The first table below looks at the demand for ISEB in IT jobs advertised for the Liverpool region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited ISEB over the 3 months to 24 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 Liverpool region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Information Systems Examinations Board (ISEB)
Rank 41 59 50
Rank change year-on-year
+18 -9
Permanent jobs citing ISEB 12 12 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Liverpool 3.279% 2.372% 2.215%
As % of the Qualifications category 13.95% 6.857% 7.000%
Number of salaries quoted 8 7 7
Average salary £30,000 £45,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-33.33% +5.88%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,500 £32,500 £36,300
10% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £50,000 £81,000
UK excluding London average salary £36,500 £36,122 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+1.04% -2.37%
All Qualifications
Liverpool
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
86 175 100
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Liverpool 23.50% 34.58% 31.65%
Number of salaries quoted 69 136 87
Average salary £37,500 £42,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-11.76% +21.42%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £31,000 £25,600
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
ISEB
Merseyside

ISEB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Liverpool 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 Liverpool region.

Liverpool ISEB Salary Trend

ISEB
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing ISEB across the Liverpool region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Liverpool ISEB Salary Histogram

ISEB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Liverpool 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 13 (50.00%) QA
2 12 (46.15%) Degree
3 9 (34.62%) ISTQB
4 8 (30.77%) Agile Software Development
4 8 (30.77%) MS Visio
4 8 (30.77%) PRINCE2
4 8 (30.77%) BPMN
4 8 (30.77%) Test Automation
5 7 (26.92%) Manual Testing
5 7 (26.92%) Software Testing
6 6 (23.08%) Project Planning
6 6 (23.08%) Web Development
6 6 (23.08%) Selenium
6 6 (23.08%) FitNesse
6 6 (23.08%) Games
6 6 (23.08%) Scrum
6 6 (23.08%) Logistics
6 6 (23.08%) Automated Testing
6 6 (23.08%) PHP
6 6 (23.08%) Apache
6 6 (23.08%) Java
6 6 (23.08%) Six Sigma
6 6 (23.08%) JMeter
6 6 (23.08%) WebDriver
6 6 (23.08%) Open Source
6 6 (23.08%) Cucumber
6 6 (23.08%) Hudson
6 6 (23.08%) Continuous Integration
6 6 (23.08%) Behat
6 6 (23.08%) Jenkins

ISEB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Liverpool 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 Platforms
1 6 (23.08%) Apache
Applications
1 8 (30.77%) MS Visio
2 4 (15.38%) MS PowerPoint
2 4 (15.38%) MS Excel
3 2 (7.692%) MS Office
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.692%) SQL Server 2000
1 2 (7.692%) SQL Server
1 2 (7.692%) DB2
Development Applications
1 6 (23.08%) Selenium
1 6 (23.08%) FitNesse
1 6 (23.08%) JMeter
1 6 (23.08%) WebDriver
1 6 (23.08%) Cucumber
1 6 (23.08%) Hudson
1 6 (23.08%) Behat
1 6 (23.08%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.846%) JIRA
General
1 6 (23.08%) Games
2 5 (19.23%) Manufacturing
2 5 (19.23%) Retail
3 4 (15.38%) Finance
4 3 (11.54%) Interactive Media
5 1 (3.846%) Legal
Job Titles
1 13 (50.00%) Analyst
2 11 (42.31%) Business Analyst
3 6 (23.08%) Software Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) Senior Manager
5 2 (7.692%) Business Manager
5 2 (7.692%) Development Engineer
5 2 (7.692%) IT Business Analyst
5 2 (7.692%) Business Project Manager
5 2 (7.692%) Test Analyst
5 2 (7.692%) Business Systems Analyst
5 2 (7.692%) Systems Analyst
5 2 (7.692%) Project Manager
5 2 (7.692%) Tester
6 1 (3.846%) Test Manager
6 1 (3.846%) Senior Business Analyst
6 1 (3.846%) Senior Analyst
6 1 (3.846%) Manual Tester
6 1 (3.846%) Software Tester
6 1 (3.846%) Systems Tester
6 1 (3.846%) Senior Test Manager
Miscellaneous
1 6 (23.08%) Open Source
1 6 (23.08%) Mobile App
2 2 (7.692%) Computer Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (30.77%) Agile Software Development
1 8 (30.77%) PRINCE2
1 8 (30.77%) BPMN
1 8 (30.77%) Test Automation
2 7 (26.92%) Manual Testing
2 7 (26.92%) Software Testing
3 6 (23.08%) Project Planning
3 6 (23.08%) Web Development
3 6 (23.08%) Scrum
3 6 (23.08%) Logistics
3 6 (23.08%) Automated Testing
3 6 (23.08%) Six Sigma
3 6 (23.08%) Continuous Integration
3 6 (23.08%) User Stories
4 5 (19.23%) Business Analysis
5 4 (15.38%) Systems Analysis
5 4 (15.38%) ITIL
5 4 (15.38%) UML
6 3 (11.54%) Change Management
6 3 (11.54%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 6 (23.08%) PHP
1 6 (23.08%) Java
2 3 (11.54%) SQL
3 2 (7.692%) Perl
3 2 (7.692%) C#
3 2 (7.692%) C++
3 2 (7.692%) PL/SQL
3 2 (7.692%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (46.15%) Degree
2 9 (34.62%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (50.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (11.54%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 3 (11.54%) Oracle
2 2 (7.692%) HP