The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term PaaS in IT jobs advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited PaaS over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
Rank 193 172 171
Rank change year-on-year
-21 -1
Permanent jobs citing PaaS 11 13 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.219% 0.285% 0.120%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.855% 1.128% 0.504%
Number of salaries quoted 6 13 5
Average salary £37,500 £85,000 £21,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-55.88% +304.76%
UK excluding London average salary £55,000 £53,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year
+2.32% +7.50%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
West Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
1287 1152 992
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 25.60% 25.27% 23.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1064 982 809
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 £23,775
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%
PaaS
England

PaaS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands PaaS Jobs Demand Trend

PaaS
Salary Trend

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

West Midlands PaaS Salary Trend

PaaS
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing PaaS across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

West Midlands PaaS Salary Histogram

PaaS
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PaaS within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 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 -24 3 £47,500 -54.76%
Solihull - 2 £37,500 -
Wolverhampton - 2 £37,500 -
Coventry -26 1 £37,500 -25.00%
Dudley - 1 £37,500 -
Stourbridge - 1 - -
Shropshire - 1 - -
PaaS
England

PaaS
Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands region citing PaaS 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 PaaS.

1 18 (100.00%) IaaS
2 17 (94.44%) SaaS
3 10 (55.56%) IP Telephony
3 10 (55.56%) Video Conferencing
3 10 (55.56%) Unified Communications
3 10 (55.56%) LAN
3 10 (55.56%) PBX
3 10 (55.56%) WAN
3 10 (55.56%) Cisco
3 10 (55.56%) Firewall
3 10 (55.56%) Data Security
3 10 (55.56%) Wi-Fi
3 10 (55.56%) Cisco IPCC
4 7 (38.89%) Salesforce.com
4 7 (38.89%) CRM
5 6 (33.33%) Business Development
6 5 (27.78%) iPad
7 1 (5.556%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (5.556%) Hyper-V
7 1 (5.556%) Veeam
7 1 (5.556%) vCloud
7 1 (5.556%) SCCM
7 1 (5.556%) SCOM
7 1 (5.556%) VMware
7 1 (5.556%) Microsoft
7 1 (5.556%) Citrix

PaaS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands region citing PaaS 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 PaaS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 10 (55.56%) IP Telephony
1 10 (55.56%) Unified Communications
1 10 (55.56%) LAN
1 10 (55.56%) PBX
1 10 (55.56%) WAN
1 10 (55.56%) Firewall
1 10 (55.56%) Wi-Fi
Job Titles
1 10 (55.56%) Account Manager
2 7 (38.89%) Architect
2 7 (38.89%) CRM Architect
3 6 (33.33%) Systems Integrator
4 5 (27.78%) Technical Account Manager
4 5 (27.78%) Technical Manager
5 4 (22.22%) Business Manager
6 1 (5.556%) Salesforce.com Consultant
6 1 (5.556%) SaaS Consultant
6 1 (5.556%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 18 (100.00%) IaaS
2 17 (94.44%) SaaS
3 10 (55.56%) Video Conferencing
4 5 (27.78%) iPad
5 1 (5.556%) Cloud Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) Data Security
2 7 (38.89%) CRM
3 6 (33.33%) Business Development
System Software
1 1 (5.556%) Hyper-V
1 1 (5.556%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 10 (55.56%) Cisco IPCC
2 1 (5.556%) SCCM
2 1 (5.556%) SCOM
Vendors
1 10 (55.56%) Cisco
2 7 (38.89%) Salesforce.com
3 1 (5.556%) Veeam
3 1 (5.556%) VMware
3 1 (5.556%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.556%) Citrix