South West Statistics Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Statistics skills within the South West region with a comparison to our Miscellaneous category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Statistics over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Statistics
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Andover Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Cheltenham Cheshire Chippenham Cirencester City of London Colchester Corsham County Antrim Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dundee East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrow Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Horsham Hull Huntingdon Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Letchworth Liverpool Livingston London Lowestoft Luton Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newmarket Newport Norfolk North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Rotherham Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Stevenage Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells UK Uxbridge Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Waterlooville Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Wimbledon Windsor Woking York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	206	222
Rank change on same period last year	+16
Matching permanent IT job ads	52	33
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.027 %	0.014 %
As % of the category below	2.840 %	1.714 %
Salaries quoted	41	30
Average minimum salary	£31,823	£26,233
Average salary	£34,105	£29,283
% change on same period last year	+16.46 %
Average maximum salary	£36,388	£32,333
UK excluding London average salary	£36,111	£33,237
% change on same period last year	+8.64 %
Miscellaneous South West
Matching permanent IT job ads	1831	1925
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.967 %	0.788 %
Salaries quoted	1575	1499
Average minimum salary	£32,006	£33,933
Average salary	£35,871	£37,542
% change on same period last year	-4.45 %
Average maximum salary	£39,736	£41,152
UK excluding London average salary	£38,014	£39,235
% change on same period last year	-3.11 %
Statistics England

Statistics
Demand Trend

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

Statistics
Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Statistics across the South West 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 Statistics within the South West 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
Wiltshire	+11	26	£36,944	+14.11 %
Gloucestershire	-18	14	£32,964	+36.40 %
Bristol	-11	10	£32,850	+34.63 %
Somerset	-17	3	£41,333	+29.16 %
Dorset	+6	3	£20,000	-42.85 %

Statistics England

Statistics
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the South West region citing Statistics 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 Statistics.

1 47 (54.02 %) Degree 2 39 (44.83 %) SAS 3 38 (43.68 %) Marketing 4 29 (33.33 %) Database Marketing 5 26 (29.89 %) Data Mining 6 24 (27.59 %) MS Excel 7 19 (21.84 %) Finance 7 19 (21.84 %) Security Cleared 8 17 (19.54 %) Project Planning 8 17 (19.54 %) MS Project 9 11 (12.64 %) SPSS 10 10 (11.49 %) CHAID 10 10 (11.49 %) Microsoft 10 10 (11.49 %) Mathematics 10 10 (11.49 %) Base SAS

10 10 (11.49 %) Statistical Analysis 11 8 (9.195 %) Insurance 11 8 (9.195 %) Direct Marketing 12 7 (8.046 %) SAS Macro 13 6 (6.897 %) HTML 13 6 (6.897 %) SQL 13 6 (6.897 %) Incident Management 14 5 (5.747 %) Pensions 14 5 (5.747 %) Financial Institution 14 5 (5.747 %) Retail 14 5 (5.747 %) Operations Research 15 4 (4.598 %) Change Management 15 4 (4.598 %) Configuration Management 15 4 (4.598 %) Sun 15 4 (4.598 %) HP

Statistics
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the South West region citing Statistics 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 Statistics. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 6 (6.897 %) HTML 2 3 (3.448 %) CSS 2 3 (3.448 %) WebServices 3 2 (2.299 %) XHTML 4 1 (1.149 %) XML 4 1 (1.149 %) .NET 4 1 (1.149 %) ASP 4 1 (1.149 %) ASP.NET	Application Platforms 1 39 (44.83 %) SAS 2 2 (2.299 %) CMS 3 1 (1.149 %) SharePoint 3 1 (1.149 %) TeamSite 3 1 (1.149 %) ArcGIS
Applications 1 24 (27.59 %) MS Excel 2 17 (19.54 %) MS Project 3 11 (12.64 %) SPSS 4 4 (4.598 %) Spreadsheet 5 3 (3.448 %) MS PowerPoint 6 2 (2.299 %) MS Office 6 2 (2.299 %) Photoshop	Communications & Networking 1 3 (3.448 %) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 29 (33.33 %) Database Marketing 2 26 (29.89 %) Data Mining 3 10 (11.49 %) Base SAS 4 4 (4.598 %) RDBMS 4 4 (4.598 %) SQL Server 4 4 (4.598 %) Oracle Reports 5 3 (3.448 %) MS Access 5 3 (3.448 %) SAS Enterprise Guide 5 3 (3.448 %) SAS Enterprise Miner 6 2 (2.299 %) BusinessObjects 7 1 (1.149 %) GIS 7 1 (1.149 %) Datawarehouse	Development Applications 1 3 (3.448 %) Dreamweaver 2 1 (1.149 %) Synon 2 1 (1.149 %) FrontPage
General 1 38 (43.68 %) Marketing 2 19 (21.84 %) Finance 3 8 (9.195 %) Insurance 4 5 (5.747 %) Pensions 4 5 (5.747 %) Financial Institution 4 5 (5.747 %) Retail 5 4 (4.598 %) Banking 6 3 (3.448 %) Billing 6 3 (3.448 %) Telemarketing 7 2 (2.299 %) Education 7 2 (2.299 %) Law 7 2 (2.299 %) Legal 7 2 (2.299 %) Publishing 8 1 (1.149 %) Corporate Banking	Job Titles 1 43 (49.43 %) Analyst 2 25 (28.74 %) Business Analyst 3 17 (19.54 %) Project Planner 4 14 (16.09 %) SAS Analyst 5 12 (13.79 %) Marketing Analyst 6 7 (8.046 %) Business Consultant 6 7 (8.046 %) SAS Consultant 6 7 (8.046 %) Consultant 7 5 (5.747 %) Database Analyst 8 4 (4.598 %) DBA 8 4 (4.598 %) Graduate 8 4 (4.598 %) Data Centre Manager 8 4 (4.598 %) Senior DBA 8 4 (4.598 %) Data Manager 9 3 (3.448 %) Business Data Analyst 9 3 (3.448 %) Developer 9 3 (3.448 %) Technical Support 9 3 (3.448 %) Statistician 9 3 (3.448 %) Data Analyst 10 2 (2.299 %) Technical Support Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 10 (11.49 %) Mathematics 2 4 (4.598 %) Credit Risk 2 4 (4.598 %) Client/Server 2 4 (4.598 %) N-Tier 3 3 (3.448 %) Economics 4 2 (2.299 %) Data Protection Act 4 2 (2.299 %) Physics 4 2 (2.299 %) Copywriting	Operating Systems 1 1 (1.149 %) Windows 1 1 (1.149 %) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies 1 19 (21.84 %) Security Cleared 2 17 (19.54 %) Project Planning 3 10 (11.49 %) Statistical Analysis 3 10 (11.49 %) CHAID 4 8 (9.195 %) Direct Marketing 5 6 (6.897 %) Incident Management 6 5 (5.747 %) Operations Research 7 4 (4.598 %) Change Management 7 4 (4.598 %) Configuration Management 7 4 (4.598 %) Problem Management 7 4 (4.598 %) Data Protection 7 4 (4.598 %) Data Modelling 8 3 (3.448 %) Logistic Regression 8 3 (3.448 %) Cluster Analysis 8 3 (3.448 %) Content Management 8 3 (3.448 %) Data Analysis 9 2 (2.299 %) Strategic Planning 9 2 (2.299 %) Web Development 9 2 (2.299 %) Service Management 9 2 (2.299 %) Service Delivery	Programming Languages 1 7 (8.046 %) SAS Macro 2 6 (6.897 %) SQL 3 1 (1.149 %) VB
Qualifications 1 47 (54.02 %) Degree 2 2 (2.299 %) PhD	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (4.598 %) SLA 2 1 (1.149 %) GCP
Vendors 1 10 (11.49 %) Microsoft 2 4 (4.598 %) Oracle 2 4 (4.598 %) Sun 2 4 (4.598 %) HP 2 4 (4.598 %) Cisco 3 2 (2.299 %) Business Objects 3 2 (2.299 %) Adobe 4 1 (1.149 %) Interwoven 4 1 (1.149 %) ESRI 4 1 (1.149 %) Minitab