North West Statistics Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Statistics skills within the North West region with a comparison to our Miscellaneous category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Statistics over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Andover Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Cheltenham Cheshire Chippenham Cirencester City of London Colchester Corsham County Antrim Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dundee East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrow Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Horsham Hull Huntingdon Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Letchworth Liverpool Livingston London Lowestoft Luton Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newmarket Newport Norfolk North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Rotherham Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Stevenage Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells UK Uxbridge Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Waterlooville Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Wimbledon Windsor Woking York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	202	236
Rank change on same period last year	+34
Matching permanent IT job ads	71	55
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.037 %	0.023 %
As % of the category below	3.995 %	2.666 %
Salaries quoted	64	49
Average minimum salary	£21,375	£26,865
Average salary	£23,820	£29,394
% change on same period last year	-18.96 %
Average maximum salary	£26,266	£31,923
UK excluding London average salary	£36,111	£33,237
% change on same period last year	+8.64 %
Miscellaneous North West
Matching permanent IT job ads	1777	2063
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.938 %	0.845 %
Salaries quoted	1509	1794
Average minimum salary	£33,994	£33,751
Average salary	£37,471	£37,332
% change on same period last year	+0.37 %
Average maximum salary	£40,949	£40,913
UK excluding London average salary	£38,014	£39,235
% change on same period last year	-3.11 %
Statistics England

Statistics
Demand Trend

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

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Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Statistics 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 Statistics 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
Manchester	+53	34	£28,778	+6.58 %
Merseyside	+10	17	£17,941	-54.33 %
Lancashire	-5	13	£19,654	-15.76 %
Cheshire	-22	6	£25,750	-5.21 %
Cumbria	+3	1	£32,500	-7.14 %

Statistics England

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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 Statistics 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 Statistics.

1 29 (23.77 %) Data Analysis 2 27 (22.13 %) SQL 2 27 (22.13 %) Degree 3 24 (19.67 %) Mathematics 3 24 (19.67 %) SAS 4 23 (18.85 %) Marketing 5 22 (18.03 %) BT 6 21 (17.21 %) MS Excel 7 19 (15.57 %) SQL Server 7 19 (15.57 %) Microsoft 8 18 (14.75 %) Telecoms 9 17 (13.93 %) Wireless 9 17 (13.93 %) C 9 17 (13.93 %) Direct Marketing 10 16 (13.11 %) Operations Research

11 15 (12.30 %) NGN 11 15 (12.30 %) Transact-SQL 11 15 (12.30 %) SPSS 11 15 (12.30 %) IVR 11 15 (12.30 %) Finance 12 14 (11.48 %) Publishing 12 14 (11.48 %) Government 12 14 (11.48 %) Crystal Reports 13 13 (10.66 %) Business Objects 13 13 (10.66 %) BusinessObjects 14 12 (9.836 %) Service Delivery 15 11 (9.016 %) Credit Risk 16 10 (8.197 %) Management Information System 17 9 (7.377 %) MS Office 18 8 (6.557 %) ITIL

Statistics
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development 1 4 (3.279 %) HTML 2 3 (2.459 %) J2EE 3 2 (1.639 %) ASP 3 2 (1.639 %) .NET 3 2 (1.639 %) WebServices 3 2 (1.639 %) XML 3 2 (1.639 %) XSL 4 1 (0.820 %) AJAX 4 1 (0.820 %) SOAP	Application Platforms 1 24 (19.67 %) SAS 2 3 (2.459 %) Apache 2 3 (2.459 %) Tomcat 3 2 (1.639 %) CMS 4 1 (0.820 %) SharePoint 4 1 (0.820 %) IIS
Applications 1 21 (17.21 %) MS Excel 2 15 (12.30 %) SPSS 3 9 (7.377 %) MS Office 4 8 (6.557 %) MATLAB	Business Applications 1 2 (1.639 %) WebTrends 2 1 (0.820 %) SAP PP
Communications & Networking 1 17 (13.93 %) Wireless 2 15 (12.30 %) NGN 3 7 (5.738 %) LLU 4 2 (1.639 %) 3G 4 2 (1.639 %) Wi-Fi 4 2 (1.639 %) GPRS 5 1 (0.820 %) WAN 5 1 (0.820 %) HTTP 5 1 (0.820 %) Intranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 19 (15.57 %) SQL Server 2 14 (11.48 %) Crystal Reports 3 13 (10.66 %) BusinessObjects 4 2 (1.639 %) Data Cleansing 4 2 (1.639 %) MS Access 4 2 (1.639 %) Datawarehouse
General 1 23 (18.85 %) Marketing 2 18 (14.75 %) Telecoms 3 15 (12.30 %) Finance 4 14 (11.48 %) Government 4 14 (11.48 %) Publishing 5 6 (4.918 %) Banking 5 6 (4.918 %) Retail 5 6 (4.918 %) Pharmaceutical 6 4 (3.279 %) Health 7 3 (2.459 %) Insurance 8 2 (1.639 %) Education 9 1 (0.820 %) Pensions 9 1 (0.820 %) Law 9 1 (0.820 %) Legal 9 1 (0.820 %) Advertising	Job Titles 1 73 (59.84 %) Analyst 2 18 (14.75 %) Data Analyst 3 17 (13.93 %) Customer Analyst 4 15 (12.30 %) Customer Support Analyst 4 15 (12.30 %) Server Analyst 4 15 (12.30 %) Telecoms Analyst 4 15 (12.30 %) Support Analyst 5 12 (9.836 %) Graduate 6 9 (7.377 %) Risk Analyst 7 8 (6.557 %) Information Analyst 8 7 (5.738 %) Credit Risk Analyst 9 6 (4.918 %) MI Analyst 9 6 (4.918 %) Service Desk Analyst 9 6 (4.918 %) SAS Programmer 9 6 (4.918 %) Service Analyst 9 6 (4.918 %) Programmer 10 5 (4.098 %) Developer 10 5 (4.098 %) Credit Analyst 10 5 (4.098 %) Product Manager 10 5 (4.098 %) Delivery Manager
Miscellaneous 1 24 (19.67 %) Mathematics 2 15 (12.30 %) IVR 3 11 (9.016 %) Credit Risk 4 10 (8.197 %) Management Information System 5 5 (4.098 %) Economics 6 3 (2.459 %) Wiki 7 2 (1.639 %) Data Extraction 7 2 (1.639 %) PDA 7 2 (1.639 %) Computer Science 8 1 (0.820 %) Data Integration	Operating Systems 1 5 (4.098 %) Windows XP 1 5 (4.098 %) Windows 2 3 (2.459 %) Solaris 2 3 (2.459 %) Linux 2 3 (2.459 %) SUSE 2 3 (2.459 %) Debian 3 2 (1.639 %) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies 1 29 (23.77 %) Data Analysis 2 17 (13.93 %) Direct Marketing 3 16 (13.11 %) Operations Research 4 12 (9.836 %) Service Delivery 5 8 (6.557 %) ITIL 5 8 (6.557 %) Validation 6 6 (4.918 %) Data Management 7 5 (4.098 %) Disaster Recovery 8 4 (3.279 %) Project Management 8 4 (3.279 %) Service Management 8 4 (3.279 %) Automated Testing 8 4 (3.279 %) Business Continuity 9 3 (2.459 %) Pay per click 9 3 (2.459 %) Cluster Analysis 9 3 (2.459 %) Time Management 9 3 (2.459 %) Content Management 9 3 (2.459 %) Risk Management 9 3 (2.459 %) Regression Testing 10 2 (1.639 %) SEO 10 2 (1.639 %) E-Commerce	Programming Languages 1 27 (22.13 %) SQL 2 17 (13.93 %) C 3 15 (12.30 %) Transact-SQL 4 3 (2.459 %) Java 5 2 (1.639 %) C++ 5 2 (1.639 %) VB 6 1 (0.820 %) VBScript 6 1 (0.820 %) JavaScript
Qualifications 1 27 (22.13 %) Degree 2 6 (4.918 %) ITIL Certification 3 4 (3.279 %) SAS Certification 4 1 (0.820 %) PhD	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (4.098 %) GCP 2 4 (3.279 %) CDISC 3 3 (2.459 %) SLA 3 3 (2.459 %) Basel II 4 1 (0.820 %) QA 4 1 (0.820 %) ISO9001
Vendors 1 22 (18.03 %) BT 2 19 (15.57 %) Microsoft 3 13 (10.66 %) Business Objects 4 8 (6.557 %) Minitab 5 7 (5.738 %) Huawei 6 5 (4.098 %) Cisco 7 3 (2.459 %) Red Hat 7 3 (2.459 %) Yahoo! 7 3 (2.459 %) Google 8 2 (1.639 %) Avaya 8 2 (1.639 %) Toshiba 9 1 (0.820 %) Fujitsu 9 1 (0.820 %) SAP