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

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Information Systems Examinations Board (ISEB)
Rank 99 66 53
Rank change year-on-year
-33 -13
Permanent jobs citing ISEB 56 98 123
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 1.768% 2.809% 3.614%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.236% 9.049% 11.99%
Number of salaries quoted 26 76 108
Average salary £37,500 £42,500 £38,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-11.76% +10.38%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £27,949 £28,200
10% offered a salary of more than £48,500 £65,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £36,500 £37,000
% change year-on-year
-1.36% -1.35%
All Qualifications
Scotland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
898 1083 1026
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 28.35% 31.04% 30.15%
Number of salaries quoted 510 788 768
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £26,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £65,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
ISEB
UK

ISEB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland ISEB Salary Trend

ISEB
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing ISEB across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Scotland ISEB Salary Histogram

ISEB
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ISEB within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 21 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
Edinburgh -3 33 £40,000 -8.57%
Glasgow -29 15 £38,750 -8.82%
Aberdeen -1 3 £32,500 -23.52%
Moray - 3 - -
Dundee -8 2 £23,000 -4.16%
Fife +1 1 - -
ISEB
UK

ISEB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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 75 (47.47%) Finance
2 63 (39.87%) Business Analysis
3 49 (31.01%) Software Testing
4 45 (28.48%) Banking
5 37 (23.42%) Degree
6 36 (22.78%) SQL
7 34 (21.52%) User Acceptance Testing
8 31 (19.62%) ISTQB
9 23 (14.56%) HP Quality Center
10 22 (13.92%) Agile Software Development
11 20 (12.66%) ISEB Practitioner
11 20 (12.66%) Stakeholder Management
11 20 (12.66%) UML
12 18 (11.39%) .NET
13 17 (10.76%) QuickTest Pro
13 17 (10.76%) Project Management
13 17 (10.76%) QA
13 17 (10.76%) Test Automation
14 16 (10.13%) Linux
14 16 (10.13%) Automated Testing
15 15 (9.494%) Zachman Framework
15 15 (9.494%) TOGAF
15 15 (9.494%) DMAIC
15 15 (9.494%) Process Management
15 15 (9.494%) MS Visio
15 15 (9.494%) Basel II
15 15 (9.494%) C#
15 15 (9.494%) BPMN
15 15 (9.494%) Requirements Management
15 15 (9.494%) Enterprise Architecture

ISEB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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 18 (11.39%) .NET
2 3 (1.899%) ASP.NET
2 3 (1.899%) .NET Framework
3 2 (1.266%) Qt
4 1 (0.633%) CSS
4 1 (0.633%) XML
4 1 (0.633%) Flash
4 1 (0.633%) XHTML
4 1 (0.633%) HTML
4 1 (0.633%) Middleware
4 1 (0.633%) OLE
4 1 (0.633%) LAMP
4 1 (0.633%) JSON
4 1 (0.633%) WCF
4 1 (0.633%) jQuery
4 1 (0.633%) ASP.NET MVC 3
4 1 (0.633%) ASP.NET MVC
Application Platforms
1 12 (7.595%) SAS
2 1 (0.633%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.633%) MQSeries
2 1 (0.633%) Documentum
2 1 (0.633%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 15 (9.494%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.899%) MS Excel
3 1 (0.633%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.899%) SAP HCM
1 3 (1.899%) Temenos T24
2 2 (1.266%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.633%) Oracle 11i
3 1 (0.633%) Oracle iRecruitment
3 1 (0.633%) Maximo
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.266%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.595%) Data Mining
1 12 (7.595%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (6.329%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.266%) GIS
4 1 (0.633%) MySQL
4 1 (0.633%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.633%) Oracle BI EE
4 1 (0.633%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 17 (10.76%) QuickTest Pro
2 4 (2.532%) Selenium
3 3 (1.899%) LoadRunner
3 3 (1.899%) Subversion
3 3 (1.899%) Bugzilla
4 2 (1.266%) Hudson
4 2 (1.266%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.266%) Mercurial
5 1 (0.633%) JUnit
5 1 (0.633%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.633%) Rational Robot
5 1 (0.633%) TestDirector
5 1 (0.633%) NUnit
5 1 (0.633%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.633%) Redmine
5 1 (0.633%) MSTest
5 1 (0.633%) WatiN
General
1 75 (47.47%) Finance
2 45 (28.48%) Banking
3 7 (4.430%) Legal
3 7 (4.430%) Retail
4 4 (2.532%) Retail Banking
5 3 (1.899%) Electronics
6 2 (1.266%) Corporate Banking
6 2 (1.266%) Games
6 2 (1.266%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.633%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.633%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 109 (68.99%) Analyst
2 73 (46.20%) Business Analyst
3 36 (22.78%) Test Analyst
4 27 (17.09%) Senior Analyst
5 17 (10.76%) Senior Business Analyst
5 17 (10.76%) Banking Business Analyst
6 13 (8.228%) Technical Analyst
7 12 (7.595%) Technical Business Analyst
8 10 (6.329%) Tester
8 10 (6.329%) Senior Test Analyst
9 9 (5.696%) Test Leader
10 8 (5.063%) Software Engineer
10 8 (5.063%) Test Manager
11 7 (4.430%) Test Engineer
11 7 (4.430%) Software Tester
11 7 (4.430%) Team Leader
11 7 (4.430%) Payments Business Analyst
12 6 (3.797%) Software Test Engineer
13 5 (3.165%) Test Team Leader
14 4 (2.532%) Financial Services Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 14 (8.861%) Mainframe
2 7 (4.430%) SWIFT
2 7 (4.430%) Computer Science
3 2 (1.266%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (1.266%) Visualisation
3 2 (1.266%) Credit Risk
3 2 (1.266%) Mathematics
3 2 (1.266%) Physics
4 1 (0.633%) EPoS
4 1 (0.633%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.633%) AS400
4 1 (0.633%) Blog
4 1 (0.633%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 16 (10.13%) Linux
2 10 (6.329%) UNIX
3 4 (2.532%) Windows
4 1 (0.633%) VxWorks
4 1 (0.633%) Android
4 1 (0.633%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (39.87%) Business Analysis
2 49 (31.01%) Software Testing
3 34 (21.52%) User Acceptance Testing
4 22 (13.92%) Agile Software Development
5 20 (12.66%) Stakeholder Management
5 20 (12.66%) UML
6 17 (10.76%) Project Management
6 17 (10.76%) Test Automation
7 16 (10.13%) Automated Testing
8 15 (9.494%) Zachman Framework
8 15 (9.494%) TOGAF
8 15 (9.494%) DMAIC
8 15 (9.494%) Process Management
8 15 (9.494%) BPMN
8 15 (9.494%) Requirements Management
8 15 (9.494%) Enterprise Architecture
9 14 (8.861%) Business Intelligence
10 12 (7.595%) Test Strategy
10 12 (7.595%) Test Management
11 11 (6.962%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 36 (22.78%) SQL
2 15 (9.494%) C#
3 13 (8.228%) Java
4 5 (3.165%) C++
5 4 (2.532%) Perl
6 3 (1.899%) Python
6 3 (1.899%) C
7 2 (1.266%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.266%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.266%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.633%) PHP
8 1 (0.633%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.633%) VB
8 1 (0.633%) VB.NET
8 1 (0.633%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 37 (23.42%) Degree
2 31 (19.62%) ISTQB
3 20 (12.66%) ISEB Practitioner
4 15 (9.494%) CBAP
5 2 (1.266%) Security Cleared
5 2 (1.266%) HND
6 1 (0.633%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 1 (0.633%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (10.76%) QA
2 15 (9.494%) Basel II
3 12 (7.595%) Solvency II
4 7 (4.430%) FATCA
5 1 (0.633%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (0.633%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (14.56%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 14 (8.861%) HP
2 12 (7.595%) Business Objects
3 8 (5.063%) Oracle
4 7 (4.430%) Fundtech
5 5 (3.165%) Microsoft
6 3 (1.899%) SAP
7 1 (0.633%) Reuters
7 1 (0.633%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.633%) Intergraph
7 1 (0.633%) VMware
7 1 (0.633%) Open Text
Glasgow, Lanarkshire
Experience of Java, SQL, Selenium or J-unit would be advantageous, although not essential... -ISEB qualified (or equivalent) -Experience of SQL, Java and Selenium - Ideally, not essential... Specialism:...
Maclean Moore Consulting
Salary: From £25,000 to £33,000 per annum
Posted: 14 May 2013
Dunfermline, Fife
up to £38K DOE + excellent benefits - Dunfermline - Auto / QTP Our client is one of the most respected organisations in Fife and is looking for an experienced and technically...
Search Consultancy
Salary: excellent benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013