote Swansea Swindon Tadworth Telford Thames Valley Thatcham Torfaen Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Bromwich West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Weybridge Wigan Wigston Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Woking Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	136	132
Rank change on same period last year	-4
Matching permanent IT job ads	2599	3421
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.399 %	1.426 %
As % of the category below	7.121 %	7.358 %
Salaries quoted	2071	2809
Average minimum salary	£35,881	£35,914
Average salary	£38,626	£38,782
% change on same period last year	-0.40 %
Average maximum salary	£41,371	£41,650
UK excluding London average salary	£36,662	£37,120
% change on same period last year	-1.23 %
Qualifications England
Matching permanent IT job ads	36497	46491
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	19.64 %	19.38 %
Salaries quoted	31198	37930
Average minimum salary	£37,503	£39,028
Average salary	£40,870	£42,493
% change on same period last year	-3.81 %
Average maximum salary	£44,237	£45,957
UK excluding London average salary	£37,834	£38,495
% change on same period last year	-1.71 %
ISEB UK

ISEB
Demand Trend

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

ISEB
Salary Trend

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

ISEB
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing ISEB across the England region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

ISEB
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ISEB within the England region over the 3 months to 21 August 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	-2	867	£42,570	+1.44 %
South East	-2	602	£38,736	+2.93 %
South West	-4	327	£37,172	-6.22 %
Yorkshire	+9	212	£35,302	+6.90 %
East of England	-17	196	£36,156	-7.58 %
West Midlands	-31	158	£33,007	-10.83 %
North West	-23	150	£31,529	-11.06 %
East Midlands	-39	64	£38,767	+11.51 %
North East	-33	15	£27,638	-13.18 %
Midlands	0	12	£36,550	-0.76 %

ISEB UK

ISEB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT jobs across the England 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 1919 (34.90 %) Finance 2 1296 (23.57 %) QA 3 1233 (22.43 %) Software Testing 4 1167 (21.23 %) SQL 5 1005 (18.28 %) Test Scripting 6 993 (18.06 %) TestDirector 7 701 (12.75 %) User Acceptance Testing 8 672 (12.22 %) Automated Testing 9 639 (11.62 %) Test Management 10 600 (10.91 %) Degree 11 594 (10.80 %) QuickTest Pro 12 581 (10.57 %) Oracle 13 569 (10.35 %) PRINCE2 14 530 (9.640 %) Banking 15 519 (9.440 %) Pensions

16 511 (9.294 %) WinRunner 17 484 (8.803 %) Project Management 18 481 (8.749 %) ISEB Practitioner 19 479 (8.712 %) System Testing 20 469 (8.530 %) Insurance 21 454 (8.258 %) Manual Testing 22 443 (8.057 %) .NET 23 438 (7.967 %) Windows 24 414 (7.530 %) UNIX 25 407 (7.403 %) Java 26 399 (7.257 %) ITIL 27 381 (6.930 %) LoadRunner 28 367 (6.675 %) Microsoft 29 335 (6.093 %) ISTQB 30 321 (5.838 %) SQL Server

ISEB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT jobs across the England 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 1 443 (8.057 %) .NET 2 242 (4.402 %) XML 3 164 (2.983 %) WebServices 4 136 (2.474 %) J2EE 5 123 (2.237 %) HTML 6 73 (1.328 %) ASP.NET 7 70 (1.273 %) WebSphere 8 36 (0.655 %) ASP 9 34 (0.618 %) SOAP 10 32 (0.582 %) .NET Framework 11 29 (0.527 %) FIX Protocol 12 23 (0.418 %) SAP XI 13 22 (0.400 %) MAPI 14 17 (0.309 %) CSS 15 14 (0.255 %) JSP 15 14 (0.255 %) Middleware 16 11 (0.200 %) .NET Remoting 17 8 (0.146 %) AJAX 18 7 (0.127 %) ODBC 19 6 (0.109 %) XSLT	Application Platforms 1 53 (0.964 %) SharePoint 1 53 (0.964 %) CMS 2 44 (0.800 %) WebLogic 2 44 (0.800 %) IIS 3 37 (0.673 %) BizTalk Server 4 24 (0.437 %) Content Management Server 5 22 (0.400 %) SharePoint Server 2007 6 20 (0.364 %) Commerce Server 7 18 (0.327 %) SAS 7 18 (0.327 %) Apache 8 17 (0.309 %) MS Exchange 9 13 (0.236 %) Exchange Server 2003 10 12 (0.218 %) Oracle Workflow 11 9 (0.164 %) Exchange Server 2007 12 8 (0.146 %) Exchange Server 5.5 12 8 (0.146 %) Documentum 13 7 (0.127 %) WebSphere Message Broker 14 5 (0.091 %) EPiServer 14 5 (0.091 %) JBoss 15 4 (0.073 %) Lotus Notes
Applications 1 252 (4.583 %) MS Excel 2 174 (3.165 %) MS Office 3 54 (0.982 %) MS Project 4 43 (0.782 %) MS Visio 5 16 (0.291 %) MS PowerPoint 6 9 (0.164 %) Spreadsheet 7 3 (0.055 %) Photoshop 7 3 (0.055 %) Adobe Illustrator 8 1 (0.018 %) S-PLUS 8 1 (0.018 %) DeltaView 8 1 (0.018 %) CA Clarity	Business Applications 1 21 (0.382 %) Oracle Applications 2 14 (0.255 %) Oracle EBS 3 12 (0.218 %) SAP FI 4 11 (0.200 %) Metrica 4 11 (0.200 %) SAP FI/CO 4 11 (0.200 %) SAP CO 5 10 (0.182 %) HiPortfolio 6 7 (0.127 %) Oracle Financials 6 7 (0.127 %) Remedy AR System 7 6 (0.109 %) Microsoft CRM 7 6 (0.109 %) Singl.eView 8 5 (0.091 %) Oracle ERP 8 5 (0.091 %) Endur 9 4 (0.073 %) SAP HR 10 3 (0.055 %) VisionPLUS 11 2 (0.036 %) Tesseract 11 2 (0.036 %) Minerva 11 2 (0.036 %) Sentinel 11 2 (0.036 %) SAP R/3 11 2 (0.036 %) Eagle PACE
Communications & Networking 1 221 (4.020 %) Internet 2 73 (1.328 %) TCP/IP 3 33 (0.600 %) LAN 4 31 (0.564 %) Broadband 5 29 (0.527 %) Intranet 6 27 (0.491 %) DNS 6 27 (0.491 %) HTTP 7 23 (0.418 %) WAN 7 23 (0.418 %) SMTP 7 23 (0.418 %) IMAP 8 19 (0.346 %) Extranet 9 17 (0.309 %) Network Security 10 16 (0.291 %) Wireless 11 13 (0.236 %) Firewall 11 13 (0.236 %) SMS 12 12 (0.218 %) BSS 13 10 (0.182 %) GSM 13 10 (0.182 %) SAN 14 9 (0.164 %) LDAP 15 8 (0.146 %) LLU	Database & Business Intelligence 1 321 (5.838 %) SQL Server 2 79 (1.437 %) RDBMS 3 53 (0.964 %) TOAD 4 38 (0.691 %) MS Access 5 34 (0.618 %) Oracle Reports 6 32 (0.582 %) Datawarehouse 7 31 (0.564 %) SQL Server 2005 8 27 (0.491 %) Oracle 10g 9 24 (0.437 %) DB2 10 20 (0.364 %) BusinessObjects 10 20 (0.364 %) SAP BW 11 19 (0.346 %) Crystal Reports 12 18 (0.327 %) SQL Server 2000 13 16 (0.291 %) Oracle 9i 14 15 (0.273 %) Oracle 8/8i 14 15 (0.273 %) GIS 15 10 (0.182 %) MySQL 15 10 (0.182 %) Informix 16 9 (0.164 %) DTS 16 9 (0.164 %) ETL
Development Applications 1 993 (18.06 %) TestDirector 2 594 (10.80 %) QuickTest Pro 3 511 (9.294 %) WinRunner 4 381 (6.930 %) LoadRunner 5 51 (0.928 %) Selenium 6 43 (0.782 %) Rational Robot 7 37 (0.673 %) JIRA 7 37 (0.673 %) Oracle Forms 7 37 (0.673 %) TestComplete 8 34 (0.618 %) Bugzilla 9 33 (0.600 %) QARun 10 32 (0.582 %) TestPartner 11 29 (0.527 %) Visual Studio 12 28 (0.509 %) JUnit 13 26 (0.473 %) ClearQuest 14 24 (0.437 %) QADirector 15 23 (0.418 %) Ant 16 20 (0.364 %) VSS/SourceSafe 17 19 (0.346 %) SilkTest 18 16 (0.291 %) JMeter	General 1 1919 (34.90 %) Finance 2 530 (9.640 %) Banking 3 519 (9.440 %) Pensions 4 469 (8.530 %) Insurance 5 284 (5.166 %) Retail 6 267 (4.856 %) Health 7 166 (3.019 %) Telecoms 8 110 (2.001 %) Investment Banking 9 104 (1.892 %) Education 10 80 (1.455 %) Financial Institution 11 74 (1.346 %) Publishing 12 72 (1.310 %) Government 13 65 (1.182 %) Retail Banking 14 62 (1.128 %) Front Office 15 42 (0.764 %) Marketing 16 40 (0.728 %) Games 17 34 (0.618 %) Back Office 18 33 (0.600 %) Pharmaceutical 19 26 (0.473 %) Construction 20 24 (0.437 %) Law
Job Titles 1 2373 (43.16 %) Analyst 2 1751 (31.85 %) Test Analyst 3 1318 (23.97 %) Tester 4 1009 (18.35 %) Test Manager 5 350 (6.366 %) Business Analyst 6 285 (5.184 %) Senior Analyst 7 279 (5.075 %) Software Tester 8 271 (4.929 %) Team Leader 9 243 (4.420 %) Test Engineer 10 231 (4.202 %) QA Analyst 11 198 (3.601 %) Test Team Leader 12 197 (3.583 %) Senior Test Analyst 13 170 (3.092 %) Systems Tester 14 169 (3.074 %) Consultant 15 160 (2.910 %) Systems Analyst 16 149 (2.710 %) Project Manager 17 134 (2.437 %) Senior Tester 18 133 (2.419 %) QA Tester 19 110 (2.001 %) Senior Manager 19 110 (2.001 %) QA Test Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 170 (3.092 %) Derivative 2 165 (3.001 %) Client/Server 3 87 (1.582 %) Management Information System 3 87 (1.582 %) Equities 4 58 (1.055 %) Mainframe 5 56 (1.019 %) Computer Science 6 42 (0.764 %) EPoS 7 33 (0.600 %) Mathematics 8 29 (0.527 %) AS400 9 28 (0.509 %) DTV 9 28 (0.509 %) Chemistry 10 26 (0.473 %) Biology 11 25 (0.455 %) Fixed Income 12 24 (0.437 %) Physics 13 23 (0.418 %) Life Science 14 22 (0.400 %) PMI 15 20 (0.364 %) Handset 16 19 (0.346 %) Chip and PIN 17 17 (0.309 %) Statistics 18 15 (0.273 %) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems 1 438 (7.967 %) Windows 2 414 (7.530 %) UNIX 3 150 (2.728 %) Linux 4 69 (1.255 %) Windows Server 2003 5 68 (1.237 %) Windows XP 6 59 (1.073 %) Windows 2000 7 54 (0.982 %) Solaris 8 45 (0.818 %) Windows Vista 9 33 (0.600 %) VMS 10 32 (0.582 %) AIX 11 18 (0.327 %) Windows 2000 Server 12 12 (0.218 %) HPUX 13 9 (0.164 %) Windows NT 14 3 (0.055 %) Windows Mobile 15 2 (0.036 %) VxWorks 15 2 (0.036 %) Mac OS X 16 1 (0.018 %) MVS 16 1 (0.018 %) SUSE	Processes & Methodologies 1 1233 (22.43 %) Software Testing 2 1005 (18.28 %) Test Scripting 3 701 (12.75 %) User Acceptance Testing 4 672 (12.22 %) Automated Testing 5 639 (11.62 %) Test Management 6 569 (10.35 %) PRINCE2 7 484 (8.803 %) Project Management 8 479 (8.712 %) System Testing 9 454 (8.258 %) Manual Testing 10 399 (7.257 %) ITIL 11 303 (5.511 %) Performance Testing 12 279 (5.075 %) Regression Testing 13 276 (5.020 %) Business Analysis 14 274 (4.984 %) Integration Testing 15 246 (4.474 %) V-Model 16 210 (3.820 %) Agile Software Development 17 185 (3.365 %) UML 17 185 (3.365 %) Web Testing 18 152 (2.765 %) PRINCE 19 149 (2.710 %) RUP
Programming Languages 1 1167 (21.23 %) SQL 2 407 (7.403 %) Java 3 231 (4.202 %) C# 4 202 (3.674 %) VB 5 113 (2.055 %) C 6 107 (1.946 %) VBScript 7 86 (1.564 %) C++ 8 66 (1.200 %) Perl 9 63 (1.146 %) JavaScript 10 54 (0.982 %) VBA 11 41 (0.746 %) VB.NET 12 33 (0.600 %) VB6 13 26 (0.473 %) PHP 14 23 (0.418 %) Shell Script 15 22 (0.400 %) PL/SQL 16 18 (0.327 %) Python 17 16 (0.291 %) Transact-SQL 18 14 (0.255 %) Ruby 19 13 (0.236 %) Delphi 20 7 (0.127 %) RPG	Qualifications 1 600 (10.91 %) Degree 2 481 (8.749 %) ISEB Practitioner 3 335 (6.093 %) ISTQB 4 63 (1.146 %) PRINCE2 Certification 5 60 (1.091 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 6 51 (0.928 %) Microsoft Certification 7 43 (0.782 %) CISSP 8 42 (0.764 %) ITIL Certification 9 31 (0.564 %) HND 10 27 (0.491 %) CISA 11 25 (0.455 %) PhD 12 17 (0.309 %) HNC 13 16 (0.291 %) MCSE 13 16 (0.291 %) ACCA 14 11 (0.200 %) CISMP 15 9 (0.164 %) IBM AIX Certification 15 9 (0.164 %) Cisco Certification 16 8 (0.146 %) MBA 17 5 (0.091 %) CCNA 18 4 (0.073 %) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1296 (23.57 %) QA 2 21 (0.382 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 3 20 (0.364 %) ISO8583 4 19 (0.346 %) GxP 5 15 (0.273 %) COBIT 6 13 (0.236 %) ISO9001 6 13 (0.236 %) ISO27001 7 9 (0.164 %) BS15000 8 8 (0.146 %) SLA 8 8 (0.146 %) ISO9000 9 4 (0.073 %) 21 CFR Part 11 10 2 (0.036 %) TickIT 11 1 (0.018 %) Basel II 11 1 (0.018 %) BS7799	System Software 1 43 (0.782 %) Active Directory 2 7 (0.127 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler 2 7 (0.127 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 2 7 (0.127 %) NFS 3 6 (0.109 %) VMware Infrastructure 4 1 (0.018 %) Terminal Services
Systems Management 1 14 (0.255 %) MOM 2 11 (0.200 %) Tivoli 3 10 (0.182 %) CONTROL-M 4 8 (0.146 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 5 7 (0.127 %) CA SiteMinder 6 3 (0.055 %) OpenView Configuration Management 7 2 (0.036 %) Netcool 8 1 (0.018 %) SCCM 8 1 (0.018 %) SCOM	Vendors 1 581 (10.57 %) Oracle 2 367 (6.675 %) Microsoft 3 129 (2.346 %) SAP 4 115 (2.092 %) HP 5 103 (1.873 %) Compuware 6 63 (1.146 %) IBM 7 51 (0.928 %) Siebel 8 49 (0.891 %) Sybase 9 29 (0.527 %) Remedy 10 28 (0.509 %) Citrix 11 23 (0.418 %) Empirix 12 21 (0.382 %) Cisco 13 20 (0.364 %) Sun 13 20 (0.364 %) Business Objects 14 19 (0.346 %) webMethods 15 18 (0.327 %) BEA 16 17 (0.309 %) VMware 17 14 (0.255 %) Retek 17 14 (0.255 %) Pega 18 13 (0.236 %) Informatica