City of London WAP Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) skills within the City of London region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WAP over the last 3 months to 15 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Wireless Application Protocol (WAP)
Location Altrincham Berkshire Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheshire City of London Derby Derbyshire Dorking Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Ipswich Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds London Manchester Middlesex Norfolk North West North Yorkshire Northwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Poole Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Scotland Slough South East South Wales South West Stevenage Suffolk Surrey Thames Valley UK Wales West Midlands West Yorkshire Windsor York Yorkshire	3 months to 15 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	351	299
Rank change on same period last year	-52
Matching permanent IT job ads	14	25
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.007 %	0.011 %
As % of the category below	0.199 %	0.438 %
Salaries quoted	14	24
Average minimum salary	£44,857	£38,542
Average salary	£47,786	£39,687
% change on same period last year	+20.40 %
Average maximum salary	£50,714	£40,833
UK excluding London average salary	£38,869	£37,494
% change on same period last year	+3.66 %
Application Development City of London
Matching permanent IT job ads	7020	5707
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	3.439 %	2.527 %
Salaries quoted	6073	4643
Average minimum salary	£46,307	£48,888
Average salary	£51,655	£53,753
% change on same period last year	-3.90 %
Average maximum salary	£57,002	£58,619
UK excluding London average salary	£35,968	£36,644
% change on same period last year	-1.84 %
WAP London

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of permanent IT jobs ads citing WAP across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

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Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs ads citing WAP across the City of London region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing WAP across the City of London region over the past 3 months.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the City of London region citing WAP also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing WAP.

1 13 (68.42 %) Java 2 12 (63.16 %) Apache 3 11 (57.89 %) Solaris 3 11 (57.89 %) Perl 3 11 (57.89 %) PHP 3 11 (57.89 %) MySQL 3 11 (57.89 %) TCP/IP 3 11 (57.89 %) Firewall 4 10 (52.63 %) VMware 4 10 (52.63 %) Clustering 4 10 (52.63 %) Ruby 4 10 (52.63 %) Squid 4 10 (52.63 %) Load Balancing 4 10 (52.63 %) DNS 4 10 (52.63 %) Python

4 10 (52.63 %) LDAP 4 10 (52.63 %) DHCP 4 10 (52.63 %) FTP 4 10 (52.63 %) HTTP 4 10 (52.63 %) Linux 5 9 (47.37 %) Unix 6 8 (42.11 %) Telecoms 6 8 (42.11 %) Oracle 6 8 (42.11 %) Internet 6 8 (42.11 %) RDBMS 7 4 (21.05 %) J2EE 8 2 (10.53 %) Windows 8 2 (10.53 %) Tomcat 8 2 (10.53 %) Eclipse 8 2 (10.53 %) SMS

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the City of London region citing WAP also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing WAP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 4 (21.05 %) J2EE 2 2 (10.53 %) J2SE 2 2 (10.53 %) AJAX 3 1 (5.263 %) HTML 3 1 (5.263 %) SyncML 3 1 (5.263 %) LAMP 3 1 (5.263 %) MIDP 3 1 (5.263 %) CSS 3 1 (5.263 %) XML 3 1 (5.263 %) XHTML 3 1 (5.263 %) J2ME	Application Platforms 1 12 (63.16 %) Apache 2 2 (10.53 %) Tomcat
Applications 1 1 (5.263 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 11 (57.89 %) TCP/IP 1 11 (57.89 %) Firewall 2 10 (52.63 %) DNS 2 10 (52.63 %) LDAP 2 10 (52.63 %) DHCP 2 10 (52.63 %) FTP 2 10 (52.63 %) HTTP 3 8 (42.11 %) Internet 4 2 (10.53 %) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 11 (57.89 %) MySQL 2 8 (42.11 %) RDBMS	Development Applications 1 2 (10.53 %) Eclipse
General 1 8 (42.11 %) Telecoms	Job Titles 1 14 (73.68 %) Developer 2 9 (47.37 %) PHP Developer 3 8 (42.11 %) Python Developer 3 8 (42.11 %) Ruby Developer 3 8 (42.11 %) Perl Developer 4 2 (10.53 %) Java Developer 4 2 (10.53 %) Senior Developer 4 2 (10.53 %) Senior Java Developer 4 2 (10.53 %) Web Editor 5 1 (5.263 %) Senior Network Specialist 5 1 (5.263 %) Network Specialist 5 1 (5.263 %) Business Analyst 5 1 (5.263 %) Principle Engineer 5 1 (5.263 %) Analyst 5 1 (5.263 %) Network Engineer 5 1 (5.263 %) Senior Network Engineer 5 1 (5.263 %) Server Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 10 (52.63 %) Clustering 2 2 (10.53 %) Social Network	Operating Systems 1 11 (57.89 %) Solaris 2 10 (52.63 %) Linux 3 9 (47.37 %) Unix 4 2 (10.53 %) Windows 5 1 (5.263 %) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (52.63 %) Load Balancing 2 2 (10.53 %) Agile Software Development 3 1 (5.263 %) Business Analysis 3 1 (5.263 %) Use Case 3 1 (5.263 %) Disaster Recovery	Programming Languages 1 13 (68.42 %) Java 2 11 (57.89 %) Perl 2 11 (57.89 %) PHP 3 10 (52.63 %) Python 3 10 (52.63 %) Ruby 4 1 (5.263 %) C++
Qualifications 1 1 (5.263 %) Degree	System Software 1 10 (52.63 %) Squid
Vendors 1 10 (52.63 %) VMware 2 8 (42.11 %) Oracle 3 1 (5.263 %) Cisco