Careers in IT

• 21 million people use IT at work every day in the UK
• The UK has around 1.1 million IT professionals
• Approximately half work in IT companies and half work in other industries (manufacturing, finance and banking, public sector, transport, storage and communications being the largest employers)

Our courses are designed to develop competence in different areas, giving you the broad mix of skills required for employment or continued studies in this field.

We constantly evaluate our courses to reflect the needs of business and universities in this dynamic industry. Our IT department has close links with local IT employers including Codemasters and Baxi.

Alongside academic qualifications the IT department offers industry standard qualifications offered by IT Vendors such as the CISCO CCNA training.

You can choose to specialise in areas to reflect your chosen career path. Previous students have progressed into careers such as IT and systems support, games programming and website design. Other have continued on to higher education at first degree (BA/BSc) and masters levels (MA/MSc).

Common Job roles

• End user support - solving computer users' problems
  salary range: £17,000-£25,000
• Systems analysis - designing computer systems
  salary range:  £37,000 - 42,000
• Web design - designing and building web sites and the systems they use
  salary Range: £28,000 - £53,000
• Programmer/Systems design
  salary range: £28,000 - £42,000
• Networks - setting up, administering, maintaining and upgrading networks.
  salary range: £30,000 - £34,000