The first table below looks at the demand for WAP skills in IT jobs advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WAP over the 3 months to 24 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 Application Development category for the England region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Wireless Application Protocol (WAP)
Rank 824 850 786
Rank change year-on-year
+26 -64
Permanent jobs citing WAP 17 16 64
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 0.017% 0.014% 0.054%
As % of the Application Development category 0.041% 0.033% 0.134%
Number of salaries quoted 17 14 58
Average salary £40,000 £42,500 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.88% +30.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £31,500 £40,000 £29,500
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £55,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,375 £50,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
-25.25% +53.84%
All Application Development
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
41278 47846 47649
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 40.81% 42.21% 40.45%
Number of salaries quoted 36239 42684 42303
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £28,000 £28,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
WAP
UK

WAP
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing WAP across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

England WAP Jobs Demand Trend

WAP
Salary Trend

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

England WAP Salary Trend

WAP
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing WAP across the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

England WAP Salary Histogram

WAP
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WAP within the England region over the 3 months to 24 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
South East +8 6 £50,000 -
East of England +7 6 £32,500 -18.75%
London +51 5 £44,000 +3.52%
WAP
UK

WAP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the England region citing WAP 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 WAP.

1 16 (41.03%) Internet
2 14 (35.90%) XML
3 13 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 12 (30.77%) Project Management
5 11 (28.21%) Wireless
5 11 (28.21%) Telecoms
5 11 (28.21%) iPhone
6 9 (23.08%) Android
6 9 (23.08%) SQL Server
6 9 (23.08%) ITIL
6 9 (23.08%) Web Services
6 9 (23.08%) Windows
7 8 (20.51%) SQL
8 7 (17.95%) .NET
8 7 (17.95%) Linux
8 7 (17.95%) E-Commerce
8 7 (17.95%) WLAN
8 7 (17.95%) HTTP
8 7 (17.95%) Stakeholder Management
8 7 (17.95%) Use Case
8 7 (17.95%) Mobile App
9 6 (15.38%) Waterfall
9 6 (15.38%) Selenium
9 6 (15.38%) Retail
9 6 (15.38%) JSON
9 6 (15.38%) WEP
9 6 (15.38%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (15.38%) SSH
9 6 (15.38%) Microsoft
9 6 (15.38%) Systems Management Server (SMS)

WAP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the England region citing WAP 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 WAP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 14 (35.90%) XML
2 9 (23.08%) Web Services
3 7 (17.95%) .NET
4 6 (15.38%) JSON
4 6 (15.38%) SOAP
4 6 (15.38%) ASP.NET
5 5 (12.82%) XHTML
5 5 (12.82%) soapUI
6 4 (10.26%) HTML5
6 4 (10.26%) WCF
6 4 (10.26%) CSS
6 4 (10.26%) HTML
7 2 (5.128%) REST
7 2 (5.128%) Sencha Touch
7 2 (5.128%) jQuery
7 2 (5.128%) Flash
8 1 (2.564%) Middleware
8 1 (2.564%) SyncML
Application Platforms
1 1 (2.564%) MS Exchange
1 1 (2.564%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (7.692%) MS Office
1 3 (7.692%) MS Excel
2 2 (5.128%) MS PowerPoint
2 2 (5.128%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (5.128%) MS Visio
2 2 (5.128%) Photoshop
2 2 (5.128%) MS Project
3 1 (2.564%) Office 365
Business Applications
1 1 (2.564%) Sage 200
Communications & Networking
1 16 (41.03%) Internet
2 11 (28.21%) Wireless
3 7 (17.95%) WLAN
3 7 (17.95%) HTTP
4 6 (15.38%) WEP
4 6 (15.38%) Wi-Fi
4 6 (15.38%) SSH
5 5 (12.82%) TCP/IP
5 5 (12.82%) GPRS
6 4 (10.26%) ADSL
7 2 (5.128%) CDMA
7 2 (5.128%) GSM
8 1 (2.564%) DNS
8 1 (2.564%) VPN
8 1 (2.564%) SMS
8 1 (2.564%) Kerberos
8 1 (2.564%) FTP
8 1 (2.564%) SMPP
8 1 (2.564%) 3G
8 1 (2.564%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (23.08%) SQL Server
2 4 (10.26%) MySQL
3 1 (2.564%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 6 (15.38%) Selenium
2 5 (12.82%) JUnit
2 5 (12.82%) JMeter
2 5 (12.82%) Hudson
2 5 (12.82%) Jenkins
2 5 (12.82%) WebDriver
3 4 (10.26%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (5.128%) Dreamweaver
General
1 11 (28.21%) Telecoms
2 6 (15.38%) Retail
3 5 (12.82%) Finance
4 4 (10.26%) Marketing
4 4 (10.26%) Banking
5 3 (7.692%) Games
5 3 (7.692%) Billing
6 1 (2.564%) Russian Language
Job Titles
1 6 (15.38%) Project Manager
2 4 (10.26%) Incident Manager
2 4 (10.26%) Senior Tester
2 4 (10.26%) Product Manager
2 4 (10.26%) Tester
2 4 (10.26%) Architect
2 4 (10.26%) Support Engineer
3 3 (7.692%) Risk Manager
3 3 (7.692%) Performance Tester
3 3 (7.692%) IT Risk Manager
3 3 (7.692%) Security Manager
3 3 (7.692%) Senior Performance Tester
3 3 (7.692%) Designer
4 2 (5.128%) Wireless Engineer
4 2 (5.128%) RF Engineer
4 2 (5.128%) Web Designer
4 2 (5.128%) Technical Support
5 1 (2.564%) Administrator
5 1 (2.564%) Software Engineer
5 1 (2.564%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (28.21%) iPhone
2 7 (17.95%) Mobile App
3 4 (10.26%) Computer Science
3 4 (10.26%) Management Information System
3 4 (10.26%) Streaming Video
4 2 (5.128%) Mobile Payment
5 1 (2.564%) Wiki
5 1 (2.564%) Social Network
5 1 (2.564%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 9 (23.08%) Android
1 9 (23.08%) Windows
2 7 (17.95%) Linux
3 5 (12.82%) Apple iOS
4 3 (7.692%) UNIX
5 2 (5.128%) Windows 7
5 2 (5.128%) Windows 8
6 1 (2.564%) Mac OS X
6 1 (2.564%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (30.77%) Project Management
2 9 (23.08%) ITIL
3 7 (17.95%) E-Commerce
3 7 (17.95%) Stakeholder Management
3 7 (17.95%) Use Case
4 6 (15.38%) Waterfall
5 5 (12.82%) TDD
5 5 (12.82%) Web Development
5 5 (12.82%) Software Testing
5 5 (12.82%) User Acceptance Testing
5 5 (12.82%) Continuous Integration
5 5 (12.82%) BDD
6 4 (10.26%) Stress Testing
6 4 (10.26%) Change Control
6 4 (10.26%) Multithreading
6 4 (10.26%) Resource Management
6 4 (10.26%) Incident Management
6 4 (10.26%) Project Planning
6 4 (10.26%) MVC
6 4 (10.26%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 13 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 8 (20.51%) SQL
3 6 (15.38%) Java
4 4 (10.26%) VBScript
4 4 (10.26%) PHP
4 4 (10.26%) C#
5 2 (5.128%) VB
6 1 (2.564%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 4 (10.26%) Degree
2 1 (2.564%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.564%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.564%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.564%) NFS
Systems Management
1 6 (15.38%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 6 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.26%) Fiserv
3 2 (5.128%) Sencha
3 2 (5.128%) Adobe
4 1 (2.564%) Ericsson
4 1 (2.564%) Sage
4 1 (2.564%) Oracle