The first table below looks at the demand for POP3 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 POP3 over the 3 months to 23 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 of the Communications & Networking category for the West Midlands region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Post Office Protocol, version 3 (POP3)
Rank - 183 170
Permanent jobs citing POP3 0 1 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands - 0.022% 0.047%
As % of the Communications & Networking category - 0.140% 0.265%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 2
Average salary - - £19,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £35,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -
All Communications & Networking
West Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
868 715 756
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 17.33% 15.75% 17.90%
Number of salaries quoted 711 586 597
Average salary £37,500 £33,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.94% -4.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,500 £25,000 £22,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
POP3
England

POP3
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing POP3 across the West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

West Midlands POP3 Jobs Demand Trend

POP3
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing POP3 across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands POP3 Salary Trend

POP3
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands region citing POP3 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 POP3.

1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) IIS
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) MS Excel
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) SMTP
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Sage
1 1 (100.00%) Terminal Services
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (100.00%) Blackberry
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
1 1 (100.00%) Logistics
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Mobile
1 1 (100.00%) IMAP
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (100.00%) iPad
1 1 (100.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (100.00%) Sage 200
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2012

POP3
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands region citing POP3 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 POP3. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Sage 200
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) SMTP
1 1 (100.00%) IMAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) IT Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Blackberry
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
1 1 (100.00%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Mobile
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (100.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Terminal Services
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Sage