The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term W3C in IT jobs advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited W3C over the 3 months to 17 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 terms in our Miscellaneous category for the North West region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C)
Rank 186 181 215
Rank change year-on-year
-5 +34
Permanent jobs citing W3C 62 70 26
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 0.870% 0.993% 0.379%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.142% 3.729% 1.516%
Number of salaries quoted 61 60 24
Average salary £35,000 £28,250 £29,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+23.89% -2.58%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £20,850 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £35,000 £35,000
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £32,500 £30,000
% change year-on-year
- +8.33%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
North West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
1973 1877 1715
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 27.67% 26.62% 24.99%
Number of salaries quoted 1670 1557 1488
Average salary £35,000 £35,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.40% +1.42%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £23,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,815 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.96% +6.66%
W3C
England

W3C
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing W3C across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

North West W3C Jobs Demand Trend

W3C
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing W3C across the North West region.

North West W3C Salary Trend

W3C
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing W3C across the North West region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

North West W3C Salary Histogram

W3C
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing W3C within the North West region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Manchester -32 33 £35,000 +11.11%
Cheshire +19 26 £33,750 -3.57%
Lancashire -9 1 - -
Merseyside - 1 £35,000 -
W3C
England

W3C
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West region citing W3C 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 W3C.

1 101 (75.94%) C#
1 101 (75.94%) .NET
2 91 (68.42%) Internet
3 89 (66.92%) ASP.NET
4 81 (60.90%) Web Services
5 77 (57.89%) OO
6 69 (51.88%) Configuration Management
7 46 (34.59%) CSS
8 43 (32.33%) Integration Testing
9 41 (30.83%) HTML
10 39 (29.32%) JavaScript
11 31 (23.31%) SQL Server
12 27 (20.30%) HTML5
13 24 (18.05%) MVC
14 22 (16.54%) jQuery
15 21 (15.79%) CSS3
16 20 (15.04%) SQL
17 19 (14.29%) Ajax
18 15 (11.28%) C
18 15 (11.28%) XHTML
19 14 (10.53%) Linux
19 14 (10.53%) XML
20 13 (9.774%) UML
20 13 (9.774%) SQL Server 2008
21 12 (9.023%) WCF
21 12 (9.023%) E-Commerce
21 12 (9.023%) Project Management
22 10 (7.519%) CMS
22 10 (7.519%) Agile Software Development
23 9 (6.767%) PHP

W3C
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West region citing W3C 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 W3C. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 101 (75.94%) .NET
2 89 (66.92%) ASP.NET
3 81 (60.90%) Web Services
4 46 (34.59%) CSS
5 41 (30.83%) HTML
6 27 (20.30%) HTML5
7 22 (16.54%) jQuery
8 21 (15.79%) CSS3
9 19 (14.29%) Ajax
10 15 (11.28%) XHTML
11 14 (10.53%) XML
12 12 (9.023%) WCF
13 4 (3.008%) LAMP
13 4 (3.008%) WinForms
13 4 (3.008%) Sass
13 4 (3.008%) LESS
13 4 (3.008%) HTML5 Canvas
14 3 (2.256%) WebGL
15 2 (1.504%) Razor View Engine
15 2 (1.504%) Symfony
Application Platforms
1 10 (7.519%) CMS
2 7 (5.263%) Apache
3 5 (3.759%) SharePoint
3 5 (3.759%) WordPress
4 4 (3.008%) Magento
4 4 (3.008%) Windows Azure
5 1 (0.752%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 6 (4.511%) Photoshop
2 4 (3.008%) Fireworks
3 3 (2.256%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.752%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.752%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.752%) Bond Adapt
1 1 (0.752%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 91 (68.42%) Internet
2 2 (1.504%) HTTP
2 2 (1.504%) DNS
3 1 (0.752%) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (23.31%) SQL Server
2 13 (9.774%) SQL Server 2008
3 6 (4.511%) MySQL
4 1 (0.752%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (0.752%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 6 (4.511%) Git (software)
2 5 (3.759%) Subversion
3 3 (2.256%) Dreamweaver
4 2 (1.504%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.752%) QUnit
General
1 7 (5.263%) Back Office
2 4 (3.008%) Finance
2 4 (3.008%) Marketing
3 2 (1.504%) Advertising
3 2 (1.504%) Publishing
3 2 (1.504%) Games
3 2 (1.504%) Retail
3 2 (1.504%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 122 (91.73%) Developer
2 35 (26.32%) Lead Developer
3 18 (13.53%) Web Developer
4 15 (11.28%) Senior Developer
4 15 (11.28%) Front-End Developer
5 14 (10.53%) Junior
5 14 (10.53%) Junior Developer
6 6 (4.511%) PHP Developer
6 6 (4.511%) .NET Developer
6 6 (4.511%) Front-End Web Developer
7 5 (3.759%) Designer
7 5 (3.759%) C# .NET Developer
7 5 (3.759%) C# ASP.NET Developer
7 5 (3.759%) C# Developer
7 5 (3.759%) ASP.NET Developer
8 4 (3.008%) Web Designer
8 4 (3.008%) PHP MySQL Developer
9 3 (2.256%) Photoshop Designer
9 3 (2.256%) Development Engineer
9 3 (2.256%) Research Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (3.008%) Social Media
1 4 (3.008%) New Media
2 3 (2.256%) BBC
2 3 (2.256%) Graphic Design
2 3 (2.256%) Physics
2 3 (2.256%) Psychology
2 3 (2.256%) Computer Science
3 2 (1.504%) Open Source
3 2 (1.504%) Digital Media
4 1 (0.752%) Copywriting
Operating Systems
1 14 (10.53%) Linux
2 3 (2.256%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (57.89%) OO
2 69 (51.88%) Configuration Management
3 43 (32.33%) Integration Testing
4 24 (18.05%) MVC
5 13 (9.774%) UML
6 12 (9.023%) Project Management
6 12 (9.023%) E-Commerce
7 10 (7.519%) Agile Software Development
8 8 (6.015%) TDD
8 8 (6.015%) Web Design
8 8 (6.015%) Web Development
9 7 (5.263%) Continuous Integration
10 6 (4.511%) OOP
11 5 (3.759%) User Experience Design
12 4 (3.008%) Data Management
13 3 (2.256%) Scrum
13 3 (2.256%) Information Architecture
13 3 (2.256%) Signal Processing
14 2 (1.504%) Web Accessibility
14 2 (1.504%) Supplier Management
Programming Languages
1 101 (75.94%) C#
2 39 (29.32%) JavaScript
3 20 (15.04%) SQL
4 15 (11.28%) C
5 9 (6.767%) PHP
6 3 (2.256%) C++
6 3 (2.256%) Java
6 3 (2.256%) Python
6 3 (2.256%) Ruby
7 2 (1.504%) PHP5
8 1 (0.752%) Perl
8 1 (0.752%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 6 (4.511%) Degree
2 1 (0.752%) MCAD
2 1 (0.752%) MCSD
2 1 (0.752%) MCSE
2 1 (0.752%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 4 (3.008%) Adobe
1 4 (3.008%) Zend
2 1 (0.752%) Twitter
2 1 (0.752%) Google
2 1 (0.752%) Microsoft
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