The first table below looks at the demand for the IT Graduate role in IT jobs advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited IT Graduate in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised for the Manchester region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IT Graduate
Rank - - 160
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Graduate 0 0 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester - - 0.253%
As % of the Job Titles category - - 0.264%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 10
Average salary - - £19,000
UK excluding London average salary £22,750 £22,500 £22,500
% change year-on-year
+1.11% -
All Job Titles
Manchester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
3913 3494 3793
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 95.56% 96.41% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 3384 3103 3469
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
90% offered a salary of more than £23,500 £23,000 £21,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £56,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
IT Graduate
North West

IT Graduate
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester IT Graduate Jobs Demand Trend

IT Graduate
Salary Trend

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

Manchester IT Graduate Salary Trend

IT Graduate
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester region that cited IT 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 IT Graduate in their job title.

1 5 (71.43%) Windows
1 5 (71.43%) Computer Science
2 4 (57.14%) CakePHP
2 4 (57.14%) jQuery
2 4 (57.14%) Ajax
2 4 (57.14%) NoSQL
2 4 (57.14%) Web Application Development
2 4 (57.14%) XML
2 4 (57.14%) PHP
2 4 (57.14%) MySQL
2 4 (57.14%) Linux
3 1 (14.29%) Windows 2000
3 1 (14.29%) MS Excel
3 1 (14.29%) DHCP
3 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
3 1 (14.29%) VPN
3 1 (14.29%) DNS
3 1 (14.29%) RDBMS
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (14.29%) Symantec
3 1 (14.29%) Norton AntiVirus
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle
3 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
3 1 (14.29%) MS Office
3 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
3 1 (14.29%) VB
3 1 (14.29%) VB.NET

IT Graduate
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester region that cited IT 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 IT Graduate in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (57.14%) CakePHP
1 4 (57.14%) jQuery
1 4 (57.14%) Ajax
1 4 (57.14%) XML
2 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET
2 1 (14.29%) .NET
2 1 (14.29%) J2EE
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) MS Excel
1 1 (14.29%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) DHCP
1 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
1 1 (14.29%) VPN
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) NoSQL
1 4 (57.14%) MySQL
2 1 (14.29%) RDBMS
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Computer Science
2 1 (14.29%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Windows
2 4 (57.14%) Linux
3 1 (14.29%) Windows 2000
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) PHP
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) VB
2 1 (14.29%) VB.NET
2 1 (14.29%) C#
2 1 (14.29%) C++
2 1 (14.29%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 1 (14.29%) Symantec
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle