The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term SaaS in IT jobs advertised for the Ipswich region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SaaS over the 3 months to 20 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all terms in our Miscellaneous category for the Ipswich region.

Location
3 months to
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software as a Service (SaaS)
Rank 39 38 -
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 13 9 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Ipswich 3.988% 3.136% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 10.40% 9.184% -
Number of salaries quoted 13 9 0
Average salary £37,500 £40,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.25% -
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
- +5.88%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Ipswich
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
125 98 147
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Ipswich 38.34% 34.15% 48.84%
Number of salaries quoted 111 81 139
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £31,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +11.11%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,250 £25,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £40,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
SaaS
Suffolk

SaaS
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing SaaS across the Ipswich region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Ipswich SaaS Jobs Demand Trend

SaaS
Salary Trend

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

Ipswich SaaS Salary Trend

SaaS
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SaaS across the Ipswich region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

Ipswich SaaS Salary Histogram

SaaS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Ipswich region citing SaaS 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 SaaS.

1 14 (63.64%) SQL
1 14 (63.64%) Web Services
2 11 (50.00%) Finance
2 11 (50.00%) Mobile App
2 11 (50.00%) Mobile Application Development
3 10 (45.45%) Big Data
3 10 (45.45%) Agile Software Development
3 10 (45.45%) Microsoft
3 10 (45.45%) SQL Server
4 9 (40.91%) Ajax
5 8 (36.36%) .NET Framework
5 8 (36.36%) SOA
5 8 (36.36%) VB.NET
5 8 (36.36%) .NET
5 8 (36.36%) C#
5 8 (36.36%) WCF
5 8 (36.36%) jQuery
6 7 (31.82%) Cloud Computing
6 7 (31.82%) Social Media
6 7 (31.82%) CRM
7 6 (27.27%) MS Excel
7 6 (27.27%) T-SQL
7 6 (27.27%) Replication
7 6 (27.27%) Clustering
7 6 (27.27%) MongoDB
7 6 (27.27%) NoSQL
7 6 (27.27%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (27.27%) Hadoop
7 6 (27.27%) Windows Azure
7 6 (27.27%) Amazon AWS

SaaS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Ipswich region citing SaaS 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 SaaS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 14 (63.64%) Web Services
2 9 (40.91%) Ajax
3 8 (36.36%) .NET Framework
3 8 (36.36%) .NET
3 8 (36.36%) WCF
3 8 (36.36%) jQuery
4 4 (18.18%) REST
4 4 (18.18%) OAuth
4 4 (18.18%) JSON
4 4 (18.18%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 6 (27.27%) Windows Azure
1 6 (27.27%) Amazon AWS
Applications
1 6 (27.27%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (45.45%) Big Data
1 10 (45.45%) SQL Server
2 6 (27.27%) MongoDB
2 6 (27.27%) NoSQL
2 6 (27.27%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (27.27%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 4 (18.18%) Visual Studio
General
1 11 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 15 (68.18%) Developer
2 6 (27.27%) Administrator
2 6 (27.27%) DBA
2 6 (27.27%) SQL Server DBA
2 6 (27.27%) Database Developer
2 6 (27.27%) SQL DBA
3 4 (18.18%) Solutions Architect
3 4 (18.18%) .NET Developer
3 4 (18.18%) Software Developer
3 4 (18.18%) Architect
4 3 (13.64%) Analyst
4 3 (13.64%) Test Analyst
5 1 (4.545%) Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (50.00%) Mobile App
2 7 (31.82%) Cloud Computing
2 7 (31.82%) Social Media
3 6 (27.27%) Replication
3 6 (27.27%) Clustering
4 4 (18.18%) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (50.00%) Mobile Application Development
2 10 (45.45%) Agile Software Development
3 8 (36.36%) SOA
4 7 (31.82%) CRM
5 4 (18.18%) Analytics
5 4 (18.18%) E-Commerce
6 3 (13.64%) Regression Testing
6 3 (13.64%) Test Strategy
6 3 (13.64%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (63.64%) SQL
2 8 (36.36%) VB.NET
2 8 (36.36%) C#
3 6 (27.27%) T-SQL
4 1 (4.545%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.545%) QA
Vendors
1 10 (45.45%) Microsoft
2 4 (18.18%) Salesforce.com