South West Degree Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Degree in IT jobs within the South West region compared to all other Qualifications we currently track. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Degree over the last 3 months to 13 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Altrincham Amersham Aylesbury Banbury Barnet Barnsley Barry Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Berkhamsted Berkshire Bingley Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckingham Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Cheshunt Chessington Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Cobham Colchester Corby Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Crewkerne Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Dagenham Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Dunfermline Dunstable Durham Ealing East Anglia East Grinstead East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Ellesmere Port Ely Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Felixstowe Fife Folkestone Gatwick Glasgow Glenrothes Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Greenford Greenock Guernsey Guildford Gwent Halesowen Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Hastings Havant Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Hendon Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highland Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Hungerford Huntingdon Ilford Inverclyde Inverness Ipswich Isle of Wight Kent Kidlington Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lanarkshire Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Lowestoft Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Marlow Matlock Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Middlewich Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newmarket Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Paignton Paisley Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redditch Reigate Renfrewshire Rhondda Cynon Taff Rickmansworth Rotherham Royston Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southam Southampton Southport St Albans St Andrews St Helens Staffordshire Staines Stanmore Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stratford-upon-Avon Stroud Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swindon Teddington Telford Tewkesbury Thame Thames Ditton Thames Valley Torfaen Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Vale of Glamorgan Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Widnes Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Winsford Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 13 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	18	14
Rank change on same period last year	-4
Matching permanent IT job ads	971	921
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.475 %	0.396 %
As % of the category below	45.08 %	49.84 %
Salaries quoted	798	658
Average minimum salary	£30,724	£28,303
Average salary	£34,138	£31,950
% change on same period last year	+6.84 %
Average maximum salary	£37,552	£35,597
UK excluding London average salary	£35,926	£37,084
% change on same period last year	-3.12 %
Qualifications South West
Matching permanent IT job ads	2154	1848
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.054 %	0.794 %
Salaries quoted	1819	1451
Average minimum salary	£32,003	£31,614
Average salary	£34,926	£34,632
% change on same period last year	+0.85 %
Average maximum salary	£37,850	£37,649
UK excluding London average salary	£37,496	£38,474
% change on same period last year	-2.54 %
Degree England

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of permanent IT jobs ads citing Degree across the South West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

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Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Degree across the South West region over the past 3 months.

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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 Degree within the South West region over the past 3 months.

Rank	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
1	Bristol	-9	309	£32,518	+3.29 %
2	Gloucestershire	+2	180	£35,745	+15.45 %
3	Dorset	0	138	£35,697	+10.78 %
4	Wiltshire	-14	116	£36,245	+8.94 %
5	Somerset	-16	65	£34,630	+11.70 %
6	Devon	-7	54	£31,608	+6.57 %
7	Cornwall	+11	8	£24,813	-9.77 %
8	Avon	-14	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the South West region citing Degree also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Degree.

1 458 (23.76 %) C++ 2 406 (21.06 %) SQL 3 400 (20.75 %) C 4 336 (17.43 %) .NET 5 325 (16.86 %) Computer Science 6 303 (15.72 %) C# 7 300 (15.56 %) Java 8 251 (13.02 %) SQL Server 9 243 (12.60 %) Microsoft 10 237 (12.29 %) Finance 11 225 (11.67 %) Windows 12 223 (11.57 %) Oracle 13 190 (9.855 %) Linux 14 189 (9.803 %) OO 15 187 (9.699 %) Software Engineering

15 187 (9.699 %) Pensions 16 182 (9.440 %) Electronics 17 162 (8.402 %) XML 18 151 (7.832 %) ASP.NET 18 151 (7.832 %) JavaScript 19 145 (7.521 %) UML 20 135 (7.002 %) MS Excel 21 134 (6.950 %) Project Management 22 131 (6.795 %) Mathematics 23 129 (6.691 %) Unix 24 124 (6.432 %) Education 25 122 (6.328 %) CSS 26 120 (6.224 %) HTML 27 115 (5.965 %) Internet 28 114 (5.913 %) Physics

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the South West region citing Degree also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Degree. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 336 (17.43 %) .NET 2 162 (8.402 %) XML 3 151 (7.832 %) ASP.NET 4 122 (6.328 %) CSS 5 120 (6.224 %) HTML 6 107 (5.550 %) J2EE 7 70 (3.631 %) WebServices 8 49 (2.541 %) AJAX 9 43 (2.230 %) ASP 10 42 (2.178 %) XSLT 11 38 (1.971 %) XHTML 12 34 (1.763 %) Swing 13 31 (1.608 %) .NET Framework 14 28 (1.452 %) Hibernate 15 25 (1.297 %) Java EE 16 22 (1.141 %) WebSphere 17 19 (0.985 %) JDBC 18 18 (0.934 %) JMS 18 18 (0.934 %) Ruby on Rails 18 18 (0.934 %) Spring	Application Platforms 1 41 (2.127 %) SAS 2 22 (1.141 %) Apache 3 21 (1.089 %) CMS 4 17 (0.882 %) SharePoint 5 15 (0.778 %) WebLogic 6 11 (0.571 %) IIS 6 11 (0.571 %) WebSphere MQ 7 10 (0.519 %) JBoss 7 10 (0.519 %) MS Exchange 7 10 (0.519 %) Tomcat 8 9 (0.467 %) Site Server 9 6 (0.311 %) Exchange Server 2003 9 6 (0.311 %) SharePoint Portal Server 10 5 (0.259 %) ArcGIS 11 4 (0.207 %) iFIX 11 4 (0.207 %) Lotus Notes 12 3 (0.156 %) BizTalk Server 12 3 (0.156 %) Exchange Server 2000 12 3 (0.156 %) ESB 12 3 (0.156 %) MapXtreme
Applications 1 135 (7.002 %) MS Excel 2 113 (5.861 %) MS Office 3 40 (2.075 %) MATLAB 4 39 (2.023 %) Photoshop 5 31 (1.608 %) MS Visio 6 29 (1.504 %) Simulink 7 22 (1.141 %) CATIA 8 17 (0.882 %) FrameMaker 9 16 (0.830 %) Paint Shop Pro 10 13 (0.674 %) MS PowerPoint 11 11 (0.571 %) Adobe Illustrator 12 8 (0.415 %) MS Project 13 6 (0.311 %) InfoPath 13 6 (0.311 %) CA Clarity 14 5 (0.259 %) Stateflow 14 5 (0.259 %) SPSS 15 3 (0.156 %) Windchill 15 3 (0.156 %) 3ds Max 16 2 (0.104 %) Adobe After Effects 17 1 (0.052 %) Adobe Director	Business Applications 1 26 (1.349 %) Summit 2 22 (1.141 %) SMARTEAM 3 16 (0.830 %) Oracle Applications 4 13 (0.674 %) Navision 5 8 (0.415 %) LabWindows 6 6 (0.311 %) Endur 7 4 (0.207 %) SAP Business One 8 2 (0.104 %) Dynamics CRM 8 2 (0.104 %) SAP CO 8 2 (0.104 %) SAP FI 8 2 (0.104 %) SAP FI/CO 9 1 (0.052 %) Global One
Communications & Networking 1 115 (5.965 %) Internet 2 60 (3.112 %) Wireless 3 22 (1.141 %) Broadband 4 20 (1.037 %) DNS 5 19 (0.985 %) Intranet 6 17 (0.882 %) Network Security 6 17 (0.882 %) FTP 7 16 (0.830 %) TCP/IP 7 16 (0.830 %) LAN 8 15 (0.778 %) SMTP 9 13 (0.674 %) DVB 10 12 (0.622 %) POP3 11 11 (0.571 %) WAN 12 10 (0.519 %) 3GPP 12 10 (0.519 %) HTTPS 13 9 (0.467 %) Ethernet 13 9 (0.467 %) VoIP 14 8 (0.415 %) ATM 15 6 (0.311 %) HTTP 15 6 (0.311 %) WiMAX	Database & Business Intelligence 1 251 (13.02 %) SQL Server 2 107 (5.550 %) MySQL 3 51 (2.645 %) DB2 4 45 (2.334 %) SQL Server 2000 5 38 (1.971 %) Oracle 10g 6 30 (1.556 %) MS Access 7 27 (1.400 %) Data Mining 8 26 (1.349 %) Database Marketing 9 25 (1.297 %) Oracle 9i 10 20 (1.037 %) RDBMS 11 19 (0.985 %) Crystal Reports 12 16 (0.830 %) SQL Server 2005 13 15 (0.778 %) Oracle 8/8i 13 15 (0.778 %) Datawarehouse 14 13 (0.674 %) GIS 15 10 (0.519 %) Oracle Reports 16 9 (0.467 %) BusinessObjects 17 8 (0.415 %) DTS 18 7 (0.363 %) OLAP 18 7 (0.363 %) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications 1 105 (5.446 %) Visual Studio 2 36 (1.867 %) Eclipse 3 29 (1.504 %) Ant 4 27 (1.400 %) Dreamweaver 5 26 (1.349 %) Flash 6 25 (1.297 %) Subversion 7 14 (0.726 %) ClearCase 8 13 (0.674 %) JUnit 9 11 (0.571 %) PVCS 10 9 (0.467 %) VSS/SourceSafe 10 9 (0.467 %) PowerBuilder 10 9 (0.467 %) Log4j 11 7 (0.363 %) TestDirector 12 5 (0.259 %) LabVIEW 12 5 (0.259 %) XDE 12 5 (0.259 %) MagicDraw 13 4 (0.207 %) QuickTest Pro 14 3 (0.156 %) ARTiSAN 14 3 (0.156 %) RequisitePro 15 2 (0.104 %) StarTeam	General 1 237 (12.29 %) Finance 2 187 (9.699 %) Pensions 3 182 (9.440 %) Electronics 4 124 (6.432 %) Education 5 100 (5.187 %) Telecoms 6 99 (5.135 %) Aerospace 7 90 (4.668 %) Marketing 8 88 (4.564 %) Health 9 87 (4.512 %) Electric 10 74 (3.838 %) Manufacturing 11 67 (3.475 %) Insurance 12 47 (2.438 %) Military 13 45 (2.334 %) Government 14 38 (1.971 %) Games 15 37 (1.919 %) Construction 16 36 (1.867 %) Banking 16 36 (1.867 %) Multimedia 17 31 (1.608 %) Automotive 18 19 (0.985 %) Retail 19 13 (0.674 %) Graphic Design
Job Titles 1 533 (27.65 %) Developer 2 353 (18.31 %) Software Engineer 3 201 (10.43 %) Analyst 4 134 (6.950 %) Software Developer 5 128 (6.639 %) Graduate 6 112 (5.809 %) .NET Developer 7 103 (5.342 %) Web Developer 8 97 (5.031 %) Consultant 9 81 (4.201 %) C# Developer 10 76 (3.942 %) Architect 11 75 (3.890 %) Junior 12 67 (3.475 %) C++ Software Engineer 13 64 (3.320 %) Java Developer 14 63 (3.268 %) Project Manager 15 61 (3.164 %) C Software Engineer 16 60 (3.112 %) C++ Developer 17 55 (2.853 %) Design Engineer 18 47 (2.438 %) Business Analyst 18 47 (2.438 %) Programmer 19 46 (2.386 %) Junior Developer	Miscellaneous 1 325 (16.86 %) Computer Science 2 131 (6.795 %) Mathematics 3 114 (5.913 %) Physics 4 41 (2.127 %) Device Driver 5 38 (1.971 %) Firmware 6 30 (1.556 %) CESG 6 30 (1.556 %) CESG CLAS 7 24 (1.245 %) Client/Server 7 24 (1.245 %) Statistics 8 23 (1.193 %) PMI 9 22 (1.141 %) Management Information System 10 21 (1.089 %) Derivative 11 18 (0.934 %) Chemistry 12 17 (0.882 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array 13 15 (0.778 %) Mainframe 14 14 (0.726 %) DTV 15 11 (0.571 %) IPTV 15 11 (0.571 %) Equities 16 10 (0.519 %) PKI 17 8 (0.415 %) Economics
Operating Systems 1 225 (11.67 %) Windows 2 190 (9.855 %) Linux 3 129 (6.691 %) Unix 4 39 (2.023 %) Embedded Linux 5 20 (1.037 %) Windows 2000 6 16 (0.830 %) Windows XP 7 15 (0.778 %) Windows CE 8 11 (0.571 %) Solaris 8 11 (0.571 %) Windows NT 9 10 (0.519 %) VxWorks 10 9 (0.467 %) SUSE 11 8 (0.415 %) HPUX 11 8 (0.415 %) Windows Mobile 12 6 (0.311 %) Windows Vista 12 6 (0.311 %) AIX 12 6 (0.311 %) VMS 13 5 (0.259 %) Windows Server 2003 13 5 (0.259 %) FreeBSD 14 4 (0.207 %) Nucleus RTOS 15 1 (0.052 %) pSOS	Processes & Methodologies 1 189 (9.803 %) OO 2 187 (9.699 %) Software Engineering 3 145 (7.521 %) UML 4 134 (6.950 %) Project Management 5 103 (5.342 %) Web Development 6 74 (3.838 %) CAD 7 57 (2.956 %) OOD 8 52 (2.697 %) PRINCE2 9 51 (2.645 %) Validation 10 48 (2.490 %) OOA/OOD 11 42 (2.178 %) ITIL 12 38 (1.971 %) Web Design 13 31 (1.608 %) E-Commerce 14 30 (1.556 %) CRM 14 30 (1.556 %) Business Analysis 15 29 (1.504 %) Requirements Analysis 16 28 (1.452 %) Time Management 17 27 (1.400 %) Data Management 17 27 (1.400 %) CAE 18 24 (1.245 %) ERP
Programming Languages 1 458 (23.76 %) C++ 2 406 (21.06 %) SQL 3 400 (20.75 %) C 4 303 (15.72 %) C# 5 300 (15.56 %) Java 6 151 (7.832 %) JavaScript 7 113 (5.861 %) VB.NET 8 98 (5.083 %) VB 9 96 (4.979 %) PHP 10 69 (3.579 %) Embedded C 11 60 (3.112 %) Perl 12 33 (1.712 %) PL/SQL 13 32 (1.660 %) Python 14 30 (1.556 %) Embedded C++ 15 27 (1.400 %) VC++ 15 27 (1.400 %) DHTML 16 25 (1.297 %) Ada 16 25 (1.297 %) Assembly Language 17 22 (1.141 %) VB6 17 22 (1.141 %) Transact-SQL	Qualifications 1 108 (5.602 %) Microsoft Certification 2 93 (4.824 %) HND 3 52 (2.697 %) MCSE 4 51 (2.645 %) Chartered Engineer 5 47 (2.438 %) Cisco Certification 5 47 (2.438 %) CCNA 6 36 (1.867 %) CCDA 7 34 (1.763 %) ISEB 8 30 (1.556 %) MCAD 9 26 (1.349 %) HNC 10 24 (1.245 %) MCSD 11 18 (0.934 %) PhD 12 14 (0.726 %) PRINCE2 Certification 13 11 (0.571 %) ITIL Certification 14 8 (0.415 %) MCT 15 6 (0.311 %) RHCE 16 5 (0.259 %) ISEB Practitioner 16 5 (0.259 %) Novell Certification 16 5 (0.259 %) MCP 17 4 (0.207 %) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 17 (0.882 %) SLA 2 13 (0.674 %) QA 3 9 (0.467 %) ISO9001 4 7 (0.363 %) COBIT 5 5 (0.259 %) ISO9000 6 2 (0.104 %) BS7799 6 2 (0.104 %) TickIT 6 2 (0.104 %) ISO12207 6 2 (0.104 %) JSP 440 7 1 (0.052 %) ISO14001 7 1 (0.052 %) EFQM 7 1 (0.052 %) ISO27001 7 1 (0.052 %) GCP	System Software 1 20 (1.037 %) Active Directory 2 5 (0.259 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 3 4 (0.207 %) Backup Exec 4 2 (0.104 %) Xen
Systems Management 1 11 (0.571 %) AutoSys 2 2 (0.104 %) Unicenter 2 2 (0.104 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)	Vendors 1 243 (12.60 %) Microsoft 2 223 (11.57 %) Oracle 3 45 (2.334 %) Cisco 4 39 (2.023 %) EMC 5 31 (1.608 %) SAP 6 21 (1.089 %) Sun 7 15 (0.778 %) HP 7 15 (0.778 %) Citrix 8 13 (0.674 %) Adobe 8 13 (0.674 %) Sybase 9 11 (0.571 %) ANSYS 10 10 (0.519 %) VMware 10 10 (0.519 %) IBM 10 10 (0.519 %) Red Hat 11 9 (0.467 %) Business Objects 12 7 (0.363 %) Macromedia 12 7 (0.363 %) Mapinfo 12 7 (0.363 %) Motorola 13 5 (0.259 %) Novell 13 5 (0.259 %) Remedy