South West Pensions Jobs

This section looks at the prevalence of the term 'Pensions' 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 Pensions over the last 3 months to 13 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Altrincham Amersham Andover Ascot Avon Aylesbury Banbury Barking Barnet Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Belper Berkhamsted Berkshire Birkenhead Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bognor Regis Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Carlisle Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester Corby County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Dagenham Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Durham Ealing East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Folkestone Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Glossop Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Grantham Great Yarmouth Guildford Hackney Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Havant Haverhill Hayes Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Peak High Wycombe Highland Hitchin Horley Horsham Huddersfield Hull Hungerford Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Keighley Kent Kidderminster Kidlington Kingston Upon Thames Kingswinford Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lichfield Lightwater Lincoln Lincolnshire Liphook Liverpool Liversedge Livingston London Loughborough Luton Lymm Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Malvern Manchester Mansfield Marlow Matlock Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Mirfield Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Osterley Oswestry Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redditch Rickmansworth Rochdale Rochester Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shepton Mallet Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Croydon South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Southwark Spalding St Albans St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Telford Tewkesbury Thame Thames Valley Tonbridge Torquay Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells Welwyn Welwyn Garden City West Drayton West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Weymouth Wigan Willenhall Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Workington York Yorkshire	3 months to 13 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	19	20
Rank change on same period last year	+1
Matching permanent IT job ads	952	716
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.466 %	0.307 %
As % of the category below	15.83 %	15.65 %
Salaries quoted	815	640
Average minimum salary	£31,750	£32,562
Average salary	£35,244	£35,774
% change on same period last year	-1.48 %
Average maximum salary	£38,739	£38,986
UK excluding London average salary	£37,327	£38,297
% change on same period last year	-2.53 %
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 Pensions 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 Pensions across the South West region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Pensions 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 Pensions 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	+3	311	£33,021	-4.61 %
2	Gloucestershire	-3	174	£35,560	+2.70 %
3	Wiltshire	-10	153	£38,890	-0.10 %
4	Somerset	+11	103	£37,948	+15.41 %
5	Dorset	+12	95	£34,859	-4.07 %
6	Devon	+23	70	£30,778	-17.13 %
7	Avon	+7	5	£41,500	+52.14 %
8	Cornwall	+2	2	£46,000	+6.97 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 624 (36.79 %) Health 2 451 (26.59 %) Finance 3 373 (21.99 %) SQL 4 369 (21.76 %) SQL Server 5 315 (18.57 %) .NET 6 240 (14.15 %) Java 7 233 (13.74 %) C# 8 211 (12.44 %) Oracle 9 194 (11.44 %) Insurance 10 187 (11.03 %) Degree 11 166 (9.788 %) XML 11 166 (9.788 %) Microsoft 12 162 (9.552 %) C 13 147 (8.667 %) ASP.NET 14 146 (8.608 %) MS Excel

15 125 (7.370 %) Windows 16 124 (7.311 %) Project Management 17 121 (7.134 %) VB.NET 18 110 (6.486 %) Business Analysis 19 108 (6.368 %) HTML 20 104 (6.132 %) JavaScript 21 101 (5.955 %) Microsoft Certification 22 94 (5.542 %) PRINCE2 23 92 (5.425 %) C++ 24 87 (5.130 %) CSS 25 86 (5.071 %) VB 26 82 (4.835 %) Unix 27 78 (4.599 %) Internet 28 71 (4.186 %) ISEB 28 71 (4.186 %) J2EE

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development 1 315 (18.57 %) .NET 2 166 (9.788 %) XML 3 147 (8.667 %) ASP.NET 4 108 (6.368 %) HTML 5 87 (5.130 %) CSS 6 71 (4.186 %) J2EE 7 68 (4.009 %) WebServices 8 62 (3.656 %) ASP 9 54 (3.184 %) XHTML 10 37 (2.182 %) AJAX 11 36 (2.123 %) XSLT 12 22 (1.297 %) SOAP 13 20 (1.179 %) .NET Framework 14 15 (0.884 %) JDBC 15 14 (0.825 %) JSP 16 12 (0.708 %) MFC 16 12 (0.708 %) XSL 16 12 (0.708 %) Java EE 16 12 (0.708 %) WebSphere 17 9 (0.531 %) Spring	Application Platforms 1 42 (2.476 %) IIS 2 30 (1.769 %) MS Exchange 3 24 (1.415 %) SAS 4 23 (1.356 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 21 (1.238 %) SharePoint 6 15 (0.884 %) CMS 6 15 (0.884 %) SharePoint Server 2007 7 11 (0.649 %) LiveLink 7 11 (0.649 %) Apache 8 9 (0.531 %) WebLogic 8 9 (0.531 %) Site Server 8 9 (0.531 %) MapXtreme 9 8 (0.472 %) Exchange Server 2000 10 7 (0.413 %) BizTalk Server 11 6 (0.354 %) JBoss 12 5 (0.295 %) Tomcat 12 5 (0.295 %) SharePoint Portal Server 13 4 (0.236 %) ColdFusion 14 3 (0.177 %) Documentum 14 3 (0.177 %) Content Management Server
Applications 1 146 (8.608 %) MS Excel 2 54 (3.184 %) MS Office 3 33 (1.946 %) Photoshop 4 31 (1.828 %) MS Visio 5 15 (0.884 %) Fireworks 6 11 (0.649 %) CA Clarity 7 10 (0.590 %) MS Project 8 9 (0.531 %) AutoCAD 9 7 (0.413 %) Adobe Illustrator 9 7 (0.413 %) SPSS 10 5 (0.295 %) MS PowerPoint 11 4 (0.236 %) FrameMaker 11 4 (0.236 %) RoboHelp 12 2 (0.118 %) Acrobat	Business Applications 1 33 (1.946 %) Axapta 2 32 (1.887 %) Dynamics AX 3 13 (0.767 %) Oracle Financials 4 8 (0.472 %) SAP FI 4 8 (0.472 %) SAP FI/CO 4 8 (0.472 %) SAP CO 5 7 (0.413 %) Line 50 6 6 (0.354 %) Summit 7 4 (0.236 %) Sage MMS 8 3 (0.177 %) Pegasus Opera 9 2 (0.118 %) SAP R/3 9 2 (0.118 %) Navision 9 2 (0.118 %) AWD 10 1 (0.059 %) Microsoft CRM 10 1 (0.059 %) Oracle Applications 10 1 (0.059 %) HFM 10 1 (0.059 %) Dynamics CRM 10 1 (0.059 %) SAP Business One 10 1 (0.059 %) SAP ERP
Communications & Networking 1 78 (4.599 %) Internet 2 41 (2.417 %) WINS 3 34 (2.005 %) SAN 4 29 (1.710 %) Firewall 5 20 (1.179 %) Intranet 6 15 (0.884 %) LAN 7 13 (0.767 %) WAN 7 13 (0.767 %) TCP/IP 8 11 (0.649 %) HTTPS 8 11 (0.649 %) Reverse Proxy 9 10 (0.590 %) DNS 10 8 (0.472 %) VoIP 11 6 (0.354 %) HTTP 11 6 (0.354 %) ADSL 12 5 (0.295 %) SMTP 13 4 (0.236 %) FTP 13 4 (0.236 %) VPN 13 4 (0.236 %) Wireless 14 3 (0.177 %) DVB 14 3 (0.177 %) DAB	Database & Business Intelligence 1 369 (21.76 %) SQL Server 2 60 (3.538 %) SQL Server 2005 3 57 (3.361 %) SQL Server 2000 4 50 (2.948 %) RDBMS 5 42 (2.476 %) Oracle 8/8i 6 38 (2.241 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 7 37 (2.182 %) OLAP 8 35 (2.064 %) SQL Server 7 9 23 (1.356 %) MS Access 9 23 (1.356 %) DTS 10 21 (1.238 %) Oracle 10g 10 21 (1.238 %) DB2 11 20 (1.179 %) BusinessObjects 12 17 (1.002 %) Crystal Reports 12 17 (1.002 %) Oracle 9i 12 17 (1.002 %) SQL Server Integration Services 13 15 (0.884 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 13 15 (0.884 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 14 10 (0.590 %) MySQL 15 9 (0.531 %) GIS
Development Applications 1 70 (4.127 %) Visual Studio 2 41 (2.417 %) Flash 3 39 (2.300 %) TestDirector 4 13 (0.767 %) QuickTest Pro 5 11 (0.649 %) Eclipse 6 9 (0.531 %) PVCS 6 9 (0.531 %) JUnit 7 8 (0.472 %) Ant 7 8 (0.472 %) WinRunner 8 6 (0.354 %) SilkTest 9 5 (0.295 %) LoadRunner 10 4 (0.236 %) Subversion 11 3 (0.177 %) Oracle Developer 2000 11 3 (0.177 %) ARTiSAN 11 3 (0.177 %) Oracle Forms 11 3 (0.177 %) Dreamweaver 12 2 (0.118 %) ClearCase 12 2 (0.118 %) VSS/SourceSafe 12 2 (0.118 %) WebSpeed 12 2 (0.118 %) LSMW	General 1 624 (36.79 %) Health 2 451 (26.59 %) Finance 3 194 (11.44 %) Insurance 4 64 (3.774 %) Marketing 5 62 (3.656 %) Telecoms 6 54 (3.184 %) Retail 7 51 (3.007 %) Government 8 46 (2.712 %) Education 9 39 (2.300 %) Billing 10 37 (2.182 %) Banking 11 33 (1.946 %) Electronics 12 31 (1.828 %) Local Government 13 30 (1.769 %) Construction 14 27 (1.592 %) Electric 15 21 (1.238 %) Police 16 19 (1.120 %) Home Office 17 17 (1.002 %) Legal 17 17 (1.002 %) Aerospace 18 15 (0.884 %) Graphic Design 19 13 (0.767 %) Manufacturing
Job Titles 1 435 (25.65 %) Developer 2 389 (22.94 %) Analyst 3 179 (10.55 %) Consultant 4 142 (8.373 %) Business Analyst 5 130 (7.665 %) Project Manager 6 93 (5.483 %) Programmer 7 83 (4.894 %) .NET Developer 8 75 (4.422 %) Web Developer 9 72 (4.245 %) Java Developer 10 61 (3.597 %) Test Analyst 11 60 (3.538 %) Software Engineer 12 59 (3.479 %) Graduate 13 56 (3.302 %) Junior 14 54 (3.184 %) C# Developer 15 52 (3.066 %) Analyst Programmer 16 47 (2.771 %) Software Developer 17 42 (2.476 %) Architect 18 41 (2.417 %) Implementation Consultant 19 40 (2.358 %) Tester 19 40 (2.358 %) Senior Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 49 (2.889 %) Computer Science 2 48 (2.830 %) PMI 3 36 (2.123 %) Management Information System 4 19 (1.120 %) Clustering 5 17 (1.002 %) Client/Server 6 16 (0.943 %) N-Tier 7 13 (0.767 %) Mainframe 7 13 (0.767 %) Mathematics 8 8 (0.472 %) AS400 8 8 (0.472 %) Device Driver 9 7 (0.413 %) NHS 10 6 (0.354 %) Physics 11 5 (0.295 %) Data Extraction 12 4 (0.236 %) Smartcard 13 3 (0.177 %) Blackberry 13 3 (0.177 %) W3C 13 3 (0.177 %) Chip and PIN 13 3 (0.177 %) SCADA 13 3 (0.177 %) PACS 14 2 (0.118 %) Economics
Operating Systems 1 125 (7.370 %) Windows 2 82 (4.835 %) Unix 3 35 (2.064 %) Linux 4 21 (1.238 %) Windows 2000 5 15 (0.884 %) Windows Server 2003 6 13 (0.767 %) Solaris 6 13 (0.767 %) AIX 7 12 (0.708 %) Windows XP 8 10 (0.590 %) HPUX 9 8 (0.472 %) Embedded Linux 10 5 (0.295 %) Windows NT 11 3 (0.177 %) VMS 12 2 (0.118 %) Windows CE 12 2 (0.118 %) SUSE 12 2 (0.118 %) Debian 12 2 (0.118 %) Gentoo	Processes & Methodologies 1 124 (7.311 %) Project Management 2 110 (6.486 %) Business Analysis 3 94 (5.542 %) PRINCE2 4 60 (3.538 %) ITIL 5 47 (2.771 %) UML 5 47 (2.771 %) Systems Analysis 6 45 (2.653 %) OO 7 42 (2.476 %) ERP 8 39 (2.300 %) OOA/OOD 9 37 (2.182 %) Service Delivery 10 36 (2.123 %) Web Development 11 35 (2.064 %) User Acceptance Testing 12 30 (1.769 %) Migration 13 27 (1.592 %) E-Commerce 14 26 (1.533 %) Logistics 15 24 (1.415 %) Software Testing 16 22 (1.297 %) Stakeholder Management 16 22 (1.297 %) CRM 16 22 (1.297 %) Data Modelling 16 22 (1.297 %) Test Management
Programming Languages 1 373 (21.99 %) SQL 2 240 (14.15 %) Java 3 233 (13.74 %) C# 4 162 (9.552 %) C 5 121 (7.134 %) VB.NET 6 104 (6.132 %) JavaScript 7 92 (5.425 %) C++ 8 86 (5.071 %) VB 9 70 (4.127 %) PHP 10 42 (2.476 %) Perl 11 34 (2.005 %) Transact-SQL 12 33 (1.946 %) X++ 13 30 (1.769 %) Delphi 14 29 (1.710 %) VB6 15 27 (1.592 %) ActionScript 16 23 (1.356 %) VBA 17 15 (0.884 %) PL/SQL 18 12 (0.708 %) XPath 19 11 (0.649 %) VC++ 20 8 (0.472 %) VBScript	Qualifications 1 187 (11.03 %) Degree 2 101 (5.955 %) Microsoft Certification 3 71 (4.186 %) ISEB 4 52 (3.066 %) MCSE 5 27 (1.592 %) Cisco Certification 6 25 (1.474 %) MCSD 7 21 (1.238 %) CCNA 8 19 (1.120 %) MCAD 8 19 (1.120 %) CCNP 9 16 (0.943 %) PRINCE2 Certification 10 13 (0.767 %) MCP 10 13 (0.767 %) HNC 10 13 (0.767 %) PMP 10 13 (0.767 %) PMI Certification 11 8 (0.472 %) MCT 11 8 (0.472 %) A+ Certification 12 7 (0.413 %) CCA 12 7 (0.413 %) Citrix Certification 13 6 (0.354 %) ITIL Certification 13 6 (0.354 %) MCDST
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 51 (3.007 %) QA 2 22 (1.297 %) SLA 3 6 (0.354 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 4 5 (0.295 %) Basel II 4 5 (0.295 %) ISO9001 5 3 (0.177 %) BS7799 6 2 (0.118 %) ISO9002 6 2 (0.118 %) TickIT 6 2 (0.118 %) WAI 7 1 (0.059 %) MiFID 7 1 (0.059 %) ISO9000	System Software 1 55 (3.243 %) Active Directory 2 24 (1.415 %) NetBackup 3 12 (0.708 %) Backup Exec 4 4 (0.236 %) Oracle RAC 4 4 (0.236 %) Samba 5 3 (0.177 %) Terminal Services 6 2 (0.118 %) Terminal Server
Systems Management 1 14 (0.825 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 2 12 (0.708 %) Legato 2 12 (0.708 %) ARCserve 3 7 (0.413 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 4 6 (0.354 %) MOM 5 5 (0.295 %) OpenView 6 2 (0.118 %) Veritas Storage Foundation 7 1 (0.059 %) Netcool 7 1 (0.059 %) AutoSys 7 1 (0.059 %) Netcool/Proviso	Vendors 1 211 (12.44 %) Oracle 2 166 (9.788 %) Microsoft 3 40 (2.358 %) SAP 4 37 (2.182 %) Cisco 5 36 (2.123 %) Citrix 6 27 (1.592 %) Sybase 7 20 (1.179 %) Business Objects 8 19 (1.120 %) VERITAS 9 15 (0.884 %) HP 10 14 (0.825 %) EMC 11 13 (0.767 %) IBM 11 13 (0.767 %) Sage 12 10 (0.590 %) 3Com 12 10 (0.590 %) Nortel 13 9 (0.531 %) VMware 14 8 (0.472 %) Progress 14 8 (0.472 %) Alterian 15 7 (0.413 %) CODA 16 5 (0.295 %) Remedy 17 4 (0.236 %) Adobe