West Midlands SPSS Jobs

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

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Location Andover Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bolton Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckingham Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester Coventry Cumbria Docklands, London Dorking Dundee East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Gloucester Gloucestershire Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hertfordshire Horsham Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Lowestoft Luton Manchester Market Harborough Merseyside Midlands Milton Keynes Newport Norfolk North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Reading Reigate Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Suffolk Surrey Swindon UK Wales Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimbledon Windsor Woking York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	228	209
Rank change on same period last year	-19
Matching permanent IT job ads	7	17
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.007 %
As % of the category below	0.548 %	1.467 %
Salaries quoted	5	12
Average minimum salary	£26,600	£29,353
Average salary	£28,500	£31,059
% change on same period last year	-8.23 %
Average maximum salary	£30,400	£32,765
UK excluding London average salary	£36,699	£35,638
% change on same period last year	+2.97 %
Applications West Midlands
Matching permanent IT job ads	1277	1159
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.674 %	0.475 %
Salaries quoted	1068	1002
Average minimum salary	£27,866	£27,949
Average salary	£30,218	£30,427
% change on same period last year	-0.68 %
Average maximum salary	£32,570	£32,906
UK excluding London average salary	£33,332	£33,774
% change on same period last year	-1.30 %
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Demand Trend

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

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Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

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

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SPSS 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	-13	2	-	-
Coventry	-16	1	£40,000	+44.70 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 13 (81.25 %) SAS 2 11 (68.75 %) Finance 3 10 (62.50 %) SQL 3 10 (62.50 %) Degree 4 9 (56.25 %) Marketing 5 8 (50.00 %) Mathematics 6 7 (43.75 %) Data Analysis 7 6 (37.50 %) Data Mining 7 6 (37.50 %) MS Office 7 6 (37.50 %) MS Excel 8 3 (18.75 %) Retail 9 2 (12.50 %) Competitor Analysis 9 2 (12.50 %) Operations Research 10 1 (6.250 %) Health 10 1 (6.250 %) Banking

10 1 (6.250 %) Statistical Analysis 10 1 (6.250 %) Pensions 10 1 (6.250 %) Information Management 10 1 (6.250 %) PhD 10 1 (6.250 %) Cognos 10 1 (6.250 %) Oracle Reports 10 1 (6.250 %) MySQL 10 1 (6.250 %) Oracle 10 1 (6.250 %) SQL Server 10 1 (6.250 %) Crystal Reports 10 1 (6.250 %) Business Objects 10 1 (6.250 %) Management Information System 10 1 (6.250 %) Risk Management 10 1 (6.250 %) Business Intelligence 10 1 (6.250 %) RDBMS

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms 1 13 (81.25 %) SAS	Applications 1 6 (37.50 %) MS Office 1 6 (37.50 %) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence 1 6 (37.50 %) Data Mining 2 1 (6.250 %) RDBMS 2 1 (6.250 %) BusinessObjects 2 1 (6.250 %) MySQL 2 1 (6.250 %) SQL Server 2 1 (6.250 %) Crystal Reports 2 1 (6.250 %) Oracle Reports	General 1 11 (68.75 %) Finance 2 9 (56.25 %) Marketing 3 3 (18.75 %) Retail 4 1 (6.250 %) Pensions 4 1 (6.250 %) Health 4 1 (6.250 %) Banking
Job Titles 1 13 (81.25 %) Analyst 2 8 (50.00 %) Marketing Analyst 3 6 (37.50 %) Data Analyst 4 2 (12.50 %) Senior Analyst 5 1 (6.250 %) Junior Analyst 5 1 (6.250 %) Senior Marketing Analyst 5 1 (6.250 %) Financial Services Business Analyst 5 1 (6.250 %) Team Leader 5 1 (6.250 %) SAS Analyst 5 1 (6.250 %) Risk Analyst 5 1 (6.250 %) Financial Business Analyst 5 1 (6.250 %) Senior Risk Analyst 5 1 (6.250 %) Service Analyst 5 1 (6.250 %) Business Analyst 5 1 (6.250 %) Junior	Miscellaneous 1 8 (50.00 %) Mathematics 2 1 (6.250 %) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (43.75 %) Data Analysis 2 2 (12.50 %) Competitor Analysis 2 2 (12.50 %) Operations Research 3 1 (6.250 %) Statistical Analysis 3 1 (6.250 %) Business Intelligence 3 1 (6.250 %) Risk Management 3 1 (6.250 %) Information Management	Programming Languages 1 10 (62.50 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 10 (62.50 %) Degree 2 1 (6.250 %) PhD	Vendors 1 1 (6.250 %) Oracle 1 1 (6.250 %) Business Objects 1 1 (6.250 %) Cognos