The first table below looks at the demand for Application Packaging skills in IT jobs advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Application Packaging 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 of the Application Development category for the Manchester region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Application Packaging
Rank 190 169 162
Rank change year-on-year
-21 -7
Permanent jobs citing Application Packaging 2 4 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 0.049% 0.110% 0.202%
As % of the Application Development category 0.094% 0.229% 0.476%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 6
Average salary £26,000 £60,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-56.66% +50.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,200 £60,000 £37,500
10% offered a salary of more than £26,800 £60,000 £41,250
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+6.25% +6.66%
All Application Development
Manchester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
2132 1750 1682
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 52.06% 48.29% 42.54%
Number of salaries quoted 1954 1598 1559
Average salary £35,000 £33,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.06% +1.53%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £24,500 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £47,500 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Application Packaging
North West

Application Packaging
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Application Packaging across the Manchester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Manchester Application Packaging Jobs Demand Trend

Application Packaging
Salary Trend

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

Manchester Application Packaging Salary Trend

Application Packaging
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Application Packaging within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Wigan - 1 £27,000 -
Application Packaging
North West

Application Packaging
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester region citing Application Packaging 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 Application Packaging.

1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows XP
1 2 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) Ethernet
2 1 (50.00%) VPN
2 1 (50.00%) Fat Client
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) Windows 7
2 1 (50.00%) Capacity Management
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) Wireless
2 1 (50.00%) SurfControl
2 1 (50.00%) IP Telephony
2 1 (50.00%) Asset Management
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) Dell
2 1 (50.00%) EMC
2 1 (50.00%) Intel
2 1 (50.00%) Citrix
2 1 (50.00%) SAN
2 1 (50.00%) Thin Client
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (50.00%) ISA Server
2 1 (50.00%) Blackberry
2 1 (50.00%) Websense
2 1 (50.00%) Broadband
2 1 (50.00%) LAN

Application Packaging
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester region citing Application Packaging 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 Application Packaging. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 2 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) Ethernet
2 1 (50.00%) VPN
2 1 (50.00%) Wireless
2 1 (50.00%) IP Telephony
2 1 (50.00%) SAN
2 1 (50.00%) Broadband
2 1 (50.00%) LAN
2 1 (50.00%) VoIP
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Desktop Support
2 1 (50.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) 3rd Line Support
2 1 (50.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Desktop Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Fat Client
1 1 (50.00%) Thin Client
1 1 (50.00%) Blackberry
1 1 (50.00%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows XP
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) Windows 7
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Capacity Management
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (50.00%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) VBScript
1 1 (50.00%) VB
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) ISA Server
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) SurfControl
2 1 (50.00%) Dell
2 1 (50.00%) EMC
2 1 (50.00%) Intel
2 1 (50.00%) Citrix
2 1 (50.00%) Websense