The first table below looks at the demand for Continuous Improvement skills in IT jobs advertised for the Somerset region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Continuous Improvement over the 3 months to 22 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Somerset region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Continual Improvement
Rank 49 - 52
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 18 0 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Somerset 2.830% - 1.040%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.600% - 1.592%
Number of salaries quoted 18 0 5
Average salary £33,500 - £57,500
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 - £39,000
10% offered a salary of more than £40,750 - £59,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £43,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-6.97% +1.17%
All Processes & Methodologies
Somerset
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
500 355 314
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Somerset 78.62% 75.85% 65.28%
Number of salaries quoted 460 338 290
Average salary £38,000 £39,160 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.96% +4.42%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,100 £25,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £62,500 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Continuous Improvement
South West

Continuous Improvement
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Continuous Improvement across the Somerset region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Somerset Continuous Improvement Jobs Demand Trend

Continuous Improvement
Salary Trend

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

Somerset Continuous Improvement Salary Trend

Continuous Improvement
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Continuous Improvement across the Somerset region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Somerset Continuous Improvement Salary Histogram

Continuous Improvement
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Continuous Improvement within the Somerset region over the 3 months to 22 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 - 13 £34,000 -
Taunton - 1 £26,000 -
Continuous Improvement
South West

Continuous Improvement
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Somerset region citing Continuous Improvement 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 Continuous Improvement.

1 21 (55.26%) C#
1 21 (55.26%) .NET
2 14 (36.84%) Service Delivery
3 13 (34.21%) SQL Server
3 13 (34.21%) IIS
3 13 (34.21%) VB.NET
3 13 (34.21%) Windows
3 13 (34.21%) Windows Server 2003
4 12 (31.58%) Finance
5 11 (28.95%) Agile Software Development
5 11 (28.95%) MS Excel
5 11 (28.95%) ASP.NET
6 10 (26.32%) Migration
7 9 (23.68%) Business Analysis
7 9 (23.68%) Microsoft
8 8 (21.05%) Oracle
8 8 (21.05%) SQL
8 8 (21.05%) User Acceptance Testing
8 8 (21.05%) Windows Server 2008
8 8 (21.05%) Team Foundation Server
9 7 (18.42%) Degree
9 7 (18.42%) SharePoint
9 7 (18.42%) ITIL
10 6 (15.79%) HTML
10 6 (15.79%) JavaScript
10 6 (15.79%) WCF
10 6 (15.79%) LINQ
10 6 (15.79%) Continuous Integration
10 6 (15.79%) Automated Testing
10 6 (15.79%) TDD

Continuous Improvement
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Somerset region citing Continuous Improvement 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 Continuous Improvement. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 21 (55.26%) .NET
2 11 (28.95%) ASP.NET
3 6 (15.79%) HTML
3 6 (15.79%) WCF
3 6 (15.79%) LINQ
4 5 (13.16%) .NET Framework
5 4 (10.53%) WinForms
6 1 (2.632%) jQuery
6 1 (2.632%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 13 (34.21%) IIS
2 7 (18.42%) SharePoint
3 2 (5.263%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (2.632%) Apache
Applications
1 11 (28.95%) MS Excel
2 2 (5.263%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (5.263%) Oracle Applications
1 2 (5.263%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (2.632%) Agresso
Communications & Networking
1 5 (13.16%) DNS
2 3 (7.895%) Internet
3 2 (5.263%) WAN
3 2 (5.263%) Intranet
4 1 (2.632%) Firewall
4 1 (2.632%) Wireless
4 1 (2.632%) VLAN
4 1 (2.632%) OSPF
4 1 (2.632%) BGP
4 1 (2.632%) ADSL
4 1 (2.632%) LAN
4 1 (2.632%) SNMP
4 1 (2.632%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (34.21%) SQL Server
2 5 (13.16%) Oracle 8/8i
3 2 (5.263%) MS Access
3 2 (5.263%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (5.263%) Oracle Discoverer
4 1 (2.632%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (21.05%) Team Foundation Server
2 5 (13.16%) Jenkins
2 5 (13.16%) NUnit
2 5 (13.16%) Subversion
2 5 (13.16%) ReSharper
2 5 (13.16%) Visual Studio
2 5 (13.16%) Dreamweaver
3 3 (7.895%) Selenium
3 3 (7.895%) WebLOAD
4 2 (5.263%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (5.263%) JDeveloper
General
1 12 (31.58%) Finance
2 4 (10.53%) Manufacturing
3 1 (2.632%) Legal
3 1 (2.632%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 13 (34.21%) Developer
2 10 (26.32%) Analyst
3 9 (23.68%) Team Leader
4 8 (21.05%) Release Engineer
4 8 (21.05%) Configuration Engineer
5 6 (15.79%) Senior .NET Developer
5 6 (15.79%) .NET Team Leader
5 6 (15.79%) .NET Developer
5 6 (15.79%) Senior Developer
5 6 (15.79%) Agile .NET Developer
5 6 (15.79%) ScrumMaster
6 4 (10.53%) Analyst Developer
7 3 (7.895%) Senior Analyst
7 3 (7.895%) Test Analyst
8 2 (5.263%) Consultant
8 2 (5.263%) Applications Developer
8 2 (5.263%) Business Analyst
8 2 (5.263%) Oracle Applications Developer
8 2 (5.263%) Oracle Developer
8 2 (5.263%) Senior Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.263%) Data Extraction
1 2 (5.263%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.632%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 13 (34.21%) Windows
1 13 (34.21%) Windows Server 2003
2 8 (21.05%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (5.263%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (36.84%) Service Delivery
2 11 (28.95%) Agile Software Development
3 10 (26.32%) Migration
4 9 (23.68%) Business Analysis
5 8 (21.05%) User Acceptance Testing
6 7 (18.42%) ITIL
7 6 (15.79%) Continuous Integration
7 6 (15.79%) Automated Testing
7 6 (15.79%) TDD
7 6 (15.79%) Scrum
8 5 (13.16%) Data Migration
8 5 (13.16%) UML
8 5 (13.16%) ERP
9 4 (10.53%) Root Cause Analysis
10 3 (7.895%) Data Management
10 3 (7.895%) Problem Management
10 3 (7.895%) Test Management
10 3 (7.895%) Test Scripting
10 3 (7.895%) E-Commerce
11 2 (5.263%) Six Sigma
Programming Languages
1 21 (55.26%) C#
2 13 (34.21%) VB.NET
3 8 (21.05%) SQL
4 6 (15.79%) JavaScript
5 5 (13.16%) C++
6 2 (5.263%) PL/SQL
7 1 (2.632%) C
7 1 (2.632%) PHP
Qualifications
1 7 (18.42%) Degree
2 5 (13.16%) Security Cleared
3 3 (7.895%) ISTQB
3 3 (7.895%) ISEB
4 2 (5.263%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.632%) ISSMP
5 1 (2.632%) CCNP
5 1 (2.632%) CCNA
5 1 (2.632%) CISSP
5 1 (2.632%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.263%) ISO 9001
1 2 (5.263%) QA
2 1 (2.632%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.632%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 3 (7.895%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
Vendors
1 9 (23.68%) Microsoft
2 8 (21.05%) Oracle
3 5 (13.16%) Red Gate
3 5 (13.16%) Macromedia
4 3 (7.895%) Symantec
5 1 (2.632%) Cisco