North West Multimedia Jobs

This section looks at the prevalence of the term 'Multimedia' in IT jobs within the North West region together with a comparison to our General terms category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Multimedia over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Carmarthenshire Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crewkerne Derby Derbyshire Devon Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edenbridge Edinburgh Egham England Essex Farnborough Farnham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Harrow Hayes Henley-on-Thames Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hove Hull Ipswich Kent Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Llanelli London Maidenhead Maidstone Malton Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newport North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Reading Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Stevenage Suffolk Surrey Swindon Truro UK Wales Walsall Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	230	258
Rank change on same period last year	+28
Matching permanent IT job ads	43	33
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.023 %	0.014 %
As % of the category below	0.766 %	0.536 %
Salaries quoted	37	30
Average minimum salary	£22,703	£28,122
Average salary	£24,378	£31,900
% change on same period last year	-23.57 %
Average maximum salary	£26,054	£35,677
UK excluding London average salary	£34,069	£35,944
% change on same period last year	-5.21 %
General North West
Matching permanent IT job ads	5614	6152
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	2.964 %	2.519 %
Salaries quoted	4859	5250
Average minimum salary	£35,481	£38,615
Average salary	£40,124	£42,476
% change on same period last year	-5.53 %
Average maximum salary	£44,766	£46,337
UK excluding London average salary	£40,890	£42,387
% change on same period last year	-3.53 %
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Demand Trend

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

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Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Multimedia across the North West region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Multimedia within the North West region over the 3 months to 25 July 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
Cheshire	+12	32	£23,150	-34.59 %
Manchester	+25	8	£30,250	+3.82 %
Merseyside	-2	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the North West region citing Multimedia 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 Multimedia.

1 29 (36.25 %) HTML 2 26 (32.50 %) Java 3 24 (30.00 %) XML 4 21 (26.25 %) Adobe 5 18 (22.50 %) Photoshop 6 17 (21.25 %) CSS 6 17 (21.25 %) Adobe Illustrator 6 17 (21.25 %) Microsoft 7 15 (18.75 %) Oracle 8 14 (17.50 %) Flash 8 14 (17.50 %) XHTML 8 14 (17.50 %) J2ME 8 14 (17.50 %) Symbian 9 13 (16.25 %) UML 9 13 (16.25 %) Handset

9 13 (16.25 %) Degree 9 13 (16.25 %) Graphic Design 10 12 (15.00 %) MS PowerPoint 10 12 (15.00 %) JSP 10 12 (15.00 %) JavaScript 11 11 (13.75 %) J2EE 11 11 (13.75 %) EJB 11 11 (13.75 %) Telecoms 12 10 (12.50 %) SQL Server 12 10 (12.50 %) Internet 13 9 (11.25 %) Macromedia 13 9 (11.25 %) ActionScript 13 9 (11.25 %) HND 13 9 (11.25 %) JSF 13 9 (11.25 %) Publishing

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the North West region citing Multimedia 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 Multimedia. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 29 (36.25 %) HTML 2 24 (30.00 %) XML 3 17 (21.25 %) CSS 4 14 (17.50 %) XHTML 4 14 (17.50 %) J2ME 5 12 (15.00 %) JSP 6 11 (13.75 %) J2EE 6 11 (13.75 %) EJB 7 9 (11.25 %) JSF 8 8 (10.00 %) BREW 8 8 (10.00 %) Java ME 9 5 (6.250 %) WebServices 10 2 (2.500 %) .NET 11 1 (1.250 %) AJAX 11 1 (1.250 %) WML 11 1 (1.250 %) JMS 11 1 (1.250 %) SVG 11 1 (1.250 %) OpenGL 11 1 (1.250 %) DirectX 11 1 (1.250 %) UIQ	Application Platforms 1 5 (6.250 %) Oracle BPEL 2 2 (2.500 %) Apache 3 1 (1.250 %) Tomcat 3 1 (1.250 %) WebLogic 3 1 (1.250 %) JBoss
Applications 1 18 (22.50 %) Photoshop 2 17 (21.25 %) Adobe Illustrator 3 12 (15.00 %) MS PowerPoint 4 9 (11.25 %) Adobe Captivate 5 8 (10.00 %) MS Excel 6 2 (2.500 %) MS Office 7 1 (1.250 %) MS Visio 7 1 (1.250 %) AutoCAD	Communications & Networking 1 10 (12.50 %) Internet 2 1 (1.250 %) DVB 2 1 (1.250 %) Wi-Fi 2 1 (1.250 %) NFC 2 1 (1.250 %) Bluetooth 2 1 (1.250 %) Broadband 2 1 (1.250 %) GPRS 2 1 (1.250 %) GSM 2 1 (1.250 %) UMTS 2 1 (1.250 %) VoIP 2 1 (1.250 %) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 10 (12.50 %) SQL Server 2 5 (6.250 %) Oracle Reports 2 5 (6.250 %) Oracle Discoverer 3 1 (1.250 %) Oracle 10g 3 1 (1.250 %) Oracle 9i 3 1 (1.250 %) MySQL	Development Applications 1 14 (17.50 %) Flash 2 1 (1.250 %) Dreamweaver
General 1 13 (16.25 %) Graphic Design 2 11 (13.75 %) Telecoms 3 9 (11.25 %) Publishing 4 3 (3.750 %) Pensions 4 3 (3.750 %) Health 5 2 (2.500 %) 3D Graphics 5 2 (2.500 %) Animation 6 1 (1.250 %) Billing 6 1 (1.250 %) Marketing 6 1 (1.250 %) Advertising 6 1 (1.250 %) Education	Job Titles 1 33 (41.25 %) Developer 2 16 (20.00 %) Trainer 3 15 (18.75 %) Web Designer 4 11 (13.75 %) Junior 5 10 (12.50 %) Photoshop Designer 6 9 (11.25 %) Consultant 6 9 (11.25 %) Technical Trainer 7 6 (7.500 %) Java Developer 8 5 (6.250 %) Oracle Developer 8 5 (6.250 %) Training Consultant 9 3 (3.750 %) C++ Software Engineer 9 3 (3.750 %) Junior Developer 9 3 (3.750 %) Presales Consultant 9 3 (3.750 %) Junior Java Developer 9 3 (3.750 %) Sales Consultant 9 3 (3.750 %) Software Engineer 9 3 (3.750 %) Graduate 10 2 (2.500 %) Author 10 2 (2.500 %) Technical Author 10 2 (2.500 %) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous 1 13 (16.25 %) Handset 2 1 (1.250 %) Tandem 2 1 (1.250 %) Speech Recognition 2 1 (1.250 %) Computer Science 2 1 (1.250 %) MPEG 2 1 (1.250 %) DTV 2 1 (1.250 %) Device Driver	Operating Systems 1 5 (6.250 %) Linux 1 5 (6.250 %) Windows 2 2 (2.500 %) Solaris 2 2 (2.500 %) UNIX 3 1 (1.250 %) Windows NT 3 1 (1.250 %) Windows XP 3 1 (1.250 %) NetWare 3 1 (1.250 %) Windows Mobile 3 1 (1.250 %) Nucleus RTOS
Processes & Methodologies 1 13 (16.25 %) UML 2 6 (7.500 %) Web Design 3 5 (6.250 %) BPEL 4 2 (2.500 %) Software Engineering 4 2 (2.500 %) Technical Architecture 4 2 (2.500 %) Content Management 4 2 (2.500 %) E-Commerce 5 1 (1.250 %) Mobile Commerce 5 1 (1.250 %) CAD 5 1 (1.250 %) DRM 5 1 (1.250 %) Project Management 5 1 (1.250 %) SEO 5 1 (1.250 %) PRINCE2 5 1 (1.250 %) IC Design 5 1 (1.250 %) Web Development	Programming Languages 1 26 (32.50 %) Java 2 12 (15.00 %) JavaScript 3 9 (11.25 %) ActionScript 4 5 (6.250 %) SQL 5 4 (5.000 %) C++ 6 2 (2.500 %) PHP 7 1 (1.250 %) C 7 1 (1.250 %) VC++
Qualifications 1 13 (16.25 %) Degree 2 9 (11.25 %) HND 3 1 (1.250 %) MCSE 3 1 (1.250 %) Microsoft Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 6 (7.500 %) QA 2 1 (1.250 %) SLA
System Software 1 1 (1.250 %) NetBackup 1 1 (1.250 %) Oracle RAC	Vendors 1 21 (26.25 %) Adobe 2 17 (21.25 %) Microsoft 3 15 (18.75 %) Oracle 4 14 (17.50 %) Symbian 5 9 (11.25 %) Macromedia 6 1 (1.250 %) Sun 6 1 (1.250 %) BEA 6 1 (1.250 %) Novell 6 1 (1.250 %) Red Hat 6 1 (1.250 %) Fujitsu