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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Graduate
Rank 59 74 -
Rank change year-on-year
+15 -
Permanent jobs requiring a Graduate 2 8 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Merseyside 0.447% 1.189% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.461% 1.223% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 7 0
Average salary £22,500 £20,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+9.75% -
UK excluding London average salary £22,500 £23,000 £22,500
% change year-on-year
-2.17% +2.22%
All Job Titles
Merseyside
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
434 654 449
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Merseyside 97.09% 97.18% 96.98%
Number of salaries quoted 364 583 368
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £37,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £25,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Graduate
North West

Graduate
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Merseyside Graduate Jobs Demand Trend

Graduate
Salary Trend

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

Merseyside Graduate Salary Trend

Graduate
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Graduate within the Merseyside 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
Liverpool +14 1 £22,000 +4.76%
Graduate
North West

Graduate
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 6 (100.00%) Computer Science
2 5 (83.33%) Degree
3 4 (66.67%) Physics
4 3 (50.00%) Front Office
4 3 (50.00%) Finance
5 2 (33.33%) SQL
5 2 (33.33%) PhD
5 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
5 2 (33.33%) Telecoms
6 1 (16.67%) Mathematics
6 1 (16.67%) Apple
6 1 (16.67%) Middleware
6 1 (16.67%) C
6 1 (16.67%) C#
6 1 (16.67%) HTML
6 1 (16.67%) Java
6 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
6 1 (16.67%) PL/SQL
6 1 (16.67%) T-SQL
6 1 (16.67%) VB
6 1 (16.67%) VBA
6 1 (16.67%) .NET
6 1 (16.67%) J2EE
6 1 (16.67%) Oracle
6 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
6 1 (16.67%) CSS
6 1 (16.67%) Linux
6 1 (16.67%) Oracle 8/8i
6 1 (16.67%) MS Access
6 1 (16.67%) Hibernate

Graduate
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (16.67%) Middleware
1 1 (16.67%) HTML
1 1 (16.67%) .NET
1 1 (16.67%) J2EE
1 1 (16.67%) CSS
1 1 (16.67%) Hibernate
1 1 (16.67%) Spring
1 1 (16.67%) Ruby on Rails
1 1 (16.67%) WebSphere
1 1 (16.67%) .NET Framework
1 1 (16.67%) Java EE
1 1 (16.67%) WCF
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (16.67%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle 8/8i
1 1 (16.67%) MS Access
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Xcode
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle APEX
1 1 (16.67%) MyEclipse
General
1 3 (50.00%) Front Office
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Computer Science
2 4 (66.67%) Physics
3 1 (16.67%) Mathematics
3 1 (16.67%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Android
1 1 (16.67%) Mac OS
1 1 (16.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (16.67%) Data Analysis
1 1 (16.67%) Logistics
1 1 (16.67%) Web Development
1 1 (16.67%) Mobile Application Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) C
2 1 (16.67%) C#
2 1 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (16.67%) PL/SQL
2 1 (16.67%) T-SQL
2 1 (16.67%) VB
2 1 (16.67%) VBA
2 1 (16.67%) Objective-C
2 1 (16.67%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) Degree
2 2 (33.33%) PhD
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Apple
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle
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