The first table below looks at the demand for Internet skills in IT jobs advertised for the Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Internet over the 3 months to 17 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 Communications & Networking category for the Midlands region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Internet
Rank 22 32 28
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -4
Permanent jobs citing Internet 5 9 13
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the Midlands 2.500% 2.903% 4.407%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.13% 14.29% 20.31%
Number of salaries quoted 3 9 5
Average salary £25,000 £40,500 £80,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-38.27% -49.37%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,200 £40,500 £57,000
10% offered a salary of more than £49,000 £40,500 £85,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All Communications & Networking
Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
31 63 64
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the Midlands 15.50% 20.32% 21.69%
Number of salaries quoted 17 63 39
Average salary £55,000 £55,000 £46,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +18.91%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £40,500 £40,000
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £65,250 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
Internet
England

Internet
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Internet across the Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Midlands Internet Jobs Demand Trend

Internet
Salary Trend

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

Midlands Internet Salary Trend

Internet
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Internet across the Midlands region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Midlands Internet Salary Histogram

Internet
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Midlands region citing Internet 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 Internet.

1 5 (45.45%) UNIX
1 5 (45.45%) Microsoft
1 5 (45.45%) BMC
1 5 (45.45%) Middleware
1 5 (45.45%) Opalis
1 5 (45.45%) BladeLogic
2 4 (36.36%) Degree
2 4 (36.36%) MySQL
3 3 (27.27%) Windows
3 3 (27.27%) MS Excel
4 2 (18.18%) OOD
4 2 (18.18%) SOA
4 2 (18.18%) HPUX
4 2 (18.18%) Linux
4 2 (18.18%) OO
4 2 (18.18%) Apache
4 2 (18.18%) Oracle
4 2 (18.18%) HTML
4 2 (18.18%) Java
4 2 (18.18%) Perl
4 2 (18.18%) CSS
4 2 (18.18%) Waterfall
4 2 (18.18%) Computer Science
4 2 (18.18%) Velocity
4 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
4 2 (18.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (18.18%) Git (software)
4 2 (18.18%) Finance
4 2 (18.18%) Scrum
4 2 (18.18%) Requirements Management

Internet
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Midlands region citing Internet 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 Internet. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (45.45%) Middleware
2 2 (18.18%) Velocity
2 2 (18.18%) HTML
2 2 (18.18%) CSS
3 1 (9.091%) LINQ
Application Platforms
1 2 (18.18%) Apache
Applications
1 3 (27.27%) MS Excel
2 1 (9.091%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.091%) LAN
1 1 (9.091%) VoIP
1 1 (9.091%) WAN
1 1 (9.091%) DHCP
1 1 (9.091%) TCP/IP
1 1 (9.091%) SAN
1 1 (9.091%) Firewall
1 1 (9.091%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Git (software)
General
1 2 (18.18%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (18.18%) Graduate
1 2 (18.18%) Developer
1 2 (18.18%) Web Developer
1 2 (18.18%) Support Engineer
1 2 (18.18%) Administrator
1 2 (18.18%) UNIX Systems Administrator
1 2 (18.18%) UNIX Administrator
1 2 (18.18%) Systems Administrator
1 2 (18.18%) Requirements Engineer
2 1 (9.091%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (9.091%) IT Graduate
2 1 (9.091%) Consultant
2 1 (9.091%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Computer Science
2 1 (9.091%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (9.091%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 5 (45.45%) UNIX
2 3 (27.27%) Windows
3 2 (18.18%) HPUX
3 2 (18.18%) Linux
3 2 (18.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (9.091%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (18.18%) OO
1 2 (18.18%) OOD
1 2 (18.18%) SOA
1 2 (18.18%) Scrum
1 2 (18.18%) Requirements Management
1 2 (18.18%) Web Development
1 2 (18.18%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) Java
1 2 (18.18%) Perl
1 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.091%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (9.091%) Active Directory
1 1 (9.091%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) BladeLogic
1 5 (45.45%) Opalis
2 1 (9.091%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Microsoft
1 5 (45.45%) BMC
2 2 (18.18%) Oracle
3 1 (9.091%) VMware
3 1 (9.091%) HP