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

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS)
Rank 192 214 212
Rank change year-on-year
+22 -2
Permanent jobs citing LIMS 19 9 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Surrey 0.359% 0.150% 0.076%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.166% 0.477% 0.236%
Number of salaries quoted 6 8 4
Average salary £23,500 £55,000 £22,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-57.27% +144.44%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £43,000 £31,750
% change year-on-year
-18.60% +35.43%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Surrey
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
1630 1886 1693
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Surrey 30.83% 31.39% 32.08%
Number of salaries quoted 1368 1629 1466
Average salary £40,000 £42,500 £41,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.88% +2.40%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £27,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +6.66%
LIMS
South East

LIMS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Surrey LIMS Jobs Demand Trend

LIMS
Salary Trend

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

Surrey LIMS Salary Trend

LIMS
Salary Histogram

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

Surrey LIMS Salary Histogram

LIMS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Surrey region citing LIMS 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 LIMS.

1 25 (83.33%) 21 CFR Part 11
1 25 (83.33%) GxP
1 25 (83.33%) PhD
1 25 (83.33%) Pharmaceutical
1 25 (83.33%) Validation
1 25 (83.33%) Data Management
1 25 (83.33%) Bioinformatics
1 25 (83.33%) Chemistry
1 25 (83.33%) Biology
1 25 (83.33%) Life Science
1 25 (83.33%) Software Deployment
2 24 (80.00%) Manufacturing
3 18 (60.00%) Enterprise Software
4 17 (56.67%) Biotechnology
5 16 (53.33%) Enterprise Architecture
5 16 (53.33%) MS Excel
5 16 (53.33%) Java
5 16 (53.33%) PL/SQL
5 16 (53.33%) SQL
5 16 (53.33%) Oracle
6 7 (23.33%) OOD
6 7 (23.33%) Mathematics
7 5 (16.67%) Degree
8 4 (13.33%) Information Management
8 4 (13.33%) R
8 4 (13.33%) Management Information System
8 4 (13.33%) MCP
8 4 (13.33%) MCSE
8 4 (13.33%) Microsoft
8 4 (13.33%) Microsoft Certification

LIMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Applications
1 16 (53.33%) MS Excel
General
1 25 (83.33%) Pharmaceutical
2 24 (80.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 25 (83.33%) Consultant
2 1 (3.333%) Support Analyst
2 1 (3.333%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 25 (83.33%) Chemistry
1 25 (83.33%) Biology
1 25 (83.33%) Life Science
2 18 (60.00%) Enterprise Software
3 17 (56.67%) Biotechnology
4 7 (23.33%) Mathematics
5 4 (13.33%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (83.33%) Validation
1 25 (83.33%) Data Management
1 25 (83.33%) Bioinformatics
1 25 (83.33%) Software Deployment
2 16 (53.33%) Enterprise Architecture
3 7 (23.33%) OOD
4 4 (13.33%) Information Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (53.33%) Java
1 16 (53.33%) PL/SQL
1 16 (53.33%) SQL
2 4 (13.33%) R
Qualifications
1 25 (83.33%) PhD
2 5 (16.67%) Degree
3 4 (13.33%) MCP
3 4 (13.33%) MCSE
3 4 (13.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (83.33%) 21 CFR Part 11
1 25 (83.33%) GxP
Vendors
1 16 (53.33%) Oracle
2 4 (13.33%) Microsoft