The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Freedom of Information in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Freedom of Information over the 3 months to 23 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.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Freedom of Information (FOI)
Rank 836 875 861
Rank change year-on-year
+39 -14
Permanent jobs citing Freedom of Information 26 23 12
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.024% 0.019% 0.010%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.072% 0.058% 0.028%
Number of salaries quoted 25 18 9
Average salary £37,500 £48,750 £50,600
Average salary % change year-on-year
-23.07% -3.65%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,000 £28,362 £31,450
10% offered a salary of more than £39,000 £65,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £29,500 £18,706 £27,625
% change year-on-year
+57.70% -32.28%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
35925 39961 43579
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 33.40% 33.10% 34.57%
Number of salaries quoted 29475 33667 36543
Average salary £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -5.26%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,000 £28,500 £28,000
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £82,500 £75,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +6.66%

Freedom of Information
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Freedom of Information within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Freedom of Information Jobs Demand Trend

Freedom of Information
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Freedom of Information within the UK.

Freedom of Information Salary Trend

Freedom of Information
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Freedom of Information over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 within the UK.

Freedom of Information Salary Histogram

Freedom of Information
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Freedom of Information within the UK over the 3 months to 23 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
England +21 20 £39,000 -20.00%
London +32 13 £39,000 -33.33%
Cardiff - 6 £28,000 -
Wales - 6 £28,000 -
South Wales - 6 £28,000 -
East Sussex +3 3 £38,000 +103.14%
South East +2 3 £38,000 +103.14%
Brighton 0 3 £38,000 +103.14%
North West - 3 £29,712 -
Manchester - 3 £29,712 -
Salford - 2 £30,068 -
Sheffield - 1 £37,500 -
Yorkshire - 1 £37,500 -
South Yorkshire - 1 £37,500 -

Freedom of Information
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing Freedom of Information 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 Freedom of Information.

1 48 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 29 (60.42%) Disaster Recovery
3 24 (50.00%) Management Information System
4 23 (47.92%) Project Management
4 23 (47.92%) SQL
5 22 (45.83%) Oracle
5 22 (45.83%) Sybase
5 22 (45.83%) Business Objects
5 22 (45.83%) Web Services
5 22 (45.83%) Ingres
5 22 (45.83%) Oracle Discoverer
5 22 (45.83%) Microsoft
5 22 (45.83%) Data Security
5 22 (45.83%) Validation
5 22 (45.83%) Data Validation
5 22 (45.83%) Data Extraction
5 22 (45.83%) dBASE
5 22 (45.83%) Data Analysis
5 22 (45.83%) Systems Analysis
6 21 (43.75%) Integration Testing
6 21 (43.75%) Waterfall
6 21 (43.75%) RAD
7 16 (33.33%) QA
8 15 (31.25%) Release Management
8 15 (31.25%) MCSE
8 15 (31.25%) Microsoft Certification
9 14 (29.17%) Data Protection Act
10 10 (20.83%) ITIL
10 10 (20.83%) Freedom of Information Act
11 9 (18.75%) Information Management

Freedom of Information
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing Freedom of Information 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 Freedom of Information. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 22 (45.83%) Web Services
2 1 (2.083%) Silverlight
2 1 (2.083%) .NET
2 1 (2.083%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 2 (4.167%) SAP Portal
2 1 (2.083%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (2.083%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (2.083%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (12.50%) MS Office
2 5 (10.42%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (2.083%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (4.167%) SAP ERP
2 1 (2.083%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.42%) TCP/IP
2 3 (6.250%) Firewall
3 2 (4.167%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (45.83%) Ingres
1 22 (45.83%) Oracle Discoverer
1 22 (45.83%) dBASE
2 2 (4.167%) SAP BW
3 1 (2.083%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (2.083%) SQL Server
General
1 7 (14.58%) Finance
2 1 (2.083%) Local Government
2 1 (2.083%) Legal
Job Titles
1 11 (22.92%) Systems Manager
1 11 (22.92%) Systems Development Manager
1 11 (22.92%) Development Manager
2 8 (16.67%) Security Officer
3 7 (14.58%) Team Leader
4 6 (12.50%) Information Security Officer
5 4 (8.333%) Development Team Leader
6 3 (6.250%) Data Modeller
6 3 (6.250%) Database Team Leader
6 3 (6.250%) Database Manager
7 2 (4.167%) Security Consultant
7 2 (4.167%) Developer
7 2 (4.167%) Senior Consultant
7 2 (4.167%) Consultant
7 2 (4.167%) Information Security Auditor
7 2 (4.167%) SAP Authorisation Consultant
7 2 (4.167%) Auditor
7 2 (4.167%) Senior SAP Consultant
7 2 (4.167%) IT Security Officer
7 2 (4.167%) Senior Security Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 24 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 22 (45.83%) Data Extraction
3 14 (29.17%) Data Protection Act
4 10 (20.83%) Freedom of Information Act
5 5 (10.42%) VLE
5 5 (10.42%) E-Learning
6 3 (6.250%) Copywriting
7 1 (2.083%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 29 (60.42%) Disaster Recovery
3 23 (47.92%) Project Management
4 22 (45.83%) Data Security
4 22 (45.83%) Validation
4 22 (45.83%) Data Validation
4 22 (45.83%) Data Analysis
4 22 (45.83%) Systems Analysis
5 21 (43.75%) Integration Testing
5 21 (43.75%) Waterfall
5 21 (43.75%) RAD
6 15 (31.25%) Release Management
7 10 (20.83%) ITIL
8 9 (18.75%) Information Management
9 8 (16.67%) Information Security
10 7 (14.58%) Service Delivery
10 7 (14.58%) Change Management
11 6 (12.50%) Security Management
11 6 (12.50%) Information Security Management
12 5 (10.42%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 23 (47.92%) SQL
2 2 (4.167%) Java
3 1 (2.083%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.083%) PHP
3 1 (2.083%) VB
3 1 (2.083%) VBA
3 1 (2.083%) C#
Qualifications
1 15 (31.25%) MCSE
1 15 (31.25%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (12.50%) ISEB
3 2 (4.167%) CISSP
3 2 (4.167%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (4.167%) CISA
3 2 (4.167%) CISM
4 1 (2.083%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (33.33%) QA
2 2 (4.167%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.167%) COBIT
3 1 (2.083%) SLA
Vendors
1 22 (45.83%) Oracle
1 22 (45.83%) Sybase
1 22 (45.83%) Business Objects
1 22 (45.83%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.167%) SAP
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The successful candidates are likely to hold: ISEB certificate in Freedom of Information or Data Protection or equivalent by experience Knowledge of GCSX Code of Connection, NHS IG...
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Salary: £28500 - £35000 per annum
Posted: 23 May 2013