South East Government Jobs

This section looks at the prevalence of the term 'Government' in IT jobs within the South East 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.

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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	91	84
Rank change on same period last year	-7
Matching permanent IT job ads	919	1118
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.485 %	0.458 %
As % of the category below	5.076 %	5.250 %
Salaries quoted	719	913
Average minimum salary	£39,430	£45,356
Average salary	£43,320	£49,798
% change on same period last year	-13.00 %
Average maximum salary	£47,210	£54,239
UK excluding London average salary	£44,473	£48,880
% change on same period last year	-9.01 %
General South East
Matching permanent IT job ads	18104	21294
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	9.557 %	8.720 %
Salaries quoted	14224	17476
Average minimum salary	£38,482	£40,485
Average salary	£42,103	£44,034
% change on same period last year	-4.38 %
Average maximum salary	£45,723	£47,583
UK excluding London average salary	£40,890	£42,387
% change on same period last year	-3.53 %
Government England

Government
Demand Trend

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

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Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Government across the South East 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 South East 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
Surrey	+16	228	£45,894	-9.01 %
Hampshire	+31	214	£38,967	-6.37 %
Berkshire	-3	201	£41,636	-17.01 %
Buckinghamshire	+31	69	£39,446	-18.43 %
Oxfordshire	+10	53	£42,931	-15.73 %
Middlesex	+28	49	£57,389	+5.30 %
West Sussex	+5	15	£41,625	+15.22 %
East Sussex	-42	14	£32,950	-14.25 %
Kent	-8	14	£45,500	+17.25 %
Home Counties	-3	6	£131,667	+114.96 %
Thames Valley	+13	4	£42,500	-36.94 %

Government England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the South East 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.

1 637 (33.56 %) Security Cleared 2 292 (15.38 %) SC Cleared 3 290 (15.28 %) Finance 4 281 (14.81 %) Windows 5 259 (13.65 %) Oracle 6 253 (13.33 %) .NET 7 252 (13.28 %) Java 8 246 (12.96 %) Degree 9 239 (12.59 %) SQL 10 225 (11.85 %) SQL Server 11 206 (10.85 %) Microsoft 12 179 (9.431 %) C++ 13 178 (9.378 %) Project Management 14 158 (8.325 %) J2EE 15 155 (8.166 %) Education

16 148 (7.798 %) UML 17 140 (7.376 %) XML 18 138 (7.271 %) UNIX 18 138 (7.271 %) C# 19 137 (7.218 %) Linux 20 133 (7.007 %) Local Government 21 123 (6.481 %) ASP.NET 21 123 (6.481 %) Active Directory 21 123 (6.481 %) Telecoms 22 122 (6.428 %) C 23 115 (6.059 %) Retail 24 114 (6.006 %) PRINCE2 25 100 (5.269 %) HTML 26 97 (5.111 %) Business Development 27 94 (4.953 %) VB.NET

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the South East 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 1 253 (13.33 %) .NET 2 158 (8.325 %) J2EE 3 140 (7.376 %) XML 4 123 (6.481 %) ASP.NET 5 100 (5.269 %) HTML 6 76 (4.004 %) WebServices 7 54 (2.845 %) ASP 8 48 (2.529 %) .NET Framework 9 40 (2.107 %) WebSphere 10 34 (1.791 %) CSS 11 29 (1.528 %) Spring 12 27 (1.423 %) J2SE 13 26 (1.370 %) EJB 14 24 (1.264 %) XSL 14 24 (1.264 %) Hibernate 15 22 (1.159 %) SOAP 16 21 (1.106 %) JSP 17 20 (1.054 %) AJAX 18 19 (1.001 %) Struts 19 17 (0.896 %) Middleware	Application Platforms 1 92 (4.847 %) WebLogic 2 55 (2.898 %) SharePoint 3 39 (2.055 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 38 (2.002 %) MS Exchange 5 29 (1.528 %) Tomcat 5 29 (1.528 %) Apache 6 27 (1.423 %) JBoss 7 18 (0.948 %) Lotus Domino 7 18 (0.948 %) Exchange Server 2007 8 17 (0.896 %) IIS 9 16 (0.843 %) SharePoint Server 2007 10 12 (0.632 %) Exchange Server 5.5 10 12 (0.632 %) BizTalk Server 11 11 (0.580 %) Oracle Workflow 12 10 (0.527 %) CMS 12 10 (0.527 %) ColdFusion 13 9 (0.474 %) Exchange Server 2000 14 6 (0.316 %) Oracle Application Server 14 6 (0.316 %) WebSphere Application Server 15 4 (0.211 %) WebLogic Portal
Applications 1 75 (3.952 %) MS Excel 2 31 (1.633 %) MS Office 3 26 (1.370 %) MS Project 4 20 (1.054 %) MS Visio 5 11 (0.580 %) AutoCAD 6 9 (0.474 %) MATLAB 7 8 (0.421 %) Simulink 8 7 (0.369 %) InfoPath 9 4 (0.211 %) MS PowerPoint 10 2 (0.105 %) Photoshop 10 2 (0.105 %) CA Clarity 10 2 (0.105 %) Spreadsheet 11 1 (0.053 %) FrameMaker 11 1 (0.053 %) SPSS 11 1 (0.053 %) RoboHelp	Business Applications 1 36 (1.897 %) Oracle Applications 2 18 (0.948 %) SAP MDM 3 12 (0.632 %) SAP HR 4 11 (0.580 %) Axapta 4 11 (0.580 %) Staffware 4 11 (0.580 %) Dynamics AX 5 8 (0.421 %) Oracle Payroll 6 6 (0.316 %) Oracle EBS 7 5 (0.263 %) Microsoft CRM 8 4 (0.211 %) Oracle ERP 9 2 (0.105 %) SAP SD 9 2 (0.105 %) BusinessWorks 10 1 (0.053 %) Singl.eView 10 1 (0.053 %) SAP R/3 10 1 (0.053 %) SAP FI 10 1 (0.053 %) SAP MM 10 1 (0.053 %) SAP FI/CO 10 1 (0.053 %) SAP CRM 10 1 (0.053 %) GoldMine 10 1 (0.053 %) SAP CO
Communications & Networking 1 94 (4.953 %) Firewall 2 92 (4.847 %) Internet 3 63 (3.319 %) Network Security 4 49 (2.582 %) VPN 5 47 (2.476 %) WAN 6 46 (2.424 %) VoIP 7 41 (2.160 %) SAN 8 40 (2.107 %) TCP/IP 9 39 (2.055 %) DNS 10 37 (1.949 %) LAN 11 29 (1.528 %) MPLS 12 27 (1.423 %) SMS 12 27 (1.423 %) Wireless 13 22 (1.159 %) OSPF 14 21 (1.106 %) ATM 15 19 (1.001 %) Intranet 16 16 (0.843 %) RIP 17 15 (0.790 %) DHCP 17 15 (0.790 %) CTI 17 15 (0.790 %) 3G	Database & Business Intelligence 1 225 (11.85 %) SQL Server 2 73 (3.846 %) Oracle 10g 3 39 (2.055 %) SQL Server 2000 4 38 (2.002 %) Oracle 9i 5 33 (1.739 %) RDBMS 5 33 (1.739 %) SQL Server 2005 6 27 (1.423 %) GIS 7 22 (1.159 %) BusinessObjects 8 18 (0.948 %) SQLPlus 8 18 (0.948 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 9 17 (0.896 %) BusinessObjects XI 9 17 (0.896 %) TOAD 9 17 (0.896 %) DB2 10 16 (0.843 %) SQL Server 7 11 14 (0.738 %) MySQL 12 11 (0.580 %) SQL Server Integration Services 13 9 (0.474 %) Datawarehouse 13 9 (0.474 %) Data Mining 13 9 (0.474 %) Crystal Reports 13 9 (0.474 %) Oracle Reports
Development Applications 1 41 (2.160 %) Visual Studio 2 30 (1.581 %) Eclipse 3 25 (1.317 %) JUnit 4 22 (1.159 %) Ant 5 20 (1.054 %) Rational Rose 6 8 (0.421 %) Dreamweaver 6 8 (0.421 %) VSS/SourceSafe 6 8 (0.421 %) TestDirector 7 5 (0.263 %) LoadRunner 7 5 (0.263 %) Oracle Forms 8 4 (0.211 %) Flash 8 4 (0.211 %) Synon 8 4 (0.211 %) QARun 8 4 (0.211 %) Oracle Designer 10g 9 3 (0.158 %) Visual Studio Team System 10 2 (0.105 %) Subversion 10 2 (0.105 %) StarTeam 10 2 (0.105 %) Oracle APEX 10 2 (0.105 %) ARTiSAN 10 2 (0.105 %) PowerBuilder	General 1 290 (15.28 %) Finance 2 155 (8.166 %) Education 3 133 (7.007 %) Local Government 4 123 (6.481 %) Telecoms 5 115 (6.059 %) Retail 6 89 (4.689 %) Military 7 78 (4.110 %) Health 8 71 (3.741 %) Banking 9 69 (3.635 %) Insurance 10 64 (3.372 %) Manufacturing 11 63 (3.319 %) Pensions 12 55 (2.898 %) Marketing 13 51 (2.687 %) Aerospace 14 27 (1.423 %) Police 15 24 (1.264 %) Construction 15 24 (1.264 %) Legal 16 19 (1.001 %) Law 17 18 (0.948 %) Publishing 18 16 (0.843 %) Electronics 18 16 (0.843 %) Investment Banking
Job Titles 1 313 (16.49 %) Developer 2 272 (14.33 %) Consultant 3 218 (11.49 %) Analyst 4 152 (8.008 %) Architect 5 85 (4.478 %) Project Manager 6 84 (4.426 %) Software Engineer 7 79 (4.162 %) Java Developer 8 63 (3.319 %) .NET Developer 9 57 (3.003 %) Systems Engineer 10 56 (2.950 %) Support Engineer 11 54 (2.845 %) Senior Developer 12 51 (2.687 %) Support Analyst 13 50 (2.634 %) Technical Consultant 14 48 (2.529 %) Security Consultant 15 47 (2.476 %) DBA 16 46 (2.424 %) Technical Architect 17 44 (2.318 %) Administrator 18 42 (2.213 %) Programmer 19 41 (2.160 %) Network Engineer 20 39 (2.055 %) Oracle DBA	Miscellaneous 1 73 (3.846 %) Management Information System 2 47 (2.476 %) Computer Science 3 30 (1.581 %) Mathematics 4 27 (1.423 %) IVR 5 26 (1.370 %) PKI 6 24 (1.264 %) VHDL 7 19 (1.001 %) NHS 8 13 (0.685 %) Device Driver 8 13 (0.685 %) Clustering 9 12 (0.632 %) Smartcard 9 12 (0.632 %) Thin Client 9 12 (0.632 %) Fat Client 10 11 (0.580 %) French Language 10 11 (0.580 %) W3C 11 9 (0.474 %) Physics 12 8 (0.421 %) Client/Server 12 8 (0.421 %) SecurID 13 7 (0.369 %) CESG 13 7 (0.369 %) German Language 14 6 (0.316 %) Replication
Operating Systems 1 281 (14.81 %) Windows 2 138 (7.271 %) UNIX 3 137 (7.218 %) Linux 4 75 (3.952 %) Windows Server 2003 5 40 (2.107 %) Windows NT 6 38 (2.002 %) Solaris 7 37 (1.949 %) Windows 2000 8 26 (1.370 %) Windows XP 9 16 (0.843 %) AIX 10 12 (0.632 %) HPUX 11 5 (0.263 %) SUSE 12 4 (0.211 %) Debian 13 3 (0.158 %) Windows Mobile 14 2 (0.105 %) Tru64 15 1 (0.053 %) VxWorks 15 1 (0.053 %) Embedded Linux 15 1 (0.053 %) MVS	Processes & Methodologies 1 637 (33.56 %) Security Cleared 2 292 (15.38 %) SC Cleared 3 178 (9.378 %) Project Management 4 148 (7.798 %) UML 5 114 (6.006 %) PRINCE2 6 97 (5.111 %) Business Development 7 91 (4.795 %) OO 8 71 (3.741 %) RUP 9 61 (3.214 %) ITIL 10 58 (3.056 %) Information Security 10 58 (3.056 %) Agile Software Development 11 52 (2.740 %) Migration 12 46 (2.424 %) Programme Management 13 42 (2.213 %) DV Cleared 14 38 (2.002 %) Unit Testing 14 38 (2.002 %) Configuration Management 14 38 (2.002 %) CRM 15 37 (1.949 %) Service Delivery 15 37 (1.949 %) Software Engineering 16 36 (1.897 %) SOA
Programming Languages 1 252 (13.28 %) Java 2 239 (12.59 %) SQL 3 179 (9.431 %) C++ 4 138 (7.271 %) C# 5 122 (6.428 %) C 6 94 (4.953 %) VB.NET 7 80 (4.215 %) JavaScript 8 69 (3.635 %) VB 9 51 (2.687 %) PL/SQL 10 33 (1.739 %) Perl 11 32 (1.686 %) VB6 12 27 (1.423 %) PHP 13 23 (1.212 %) DHTML 14 15 (0.790 %) VC++ 15 14 (0.738 %) ABAP 16 11 (0.580 %) X++ 17 10 (0.527 %) LotusScript 17 10 (0.527 %) Embedded C++ 18 9 (0.474 %) Python 19 6 (0.316 %) Delphi	Qualifications 1 246 (12.96 %) Degree 2 83 (4.373 %) Microsoft Certification 3 53 (2.792 %) Cisco Certification 3 53 (2.792 %) MCSE 4 40 (2.107 %) CISM 5 36 (1.897 %) CISSP 6 35 (1.844 %) CCNA 7 31 (1.633 %) CISA 8 29 (1.528 %) PRINCE2 Certification 9 25 (1.317 %) Citrix Certification 10 23 (1.212 %) ISEB 11 20 (1.054 %) CCA 12 15 (0.790 %) MCP 12 15 (0.790 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 12 15 (0.790 %) CISMP 13 13 (0.685 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 14 12 (0.632 %) CCNP 15 11 (0.580 %) OCP 15 11 (0.580 %) Oracle Certification 16 10 (0.527 %) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 42 (2.213 %) QA 2 35 (1.844 %) SLA 3 27 (1.423 %) ISO9001 4 24 (1.264 %) ISO27001 5 16 (0.843 %) TickIT 6 10 (0.527 %) BS7799 7 8 (0.421 %) ISO9000 8 7 (0.369 %) ISO17799 9 6 (0.316 %) HMG Infosec 10 5 (0.263 %) JSP 440 11 4 (0.211 %) HL7 12 3 (0.158 %) PCI DSS 13 2 (0.105 %) PCI QSA 14 1 (0.053 %) GAAP 14 1 (0.053 %) BS15000	System Software 1 123 (6.481 %) Active Directory 2 31 (1.633 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 26 (1.370 %) AquaLogic 4 19 (1.001 %) Oracle RMAN 5 9 (0.474 %) NetBackup 6 8 (0.421 %) ProxySG 7 7 (0.369 %) Oracle RAC 8 6 (0.316 %) VMware ESX 8 6 (0.316 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 9 2 (0.105 %) Nmap 9 2 (0.105 %) Backup Exec 9 2 (0.105 %) Citrix Presentation Server 10 1 (0.053 %) Terminal Server
Systems Management 1 18 (0.948 %) MOM 1 18 (0.948 %) Netcool 2 12 (0.632 %) Tivoli 2 12 (0.632 %) OpenView Configuration Management 3 7 (0.369 %) Netcool/Proviso 3 7 (0.369 %) Netcool/OMNIbus 4 4 (0.211 %) Netcool/Webtop 4 4 (0.211 %) Norton AntiVirus 5 3 (0.158 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 5 3 (0.158 %) Tivoli Monitoring 5 3 (0.158 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager 5 3 (0.158 %) OpenView 6 2 (0.105 %) EMC Navisphere 6 2 (0.105 %) Nessus 6 2 (0.105 %) ARCserve 6 2 (0.105 %) TIBCO InConcert 6 2 (0.105 %) Oracle Statspack 7 1 (0.053 %) Legato 7 1 (0.053 %) Tivoli Storage Manager	Vendors 1 259 (13.65 %) Oracle 2 206 (10.85 %) Microsoft 3 69 (3.635 %) Cisco 4 51 (2.687 %) SAP 5 45 (2.371 %) BEA 6 43 (2.266 %) Citrix 7 40 (2.107 %) VMware 8 31 (1.633 %) EMC 9 30 (1.581 %) IBM 10 27 (1.423 %) CheckPoint 11 26 (1.370 %) HP 12 22 (1.159 %) Business Objects 13 20 (1.054 %) Juniper 14 19 (1.001 %) TIBCO 15 17 (0.896 %) Lotus 16 14 (0.738 %) Red Hat 16 14 (0.738 %) VERITAS 17 12 (0.632 %) Chordiant 17 12 (0.632 %) Nokia 18 11 (0.580 %) ILOG