The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Statistics in IT jobs advertised for the Wales region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Statistics over the 3 months to 24 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 Wales region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Statistics
Rank 87 91 77
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -14
Permanent jobs citing Statistics 5 4 9
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wales 0.405% 0.343% 0.862%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.538% 1.370% 2.500%
Number of salaries quoted 5 4 9
Average salary £26,000 £35,250 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-26.24% +17.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £31,950 £28,320
10% offered a salary of more than £30,900 £38,200 £35,200
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £40,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
-12.50% +23.07%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Wales
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
325 292 360
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wales 26.32% 25.04% 34.48%
Number of salaries quoted 297 233 341
Average salary £36,450 £35,000 £38,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.14% -9.09%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,950 £26,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £55,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +6.66%
Statistics
UK

Statistics
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Statistics across the Wales region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Wales Statistics Jobs Demand Trend

Statistics
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Statistics across the Wales region.

Wales Statistics Salary Trend

Statistics
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Statistics within the Wales region over the 3 months to 24 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
South Wales +4 5 £26,000 -26.24%
Statistics
UK

Statistics
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Wales region citing Statistics 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 Statistics.

1 8 (61.54%) SQL
2 5 (38.46%) SQL Server
3 4 (30.77%) ITIL
3 4 (30.77%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (30.77%) SQL Server 2005
3 4 (30.77%) SQL Server 2008
3 4 (30.77%) High Availability
4 3 (23.08%) Windows 7
4 3 (23.08%) Finance
4 3 (23.08%) Wireless
4 3 (23.08%) SAS
4 3 (23.08%) LAN
4 3 (23.08%) WAN
4 3 (23.08%) Windows
4 3 (23.08%) Windows XP
5 2 (15.38%) Analytics
5 2 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (15.38%) SPSS
5 2 (15.38%) Mathematics
5 2 (15.38%) Credit Risk
5 2 (15.38%) Banking
5 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (7.692%) CMS
6 1 (7.692%) LAMP
6 1 (7.692%) Open Text
6 1 (7.692%) RedDot
6 1 (7.692%) Subversion
6 1 (7.692%) Content Management
6 1 (7.692%) Supplier Management
6 1 (7.692%) Statistical Analysis

Statistics
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Wales region citing Statistics 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 Statistics. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (7.692%) LAMP
1 1 (7.692%) jQuery
1 1 (7.692%) Smarty
1 1 (7.692%) Zend Framework
1 1 (7.692%) HTML5
1 1 (7.692%) ASP
1 1 (7.692%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 3 (23.08%) SAS
2 1 (7.692%) CMS
2 1 (7.692%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) SPSS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) Wireless
1 3 (23.08%) LAN
1 3 (23.08%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) SQL Server
2 4 (30.77%) SQL Server 2005
2 4 (30.77%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (7.692%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (7.692%) Subversion
General
1 3 (23.08%) Finance
2 2 (15.38%) Banking
3 1 (7.692%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Analyst
2 4 (30.77%) DBA
2 4 (30.77%) SQL DBA
3 3 (23.08%) Service Analyst
3 3 (23.08%) SQL Server DBA
4 2 (15.38%) Developer
5 1 (7.692%) Data Analyst
5 1 (7.692%) PHP Developer
5 1 (7.692%) Data Modeller
5 1 (7.692%) Credit Analyst
5 1 (7.692%) Data Manager
5 1 (7.692%) SAS Analyst
5 1 (7.692%) Risk Analyst
5 1 (7.692%) PHP Programmer
5 1 (7.692%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 1 (7.692%) Credit Risk Analyst
5 1 (7.692%) SAS Data Analyst
5 1 (7.692%) Programmer
5 1 (7.692%) Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Mathematics
1 2 (15.38%) Credit Risk
2 1 (7.692%) Open Source
2 1 (7.692%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Windows 7
1 3 (23.08%) Windows
1 3 (23.08%) Windows XP
2 1 (7.692%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (30.77%) ITIL
1 4 (30.77%) Disaster Recovery
1 4 (30.77%) High Availability
2 2 (15.38%) Analytics
2 2 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (7.692%) Content Management
3 1 (7.692%) Supplier Management
3 1 (7.692%) Statistical Analysis
3 1 (7.692%) Web Development
3 1 (7.692%) Logistic Regression
3 1 (7.692%) Trend Analysis
3 1 (7.692%) Portfolio Management
3 1 (7.692%) Change Control
3 1 (7.692%) Data Analytics
3 1 (7.692%) Risk Analytics
3 1 (7.692%) MVC
3 1 (7.692%) Risk Management
3 1 (7.692%) Benchmarking
3 1 (7.692%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) SQL
2 1 (7.692%) R
2 1 (7.692%) Shell Script
2 1 (7.692%) JavaScript
2 1 (7.692%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (7.692%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.692%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 1 (7.692%) Open Text
1 1 (7.692%) RedDot
1 1 (7.692%) Zend
1 1 (7.692%) Business Objects
1 1 (7.692%) Oracle
1 1 (7.692%) Cognos