The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Computer Science in IT jobs advertised for the Somerset region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Computer Science over the 3 months to 17 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 Somerset region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Computer Science (Computing Science)
Rank 32 45 46
Rank change year-on-year
+13 +1
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 34 11 9
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Somerset 5.338% 2.494% 1.887%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 17.09% 8.462% 11.84%
Number of salaries quoted 31 11 9
Average salary £34,000 £31,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.93% -16.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £28,500 £22,300
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £41,300
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Somerset
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
199 130 76
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Somerset 31.24% 29.48% 15.93%
Number of salaries quoted 170 127 71
Average salary £34,500 £37,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-8.00% -
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £60,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,815 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.96% +6.66%
Computer Science
South West

Computer Science
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Somerset Computer Science Jobs Demand Trend

Computer Science
Salary Trend

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

Somerset Computer Science Salary Trend

Computer Science
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Computer Science across the Somerset region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Somerset Computer Science Salary Histogram

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 Somerset region over the 3 months to 17 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
Bath +8 27 £34,000 +7.93%
Street - 3 - -
Weston-super-Mare - 1 £29,000 -
Computer Science
South West

Computer Science
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Somerset 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 76 (67.86%) Degree
2 71 (63.39%) C++
3 47 (41.96%) OO
4 46 (41.07%) Windows
5 39 (34.82%) Multithreading
6 38 (33.93%) C#
7 34 (30.36%) Software Engineering
8 31 (27.68%) Java
9 28 (25.00%) STL
9 28 (25.00%) MFC
10 27 (24.11%) XML
10 27 (24.11%) TDD
11 25 (22.32%) Continuous Integration
12 23 (20.54%) WPF
13 22 (19.64%) ATL
14 20 (17.86%) Linux
15 19 (16.96%) Python
16 17 (15.18%) Visual Studio
16 17 (15.18%) SQL
16 17 (15.18%) QA
17 16 (14.29%) Unit Testing
17 16 (14.29%) CppUnit
17 16 (14.29%) Trapeze
17 16 (14.29%) Hudson
17 16 (14.29%) GoogleTest
17 16 (14.29%) Ant
17 16 (14.29%) JavaScript
17 16 (14.29%) SOAP
17 16 (14.29%) UML
17 16 (14.29%) Web Services

Computer Science
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Somerset 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 28 (25.00%) MFC
1 28 (25.00%) STL
2 27 (24.11%) XML
3 23 (20.54%) WPF
4 22 (19.64%) ATL
5 16 (14.29%) Web Services
5 16 (14.29%) XML Schema
5 16 (14.29%) SOAP
6 15 (13.39%) HTML
7 11 (9.821%) .NET
8 10 (8.929%) Middleware
9 9 (8.036%) jQuery
10 8 (7.143%) Google Maps API
10 8 (7.143%) Ext JS
10 8 (7.143%) Bing Maps
10 8 (7.143%) Hibernate
10 8 (7.143%) Spring
10 8 (7.143%) Ajax
10 8 (7.143%) JSTL
10 8 (7.143%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 3 (2.679%) WebLogic
2 1 (0.893%) Tomcat
2 1 (0.893%) CMS
2 1 (0.893%) Orchard CMS
Applications
1 4 (3.571%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.893%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.893%) LabWindows
Communications & Networking
1 11 (9.821%) TCP/IP
2 4 (3.571%) HTTP
3 3 (2.679%) VoIP
3 3 (2.679%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.143%) RDBMS
2 2 (1.786%) MySQL
3 1 (0.893%) TOAD
3 1 (0.893%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 17 (15.18%) Visual Studio
2 16 (14.29%) Ant
2 16 (14.29%) CppUnit
2 16 (14.29%) Hudson
2 16 (14.29%) GoogleTest
3 8 (7.143%) jMock
3 8 (7.143%) JUnit
4 4 (3.571%) Rational DOORS
5 2 (1.786%) Git (software)
6 1 (0.893%) Moq
6 1 (0.893%) NUnit
6 1 (0.893%) Subversion
6 1 (0.893%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.893%) TeamCity
General
1 4 (3.571%) Telecoms
1 4 (3.571%) Finance
1 4 (3.571%) Publishing
2 3 (2.679%) Aerospace
2 3 (2.679%) Front Office
3 1 (0.893%) Electronics
3 1 (0.893%) Games
3 1 (0.893%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 60 (53.57%) Software Engineer
2 44 (39.29%) Developer
3 37 (33.04%) C++ Software Engineer
4 25 (22.32%) Software Developer
5 20 (17.86%) Graduate
6 17 (15.18%) Graduate Software Engineer
7 10 (8.929%) C# Developer
8 7 (6.250%) C++ Developer
9 6 (5.357%) C++/C# Developer
9 6 (5.357%) C++ Software Developer
10 5 (4.464%) Software Test Engineer
10 5 (4.464%) Linux Engineer
10 5 (4.464%) Test Engineer
10 5 (4.464%) Android Developer
11 4 (3.571%) Senior Software Engineer
11 4 (3.571%) Senior Developer
11 4 (3.571%) Senior C# Developer
12 3 (2.679%) Performance Analyst
12 3 (2.679%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
12 3 (2.679%) Application Performance Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.71%) Management Information System
1 12 (10.71%) Mobile App
2 4 (3.571%) Physics
2 4 (3.571%) Social Network
2 4 (3.571%) Social Media
3 3 (2.679%) Mathematics
3 3 (2.679%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.893%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (0.893%) Firmware
4 1 (0.893%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 46 (41.07%) Windows
2 20 (17.86%) Linux
3 13 (11.61%) Android
4 11 (9.821%) Apple iOS
4 11 (9.821%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (41.96%) OO
2 39 (34.82%) Multithreading
3 34 (30.36%) Software Engineering
4 27 (24.11%) TDD
5 25 (22.32%) Continuous Integration
6 16 (14.29%) Unit Testing
6 16 (14.29%) UML
7 10 (8.929%) Automated Testing
8 8 (7.143%) Time Management
8 8 (7.143%) Data Modelling
8 8 (7.143%) Waterfall
9 6 (5.357%) Signal Processing
9 6 (5.357%) SysML
10 5 (4.464%) OOD
10 5 (4.464%) Agile Software Development
11 4 (3.571%) Memory Management
11 4 (3.571%) OOP
12 3 (2.679%) Business Development
12 3 (2.679%) Performance Management
12 3 (2.679%) Mobile Application Development
Programming Languages
1 71 (63.39%) C++
2 38 (33.93%) C#
3 31 (27.68%) Java
4 19 (16.96%) Python
5 17 (15.18%) SQL
6 16 (14.29%) JavaScript
7 15 (13.39%) C
8 7 (6.250%) PHP
9 5 (4.464%) Bash shell
10 4 (3.571%) Objective-C
11 3 (2.679%) PowerShell
11 3 (2.679%) VB
11 3 (2.679%) Perl
11 3 (2.679%) Assembly Language
12 1 (0.893%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.893%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.893%) VC++
12 1 (0.893%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 76 (67.86%) Degree
2 3 (2.679%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.786%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (15.18%) QA
2 3 (2.679%) DO-178B
System Software
1 8 (7.143%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (2.679%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 3 (2.679%) OpenView
1 3 (2.679%) Nagios
1 3 (2.679%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 16 (14.29%) Trapeze
2 9 (8.036%) Oracle
2 9 (8.036%) JBoss
3 8 (7.143%) VMware
3 8 (7.143%) Google
3 8 (7.143%) Microsoft
4 5 (4.464%) Adobe
5 4 (3.571%) Apple
6 3 (2.679%) OPNET
6 3 (2.679%) ATG
6 3 (2.679%) Cisco
6 3 (2.679%) NetScout
6 3 (2.679%) SolarWinds
6 3 (2.679%) Compuware
6 3 (2.679%) HP
6 3 (2.679%) Citrix
6 3 (2.679%) Juniper
6 3 (2.679%) BMC
6 3 (2.679%) CA
6 3 (2.679%) F5
Weston-Super-Mare, Avon
Java/C++ Developer required for a well known company in Central Weston Super Mare.
ISL
Salary: £28000 - £30000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 14 May 2013
Somerset, South West
In addition you will be required to: - Provide estimates for tasks - Develop and deliver work to schedule - Provide input to technical writers working for product documentation - Work with...
Questor Resourcing
Salary: Competitive upon experience
Posted: 14 May 2013
Somerset
Essential skills include: *Degree in Computer Engineering or Computer Science... *Experience of full development life cycle using C/C++ for Embedded Systems, Assembler(8051) , Visual C++, VB.NET... *...
Roc Search
Salary: £45000 - £55000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
Yeovil, Somerset
Whilst the individual will not be expected to specialise in all key tasks as listed below a key requirement will be to support the delivery of all tasks...
Polar Recruitment
Posted: 14 May 2013