The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Computer Science in IT jobs advertised for the Suffolk region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Computer Science 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 Suffolk region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Computer Science (Computing Science)
Rank 27 47 33
Rank change year-on-year
+20 -14
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 61 16 45
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Suffolk 8.802% 2.852% 7.200%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 24.21% 8.247% 18.07%
Number of salaries quoted 54 15 41
Average salary £35,000 £31,000 £29,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.90% +5.08%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £22,900 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £46,750 £42,663 £35,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Suffolk
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
252 194 249
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Suffolk 36.36% 34.58% 39.84%
Number of salaries quoted 234 164 221
Average salary £35,000 £37,500 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.66% +25.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,850 £24,825 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £42,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +6.66%
Computer Science
East of England

Computer Science
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Suffolk Computer Science Jobs Demand Trend

Computer Science
Salary Trend

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

Suffolk Computer Science Salary Trend

Computer Science
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Computer Science across the Suffolk region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Suffolk Computer Science Salary Histogram

Computer Science
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Computer Science within the Suffolk region over the 3 months to 21 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
Ipswich +14 33 £40,625 +27.95%
Bury St Edmunds +4 11 £22,500 +18.42%
Computer Science
East of England

Computer Science
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Suffolk region citing Computer Science 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 Computer Science.

1 85 (95.51%) Degree
2 52 (58.43%) Windows
3 41 (46.07%) Java
4 37 (41.57%) Linux
5 36 (40.45%) Spring
6 35 (39.33%) Agile Software Development
7 34 (38.20%) UML
7 34 (38.20%) JavaScript
8 33 (37.08%) Web Services
8 33 (37.08%) JBoss
9 32 (35.96%) Tomcat
9 32 (35.96%) SOAP
10 31 (34.83%) Finance
10 31 (34.83%) Microsoft
11 30 (33.71%) XML
12 28 (31.46%) JSON
12 28 (31.46%) REST
13 24 (26.97%) Ajax
14 21 (23.60%) jQuery
15 20 (22.47%) SharePoint
15 20 (22.47%) J2EE
16 19 (21.35%) Mobile App
17 18 (20.22%) IIS
17 18 (20.22%) TDD
18 17 (19.10%) Firewall
18 17 (19.10%) DNS
18 17 (19.10%) Speech Recognition
19 16 (17.98%) .NET
19 16 (17.98%) Active Directory
20 15 (16.85%) SharePoint Server

Computer Science
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 36 (40.45%) Spring
2 33 (37.08%) Web Services
3 32 (35.96%) SOAP
4 30 (33.71%) XML
5 28 (31.46%) JSON
5 28 (31.46%) REST
6 24 (26.97%) Ajax
7 21 (23.60%) jQuery
8 20 (22.47%) J2EE
9 16 (17.98%) .NET
10 7 (7.865%) HTML
10 7 (7.865%) Hibernate
11 6 (6.742%) EJB
11 6 (6.742%) CSS
12 5 (5.618%) Servlets
12 5 (5.618%) Silverlight
13 4 (4.494%) JSF
13 4 (4.494%) JPA
13 4 (4.494%) EJB 3.0
13 4 (4.494%) JAXB
Application Platforms
1 32 (35.96%) Tomcat
2 20 (22.47%) SharePoint
3 18 (20.22%) IIS
4 15 (16.85%) SharePoint Server
5 8 (8.989%) SharePoint 2010
6 6 (6.742%) WebLogic
7 4 (4.494%) Resin
7 4 (4.494%) Apache
8 3 (3.371%) MS Exchange
9 2 (2.247%) CMS
Applications
1 11 (12.36%) MS Excel
2 8 (8.989%) PowerPivot
3 4 (4.494%) Photoshop
4 1 (1.124%) MS Office
4 1 (1.124%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 17 (19.10%) Firewall
1 17 (19.10%) DNS
2 14 (15.73%) Wireshark
3 8 (8.989%) Kerberos
4 3 (3.371%) TCP/IP
4 3 (3.371%) Broadband
4 3 (3.371%) VoIP
4 3 (3.371%) DHCP
4 3 (3.371%) SAN
5 2 (2.247%) Network Security
5 2 (2.247%) HTTP
6 1 (1.124%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (13.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 10 (11.24%) SQL Server
3 9 (10.11%) Big Data
4 8 (8.989%) PerformancePoint
5 6 (6.742%) MySQL
6 4 (4.494%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (4.494%) SQL Server 2005
6 4 (4.494%) SQL Server 2008
7 3 (3.371%) OLAP
7 3 (3.371%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (1.124%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.124%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 7 (7.865%) Eclipse
1 7 (7.865%) Subversion
2 6 (6.742%) Ant
3 2 (2.247%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.124%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (1.124%) Maven
General
1 31 (34.83%) Finance
2 6 (6.742%) Marketing
3 4 (4.494%) Banking
3 4 (4.494%) Games
4 3 (3.371%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.124%) Law
5 1 (1.124%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 46 (51.69%) Developer
2 28 (31.46%) Java Developer
3 23 (25.84%) Software Developer
4 22 (24.72%) Graduate
5 18 (20.22%) Administrator
6 17 (19.10%) Java Software Developer
7 14 (15.73%) SharePoint Administrator
8 12 (13.48%) Junior
9 10 (11.24%) Graduate Developer
10 9 (10.11%) Graduate Software Developer
11 7 (7.865%) Junior Developer
11 7 (7.865%) Junior Software Developer
12 6 (6.742%) Graduate Java Developer
12 6 (6.742%) Systems Engineer
13 5 (5.618%) DBA
13 5 (5.618%) Junior Java Developer
13 5 (5.618%) Junior Java Software Developer
14 4 (4.494%) SQL DBA
14 4 (4.494%) Games Developer
14 4 (4.494%) .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 19 (21.35%) Mobile App
2 17 (19.10%) Speech Recognition
3 8 (8.989%) Mathematics
4 4 (4.494%) Physics
4 4 (4.494%) Online Games
4 4 (4.494%) PMI
5 3 (3.371%) Replication
6 2 (2.247%) iPhone
7 1 (1.124%) N-Tier
7 1 (1.124%) Firmware
7 1 (1.124%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 52 (58.43%) Windows
2 37 (41.57%) Linux
3 3 (3.371%) UNIX
3 3 (3.371%) Windows 2000
3 3 (3.371%) Solaris
3 3 (3.371%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (3.371%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (2.247%) Android
5 1 (1.124%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (1.124%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (39.33%) Agile Software Development
2 34 (38.20%) UML
3 18 (20.22%) TDD
4 14 (15.73%) Load Balancing
5 11 (12.36%) Software Engineering
6 9 (10.11%) Analytics
7 8 (8.989%) Business Intelligence
8 7 (7.865%) OO
9 6 (6.742%) Disaster Recovery
10 4 (4.494%) Problem Management
10 4 (4.494%) Web Development
10 4 (4.494%) Waterfall
10 4 (4.494%) Stakeholder Management
10 4 (4.494%) Risk Management
10 4 (4.494%) Project Management
10 4 (4.494%) PRINCE2
11 3 (3.371%) ITIL
11 3 (3.371%) Change Management
11 3 (3.371%) High Availability
11 3 (3.371%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 41 (46.07%) Java
2 34 (38.20%) JavaScript
3 13 (14.61%) C#
4 12 (13.48%) SQL
5 5 (5.618%) VB
6 4 (4.494%) ActionScript 3.0
6 4 (4.494%) PHP
6 4 (4.494%) ActionScript
7 3 (3.371%) C++
7 3 (3.371%) T-SQL
7 3 (3.371%) Perl
7 3 (3.371%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.247%) VBScript
8 2 (2.247%) VB.NET
9 1 (1.124%) Python
9 1 (1.124%) C
9 1 (1.124%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 85 (95.51%) Degree
2 8 (8.989%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (4.494%) PMI Certification
4 3 (3.371%) ISEB
5 2 (2.247%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.247%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.124%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.371%) QA
System Software
1 16 (17.98%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.371%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 33 (37.08%) JBoss
2 31 (34.83%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.618%) Oracle
4 3 (3.371%) Cisco
4 3 (3.371%) EMC
4 3 (3.371%) Red Hat
4 3 (3.371%) VMware
5 1 (1.124%) BT
5 1 (1.124%) Zend
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