The first table below looks at the demand for NFC skills in IT jobs advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited NFC over the 3 months to 22 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 City of London region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Near Field Communication (NFC)
Rank 276 323 325
Rank change year-on-year
+47 +2
Permanent jobs citing NFC 37 10 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.315% 0.075% 0.013%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.739% 0.460% 0.108%
Number of salaries quoted 27 9 1
Average salary £62,500 £50,000 £70,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+25.00% -28.57%
UK excluding London average salary £52,500 £44,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year
+19.31% -23.47%
All Communications & Networking
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
2128 2176 1847
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 18.13% 16.40% 12.17%
Number of salaries quoted 1894 1957 1688
Average salary £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
90% offered a salary of more than £32,521 £33,000 £31,500
10% offered a salary of more than £72,500 £75,000 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
NFC
London

NFC
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London NFC Salary Trend

NFC
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing NFC across the City of London region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

City of London NFC Salary Histogram

NFC
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London 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 51 (96.23%) Android
2 49 (92.45%) Scrum
3 47 (88.68%) Mobile App
4 46 (86.79%) Java Card
5 37 (69.81%) Maven
5 37 (69.81%) XML
5 37 (69.81%) JSON
6 36 (67.92%) Multithreading
6 36 (67.92%) JUnit
6 36 (67.92%) OOP
6 36 (67.92%) OO
6 36 (67.92%) Google
6 36 (67.92%) MVC
7 35 (66.04%) Agile Software Development
7 35 (66.04%) Subversion
7 35 (66.04%) Ant
8 34 (64.15%) Git (software)
9 33 (62.26%) Mercurial
9 33 (62.26%) SQLite
9 33 (62.26%) Google Maps API
9 33 (62.26%) REST
9 33 (62.26%) WML
9 33 (62.26%) XHTML
10 32 (60.38%) Java
11 23 (43.40%) Apple iOS
11 23 (43.40%) Blackberry
12 22 (41.51%) Windows
12 22 (41.51%) Data Modelling
13 20 (37.74%) Objective-C
14 19 (35.85%) Windows Phone

NFC
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London 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 37 (69.81%) XML
1 37 (69.81%) JSON
2 33 (62.26%) Google Maps API
2 33 (62.26%) REST
2 33 (62.26%) WML
2 33 (62.26%) XHTML
3 17 (32.08%) iOS SDK
4 13 (24.53%) Cocoa
4 13 (24.53%) Cocoa Touch
5 12 (22.64%) Java ME
6 10 (18.87%) Sencha Touch
6 10 (18.87%) MonoTouch
7 4 (7.547%) .NET
8 3 (5.660%) HTML5
9 2 (3.774%) jQuery
9 2 (3.774%) LINQ
9 2 (3.774%) Bing Maps
9 2 (3.774%) UIKit
9 2 (3.774%) Worklight
9 2 (3.774%) .NET Compact Framework
Application Platforms
1 2 (3.774%) IIS
2 1 (1.887%) Confluence
2 1 (1.887%) Google App Engine
Applications
1 1 (1.887%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.887%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.887%) Firewall
1 1 (1.887%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (62.26%) SQLite
2 1 (1.887%) MySQL
2 1 (1.887%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 37 (69.81%) Maven
2 36 (67.92%) JUnit
3 35 (66.04%) Subversion
3 35 (66.04%) Ant
4 34 (64.15%) Git (software)
5 33 (62.26%) Mercurial
6 15 (28.30%) Eclipse
7 12 (22.64%) Xcode
8 10 (18.87%) Jenkins
8 10 (18.87%) Hudson
9 7 (13.21%) Gerrit
10 3 (5.660%) PhoneGap
11 2 (3.774%) MSBuild
12 1 (1.887%) MonkeyTalk
12 1 (1.887%) Appcelerator Titanium
12 1 (1.887%) Team Foundation Server
12 1 (1.887%) JIRA
General
1 4 (7.547%) Finance
2 2 (3.774%) Telecoms
2 2 (3.774%) Retail
2 2 (3.774%) Games
2 2 (3.774%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 38 (71.70%) Developer
2 26 (49.06%) Senior Developer
2 26 (49.06%) Android Developer
3 10 (18.87%) iOS Developer
3 10 (18.87%) Senior iOS Developer
4 2 (3.774%) Mobile Developer
4 2 (3.774%) Development Manager
4 2 (3.774%) Technical Leader
5 1 (1.887%) Business Manager
5 1 (1.887%) Analyst
5 1 (1.887%) Test Analyst
5 1 (1.887%) Business Development Manager
5 1 (1.887%) Team Leader
5 1 (1.887%) Technical Team Leader
5 1 (1.887%) Agile Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 47 (88.68%) Mobile App
2 46 (86.79%) Java Card
3 23 (43.40%) Blackberry
4 13 (24.53%) iPhone
5 10 (18.87%) N-Tier
5 10 (18.87%) Cryptography
6 6 (11.32%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.887%) 3D Graphics
7 1 (1.887%) EMV
7 1 (1.887%) W3C
7 1 (1.887%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 51 (96.23%) Android
2 23 (43.40%) Apple iOS
3 22 (41.51%) Windows
4 19 (35.85%) Windows Phone
5 2 (3.774%) Windows Phone 8
5 2 (3.774%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (92.45%) Scrum
2 36 (67.92%) Multithreading
2 36 (67.92%) OOP
2 36 (67.92%) OO
2 36 (67.92%) MVC
3 35 (66.04%) Agile Software Development
4 22 (41.51%) Data Modelling
5 14 (26.42%) TDD
6 12 (22.64%) SOA
7 11 (20.75%) Mobile Application Development
8 10 (18.87%) Continuous Integration
9 3 (5.660%) E-Commerce
9 3 (5.660%) OWASP
10 2 (3.774%) MVVM
10 2 (3.774%) UML
11 1 (1.887%) Business Development
11 1 (1.887%) Automated Testing
11 1 (1.887%) Automation Testing
11 1 (1.887%) Analytics
11 1 (1.887%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 32 (60.38%) Java
2 20 (37.74%) Objective-C
3 5 (9.434%) C#
4 4 (7.547%) C++
5 3 (5.660%) SQL
5 3 (5.660%) C
6 2 (3.774%) XAML
7 1 (1.887%) GLSL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.660%) QA
2 1 (1.887%) ISO/IEC 14443
2 1 (1.887%) ISO/IEC 7816
Vendors
1 36 (67.92%) Google
2 10 (18.87%) Sencha
2 10 (18.87%) Apple
3 2 (3.774%) hybris
3 2 (3.774%) Endeca
4 1 (1.887%) Omniture
4 1 (1.887%) TIBCO
4 1 (1.887%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.887%) Adobe
4 1 (1.887%) Appcelerator
4 1 (1.887%) Facebook
4 1 (1.887%) Twitter
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