Cambridgeshire Firmware Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Firmware skills within the Cambridgeshire 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 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chesterfield Chippenham Cirencester City of London Colchester Crewe Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon 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 Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Livingston London Luton Manchester Milton Keynes Newbury Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Poole Reading Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stevenage Stockport Suffolk Surrey Swindon Thames Valley UK Wakefield Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	129	106
Rank change on same period last year	-23
Matching permanent IT job ads	19	54
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.011 %	0.023 %
As % of the category below	2.186 %	5.075 %
Salaries quoted	19	42
Average minimum salary	£28,579	£33,476
Average salary	£32,079	£37,274
% change on same period last year	-13.93 %
Average maximum salary	£35,579	£41,071
UK excluding London average salary	£35,938	£36,009
% change on same period last year	-0.19 %
Miscellaneous Cambridgeshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	869	1064
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.503 %	0.458 %
Salaries quoted	726	818
Average minimum salary	£36,140	£35,487
Average salary	£40,149	£38,972
% change on same period last year	+3.01 %
Average maximum salary	£44,158	£42,457
UK excluding London average salary	£37,701	£39,528
% change on same period last year	-4.62 %
Firmware East of England

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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 Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Firmware across the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

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Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firmware within the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Cambridge	-24	14	£31,929	-15.77 %

Firmware East of England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 24 (42.86 %) Degree 2 21 (37.50 %) C++ 3 19 (33.93 %) Electronics 4 17 (30.36 %) Windows 4 17 (30.36 %) Assembly Language 5 16 (28.57 %) C 5 16 (28.57 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array 6 14 (25.00 %) Wireless 7 13 (23.21 %) Perl 7 13 (23.21 %) PHP 7 13 (23.21 %) Python 8 12 (21.43 %) DTV 8 12 (21.43 %) Internet 9 11 (19.64 %) Broadband 10 10 (17.86 %) ISEB

10 10 (17.86 %) Manufacturing 10 10 (17.86 %) UWB 11 9 (16.07 %) Device Driver 12 8 (14.29 %) VHDL 13 7 (12.50 %) LabVIEW 13 7 (12.50 %) MATLAB 13 7 (12.50 %) VB 13 7 (12.50 %) C# 14 6 (10.71 %) Automotive 14 6 (10.71 %) Xilinx 15 5 (8.929 %) Linux 15 5 (8.929 %) Bluetooth 16 4 (7.143 %) Java 17 3 (5.357 %) Wi-Fi 17 3 (5.357 %) STB

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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.

Application Development 1 3 (5.357 %) XML 2 2 (3.571 %) ATL 2 2 (3.571 %) COM 3 1 (1.786 %) HTML 3 1 (1.786 %) .NET 3 1 (1.786 %) J2EE 3 1 (1.786 %) Middleware 3 1 (1.786 %) Ruby on Rails 3 1 (1.786 %) WDF	Applications 1 7 (12.50 %) MATLAB 2 2 (3.571 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 14 (25.00 %) Wireless 2 12 (21.43 %) Internet 3 11 (19.64 %) Broadband 4 10 (17.86 %) UWB 5 5 (8.929 %) Bluetooth 6 3 (5.357 %) Wi-Fi 7 2 (3.571 %) 802.11 7 2 (3.571 %) WLAN 8 1 (1.786 %) WCDMA 8 1 (1.786 %) UMTS 8 1 (1.786 %) 3G	Development Applications 1 7 (12.50 %) LabVIEW 2 1 (1.786 %) Visual Studio
General 1 19 (33.93 %) Electronics 2 10 (17.86 %) Manufacturing 3 6 (10.71 %) Automotive 4 1 (1.786 %) Chemicals 4 1 (1.786 %) Health 4 1 (1.786 %) Marketing	Job Titles 1 21 (37.50 %) Software Engineer 1 21 (37.50 %) Test Engineer 2 13 (23.21 %) Software Test Engineer 3 10 (17.86 %) Hardware Engineer 4 8 (14.29 %) Test Development Engineer 5 6 (10.71 %) Developer 6 4 (7.143 %) Software Developer 7 3 (5.357 %) Author 7 3 (5.357 %) Technical Author 8 2 (3.571 %) Junior 8 2 (3.571 %) Project Manager 8 2 (3.571 %) Tester 8 2 (3.571 %) Junior Developer 8 2 (3.571 %) Software Tester 9 1 (1.786 %) Embedded Software Engineer 9 1 (1.786 %) Graduate Developer 9 1 (1.786 %) Graduate 9 1 (1.786 %) Systems Engineer 9 1 (1.786 %) Senior Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 16 (28.57 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array 2 12 (21.43 %) DTV 3 9 (16.07 %) Device Driver 4 8 (14.29 %) VHDL 5 3 (5.357 %) STB 6 2 (3.571 %) Computer Science 7 1 (1.786 %) Mathematics 7 1 (1.786 %) Physics 7 1 (1.786 %) Verilog	Operating Systems 1 17 (30.36 %) Windows 2 5 (8.929 %) Linux 3 2 (3.571 %) Windows CE 3 2 (3.571 %) UNIX 4 1 (1.786 %) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (5.357 %) OO 1 3 (5.357 %) Content Management 1 3 (5.357 %) Test Scripting 1 3 (5.357 %) System Testing 2 2 (3.571 %) UML 2 2 (3.571 %) Software Engineering 2 2 (3.571 %) OOD 3 1 (1.786 %) Automated Testing 3 1 (1.786 %) Web Development 3 1 (1.786 %) Manual Testing	Programming Languages 1 21 (37.50 %) C++ 2 17 (30.36 %) Assembly Language 3 16 (28.57 %) C 4 13 (23.21 %) Perl 4 13 (23.21 %) PHP 4 13 (23.21 %) Python 5 7 (12.50 %) VB 5 7 (12.50 %) C# 6 4 (7.143 %) Java 7 1 (1.786 %) JavaScript 7 1 (1.786 %) Embedded C 7 1 (1.786 %) Objective-C 7 1 (1.786 %) Ruby
Qualifications 1 24 (42.86 %) Degree 2 10 (17.86 %) ISEB 3 1 (1.786 %) PhD	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (3.571 %) ISO9000 2 1 (1.786 %) QA
Vendors 1 6 (10.71 %) Xilinx 2 3 (5.357 %) Microsoft