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The first part of the table below looks at the prevalence of the term Home Office in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Home Office over the 3 months to 18 March 2010 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.

LinkHome Office
Location
3 months to
18 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank636599837
Rank change year-on-year
Down-37Up+238
Matching permanent IT job ads5379129
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK0.062 %0.093 %0.063 %
As % of the General category0.120 %0.190 %0.125 %
Salaries quoted3556119
Average salary£50,000£32,181£40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+55.37 %-19.54 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£33,500£26,500£16,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£73,000£65,000£67,500
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£32,181£40,000
% change year-on-year
+8.750 %-19.54 %
IT Job Market, General CategoryAll General Category
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
4414741481103497
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK51.61 %48.85 %50.74 %
Salaries quoted359233368083654
Average salary£49,000£44,000£45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.36 %-2.220 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£28,000£27,000£27,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£80,000£70,500£72,500
UK excluding London average salary£40,000£38,000£37,500
% change year-on-year
+5.260 %+1.330 %

Home Office
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Home Office within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

Home Office Demand Trend

Home Office
Salary Trend

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

Home Office Salary Trend

Home Office
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Home Office over the 3 months to 18 March 2010 within the UK.

Home Office Salary Histogram

Home Office
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Home Office within the UK over the 3 months to 18 March 2010. 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-752£52,500+27.27 %
LondonDown-3043£57,750+52.45 %
City of LondonDown-368£62,500-64.28 %
South EastDown-75£37,500+92.30 %
SurreyUp+132£32,500-
West MidlandsUp+221£35,000-36.07 %
HampshireUp+181£67,500+246.15 %
BirminghamUp+141£35,000-32.69 %
North WestUp+51£24,000-
KentNew entry-1£40,000-
BasingstokeNew entry-1£67,500-
WokingNew entry-1--
West MallingNew entry-1£40,000-
LutonNew entry-1£50,000-

Home Office
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 March 2010, IT jobs within the UK citing Home Office 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 Home Office.

125 (15.63 %)Government
220 (12.50 %)Java
316 (10.00 %)JavaScript
316 (10.00 %)XML
415 (9.375 %)C#
415 (9.375 %)Service Delivery
514 (8.750 %)Police
514 (8.750 %)SQL
514 (8.750 %)Oracle
613 (8.125 %)SQL Server
613 (8.125 %)Windows
712 (7.500 %).NET
811 (6.875 %)Biometrics
811 (6.875 %)Finance
811 (6.875 %)HTML
910 (6.250 %)PHP
910 (6.250 %)Project Management
910 (6.250 %)Product Management
109 (5.625 %)PHP5
109 (5.625 %)Visual Studio
109 (5.625 %)ASP.NET
109 (5.625 %)Microsoft
118 (5.000 %)CSS
118 (5.000 %)Firewall
118 (5.000 %)Agile Software Development
127 (4.375 %)Spring
127 (4.375 %)WPF
127 (4.375 %)Silverlight
127 (4.375 %)SC Cleared
127 (4.375 %)DV Cleared

Home Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 March 2010, IT jobs within the UK citing Home Office 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 Home Office. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
116 (10.00 %)XML
212 (7.500 %).NET
311 (6.875 %)HTML
49 (5.625 %)ASP.NET
58 (5.000 %)CSS
67 (4.375 %)Spring
67 (4.375 %)WPF
67 (4.375 %)Silverlight
67 (4.375 %)AJAX
67 (4.375 %)Web Services
74 (2.500 %)J2EE
74 (2.500 %)Hibernate
82 (1.250 %)Smarty
82 (1.250 %)XSLT
82 (1.250 %)Flash
82 (1.250 %)Spring MVC
82 (1.250 %).NET Framework
82 (1.250 %)LINQ
91 (0.625 %)ASP.NET 2.0
91 (0.625 %)WebSphere
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
14 (2.500 %)WebLogic
14 (2.500 %)IIS
14 (2.500 %)SharePoint
23 (1.875 %)Apache
32 (1.250 %)MS Exchange
32 (1.250 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
32 (1.250 %)Exchange Server 2007
32 (1.250 %)GlassFish
41 (0.625 %)Drupal
41 (0.625 %)WebSphere Message Broker
41 (0.625 %)SharePoint Server 2007
41 (0.625 %)Oracle Workflow
41 (0.625 %)GroupWise
41 (0.625 %)WebSphere MQ
41 (0.625 %)CMS
41 (0.625 %)Tomcat
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
13 (1.875 %)MS Excel
13 (1.875 %)Photoshop
21 (0.625 %)MS Project
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
11 (0.625 %)Bloomberg TOMS
11 (0.625 %)Oracle General Ledger
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
18 (5.000 %)Firewall
23 (1.875 %)SAN
23 (1.875 %)Wireless
23 (1.875 %)LAN
32 (1.250 %)WAN
32 (1.250 %)DHCP
32 (1.250 %)VPN
32 (1.250 %)DNS
32 (1.250 %)IPsec
32 (1.250 %)Internet
32 (1.250 %)SSH
32 (1.250 %)VLAN
41 (0.625 %)Cisco PIX
41 (0.625 %)Network Security
41 (0.625 %)Cisco ASA
41 (0.625 %)IP Telephony
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
113 (8.125 %)SQL Server
26 (3.750 %)MySQL
34 (2.500 %)SQL Server 2008
34 (2.500 %)SQL Server 2005
43 (1.875 %)Oracle 10g
52 (1.250 %)SQL Server 2000
61 (0.625 %)SAP BW
61 (0.625 %)BusinessObjects
61 (0.625 %)Oracle 8/8i
61 (0.625 %)Crystal Reports
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
19 (5.625 %)Visual Studio
25 (3.125 %)Expression Studio
34 (2.500 %)Maven
41 (0.625 %)Subversion
41 (0.625 %)PowerBuilder
41 (0.625 %)Eclipse
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
125 (15.63 %)Government
214 (8.750 %)Police
311 (6.875 %)Finance
46 (3.750 %)Pensions
55 (3.125 %)Games
64 (2.500 %)Pharmaceutical
64 (2.500 %)Banking
64 (2.500 %)Marketing
64 (2.500 %)Online Games
73 (1.875 %)Auditing
73 (1.875 %)Health
82 (1.250 %)Construction
82 (1.250 %)Criminal Justice
82 (1.250 %)Investment Banking
82 (1.250 %)Insurance
82 (1.250 %)Local Government
91 (0.625 %)Music
91 (0.625 %)Music Industry
91 (0.625 %)Graphic Design
91 (0.625 %)Retail
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
135 (21.88 %)Developer
227 (16.88 %)Consultant
324 (15.00 %)Project Manager
421 (13.13 %)Architect
512 (7.500 %)Analyst
610 (6.250 %)Programme Manager
610 (6.250 %)Solutions Architect
610 (6.250 %)Integration Consultant
79 (5.625 %)Functional Consultant
79 (5.625 %)PHP Developer
87 (4.375 %)Java Developer
87 (4.375 %)Business Analyst
96 (3.750 %)Test Manager
96 (3.750 %)Business Manager
105 (3.125 %)Senior Consultant
114 (2.500 %)CLAS Consultant
114 (2.500 %)Senior CLAS Consultant
114 (2.500 %)Senior Manager
114 (2.500 %)Senior Developer
114 (2.500 %)Change Manager
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
111 (6.875 %)Biometrics
24 (2.500 %)Life Science
32 (1.250 %)Management Information System
32 (1.250 %)Replication
32 (1.250 %)Social Network
32 (1.250 %)SCADA
41 (0.625 %)FMCG
41 (0.625 %)BBC
41 (0.625 %)Client/Server
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
113 (8.125 %)Windows
27 (4.375 %)UNIX
36 (3.750 %)Linux
43 (1.875 %)Windows Server 2003
43 (1.875 %)HPUX
43 (1.875 %)Solaris
43 (1.875 %)Windows Server 2008
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
115 (9.375 %)Service Delivery
210 (6.250 %)Project Management
210 (6.250 %)Product Management
38 (5.000 %)Agile Software Development
46 (3.750 %)Business Development
55 (3.125 %)TDD
64 (2.500 %)OO
64 (2.500 %)Risk Management
64 (2.500 %)Change Management
64 (2.500 %)Disaster Recovery
64 (2.500 %)Scrum
64 (2.500 %)Information Security
64 (2.500 %)Programme Management
73 (1.875 %)Integration Testing
73 (1.875 %)Requirements Analysis
73 (1.875 %)Network Design
73 (1.875 %)Service Management
73 (1.875 %)MVC
73 (1.875 %)Workflow
73 (1.875 %)Business Intelligence
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
120 (12.50 %)Java
216 (10.00 %)JavaScript
315 (9.375 %)C#
414 (8.750 %)SQL
510 (6.250 %)PHP
69 (5.625 %)PHP5
75 (3.125 %)XAML
75 (3.125 %)PL/SQL
82 (1.250 %)Perl
91 (0.625 %)PHP4
91 (0.625 %)Ruby
91 (0.625 %)T-SQL
91 (0.625 %)VB
91 (0.625 %)VB.NET
91 (0.625 %)Bash shell
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
17 (4.375 %)SC Cleared
17 (4.375 %)DV Cleared
17 (4.375 %)Security Cleared
24 (2.500 %)CISSP
24 (2.500 %)CISM
24 (2.500 %)Degree
33 (1.875 %)Microsoft Certification
33 (1.875 %)MCSE
41 (0.625 %)Cisco Certification
41 (0.625 %)CCNP
41 (0.625 %)CCNA
41 (0.625 %)MCP
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
14 (2.500 %)ISO27001
14 (2.500 %)PCI DSS
23 (1.875 %)QA
31 (0.625 %)HL7
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
13 (1.875 %)VMware Infrastructure
13 (1.875 %)Oracle RAC
22 (1.250 %)Active Directory
31 (0.625 %)VMware Server
31 (0.625 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
114 (8.750 %)Oracle
29 (5.625 %)Microsoft
36 (3.750 %)Citrix
36 (3.750 %)VMware
44 (2.500 %)Cisco
53 (1.875 %)Red Hat
53 (1.875 %)JBoss
62 (1.250 %)CommVault
71 (0.625 %)Remedy
71 (0.625 %)Novell
71 (0.625 %)Bloomberg
71 (0.625 %)Metastorm
71 (0.625 %)IBM
71 (0.625 %)SAP
71 (0.625 %)Business Objects
71 (0.625 %)Sybase