The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term SaaS in IT jobs advertised for the Newcastle upon Tyne region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SaaS over the 3 months to 23 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 terms in our Miscellaneous category for the Newcastle upon Tyne region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software as a Service (SaaS)
Rank 57 33 48
Rank change year-on-year
-24 +15
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 3 19 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Newcastle upon Tyne 0.622% 4.185% 0.242%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.093% 15.20% 0.746%
Number of salaries quoted 3 19 1
Average salary £48,000 £67,500 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-28.88% +125.00%
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
- +5.88%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Newcastle upon Tyne
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
97 125 134
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Newcastle upon Tyne 20.12% 27.53% 32.37%
Number of salaries quoted 80 114 120
Average salary £33,000 £35,000 £31,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.71% +11.11%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,060 £17,000
10% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £45,000 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +6.66%
SaaS
Tyne and Wear

SaaS
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing SaaS across the Newcastle upon Tyne region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Newcastle upon Tyne SaaS Jobs Demand Trend

SaaS
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing SaaS across the Newcastle upon Tyne region.

Newcastle upon Tyne SaaS Salary Trend

SaaS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Newcastle upon Tyne region citing SaaS 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 SaaS.

1 6 (46.15%) .NET
1 6 (46.15%) ASP.NET
2 5 (38.46%) CISSP
2 5 (38.46%) CISA
2 5 (38.46%) CISM
2 5 (38.46%) Information Security
2 5 (38.46%) Penetration Testing
3 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
4 3 (23.08%) NHS
4 3 (23.08%) CSS
4 3 (23.08%) SQL Server
4 3 (23.08%) C
4 3 (23.08%) C#
4 3 (23.08%) JavaScript
4 3 (23.08%) SQL
4 3 (23.08%) VB.NET
4 3 (23.08%) Computer Science
4 3 (23.08%) Information Management
4 3 (23.08%) Degree
5 2 (15.38%) Refactoring
5 2 (15.38%) jQuery
5 2 (15.38%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (15.38%) Open Source
5 2 (15.38%) ASP.NET MVC
5 2 (15.38%) HTML5
5 2 (15.38%) WebGL
5 2 (15.38%) WebSockets
5 2 (15.38%) ASP.NET MVC 3
5 2 (15.38%) SignalR
5 2 (15.38%) Enterprise Software

SaaS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Newcastle upon Tyne region citing SaaS 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 SaaS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (46.15%) .NET
1 6 (46.15%) ASP.NET
2 3 (23.08%) CSS
3 2 (15.38%) jQuery
3 2 (15.38%) ASP.NET MVC
3 2 (15.38%) HTML5
3 2 (15.38%) WebGL
3 2 (15.38%) WebSockets
3 2 (15.38%) ASP.NET MVC 3
3 2 (15.38%) SignalR
3 2 (15.38%) OpenGL
Application Platforms
1 2 (15.38%) IIS
2 1 (7.692%) Windows Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.692%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (7.692%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 2 (15.38%) Finance
2 1 (7.692%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Security Specialist
1 5 (38.46%) Information Security Specialist
1 5 (38.46%) Information Specialist
2 3 (23.08%) Graduate
2 3 (23.08%) Graduate Software Developer
2 3 (23.08%) Graduate Developer
2 3 (23.08%) Software Developer
2 3 (23.08%) Developer
3 2 (15.38%) .NET Team Leader
3 2 (15.38%) Team Leader
4 1 (7.692%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (7.692%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (7.692%) Applications Support
4 1 (7.692%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) NHS
1 3 (23.08%) Computer Science
2 2 (15.38%) Open Source
2 2 (15.38%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.692%) Windows
1 1 (7.692%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Information Security
1 5 (38.46%) Penetration Testing
2 3 (23.08%) Information Management
3 2 (15.38%) Refactoring
3 2 (15.38%) MVC
3 2 (15.38%) Scrum
3 2 (15.38%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (15.38%) TDD
4 1 (7.692%) Project Management
4 1 (7.692%) Infrastructure Management
4 1 (7.692%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) C
1 3 (23.08%) C#
1 3 (23.08%) JavaScript
1 3 (23.08%) SQL
1 3 (23.08%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) CISSP
1 5 (38.46%) CISA
1 5 (38.46%) CISM
2 3 (23.08%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.692%) QA
System Software
1 1 (7.692%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.692%) Citrix
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