Suffolk Degree Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Degree in IT jobs within the Suffolk region compared to all other Qualifications we currently track. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Degree over the 3 months to 7 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Degree
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aldershot Altrincham Andover Ashton-under-Lyne Avon Aylesbury Barnsley Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Beaconsfield Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Birmingham Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester Corby Cornwall Corsham Coulsdon County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Daresbury Darlington Dartford Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edenbridge Edinburgh Egham Elland Ellesmere Port England Epsom Essex Exeter Exmouth Fareham Farnborough Farnham Felixstowe Fife Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Glastonbury Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Goole Gosport Great Yarmouth Greenford Guernsey Guildford Gwent Halesowen Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Havant Hemel Hempstead Hendon Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ilford Immingham Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Jersey Kent Kidderminster Kingston Upon Thames Kingswinford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughton Luton Lutterworth M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Malvern Manchester Mansfield Market Drayton Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Monmouthshire New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Northumbria Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Orpington Osterley Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Ringwood Rochester Rochford Royston Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southam Southampton Southport St Albans St Asaph Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stourbridge Stowmarket Stratford-upon-Avon Street Stroud Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swadlincote Swindon Taunton Telford Templecombe Tewkesbury Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walton-on-Thames Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Wells Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Weymouth Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Wotton-under-Edge Wrexham York Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	15	15
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching permanent IT job ads	96	139
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.056 %	0.060 %
As % of the category below	64.00 %	68.47 %
Salaries quoted	77	87
Average minimum salary	£32,562	£27,626
Average salary	£35,354	£31,207
% change on same period last year	+13.28 %
Average maximum salary	£38,146	£34,787
UK excluding London average salary	£36,347	£36,760
% change on same period last year	-1.12 %
Qualifications Suffolk
Matching permanent IT job ads	150	203
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.088 %	0.087 %
Salaries quoted	131	148
Average minimum salary	£29,241	£32,220
Average salary	£31,603	£35,530
% change on same period last year	-11.05 %
Average maximum salary	£33,965	£38,840
UK excluding London average salary	£37,875	£38,420
% change on same period last year	-1.41 %
Degree East of England

Degree
Demand Trend

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

Degree
Salary Trend

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

Degree
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Degree across the Suffolk region over the 3 months to 7 October 2008.

Degree
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Degree within the Suffolk region over the 3 months to 7 October 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
Ipswich	-2	71	£35,445	+14.17 %
Felixstowe	-3	13	£32,900	-
Bury St Edmunds	+3	5	£37,200	+40.37 %
Stowmarket	-	3	£30,000	-
Newmarket	-	2	£29,000	-

Degree East of England

Degree
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT jobs across the Suffolk region citing Degree 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 Degree.

1 97 (48.50 %) Oracle 2 90 (45.00 %) C++ 3 77 (38.50 %) C 4 63 (31.50 %) Java 5 57 (28.50 %) .NET 6 55 (27.50 %) C# 7 54 (27.00 %) UNIX 8 47 (23.50 %) Telecoms 9 43 (21.50 %) Computer Science 10 37 (18.50 %) Microsoft 11 35 (17.50 %) XML 11 35 (17.50 %) J2EE 12 34 (17.00 %) SQL 13 33 (16.50 %) SQL Server 14 30 (15.00 %) UML

15 27 (13.50 %) Linux 16 25 (12.50 %) ASP.NET 17 24 (12.00 %) MS Excel 18 22 (11.00 %) GSM 19 21 (10.50 %) SS7 19 21 (10.50 %) Requirements Analysis 20 19 (9.500 %) Data Protection Act 20 19 (9.500 %) Data Protection 20 19 (9.500 %) Spring 20 19 (9.500 %) Oracle 8/8i 21 18 (9.000 %) Software Engineering 21 18 (9.000 %) Hibernate 22 17 (8.500 %) Finance 23 16 (8.000 %) OO 23 16 (8.000 %) XSLT

Degree
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT jobs across the Suffolk region citing Degree 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 Degree. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 57 (28.50 %) .NET 2 35 (17.50 %) J2EE 2 35 (17.50 %) XML 3 25 (12.50 %) ASP.NET 4 19 (9.500 %) Spring 5 18 (9.000 %) Hibernate 6 16 (8.000 %) XSLT 7 15 (7.500 %) JSP 7 15 (7.500 %) HTML 8 13 (6.500 %) WebSphere 9 9 (4.500 %) XHTML 10 8 (4.000 %) .NET Framework 10 8 (4.000 %) WAP 10 8 (4.000 %) Middleware 10 8 (4.000 %) Tapestry 11 7 (3.500 %) Servlets 12 6 (3.000 %) EJB 12 6 (3.000 %) ASP 12 6 (3.000 %) JDBC 13 3 (1.500 %) AJAX	Application Platforms 1 8 (4.000 %) JBoss 1 8 (4.000 %) SharePoint 2 7 (3.500 %) BizTalk Server 2 7 (3.500 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 5 (2.500 %) Oracle Workflow 4 2 (1.000 %) IIS 5 1 (0.500 %) Resin 5 1 (0.500 %) SAS 5 1 (0.500 %) Tomcat
Applications 1 24 (12.00 %) MS Excel 2 10 (5.000 %) MATLAB 3 7 (3.500 %) Simulink 3 7 (3.500 %) MS Office 4 3 (1.500 %) Photoshop 5 2 (1.000 %) ImageReady 5 2 (1.000 %) Adobe Illustrator 5 2 (1.000 %) InDesign 6 1 (0.500 %) SPSS	Communications & Networking 1 22 (11.00 %) GSM 2 21 (10.50 %) SS7 3 8 (4.000 %) SMS 4 4 (2.000 %) VoIP 4 4 (2.000 %) Wireless 5 3 (1.500 %) Internet 6 2 (1.000 %) ADSL 6 2 (1.000 %) Broadband 6 2 (1.000 %) Firewall 7 1 (0.500 %) Wi-Fi 7 1 (0.500 %) TETRA 7 1 (0.500 %) WiMAX 7 1 (0.500 %) LAN 7 1 (0.500 %) 3G 7 1 (0.500 %) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 33 (16.50 %) SQL Server 2 19 (9.500 %) Oracle 8/8i 3 10 (5.000 %) MySQL 4 5 (2.500 %) Datawarehouse 4 5 (2.500 %) Data Mining 5 1 (0.500 %) BusinessObjects 5 1 (0.500 %) SQL Server 2005 5 1 (0.500 %) DB2 5 1 (0.500 %) Crystal Reports	Development Applications 1 8 (4.000 %) JUnit 1 8 (4.000 %) Visual Studio 1 8 (4.000 %) Subversion 2 3 (1.500 %) Flash 3 1 (0.500 %) WinRunner 3 1 (0.500 %) TestDirector 3 1 (0.500 %) NUnit
General 1 47 (23.50 %) Telecoms 2 17 (8.500 %) Finance 3 13 (6.500 %) Insurance 4 7 (3.500 %) Banking 4 7 (3.500 %) Avionics 5 6 (3.000 %) Government 5 6 (3.000 %) Games 5 6 (3.000 %) Music 5 6 (3.000 %) Marketing 6 5 (2.500 %) Education 6 5 (2.500 %) Manufacturing 7 4 (2.000 %) Music Industry 7 4 (2.000 %) Pensions 8 3 (1.500 %) Electronics 9 2 (1.000 %) Retail 9 2 (1.000 %) Graphic Design 10 1 (0.500 %) Local Government 10 1 (0.500 %) Legal	Job Titles 1 122 (61.00 %) Developer 2 40 (20.00 %) C++ Developer 3 36 (18.00 %) Systems Engineer 4 31 (15.50 %) Graduate 5 25 (12.50 %) Java Developer 6 21 (10.50 %) Junior 7 16 (8.000 %) Consultant 7 16 (8.000 %) .NET Developer 7 16 (8.000 %) Graduate Developer 8 15 (7.500 %) Senior Developer 9 14 (7.000 %) C# Developer 9 14 (7.000 %) Junior Developer 10 12 (6.000 %) Analyst 11 8 (4.000 %) Software Developer 12 7 (3.500 %) Junior Consultant 12 7 (3.500 %) Senior C++ Developer 12 7 (3.500 %) Graduate .NET Developer 12 7 (3.500 %) Graduate CSharp Developer 13 6 (3.000 %) Graduate Java Developer 13 6 (3.000 %) IT Consultant
Miscellaneous 1 43 (21.50 %) Computer Science 2 19 (9.500 %) Data Protection Act 3 10 (5.000 %) Mathematics 4 7 (3.500 %) VHDL 5 5 (2.500 %) Physics 6 4 (2.000 %) N-Tier 7 3 (1.500 %) Statistics 8 2 (1.000 %) Firmware 9 1 (0.500 %) Neural Network 9 1 (0.500 %) IPTV 9 1 (0.500 %) Biotechnology 9 1 (0.500 %) Client/Server	Operating Systems 1 54 (27.00 %) UNIX 2 27 (13.50 %) Linux 3 10 (5.000 %) Windows 4 8 (4.000 %) Red Hat Linux 5 2 (1.000 %) Windows XP 5 2 (1.000 %) Debian
Processes & Methodologies 1 30 (15.00 %) UML 2 21 (10.50 %) Requirements Analysis 3 19 (9.500 %) Data Protection 4 18 (9.000 %) Software Engineering 5 16 (8.000 %) OO 6 11 (5.500 %) Content Management 7 10 (5.000 %) Security Cleared 8 9 (4.500 %) Configuration Management 8 9 (4.500 %) Agile Software Development 9 8 (4.000 %) TDD 9 8 (4.000 %) Service Delivery 10 6 (3.000 %) Integration Testing 11 5 (2.500 %) Business Development 11 5 (2.500 %) PRINCE2 11 5 (2.500 %) Workflow 11 5 (2.500 %) Business Intelligence 12 3 (1.500 %) CRM 12 3 (1.500 %) Data Analysis 12 3 (1.500 %) Logistics 12 3 (1.500 %) Web Development	Programming Languages 1 90 (45.00 %) C++ 2 77 (38.50 %) C 3 63 (31.50 %) Java 4 55 (27.50 %) C# 5 34 (17.00 %) SQL 6 9 (4.500 %) VB.NET 7 7 (3.500 %) PHP 7 7 (3.500 %) JavaScript 8 6 (3.000 %) VB 9 5 (2.500 %) Perl 10 3 (1.500 %) PL/SQL 10 3 (1.500 %) PowerHouse 10 3 (1.500 %) Transact-SQL
Qualifications 1 11 (5.500 %) Microsoft Certification 2 10 (5.000 %) MCSD 3 6 (3.000 %) HND 4 5 (2.500 %) HNC 4 5 (2.500 %) PRINCE2 Certification 5 4 (2.000 %) ISEB 6 3 (1.500 %) MCP 7 2 (1.000 %) CCNA 7 2 (1.000 %) Cisco Certification 7 2 (1.000 %) ISTQB 8 1 (0.500 %) MCPD 8 1 (0.500 %) MCTS 8 1 (0.500 %) MCITP 8 1 (0.500 %) Postgraduate 8 1 (0.500 %) MCSE 8 1 (0.500 %) PhD	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (1.500 %) QA 2 2 (1.000 %) ISO9000
Systems Management 1 1 (0.500 %) OpenView 1 1 (0.500 %) Netcool 1 1 (0.500 %) NNM	Vendors 1 97 (48.50 %) Oracle 2 37 (18.50 %) Microsoft 3 14 (7.000 %) Sun 4 8 (4.000 %) Red Hat 5 7 (3.500 %) HP 5 7 (3.500 %) IBM 6 5 (2.500 %) Cisco 6 5 (2.500 %) Dell 6 5 (2.500 %) BT 7 2 (1.000 %) Borland 7 2 (1.000 %) Adobe 8 1 (0.500 %) Symantec 8 1 (0.500 %) KXEN 8 1 (0.500 %) MicroStrategy 8 1 (0.500 %) Business Objects