North West MBA Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Master of Business Administration (MBA) in IT jobs within the North West region compared to all other Qualifications we currently track. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MBA over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Master of Business Administration (MBA)
Location Bath Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bristol Canary Wharf Cheshire City of London Cobham Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England England Glasgow Hampshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Lancashire London Manchester Middlesex Newbury Newport North West Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Preston Reading Scotland Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West Southampton Stevenage Surrey UK Wales Warrington West Midlands Woking Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	240	257
Rank change on same period last year	+17
Matching permanent IT job ads	14	23
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.010 %
As % of the category below	0.678 %	0.836 %
Salaries quoted	10	23
Average minimum salary	£102,500	£62,292
Average salary	£105,750	£72,479
% change on same period last year	+45.90 %
Average maximum salary	£109,000	£82,667
UK excluding London average salary	£74,293	£69,194
% change on same period last year	+7.36 %
Qualifications North West
Matching permanent IT job ads	2066	2751
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.196 %	1.184 %
Salaries quoted	1801	2394
Average minimum salary	£33,129	£35,277
Average salary	£36,171	£38,761
% change on same period last year	-6.68 %
Average maximum salary	£39,214	£42,245
UK excluding London average salary	£37,889	£38,388
% change on same period last year	-1.29 %
MBA England

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing MBA across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

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Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MBA across the North West region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

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Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MBA within the North West region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Lancashire	+2	2	£48,750	-18.75 %
Cheshire	-14	1	-	-
Manchester	+26	1	£55,000	-40.51 %

MBA England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the North West region citing MBA 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 MBA.

1 11 (52.38 %) Telecoms 2 10 (47.62 %) Finance 2 10 (47.62 %) Programme Management 2 10 (47.62 %) Retail 3 7 (33.33 %) Service Management 3 7 (33.33 %) Manufacturing 3 7 (33.33 %) Stakeholder Management 3 7 (33.33 %) Matrix Management 4 4 (19.05 %) Project Management 4 4 (19.05 %) PRINCE2 4 4 (19.05 %) PRINCE2 Certification 4 4 (19.05 %) Degree 5 3 (14.29 %) Computer Science 5 3 (14.29 %) Supplier Management 5 3 (14.29 %) Red Hat Linux

5 3 (14.29 %) Red Hat 5 3 (14.29 %) Windows 5 3 (14.29 %) Linux 5 3 (14.29 %) Windows 2000 5 3 (14.29 %) Apache 5 3 (14.29 %) XHTML 5 3 (14.29 %) HTML 5 3 (14.29 %) JavaScript 5 3 (14.29 %) Perl 5 3 (14.29 %) SQL 5 3 (14.29 %) MySQL 5 3 (14.29 %) Oracle 5 3 (14.29 %) SQL Server 5 3 (14.29 %) CSS 5 3 (14.29 %) XML

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the North West region citing MBA 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 MBA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 3 (14.29 %) HTML 1 3 (14.29 %) CSS 1 3 (14.29 %) XML 1 3 (14.29 %) XSLT 1 3 (14.29 %) XHTML	Application Platforms 1 3 (14.29 %) Apache
Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (14.29 %) MySQL 1 3 (14.29 %) SQL Server	General 1 11 (52.38 %) Telecoms 2 10 (47.62 %) Finance 2 10 (47.62 %) Retail 3 7 (33.33 %) Manufacturing 4 2 (9.524 %) Banking 5 1 (4.762 %) Education
Job Titles 1 8 (38.10 %) Programme Manager 2 7 (33.33 %) Consultant 2 7 (33.33 %) Management Consultant 3 5 (23.81 %) Project Manager 4 3 (14.29 %) Procurement Manager 5 2 (9.524 %) Senior Project Manager 5 2 (9.524 %) Business Project Manager 5 2 (9.524 %) Business Manager 5 2 (9.524 %) Senior Manager 6 1 (4.762 %) Senior Business Manager 6 1 (4.762 %) Programme Director	Miscellaneous 1 3 (14.29 %) Computer Science 2 1 (4.762 %) Economics
Operating Systems 1 3 (14.29 %) Windows 1 3 (14.29 %) Linux 1 3 (14.29 %) Windows 2000 1 3 (14.29 %) Red Hat Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (47.62 %) Programme Management 2 7 (33.33 %) Matrix Management 2 7 (33.33 %) Service Management 2 7 (33.33 %) Stakeholder Management 3 4 (19.05 %) Project Management 3 4 (19.05 %) PRINCE2 4 3 (14.29 %) Agile Software Development 4 3 (14.29 %) Supplier Management 5 2 (9.524 %) Change Management 6 1 (4.762 %) PRINCE 6 1 (4.762 %) Benchmarking 6 1 (4.762 %) BPR 6 1 (4.762 %) Competitor Analysis
Programming Languages 1 3 (14.29 %) JavaScript 1 3 (14.29 %) Perl 1 3 (14.29 %) SQL 2 1 (4.762 %) C	Qualifications 1 4 (19.05 %) PRINCE2 Certification 1 4 (19.05 %) Degree 2 2 (9.524 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 3 1 (4.762 %) CIPD
Vendors 1 3 (14.29 %) Oracle 1 3 (14.29 %) Red Hat