| ticletext"> | | | | new graduates, where Northern Ireland, Scotland and |
| There are an estimated 1.1 million IT professionals in | | | | Wales account for only around 11% of the |
| the UK, distributed between around 120,000 IT | | | | workforce. The average starting salary for a new |
| companies and other industries, such as finance, the | | | | graduate is around �30,000 with more |
| public sector, transport, storage, banking and | | | | experienced graduates and those aligning directly to |
| communications. In addition, the services supplied by | | | | large organizations being able to command more. The |
| these professionals have a significant effect on the | | | | most common jobs in IT for new graduates include |
| country�s economy, being worth an | | | | software engineering, IT consultancy, computer |
| estimated �57,000 million per year. | | | | programming, systems analysis, computer analysis |
| London and the South East employ around 40% of | | | | and computer operations management. |