The first table below looks at the demand for WCDMA skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WCDMA over the 3 months to 17 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 Cambridge region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (W-CDMA)
Rank 116 124 123
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -1
Permanent jobs citing WCDMA 11 1 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 0.584% 0.051% 0.046%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.161% 0.273% 0.211%
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 1
Average salary £52,500 £50,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.00% +25.00%
UK excluding London average salary £52,500 £45,000 £40,500
% change year-on-year
+16.66% +11.11%
All Communications & Networking
Cambridge
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
348 366 474
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 18.49% 18.49% 21.73%
Number of salaries quoted 264 298 420
Average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,500 £32,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £57,500 £54,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
WCDMA
Cambridgeshire

WCDMA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge WCDMA Jobs Demand Trend

WCDMA
Salary Trend

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

Cambridge WCDMA Salary Trend

WCDMA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge region citing WCDMA 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 WCDMA.

1 26 (92.86%) GSM
1 26 (92.86%) Degree
2 22 (78.57%) Validation
3 18 (64.29%) LTE
4 16 (57.14%) GPRS
5 14 (50.00%) 3GPP
6 13 (46.43%) C
6 13 (46.43%) 3G
6 13 (46.43%) Anite
6 13 (46.43%) Software Engineering
7 11 (39.29%) 2G
8 10 (35.71%) Perl
8 10 (35.71%) Python
8 10 (35.71%) Unit Testing
8 10 (35.71%) System Testing
8 10 (35.71%) HSPA
9 6 (21.43%) Wireless
10 5 (17.86%) C++
10 5 (17.86%) VHDL
10 5 (17.86%) Verilog
10 5 (17.86%) SystemC
11 4 (14.29%) UMTS
12 3 (10.71%) Electronics
12 3 (10.71%) WiMAX
12 3 (10.71%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
13 2 (7.143%) Digital Signal Processing
13 2 (7.143%) Signal Processing
13 2 (7.143%) OFDM
13 2 (7.143%) MIMO
13 2 (7.143%) ASIC

WCDMA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge region citing WCDMA 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 WCDMA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 26 (92.86%) GSM
2 18 (64.29%) LTE
3 16 (57.14%) GPRS
4 14 (50.00%) 3GPP
5 13 (46.43%) 3G
6 11 (39.29%) 2G
7 10 (35.71%) HSPA
8 6 (21.43%) Wireless
9 4 (14.29%) UMTS
10 3 (10.71%) WiMAX
11 2 (7.143%) OFDM
11 2 (7.143%) MIMO
General
1 3 (10.71%) Electronics
2 1 (3.571%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 13 (46.43%) Software Engineer
2 12 (42.86%) Verification Engineer
3 10 (35.71%) Development Engineer
3 10 (35.71%) Senior Development Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Senior FPGA Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Senior Design Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Design Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) FPGA Design Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) FPGA Engineer
5 2 (7.143%) Principal Architect
5 2 (7.143%) Wireless Architect
5 2 (7.143%) Architect
6 1 (3.571%) DSP Software Engineer
6 1 (3.571%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (3.571%) DSP Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) VHDL
1 5 (17.86%) Verilog
1 5 (17.86%) SystemC
2 3 (10.71%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
3 2 (7.143%) ASIC
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (78.57%) Validation
2 13 (46.43%) Software Engineering
3 10 (35.71%) Unit Testing
3 10 (35.71%) System Testing
4 2 (7.143%) Digital Signal Processing
4 2 (7.143%) Signal Processing
Programming Languages
1 13 (46.43%) C
2 10 (35.71%) Perl
2 10 (35.71%) Python
3 5 (17.86%) C++
4 2 (7.143%) MATLAB
5 1 (3.571%) Embedded C
5 1 (3.571%) Assembly Language
Qualifications
1 26 (92.86%) Degree
Vendors
1 13 (46.43%) Anite