The first table below looks at the demand for Postgraduate in IT jobs advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Postgraduate over the 3 months to 23 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 South East region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Postgraduate
Rank 422 427 424
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -3
Permanent jobs citing Postgraduate 16 14 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 0.073% 0.059% 0.034%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.222% 0.176% 0.124%
Number of salaries quoted 15 11 4
Average salary £62,500 £40,052 £38,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
+56.04% +3.36%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £27,500 £33,250
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £58,000 £65,250
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £37,500 £30,000
% change year-on-year
+1.33% +25.00%
All Qualifications
South East
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
7194 7969 6440
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 32.69% 33.59% 27.70%
Number of salaries quoted 5802 6950 5522
Average salary £41,500 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.75% -
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
- +5.26%
Postgraduate
England

Postgraduate
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East Postgraduate Jobs Demand Trend

Postgraduate
Salary Trend

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

South East Postgraduate Salary Trend

Postgraduate
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Postgraduate across the South East region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

South East Postgraduate Salary Histogram

Postgraduate
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Postgraduate within the South East region over the 3 months to 23 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
Surrey +21 10 £62,500 +119.29%
Buckinghamshire - 3 £32,500 -
Hampshire - 2 £55,000 -
Oxfordshire - 1 - -
Postgraduate
England

Postgraduate
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the South East region citing Postgraduate 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 Postgraduate.

1 15 (57.69%) C++
2 13 (50.00%) C#
3 12 (46.15%) PhD
3 12 (46.15%) Java
3 12 (46.15%) Degree
3 12 (46.15%) Computer Science
4 10 (38.46%) Linux
5 9 (34.62%) C
6 8 (30.77%) Python
6 8 (30.77%) VoIP
7 7 (26.92%) Windows
7 7 (26.92%) .NET
7 7 (26.92%) Project Management
8 6 (23.08%) Finance
8 6 (23.08%) Mathematics
8 6 (23.08%) Software Engineering
8 6 (23.08%) Banking
8 6 (23.08%) QA
8 6 (23.08%) WPF
8 6 (23.08%) Financial Modelling
8 6 (23.08%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
8 6 (23.08%) Parallel Computing
8 6 (23.08%) Software Architecture
8 6 (23.08%) MVVM
8 6 (23.08%) Signal Processing
8 6 (23.08%) Analytics
8 6 (23.08%) MATLAB
8 6 (23.08%) Financial Institution
8 6 (23.08%) Web Services
8 6 (23.08%) XML

Postgraduate
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the South East region citing Postgraduate 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 Postgraduate. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (26.92%) .NET
2 6 (23.08%) WPF
2 6 (23.08%) Web Services
2 6 (23.08%) XML
3 1 (3.846%) OpenMP
3 1 (3.846%) SOAP
3 1 (3.846%) CORBA
Application Platforms
1 1 (3.846%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.846%) MS Office
1 1 (3.846%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 8 (30.77%) VoIP
2 2 (7.692%) Ethernet
2 2 (7.692%) VPN
3 1 (3.846%) GPON
3 1 (3.846%) xDSL
3 1 (3.846%) Network Security
3 1 (3.846%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (3.846%) Firewall
3 1 (3.846%) Wireless
3 1 (3.846%) MPLS
3 1 (3.846%) OSPF
3 1 (3.846%) BGP
3 1 (3.846%) DSLAM
3 1 (3.846%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.846%) WAN
3 1 (3.846%) ATM
3 1 (3.846%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.846%) SQL Server
1 1 (3.846%) DB2
Development Applications
1 6 (23.08%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
General
1 6 (23.08%) Finance
1 6 (23.08%) Banking
1 6 (23.08%) Financial Institution
2 4 (15.38%) Telecoms
3 1 (3.846%) Local Government
3 1 (3.846%) Marketing
3 1 (3.846%) German Language
3 1 (3.846%) Legal
3 1 (3.846%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 7 (26.92%) Developer
1 7 (26.92%) C# Developer
2 6 (23.08%) C++ Software Engineer
2 6 (23.08%) Senior Software Developer
2 6 (23.08%) Senior C# Developer
2 6 (23.08%) C Software Engineer
2 6 (23.08%) C# Software Developer
2 6 (23.08%) Software Engineer
2 6 (23.08%) Software Developer
2 6 (23.08%) Senior Developer
3 4 (15.38%) Senior Service Manager
3 4 (15.38%) Senior Services Delivery Manager
3 4 (15.38%) Senior Manager
3 4 (15.38%) Services Delivery Manager
3 4 (15.38%) Service Manager
3 4 (15.38%) Delivery Manager
4 2 (7.692%) Administrator
4 2 (7.692%) Programme Manager
4 2 (7.692%) Systems Administrator
4 2 (7.692%) Linux Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 12 (46.15%) Computer Science
2 6 (23.08%) Mathematics
3 1 (3.846%) Physics
3 1 (3.846%) Chemistry
3 1 (3.846%) CESG
3 1 (3.846%) CESG CLAS
3 1 (3.846%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.846%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 10 (38.46%) Linux
2 7 (26.92%) Windows
3 3 (11.54%) SUSE
3 3 (11.54%) UNIX
3 3 (11.54%) Solaris
4 2 (7.692%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (26.92%) Project Management
2 6 (23.08%) Software Engineering
2 6 (23.08%) Financial Modelling
2 6 (23.08%) Parallel Computing
2 6 (23.08%) Software Architecture
2 6 (23.08%) MVVM
2 6 (23.08%) Signal Processing
2 6 (23.08%) Analytics
2 6 (23.08%) OO
3 4 (15.38%) ITIL
3 4 (15.38%) Service Management
3 4 (15.38%) Problem Management
3 4 (15.38%) Service Delivery
4 2 (7.692%) PRINCE2
5 1 (3.846%) OWASP
5 1 (3.846%) Information Assurance
5 1 (3.846%) Performance Management
5 1 (3.846%) CRAMM
5 1 (3.846%) ISMS
5 1 (3.846%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 15 (57.69%) C++
2 13 (50.00%) C#
3 12 (46.15%) Java
4 9 (34.62%) C
5 8 (30.77%) Python
6 6 (23.08%) MATLAB
7 2 (7.692%) Perl
7 2 (7.692%) PHP
8 1 (3.846%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 12 (46.15%) PhD
1 12 (46.15%) Degree
2 4 (15.38%) ITIL Certification
2 4 (15.38%) MBA
3 2 (7.692%) APMP
4 1 (3.846%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.846%) CISA
4 1 (3.846%) CISM
4 1 (3.846%) CCNP
4 1 (3.846%) CCIP
4 1 (3.846%) CISSP
4 1 (3.846%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (23.08%) QA
2 4 (15.38%) SLA
3 1 (3.846%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.846%) COBIT
Vendors
1 2 (7.692%) Oracle
1 2 (7.692%) Red Hat
2 1 (3.846%) Juniper
2 1 (3.846%) Lotus
2 1 (3.846%) Cisco
2 1 (3.846%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.846%) Intel
2 1 (3.846%) Sybase
2 1 (3.846%) SAP