West Midlands Line 500 Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Sage Line 500 skills within the West Midlands region with a comparison to our Business Applications category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Line 500 over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Sage Line 500
Location Avon Berkshire Birmingham Blaenau Gwent Brentford Camberley Cambridgeshire Cheshire Cornwall Derby Derbyshire Dorset East Midlands East of England England Gloucestershire Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Huntingdon Leeds London Maidenhead Manchester Nantwich North West North Yorkshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Poole Rickmansworth South East South Wales South West St Ives Surrey Tredegar UK Wales Warrington West Midlands West Yorkshire Wetherby Wiltshire Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	219	204
Rank change on same period last year	-15
Matching permanent IT job ads	16	22
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.009 %
As % of the category below	2.270 %	2.973 %
Salaries quoted	16	22
Average minimum salary	£31,471	£27,909
Average salary	£34,853	£30,023
% change on same period last year	+16.08 %
Average maximum salary	£38,235	£32,136
UK excluding London average salary	£33,243	£32,164
% change on same period last year	+3.35 %
Business Applications West Midlands
Matching permanent IT job ads	705	740
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.372 %	0.303 %
Salaries quoted	619	640
Average minimum salary	£41,612	£43,423
Average salary	£45,819	£46,968
% change on same period last year	-2.44 %
Average maximum salary	£50,025	£50,514
UK excluding London average salary	£49,524	£50,253
% change on same period last year	-1.45 %
Line 500 England

Line 500
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Line 500 across the West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Business Applications category.

Line 500
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Line 500 across the West Midlands region.

Line 500
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Line 500 across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

Line 500
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Line 500 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	+1	11	£34,500	+40.81 %
Worcestershire	-12	4	£39,375	+26.00 %
Herefordshire	-	1	£28,500	-

Line 500 England

Line 500
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the West Midlands region citing Line 500 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 Line 500.

1 24 (100.00 %) Sage 2 18 (75.00 %) Microsoft 3 12 (50.00 %) Finance 3 12 (50.00 %) Project Management 4 11 (45.83 %) Exchequer 5 9 (37.50 %) Pegasus 5 9 (37.50 %) Great Plains 5 9 (37.50 %) Requirements Analysis 6 8 (33.33 %) Pensions 7 7 (29.17 %) Manufacturing 7 7 (29.17 %) ERP 7 7 (29.17 %) MS Excel 8 5 (20.83 %) Sage MMS 8 5 (20.83 %) SQL 9 4 (16.67 %) CRM

9 4 (16.67 %) Dynamics AX 9 4 (16.67 %) Retail 10 2 (8.333 %) Microsoft Certification 10 2 (8.333 %) Navision 10 2 (8.333 %) SAP 10 2 (8.333 %) ASP.NET 10 2 (8.333 %) Transact-SQL 10 2 (8.333 %) VB 10 2 (8.333 %) VB.NET 10 2 (8.333 %) .NET 10 2 (8.333 %) VB6 10 2 (8.333 %) Migration 10 2 (8.333 %) Epicor 10 2 (8.333 %) SalesLogix 10 2 (8.333 %) Degree

Line 500
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the West Midlands region citing Line 500 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 Line 500. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2 (8.333 %) .NET 1 2 (8.333 %) ASP.NET 2 1 (4.167 %) CSS 2 1 (4.167 %) XHTML 2 1 (4.167 %) ASP	Applications 1 7 (29.17 %) MS Excel 2 1 (4.167 %) MS Project
Business Applications 1 9 (37.50 %) Great Plains 2 5 (20.83 %) Sage MMS 3 4 (16.67 %) Dynamics AX 4 2 (8.333 %) Navision 4 2 (8.333 %) SalesLogix 5 1 (4.167 %) Dynamics CRM 5 1 (4.167 %) GoldMine 5 1 (4.167 %) SAP Business One	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (4.167 %) SQL Server 1 1 (4.167 %) Crystal Reports
General 1 12 (50.00 %) Finance 2 8 (33.33 %) Pensions 3 7 (29.17 %) Manufacturing 4 4 (16.67 %) Retail 5 1 (4.167 %) Education	Job Titles 1 15 (62.50 %) Consultant 2 6 (25.00 %) Sage Consultant 3 4 (16.67 %) Sage Line 500 Consultant 4 3 (12.50 %) Developer 5 2 (8.333 %) ASP.NET Developer 5 2 (8.333 %) Implementation Consultant 5 2 (8.333 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 5 2 (8.333 %) .NET Developer 5 2 (8.333 %) VB.NET Developer 6 1 (4.167 %) Business Consultant 6 1 (4.167 %) ASP Developer 6 1 (4.167 %) Senior Manager 6 1 (4.167 %) Support Analyst 6 1 (4.167 %) Applications Support 6 1 (4.167 %) Support Consultant 6 1 (4.167 %) Senior Project Manager 6 1 (4.167 %) Project Manager 6 1 (4.167 %) Sage MMS Consultant 6 1 (4.167 %) Financial Analyst 6 1 (4.167 %) Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 1 (4.167 %) Management Information System	Processes & Methodologies 1 12 (50.00 %) Project Management 2 9 (37.50 %) Requirements Analysis 3 7 (29.17 %) ERP 4 4 (16.67 %) CRM 5 2 (8.333 %) Migration 5 2 (8.333 %) Data Migration 6 1 (4.167 %) Project Planning 6 1 (4.167 %) Web Development 6 1 (4.167 %) Content Management 6 1 (4.167 %) PRINCE 6 1 (4.167 %) E-Commerce 6 1 (4.167 %) PRINCE2 6 1 (4.167 %) SSADM
Programming Languages 1 5 (20.83 %) SQL 2 2 (8.333 %) Transact-SQL 2 2 (8.333 %) VB 2 2 (8.333 %) VB.NET 2 2 (8.333 %) VB6 3 1 (4.167 %) VBA	Qualifications 1 2 (8.333 %) Microsoft Certification 1 2 (8.333 %) Degree 2 1 (4.167 %) MAPM 2 1 (4.167 %) PMP 2 1 (4.167 %) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (4.167 %) ISO9001	Vendors 1 24 (100.00 %) Sage 2 18 (75.00 %) Microsoft 3 11 (45.83 %) Exchequer 4 9 (37.50 %) Pegasus 5 2 (8.333 %) Epicor 5 2 (8.333 %) SAP