The first table below looks at the demand for Software Packaging 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 Software Packaging over the 3 months to 20 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 Application Development category for the North West region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Packaging
Rank - 243 234
Permanent jobs citing Software Packaging 0 2 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West - 0.028% 0.030%
As % of the Application Development category - 0.057% 0.066%
Number of salaries quoted 0 2 2
Average salary - £32,528 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -18.68%
UK excluding London average salary £34,678 £32,528 £32,500
% change year-on-year
+6.61% +0.08%
All Application Development
North West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
3495 3480 3045
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 49.18% 49.09% 44.98%
Number of salaries quoted 3115 3151 2796
Average salary £34,000 £33,500 £34,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.49% -1.47%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £24,500 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Software Packaging
England

Software Packaging
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Software Packaging across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

North West Software Packaging Jobs Demand Trend

Software Packaging
Salary Trend

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

North West Software Packaging Salary Trend

Software Packaging
Top 11 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West region citing Software Packaging 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 Software Packaging.

1 10 (100.00%) UNIX
1 10 (100.00%) Solaris
1 10 (100.00%) Linux
1 10 (100.00%) Sun
1 10 (100.00%) Intel
1 10 (100.00%) Veritas
1 10 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 10 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 10 (100.00%) Benchmarking
1 10 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 10 (100.00%) Veritas Volume Manager

Software Packaging
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West region citing Software Packaging 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 Software Packaging. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Job Titles
1 10 (100.00%) Linux Engineer
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) UNIX
1 10 (100.00%) Solaris
1 10 (100.00%) Linux
1 10 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Benchmarking
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Shell Script
System Software
1 10 (100.00%) Veritas Volume Manager
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) Sun
1 10 (100.00%) Intel
1 10 (100.00%) Veritas
1 10 (100.00%) Red Hat