The first table below looks at the demand for NFC skills in IT jobs advertised for the England 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 England region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Near Field Communication (NFC)
Rank 740 808 849
Rank change year-on-year
+68 +41
Permanent jobs citing NFC 90 55 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 0.089% 0.048% 0.009%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.456% 0.275% 0.054%
Number of salaries quoted 63 45 8
Average salary £62,500 £50,000 £57,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+25.00% -13.04%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,500 £33,500 £47,450
10% offered a salary of more than £80,000 £75,000 £61,250
UK excluding London average salary £52,500 £45,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year
+16.66% -21.73%
All Communications & Networking
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
19754 20019 18514
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 19.59% 17.62% 15.84%
Number of salaries quoted 16094 16857 15453
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £27,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
NFC
UK

NFC
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England 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 England region.

England NFC Salary Trend

NFC
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing NFC across the England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

England NFC Salary Histogram

NFC
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NFC within the England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
London +59 60 £66,250 +32.50%
South East +8 14 £52,500 -2.32%
North West +6 4 £26,500 -64.66%
East Midlands +3 3 £26,500 -64.66%
Yorkshire - 1 £85,000 -
NFC
UK

NFC
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the England 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 73 (37.82%) Java
2 72 (37.31%) Android
3 66 (34.20%) Mobile Payment
4 62 (32.12%) Scrum
5 60 (31.09%) Smartcard
6 56 (29.02%) Mobile App
7 52 (26.94%) Banking
8 51 (26.42%) Cryptography
9 50 (25.91%) Degree
10 48 (24.87%) Java Card
11 47 (24.35%) Finance
12 46 (23.83%) Telecoms
12 46 (23.83%) EMV
13 40 (20.73%) Windows
13 40 (20.73%) Technical Architecture
14 38 (19.69%) Retail
14 38 (19.69%) Apple iOS
15 37 (19.17%) Agile Software Development
15 37 (19.17%) E-Commerce
16 36 (18.65%) XML
16 36 (18.65%) MVC
16 36 (18.65%) Maven
16 36 (18.65%) JSON
16 36 (18.65%) Windows Phone
17 35 (18.13%) Google
17 35 (18.13%) Multithreading
17 35 (18.13%) OOP
17 35 (18.13%) OO
17 35 (18.13%) JUnit
18 34 (17.62%) Ant

NFC
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the England 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 36 (18.65%) XML
1 36 (18.65%) JSON
2 32 (16.58%) Google Maps API
2 32 (16.58%) REST
2 32 (16.58%) XHTML
2 32 (16.58%) WML
3 21 (10.88%) Web Services
4 19 (9.845%) HTML5
5 18 (9.326%) .NET
6 17 (8.808%) jQuery
7 16 (8.290%) iOS SDK
8 13 (6.736%) Cocoa Touch
8 13 (6.736%) Django
8 13 (6.736%) Cocoa
9 12 (6.218%) CSS
10 11 (5.699%) Java ME
11 10 (5.181%) MonoTouch
11 10 (5.181%) Sencha Touch
12 9 (4.663%) Flash
13 8 (4.145%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 2 (1.036%) IIS
2 1 (0.518%) Google App Engine
2 1 (0.518%) Confluence
Applications
1 11 (5.699%) Spreadsheet
2 3 (1.554%) MS Excel
3 1 (0.518%) MS Project
3 1 (0.518%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.518%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 14 (7.254%) Internet
2 13 (6.736%) VPN
3 12 (6.218%) Wireless
4 9 (4.663%) HTTP
5 6 (3.109%) Bluetooth
5 6 (3.109%) GPRS
5 6 (3.109%) GSM
5 6 (3.109%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (2.591%) UMTS
6 5 (2.591%) VoIP
6 5 (2.591%) WLAN
6 5 (2.591%) DVB
6 5 (2.591%) RFID
7 3 (1.554%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.518%) TETRA
8 1 (0.518%) LTE
8 1 (0.518%) Firewall
8 1 (0.518%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.518%) SMS
8 1 (0.518%) 3GPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (16.58%) SQLite
2 3 (1.554%) CouchDB
3 1 (0.518%) MySQL
3 1 (0.518%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 36 (18.65%) Maven
2 35 (18.13%) JUnit
3 34 (17.62%) Ant
3 34 (17.62%) Subversion
4 33 (17.10%) Git (software)
5 32 (16.58%) Mercurial
6 14 (7.254%) Eclipse
7 12 (6.218%) Xcode
8 9 (4.663%) Hudson
8 9 (4.663%) Jenkins
9 6 (3.109%) Gerrit
9 6 (3.109%) PhoneGap
10 2 (1.036%) MSBuild
11 1 (0.518%) MonkeyTalk
11 1 (0.518%) Appcelerator Titanium
11 1 (0.518%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (0.518%) JIRA
General
1 52 (26.94%) Banking
2 47 (24.35%) Finance
3 46 (23.83%) Telecoms
4 38 (19.69%) Retail
5 22 (11.40%) Electronics
6 7 (3.627%) Marketing
7 5 (2.591%) Multimedia
8 4 (2.073%) Retail Banking
8 4 (2.073%) Games
9 2 (1.036%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.518%) Back Office
10 1 (0.518%) Automotive
10 1 (0.518%) Legal
10 1 (0.518%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.518%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 63 (32.64%) Developer
2 50 (25.91%) Consultant
3 33 (17.10%) Senior Developer
4 26 (13.47%) Android Developer
5 22 (11.40%) Senior Consultant
6 20 (10.36%) Technical Consultant
7 19 (9.845%) Architect
8 14 (7.254%) Technical Architect
9 13 (6.736%) Software Engineer
9 13 (6.736%) Graduate
9 13 (6.736%) EMV Consultant
10 12 (6.218%) Java Developer
11 11 (5.699%) Programme Manager
11 11 (5.699%) Solutions Consultant
12 10 (5.181%) iOS Developer
12 10 (5.181%) Senior iOS Developer
12 10 (5.181%) Senior Technical Consultant
12 10 (5.181%) PHP Developer
13 8 (4.145%) Project Manager
14 7 (3.627%) Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 66 (34.20%) Mobile Payment
2 60 (31.09%) Smartcard
3 56 (29.02%) Mobile App
4 51 (26.42%) Cryptography
5 48 (24.87%) Java Card
6 46 (23.83%) EMV
7 34 (17.62%) Computer Science
8 25 (12.95%) Blackberry
9 24 (12.44%) Mobile Banking
10 21 (10.88%) Chip and PIN
11 18 (9.326%) iPhone
12 17 (8.808%) Digital Media
13 16 (8.290%) Biometrics
14 14 (7.254%) Chip Card
14 14 (7.254%) Mathematics
15 11 (5.699%) DTV
16 10 (5.181%) N-Tier
17 9 (4.663%) Management Information System
18 6 (3.109%) Device Driver
19 5 (2.591%) Speech Recognition
Operating Systems
1 72 (37.31%) Android
2 40 (20.73%) Windows
3 38 (19.69%) Apple iOS
4 36 (18.65%) Windows Phone
5 18 (9.326%) Windows Phone 7
6 7 (3.627%) Windows Phone 8
6 7 (3.627%) Windows Mobile
7 6 (3.109%) Linux
8 5 (2.591%) Nucleus RTOS
8 5 (2.591%) Windows 8
8 5 (2.591%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (32.12%) Scrum
2 40 (20.73%) Technical Architecture
3 37 (19.17%) Agile Software Development
3 37 (19.17%) E-Commerce
4 36 (18.65%) MVC
5 35 (18.13%) OOP
5 35 (18.13%) OO
5 35 (18.13%) Multithreading
6 34 (17.62%) Data Modelling
7 29 (15.03%) Identity Management
8 28 (14.51%) Integration Testing
9 26 (13.47%) Risk Analysis
10 14 (7.254%) Web Development
10 14 (7.254%) TDD
10 14 (7.254%) Project Management
11 13 (6.736%) Cyber Security
12 12 (6.218%) Mobile Application Development
12 12 (6.218%) SOA
13 11 (5.699%) Mobile Commerce
14 10 (5.181%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 73 (37.82%) Java
2 33 (17.10%) Objective-C
3 28 (14.51%) C++
4 26 (13.47%) JavaScript
5 22 (11.40%) C#
6 18 (9.326%) Python
7 16 (8.290%) PHP
8 15 (7.772%) XAML
8 15 (7.772%) Bash shell
9 13 (6.736%) C
10 4 (2.073%) SQL
10 4 (2.073%) ActionScript
11 3 (1.554%) Perl
12 1 (0.518%) Embedded C
12 1 (0.518%) Embedded C++
12 1 (0.518%) GLSL
12 1 (0.518%) PHP5
Qualifications
1 50 (25.91%) Degree
2 13 (6.736%) PhD
3 3 (1.554%) CISSP
3 3 (1.554%) PMI Certification
3 3 (1.554%) CISA
3 3 (1.554%) CISM
4 1 (0.518%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (9.845%) QA
2 10 (5.181%) ISO 8583
3 2 (1.036%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.036%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.518%) ISO/IEC 14443
4 1 (0.518%) ISO/IEC 7816
4 1 (0.518%) SLA
Vendors
1 35 (18.13%) Google
2 16 (8.290%) Facebook
3 10 (5.181%) Sencha
3 10 (5.181%) Hyperion
4 9 (4.663%) Apple
5 4 (2.073%) Microsoft
5 4 (2.073%) VocaLink
6 3 (1.554%) Syclo
6 3 (1.554%) Sybase
6 3 (1.554%) SAP
7 2 (1.036%) Symbian
7 2 (1.036%) Endeca
7 2 (1.036%) hybris
8 1 (0.518%) Appcelerator
8 1 (0.518%) Twitter
8 1 (0.518%) Adobe
8 1 (0.518%) EMC
8 1 (0.518%) TIBCO
8 1 (0.518%) Omniture
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