Birmingham Firmware Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Firmware skills within the Birmingham region with a comparison to our Miscellaneous category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Firmware over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheltenham Cheshire Chesterfield Chippenham Cirencester City of London Crawley Crewe Darlington Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Felixstowe Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Ipswich Kent Leicester Leicestershire London Luton Manchester Midlands Milton Keynes Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Saffron Walden Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough South East South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stevenage Stockport Suffolk Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells UK Wakefield Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire York Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	121	128
Rank change on same period last year	+7
Matching permanent IT job ads	2	2
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	0.422 %	0.466 %
Salaries quoted	2	0
Average minimum salary	£30,500	-
Average salary	£34,250	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum salary	£38,000	-
UK excluding London average salary	£36,048	£36,467
% change on same period last year	-1.14 %
Miscellaneous Birmingham
Matching permanent IT job ads	474	429
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.262 %	0.180 %
Salaries quoted	422	357
Average minimum salary	£30,731	£35,469
Average salary	£34,419	£38,597
% change on same period last year	-10.82 %
Average maximum salary	£38,107	£41,725
UK excluding London average salary	£37,737	£39,061
% change on same period last year	-3.38 %
Firmware West Midlands

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Firmware across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

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Salary Trend

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

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Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, 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 4 (50.00 %) C 1 4 (50.00 %) Embedded C 1 4 (50.00 %) VxWorks 2 2 (25.00 %) Business Development 2 2 (25.00 %) Risk Analysis 2 2 (25.00 %) Firewall 2 2 (25.00 %) Linux 2 2 (25.00 %) Cisco 3 1 (12.50 %) IBM 3 1 (12.50 %) Sun 3 1 (12.50 %) LDAP 3 1 (12.50 %) DNS 3 1 (12.50 %) UNIX 3 1 (12.50 %) Windows 3 1 (12.50 %) HPUX

3 1 (12.50 %) HP 3 1 (12.50 %) EMC 3 1 (12.50 %) SAN 3 1 (12.50 %) HACMP 3 1 (12.50 %) Nagios 3 1 (12.50 %) Remedy 3 1 (12.50 %) Finance 3 1 (12.50 %) Clustering 3 1 (12.50 %) QMS 3 1 (12.50 %) QA 3 1 (12.50 %) Brocade

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, 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.

Communications & Networking 1 2 (25.00 %) Firewall 2 1 (12.50 %) LDAP 2 1 (12.50 %) DNS 2 1 (12.50 %) SAN	General 1 1 (12.50 %) Finance
Job Titles 1 4 (50.00 %) Software Engineer 1 4 (50.00 %) Analyst 1 4 (50.00 %) Design Engineer 1 4 (50.00 %) Senior Software Engineer 1 4 (50.00 %) Software Design Engineer 2 2 (25.00 %) Support Analyst 3 1 (12.50 %) Network Support Analyst 3 1 (12.50 %) Senior Analyst 3 1 (12.50 %) Network Analyst 3 1 (12.50 %) Technical Analyst 3 1 (12.50 %) Senior Support Analyst 3 1 (12.50 %) Network Support 3 1 (12.50 %) Cisco Support 3 1 (12.50 %) Cisco Network Analyst 3 1 (12.50 %) Cisco Analyst 3 1 (12.50 %) Server Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 1 (12.50 %) HACMP 1 1 (12.50 %) Clustering
Operating Systems 1 4 (50.00 %) VxWorks 2 2 (25.00 %) Linux 3 1 (12.50 %) UNIX 3 1 (12.50 %) Windows 3 1 (12.50 %) HPUX	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (25.00 %) Business Development 1 2 (25.00 %) Risk Analysis 2 1 (12.50 %) QMS
Programming Languages 1 4 (50.00 %) C 1 4 (50.00 %) Embedded C	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (12.50 %) QA
Systems Management 1 1 (12.50 %) Nagios	Vendors 1 2 (25.00 %) Cisco 2 1 (12.50 %) IBM 2 1 (12.50 %) Sun 2 1 (12.50 %) HP 2 1 (12.50 %) EMC 2 1 (12.50 %) Remedy 2 1 (12.50 %) Brocade