Staffordshire ISEB Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Information Systems Examinations Board (ISEB) in IT jobs within the Staffordshire region compared to all other Qualifications we currently track. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited ISEB over the 3 months to 18 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Information Systems Examinations Board (ISEB)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Altrincham Andover Avon Aylesbury Banbury Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Berkshire Bicester Birkenhead Birmingham Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Coatbridge Colchester Congleton Cornwall Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Ealing East Grinstead East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Ellesmere Port England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Greenford Guildford Hackney Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Hove Hull Huntingdon Ilford Ipswich Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lightwater Liverpool Livingston London Luton Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Retford Rickmansworth Rochester Rugby Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swadlincote Swindon Tadworth Telford Thame Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 18 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	46	60
Rank change on same period last year	+14
Matching permanent IT job ads	12	1
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	14.81 %	1.111 %
Salaries quoted	5	1
Average minimum salary	£20,200	£18,000
Average salary	£20,800	£20,000
% change on same period last year	+4.00 %
Average maximum salary	£21,400	£22,000
UK excluding London average salary	£37,841	£36,559
% change on same period last year	+3.50 %
Qualifications Staffordshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	81	90
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.052 %	0.040 %
Salaries quoted	68	69
Average minimum salary	£36,761	£30,969
Average salary	£39,140	£33,123
% change on same period last year	+18.16 %
Average maximum salary	£41,519	£35,277
UK excluding London average salary	£37,919	£38,095
% change on same period last year	-0.46 %
ISEB West Midlands

ISEB
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing ISEB across the Staffordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

ISEB
Salary Trend

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

ISEB
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing ISEB across the Staffordshire region over the 3 months to 18 November 2008.

ISEB
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ISEB within the Staffordshire region over the 3 months to 18 November 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
Stoke-on-Trent	-	12	£20,800	-

ISEB West Midlands

ISEB
Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 November 2008, IT jobs across the Staffordshire region citing ISEB 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 ISEB.

1 16 (100.00 %) C# 1 16 (100.00 %) SQL 1 16 (100.00 %) VB 1 16 (100.00 %) QA 2 10 (62.50 %) Performance Testing 2 10 (62.50 %) Test Scripting 2 10 (62.50 %) Project Management 3 6 (37.50 %) Software Testing 3 6 (37.50 %) SQL Server 2005 3 6 (37.50 %) Degree 3 6 (37.50 %) SQL Server 3 6 (37.50 %) MS Office 3 6 (37.50 %) Windows 3 6 (37.50 %) Windows XP 3 6 (37.50 %) Microsoft

4 5 (31.25 %) Compuware 4 5 (31.25 %) TestDirector 4 5 (31.25 %) TestPartner

ISEB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 November 2008, IT jobs across the Staffordshire region citing ISEB 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 ISEB. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications 1 6 (37.50 %) MS Office	Database & Business Intelligence 1 6 (37.50 %) SQL Server 2005 1 6 (37.50 %) SQL Server
Development Applications 1 5 (31.25 %) TestDirector 1 5 (31.25 %) TestPartner	Job Titles 1 16 (100.00 %) Tester 2 11 (68.75 %) Software Tester 3 9 (56.25 %) Senior Tester 4 6 (37.50 %) Graduate
Operating Systems 1 6 (37.50 %) Windows 1 6 (37.50 %) Windows XP	Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (62.50 %) Performance Testing 1 10 (62.50 %) Test Scripting 1 10 (62.50 %) Project Management 2 6 (37.50 %) Software Testing
Programming Languages 1 16 (100.00 %) C# 1 16 (100.00 %) SQL 1 16 (100.00 %) VB	Qualifications 1 6 (37.50 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 16 (100.00 %) QA	Vendors 1 6 (37.50 %) Microsoft 2 5 (31.25 %) Compuware