The first table below looks at the demand for Windows Phone 8 skills in IT jobs advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Windows Phone 8 over the 3 months to 21 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 Operating Systems category for the England region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows Phone 8 (WinPhone8, WP8)
Rank 805 855 -
Rank change year-on-year
+50 -
Permanent jobs citing Windows Phone 8 42 1 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 0.041% 0.001% -
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.152% 0.003% -
Number of salaries quoted 37 0 0
Average salary £52,500 - -
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 - -
All Operating Systems
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
27712 30584 28961
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 27.27% 26.88% 25.06%
Number of salaries quoted 23644 26473 24538
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,500 £24,500
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £65,000 £64,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Windows Phone 8
UK

Windows Phone 8
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Windows Phone 8 across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

England Windows Phone 8 Jobs Demand Trend

Windows Phone 8
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Windows Phone 8 across the England region.

England Windows Phone 8 Salary Trend

Windows Phone 8
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Windows Phone 8 across the England region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

England Windows Phone 8 Salary Histogram

Windows Phone 8
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Phone 8 within the England region over the 3 months to 21 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 - 20 £72,500 -
West Midlands - 12 £35,000 -
South West - 5 £31,500 -
North West - 4 £80,000 -
Yorkshire - 2 £47,500 -
East of England +8 1 - -
Windows Phone 8
UK

Windows Phone 8
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the England region citing Windows Phone 8 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 Windows Phone 8.

1 77 (100.00%) Windows
1 77 (100.00%) Windows Phone
2 59 (76.62%) C++
3 56 (72.73%) Android
4 53 (68.83%) C#
5 51 (66.23%) .NET
6 41 (53.25%) Web Services
7 38 (49.35%) Apple iOS
8 36 (46.75%) Java
9 35 (45.45%) Scrum
10 26 (33.77%) Objective-C
10 26 (33.77%) SQL Server
11 25 (32.47%) SQL
11 25 (32.47%) iPhone
12 23 (29.87%) Windows 8
13 22 (28.57%) Windows Phone 7
13 22 (28.57%) Agile Software Development
14 21 (27.27%) Windows Mobile
14 21 (27.27%) Blackberry
14 21 (27.27%) Mobile App
14 21 (27.27%) HTML5
15 20 (25.97%) C
15 20 (25.97%) OOP
16 19 (24.68%) WCF
17 18 (23.38%) Web Development
17 18 (23.38%) OO
17 18 (23.38%) E-Commerce
18 17 (22.08%) Linux
18 17 (22.08%) XML
18 17 (22.08%) CSS

Windows Phone 8
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the England region citing Windows Phone 8 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 Windows Phone 8. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 51 (66.23%) .NET
2 41 (53.25%) Web Services
3 21 (27.27%) HTML5
4 19 (24.68%) WCF
5 17 (22.08%) XML
5 17 (22.08%) CSS
6 14 (18.18%) CSS3
7 13 (16.88%) jQuery
8 12 (15.58%) WPF
9 11 (14.29%) Silverlight
10 10 (12.99%) ASP.NET
11 9 (11.69%) HTML
11 9 (11.69%) Qt
12 8 (10.39%) RESTful
12 8 (10.39%) SOAP
12 8 (10.39%) XHTML
13 7 (9.091%) .NET Framework
14 6 (7.792%) Apache Cordova
14 6 (7.792%) J2EE
14 6 (7.792%) XSL
Application Platforms
1 12 (15.58%) Amazon AWS
2 6 (7.792%) Apache
3 2 (2.597%) Windows Azure
3 2 (2.597%) IIS
3 2 (2.597%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 3 (3.896%) Photoshop
2 2 (2.597%) MS Office
2 2 (2.597%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 13 (16.88%) Internet
2 11 (14.29%) HTTP
3 8 (10.39%) TCP/IP
4 7 (9.091%) NFC
5 6 (7.792%) Bluetooth
6 5 (6.494%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (6.494%) GPRS
6 5 (6.494%) GSM
6 5 (6.494%) UMTS
6 5 (6.494%) VoIP
6 5 (6.494%) WLAN
6 5 (6.494%) DVB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (33.77%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.597%) SQL Server 2012
2 2 (2.597%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 16 (20.78%) Subversion
2 13 (16.88%) Visual Studio
3 11 (14.29%) JIRA
4 5 (6.494%) Eclipse
5 4 (5.195%) Xcode
6 2 (2.597%) Moq
6 2 (2.597%) Mercurial
6 2 (2.597%) Git (software)
6 2 (2.597%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (2.597%) Jenkins
6 2 (2.597%) MSBuild
6 2 (2.597%) Hudson
6 2 (2.597%) JUnit
6 2 (2.597%) Maven
General
1 9 (11.69%) Finance
1 9 (11.69%) Multimedia
2 6 (7.792%) Publishing
3 5 (6.494%) Electronics
4 2 (2.597%) Telecoms
4 2 (2.597%) Retail
5 1 (1.299%) Music
5 1 (1.299%) Legal
5 1 (1.299%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 55 (71.43%) Developer
2 24 (31.17%) Mobile Developer
3 17 (22.08%) C# Developer
4 15 (19.48%) Software Developer
5 13 (16.88%) Windows Mobile Developer
6 12 (15.58%) Mobile Applications Developer
7 10 (12.99%) Software Engineer
7 10 (12.99%) Applications Developer
8 8 (10.39%) Junior
8 8 (10.39%) Junior C# Developer
8 8 (10.39%) Junior Developer
9 6 (7.792%) .NET Developer
10 5 (6.494%) Senior Software Engineer
11 4 (5.195%) C# Software Developer
11 4 (5.195%) C# .NET Developer
11 4 (5.195%) .NET Software Developer
11 4 (5.195%) C# Web Developer
11 4 (5.195%) Senior Developer
11 4 (5.195%) Web Developer
11 4 (5.195%) Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 25 (32.47%) iPhone
2 21 (27.27%) Blackberry
2 21 (27.27%) Mobile App
3 16 (20.78%) iPad
4 11 (14.29%) Pocket PC
5 6 (7.792%) Cryptography
5 6 (7.792%) Smartphone
6 5 (6.494%) Device Driver
6 5 (6.494%) Speech Recognition
6 5 (6.494%) MPEG
7 4 (5.195%) Computer Science
7 4 (5.195%) 3D Graphics
8 2 (2.597%) Java Card
8 2 (2.597%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (2.597%) Management Information System
9 1 (1.299%) Mathematics
9 1 (1.299%) Handset
Operating Systems
1 77 (100.00%) Windows
1 77 (100.00%) Windows Phone
2 56 (72.73%) Android
3 38 (49.35%) Apple iOS
4 23 (29.87%) Windows 8
5 22 (28.57%) Windows Phone 7
6 21 (27.27%) Windows Mobile
7 17 (22.08%) Linux
8 11 (14.29%) Windows CE
9 10 (12.99%) UNIX
10 7 (9.091%) Mac OS X
11 5 (6.494%) Nucleus RTOS
11 5 (6.494%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (45.45%) Scrum
2 22 (28.57%) Agile Software Development
3 20 (25.97%) OOP
4 18 (23.38%) Web Development
4 18 (23.38%) OO
4 18 (23.38%) E-Commerce
5 17 (22.08%) TDD
5 17 (22.08%) Multithreading
6 14 (18.18%) MVC
7 13 (16.88%) OOD
8 12 (15.58%) OOA/OOD
8 12 (15.58%) Kanban
8 12 (15.58%) BDD
9 8 (10.39%) SOA
10 5 (6.494%) Mobile Commerce
10 5 (6.494%) DRM
10 5 (6.494%) Continuous Integration
11 2 (2.597%) MVVM
11 2 (2.597%) User Acceptance Testing
11 2 (2.597%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 59 (76.62%) C++
2 53 (68.83%) C#
3 36 (46.75%) Java
4 26 (33.77%) Objective-C
5 25 (32.47%) SQL
6 20 (25.97%) C
7 11 (14.29%) Embedded C++
8 7 (9.091%) XAML
8 7 (9.091%) JavaScript
9 6 (7.792%) T-SQL
10 4 (5.195%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 9 (11.69%) Degree
2 2 (2.597%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.299%) QA
Vendors
1 15 (19.48%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.792%) Apple
3 4 (5.195%) QNX
4 2 (2.597%) Fujitsu
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Salary: £60000 - £85000 per annum + benefits, bonus, perks, training
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Salary: £50000 to £55000 per annum - Pension, Life and Medical Insurance
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Posted: 20 May 2013
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Good knowledge of Java and object-orientated development. Knowledge of REST-based web services, XML and JSON data format... Experience in Web development technologies HTML, CSS, Javascript. Experience...
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