The first table below looks at the demand for Bluetooth skills in IT jobs advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Bluetooth over the 3 months to 23 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 Communications & Networking category for the Berkshire region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Bluetooth
Rank 215 208 203
Rank change year-on-year
-7 -5
Permanent jobs citing Bluetooth 1 11 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.019% 0.179% 0.038%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.061% 0.652% 0.199%
Number of salaries quoted 1 11 2
Average salary £38,500 £40,000 £38,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.75% +3.22%
UK excluding London average salary £47,500 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+18.75% +6.66%
All Communications & Networking
Berkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
1631 1687 1004
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 31.57% 27.49% 19.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1245 1362 788
Average salary £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.88% -
90% offered a salary of more than £30,500 £30,000 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
Bluetooth
South East

Bluetooth
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Bluetooth across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Berkshire Bluetooth Jobs Demand Trend

Bluetooth
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Bluetooth across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire Bluetooth Salary Trend

Bluetooth
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire region citing Bluetooth 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 Bluetooth.

1 23 (95.83%) GSM
2 17 (70.83%) ZigBee
3 14 (58.33%) Wireless
3 14 (58.33%) Windows
4 13 (54.17%) 3G
5 9 (37.50%) C++
5 9 (37.50%) SQL Server
5 9 (37.50%) Web Services
6 8 (33.33%) C
6 8 (33.33%) Linux
6 8 (33.33%) Embedded C
6 8 (33.33%) Electronics
7 7 (29.17%) Telecoms
7 7 (29.17%) Advertising
7 7 (29.17%) Device Driver
7 7 (29.17%) Handset
7 7 (29.17%) Windows CE
7 7 (29.17%) ThreadX
7 7 (29.17%) Wi-Fi
7 7 (29.17%) Logistics
7 7 (29.17%) Performance Testing
7 7 (29.17%) Smartphone
7 7 (29.17%) VxWorks
7 7 (29.17%) Pharmaceutical
7 7 (29.17%) Degree
7 7 (29.17%) HSPA
8 6 (25.00%) Embedded Systems
8 6 (25.00%) GPRS
8 6 (25.00%) Microsoft
8 6 (25.00%) .NET

Bluetooth
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire region citing Bluetooth 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 Bluetooth. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (37.50%) Web Services
2 6 (25.00%) .NET
3 3 (12.50%) SOAP
3 3 (12.50%) REST
4 1 (4.167%) .NET Framework
4 1 (4.167%) .NET Compact Framework
Communications & Networking
1 23 (95.83%) GSM
2 17 (70.83%) ZigBee
3 14 (58.33%) Wireless
4 13 (54.17%) 3G
5 7 (29.17%) Wi-Fi
5 7 (29.17%) HSPA
6 6 (25.00%) GPRS
7 3 (12.50%) HTTP
8 1 (4.167%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (37.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 8 (33.33%) Electronics
2 7 (29.17%) Telecoms
2 7 (29.17%) Advertising
2 7 (29.17%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (8.333%) Finance
3 2 (8.333%) Manufacturing
3 2 (8.333%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 12 (50.00%) Test Engineer
2 7 (29.17%) Embedded Software Engineer
2 7 (29.17%) Field Engineer
2 7 (29.17%) Project Engineer
2 7 (29.17%) Software Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Architect
3 3 (12.50%) Principal Engineer
4 2 (8.333%) Principle Engineer
4 2 (8.333%) Systems Architect
5 1 (4.167%) Analyst
5 1 (4.167%) Test Analyst
5 1 (4.167%) Customer Engineer
5 1 (4.167%) Technical Engineer
5 1 (4.167%) Applications Architect
5 1 (4.167%) Applications Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (29.17%) Device Driver
1 7 (29.17%) Handset
1 7 (29.17%) Smartphone
2 6 (25.00%) Embedded Systems
3 3 (12.50%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 14 (58.33%) Windows
2 8 (33.33%) Linux
3 7 (29.17%) Windows CE
3 7 (29.17%) ThreadX
3 7 (29.17%) VxWorks
4 2 (8.333%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (29.17%) Logistics
1 7 (29.17%) Performance Testing
2 6 (25.00%) Test Management
2 6 (25.00%) Quality Management
3 4 (16.67%) Service Delivery
3 4 (16.67%) Software Testing
4 3 (12.50%) CRM
4 3 (12.50%) ERP
4 3 (12.50%) Web Development
4 3 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (8.333%) Agile Software Development
5 2 (8.333%) System Testing
5 2 (8.333%) Automated Testing
5 2 (8.333%) Risk Management
6 1 (4.167%) SOA
6 1 (4.167%) OO
6 1 (4.167%) Software Engineering
6 1 (4.167%) QMS
6 1 (4.167%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 9 (37.50%) C++
2 8 (33.33%) C
2 8 (33.33%) Embedded C
3 4 (16.67%) C#
4 1 (4.167%) Embedded C++
4 1 (4.167%) Python
4 1 (4.167%) SQL
4 1 (4.167%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 7 (29.17%) Degree
2 5 (20.83%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.67%) ISO 9001
Vendors
1 6 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.333%) Symbian