The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term SaaS in IT jobs advertised for the Southampton region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SaaS over the 3 months to 21 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 terms in our Miscellaneous category for the Southampton region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software as a Service (SaaS)
Rank 81 88 68
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -20
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 5 1 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Southampton 0.592% 0.108% 0.814%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.629% 0.260% 2.427%
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 5
Average salary £40,000 £42,000 £31,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.76% +35.48%
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
- +5.88%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Southampton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
307 384 206
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Southampton 36.33% 41.51% 33.55%
Number of salaries quoted 281 365 201
Average salary £39,500 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.33% +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £23,000 £22,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £53,750 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +6.66%
SaaS
Hampshire

SaaS
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing SaaS across the Southampton region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Southampton SaaS Jobs Demand Trend

SaaS
Salary Trend

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

Southampton SaaS Salary Trend

SaaS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Southampton region citing SaaS 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 SaaS.

1 8 (61.54%) Degree
2 6 (46.15%) PHP
2 6 (46.15%) Linux
3 5 (38.46%) OOP
3 5 (38.46%) ERP
3 5 (38.46%) MS Office
3 5 (38.46%) C++
3 5 (38.46%) Java
3 5 (38.46%) Telecoms
4 4 (30.77%) MySQL
4 4 (30.77%) LAMP
5 3 (23.08%) Advertising
5 3 (23.08%) Mathematics
5 3 (23.08%) Computer Science
5 3 (23.08%) PHP5
5 3 (23.08%) Marketing
5 3 (23.08%) Business Development
5 3 (23.08%) Hadoop
5 3 (23.08%) MongoDB
5 3 (23.08%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (23.08%) NoSQL
5 3 (23.08%) C
5 3 (23.08%) Perl
5 3 (23.08%) OOA/OOD
5 3 (23.08%) OO
5 3 (23.08%) MS Excel
5 3 (23.08%) UNIX
5 3 (23.08%) Windows
5 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
6 2 (15.38%) Project Management

SaaS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Southampton region citing SaaS 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 SaaS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (30.77%) LAMP
2 2 (15.38%) HTML5
2 2 (15.38%) Ajax
2 2 (15.38%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 1 (7.692%) Apache
Applications
1 5 (38.46%) MS Office
2 3 (23.08%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) LAN
1 2 (15.38%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) MySQL
2 3 (23.08%) Hadoop
2 3 (23.08%) MongoDB
2 3 (23.08%) Apache Cassandra
2 3 (23.08%) NoSQL
3 2 (15.38%) Big Data
General
1 5 (38.46%) Telecoms
2 3 (23.08%) Advertising
2 3 (23.08%) Marketing
3 2 (15.38%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) Senior Systems Administrator
1 3 (23.08%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 3 (23.08%) Linux Administrator
1 3 (23.08%) Senior Linux Administrator
1 3 (23.08%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
1 3 (23.08%) Administrator
1 3 (23.08%) Systems Administrator
2 2 (15.38%) Project Manager
2 2 (15.38%) Software Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) Web Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Services Delivery Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) Service Analyst
3 1 (7.692%) Senior Project Manager
3 1 (7.692%) PHP Developer
3 1 (7.692%) Senior Manager
3 1 (7.692%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Mathematics
1 3 (23.08%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 6 (46.15%) Linux
2 3 (23.08%) UNIX
2 3 (23.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) OOP
1 5 (38.46%) ERP
2 3 (23.08%) Business Development
2 3 (23.08%) OOA/OOD
2 3 (23.08%) OO
3 2 (15.38%) Project Management
3 2 (15.38%) Service Management
3 2 (15.38%) Service Delivery
3 2 (15.38%) ITIL
3 2 (15.38%) PRINCE2
3 2 (15.38%) Multithreading
4 1 (7.692%) Information Security
4 1 (7.692%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) PHP
2 5 (38.46%) C++
2 5 (38.46%) Java
3 3 (23.08%) PHP5
3 3 (23.08%) C
3 3 (23.08%) Perl
4 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 8 (61.54%) Degree
2 1 (7.692%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) SLA
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) Yahoo!
2 2 (15.38%) Google