South West Health Jobs

This section looks at the prevalence of the term 'Health' in IT jobs within the South West 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 Health 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 Andover Ascot Avon Aylesbury Banbury Barking Barnet Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Belper Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Carlisle Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Clapham Colchester Corby Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Dunfermline Durham Ealing East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Evesham Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Fife Folkestone Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Glossop Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Goole Gosport Guernsey Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Havant Haverhill Hayes Haywards Heath Hebden Bridge Hemel Hempstead Hendon Henley-on-Thames Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Peak High Wycombe Highland Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Hungerford Inverness Ipswich Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lightwater Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Lothian Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Malvern Manchester Matlock Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes Morecambe Nantwich New Milton Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newport Pagnell Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Orpington Osterley Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Prescot Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Renfrewshire Rochdale Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Rutland Saffron Walden Sale Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Skipton Slough Smethwick Solihull Somerset South Coast South Croydon South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Spalding St Albans St Helens St Ives Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Sutton-in-Ashfield Swansea Swindon Tamworth Taunton Teddington Telford Tewkesbury Thame Thames Valley Tonbridge Torfaen Towcester Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Wantage Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Wells Welwyn Garden City West Bromwich West Drayton West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Weymouth Wigan Wiltshire Wimborne Winchester Windsor Wirral Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wrexham Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 13 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	37	39
Rank change on same period last year	+2
Matching permanent IT job ads	572	374
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.280 %	0.161 %
As % of the category below	9.511 %	8.177 %
Salaries quoted	445	329
Average minimum salary	£31,309	£33,145
Average salary	£34,216	£36,064
% change on same period last year	-5.12 %
Average maximum salary	£37,123	£38,984
UK excluding London average salary	£38,559	£39,022
% change on same period last year	-1.18 %
General South West
Matching permanent IT job ads	6014	4574
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	2.942 %	1.964 %
Salaries quoted	4609	3703
Average minimum salary	£34,022	£34,905
Average salary	£37,476	£38,182
% change on same period last year	-1.84 %
Average maximum salary	£40,931	£41,458
UK excluding London average salary	£40,645	£42,055
% change on same period last year	-3.35 %
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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of permanent IT jobs ads citing Health across the South West 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 ads citing Health across the South West region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Health 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 Health 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	+1	201	£32,381	-11.15 %
2	Dorset	+42	110	£33,507	-30.13 %
3	Wiltshire	+4	105	£35,356	-0.72 %
4	Somerset	-11	54	£38,760	+13.24 %
5	Devon	+21	41	£33,413	-12.07 %
6	Gloucestershire	-42	32	£34,651	+3.78 %
7	Cornwall	+6	2	£46,000	+9.52 %
8	Avon	-2	1	£60,000	+58.06 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the South West region citing Health 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 Health.

1 624 (62.46 %) Pensions 2 238 (23.82 %) SQL 3 194 (19.42 %) Finance 4 181 (18.12 %) Java 5 149 (14.91 %) Oracle 6 125 (12.51 %) Insurance 7 117 (11.71 %) SQL Server 8 108 (10.81 %) .NET 9 100 (10.01 %) C 10 88 (8.809 %) Degree 11 83 (8.308 %) Microsoft 12 74 (7.407 %) Project Management 13 70 (7.007 %) C# 14 66 (6.607 %) Windows 15 65 (6.507 %) Business Analysis

16 64 (6.406 %) QA 17 60 (6.006 %) C++ 17 60 (6.006 %) MS Excel 18 55 (5.506 %) Unix 19 53 (5.305 %) Microsoft Certification 20 52 (5.205 %) PRINCE2 20 52 (5.205 %) XML 21 49 (4.905 %) MS Office 22 46 (4.605 %) Active Directory 23 43 (4.304 %) HTML 23 43 (4.304 %) ITIL 24 40 (4.004 %) JavaScript 24 40 (4.004 %) OO 25 39 (3.904 %) WINS 25 39 (3.904 %) Computer Science

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the South West region citing Health 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 Health. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 108 (10.81 %) .NET 2 52 (5.205 %) XML 3 43 (4.304 %) HTML 4 37 (3.704 %) ASP.NET 4 37 (3.704 %) CSS 5 32 (3.203 %) J2EE 6 24 (2.402 %) XHTML 7 22 (2.202 %) AJAX 8 14 (1.401 %) WebServices 9 13 (1.301 %) ASP 10 7 (0.701 %) MFC 10 7 (0.701 %) WebSphere 10 7 (0.701 %) .NET Framework 11 5 (0.501 %) Spring 11 5 (0.501 %) DOM 11 5 (0.501 %) XSLT 11 5 (0.501 %) JDBC 11 5 (0.501 %) Swing 12 4 (0.400 %) JSP 12 4 (0.400 %) SOAP	Application Platforms 1 22 (2.202 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 15 (1.502 %) MS Exchange 3 13 (1.301 %) IIS 4 12 (1.201 %) SAS 5 10 (1.001 %) Exchange Server 2000 6 9 (0.901 %) Exchange Server 2007 6 9 (0.901 %) WebLogic 7 8 (0.801 %) Apache 8 6 (0.601 %) SharePoint 9 5 (0.501 %) JBoss 10 4 (0.400 %) ColdFusion 10 4 (0.400 %) BizTalk Server 10 4 (0.400 %) CMS 10 4 (0.400 %) SharePoint Server 2007 11 3 (0.300 %) iFIX 11 3 (0.300 %) Content Management Server 11 3 (0.300 %) Tomcat 11 3 (0.300 %) Documentum 12 2 (0.200 %) Lotus Notes 12 2 (0.200 %) SharePoint Portal Server
Applications 1 60 (6.006 %) MS Excel 2 49 (4.905 %) MS Office 3 18 (1.802 %) Photoshop 4 16 (1.602 %) MS Project 4 16 (1.602 %) Fireworks 5 10 (1.001 %) MS Visio 6 6 (0.601 %) CA Clarity 7 5 (0.501 %) MS PowerPoint 7 5 (0.501 %) SPSS 8 4 (0.400 %) RoboHelp 8 4 (0.400 %) AutoCAD 8 4 (0.400 %) FrameMaker 9 2 (0.200 %) Adobe Illustrator	Business Applications 1 10 (1.001 %) Summit 2 7 (0.701 %) Axapta 2 7 (0.701 %) Dynamics AX 2 7 (0.701 %) Line 50 3 3 (0.300 %) Oracle Financials 3 3 (0.300 %) Sage MMS 3 3 (0.300 %) Pegasus Opera 4 2 (0.200 %) SAP R/3 5 1 (0.100 %) SAP FI 5 1 (0.100 %) HiPortfolio 5 1 (0.100 %) SAP FI/CO 5 1 (0.100 %) SAP CO 5 1 (0.100 %) HFM 5 1 (0.100 %) Dynamics CRM 5 1 (0.100 %) Microsoft CRM 5 1 (0.100 %) SAP Business One 5 1 (0.100 %) SAP ERP
Communications & Networking 1 39 (3.904 %) WINS 2 24 (2.402 %) SAN 3 22 (2.202 %) Internet 4 21 (2.102 %) Firewall 5 12 (1.201 %) LAN 5 12 (1.201 %) TCP/IP 6 11 (1.101 %) WAN 7 7 (0.701 %) VoIP 8 6 (0.601 %) VPN 9 4 (0.400 %) Wireless 9 4 (0.400 %) Intranet 9 4 (0.400 %) DNS 10 2 (0.200 %) Network Security 10 2 (0.200 %) SMS 11 1 (0.100 %) ADSL 11 1 (0.100 %) Broadband 11 1 (0.100 %) GSM 11 1 (0.100 %) DHCP 11 1 (0.100 %) SNMP 11 1 (0.100 %) Extranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 117 (11.71 %) SQL Server 2 22 (2.202 %) RDBMS 3 19 (1.902 %) BusinessObjects 4 18 (1.802 %) Oracle 8/8i 5 15 (1.502 %) SQL Server 2005 6 11 (1.101 %) Crystal Reports 7 8 (0.801 %) Informix 7 8 (0.801 %) MS Access 7 8 (0.801 %) Reference Data 8 7 (0.701 %) SQL Server Integration Services 8 7 (0.701 %) SQL Server 2000 9 5 (0.501 %) DTS 10 3 (0.300 %) Oracle 10g 10 3 (0.300 %) SQL Server 7 10 3 (0.300 %) BusinessObjects XI 11 2 (0.200 %) Base SAS 11 2 (0.200 %) Database Marketing 11 2 (0.200 %) MySQL 11 2 (0.200 %) SQL Anywhere 11 2 (0.200 %) Data Mining
Development Applications 1 22 (2.202 %) Visual Studio 2 15 (1.502 %) TestDirector 3 8 (0.801 %) PVCS 4 7 (0.701 %) Eclipse 4 7 (0.701 %) LabVIEW 5 5 (0.501 %) JUnit 6 4 (0.400 %) Ant 6 4 (0.400 %) Flash 6 4 (0.400 %) QuickTest Pro 6 4 (0.400 %) LoadRunner 6 4 (0.400 %) WinRunner 7 2 (0.200 %) ARTiSAN 7 2 (0.200 %) ClearCase 7 2 (0.200 %) VSS/SourceSafe 7 2 (0.200 %) Oracle Forms 8 1 (0.100 %) NUnit 8 1 (0.100 %) Dreamweaver	General 1 624 (62.46 %) Pensions 2 194 (19.42 %) Finance 3 125 (12.51 %) Insurance 4 37 (3.704 %) Billing 4 37 (3.704 %) Retail 5 34 (3.403 %) Education 6 33 (3.303 %) Manufacturing 7 27 (2.703 %) Government 7 27 (2.703 %) Marketing 8 20 (2.002 %) Electronics 9 19 (1.902 %) Telecoms 9 19 (1.902 %) Banking 10 18 (1.802 %) Electric 11 16 (1.602 %) Construction 11 16 (1.602 %) Auditing 11 16 (1.602 %) Graphic Design 12 11 (1.101 %) Automotive 13 10 (1.001 %) Local Government 13 10 (1.001 %) Games 14 9 (0.901 %) Aerospace
Job Titles 1 246 (24.62 %) Developer 2 220 (22.02 %) Analyst 3 96 (9.610 %) Consultant 4 92 (9.209 %) Business Analyst 5 65 (6.507 %) Project Manager 6 64 (6.406 %) Java Developer 7 49 (4.905 %) Junior 8 41 (4.104 %) Junior Developer 9 40 (4.004 %) Software Developer 10 37 (3.704 %) Implementation Consultant 11 34 (3.403 %) .NET Developer 12 32 (3.203 %) Software Engineer 13 31 (3.103 %) Graduate 14 27 (2.703 %) Support Analyst 15 26 (2.603 %) Web Developer 15 26 (2.603 %) Graduate Implementation Consultant 16 24 (2.402 %) Programmer 17 23 (2.302 %) Support Engineer 18 22 (2.202 %) Senior Manager 18 22 (2.202 %) Test Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 39 (3.904 %) Computer Science 2 25 (2.503 %) NHS 3 23 (2.302 %) Informatics 4 19 (1.902 %) Clustering 5 15 (1.502 %) Mathematics 5 15 (1.502 %) Handset 6 13 (1.301 %) Management Information System 7 11 (1.101 %) Chemistry 8 10 (1.001 %) Client/Server 9 9 (0.901 %) AS400 10 8 (0.801 %) N-Tier 10 8 (0.801 %) Blackberry 11 7 (0.701 %) Mainframe 12 4 (0.400 %) Smartcard 12 4 (0.400 %) Fixed Income 12 4 (0.400 %) Equities 13 3 (0.300 %) PACS 13 3 (0.300 %) Physics 13 3 (0.300 %) SCADA 13 3 (0.300 %) Chip and PIN
Operating Systems 1 66 (6.607 %) Windows 2 55 (5.506 %) Unix 3 22 (2.202 %) Linux 4 17 (1.702 %) Windows Server 2003 4 17 (1.702 %) Solaris 5 10 (1.001 %) Windows 2000 6 9 (0.901 %) HPUX 7 8 (0.801 %) AIX 8 7 (0.701 %) Windows XP 9 3 (0.300 %) VMS 10 2 (0.200 %) Windows NT 10 2 (0.200 %) SUSE 10 2 (0.200 %) Debian 10 2 (0.200 %) Gentoo 10 2 (0.200 %) Embedded Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 74 (7.407 %) Project Management 2 65 (6.507 %) Business Analysis 3 52 (5.205 %) PRINCE2 4 43 (4.304 %) ITIL 5 40 (4.004 %) OO 6 38 (3.804 %) Systems Analysis 7 34 (3.403 %) Risk Management 8 32 (3.203 %) Service Delivery 9 30 (3.003 %) OOA/OOD 10 26 (2.603 %) OOD 11 24 (2.402 %) UML 12 21 (2.102 %) Change Management 13 20 (2.002 %) Test Scripting 14 19 (1.902 %) GAP Analysis 14 19 (1.902 %) Data Analysis 15 17 (1.702 %) Programme Management 15 17 (1.702 %) Test Management 16 15 (1.502 %) Release Management 16 15 (1.502 %) CRM 17 13 (1.301 %) Data Modelling
Programming Languages 1 238 (23.82 %) SQL 2 181 (18.12 %) Java 3 100 (10.01 %) C 4 70 (7.007 %) C# 5 60 (6.006 %) C++ 6 40 (4.004 %) JavaScript 7 38 (3.804 %) VB.NET 8 26 (2.603 %) PL/SQL 9 23 (2.302 %) PHP 9 23 (2.302 %) VB 10 16 (1.602 %) Transact-SQL 11 15 (1.502 %) Perl 12 12 (1.201 %) Delphi 13 10 (1.001 %) VBA 14 9 (0.901 %) RPG 15 7 (0.701 %) Embedded C++ 15 7 (0.701 %) X++ 16 5 (0.501 %) Shell Script 17 4 (0.400 %) VB6 18 3 (0.300 %) Embedded C	Qualifications 1 88 (8.809 %) Degree 2 53 (5.305 %) Microsoft Certification 3 35 (3.504 %) MCSE 4 21 (2.102 %) ISEB 5 18 (1.802 %) Cisco Certification 6 17 (1.702 %) CCNA 7 14 (1.401 %) HND 8 13 (1.301 %) CCNP 9 11 (1.101 %) HNC 10 9 (0.901 %) MCP 11 8 (0.801 %) PMI Certification 11 8 (0.801 %) CISA 12 7 (0.701 %) PMP 13 6 (0.601 %) CIPD 13 6 (0.601 %) PRINCE2 Certification 14 4 (0.400 %) ITIL Certification 14 4 (0.400 %) CISSP 14 4 (0.400 %) ISTQB 14 4 (0.400 %) CISM 15 3 (0.300 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 64 (6.406 %) QA 2 22 (2.202 %) SNOMED CT 3 18 (1.802 %) SLA 4 8 (0.801 %) ISO9001 5 4 (0.400 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 6 3 (0.300 %) Basel II 6 3 (0.300 %) BS7799 7 2 (0.200 %) ISO9000 8 1 (0.100 %) TickIT 8 1 (0.100 %) ISO14001 8 1 (0.100 %) JSP 440	System Software 1 46 (4.605 %) Active Directory 2 24 (2.402 %) NetBackup 3 12 (1.201 %) Backup Exec 4 4 (0.400 %) Samba 5 3 (0.300 %) Terminal Services 5 3 (0.300 %) ISA Server 6 2 (0.200 %) Terminal Server 7 1 (0.100 %) VMware ESX 7 1 (0.100 %) MSMQ
Systems Management 1 14 (1.401 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 2 12 (1.201 %) ARCserve 2 12 (1.201 %) Legato 3 2 (0.200 %) Veritas Storage Foundation 3 2 (0.200 %) MAILsweeper 3 2 (0.200 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 4 1 (0.100 %) Netcool 4 1 (0.100 %) AutoSys 4 1 (0.100 %) Netcool/Proviso	Vendors 1 149 (14.91 %) Oracle 2 83 (8.308 %) Microsoft 3 23 (2.302 %) Cisco 3 23 (2.302 %) SAP 3 23 (2.302 %) VERITAS 4 19 (1.902 %) Business Objects 5 17 (1.702 %) Sybase 6 14 (1.401 %) HP 7 12 (1.201 %) Citrix 8 10 (1.001 %) Nortel 8 10 (1.001 %) Sage 8 10 (1.001 %) 3Com 9 8 (0.801 %) Dell 9 8 (0.801 %) Symbian 9 8 (0.801 %) IBM 10 7 (0.701 %) Symantec 10 7 (0.701 %) Alterian 11 6 (0.601 %) VMware 11 6 (0.601 %) GUPTA 12 4 (0.400 %) IronPort