The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Firmware in IT jobs advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Firmware over the 3 months to 22 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 terms in our Miscellaneous category for the Birmingham region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Firmware
Rank 92 97 -
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 20 3 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 1.183% 0.201% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.450% 0.813% -
Number of salaries quoted 20 3 0
Average salary £40,000 £45,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-11.11% -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Birmingham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
367 369 294
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 21.72% 24.70% 22.44%
Number of salaries quoted 327 331 265
Average salary £44,000 £40,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+10.00% +23.07%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £70,000 £82,500
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +6.66%
Firmware
West Midlands

Firmware
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Firmware across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Birmingham Firmware Jobs Demand Trend

Firmware
Salary Trend

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

Birmingham Firmware Salary Trend

Firmware
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Firmware across the Birmingham region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Birmingham Firmware Salary Histogram

Firmware
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham region citing Firmware 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 Firmware.

1 17 (65.38%) Agile Software Development
1 17 (65.38%) ActiveMQ
1 17 (65.38%) Subversion
1 17 (65.38%) Spring
1 17 (65.38%) Maven
1 17 (65.38%) JasperReports
1 17 (65.38%) Ajax
1 17 (65.38%) SQL Server 2005
1 17 (65.38%) Java EE
1 17 (65.38%) Spring MVC
1 17 (65.38%) Selenium
1 17 (65.38%) FitNesse
1 17 (65.38%) SQL Server 2008
1 17 (65.38%) TeamCity
1 17 (65.38%) Java
1 17 (65.38%) SQL Server
1 17 (65.38%) SOAP
1 17 (65.38%) Tomcat
1 17 (65.38%) JMS
1 17 (65.38%) Eclipse
1 17 (65.38%) JBoss
1 17 (65.38%) JMX
1 17 (65.38%) MVC
1 17 (65.38%) Hibernate
1 17 (65.38%) Apache Continuum
2 9 (34.62%) Oracle Reports
2 9 (34.62%) OO
2 9 (34.62%) J2EE
2 9 (34.62%) Oracle
2 9 (34.62%) Unit Testing

Firmware
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham region citing Firmware 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 Firmware. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 17 (65.38%) Spring
1 17 (65.38%) Ajax
1 17 (65.38%) Java EE
1 17 (65.38%) Spring MVC
1 17 (65.38%) SOAP
1 17 (65.38%) JMS
1 17 (65.38%) JMX
1 17 (65.38%) Hibernate
2 9 (34.62%) J2EE
3 2 (7.692%) Web Services
3 2 (7.692%) XML
3 2 (7.692%) XSL
3 2 (7.692%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 17 (65.38%) ActiveMQ
1 17 (65.38%) Tomcat
2 2 (7.692%) IIS
2 2 (7.692%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 1 (3.846%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.692%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (65.38%) JasperReports
1 17 (65.38%) SQL Server 2005
1 17 (65.38%) SQL Server 2008
1 17 (65.38%) SQL Server
2 9 (34.62%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 17 (65.38%) Subversion
1 17 (65.38%) Maven
1 17 (65.38%) Selenium
1 17 (65.38%) FitNesse
1 17 (65.38%) TeamCity
1 17 (65.38%) Eclipse
1 17 (65.38%) Apache Continuum
General
1 2 (7.692%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (73.08%) Developer
2 9 (34.62%) Java Developer
2 9 (34.62%) Java/J2EE Developer
2 9 (34.62%) Senior Developer
2 9 (34.62%) Senior Java Developer
3 8 (30.77%) QA Tester
3 8 (30.77%) Tester
4 5 (19.23%) Backup Specialist
5 2 (7.692%) C++ Developer
5 2 (7.692%) Desktop Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.692%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 5 (19.23%) UNIX
2 2 (7.692%) Android
2 2 (7.692%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (65.38%) Agile Software Development
1 17 (65.38%) MVC
2 9 (34.62%) OO
2 9 (34.62%) Unit Testing
2 9 (34.62%) Multithreading
2 9 (34.62%) TDD
3 8 (30.77%) Automated Testing
3 8 (30.77%) Manual Testing
4 2 (7.692%) Web Development
4 2 (7.692%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (7.692%) ITIL
4 2 (7.692%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (65.38%) Java
2 2 (7.692%) C++
Qualifications
1 5 (19.23%) Degree
2 2 (7.692%) MCDST
2 2 (7.692%) MCP
2 2 (7.692%) Citrix Certification
2 2 (7.692%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (30.77%) QA
System Software
1 2 (7.692%) XenApp
1 2 (7.692%) XenServer
1 2 (7.692%) XenDesktop
1 2 (7.692%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (19.23%) Tivoli
1 5 (19.23%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 17 (65.38%) JBoss
2 9 (34.62%) Oracle
3 5 (19.23%) EMC
3 5 (19.23%) NetApp
3 5 (19.23%) IBM
4 2 (7.692%) LANDesk
4 2 (7.692%) Citrix
Birmingham, West Midlands
Knowledge of Citrix Xen Server, Xen App, Xen Desktop, or other related environments... Full Driving License Desirable skills and experience MCP/MCDST/ITIL/Citrix certifications would be desirable.
Capita Resourcing
Salary: £25000 - £30000 per annum
Posted: 2 May 2013