The first table below looks at the demand for Business Process Improvement skills in IT jobs advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Business Process Improvement 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category for the North West region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Business Process Improvement (BPI)
Rank 236 236 216
Rank change year-on-year
0 -20
Permanent jobs citing Business Process Improvement 7 11 18
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 0.097% 0.155% 0.262%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.127% 0.211% 0.383%
Number of salaries quoted 7 9 15
Average salary £71,356 £47,500 £63,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+50.22% -24.60%
UK excluding London average salary £50,000 £42,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year
+17.64% -15.00%
All Processes & Methodologies
North West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
5523 5209 4697
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 76.87% 73.39% 68.40%
Number of salaries quoted 4625 4554 4125
Average salary £37,500 £36,500 £38,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.73% -5.19%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £25,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,500 £57,500 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Business Process Improvement
England

Business Process Improvement
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Business Process Improvement across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

North West Business Process Improvement Jobs Demand Trend

Business Process Improvement
Salary Trend

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

North West Business Process Improvement Salary Trend

Business Process Improvement
Salary Histogram

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

North West Business Process Improvement Salary Histogram

Business Process Improvement
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Business Process Improvement 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
Manchester -19 6 £71,356 +42.71%
Cheshire +2 1 £60,000 +166.66%
Business Process Improvement
England

Business Process Improvement
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 7 (41.18%) Six Sigma
1 7 (41.18%) Project Management
2 6 (35.29%) BPR
2 6 (35.29%) ITIL
2 6 (35.29%) Zachman Framework
2 6 (35.29%) TOGAF
2 6 (35.29%) Enterprise Architecture
2 6 (35.29%) Requirements Analysis
2 6 (35.29%) Process Improvement
3 5 (29.41%) Finance
4 3 (17.65%) Oracle BPM
4 3 (17.65%) Oracle
5 2 (11.76%) Process Management
5 2 (11.76%) Adobe
5 2 (11.76%) Pega
5 2 (11.76%) Business Transformation
5 2 (11.76%) Lombardi
5 2 (11.76%) Metastorm
6 1 (5.882%) MySQL
6 1 (5.882%) Agile Software Development
6 1 (5.882%) Retail
6 1 (5.882%) BPEL
6 1 (5.882%) Business Analysis
6 1 (5.882%) Technical Architecture
6 1 (5.882%) XPath
6 1 (5.882%) Life Science
6 1 (5.882%) Oracle 11g
6 1 (5.882%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (5.882%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (5.882%) Oracle Service Bus

Business Process Improvement
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (5.882%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (5.882%) Middleware
1 1 (5.882%) SOAP
1 1 (5.882%) Web Services
1 1 (5.882%) XML
1 1 (5.882%) XSD
1 1 (5.882%) XSLT
1 1 (5.882%) WSDL
Application Platforms
1 1 (5.882%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 1 (5.882%) Oracle Service Bus
1 1 (5.882%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (5.882%) MS Excel
1 1 (5.882%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (5.882%) Oracle EBS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.882%) MySQL
1 1 (5.882%) Oracle 11g
1 1 (5.882%) SQL Server
1 1 (5.882%) Oracle 8/8i
General
1 5 (29.41%) Finance
2 1 (5.882%) Retail
2 1 (5.882%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (5.882%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 9 (52.94%) Architect
2 6 (35.29%) Business Architect
3 4 (23.53%) Head of Architecture
3 4 (23.53%) Head of IT
4 3 (17.65%) Transformation Programme Manager
4 3 (17.65%) Programme Manager
5 2 (11.76%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (11.76%) Business Transformation Manager
5 2 (11.76%) Business Manager
6 1 (5.882%) Lead Architect
6 1 (5.882%) Business Improvement Consultant
6 1 (5.882%) Consultant
6 1 (5.882%) Business Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.882%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) Six Sigma
1 7 (41.18%) Project Management
2 6 (35.29%) BPR
2 6 (35.29%) ITIL
2 6 (35.29%) Zachman Framework
2 6 (35.29%) TOGAF
2 6 (35.29%) Enterprise Architecture
2 6 (35.29%) Requirements Analysis
2 6 (35.29%) Process Improvement
3 2 (11.76%) Process Management
3 2 (11.76%) Business Transformation
4 1 (5.882%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (5.882%) BPEL
4 1 (5.882%) Business Analysis
4 1 (5.882%) Technical Architecture
4 1 (5.882%) Migration
4 1 (5.882%) EAI
4 1 (5.882%) SOA
4 1 (5.882%) B2B
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.882%) XPath
1 1 (5.882%) XQuery
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.882%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Oracle
2 2 (11.76%) Adobe
2 2 (11.76%) Pega
2 2 (11.76%) Lombardi
2 2 (11.76%) Metastorm
3 1 (5.882%) Cognizant
3 1 (5.882%) Microsoft
Manchester, Lancashire
Experience of using enterprise architecture frameworks (TOGAF, Zachman), architecture patters and designs and using architecture tools and repositories... Experience of project management and business process improvement methodologies such...
The Guinness Partnership
Salary: From £58,353 to £61,424 per annum
Posted: 9 May 2013