The first table below looks at the demand for NFC skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cambridgeshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited NFC over the 3 months to 20 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Near Field Communication (NFC)
Rank - 152 -
Permanent jobs citing NFC 0 2 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire - 0.070% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category - 0.383% -
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 0
Average salary - £42,500 -
UK excluding London average salary £52,500 £45,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year
+16.66% -21.73%
All Communications & Networking
Cambridgeshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
463 522 651
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 17.74% 18.30% 21.88%
Number of salaries quoted 363 439 565
Average salary £37,500 £40,000 £36,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.25% +9.58%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £29,500
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%
NFC
East of England

NFC
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridgeshire NFC Jobs Demand Trend

NFC
Salary Trend

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

Cambridgeshire NFC Salary Trend

NFC
Top 9 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridgeshire region citing NFC 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 NFC.

1 1 (100.00%) Bluetooth
1 1 (100.00%) EMC
1 1 (100.00%) RFID
1 1 (100.00%) Electronics
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
1 1 (100.00%) Automotive
1 1 (100.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (100.00%) TETRA
1 1 (100.00%) Supplier Management

NFC
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Bluetooth
1 1 (100.00%) RFID
1 1 (100.00%) TETRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Electronics
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
1 1 (100.00%) Automotive
1 1 (100.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Design Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Electronics Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Supplier Management
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) EMC
Cambridge, East Anglia
Cambridge, to c£40,000 + Benefits.Our client is a dedicated engineering team based in Cambridge, designing and developing software for UWB / NFC solutions... They are looking to...
ECM Selection Ltd
Salary: to £40k + benefits
Posted: 9 May 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Requirement specification: - Degree qualified; likely to have MSc / PhD in maths / science / computing / engineering / electronics from a top university. - Commercial experience with a range of wireless communication technologies (...
ECM Selection Ltd
Salary: to c£65,000 + Bens. + Reloc.
Posted: 17 May 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Experience using Matlab... Familiar with the usage of wireless communication protocols such as Bluetooth, UWB, Wi-Fi, NFC... Keywords: Senior, DSP, Software, Engineer, Perl, Python, Matlab, C++, Analogue,...
MJH Personnel Associates
Salary: Excellent + bens
Posted: 16 May 2013