The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Billing in IT jobs advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Billing 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 terms in our General category for the North West region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Billing
Rank 215 220 144
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -76
Permanent jobs citing Billing 28 27 95
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 0.390% 0.380% 1.383%
As % of the General category 1.059% 1.113% 4.312%
Number of salaries quoted 24 22 58
Average salary £36,750 £25,750 £34,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+42.71% -25.36%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £21,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £39,850 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year
+6.25% -11.11%
All of the General Category
North West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
2643 2426 2203
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 36.78% 34.18% 32.08%
Number of salaries quoted 2109 2070 1868
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £39,290
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -4.55%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £24,650 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £63,000 £67,500 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- +3.65%
Billing
England

Billing
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Billing across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

North West Billing Jobs Demand Trend

Billing
Salary Trend

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

North West Billing Salary Trend

Billing
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Billing across the North West region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

North West Billing Salary Histogram

Billing
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Billing within the North West 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
Cheshire +16 17 £32,000 +33.33%
Manchester -29 7 £42,500 +60.37%
Lancashire +2 3 £36,000 +44.00%
Billing
England

Billing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West region citing Billing 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 Billing.

1 27 (50.94%) SQL
2 23 (43.40%) Finance
3 22 (41.51%) Telecoms
4 17 (32.08%) Business Intelligence
5 14 (26.42%) SQL Server
5 14 (26.42%) Windows
6 13 (24.53%) Linux
6 13 (24.53%) Cognos
7 12 (22.64%) Project Management
8 11 (20.75%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (18.87%) Microsoft
9 10 (18.87%) ITIL
9 10 (18.87%) C
10 9 (16.98%) SLA
11 8 (15.09%) MS Excel
11 8 (15.09%) MySQL
11 8 (15.09%) IIS
11 8 (15.09%) Analytics
12 7 (13.21%) SQL Server 2005
12 7 (13.21%) T-SQL
12 7 (13.21%) PHP
13 6 (11.32%) C++
13 6 (11.32%) Oracle
13 6 (11.32%) Business Objects
13 6 (11.32%) Perl
13 6 (11.32%) Apache
13 6 (11.32%) MS Exchange
13 6 (11.32%) SOA
13 6 (11.32%) Cisco
13 6 (11.32%) SAS

Billing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West region citing Billing 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 Billing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (9.434%) XML
1 5 (9.434%) CSS
1 5 (9.434%) .NET
2 4 (7.547%) ASP.NET
2 4 (7.547%) XHTML
2 4 (7.547%) CGI
3 3 (5.660%) HTML
4 2 (3.774%) J2EE
4 2 (3.774%) SOAP
4 2 (3.774%) Web Services
4 2 (3.774%) JMS
4 2 (3.774%) Hibernate
4 2 (3.774%) JSF
4 2 (3.774%) JBoss Seam
4 2 (3.774%) Drools
4 2 (3.774%) jBPM
4 2 (3.774%) Ajax
4 2 (3.774%) RichFaces
4 2 (3.774%) REST
5 1 (1.887%) Apache Flex
Application Platforms
1 8 (15.09%) IIS
2 6 (11.32%) Apache
2 6 (11.32%) MS Exchange
2 6 (11.32%) SAS
3 4 (7.547%) SharePoint
4 2 (3.774%) ESB
4 2 (3.774%) Apache Solr
5 1 (1.887%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (1.887%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (15.09%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.887%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 6 (11.32%) assyst
2 5 (9.434%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (7.547%) Oracle 11i
3 4 (7.547%) Oracle Applications
3 4 (7.547%) Oracle EBS R12
3 4 (7.547%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (7.547%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (3.774%) Cognos Business Intelligence
5 1 (1.887%) SAP IS-U
5 1 (1.887%) SAP PM
5 1 (1.887%) SAP SD
Communications & Networking
1 6 (11.32%) VoIP
1 6 (11.32%) DNS
1 6 (11.32%) SSH
1 6 (11.32%) TACACS
1 6 (11.32%) Firewall
1 6 (11.32%) MRTG
2 2 (3.774%) Internet
3 1 (1.887%) Extranet
3 1 (1.887%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (26.42%) SQL Server
2 11 (20.75%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (15.09%) MySQL
4 7 (13.21%) SQL Server 2005
5 6 (11.32%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (9.434%) Crystal Reports
7 2 (3.774%) MS Access
7 2 (3.774%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (3.774%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (1.887%) DB2
Development Applications
1 6 (11.32%) Subversion
2 2 (3.774%) JUnit
2 2 (3.774%) Maven
2 2 (3.774%) CruiseControl
3 1 (1.887%) Hudson
3 1 (1.887%) JIRA
General
1 23 (43.40%) Finance
2 22 (41.51%) Telecoms
3 4 (7.547%) General Ledger
4 2 (3.774%) Legal
4 2 (3.774%) Local Government
5 1 (1.887%) Marketing
5 1 (1.887%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 13 (24.53%) Developer
2 12 (22.64%) Consultant
3 9 (16.98%) Analyst
3 9 (16.98%) Incident Manager
4 6 (11.32%) Business Consultant
4 6 (11.32%) Service Manager
5 5 (9.434%) Senior Developer
6 4 (7.547%) Functional Consultant
6 4 (7.547%) .NET Developer
6 4 (7.547%) Oracle Consultant
6 4 (7.547%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 4 (7.547%) Crystal Reports Developer
6 4 (7.547%) Senior Crystal Reports Developer
6 4 (7.547%) Software Developer
6 4 (7.547%) .NET Software Developer
6 4 (7.547%) E-Business Consultant
6 4 (7.547%) Report Developer
7 3 (5.660%) Major Incident Manager
7 3 (5.660%) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer
7 3 (5.660%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (1.887%) Computer Science
1 1 (1.887%) Management Information System
1 1 (1.887%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 14 (26.42%) Windows
2 13 (24.53%) Linux
3 6 (11.32%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (32.08%) Business Intelligence
2 12 (22.64%) Project Management
3 10 (18.87%) ITIL
4 8 (15.09%) Analytics
5 6 (11.32%) SOA
5 6 (11.32%) Time Management
5 6 (11.32%) Data Transformation
5 6 (11.32%) Customer Insight
6 5 (9.434%) ERP
6 5 (9.434%) PRINCE2
7 4 (7.547%) SSADM
7 4 (7.547%) CRM
7 4 (7.547%) Supply Chain Management
7 4 (7.547%) Six Sigma
7 4 (7.547%) GAP Analysis
7 4 (7.547%) Cash Management
7 4 (7.547%) Business Transformation
7 4 (7.547%) Performance Management
7 4 (7.547%) Use Case
7 4 (7.547%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 27 (50.94%) SQL
2 10 (18.87%) C
3 7 (13.21%) T-SQL
3 7 (13.21%) PHP
4 6 (11.32%) C++
4 6 (11.32%) Perl
5 5 (9.434%) PL/SQL
6 4 (7.547%) VB.NET
7 3 (5.660%) Java
7 3 (5.660%) JavaScript
8 2 (3.774%) VBA
9 1 (1.887%) RPG
9 1 (1.887%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (7.547%) ITIL Certification
1 4 (7.547%) ACCA
1 4 (7.547%) CIMA
2 3 (5.660%) Degree
3 1 (1.887%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.887%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (16.98%) SLA
2 1 (1.887%) QA
System Software
1 6 (11.32%) NFS
1 6 (11.32%) Active Directory
1 6 (11.32%) Sendmail
1 6 (11.32%) SpamAssassin
1 6 (11.32%) FreeRADIUS
Systems Management
1 6 (11.32%) OpenView
1 6 (11.32%) Nagios
1 6 (11.32%) Cacti
1 6 (11.32%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 13 (24.53%) Cognos
2 10 (18.87%) Microsoft
3 6 (11.32%) Oracle
3 6 (11.32%) Business Objects
3 6 (11.32%) Cisco
3 6 (11.32%) HP
3 6 (11.32%) SolarWinds
4 4 (7.547%) CA
5 2 (3.774%) SAP
5 2 (3.774%) JBoss
6 1 (1.887%) Northgate
6 1 (1.887%) Perforce
Warrington, North West
Incident Analyst, Incident Manager, Major Incident Manager, ITIL, Software, Bespoke Software house, Telecoms, Telecoms Software, Billing Software, Application Support, SQL, UNIX... They are looking for someone from a...
Salary: £24000 - £26000 per annum + Bonus
Posted: 20 May 2013
Warrington, Cheshire
Incident Analyst, Incident Manager, Major Incident Manager, ITIL, Software, Bespoke Software house, Telecoms, Telecoms Software, Billing Software, Application Support, SQL, UNIX... They are looking for someone from a...
Ascent People Ltd
Salary: £24000 - £26000 per annum + Bonus
Posted: 19 May 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
Up to £28k + Commission and Benefits and Incentives Central Manchester- Immediate Start Oil and Gas Sector covering Drilling and Completions, Engineering, HSE, Geo-Science WORLDWIDE. The Company Voted...
Timothy James Consulting Ltd
Salary: £21000 - £28000 per annum + Commission and Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Warrington, North West
They are looking for a talented BI Analyst / Customer facing / Operation / SQL to join their dynamic Head office team... Key experiences needed for the BI Analyst / Customer facing /...
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + bonus + benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Warrington, Cheshire
BI Analyst, Client facing / customer focused, SQL, Business Intelligence, MI Analyst, operations, insight, forecasting, modelling, segmenting, Revenue Assurance, Fraud detection, financial transaction units, SQL, SAS, Business Analyst, Business...
Ascent People Ltd
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + bonus + benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
Clear Road Map for career aspirations provided prior to joining our company to help shape your career within the business. Established business working on a WARM desk... Voted...
Timothy James Consulting Ltd
Salary: £28000 - £40000 per annum + Commission, Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Warrington, North West
They are currently implementing a new finance order and billing provisioning system and are looking for a highly experienced consultant to deliver a new Cognos Management Information analytical...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £35000.00 - £40000.00 per annum
Posted: 11 May 2013
Wilmslow, North West
Major Incident Manager, Incident Manager, Service Desk, Software, Bespoke software, Telecoms, Telecoms software, ITIL, SQL, Billing software, Application Software... Ideally you will be ITIL qualified or will at...
Salary: £24000 - £28000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Wilmslow, Cheshire
Major Incident Manager, Incident Manager, Service Desk, Software, Bespoke software, Telecoms, Telecoms software, ITIL, SQL, Billing software, Application Software... Ideally you will be ITIL qualified or will at...
Ascent People Ltd
Salary: £24000 - £28000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 19 May 2013
Warrington, North West
Major Incident Manager, Incident Manager, Service Desk, Software, Bespoke software, Telecoms, Telecoms software, ITIL, SQL, Billing software, Application Software... Ideally you will be ITIL qualified or will at...
Salary: £26000 - £32000 per annum + bonus
Posted: 24 May 2013
Warrington, North West
Job Title: Cognos Developer, Warrington, £35,000 - £40,000My client are looking for an experienced Cognos Consultant Developer to join their organisation in a permanent role. They are...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £35000.00 - £40000.00 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
Warrington, Cheshire
Job Title: Cognos Developer, Warrington, £35,000 - £40,000 My client are looking for an experienced Cognos Consultant Developer to join their organisation in a permanent role. They...
HAYS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Salary: £35000.00 - £40000.00 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013