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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows Mobile
Rank 112 - 85
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing Windows Mobile 6 0 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.353% - 0.446%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.478% - 2.143%
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 6
Average salary £37,500 - £27,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £36,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+2.73% +4.28%
All Operating Systems
Birmingham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
406 323 280
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 23.88% 21.79% 20.83%
Number of salaries quoted 350 304 245
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% -
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £24,000 £24,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Windows Mobile
West Midlands

Windows Mobile
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham Windows Mobile Jobs Demand Trend

Windows Mobile
Salary Trend

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

Birmingham Windows Mobile Salary Trend

Windows Mobile
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Windows Mobile.

1 13 (100.00%) Windows
2 11 (84.62%) WCF
2 11 (84.62%) Mobile App
3 10 (76.92%) Web Services
3 10 (76.92%) SQL
4 9 (69.23%) .NET
4 9 (69.23%) User Acceptance Testing
5 7 (53.85%) ASP.NET
6 4 (30.77%) Visual Studio
6 4 (30.77%) C#
6 4 (30.77%) Windows CE
7 2 (15.38%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (15.38%) XML
7 2 (15.38%) XSD
7 2 (15.38%) OOP
7 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
7 2 (15.38%) Embedded C++
7 2 (15.38%) C++
7 2 (15.38%) T-SQL
7 2 (15.38%) ADO.NET
7 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
7 2 (15.38%) IIS
7 2 (15.38%) Unit Testing
7 2 (15.38%) Android
7 2 (15.38%) LINQ
7 2 (15.38%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
7 2 (15.38%) Windows 8
7 2 (15.38%) Windows Phone 8
7 2 (15.38%) MVC
7 2 (15.38%) Scrum

Windows Mobile
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Windows Mobile. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 11 (84.62%) WCF
2 10 (76.92%) Web Services
3 9 (69.23%) .NET
4 7 (53.85%) ASP.NET
5 2 (15.38%) XML
5 2 (15.38%) XSD
5 2 (15.38%) ADO.NET
5 2 (15.38%) LINQ
5 2 (15.38%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 2 (15.38%) WinForms
5 2 (15.38%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 2 (15.38%) BizTalk Server
1 2 (15.38%) IIS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
1 2 (15.38%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Visual Studio
2 2 (15.38%) Subversion
2 2 (15.38%) JIRA
General
1 2 (15.38%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (100.00%) Developer
2 11 (84.62%) Mobile Applications Developer
2 11 (84.62%) Mobile Developer
3 2 (15.38%) C# Developer
4 1 (7.692%) Windows Mobile Developer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (84.62%) Mobile App
2 2 (15.38%) Pocket PC
Operating Systems
1 13 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (30.77%) Windows CE
3 2 (15.38%) Android
3 2 (15.38%) Windows 8
3 2 (15.38%) Windows Phone 8
3 2 (15.38%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (15.38%) OOP
2 2 (15.38%) Unit Testing
2 2 (15.38%) MVC
2 2 (15.38%) Scrum
2 2 (15.38%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 10 (76.92%) SQL
2 4 (30.77%) C#
3 2 (15.38%) Embedded C++
3 2 (15.38%) C++
3 2 (15.38%) T-SQL
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft