Northern Ireland Computer Science Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Computer Science (Computing Science) skills within the Northern Ireland region with a comparison to our Miscellaneous category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Computer Science over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Computer Science (Computing Science)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alcester Aldershot Altrincham Amersham Ascot Aylesbury Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury Caerphilly Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Channel Islands Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chippenham Church Stretton City of London Coulsdon County Antrim County Armagh Coventry Crawley Croydon Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Dunfermline Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Felixstowe Fife Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Goole Gosport Greenford Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Hull Hungerford Huntingdon Ipswich Jersey Kent Kingswinford Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Lothian Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Mayfield Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Penicuik Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Reading Redditch Reigate Romsey Royston Rugby Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Slough Smethwick Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stourbridge Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swadlincote Swindon Teddington Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	30	30
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching permanent IT job ads	4	5
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.002 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	10.26 %	18.52 %
Salaries quoted	0	4
Average minimum salary	-	£31,250
Average salary	-	£35,000
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum salary	-	£38,750
UK excluding London average salary	£33,621	£32,472
% change on same period last year	+3.53 %
Miscellaneous Northern Ireland
Matching permanent IT job ads	39	27
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.022 %	0.011 %
Salaries quoted	16	16
Average minimum salary	£29,700	£22,467
Average salary	£31,775	£24,967
% change on same period last year	+27.26 %
Average maximum salary	£33,850	£27,467
UK excluding London average salary	£37,737	£39,061
% change on same period last year	-3.38 %
Computer Science UK

Computer Science
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Computer Science across the Northern Ireland region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Computer Science
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Computer Science across the Northern Ireland region.

Computer Science
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Computer Science within the Northern Ireland region over the 3 months to 5 September 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
County Antrim	+4	2	-	-
County Armagh	-	1	-	-

Computer Science UK

Computer Science
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT jobs across the Northern Ireland region citing Computer Science 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 Computer Science.

1 4 (50.00 %) SQL 1 4 (50.00 %) MS Excel 1 4 (50.00 %) Degree 2 3 (37.50 %) Java 2 3 (37.50 %) J2EE 2 3 (37.50 %) Oracle 2 3 (37.50 %) E-Commerce 3 2 (25.00 %) XML 3 2 (25.00 %) JavaScript 3 2 (25.00 %) HTML 3 2 (25.00 %) Agile Software Development 3 2 (25.00 %) Oracle 8/8i 4 1 (12.50 %) Oracle 11i 4 1 (12.50 %) PhD 4 1 (12.50 %) Datawarehouse

4 1 (12.50 %) Telecoms 4 1 (12.50 %) Finance 4 1 (12.50 %) Electric 4 1 (12.50 %) Oracle Applications 4 1 (12.50 %) Scrum 4 1 (12.50 %) Extreme Programming 4 1 (12.50 %) VB6 4 1 (12.50 %) Software Engineering 4 1 (12.50 %) DB2 UDB 4 1 (12.50 %) QA 4 1 (12.50 %) Red Hat Linux 4 1 (12.50 %) C# 4 1 (12.50 %) VB 4 1 (12.50 %) .NET 4 1 (12.50 %) Perl

Computer Science
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT jobs across the Northern Ireland region citing Computer Science 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 Computer Science. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 3 (37.50 %) J2EE 2 2 (25.00 %) HTML 2 2 (25.00 %) XML 3 1 (12.50 %) XSLT 3 1 (12.50 %) .NET 3 1 (12.50 %) ASP 3 1 (12.50 %) ASP.NET 3 1 (12.50 %) COM+ 3 1 (12.50 %) JDBC 3 1 (12.50 %) WebServices	Application Platforms 1 1 (12.50 %) WebLogic 1 1 (12.50 %) JBoss
Applications 1 4 (50.00 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 1 (12.50 %) Oracle Financials 1 1 (12.50 %) Oracle 11i 1 1 (12.50 %) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking 1 1 (12.50 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (25.00 %) Oracle 8/8i 2 1 (12.50 %) Datawarehouse 2 1 (12.50 %) RDBMS 2 1 (12.50 %) DB2 UDB 2 1 (12.50 %) SQL Server 2 1 (12.50 %) DB2
Development Applications 1 1 (12.50 %) JUnit 1 1 (12.50 %) Visual Studio	General 1 1 (12.50 %) Telecoms 1 1 (12.50 %) Finance 1 1 (12.50 %) Electric
Job Titles 1 4 (50.00 %) Software Engineer 2 2 (25.00 %) Senior Software Engineer 2 2 (25.00 %) Java Software Engineer 3 1 (12.50 %) Database Developer 3 1 (12.50 %) UNIX Systems Engineer 3 1 (12.50 %) UNIX Engineer 3 1 (12.50 %) Senior UNIX Engineer 3 1 (12.50 %) Senior UNIX Systems Engineer 3 1 (12.50 %) Senior Java Software Engineer 3 1 (12.50 %) ScrumMaster 3 1 (12.50 %) Developer 3 1 (12.50 %) Systems Engineer 3 1 (12.50 %) Senior Manager 3 1 (12.50 %) Senior Systems Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 1 (12.50 %) PMI
Operating Systems 1 1 (12.50 %) UNIX 1 1 (12.50 %) HPUX 1 1 (12.50 %) Linux 1 1 (12.50 %) Red Hat Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (37.50 %) E-Commerce 2 2 (25.00 %) Agile Software Development 3 1 (12.50 %) Software Engineering 3 1 (12.50 %) OO 3 1 (12.50 %) Project Management 3 1 (12.50 %) Scrum 3 1 (12.50 %) Extreme Programming
Programming Languages 1 4 (50.00 %) SQL 2 3 (37.50 %) Java 3 2 (25.00 %) JavaScript 4 1 (12.50 %) Perl 4 1 (12.50 %) PL/SQL 4 1 (12.50 %) VB 4 1 (12.50 %) Shell Script 4 1 (12.50 %) VB6 4 1 (12.50 %) C#	Qualifications 1 4 (50.00 %) Degree 2 1 (12.50 %) PhD 2 1 (12.50 %) PMP 2 1 (12.50 %) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (12.50 %) QA	Vendors 1 3 (37.50 %) Oracle 2 1 (12.50 %) Sybase 2 1 (12.50 %) Microsoft 2 1 (12.50 %) HP 2 1 (12.50 %) Red Hat