The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Computer Science in IT jobs advertised for the Tyne and Wear 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 Tyne and Wear region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Computer Science (Computing Science)
Rank 43 36 34
Rank change year-on-year
-7 -2
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 19 19 25
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Tyne and Wear 3.381% 3.183% 4.690%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 15.08% 13.29% 14.04%
Number of salaries quoted 16 16 22
Average salary £30,000 £38,000 £17,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-21.05% +123.52%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Tyne and Wear
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
126 143 178
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Tyne and Wear 22.42% 23.95% 33.40%
Number of salaries quoted 107 130 163
Average salary £32,500 £35,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.14% +7.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £25,000 £17,000
10% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £45,000 £66,250
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +6.66%
Computer Science
North East

Computer Science
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Tyne and Wear 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 Tyne and Wear region.

Tyne and Wear Computer Science Salary Trend

Computer Science
Salary Histogram

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

Tyne and Wear 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 Tyne and Wear 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -6 18 £30,000 -20.00%
Sunderland -2 9 £42,500 +10.38%
South Shields - 1 £25,000 -
Computer Science
North East

Computer Science
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Tyne and Wear 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 34 (70.83%) Degree
2 21 (43.75%) C++
3 19 (39.58%) Java
4 17 (35.42%) Physics
4 17 (35.42%) Multithreading
5 16 (33.33%) OO
5 16 (33.33%) PhD
6 15 (31.25%) Agile Software Development
7 14 (29.17%) Mathematics
7 14 (29.17%) C
7 14 (29.17%) C#
7 14 (29.17%) .NET
7 14 (29.17%) ASP.NET
8 13 (27.08%) Microsoft
8 13 (27.08%) 3D Graphics
8 13 (27.08%) Unit Testing
9 10 (20.83%) Scrum
9 10 (20.83%) TDD
10 9 (18.75%) NUnit
10 9 (18.75%) .NET Framework
10 9 (18.75%) MCTS
10 9 (18.75%) WCF
10 9 (18.75%) Kanban
10 9 (18.75%) ASP.NET MVC
10 9 (18.75%) Rhino Mocks
10 9 (18.75%) Moq
10 9 (18.75%) Razor View Engine
10 9 (18.75%) Web Application Development
10 9 (18.75%) MVC
10 9 (18.75%) Microsoft Certification

Computer Science
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Tyne and Wear 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 14 (29.17%) .NET
1 14 (29.17%) ASP.NET
2 9 (18.75%) .NET Framework
2 9 (18.75%) WCF
2 9 (18.75%) ASP.NET MVC
2 9 (18.75%) Razor View Engine
2 9 (18.75%) ASP.NET MVC 4
3 5 (10.42%) Spring.NET
3 5 (10.42%) Castle Windsor
3 5 (10.42%) Ninject
3 5 (10.42%) WPF
3 5 (10.42%) WinForms
3 5 (10.42%) Unity DI Container
4 4 (8.333%) NHibernate
5 2 (4.167%) HTML
5 2 (4.167%) ASP
5 2 (4.167%) XML
5 2 (4.167%) JSON
6 1 (2.083%) J2SE
6 1 (2.083%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 4 (8.333%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.083%) Magento
2 1 (2.083%) DotNetNuke
Applications
1 4 (8.333%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.083%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.167%) GPRS
1 2 (4.167%) TCP/IP
1 2 (4.167%) Modbus
1 2 (4.167%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.42%) SQL Server
2 4 (8.333%) Crystal Reports
2 4 (8.333%) QlikView
2 4 (8.333%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (4.167%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 9 (18.75%) NUnit
1 9 (18.75%) Rhino Mocks
1 9 (18.75%) Moq
2 5 (10.42%) MSTest
General
1 4 (8.333%) Music
1 4 (8.333%) Music Industry
2 2 (4.167%) Electronics
3 1 (2.083%) Advertising
3 1 (2.083%) Games
Job Titles
1 34 (70.83%) Developer
2 20 (41.67%) Graduate
3 19 (39.58%) Software Developer
4 14 (29.17%) Junior
5 13 (27.08%) Graduate Developer
6 12 (25.00%) C++/Java Developer
6 12 (25.00%) Java Developer
6 12 (25.00%) C++ Developer
7 9 (18.75%) Junior Developer
7 9 (18.75%) C++ Software Developer
7 9 (18.75%) Junior .NET Developer
7 9 (18.75%) Java Software Developer
7 9 (18.75%) Graduate .NET Developer
7 9 (18.75%) .NET Developer
8 4 (8.333%) Help Desk Support
8 4 (8.333%) Junior Consultant
8 4 (8.333%) Software Engineer
8 4 (8.333%) Project Manager
8 4 (8.333%) IT Consultant
8 4 (8.333%) 1st Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 17 (35.42%) Physics
2 14 (29.17%) Mathematics
3 13 (27.08%) 3D Graphics
4 8 (16.67%) CUDA
4 8 (16.67%) Visualisation
5 5 (10.42%) Inversion of Control
5 5 (10.42%) Tandem
6 3 (6.250%) SaaS
6 3 (6.250%) NHS
7 2 (4.167%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (2.083%) Animation
8 1 (2.083%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.42%) Windows
2 2 (4.167%) Fedora
2 2 (4.167%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (35.42%) Multithreading
2 16 (33.33%) OO
3 15 (31.25%) Agile Software Development
4 13 (27.08%) Unit Testing
5 10 (20.83%) Scrum
5 10 (20.83%) TDD
6 9 (18.75%) Kanban
6 9 (18.75%) Web Application Development
6 9 (18.75%) MVC
7 8 (16.67%) OOD
7 8 (16.67%) UML
8 5 (10.42%) Parallel Programming
8 5 (10.42%) Continuous Integration
8 5 (10.42%) MVVM
8 5 (10.42%) Dependency Injection
8 5 (10.42%) Business Intelligence
9 4 (8.333%) Data Analysis
9 4 (8.333%) Software Engineering
9 4 (8.333%) BDD
10 3 (6.250%) Information Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (43.75%) C++
2 19 (39.58%) Java
3 14 (29.17%) C
3 14 (29.17%) C#
4 8 (16.67%) SQL
5 3 (6.250%) VB.NET
5 3 (6.250%) JavaScript
6 2 (4.167%) Shell Script
6 2 (4.167%) Python
Qualifications
1 34 (70.83%) Degree
2 16 (33.33%) PhD
3 9 (18.75%) MCTS
3 9 (18.75%) Microsoft Certification
3 9 (18.75%) MCP
3 9 (18.75%) MCAD
3 9 (18.75%) MCSD
4 2 (4.167%) HND
Vendors
1 13 (27.08%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.167%) Red Hat
3 1 (2.083%) Oracle
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Salary: £35000 per annum + Bens
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Salary: £35000 per annum + Bens
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Salary: £0 - £20,000 per year
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Salary: From £18,000 to £20,000 per annum + Pension + Benefits + Training
Posted: 17 May 2013
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