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 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 General category for the North West region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Billing
Rank 222 209 142
Rank change year-on-year
-13 -67
Permanent jobs citing Billing 27 27 96
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 0.378% 0.379% 1.374%
As % of the General category 1.037% 1.112% 4.255%
Number of salaries quoted 23 22 59
Average salary £36,000 £25,750 £34,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+39.80% -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
2604 2428 2256
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 36.44% 34.12% 32.30%
Number of salaries quoted 2074 2073 1905
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £39,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -3.84%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £24,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £64,000 £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 23 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 23 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 +18 16 £32,000 +33.33%
Manchester -24 7 £42,500 +60.37%
Lancashire +3 3 £36,000 +44.00%
Billing
England

Billing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 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 26 (49.06%) SQL
2 22 (41.51%) Finance
3 21 (39.62%) Telecoms
4 16 (30.19%) Business Intelligence
5 15 (28.30%) Windows
6 14 (26.42%) SQL Server
7 13 (24.53%) Linux
7 13 (24.53%) Project Management
8 12 (22.64%) Cognos
9 10 (18.87%) 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%) PHP
11 8 (15.09%) MySQL
11 8 (15.09%) IIS
12 7 (13.21%) Perl
12 7 (13.21%) T-SQL
12 7 (13.21%) SQL Server 2005
12 7 (13.21%) Time Management
12 7 (13.21%) Analytics
13 6 (11.32%) Cacti
13 6 (11.32%) Sendmail
13 6 (11.32%) SolarWinds
13 6 (11.32%) SolarWinds Orion
13 6 (11.32%) SpamAssassin
13 6 (11.32%) MRTG
13 6 (11.32%) FreeRADIUS

Billing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 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%) .NET
1 5 (9.434%) CSS
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%) jBPM
4 2 (3.774%) Ajax
4 2 (3.774%) JBoss Seam
4 2 (3.774%) Drools
4 2 (3.774%) RichFaces
4 2 (3.774%) REST
4 2 (3.774%) JSF
4 2 (3.774%) Hibernate
4 2 (3.774%) J2EE
4 2 (3.774%) SOAP
4 2 (3.774%) Web Services
4 2 (3.774%) JMS
5 1 (1.887%) Apache Flex
Application Platforms
1 8 (15.09%) IIS
2 6 (11.32%) Apache
2 6 (11.32%) MS Exchange
3 5 (9.434%) SAS
4 4 (7.547%) SharePoint
5 2 (3.774%) ESB
5 2 (3.774%) Apache Solr
6 1 (1.887%) Confluence
6 1 (1.887%) SharePoint 2010
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%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (7.547%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (7.547%) Oracle EBS R12
3 4 (7.547%) Oracle Applications
3 4 (7.547%) Oracle 11i
4 2 (3.774%) Cognos Business Intelligence
5 1 (1.887%) SAP SD
5 1 (1.887%) SAP PM
5 1 (1.887%) SAP IS-U
Communications & Networking
1 6 (11.32%) MRTG
1 6 (11.32%) SSH
1 6 (11.32%) TACACS
1 6 (11.32%) Firewall
1 6 (11.32%) VoIP
1 6 (11.32%) DNS
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 10 (18.87%) 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%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (3.774%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (3.774%) MS Access
8 1 (1.887%) DB2
Development Applications
1 6 (11.32%) Subversion
2 2 (3.774%) CruiseControl
2 2 (3.774%) Maven
2 2 (3.774%) JUnit
3 1 (1.887%) Hudson
3 1 (1.887%) JIRA
General
1 22 (41.51%) Finance
2 21 (39.62%) Telecoms
3 4 (7.547%) General Ledger
4 2 (3.774%) Local Government
4 2 (3.774%) Legal
5 1 (1.887%) Automotive
5 1 (1.887%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 13 (24.53%) Developer
2 12 (22.64%) Consultant
3 9 (16.98%) Incident Manager
4 8 (15.09%) Analyst
5 7 (13.21%) Service Manager
6 6 (11.32%) Business Consultant
7 5 (9.434%) Senior Developer
8 4 (7.547%) .NET Software Developer
8 4 (7.547%) E-Business Consultant
8 4 (7.547%) Report Developer
8 4 (7.547%) Software Developer
8 4 (7.547%) Crystal Reports Developer
8 4 (7.547%) Senior Crystal Reports Developer
8 4 (7.547%) Functional Consultant
8 4 (7.547%) .NET Developer
8 4 (7.547%) Oracle Consultant
9 3 (5.660%) VB.NET Developer
9 3 (5.660%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 3 (5.660%) Support Analyst
9 3 (5.660%) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (1.887%) Client/Server
1 1 (1.887%) Management Information System
1 1 (1.887%) Open Source
1 1 (1.887%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 15 (28.30%) Windows
2 13 (24.53%) Linux
3 6 (11.32%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (30.19%) Business Intelligence
2 13 (24.53%) Project Management
3 10 (18.87%) ITIL
4 7 (13.21%) Time Management
4 7 (13.21%) Analytics
5 6 (11.32%) SOA
6 5 (9.434%) ERP
6 5 (9.434%) PRINCE2
6 5 (9.434%) Data Transformation
6 5 (9.434%) Customer Insight
7 4 (7.547%) Business Transformation
7 4 (7.547%) Cash Management
7 4 (7.547%) Requirements Analysis
7 4 (7.547%) Performance Management
7 4 (7.547%) Use Case
7 4 (7.547%) Release Management
7 4 (7.547%) GAP Analysis
7 4 (7.547%) Data Management
7 4 (7.547%) Supply Chain Management
7 4 (7.547%) SSADM
Programming Languages
1 26 (49.06%) SQL
2 10 (18.87%) C
3 8 (15.09%) PHP
4 7 (13.21%) Perl
4 7 (13.21%) T-SQL
5 6 (11.32%) C++
6 5 (9.434%) PL/SQL
7 4 (7.547%) VB.NET
8 3 (5.660%) Java
8 3 (5.660%) JavaScript
9 2 (3.774%) VBA
10 1 (1.887%) RPG
10 1 (1.887%) C#
10 1 (1.887%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 4 (7.547%) Degree
1 4 (7.547%) CIMA
1 4 (7.547%) ACCA
1 4 (7.547%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (1.887%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.887%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (16.98%) SLA
2 1 (1.887%) QA
System Software
1 6 (11.32%) Sendmail
1 6 (11.32%) SpamAssassin
1 6 (11.32%) FreeRADIUS
1 6 (11.32%) Active Directory
1 6 (11.32%) NFS
Systems Management
1 6 (11.32%) Cacti
1 6 (11.32%) SolarWinds Orion
1 6 (11.32%) Nagios
1 6 (11.32%) OpenView
Vendors
1 12 (22.64%) Cognos
2 10 (18.87%) Microsoft
3 6 (11.32%) SolarWinds
3 6 (11.32%) Oracle
3 6 (11.32%) Cisco
3 6 (11.32%) HP
4 5 (9.434%) Business Objects
5 4 (7.547%) CA
6 2 (3.774%) SAP
6 2 (3.774%) JBoss
7 1 (1.887%) Perforce
7 1 (1.887%) Northgate
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
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