Somerset Government Jobs

This section looks at the prevalence of the term 'Government' in IT jobs within the Somerset region together with a comparison to our General terms category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Government over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Government
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Aldershot Andover Aylesbury Banbury Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Beaconsfield Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Carlisle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Cleveland Corsham Coulsdon County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dunstable East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Exeter Exmouth Fareham Farnborough Farnham Gateshead Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Home Counties Horsham Hull Hungerford Inverness Ipswich Kent Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton Maidenhead Manchester Melton Mowbray Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oswestry Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Radlett Reading Redhill Rochdale Romsey Rugby Runcorn Sale Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Skipton Slough Smethwick Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swindon Telford Tewkesbury Thames Valley Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallington Walton-on-Thames Wareham Warrington Warwickshire Watford Wells Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Witney Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	36	72
Rank change on same period last year	+36
Matching permanent IT job ads	71	13
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.037 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	9.713 %	2.725 %
Salaries quoted	66	13
Average minimum salary	£32,455	£35,231
Average salary	£39,417	£40,115
% change on same period last year	-1.74 %
Average maximum salary	£46,379	£45,000
UK excluding London average salary	£44,473	£48,880
% change on same period last year	-9.01 %
General Somerset
Matching permanent IT job ads	731	477
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.386 %	0.195 %
Salaries quoted	641	428
Average minimum salary	£35,920	£32,633
Average salary	£39,542	£35,465
% change on same period last year	+11.49 %
Average maximum salary	£43,164	£38,297
UK excluding London average salary	£40,890	£42,387
% change on same period last year	-3.53 %
Government South West

Government
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Government across the Somerset region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

Government
Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Government across the Somerset region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Government within the Somerset region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Bath	-	49	£32,323	-
Wells	-	1	£55,000	-

Government South West

Government
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Somerset region citing Government 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 Government.

1 69 (60.53 %) Java 1 69 (60.53 %) J2EE 2 62 (54.39 %) UNIX 3 61 (53.51 %) C++ 4 59 (51.75 %) Oracle 5 58 (50.88 %) N-Tier 5 58 (50.88 %) C 5 58 (50.88 %) WebLogic 6 25 (21.93 %) Telecoms 7 23 (20.18 %) Security Cleared 8 19 (16.67 %) Military 9 16 (14.04 %) Information Security 10 14 (12.28 %) Finance 11 13 (11.40 %) C# 11 13 (11.40 %) .NET

12 12 (10.53 %) ASP.NET 12 12 (10.53 %) JSP 12 12 (10.53 %) JSP 440 12 12 (10.53 %) Degree 12 12 (10.53 %) ISO27001 13 9 (7.895 %) Pensions 14 8 (7.018 %) Windows 15 7 (6.140 %) VB.NET 15 7 (6.140 %) Systems Analysis 15 7 (6.140 %) Business Analysis 16 6 (5.263 %) CMMI 16 6 (5.263 %) Education 17 5 (4.386 %) Microsoft 17 5 (4.386 %) Requirements Analysis 18 4 (3.509 %) .NET Framework

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Somerset region citing Government 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 Government. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 69 (60.53 %) J2EE 2 13 (11.40 %) .NET 3 12 (10.53 %) ASP.NET 3 12 (10.53 %) JSP 4 4 (3.509 %) .NET Framework 5 2 (1.754 %) WebServices 6 1 (0.877 %) XML 6 1 (0.877 %) XML Schema 6 1 (0.877 %) ADO.NET 6 1 (0.877 %) ASP	Application Platforms 1 58 (50.88 %) WebLogic 2 3 (2.632 %) Exchange Server 2003
Applications 1 3 (2.632 %) MS Project 1 3 (2.632 %) MS PowerPoint 2 2 (1.754 %) MS Excel 3 1 (0.877 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 3 (2.632 %) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (0.877 %) SQL Server 1 1 (0.877 %) Oracle Reports 1 1 (0.877 %) SQL Server 7	General 1 25 (21.93 %) Telecoms 2 19 (16.67 %) Military 3 14 (12.28 %) Finance 4 9 (7.895 %) Pensions 5 6 (5.263 %) Education 6 4 (3.509 %) Aerospace 7 3 (2.632 %) Electronics 7 3 (2.632 %) Local Government 8 2 (1.754 %) Health
Job Titles 1 67 (58.77 %) Software Engineer 2 6 (5.263 %) .NET Software Engineer 3 5 (4.386 %) C# Software Engineer 3 5 (4.386 %) Architect 3 5 (4.386 %) Consultant 3 5 (4.386 %) Systems Engineer 4 4 (3.509 %) Security Consultant 4 4 (3.509 %) Project Manager 4 4 (3.509 %) IT Security Consultant 4 4 (3.509 %) IT Consultant 5 3 (2.632 %) Business Architect 5 3 (2.632 %) Network Engineer 6 2 (1.754 %) Tester 6 2 (1.754 %) Solutions Architect 6 2 (1.754 %) Security Engineer 6 2 (1.754 %) PRINCE2 Project Manager 6 2 (1.754 %) Information Security Engineer 7 1 (0.877 %) Software Consultant 7 1 (0.877 %) Business Manager 7 1 (0.877 %) IT Support Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 58 (50.88 %) N-Tier 2 3 (2.632 %) Human Factors 3 1 (0.877 %) Mathematics 3 1 (0.877 %) Physics
Operating Systems 1 62 (54.39 %) UNIX 2 8 (7.018 %) Windows 3 3 (2.632 %) Windows Server 2003 4 1 (0.877 %) Windows 2000	Processes & Methodologies 1 23 (20.18 %) Security Cleared 2 16 (14.04 %) Information Security 3 7 (6.140 %) Systems Analysis 3 7 (6.140 %) Business Analysis 4 6 (5.263 %) CMMI 5 5 (4.386 %) Requirements Analysis 6 4 (3.509 %) PRINCE2 6 4 (3.509 %) Project Management 6 4 (3.509 %) SC Cleared 7 3 (2.632 %) UML 7 3 (2.632 %) RUP 7 3 (2.632 %) Programme Management 7 3 (2.632 %) Business Development 7 3 (2.632 %) Requirements Management 8 2 (1.754 %) Validation 8 2 (1.754 %) Software Testing 8 2 (1.754 %) Manual Testing 9 1 (0.877 %) Unit Testing 9 1 (0.877 %) Test Management 9 1 (0.877 %) Project Planning
Programming Languages 1 69 (60.53 %) Java 2 61 (53.51 %) C++ 3 58 (50.88 %) C 4 13 (11.40 %) C# 5 7 (6.140 %) VB.NET 6 4 (3.509 %) SQL 7 1 (0.877 %) VB 7 1 (0.877 %) Delphi	Qualifications 1 12 (10.53 %) Degree 2 2 (1.754 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 2 (1.754 %) ISEB 3 1 (0.877 %) Microsoft Certification 3 1 (0.877 %) OCP 3 1 (0.877 %) Oracle Certification 3 1 (0.877 %) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 12 (10.53 %) ISO27001 1 12 (10.53 %) JSP 440	Vendors 1 59 (51.75 %) Oracle 2 5 (4.386 %) Microsoft 3 3 (2.632 %) Cisco