The first table below looks at the demand for RFID skills in IT jobs advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited RFID 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 Birmingham region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID)
Rank 108 100 -
Rank change year-on-year
-8 -
Permanent jobs citing RFID 1 2 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.059% 0.136% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.318% 0.699% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 0
Average salary £67,500 £55,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+22.72% -
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £45,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year
- -25.00%
All Communications & Networking
Birmingham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
314 286 247
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 18.64% 19.48% 18.20%
Number of salaries quoted 253 249 224
Average salary £40,000 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.28% -
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £24,500 £22,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
RFID
West Midlands

RFID
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham RFID Jobs Demand Trend

RFID
Salary Trend

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

Birmingham RFID Salary Trend

RFID
Top 10 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham region citing RFID 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 RFID.

1 1 (100.00%) SAP
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
1 1 (100.00%) Network Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Logistics
1 1 (100.00%) Supply Chain Management
1 1 (100.00%) SAP SCM
1 1 (100.00%) Business Development
1 1 (100.00%) Life Science
1 1 (100.00%) SAP TM

RFID
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) SAP TM
Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) SAP SCM
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Network Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Logistics
1 1 (100.00%) Supply Chain Management
1 1 (100.00%) Business Development
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) SAP