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Information Technology Professionals

Job holders in this unit group perform a variety of tasks.

Wages

New workers
AVERAGE
Experienced
£26,733
£48,117
£86,210

New workers start around £26,733. Normal pay is £48,117 per year.
Highly experienced workers can earn up to £86,210.

Available jobs

In the past year there were 143,566 vacancies for this type of job

5.04%

Projected job growth over the next 8 years

Related courses

People work towards these careers by taking these courses at college and uni.

What they do most days?

  • Manages and develops the content and operation of websites, monitors traffic, and ensures the functionality of websites and web servers.

  • Organises training for users and prepares documentation on IT systems.

  • Meets with clients to determine their requirements and designs, tests and installs new systems to meet client's needs.

  • Provides support to organisations in the operation of their IT software, hardware and networks.

Hard Skills

Hard skills are specific, learnable, measurable, often industry or occupation-specific abilities related to a position.

Skills are ranked based on the number of job adverts that list them as required skills.

  • Business Intelligence

  • SQL (Programming Language)

  • Power BI

  • Data Modeling

  • Microsoft Azure

  • Agile Methodology

  • Data Analysis

  • Data Engineering

  • Extract Transform Load (ETL)

  • Scrum (Software Development)

Soft Skills

Soft skills can be self-taught and usually do not necessitate a certain completed level of education.

Skills are ranked based on the number of job adverts that list them as required skills.

  • Problem Solving

  • Communication

  • Management

  • Operations

  • Sales

  • Consulting

  • Planning

  • Customer Service

  • Innovation

  • Presentations

How do I get a job like this?

People in these types of job started their career paths after studying courses like the ones below.

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