The first table below looks at the demand for Windows Mobile skills in IT contracts advertised for the Salford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Windows Mobile over the 3 months to 24 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 of the Operating Systems category for the Salford region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows Mobile
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Windows Mobile 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Salford - - -
As % of the Operating Systems category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £325 £238
% change year-on-year
-1.53% +36.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £36.00 £31.00 £28.00
% change year-on-year
+16.12% +10.71%
All Operating Systems
Salford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
5 14 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Salford 20.00% 37.84% 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 10 0
Average daily rate £325 £275 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+18.18% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 0
Average hourly rate £15.00 £17.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-14.28% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%
Windows Mobile
Manchester

Windows Mobile
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Windows Mobile across the Salford region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Salford Windows Mobile Jobs Demand Trend

Windows Mobile
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Windows Mobile across the Salford region.

Salford Windows Mobile Daily Rate Trend

Windows Mobile
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Salford region citing Windows Mobile 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 contract IT job ads sampled that cited Windows Mobile.

1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Blackberry
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
1 3 (100.00%) TDD
1 3 (100.00%) Android
1 3 (100.00%) Apple iOS
2 2 (66.67%) iOS SDK
2 2 (66.67%) Test Scripting
2 2 (66.67%) iPhone
2 2 (66.67%) iPhone SDK
2 2 (66.67%) bada
2 2 (66.67%) Maemo
2 2 (66.67%) Cucumber
2 2 (66.67%) Software Testing
2 2 (66.67%) ISTQB
2 2 (66.67%) JSON
2 2 (66.67%) Xcode
2 2 (66.67%) Symbian
2 2 (66.67%) ISEB
2 2 (66.67%) Mac OS X
2 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) XML
3 1 (33.33%) XSLT
3 1 (33.33%) Eclipse
3 1 (33.33%) HTML
3 1 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (33.33%) PHP
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) Shell Script

Windows Mobile
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Salford region citing Windows Mobile also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Windows Mobile. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (66.67%) iOS SDK
1 2 (66.67%) iPhone SDK
1 2 (66.67%) JSON
1 2 (66.67%) XML
2 1 (33.33%) XSLT
2 1 (33.33%) HTML
2 1 (33.33%) Series 60
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Cucumber
1 2 (66.67%) Xcode
2 1 (33.33%) Eclipse
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) Selenium
2 1 (33.33%) Firebug
2 1 (33.33%) Robotium
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Blackberry
2 2 (66.67%) iPhone
3 1 (33.33%) Interactive TV
3 1 (33.33%) Semantic Web
3 1 (33.33%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Android
1 3 (100.00%) Apple iOS
2 2 (66.67%) bada
2 2 (66.67%) Maemo
2 2 (66.67%) Mac OS X
2 2 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
1 3 (100.00%) TDD
2 2 (66.67%) Test Scripting
2 2 (66.67%) Software Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Automated Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (33.33%) BDD
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Automation Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) PHP
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
1 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
1 1 (33.33%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) ISTQB
1 2 (66.67%) ISEB
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Symbian