The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term EPoS in IT jobs advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited EPoS over the 3 months to 20 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 Reading region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Electronic Point Of Sale (EPoS)
Rank 128 134 110
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -24
Permanent jobs citing EPoS 2 2 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 0.094% 0.088% 0.109%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.306% 0.343% 0.403%
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 2
Average salary £35,000 £25,000 £18,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+40.00% +35.13%
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £35,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
-7.14% -7.89%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Reading
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
654 583 496
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 30.78% 25.73% 26.99%
Number of salaries quoted 538 511 444
Average salary £40,000 £41,000 £41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.43% -
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £29,300
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £65,000 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,625 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-3.43% +6.66%
EPoS
Berkshire

EPoS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading EPoS Jobs Demand Trend

EPoS
Salary Trend

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

Reading EPoS Salary Trend

EPoS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading region citing EPoS 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 EPoS.

1 7 (70.00%) Microsoft
1 7 (70.00%) ISEB
1 7 (70.00%) Integration Testing
2 5 (50.00%) Regression Testing
2 5 (50.00%) Banking
2 5 (50.00%) EMV
2 5 (50.00%) Chip and PIN
2 5 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 5 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 5 (50.00%) PCI DSS
2 5 (50.00%) APACS
3 3 (30.00%) Retail
4 2 (20.00%) Software Testing
4 2 (20.00%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (20.00%) Business Development
4 2 (20.00%) Windows Vista
4 2 (20.00%) QA
4 2 (20.00%) Selenium
4 2 (20.00%) Silverlight
4 2 (20.00%) Scalability Testing
4 2 (20.00%) E-Commerce
4 2 (20.00%) C#
4 2 (20.00%) VB
4 2 (20.00%) .NET
4 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
4 2 (20.00%) COM
4 2 (20.00%) Web Services
4 2 (20.00%) Windows
4 2 (20.00%) Rational Robot
4 2 (20.00%) Agile Software Development

EPoS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 2 (20.00%) .NET
1 2 (20.00%) COM
1 2 (20.00%) Web Services
1 2 (20.00%) Silverlight
Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (50.00%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (10.00%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Rational Robot
1 2 (20.00%) Selenium
1 2 (20.00%) TestComplete
General
1 5 (50.00%) Banking
2 3 (30.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Analyst
2 4 (40.00%) Test Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Sales Manager
3 2 (20.00%) QA Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Senior QA Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) ERP Project Manager
4 1 (10.00%) ERP Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Project Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) EMV
1 5 (50.00%) Chip and PIN
1 5 (50.00%) APACS
2 2 (20.00%) Open Source
2 2 (20.00%) Mobile App
2 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
1 2 (20.00%) Windows Vista
1 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 2 (20.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Integration Testing
2 5 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 5 (50.00%) Regression Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (20.00%) Software Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Business Development
3 2 (20.00%) Scalability Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (20.00%) E-Commerce
4 1 (10.00%) ERP
4 1 (10.00%) Project Management
4 1 (10.00%) CRM
4 1 (10.00%) Business Transformation
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) C#
1 2 (20.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 7 (70.00%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) PCI DSS
2 2 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) Microsoft