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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Near Field Communication (NFC)
Rank - - -
Permanent jobs citing NFC 0 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire - - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category - - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Average salary - - -
UK excluding London average salary £52,500 £45,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year
+16.66% -21.73%
All Communications & Networking
Cheshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
405 242 299
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 22.64% 12.56% 18.04%
Number of salaries quoted 307 219 249
Average salary £32,000 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-8.57% -
90% offered a salary of more than £22,000 £24,000 £27,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £44,800 £60,500
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
NFC
North West

NFC
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire NFC Salary Trend

NFC
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 5 (100.00%) C
1 5 (100.00%) C++
1 5 (100.00%) Java
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
1 5 (100.00%) Flash
1 5 (100.00%) J2ME
1 5 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 5 (100.00%) Bluetooth
1 5 (100.00%) GPRS
1 5 (100.00%) GSM
1 5 (100.00%) MPEG
1 5 (100.00%) UMTS
1 5 (100.00%) VoIP
1 5 (100.00%) WLAN
1 5 (100.00%) SVG
1 5 (100.00%) OpenGL
1 5 (100.00%) Middleware
1 5 (100.00%) Mobile Commerce
1 5 (100.00%) DRM
1 5 (100.00%) DVB
1 5 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
1 5 (100.00%) Electronics
1 5 (100.00%) Device Driver
1 5 (100.00%) Multimedia
1 5 (100.00%) Speech Recognition
1 5 (100.00%) BREW
1 5 (100.00%) Windows Mobile
1 5 (100.00%) Nucleus RTOS
1 5 (100.00%) Android

NFC
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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.

Application Development
1 5 (100.00%) Flash
1 5 (100.00%) J2ME
1 5 (100.00%) SVG
1 5 (100.00%) OpenGL
1 5 (100.00%) Middleware
1 5 (100.00%) BREW
1 5 (100.00%) Qt
1 5 (100.00%) OpenAL
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) Bluetooth
1 5 (100.00%) GPRS
1 5 (100.00%) GSM
1 5 (100.00%) UMTS
1 5 (100.00%) VoIP
1 5 (100.00%) WLAN
1 5 (100.00%) DVB
1 5 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 5 (100.00%) Electronics
1 5 (100.00%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Software Developer
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) MPEG
1 5 (100.00%) Device Driver
1 5 (100.00%) Speech Recognition
1 5 (100.00%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
1 5 (100.00%) Windows Mobile
1 5 (100.00%) Nucleus RTOS
1 5 (100.00%) Android
1 5 (100.00%) Windows 7
1 5 (100.00%) Windows Phone 7
1 5 (100.00%) Windows 8
1 5 (100.00%) Windows Phone 8
1 5 (100.00%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 5 (100.00%) Mobile Commerce
1 5 (100.00%) DRM
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) C
1 5 (100.00%) C++
1 5 (100.00%) Java