The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term SaaS in IT jobs advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SaaS over the 3 months to 20 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software as a Service (SaaS)
Rank 133 103 147
Rank change year-on-year
-30 +44
Permanent jobs citing SaaS 71 89 25
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 1.440% 1.972% 0.611%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.744% 7.773% 2.538%
Number of salaries quoted 61 74 23
Average salary £40,000 £45,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-11.11% +12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,250 £27,000 £21,000
10% offered a salary of more than £49,000 £80,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
- +5.88%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
West Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
1236 1145 985
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 25.06% 25.37% 24.08%
Number of salaries quoted 1032 968 804
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 £23,875
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,625 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-3.43% +6.66%
SaaS
England

SaaS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands SaaS Jobs Demand Trend

SaaS
Salary Trend

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

West Midlands SaaS Salary Trend

SaaS
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SaaS across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

West Midlands SaaS Salary Histogram

SaaS
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SaaS within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 20 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
Warwickshire +4 20 £40,000 +33.33%
Birmingham -31 16 £45,000 -5.26%
Coventry -5 14 £38,000 +26.66%
Solihull -22 9 £37,500 -
Staffordshire -2 6 £45,000 +38.46%
Worcestershire - 5 £30,000 -
Wolverhampton - 2 £37,500 -
Shropshire - 2 £28,500 -
Stourbridge - 1 - -
Dudley - 1 £37,500 -
SaaS
England

SaaS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands region citing SaaS 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 SaaS.

1 53 (31.36%) SQL
2 46 (27.22%) HTML
3 44 (26.04%) CRM
4 38 (22.49%) Salesforce.com
5 35 (20.71%) .NET
6 33 (19.53%) JavaScript
6 33 (19.53%) Business Development
7 32 (18.93%) Project Management
8 31 (18.34%) SQL Server
9 25 (14.79%) C#
9 25 (14.79%) Cisco
10 24 (14.20%) CSS
11 23 (13.61%) Degree
12 22 (13.02%) XML
12 22 (13.02%) Microsoft
13 20 (11.83%) Telecoms
14 19 (11.24%) Firewall
15 18 (10.65%) Finance
15 18 (10.65%) Windows
15 18 (10.65%) Agile Software Development
16 17 (10.06%) Internet
16 17 (10.06%) PaaS
16 17 (10.06%) IaaS
17 16 (9.467%) ASP.NET
18 15 (8.876%) Web Services
18 15 (8.876%) Data Modelling
18 15 (8.876%) Service Management
18 15 (8.876%) Windows Server 2008
18 15 (8.876%) Unified Communications
19 14 (8.284%) Juniper

SaaS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 46 (27.22%) HTML
2 35 (20.71%) .NET
3 24 (14.20%) CSS
4 22 (13.02%) XML
5 16 (9.467%) ASP.NET
6 15 (8.876%) Web Services
7 8 (4.734%) ASP
7 8 (4.734%) NHibernate
8 7 (4.142%) ASP.NET MVC
8 7 (4.142%) XSD
8 7 (4.142%) XSL
9 6 (3.550%) LAMP
9 6 (3.550%) jQuery
10 5 (2.959%) RESTful
10 5 (2.959%) Apache Flex
11 4 (2.367%) Ajax
12 3 (1.775%) Hibernate
12 3 (1.775%) Middleware
13 2 (1.183%) Spring
13 2 (1.183%) JDBC
Application Platforms
1 10 (5.917%) MS Exchange
1 10 (5.917%) Exchange Server 2007
1 10 (5.917%) Exchange Server 2010
2 4 (2.367%) Amazon AWS
2 4 (2.367%) IIS
3 3 (1.775%) Apache
3 3 (1.775%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (1.183%) CMS
4 2 (1.183%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (1.183%) lighttpd
5 1 (0.592%) Moodle
5 1 (0.592%) Joomla!
5 1 (0.592%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.592%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (1.183%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.592%) Fireworks
2 1 (0.592%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.592%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 12 (7.101%) Oracle EBS
1 12 (7.101%) Oracle iRecruitment
1 12 (7.101%) Oracle EBS R12
2 10 (5.917%) Oracle Payroll
3 5 (2.959%) Oracle HRMS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (11.24%) Firewall
2 17 (10.06%) Internet
3 15 (8.876%) Unified Communications
4 10 (5.917%) Wi-Fi
4 10 (5.917%) IP Telephony
4 10 (5.917%) LAN
4 10 (5.917%) PBX
4 10 (5.917%) WAN
5 6 (3.550%) TCP/IP
6 5 (2.959%) DNS
6 5 (2.959%) SSL
6 5 (2.959%) DHCP
6 5 (2.959%) Network Security
7 1 (0.592%) NAS
7 1 (0.592%) LDAP
7 1 (0.592%) Broadband
7 1 (0.592%) FTP
7 1 (0.592%) HTTP
7 1 (0.592%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (18.34%) SQL Server
2 12 (7.101%) Oracle BI EE
3 6 (3.550%) MySQL
4 4 (2.367%) SQL Server 2008
5 3 (1.775%) SQL Server 2005
6 1 (0.592%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.592%) CouchDB
6 1 (0.592%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.592%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (4.734%) Git (software)
2 2 (1.183%) Eclipse
2 2 (1.183%) Subversion
3 1 (0.592%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.592%) Dreamweaver
General
1 20 (11.83%) Telecoms
2 18 (10.65%) Finance
3 12 (7.101%) Retail
4 8 (4.734%) Manufacturing
5 5 (2.959%) Marketing
6 1 (0.592%) Electronics
6 1 (0.592%) Advertising
6 1 (0.592%) Legal
Job Titles
1 53 (31.36%) Consultant
2 38 (22.49%) Developer
3 36 (21.30%) Systems Integrator
4 32 (18.93%) Analyst
5 25 (14.79%) Project Manager
6 17 (10.06%) Applications Support
7 16 (9.467%) SaaS Consultant
8 15 (8.876%) Functional Consultant
9 14 (8.284%) Support Analyst
9 14 (8.284%) Applications Support Analyst
10 12 (7.101%) Business Analyst
10 12 (7.101%) Oracle Consultant
11 11 (6.509%) .NET Developer
12 10 (5.917%) Account Manager
12 10 (5.917%) Implementation Consultant
12 10 (5.917%) Pre Sales Consultant
13 8 (4.734%) Software Project Manager
13 8 (4.734%) Software Consultant
13 8 (4.734%) Web Developer
13 8 (4.734%) 3rd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 17 (10.06%) PaaS
1 17 (10.06%) IaaS
2 13 (7.692%) Mobile App
3 10 (5.917%) Video Conferencing
4 9 (5.325%) Cloud Computing
4 9 (5.325%) Enterprise Storage
5 6 (3.550%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.959%) iPad
7 2 (1.183%) Social Media
7 2 (1.183%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.183%) N-Tier
8 1 (0.592%) PMI
8 1 (0.592%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.592%) Computer Science
8 1 (0.592%) Social Network
8 1 (0.592%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 18 (10.65%) Windows
2 15 (8.876%) Windows Server 2008
3 9 (5.325%) Windows Server 2003
4 5 (2.959%) Linux
5 2 (1.183%) Android
6 1 (0.592%) CentOS
6 1 (0.592%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.592%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (26.04%) CRM
2 33 (19.53%) Business Development
3 32 (18.93%) Project Management
4 18 (10.65%) Agile Software Development
5 15 (8.876%) Service Management
5 15 (8.876%) Data Modelling
6 13 (7.692%) MVC
6 13 (7.692%) Business Analysis
7 12 (7.101%) Migration
7 12 (7.101%) Data Migration
8 11 (6.509%) Scrum
9 10 (5.917%) Data Security
10 8 (4.734%) Configuration Management
10 8 (4.734%) ERP
11 6 (3.550%) Disaster Recovery
12 5 (2.959%) Security Management
12 5 (2.959%) Data Protection
12 5 (2.959%) Web Development
13 4 (2.367%) Stakeholder Management
13 4 (2.367%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 53 (31.36%) SQL
2 33 (19.53%) JavaScript
3 25 (14.79%) C#
4 11 (6.509%) Java
4 11 (6.509%) VB
4 11 (6.509%) VB.NET
4 11 (6.509%) VB6
5 6 (3.550%) PHP
6 3 (1.775%) T-SQL
7 2 (1.183%) C
7 2 (1.183%) C++
7 2 (1.183%) XPath
8 1 (0.592%) PHP5
8 1 (0.592%) Ruby
8 1 (0.592%) Python
Qualifications
1 23 (13.61%) Degree
2 2 (1.183%) VCP5
2 2 (1.183%) MCSA
2 2 (1.183%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (1.183%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 2 (1.183%) MCITP
3 1 (0.592%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.183%) QA
2 1 (0.592%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (7.101%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (5.325%) Hyper-V
2 9 (5.325%) VMware ESX
2 9 (5.325%) Xen
2 9 (5.325%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (1.183%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.592%) VMware Server
4 1 (0.592%) XenApp
4 1 (0.592%) XenServer
4 1 (0.592%) XenDesktop
4 1 (0.592%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (5.917%) Cisco IPCC
2 1 (0.592%) Backup Exec
2 1 (0.592%) SCCM
2 1 (0.592%) SCOM
2 1 (0.592%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 38 (22.49%) Salesforce.com
2 25 (14.79%) Cisco
3 22 (13.02%) Microsoft
4 14 (8.284%) Juniper
5 13 (7.692%) VMware
6 12 (7.101%) Fujitsu
6 12 (7.101%) Oracle
7 10 (5.917%) Citrix
7 10 (5.917%) HP
8 9 (5.325%) EMC
8 9 (5.325%) NetApp
9 5 (2.959%) McAfee
9 5 (2.959%) Sophos
9 5 (2.959%) CA
10 1 (0.592%) ProCurve
10 1 (0.592%) Facebook
10 1 (0.592%) Twitter
Worcestershire, West Midlands
Required skills - 2 years of commercial experience in the following: Web development using classic ASP with VB6 MS SQL with T-SQL (2005 up to 2012) Solid HTML,...
Computer Futures
Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013