The first table below looks at the demand for Line 500 skills in IT jobs advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Line 500 over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Business Applications category for the West Midlands region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sage Line 500
Rank 198 190 164
Rank change year-on-year
-8 -26
Permanent jobs citing Line 500 4 4 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.076% 0.084% 0.139%
As % of the Business Applications category 0.891% 0.926% 1.316%
Number of salaries quoted 4 4 6
Average salary £31,000 £35,000 £22,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-11.42% +55.55%
UK excluding London average salary £31,000 £32,500 £31,000
% change year-on-year
-4.61% +4.83%
All Business Applications
West Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Business Applications category
449 432 456
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 8.513% 9.036% 10.53%
Number of salaries quoted 322 361 394
Average salary £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.00% +5.26%
90% offered a salary of more than £39,000 £32,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £47,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +5.26%
Line 500
England

Line 500
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands Line 500 Jobs Demand Trend

Line 500
Salary Trend

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

West Midlands Line 500 Salary Trend

Line 500
Job Locations

The table below 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 19 June 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
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Job
Vacancies
Staffordshire -2 4 £31,000 -11.42%
Line 500
England

Line 500
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, 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 4 (100.00%) HTML
1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 4 (100.00%) OLAP
1 4 (100.00%) MS Office
1 4 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 4 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 4 (100.00%) XML
1 4 (100.00%) MS Excel
1 4 (100.00%) CRM
1 4 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 4 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (100.00%) ETL
1 4 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (100.00%) Sage
1 4 (100.00%) Multidimensional Analysis
1 4 (100.00%) Billing
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 4 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 4 (100.00%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 4 (100.00%) SharePoint Server
1 4 (100.00%) MDX
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 4 (100.00%) Visual Studio Team System
1 4 (100.00%) LogiXML

Line 500
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, 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 4 (100.00%) HTML
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 4 (100.00%) XML
1 4 (100.00%) MDX
2 3 (75.00%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 4 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 4 (100.00%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (100.00%) MS Office
1 4 (100.00%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Dynamics CRM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 4 (100.00%) OLAP
1 4 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 3 (75.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 3 (75.00%) QlikView
3 1 (25.00%) Data Mining
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 4 (100.00%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 4 (100.00%) Billing
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
1 3 (75.00%) Analyst
1 3 (75.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Business Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CRM
1 4 (100.00%) ETL
1 4 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Multidimensional Analysis
1 4 (100.00%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (100.00%) Sage
1 4 (100.00%) LogiXML
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