The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of IBM products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Northampton region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited IBM over the 3 months to 21 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 Vendors for the Northampton region.

The figures below represent the IT job market in general and are NOT representative of salaries within the International Business Machines Corporation.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM
Rank 50 51 60
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +9
Permanent jobs citing IBM 7 4 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Northampton 1.777% 0.871% 0.426%
As % of the Vendors category 3.977% 2.469% 1.093%
Number of salaries quoted 7 4 2
Average salary £45,000 £37,000 £29,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+21.62% +25.42%
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
All Vendors
Northampton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
176 162 183
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Northampton 44.67% 35.29% 39.02%
Number of salaries quoted 160 154 163
Average salary £39,000 £35,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.42% +7.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £24,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £55,000 £57,750
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
IBM
Northamptonshire

IBM
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing IBM across the Northampton region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Northampton IBM Jobs Demand Trend

IBM
Salary Trend

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

Northampton IBM Salary Trend

IBM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Northampton region citing IBM 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 IBM.

1 8 (80.00%) EMC
1 8 (80.00%) VMware
2 7 (70.00%) HP ASE
2 7 (70.00%) NetApp
2 7 (70.00%) HP
2 7 (70.00%) Dell
2 7 (70.00%) HP StorageWorks
3 3 (30.00%) UNIX
4 2 (20.00%) Windows
4 2 (20.00%) AIX
4 2 (20.00%) HPUX
4 2 (20.00%) Solaris
4 2 (20.00%) WebSphere
4 2 (20.00%) Business Development
4 2 (20.00%) Middleware
4 2 (20.00%) WebSphere Message Broker
5 1 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (10.00%) Configuration Management
5 1 (10.00%) Mainframe
5 1 (10.00%) Finance
5 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (10.00%) Clustering
5 1 (10.00%) Business Continuity
5 1 (10.00%) Tandem
5 1 (10.00%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (10.00%) WebSphere Transformation Extender
5 1 (10.00%) Linux
5 1 (10.00%) SSL
5 1 (10.00%) Java

IBM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Northampton region citing IBM 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 IBM. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (20.00%) WebSphere
1 2 (20.00%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 2 (20.00%) WebSphere Message Broker
2 1 (10.00%) WebSphere Transformation Extender
2 1 (10.00%) WebSphere MQ
2 1 (10.00%) CICS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) SSL
1 1 (10.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) DB2
General
1 1 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Storage Specialist
2 5 (50.00%) Server Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) Account Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Sales Manager
3 1 (10.00%) WebSphere Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Middleware Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 7 (70.00%) HP StorageWorks
2 1 (10.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (10.00%) Clustering
2 1 (10.00%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) UNIX
2 2 (20.00%) Windows
2 2 (20.00%) AIX
2 2 (20.00%) HPUX
2 2 (20.00%) Solaris
3 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (20.00%) Business Development
2 1 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (10.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (10.00%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Java
1 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (70.00%) HP ASE
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) EMC NetWorker
1 1 (10.00%) Tivoli
1 1 (10.00%) Tivoli Monitoring
Vendors
1 8 (80.00%) EMC
1 8 (80.00%) VMware
2 7 (70.00%) NetApp
2 7 (70.00%) HP
2 7 (70.00%) Dell
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle
3 1 (10.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (10.00%) Citrix
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