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The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Wireless skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Wireless over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Communications & Networking category for the Cambridge region.

 Wireless
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank143738
Rank change year-on-year
Up+23Up+1
Matching permanent IT job ads18482120
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge10.67 %5.427 %4.152 %
As % of the Communications & Networking category44.77 %23.16 %18.13 %
Salaries quoted1776587
Average salary£44,000£45,000£40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.220 %+12.50 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£36,000£30,000£33,400
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£55,000£56,500£51,000
UK excluding London average salary£41,500£35,000£37,500
% change year-on-year
+18.57 %-6.660 %
Cambridge IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryAll Communications & Networking
Cambridge
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
411354662
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge23.84 %23.43 %22.91 %
Salaries quoted372299534
Average salary£37,500£39,500£37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.060 %+5.330 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£27,500£26,500£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£60,000£50,000£53,750
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£35,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.140 %-
Wireless CambridgeshireWireless
Cambridgeshire

Wireless
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Wireless across the Cambridge region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Cambridge Wireless Demand Trend

Wireless
Salary Trend

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

Cambridge Wireless Salary Trend

Wireless
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Wireless across the Cambridge region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

Cambridge Wireless Salary Histogram

Wireless
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the Cambridge region citing Wireless 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 Wireless.

1148 (56.06 %)Automotive
2108 (40.91 %)Electronics
385 (32.20 %)Manufacturing
467 (25.38 %)Degree
563 (23.86 %)Multimedia
656 (21.21 %)C
738 (14.39 %)C++
833 (12.50 %)Firmware
927 (10.23 %)Software Engineering
1023 (8.712 %)Marketing
1122 (8.333 %)Embedded C
1122 (8.333 %)Assembly Language
1221 (7.955 %)Validation
1320 (7.576 %)TETRA
1417 (6.439 %)UML
1417 (6.439 %)Product Management
1516 (6.061 %)Business Development
1615 (5.682 %)Computer Science
1615 (5.682 %)Handset
1615 (5.682 %)Python
1615 (5.682 %)Embedded C++
1714 (5.303 %)Software Architecture
1714 (5.303 %)Perl
1714 (5.303 %)Mathematics
1813 (4.924 %)Wi-Fi
1813 (4.924 %)GSM
1813 (4.924 %)VoIP
1813 (4.924 %)DSL
1813 (4.924 %)LTE
1912 (4.545 %)Education

Wireless
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the Cambridge region citing Wireless 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 Wireless. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Cambridge IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
18 (3.030 %)WAP
18 (3.030 %)OpenGL
22 (0.758 %)HTML
22 (0.758 %)XML
22 (0.758 %)OpenVG
31 (0.379 %)XSLT
31 (0.379 %)Middleware
Cambridge IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
12 (0.758 %)Apache
Cambridge IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
13 (1.136 %)MS Visio
13 (1.136 %)MATLAB
Cambridge IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
120 (7.576 %)TETRA
213 (4.924 %)LTE
213 (4.924 %)GSM
213 (4.924 %)VoIP
213 (4.924 %)DSL
213 (4.924 %)Wi-Fi
310 (3.788 %)3GPP
49 (3.409 %)GPRS
58 (3.030 %)Bluetooth
67 (2.652 %)WCDMA
76 (2.273 %)OFDM
76 (2.273 %)UWB
84 (1.515 %)3G
84 (1.515 %)802.11
84 (1.515 %)LAN
84 (1.515 %)UMTS
84 (1.515 %)WLAN
93 (1.136 %)Internet
102 (0.758 %)TCP/IP
111 (0.379 %)Broadband
Cambridge IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
11 (0.379 %)MySQL
Cambridge IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
13 (1.136 %)Eclipse
22 (0.758 %)LabVIEW
22 (0.758 %)Telelogic Rhapsody
Cambridge IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1148 (56.06 %)Automotive
2108 (40.91 %)Electronics
385 (32.20 %)Manufacturing
463 (23.86 %)Multimedia
523 (8.712 %)Marketing
612 (4.545 %)Education
710 (3.788 %)Telecoms
82 (0.758 %)Construction
82 (0.758 %)Insurance
82 (0.758 %)Pensions
82 (0.758 %)Government
82 (0.758 %)Health
91 (0.379 %)Aerospace
Cambridge IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
150 (18.94 %)Architect
247 (17.80 %)Software Engineer
337 (14.02 %)Hardware Engineer
429 (10.98 %)Systems Architect
528 (10.61 %)Verification Engineer
528 (10.61 %)Hardware Verification Engineer
621 (7.955 %)Principal Engineer
718 (6.818 %)Software Architect
817 (6.439 %)Firmware Engineer
915 (5.682 %)Applications Engineer
915 (5.682 %)Design Engineer
1014 (5.303 %)Senior Firmware Engineer
1113 (4.924 %)Analyst
1211 (4.167 %)Validation Engineer
1211 (4.167 %)Senior Validation Engineer
1310 (3.788 %)Senior Software Engineer
149 (3.409 %)Embedded Software Engineer
158 (3.030 %)Hardware Design Engineer
158 (3.030 %)Product Manager
158 (3.030 %)Business Analyst
Cambridge IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
133 (12.50 %)Firmware
215 (5.682 %)Handset
215 (5.682 %)Computer Science
314 (5.303 %)Mathematics
44 (1.515 %)Physics
44 (1.515 %)Open Source
52 (0.758 %)Device Driver
61 (0.379 %)Life Science
61 (0.379 %)VHDL
61 (0.379 %)Field-Programmable Gate Array
61 (0.379 %)ASIC
Cambridge IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
14 (1.515 %)Windows
23 (1.136 %)Linux
32 (0.758 %)Windows CE
Cambridge IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
127 (10.23 %)Software Engineering
221 (7.955 %)Validation
317 (6.439 %)UML
317 (6.439 %)Product Management
416 (6.061 %)Business Development
514 (5.303 %)Software Architecture
610 (3.788 %)Requirements Analysis
79 (3.409 %)Benchmarking
87 (2.652 %)Use Case
96 (2.273 %)Project Management
96 (2.273 %)TDD
105 (1.894 %)Configuration Management
105 (1.894 %)Refactoring
105 (1.894 %)Software Testing
114 (1.515 %)Integration Testing
123 (1.136 %)IC Design
132 (0.758 %)Unit Testing
141 (0.379 %)Competitive Intelligence
141 (0.379 %)OO
141 (0.379 %)OOD
Cambridge IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
156 (21.21 %)C
238 (14.39 %)C++
322 (8.333 %)Embedded C
322 (8.333 %)Assembly Language
415 (5.682 %)Embedded C++
415 (5.682 %)Python
514 (5.303 %)Perl
65 (1.894 %)Java
72 (0.758 %)JavaScript
72 (0.758 %)C#
72 (0.758 %)SQL
81 (0.379 %)PHP
81 (0.379 %)Tcl
81 (0.379 %)Ruby
Cambridge IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
167 (25.38 %)Degree
27 (2.652 %)Security Cleared
33 (1.136 %)PhD
Cambridge IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
11 (0.379 %)QA
Cambridge IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
12 (0.758 %)Symbian
12 (0.758 %)Telelogic
21 (0.379 %)Xilinx