Postgraduate Jobs
 
Demand Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Postgraduate in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Postgraduate 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 Qualifications currently tracked.

Location
 3 months to
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Postgraduate
Rank 767 817 806
Rank change year-on-year
+50 -11
Permanent jobs citing Postgraduate 93 70 65
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.086% 0.058% 0.053%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.310% 0.208% 0.204%
Number of salaries quoted 85 61 52
Average salary £40,000 £40,052 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-0.12% -19.89%
90% offered a salary of more than £31,500 £28,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £70,000 £95,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,250 £35,750 £30,000
% change year-on-year
+4.19% +19.16%
All Qualifications
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category		 30011 33620 31929
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 27.63% 27.74% 26.16%
Number of salaries quoted 24162 28614 26643
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +3.65%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £27,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%

Postgraduate
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Postgraduate Jobs Demand Trend

Postgraduate
Salary Trend

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

Postgraduate Salary Trend

Postgraduate
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Postgraduate over the 3 months to 21 May 2013 within the UK.

Postgraduate Salary Histogram

Postgraduate
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Postgraduate within the UK 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
England +28 83 £42,500 -5.55%
London +37 28 £62,500 -10.71%
East of England +11 26 £36,250 +11.53%
Cambridgeshire +12 21 £35,000 +12.90%
Cambridge +2 18 £35,000 +12.90%
South East 0 16 £62,500 +78.43%
Surrey +17 10 £62,500 +119.29%
South West +4 7 £67,500 +3.84%
Scotland -2 7 £33,000 +24.52%
West Yorkshire - 6 £37,500 -
Yorkshire - 6 £37,500 -
Leeds - 6 £37,500 -
Reigate - 6 £62,500 -
Salisbury - 5 £67,500 -
Wiltshire - 5 £67,500 -
Bedfordshire -13 4 £56,250 -
Camberley - 4 £65,000 -
City of London +7 3 £62,500 +40.44%
Dundee -7 3 £33,000 -0.75%
Coventry -15 3 £32,500 -
West Midlands -20 3 £32,500 -
Northampton - 3 £32,500 -
Milton Keynes - 3 £32,500 -
Peterborough - 3 £45,000 -
Buckinghamshire - 3 £32,500 -
Belfast - 3 - -
County Antrim - 3 - -
Northamptonshire - 3 £32,500 -
East Midlands - 3 £32,500 -
Northern Ireland - 3 - -

Postgraduate
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing Postgraduate 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 Postgraduate.

1 149 (77.20%) Degree
2 50 (25.91%) C++
3 48 (24.87%) Windows
4 47 (24.35%) Linux
5 46 (23.83%) Python
6 39 (20.21%) Java
7 37 (19.17%) QA
8 33 (17.10%) MySQL
8 33 (17.10%) Finance
9 32 (16.58%) SQL
9 32 (16.58%) Computer Science
9 32 (16.58%) Big Data
10 30 (15.54%) Software Testing
11 29 (15.03%) PhD
11 29 (15.03%) OO
11 29 (15.03%) Project Management
11 29 (15.03%) Bash shell
12 26 (13.47%) SAN
12 26 (13.47%) C
13 25 (12.95%) Firewall
14 24 (12.44%) Samba
14 24 (12.44%) NFS
15 23 (11.92%) C#
15 23 (11.92%) Web Services
16 21 (10.88%) UNIX
16 21 (10.88%) PHP
17 20 (10.36%) MS Excel
18 19 (9.845%) Text Mining
19 17 (8.808%) JavaScript
19 17 (8.808%) Network Security

Postgraduate
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing Postgraduate 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 Postgraduate. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 23 (11.92%) Web Services
2 15 (7.772%) .NET
3 13 (6.736%) XML
4 12 (6.218%) CSS
5 11 (5.699%) Natural Language Processing
6 10 (5.181%) HTML
7 8 (4.145%) HTML5
7 8 (4.145%) EJB
8 7 (3.627%) CSS3
8 7 (3.627%) WPF
9 6 (3.109%) jQuery
10 5 (2.591%) Ajax
10 5 (2.591%) STL
10 5 (2.591%) Boost C++ Libraries
11 4 (2.073%) HTML5 Canvas
11 4 (2.073%) J2EE
11 4 (2.073%) JSP
12 3 (1.554%) Spring
12 3 (1.554%) ASP.NET
12 3 (1.554%) REST
Application Platforms
1 6 (3.109%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.554%) MS Exchange
2 3 (1.554%) SAS
2 3 (1.554%) Apache
2 3 (1.554%) Tomcat
2 3 (1.554%) MediaWiki
2 3 (1.554%) nginx
3 2 (1.036%) ESB
3 2 (1.036%) Moodle
3 2 (1.036%) NServiceBus
4 1 (0.518%) MSMQ
4 1 (0.518%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.518%) Oracle Spatial
4 1 (0.518%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 20 (10.36%) MS Excel
2 5 (2.591%) Adobe Illustrator
2 5 (2.591%) Photoshop
2 5 (2.591%) OmniGraffle
3 4 (2.073%) MS Office
4 3 (1.554%) Google Apps
5 1 (0.518%) S-PLUS
5 1 (0.518%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.518%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 26 (13.47%) SAN
2 25 (12.95%) Firewall
3 17 (8.808%) Network Security
4 8 (4.145%) VoIP
5 7 (3.627%) Internet
6 5 (2.591%) Wireless
6 5 (2.591%) TCP/IP
7 4 (2.073%) 3G
7 4 (2.073%) UTRAN
7 4 (2.073%) 3GPP
7 4 (2.073%) GPRS
7 4 (2.073%) GSM
7 4 (2.073%) 2G
7 4 (2.073%) 2.5G
8 3 (1.554%) DNS
9 2 (1.036%) VPN
9 2 (1.036%) Intranet
9 2 (1.036%) Broadband
9 2 (1.036%) Ethernet
10 1 (0.518%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (17.10%) MySQL
2 32 (16.58%) Big Data
3 19 (9.845%) Text Mining
4 8 (4.145%) NoSQL
4 8 (4.145%) SQL Server
5 6 (3.109%) RDBMS
6 5 (2.591%) Apache Hive
6 5 (2.591%) HBase
6 5 (2.591%) Hadoop
6 5 (2.591%) Oracle 11g
7 3 (1.554%) Data Mining
7 3 (1.554%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.554%) Redis
8 1 (0.518%) DB2
8 1 (0.518%) GIS
8 1 (0.518%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 6 (3.109%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
1 6 (3.109%) Visual Studio
2 5 (2.591%) Subversion
2 5 (2.591%) JUnit
2 5 (2.591%) Axure RP
3 4 (2.073%) JIRA
4 3 (1.554%) Bugzilla
4 3 (1.554%) Eclipse
4 3 (1.554%) GCC
4 3 (1.554%) Mercurial
4 3 (1.554%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.554%) SCons
4 3 (1.554%) GoogleTest
5 1 (0.518%) NUnit
5 1 (0.518%) JDeveloper
5 1 (0.518%) Moq
5 1 (0.518%) MbUnit
5 1 (0.518%) MSBuild
5 1 (0.518%) Git (software)
5 1 (0.518%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 33 (17.10%) Finance
2 15 (7.772%) Telecoms
3 12 (6.218%) Banking
4 6 (3.109%) Marketing
4 6 (3.109%) Law
4 6 (3.109%) Financial Institution
5 4 (2.073%) Retail
6 2 (1.036%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (1.036%) Front Office
6 2 (1.036%) Music
7 1 (0.518%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.518%) Local Government
7 1 (0.518%) Military
7 1 (0.518%) Games
7 1 (0.518%) Legal
7 1 (0.518%) Publishing
7 1 (0.518%) German Language
Job Titles
1 37 (19.17%) Developer
2 36 (18.65%) Analyst
3 25 (12.95%) QA Engineer
4 18 (9.326%) Support Engineer
5 13 (6.736%) Software Developer
6 11 (5.699%) IT Support Engineer
6 11 (5.699%) Administrator
6 11 (5.699%) Business Analyst
6 11 (5.699%) Systems Administrator
6 11 (5.699%) IT Support
7 10 (5.181%) Senior Developer
8 9 (4.663%) Senior Software Developer
8 9 (4.663%) Market Risk Analyst
8 9 (4.663%) Software Engineer
8 9 (4.663%) Market Risk Business Analyst
8 9 (4.663%) Designer
9 8 (4.145%) C# Developer
10 7 (3.627%) C++ Developer
10 7 (3.627%) 2nd Line Support
10 7 (3.627%) Graduate
Miscellaneous
1 32 (16.58%) Computer Science
2 16 (8.290%) Wiki
3 13 (6.736%) Grid Computing
3 13 (6.736%) Mathematics
3 13 (6.736%) Semantic Web
4 12 (6.218%) Statistics
5 11 (5.699%) Chemistry
6 10 (5.181%) Life Science
6 10 (5.181%) Management Information System
7 9 (4.663%) Market Risk
8 7 (3.627%) Informatics
9 6 (3.109%) NHS
9 6 (3.109%) E-Learning
10 5 (2.591%) Economics
10 5 (2.591%) Health Informatics
10 5 (2.591%) Open Source
11 3 (1.554%) Hedge funds
11 3 (1.554%) Visualisation
11 3 (1.554%) Graphic Design
11 3 (1.554%) Physics
Operating Systems
1 48 (24.87%) Windows
2 47 (24.35%) Linux
3 21 (10.88%) UNIX
4 11 (5.699%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.554%) SUSE
5 3 (1.554%) Debian
5 3 (1.554%) Solaris
5 3 (1.554%) CentOS
6 2 (1.036%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.518%) Windows CE
7 1 (0.518%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.518%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (15.54%) Software Testing
2 29 (15.03%) OO
2 29 (15.03%) Project Management
3 13 (6.736%) Risk Management
4 11 (5.699%) Data Modelling
4 11 (5.699%) Analytics
5 10 (5.181%) Multithreading
5 10 (5.181%) Service Management
5 10 (5.181%) UML
5 10 (5.181%) ITIL
6 9 (4.663%) Agile Software Development
6 9 (4.663%) TDD
6 9 (4.663%) PRINCE2
6 9 (4.663%) Data Protection
6 9 (4.663%) Integration Testing
6 9 (4.663%) Stress Testing
6 9 (4.663%) Software Architecture
7 8 (4.145%) E-Commerce
8 7 (3.627%) Disaster Recovery
8 7 (3.627%) Operations Research
Programming Languages
1 50 (25.91%) C++
2 46 (23.83%) Python
3 39 (20.21%) Java
4 32 (16.58%) SQL
5 29 (15.03%) Bash shell
6 26 (13.47%) C
7 23 (11.92%) C#
8 21 (10.88%) PHP
9 17 (8.808%) JavaScript
10 12 (6.218%) Perl
11 7 (3.627%) MATLAB
12 5 (2.591%) Ruby
13 4 (2.073%) R
14 2 (1.036%) VBScript
15 1 (0.518%) Fortran
15 1 (0.518%) VB
15 1 (0.518%) Groovy
15 1 (0.518%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 149 (77.20%) Degree
2 29 (15.03%) PhD
3 5 (2.591%) MBA
3 5 (2.591%) ITIL Certification
4 4 (2.073%) APMP
5 2 (1.036%) CISA
6 1 (0.518%) CISM
6 1 (0.518%) QiCA
6 1 (0.518%) CISSP
6 1 (0.518%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.518%) CCNP
6 1 (0.518%) CCIP
6 1 (0.518%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (19.17%) QA
2 5 (2.591%) SLA
3 4 (2.073%) ISO 9000
4 1 (0.518%) COBIT
4 1 (0.518%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 24 (12.44%) Samba
1 24 (12.44%) NFS
2 2 (1.036%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.036%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.518%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 1 (0.518%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 3 (1.554%) Puppet
1 3 (1.554%) CFEngine
1 3 (1.554%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 15 (7.772%) Red Hat
2 10 (5.181%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.181%) Oracle
3 5 (2.591%) JBoss
3 5 (2.591%) Twitter
4 3 (1.554%) Google
5 2 (1.036%) IBM
5 2 (1.036%) VMware
6 1 (0.518%) Sybase
6 1 (0.518%) SAP
6 1 (0.518%) Intel
6 1 (0.518%) Cisco
6 1 (0.518%) Juniper
6 1 (0.518%) Lotus
6 1 (0.518%) Mapinfo
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