Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the prevalence of the term Multimedia in IT jobs advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Multimedia over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all terms in our General category for the North West region.

 Multimedia
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank155189245
Rank change year-on-year
Up+34Up+56
Matching permanent IT job ads331135
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West0.609 %0.193 %0.278 %
As % of the General category1.440 %0.423 %0.637 %
Salaries quoted32824
Average salary£37,500£25,000£32,038
Average salary % change year-on-year
+50.00 %-21.96 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£24,150£21,400£22,750
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£42,500£35,200£37,500
UK excluding London average salary£40,000£35,750£32,500
% change year-on-year
+11.88 %+10.00 %
North West IT Job Market, General CategoryAll General Category
North West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
229225985497
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West42.33 %45.50 %43.68 %
Salaries quoted200522924770
Average salary£37,500£35,000£37,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.140 %-5.400 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£23,400£22,500£23,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£60,000£60,000£60,000
UK excluding London average salary£40,000£38,000£37,500
% change year-on-year
+5.260 %+1.330 %
Multimedia EnglandMultimedia
England

Multimedia
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.

North West Multimedia Demand Trend

Multimedia
Salary Trend

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

North West Multimedia Salary Trend

Multimedia
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Multimedia across the North West region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

North West Multimedia Salary Histogram

Multimedia
Job Locations

The table below 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 19 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
ManchesterUp+1622£37,500+25.00 %
MerseysideNew entry-7£36,250-
LancashireUp+223£42,500+70.00 %
Multimedia EnglandMultimedia
England

Multimedia
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, 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.

145 (60.00 %)HTML
243 (57.33 %)JavaScript
342 (56.00 %)CSS
437 (49.33 %)Photoshop
535 (46.67 %)XML
535 (46.67 %)Flash
633 (44.00 %)Adobe Illustrator
730 (40.00 %)ActionScript
730 (40.00 %)Animation
828 (37.33 %)Adobe Flex
924 (32.00 %)OO
1023 (30.67 %)Games
1023 (30.67 %)ActionScript 3.0
1117 (22.67 %)Web Development
1213 (17.33 %)Degree
1213 (17.33 %)Java
1312 (16.00 %)Adobe
1411 (14.67 %)J2EE
1411 (14.67 %)Marketing
1510 (13.33 %)MySQL
1510 (13.33 %)Oracle
169 (12.00 %)Web Design
177 (9.333 %)Telecoms
177 (9.333 %)Project Management
177 (9.333 %)PHP
186 (8.000 %)C
186 (8.000 %)E-Commerce
186 (8.000 %)SEO
186 (8.000 %)Advertising
186 (8.000 %)Social Network

Multimedia
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, 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.

North West IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
145 (60.00 %)HTML
242 (56.00 %)CSS
335 (46.67 %)XML
335 (46.67 %)Flash
428 (37.33 %)Adobe Flex
511 (14.67 %)J2EE
65 (6.667 %)EJB
65 (6.667 %)JSP
65 (6.667 %)XHTML
65 (6.667 %)Hibernate
65 (6.667 %)Spring
65 (6.667 %)JSF
74 (5.333 %)Apache Wicket
82 (2.667 %)jQuery
82 (2.667 %)AJAX
82 (2.667 %)XSLT
82 (2.667 %).NET
North West IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
15 (6.667 %)CMS
22 (2.667 %)Umbraco
22 (2.667 %)EPiServer
22 (2.667 %)WordPress
North West IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
137 (49.33 %)Photoshop
233 (44.00 %)Adobe Illustrator
33 (4.000 %)MS Visio
42 (2.667 %)Fireworks
42 (2.667 %)InDesign
51 (1.333 %)Adobe After Effects
51 (1.333 %)MS Project
51 (1.333 %)MS Office
51 (1.333 %)MS Excel
North West IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
11 (1.333 %)Internet
North West IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
110 (13.33 %)MySQL
25 (6.667 %)SQL Server
North West IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
12 (2.667 %)Dreamweaver
North West IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
130 (40.00 %)Animation
223 (30.67 %)Games
311 (14.67 %)Marketing
47 (9.333 %)Telecoms
56 (8.000 %)Advertising
61 (1.333 %)Retail
61 (1.333 %)Online Games
North West IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
151 (68.00 %)Developer
219 (25.33 %)Flash Developer
315 (20.00 %)Senior Developer
414 (18.67 %)Designer
513 (17.33 %)Web Designer
513 (17.33 %)Web Developer
610 (13.33 %)Java Developer
610 (13.33 %)Senior Java Developer
78 (10.67 %)Flex Developer
87 (9.333 %)ActionScript Developer
87 (9.333 %)Project Manager
96 (8.000 %)Product Manager
105 (6.667 %)Senior J2EE Developer
105 (6.667 %)J2EE Developer
105 (6.667 %)Senior Java/J2EE Developer
105 (6.667 %)Front-End Developer
105 (6.667 %)Java/J2EE Developer
114 (5.333 %)Java Architect
114 (5.333 %)Architect
123 (4.000 %)Senior Java Architect
North West IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
16 (8.000 %)Social Network
23 (4.000 %)W3C
32 (2.667 %)Computer Science
32 (2.667 %)RIA
North West IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
124 (32.00 %)OO
217 (22.67 %)Web Development
39 (12.00 %)Web Design
47 (9.333 %)Project Management
56 (8.000 %)SEO
56 (8.000 %)E-Commerce
65 (6.667 %)PRINCE2
65 (6.667 %)OOA/OOD
65 (6.667 %)Content Management
72 (2.667 %)Email Marketing
72 (2.667 %)Online Marketing
72 (2.667 %)Project Planning
81 (1.333 %)Pay per click
81 (1.333 %)Business Intelligence
81 (1.333 %)Agile Software Development
North West IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
143 (57.33 %)JavaScript
230 (40.00 %)ActionScript
323 (30.67 %)ActionScript 3.0
413 (17.33 %)Java
57 (9.333 %)PHP
66 (8.000 %)C
72 (2.667 %)C#
72 (2.667 %)SQL
72 (2.667 %)ActionScript 2.0
North West IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
113 (17.33 %)Degree
North West IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
112 (16.00 %)Adobe
210 (13.33 %)Oracle
35 (6.667 %)Macromedia
43 (4.000 %)Microsoft