The first part of the table below looks at the prevalence of the term Billing in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Billing over the 3 months to 21 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all terms in our General category.

Billing
Location
3 months to
21 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank390314298
Rank change year-on-year
Down-76Down-16
Matching permanent IT job ads672895644
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK0.554 %0.733 %0.676 %
As % of the General category1.232 %1.517 %1.389 %
Number of salaries quoted498658463
Average salary£45,000£50,000£47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-10.00 %+5.26 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£30,000£29,000£22,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£75,000£73,250£80,000
UK excluding London average salary£40,500£46,000£45,000
% change year-on-year
-11.95 %+2.22 %
IT Job Market, General CategoryAll General Category
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
545465899946348
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK45.01 %48.35 %48.67 %
Number of salaries quoted458734818537517
Average salary£50,000£52,500£52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.76 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£30,000£30,000£30,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£80,000£85,000£85,000
UK excluding London average salary£42,500£41,000£40,000
% change year-on-year
+3.65 %+2.50 %

Billing
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Billing within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

Billing Demand Trend

Billing
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Billing within the UK.

Billing Salary Trend

Billing
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Billing over the 3 months to 21 May 2012 within the UK.

Billing Salary Histogram

Billing
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Billing within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandDown-59634£45,000-10.00 %
LondonDown-74304£52,500+5.00 %
South EastDown-41149£40,000-20.00 %
City of LondonDown-1463£55,000+10.00 %
SurreyDown-158£40,000-
East MidlandsUp+738£52,500-12.50 %
West MidlandsUp+338£50,000+21.21 %
BerkshireDown-7035£45,000-18.18 %
East of EnglandUp+530£42,000-1.17 %
NottinghamshireUp+2029£57,500-4.16 %
North WestDown-7727£25,750-25.36 %
WarwickshireDown-1025£45,000+5.88 %
NottinghamUp+1223£60,000-
HampshireUp+323£41,000+2.50 %
ScotlandDown-217£47,500+15.85 %
ManchesterDown-6417£26,500-23.18 %
HertfordshireUp+2016£49,750-21.96 %
YorkshireDown-714£32,500-7.14 %
South WestDown-1114£32,500+30.00 %
BuckinghamshireUp+2112£40,000+93.93 %
EdinburghUp+1211£57,500+15.00 %
West YorkshireDown-2411£32,500-7.14 %
CambridgeshireNo change010£34,000-36.74 %
Leamington SpaDown-910£55,000+22.22 %
LeedsDown-1610£31,250-15.54 %
ReadingDown-2110£44,000-20.00 %
North EastNew entry-9£55,000-
KentUp+298£35,000-41.66 %
CoventryUp+138£42,500-20.37 %
OxfordshireUp+48£50,000-11.50 %

Billing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK citing Billing 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 Billing.

1456 (35.29 %)Finance
2384 (29.72 %)Telecoms
3324 (25.08 %)CRM
4273 (21.13 %)SQL
5221 (17.11 %)Oracle
6200 (15.48 %)SAP
7179 (13.85 %)Degree
8171 (13.24 %)Microsoft
9170 (13.16 %)Project Management
10165 (12.77 %)SQL Server
11155 (12.00 %).NET
12149 (11.53 %)Java
13119 (9.211 %)C#
14115 (8.901 %)Business Analysis
15111 (8.591 %)XML
16108 (8.359 %)ERP
17107 (8.282 %)Banking
1893 (7.198 %)Business Intelligence
1991 (7.043 %)Agile Software Development
2090 (6.966 %)Workflow
2187 (6.734 %)MS Excel
2284 (6.502 %)E-Commerce
2382 (6.347 %)Legal
2481 (6.269 %)Linux
2579 (6.115 %)Cisco
2678 (6.037 %)ASP.NET
2777 (5.960 %)HTML
2777 (5.960 %)VB.NET
2777 (5.960 %)UNIX
2872 (5.573 %)SharePoint

Billing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK citing Billing 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 Billing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1155 (12.00 %).NET
2111 (8.591 %)XML
378 (6.037 %)ASP.NET
477 (5.960 %)HTML
559 (4.567 %)CSS
634 (2.632 %)J2EE
634 (2.632 %)WinForms
733 (2.554 %)Web Services
832 (2.477 %)Spring
930 (2.322 %)JSF
1027 (2.090 %)Ajax
1125 (1.935 %)Hibernate
1221 (1.625 %)EDI
1318 (1.393 %)LAMP
1416 (1.238 %)Struts
1416 (1.238 %)jQuery
1416 (1.238 %)SAP ALE
1515 (1.161 %)JSON
1515 (1.161 %)SAP Smart Forms
1614 (1.084 %)XSLT
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
172 (5.573 %)SharePoint
231 (2.399 %)Apache
327 (2.090 %)SAS
415 (1.161 %)SharePoint Server
514 (1.084 %)MS Exchange
611 (0.851 %)GlassFish
611 (0.851 %)IIS
710 (0.774 %)ESB
88 (0.619 %)BizTalk Server
97 (0.542 %)CICS
106 (0.464 %)Tomcat
106 (0.464 %)CMS
106 (0.464 %)WorkSite
114 (0.310 %)Lotus Notes
114 (0.310 %)Oracle Workflow
114 (0.310 %)Oracle BPEL
114 (0.310 %)JOnAS
114 (0.310 %)WebSphere Process Server
123 (0.232 %)Exchange Server 2003
123 (0.232 %)Joomla!
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
187 (6.734 %)MS Excel
264 (4.954 %)MS Office
356 (4.334 %)MS Visio
420 (1.548 %)MS PowerPoint
513 (1.006 %)MS Project
64 (0.310 %)Spreadsheet
72 (0.155 %)Photoshop
81 (0.077 %)Adobe Illustrator
81 (0.077 %)SPSS
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
146 (3.560 %)SAP SD
241 (3.173 %)Oracle EBS
336 (2.786 %)SAP IS-U
432 (2.477 %)SAP Oil and Gas
528 (2.167 %)Oracle EBS R12
627 (2.090 %)SAP ERP
726 (2.012 %)SAP CO
825 (1.935 %)SAP CRM
921 (1.625 %)SAP R/3
1018 (1.393 %)SAP FI
1018 (1.393 %)SAP FI/CO
1018 (1.393 %)Dynamics CRM
1117 (1.316 %)Hyperion Planning
1216 (1.238 %)Oracle Applications
1312 (0.929 %)Oracle CRM
1411 (0.851 %)PeopleSoft Financials
1510 (0.774 %)Agresso
1510 (0.774 %)Oracle 11i
1510 (0.774 %)Dynamics AX
168 (0.619 %)CSG Singleview
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
166 (5.108 %)BSS
262 (4.799 %)Internet
348 (3.715 %)Broadband
430 (2.322 %)LAN
526 (2.012 %)Wireless
623 (1.780 %)OSPF
623 (1.780 %)DNS
722 (1.703 %)DHCP
820 (1.548 %)WLAN
820 (1.548 %)Intranet
820 (1.548 %)SCCP
919 (1.471 %)H.323
919 (1.471 %)MGCP
1016 (1.238 %)Unified Communications
1016 (1.238 %)IP Telephony
1115 (1.161 %)Firewall
1214 (1.084 %)SNMP
1214 (1.084 %)SMTP
1313 (1.006 %)WAN
1412 (0.929 %)Wi-Fi
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1165 (12.77 %)SQL Server
253 (4.102 %)Data Warehouse
352 (4.025 %)SQL Server 2005
448 (3.715 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
547 (3.638 %)MySQL
640 (3.096 %)SQL Server 2008
727 (2.090 %)ETL
826 (2.012 %)Crystal Reports
919 (1.471 %)Oracle 8/8i
1018 (1.393 %)PostgreSQL
1117 (1.316 %)Oracle BI EE
1117 (1.316 %)RDBMS
1215 (1.161 %)SQL Server Integration Services
1313 (1.006 %)DB2
1411 (0.851 %)Data Mart
1510 (0.774 %)MS Access
168 (0.619 %)Oracle Reports
177 (0.542 %)DTS
186 (0.464 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
195 (0.387 %)Oracle 11g
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
112 (0.929 %)Visual Studio
112 (0.929 %)Selenium
211 (0.851 %)Ant
310 (0.774 %)Cucumber
310 (0.774 %)Subversion
49 (0.697 %)WATIR
49 (0.697 %)Hudson
49 (0.697 %)RSpec
57 (0.542 %)JIRA
57 (0.542 %)QuickTest Pro
57 (0.542 %)LoadRunner
66 (0.464 %)Eclipse
75 (0.387 %)PeopleTools
84 (0.310 %)JDeveloper
84 (0.310 %)Oracle Forms
84 (0.310 %)Rational Rose
84 (0.310 %)JBuilder
84 (0.310 %)JMeter
84 (0.310 %)NetBeans
93 (0.232 %)Maven
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1456 (35.29 %)Finance
2384 (29.72 %)Telecoms
3107 (8.282 %)Banking
482 (6.347 %)Legal
570 (5.418 %)Marketing
664 (4.954 %)Retail
754 (4.180 %)Law
845 (3.483 %)Back Office
938 (2.941 %)General Ledger
1033 (2.554 %)Games
1131 (2.399 %)Pharmaceutical
1223 (1.780 %)Investment Banking
1320 (1.548 %)German Language
1419 (1.471 %)Advertising
1518 (1.393 %)Manufacturing
1615 (1.161 %)Music
1712 (0.929 %)Retail Banking
188 (0.619 %)Publishing
188 (0.619 %)Spanish Language
197 (0.542 %)Automotive
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1243 (18.81 %)Analyst
2240 (18.58 %)Consultant
3174 (13.47 %)Developer
4111 (8.591 %)Business Analyst
588 (6.811 %)SAP Consultant
687 (6.734 %)Project Manager
777 (5.960 %)Architect
852 (4.025 %)Recruitment Consultant
943 (3.328 %)Designer
1042 (3.251 %)Senior Consultant
1141 (3.173 %)Service Manager
1239 (3.019 %)Software Developer
1338 (2.941 %)Administrator
1432 (2.477 %)Support Analyst
1530 (2.322 %)Management Consultant
1530 (2.322 %)SAP ISU Consultant
1629 (2.245 %)SAP SD Consultant
1728 (2.167 %).NET Developer
1728 (2.167 %)Business Consultant
1827 (2.090 %)Applications Support
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
145 (3.483 %)Management Information System
241 (3.173 %)Computer Science
329 (2.245 %)Digital Media
425 (1.935 %)Client/Server
520 (1.548 %)SaaS
618 (1.393 %)Open Source
715 (1.161 %)iPhone
814 (1.084 %)N-Tier
911 (0.851 %)Blog
911 (0.851 %)Statistics
1010 (0.774 %)Social Media
119 (0.697 %)New Media
119 (0.697 %)Cloud Computing
127 (0.542 %)Economics
127 (0.542 %)Derivative
127 (0.542 %)IVR
127 (0.542 %)Grid Computing
127 (0.542 %)Blackberry
136 (0.464 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
136 (0.464 %)FMCG
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
181 (6.269 %)Linux
277 (5.960 %)UNIX
354 (4.180 %)Windows
411 (0.851 %)Windows 7
58 (0.619 %)Android
67 (0.542 %)Apple iOS
67 (0.542 %)Windows Server 2008
75 (0.387 %)VMS
84 (0.310 %)Windows Server 2003
84 (0.310 %)Windows XP
92 (0.155 %)Debian
92 (0.155 %)CentOS
92 (0.155 %)Windows 2000 Server
92 (0.155 %)Ubuntu
101 (0.077 %)Windows Phone 7
101 (0.077 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
101 (0.077 %)Solaris
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1324 (25.08 %)CRM
2170 (13.16 %)Project Management
3115 (8.901 %)Business Analysis
4108 (8.359 %)ERP
593 (7.198 %)Business Intelligence
691 (7.043 %)Agile Software Development
790 (6.966 %)Workflow
884 (6.502 %)E-Commerce
970 (5.418 %)Service Delivery
1068 (5.263 %)Migration
1162 (4.799 %)UML
1259 (4.567 %)OO
1358 (4.489 %)ITIL
1455 (4.257 %)Scrum
1551 (3.947 %)Service Management
1551 (3.947 %)Data Migration
1648 (3.715 %)Business Development
1746 (3.560 %)User Acceptance Testing
1843 (3.328 %)PRINCE2
1843 (3.328 %)Business Transformation
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1273 (21.13 %)SQL
2149 (11.53 %)Java
3119 (9.211 %)C#
477 (5.960 %)VB.NET
568 (5.263 %)C++
664 (4.954 %)VB
753 (4.102 %)VB6
852 (4.025 %)JavaScript
943 (3.328 %)PHP
1041 (3.173 %)T-SQL
1136 (2.786 %)ABAP
1232 (2.477 %)C
1330 (2.322 %)Perl
1422 (1.703 %)PL/SQL
1521 (1.625 %)Python
1617 (1.316 %)Ruby
1716 (1.238 %)Shell Script
188 (0.619 %)COBOL
188 (0.619 %)Groovy
188 (0.619 %)PHP5
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1179 (13.85 %)Degree
225 (1.935 %)Cisco Certification
323 (1.780 %)Oracle Certification
323 (1.780 %)CCNP
422 (1.703 %)CCNA
422 (1.703 %)ISEB
520 (1.548 %)ITIL Certification
614 (1.084 %)Security Cleared
713 (1.006 %)PRINCE2 Practitioner
812 (0.929 %)CCVP
99 (0.697 %)SC Cleared
108 (0.619 %)ACCA
108 (0.619 %)CIMA
117 (0.542 %)ISTQB
117 (0.542 %)PMP
117 (0.542 %)PMI Certification
126 (0.464 %)PRINCE2 Certification
126 (0.464 %)Microsoft Certification
126 (0.464 %)CCA
126 (0.464 %)MBA
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
162 (4.799 %)SLA
252 (4.025 %)QA
37 (0.542 %)Data Quality
46 (0.464 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
55 (0.387 %)PCI DSS
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
115 (1.161 %)VMware Infrastructure
213 (1.006 %)Active Directory
38 (0.619 %)Hyper-V
38 (0.619 %)VMware ESXi
43 (0.232 %)vSphere
52 (0.155 %)Terminal Services
52 (0.155 %)NFS
52 (0.155 %)VMware Server
61 (0.077 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
61 (0.077 %)XenApp
61 (0.077 %)Veritas Volume Manager
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
119 (1.471 %)Cisco UCCX
211 (0.851 %)Cisco UCCE
39 (0.697 %)HP Quality Center
43 (0.232 %)Ionix
52 (0.155 %)Nagios
52 (0.155 %)ZABBIX
52 (0.155 %)Sysprep
52 (0.155 %)Puppet
61 (0.077 %)EMC NetWorker
61 (0.077 %)Backup Exec
61 (0.077 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1221 (17.11 %)Oracle
2200 (15.48 %)SAP
3171 (13.24 %)Microsoft
479 (6.115 %)Cisco
538 (2.941 %)PeopleSoft
631 (2.399 %)Business Objects
729 (2.245 %)Hyperion
828 (2.167 %)Amdocs
925 (1.935 %)Siebel
1022 (1.703 %)Sybase
1121 (1.625 %)VMware
1216 (1.238 %)Comverse
1315 (1.161 %)HP
1315 (1.161 %)JD Edwards
1414 (1.084 %)JBoss
1513 (1.006 %)Convergys
1612 (0.929 %)IBM
1612 (0.929 %)Informatica
1612 (0.929 %)Reuters
1612 (0.929 %)Bloomberg