The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Computing in IT jobs advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Cloud Computing 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 for the West Midlands region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cloud Computing
Rank 193 147 145
Rank change year-on-year
-46 -2
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing 11 37 27
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.220% 0.815% 0.639%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.859% 3.220% 2.684%
Number of salaries quoted 11 36 27
Average salary £45,000 £43,750 £75,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.85% -41.66%
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year
- -10.00%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
West Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
1280 1149 1006
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 25.56% 25.31% 23.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1059 980 820
Average salary £38,000 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.33% +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £24,500 £23,850
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +6.66%
Cloud Computing
England

Cloud Computing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands Cloud Computing Jobs Demand Trend

Cloud Computing
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Cloud Computing across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands Cloud Computing Salary Trend

Cloud Computing
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Cloud Computing across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

West Midlands Cloud Computing Salary Histogram

Cloud Computing
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Computing within the West Midlands region 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
Birmingham -16 8 £45,000 -47.05%
Coventry -13 2 £47,500 -5.00%
Warwickshire +3 1 £45,000 +38.46%
Cloud Computing
England

Cloud Computing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands region citing Cloud Computing 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 Cloud Computing.

1 16 (69.57%) Degree
2 14 (60.87%) Agile Software Development
3 11 (47.83%) Computer Science
3 11 (47.83%) MySQL
4 10 (43.48%) Oracle
4 10 (43.48%) Eclipse
4 10 (43.48%) Java
4 10 (43.48%) Subversion
4 10 (43.48%) Java EE
4 10 (43.48%) Hibernate
4 10 (43.48%) Spring
4 10 (43.48%) Maven
4 10 (43.48%) Ruby
4 10 (43.48%) Erlang
4 10 (43.48%) Alfresco
4 10 (43.48%) Jackrabbit
4 10 (43.48%) Scala
4 10 (43.48%) CouchDB
4 10 (43.48%) Social Media
4 10 (43.48%) Clojure
4 10 (43.48%) MongoDB
4 10 (43.48%) NoSQL
5 9 (39.13%) SaaS
6 7 (30.43%) Project Management
7 2 (8.696%) Web Development
7 2 (8.696%) HTML
7 2 (8.696%) Scrum
7 2 (8.696%) MoSes
7 2 (8.696%) Prophet
7 2 (8.696%) Finance

Cloud Computing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands region citing Cloud Computing 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 Cloud Computing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 10 (43.48%) Java EE
1 10 (43.48%) Hibernate
1 10 (43.48%) Spring
2 2 (8.696%) HTML
2 2 (8.696%) HTML5
3 1 (4.348%) CSS
3 1 (4.348%) Web Services
3 1 (4.348%) iOS SDK
3 1 (4.348%) CSS3
3 1 (4.348%) Ajax
3 1 (4.348%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 10 (43.48%) Alfresco
Business Applications
1 2 (8.696%) MoSes
1 2 (8.696%) Prophet
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.348%) GSM
1 1 (4.348%) 3G
1 1 (4.348%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (47.83%) MySQL
2 10 (43.48%) Jackrabbit
2 10 (43.48%) CouchDB
2 10 (43.48%) MongoDB
2 10 (43.48%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (43.48%) Eclipse
1 10 (43.48%) Subversion
1 10 (43.48%) Maven
2 2 (8.696%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (4.348%) ClearQuest
3 1 (4.348%) ClearCase
3 1 (4.348%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 2 (8.696%) Finance
2 1 (4.348%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 10 (43.48%) Developer
1 10 (43.48%) Java Developer
2 7 (30.43%) Project Manager
3 6 (26.09%) Software Project Manager
3 6 (26.09%) Software Manager
4 2 (8.696%) Development Analyst
4 2 (8.696%) Systems Development Analyst
4 2 (8.696%) Analyst
4 2 (8.696%) Systems Analyst
5 1 (4.348%) Mobile Software Engineer
5 1 (4.348%) Consultant
5 1 (4.348%) Operations Manager
5 1 (4.348%) Software Engineer
5 1 (4.348%) Team Leader
5 1 (4.348%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (4.348%) Data Manager
5 1 (4.348%) Architect
5 1 (4.348%) SaaS Consultant
5 1 (4.348%) CRM Architect
5 1 (4.348%) Salesforce.com Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 11 (47.83%) Computer Science
2 10 (43.48%) Social Media
3 9 (39.13%) SaaS
4 2 (8.696%) Mobile App
5 1 (4.348%) IaaS
5 1 (4.348%) PaaS
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.348%) Apple iOS
1 1 (4.348%) Linux
1 1 (4.348%) Tizen
1 1 (4.348%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (60.87%) Agile Software Development
2 7 (30.43%) Project Management
3 2 (8.696%) Web Development
3 2 (8.696%) Scrum
4 1 (4.348%) Mobile Application Development
4 1 (4.348%) MVC
4 1 (4.348%) Validation
4 1 (4.348%) UML
4 1 (4.348%) CRM
4 1 (4.348%) Strategic Management
4 1 (4.348%) SysML
Programming Languages
1 10 (43.48%) Java
1 10 (43.48%) Ruby
1 10 (43.48%) Erlang
1 10 (43.48%) Scala
1 10 (43.48%) Clojure
2 1 (4.348%) JavaScript
2 1 (4.348%) PHP
Qualifications
1 16 (69.57%) Degree
Vendors
1 10 (43.48%) Oracle
2 1 (4.348%) QNX
2 1 (4.348%) IBM
2 1 (4.348%) Apple
2 1 (4.348%) Salesforce.com
2 1 (4.348%) Cadence