West Midlands Electric Jobs

This section looks at the prevalence of the term 'Electric' in IT jobs within the West Midlands region together with a comparison to our General terms category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Electric over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bordon Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burton-upon-Trent Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Carlisle Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chippenham City of London Cleveland Coatbridge Corby Coventry Crawley Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Durham Ealing East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Fife Flintshire Frome Gateshead Glasgow Glossop Gloucestershire Hampshire Harlow Havant Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Peak High Wycombe Horsham Hove Ipswich Kent Kings Langley Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London Maidenhead Malton Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden New Milton Newton Aycliffe North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paignton Pershore Peterborough Pontypool Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Rickmansworth Rugby Rugeley Salisbury Scotland Sidcup Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West St Helens Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Surrey Swindon Thame Thames Valley Thurrock Torfaen Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Weymouth Whyteleafe Wiltshire Windsor Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	187	188
Rank change on same period last year	+1
Matching permanent IT job ads	48	38
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.025 %	0.016 %
As % of the category below	1.176 %	1.180 %
Salaries quoted	43	28
Average minimum salary	£33,906	£27,467
Average salary	£37,867	£29,325
% change on same period last year	+29.12 %
Average maximum salary	£41,828	£31,183
UK excluding London average salary	£37,128	£35,103
% change on same period last year	+5.76 %
General West Midlands
Matching permanent IT job ads	4082	3219
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	2.155 %	1.318 %
Salaries quoted	3405	2781
Average minimum salary	£34,835	£34,940
Average salary	£38,021	£37,785
% change on same period last year	+0.62 %
Average maximum salary	£41,207	£40,630
UK excluding London average salary	£40,890	£42,387
% change on same period last year	-3.53 %
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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Electric across the West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

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Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Electric across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Electric within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Birmingham	+2	15	£46,250	+110.70 %
Staffordshire	+3	13	£41,417	+29.42 %
Coventry	-11	12	£36,458	+18.56 %
Worcestershire	-6	11	£32,045	-2.30 %
Solihull	-	7	£32,500	-
Warwickshire	+2	3	£35,000	+12.00 %
Herefordshire	-14	1	£21,500	-21.81 %
Dudley	-	1	£22,000	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the West Midlands region citing Electric 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 Electric.

1 48 (35.56 %) Electronics 2 39 (28.89 %) Manufacturing 3 30 (22.22 %) Degree 4 23 (17.04 %) Project Management 5 16 (11.85 %) HNC 6 14 (10.37 %) Telecoms 6 14 (10.37 %) SCADA 6 14 (10.37 %) Project Planning 7 13 (9.630 %) Automotive 7 13 (9.630 %) AutoCAD 7 13 (9.630 %) Windows 8 11 (8.148 %) C 8 11 (8.148 %) SQL 9 9 (6.667 %) Finance 9 9 (6.667 %) Aerospace

9 9 (6.667 %) Education 9 9 (6.667 %) C# 9 9 (6.667 %) C++ 9 9 (6.667 %) .NET 9 9 (6.667 %) ASP.NET 9 9 (6.667 %) Microsoft 9 9 (6.667 %) Firmware 9 9 (6.667 %) Chartered Engineer 10 8 (5.926 %) EMC 11 7 (5.185 %) Six Sigma 11 7 (5.185 %) ASP 11 7 (5.185 %) XML 11 7 (5.185 %) Requirements Management 12 5 (3.704 %) Financial Modelling 12 5 (3.704 %) Computer Science

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the West Midlands region citing Electric 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 Electric. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 9 (6.667 %) .NET 1 9 (6.667 %) ASP.NET 2 7 (5.185 %) ASP 2 7 (5.185 %) XML 3 3 (2.222 %) J2EE 4 1 (0.741 %) HTML 4 1 (0.741 %) RSS 4 1 (0.741 %) OpenGL 4 1 (0.741 %) AJAX 4 1 (0.741 %) CSS	Applications 1 13 (9.630 %) AutoCAD 2 3 (2.222 %) MS Office 3 2 (1.481 %) MS Excel 3 2 (1.481 %) MATLAB 4 1 (0.741 %) MS Visio
Business Applications 1 2 (1.481 %) Movex 1 2 (1.481 %) LabWindows	Communications & Networking 1 3 (2.222 %) Ethernet 1 3 (2.222 %) TCP/IP 2 1 (0.741 %) SAN 2 1 (0.741 %) Internet 2 1 (0.741 %) DAB 2 1 (0.741 %) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (3.704 %) MySQL 1 5 (3.704 %) SQL Server	Development Applications 1 1 (0.741 %) ClearCase 1 1 (0.741 %) LabVIEW
General 1 48 (35.56 %) Electronics 2 39 (28.89 %) Manufacturing 3 14 (10.37 %) Telecoms 4 13 (9.630 %) Automotive 5 9 (6.667 %) Education 5 9 (6.667 %) Finance 5 9 (6.667 %) Aerospace 6 5 (3.704 %) Billing 7 4 (2.963 %) Construction 8 3 (2.222 %) Pensions 9 2 (1.481 %) Retail 9 2 (1.481 %) FMCG 10 1 (0.741 %) Marketing 10 1 (0.741 %) 3D Graphics 10 1 (0.741 %) Banking 10 1 (0.741 %) Health	Job Titles 1 25 (18.52 %) Systems Engineer 2 15 (11.11 %) Project Manager 3 13 (9.630 %) Hardware Engineer 4 12 (8.889 %) Account Manager 5 10 (7.407 %) Electronics Engineer 6 9 (6.667 %) Design Engineer 7 8 (5.926 %) Developer 7 8 (5.926 %) Analyst 8 5 (3.704 %) Support Engineer 8 5 (3.704 %) Business Strategist 9 4 (2.963 %) Electrical Engineer 9 4 (2.963 %) Software Engineer 9 4 (2.963 %) Principle Engineer 9 4 (2.963 %) Programmer 10 3 (2.222 %) Business Analyst 10 3 (2.222 %) Applications Support 10 3 (2.222 %) C# Developer 10 3 (2.222 %) Test Engineer 10 3 (2.222 %) Senior Developer 10 3 (2.222 %) Applications Support Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 14 (10.37 %) SCADA 2 9 (6.667 %) Firmware 3 5 (3.704 %) Computer Science 4 3 (2.222 %) Mechatronics 4 3 (2.222 %) Mathematics 5 2 (1.481 %) AS400 6 1 (0.741 %) Neural Network 6 1 (0.741 %) Economics 6 1 (0.741 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array 6 1 (0.741 %) Statistics 6 1 (0.741 %) Physics	Operating Systems 1 13 (9.630 %) Windows 2 3 (2.222 %) Windows 2000 3 2 (1.481 %) Windows XP 4 1 (0.741 %) UNIX 4 1 (0.741 %) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies 1 23 (17.04 %) Project Management 2 14 (10.37 %) Project Planning 3 7 (5.185 %) Requirements Management 3 7 (5.185 %) Six Sigma 4 5 (3.704 %) Data Modelling 4 5 (3.704 %) Business Analysis 4 5 (3.704 %) Financial Modelling 5 4 (2.963 %) Software Engineering 5 4 (2.963 %) Business Development 5 4 (2.963 %) OO 6 3 (2.222 %) CAD 7 2 (1.481 %) Business Intelligence 7 2 (1.481 %) B2B 7 2 (1.481 %) Validation 8 1 (0.741 %) Stakeholder Management 8 1 (0.741 %) Econometrics 8 1 (0.741 %) Network Planning 8 1 (0.741 %) Data Analysis 8 1 (0.741 %) Quality Management 8 1 (0.741 %) Disaster Recovery	Programming Languages 1 11 (8.148 %) C 1 11 (8.148 %) SQL 2 9 (6.667 %) C# 2 9 (6.667 %) C++ 3 4 (2.963 %) Java 4 3 (2.222 %) JavaScript 4 3 (2.222 %) PHP 4 3 (2.222 %) Assembly Language 5 2 (1.481 %) Embedded C++ 6 1 (0.741 %) Delphi 6 1 (0.741 %) VBA 6 1 (0.741 %) Fortran 6 1 (0.741 %) Embedded C
Qualifications 1 30 (22.22 %) Degree 2 16 (11.85 %) HNC 3 9 (6.667 %) Chartered Engineer 4 3 (2.222 %) HND	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (1.481 %) ISO9001 2 1 (0.741 %) QA 2 1 (0.741 %) ISO9000
Vendors 1 9 (6.667 %) Microsoft 2 8 (5.926 %) EMC 3 5 (3.704 %) Oracle 4 2 (1.481 %) Cognos 5 1 (0.741 %) Cisco 5 1 (0.741 %) VERITAS