The first table below looks at the demand for ISEB in IT jobs advertised for the Portsmouth region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited ISEB over the 3 months to 24 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 Qualifications for the Portsmouth region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Information Systems Examinations Board (ISEB)
Rank 36 32 36
Rank change year-on-year
-4 +4
Permanent jobs citing ISEB 3 6 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Portsmouth 1.395% 2.970% 1.914%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.167% 8.824% 6.349%
Number of salaries quoted 3 6 3
Average salary £23,000 £32,500 £24,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-29.23% +32.65%
UK excluding London average salary £36,500 £36,122 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+1.04% -2.37%
All Qualifications
Portsmouth
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
72 68 63
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Portsmouth 33.49% 33.66% 30.14%
Number of salaries quoted 67 57 60
Average salary £42,500 £37,000 £34,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.86% +8.82%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £25,000 £24,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £40,000 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
ISEB
Hampshire

ISEB
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing ISEB across the Portsmouth region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

Portsmouth ISEB Jobs Demand Trend

ISEB
Salary Trend

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

Portsmouth ISEB Salary Trend

ISEB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Portsmouth region citing ISEB 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 ISEB.

1 4 (80.00%) Manual Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (60.00%) MS Excel
2 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (40.00%) HP
3 2 (40.00%) TestDirector
3 2 (40.00%) QuickTest Pro
3 2 (40.00%) Client/Server
3 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 2 (40.00%) MS Office
3 2 (40.00%) Automated Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Software Testing
3 2 (40.00%) ISTQB
3 2 (40.00%) Requirements Management
3 2 (40.00%) Finance
3 2 (40.00%) HP Quality Center
3 2 (40.00%) Test Scripting
3 2 (40.00%) Test Strategy
3 2 (40.00%) Automation Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Web Application Development
4 1 (20.00%) C#
4 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (20.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 1 (20.00%) REST
4 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
4 1 (20.00%) MVC
4 1 (20.00%) Scrum
4 1 (20.00%) .NET Framework
4 1 (20.00%) XPath
4 1 (20.00%) WCF

ISEB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Portsmouth region citing ISEB 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 ISEB. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (20.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
1 1 (20.00%) REST
1 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
1 1 (20.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (20.00%) WCF
1 1 (20.00%) LINQ
1 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (20.00%) SOAP
1 1 (20.00%) Web Services
1 1 (20.00%) XML
1 1 (20.00%) XSD
1 1 (20.00%) XSLT
1 1 (20.00%) .NET
Applications
1 3 (60.00%) MS Excel
2 2 (40.00%) MS Office
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) TestDirector
1 2 (40.00%) QuickTest Pro
2 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Tester
2 2 (40.00%) Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Test Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Manual Tester
2 2 (40.00%) Systems Tester
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Web Tester
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Client/Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Manual Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (40.00%) Automated Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Software Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Requirements Management
3 2 (40.00%) Test Scripting
3 2 (40.00%) Test Strategy
3 2 (40.00%) Automation Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Web Application Development
4 1 (20.00%) MVC
4 1 (20.00%) Scrum
4 1 (20.00%) UML
4 1 (20.00%) OOA/OOD
4 1 (20.00%) OO
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) C#
2 1 (20.00%) XPath
2 1 (20.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) ISTQB
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) HP