The first table below looks at the demand for B2C skills in IT jobs advertised for the Staffordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited B2C over the 3 months to 22 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Staffordshire region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
B2C (Business-to-Consumer)
Rank 69 66 59
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -7
Permanent jobs citing B2C 1 3 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Staffordshire 0.168% 0.512% 0.176%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.224% 0.732% 0.262%
Number of salaries quoted 1 3 1
Average salary £35,000 £67,500 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-48.14% +35.00%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £35,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -12.50%
All Processes & Methodologies
Staffordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
447 410 382
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Staffordshire 75.00% 69.97% 67.14%
Number of salaries quoted 387 350 307
Average salary £39,500 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.25% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £25,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
B2C
West Midlands

B2C
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing B2C across the Staffordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Staffordshire B2C Jobs Demand Trend

B2C
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing B2C across the Staffordshire region.

Staffordshire B2C Salary Trend

B2C
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Staffordshire region citing B2C 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 B2C.

1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (50.00%) B2B
1 1 (50.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Back Office
1 1 (50.00%) Validation
1 1 (50.00%) CMS
1 1 (50.00%) Content Management
1 1 (50.00%) Automated Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) QA
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
1 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (50.00%) Umbraco
1 1 (50.00%) EPiServer
1 1 (50.00%) Sitecore CMS
1 1 (50.00%) Sitecore
1 1 (50.00%) Mobile App

B2C
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Staffordshire region citing B2C 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 B2C. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) CMS
1 1 (50.00%) Umbraco
1 1 (50.00%) Sitecore CMS
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (50.00%) Back Office
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Test Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Test Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior QA Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Web Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Web Content Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Content Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Software Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (50.00%) B2B
1 1 (50.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Validation
1 1 (50.00%) Content Management
1 1 (50.00%) Automated Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) EPiServer
1 1 (50.00%) Sitecore