The first table below looks at the demand for Continuous Improvement skills in IT jobs advertised for the Staffordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Continuous Improvement over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Continual Improvement
Rank 54 42 61
Rank change year-on-year
-12 +19
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 13 25 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Staffordshire 2.215% 4.303% 0.341%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.948% 6.173% 0.504%
Number of salaries quoted 13 25 2
Average salary £67,500 £50,000 £27,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+35.00% +81.81%
90% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £34,500 £23,500
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £62,500 £31,500
UK excluding London average salary £39,500 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-7.05% -
All Processes & Methodologies
Staffordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
441 405 397
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Staffordshire 75.13% 69.71% 67.63%
Number of salaries quoted 382 348 317
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +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%
Continuous Improvement
West Midlands

Continuous Improvement
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Staffordshire Continuous Improvement Jobs Demand Trend

Continuous Improvement
Salary Trend

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

Staffordshire Continuous Improvement Salary Trend

Continuous Improvement
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Continuous Improvement across the Staffordshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Staffordshire Continuous Improvement Salary Histogram

Continuous Improvement
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Continuous Improvement within the Staffordshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Stoke-on-Trent +12 6 £68,750 +83.33%
Cannock -10 1 £25,000 -52.94%
Stafford -10 1 £42,500 -15.00%
Continuous Improvement
West Midlands

Continuous Improvement
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Staffordshire region citing Continuous Improvement 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 Continuous Improvement.

1 20 (74.07%) E-Commerce
2 18 (66.67%) .NET
3 17 (62.96%) Degree
3 17 (62.96%) Computer Science
4 16 (59.26%) SQL Server
4 16 (59.26%) C#
4 16 (59.26%) SQL
4 16 (59.26%) T-SQL
4 16 (59.26%) VB
4 16 (59.26%) Microsoft
5 10 (37.04%) Web Development
6 4 (14.81%) Project Management
7 3 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (11.11%) CheckPoint
7 3 (11.11%) Configuration Management
7 3 (11.11%) Firewall
7 3 (11.11%) Security Management
7 3 (11.11%) CCIE
7 3 (11.11%) CCSP
7 3 (11.11%) TCP/IP
7 3 (11.11%) JIRA
7 3 (11.11%) Cisco
7 3 (11.11%) Network Security
8 2 (7.407%) PowerShell
8 2 (7.407%) AccuRev
8 2 (7.407%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (7.407%) Hudson
8 2 (7.407%) Jenkins
8 2 (7.407%) Change Management
8 2 (7.407%) Migration

Continuous Improvement
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Staffordshire region citing Continuous Improvement 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 Continuous Improvement. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 18 (66.67%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 1 (3.704%) CMS
1 1 (3.704%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.704%) MS Office
1 1 (3.704%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.11%) Firewall
1 3 (11.11%) TCP/IP
1 3 (11.11%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (59.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (11.11%) JIRA
2 2 (7.407%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (7.407%) Hudson
2 2 (7.407%) Jenkins
2 2 (7.407%) CruiseControl
2 2 (7.407%) Maven
2 2 (7.407%) Ant
3 1 (3.704%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (3.704%) Subversion
3 1 (3.704%) FishEye
General
1 1 (3.704%) Finance
1 1 (3.704%) Games
Job Titles
1 16 (59.26%) Development Manager
2 10 (37.04%) Software Manager
3 7 (25.93%) Software Development Manager
4 6 (22.22%) Web Development Manager
4 6 (22.22%) Web Manager
5 3 (11.11%) Security Manager
5 3 (11.11%) Network Security Manager
5 3 (11.11%) Network Manager
6 2 (7.407%) Release Manager
6 2 (7.407%) Build Manager
7 1 (3.704%) QA Manager
7 1 (3.704%) Analyst
7 1 (3.704%) Test Manager
7 1 (3.704%) Test Analyst
7 1 (3.704%) IT Manager
7 1 (3.704%) Account Manager
7 1 (3.704%) Contracts Manager
7 1 (3.704%) Software Test Manager
7 1 (3.704%) QA Test Manager
7 1 (3.704%) Logistics Manager
Miscellaneous
1 17 (62.96%) Computer Science
2 1 (3.704%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.704%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.704%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (74.07%) E-Commerce
2 10 (37.04%) Web Development
3 4 (14.81%) Project Management
4 3 (11.11%) Configuration Management
4 3 (11.11%) Security Management
5 2 (7.407%) Change Management
5 2 (7.407%) Migration
5 2 (7.407%) Software Testing
6 1 (3.704%) ITIL
6 1 (3.704%) PRINCE2
6 1 (3.704%) Service Management
6 1 (3.704%) Service Delivery
6 1 (3.704%) Release Management
6 1 (3.704%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (3.704%) Logistics
6 1 (3.704%) Automated Testing
6 1 (3.704%) Content Management
6 1 (3.704%) Scrum
6 1 (3.704%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (3.704%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 16 (59.26%) C#
1 16 (59.26%) SQL
1 16 (59.26%) T-SQL
1 16 (59.26%) VB
2 2 (7.407%) PowerShell
2 2 (7.407%) Ruby
2 2 (7.407%) Python
Qualifications
1 17 (62.96%) Degree
2 3 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (11.11%) CCIE
2 3 (11.11%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.704%) SLA
1 1 (3.704%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 1 (3.704%) QA
Vendors
1 16 (59.26%) Microsoft
2 3 (11.11%) CheckPoint
2 3 (11.11%) Cisco
3 2 (7.407%) AccuRev
4 1 (3.704%) HP
4 1 (3.704%) Hitachi
4 1 (3.704%) Atlassian
4 1 (3.704%) VMware
Staffordshire, West Midlands
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Posted: 2 May 2013
Stafford, Staffordshire
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Advantage XPO
Posted: 23 May 2013
Stafford, Staffordshire
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Advantage XPO
Posted: 23 May 2013
Staffordshire, West Midlands
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OCC Computing
Salary: £25k - 35k per year + car pension
Posted: 14 May 2013
Staffordshire, West Midlands
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OCC Computing
Salary: £30k - 35k per year + car pension
Posted: 8 May 2013