The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term iSeries in IT jobs advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited iSeries over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM iSeries
Rank 200 152 140
Rank change year-on-year
-48 -12
Permanent jobs citing iSeries 7 37 30
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.141% 0.822% 0.723%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.562% 3.237% 3.009%
Number of salaries quoted 7 32 25
Average salary £30,000 £35,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-14.28% +16.66%
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £37,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+13.33% -6.25%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
West Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
1245 1143 997
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 25.08% 25.38% 24.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1043 968 814
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £24,500 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,815 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.96% +6.66%
iSeries
England

iSeries
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands iSeries Jobs Demand Trend

iSeries
Salary Trend

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

West Midlands iSeries Salary Trend

iSeries
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing iSeries within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 17 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
Coventry -11 2 £22,000 -
Birmingham -26 2 £30,000 -7.69%
iSeries
England

iSeries
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands region citing iSeries 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 iSeries.

1 24 (61.54%) Windows
2 18 (46.15%) SQL
2 18 (46.15%) AS400
3 16 (41.03%) UNIX
4 13 (33.33%) Linux
4 13 (33.33%) Java
4 13 (33.33%) XML
4 13 (33.33%) XSLT
4 13 (33.33%) JDBC
4 13 (33.33%) Microsoft
5 10 (25.64%) IBM
6 9 (23.08%) SOAP
6 9 (23.08%) Ant
6 9 (23.08%) Scrum
6 9 (23.08%) Maven
7 8 (20.51%) Windows Vista
7 8 (20.51%) ITIL
7 8 (20.51%) SharePoint
7 8 (20.51%) ERP
8 7 (17.95%) MS Excel
8 7 (17.95%) C#
8 7 (17.95%) Business Intelligence
8 7 (17.95%) Spring
8 7 (17.95%) Hibernate
9 6 (15.38%) Finance
9 6 (15.38%) C
10 5 (12.82%) SQL Server
10 5 (12.82%) Windows NT
10 5 (12.82%) J2SE
10 5 (12.82%) Data Warehouse

iSeries
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands region citing iSeries 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 iSeries. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 13 (33.33%) JDBC
1 13 (33.33%) XML
1 13 (33.33%) XSLT
2 9 (23.08%) SOAP
3 7 (17.95%) Hibernate
3 7 (17.95%) Spring
4 5 (12.82%) J2SE
5 3 (7.692%) .NET
5 3 (7.692%) WebSphere
5 3 (7.692%) MDX
6 1 (2.564%) J2EE
6 1 (2.564%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 8 (20.51%) SharePoint
2 5 (12.82%) SharePoint 2010
3 3 (7.692%) Lotus Notes
4 1 (2.564%) Lotus Domino
Applications
1 7 (17.95%) MS Excel
2 2 (5.128%) PowerPivot
3 1 (2.564%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 5 (12.82%) Lawson
1 5 (12.82%) Infor M3
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.128%) PBX
1 2 (5.128%) VoIP
1 2 (5.128%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.82%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (12.82%) SQL Server 2000
1 5 (12.82%) Microsoft Analysis Services
1 5 (12.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 5 (12.82%) SQL Server 2005
1 5 (12.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 5 (12.82%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 5 (12.82%) SQL Server 2008
1 5 (12.82%) PerformancePoint
1 5 (12.82%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.564%) DB2
Development Applications
1 9 (23.08%) Maven
1 9 (23.08%) Ant
2 3 (7.692%) Eclipse
2 3 (7.692%) JIRA
2 3 (7.692%) Hudson
2 3 (7.692%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (15.38%) Finance
2 5 (12.82%) Marketing
3 4 (10.26%) Telecoms
3 4 (10.26%) Retail
4 2 (5.128%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (2.564%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 13 (33.33%) Developer
1 13 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 9 (23.08%) Analyst
3 7 (17.95%) Software Developer
4 4 (10.26%) Java Software Developer
5 3 (7.692%) Junior Systems Engineer
5 3 (7.692%) Systems Engineer
5 3 (7.692%) Junior Architect
5 3 (7.692%) Architect
5 3 (7.692%) Junior
5 3 (7.692%) Software Engineer
5 3 (7.692%) Support Analyst
5 3 (7.692%) Technical Support
6 2 (5.128%) Support Specialist
6 2 (5.128%) Report Analyst
6 2 (5.128%) Operations Analyst
6 2 (5.128%) AS400 Operator
6 2 (5.128%) IT Operations Analyst
6 2 (5.128%) Information Manager
6 2 (5.128%) Systems Support
Miscellaneous
1 18 (46.15%) AS400
2 5 (12.82%) Credit Risk
3 4 (10.26%) Digital Media
4 3 (7.692%) Computer Science
5 2 (5.128%) Mainframe
6 1 (2.564%) N-Tier
6 1 (2.564%) LPAR
Operating Systems
1 24 (61.54%) Windows
2 16 (41.03%) UNIX
3 13 (33.33%) Linux
4 8 (20.51%) Windows Vista
5 5 (12.82%) Windows Server 2008
5 5 (12.82%) Windows Server 2003
5 5 (12.82%) Windows NT
6 4 (10.26%) Windows XP
6 4 (10.26%) Windows 2000
6 4 (10.26%) Solaris
7 2 (5.128%) Mac OS
8 1 (2.564%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (23.08%) Scrum
2 8 (20.51%) ITIL
2 8 (20.51%) ERP
3 7 (17.95%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (12.82%) BCP
4 5 (12.82%) Data Modelling
5 3 (7.692%) Software Engineering
5 3 (7.692%) Requirements Analysis
5 3 (7.692%) Resource Management
5 3 (7.692%) Time Management
5 3 (7.692%) OWASP
6 2 (5.128%) High Availability
6 2 (5.128%) Problem Management
6 2 (5.128%) ETL
6 2 (5.128%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (5.128%) Analytics
7 1 (2.564%) Change Management
7 1 (2.564%) Systems Analysis
7 1 (2.564%) Business Analysis
7 1 (2.564%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 18 (46.15%) SQL
2 13 (33.33%) Java
3 7 (17.95%) C#
4 6 (15.38%) C
5 1 (2.564%) RPG
Qualifications
1 3 (7.692%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.128%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (10.26%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 13 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 10 (25.64%) IBM
3 3 (7.692%) Lotus
3 3 (7.692%) JD Edwards
4 2 (5.128%) Kaspersky
4 2 (5.128%) Apple
4 2 (5.128%) Cisco
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