The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term MPEG in IT jobs advertised for the Surrey region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MPEG over the 3 months to 22 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG)
Rank 215 230 201
Rank change year-on-year
+15 -29
Permanent jobs citing MPEG 4 5 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Surrey 0.075% 0.082% 0.133%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.243% 0.261% 0.413%
Number of salaries quoted 4 5 7
Average salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.26% -5.00%
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year
-5.55% -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Surrey
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
1644 1919 1696
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Surrey 30.92% 31.57% 32.26%
Number of salaries quoted 1383 1657 1463
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 £25,550 £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%
MPEG
South East

MPEG
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Surrey MPEG Jobs Demand Trend

MPEG
Salary Trend

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

Surrey MPEG Salary Trend

MPEG
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MPEG within the Surrey region over the 3 months to 22 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
Staines +23 2 £45,000 -5.26%
Guildford - 2 £45,000 -
MPEG
South East

MPEG
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Surrey region citing MPEG 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 MPEG.

1 13 (86.67%) DVB
2 9 (60.00%) Linux
3 7 (46.67%) C
3 7 (46.67%) STB
4 6 (40.00%) C++
4 6 (40.00%) Microsoft
5 5 (33.33%) Embedded C
5 5 (33.33%) POSIX
5 5 (33.33%) Middleware
5 5 (33.33%) VxWorks
6 4 (26.67%) DTV
6 4 (26.67%) Apple
6 4 (26.67%) Wireless
6 4 (26.67%) Flash
6 4 (26.67%) MS Excel
6 4 (26.67%) SQL
6 4 (26.67%) Degree
6 4 (26.67%) Network Management
6 4 (26.67%) Signal Processing
7 3 (20.00%) IPTV
7 3 (20.00%) MHEG
7 3 (20.00%) Java
7 3 (20.00%) UML
7 3 (20.00%) Embedded C++
8 2 (13.33%) JNI
8 2 (13.33%) Shell Script
8 2 (13.33%) Electronics
8 2 (13.33%) Streaming Video
8 2 (13.33%) Mac OS X
8 2 (13.33%) TCP/IP

MPEG
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Surrey region citing MPEG 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 MPEG. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (33.33%) POSIX
1 5 (33.33%) Middleware
2 4 (26.67%) Flash
3 2 (13.33%) JNI
4 1 (6.667%) GStreamer
Applications
1 4 (26.67%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 13 (86.67%) DVB
2 4 (26.67%) Wireless
3 2 (13.33%) TCP/IP
4 1 (6.667%) NAS
General
1 2 (13.33%) Electronics
2 1 (6.667%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Software Engineer
1 4 (26.67%) Field Service Engineer
1 4 (26.67%) Field Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Embedded C/C++ Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Embedded C++ Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Embedded C Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Test Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Graduate
3 2 (13.33%) Graduate Software Engineer
4 1 (6.667%) Broadcast Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (46.67%) STB
2 4 (26.67%) DTV
3 3 (20.00%) IPTV
3 3 (20.00%) MHEG
4 2 (13.33%) Streaming Video
4 2 (13.33%) Computer Science
5 1 (6.667%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 9 (60.00%) Linux
2 5 (33.33%) VxWorks
3 2 (13.33%) Mac OS X
3 2 (13.33%) Embedded Linux
3 2 (13.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (26.67%) Network Management
1 4 (26.67%) Signal Processing
2 3 (20.00%) UML
3 2 (13.33%) OO
3 2 (13.33%) Test Automation
4 1 (6.667%) Software Engineering
4 1 (6.667%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) C
2 6 (40.00%) C++
3 5 (33.33%) Embedded C
4 4 (26.67%) SQL
5 3 (20.00%) Java
5 3 (20.00%) Embedded C++
6 2 (13.33%) Shell Script
6 2 (13.33%) VB
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) Degree
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (26.67%) Apple
3 2 (13.33%) Cisco
3 2 (13.33%) Oracle