Glasgow Handset Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Handsets skills within the Glasgow region with a comparison to our Miscellaneous category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Handset over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire City of London County Antrim Coventry Durham East Anglia East of England Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Glasgow Godalming Guildford Hampshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Kent London Manchester Middlesex Milton Keynes Newbury Newton Aycliffe North East North West Northern Ireland Oxford Oxfordshire Reading Rugby Scotland Slough Somerset South East South West Staines Stockport Surrey Swindon Thames Valley UK Uxbridge Warwickshire West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Woking Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	87	84
Rank change on same period last year	-3
Matching permanent IT job ads	5	19
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.008 %
As % of the category below	2.825 %	4.691 %
Salaries quoted	3	14
Average minimum salary	£30,000	£35,357
Average salary	£32,500	£40,714
% change on same period last year	-20.17 %
Average maximum salary	£35,000	£46,071
UK excluding London average salary	£38,333	£38,091
% change on same period last year	+0.63 %
Miscellaneous Glasgow
Matching permanent IT job ads	177	405
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.093 %	0.166 %
Salaries quoted	115	201
Average minimum salary	£33,464	£36,028
Average salary	£36,966	£37,814
% change on same period last year	-2.24 %
Average maximum salary	£40,467	£39,600
UK excluding London average salary	£38,014	£39,235
% change on same period last year	-3.11 %
Handset Scotland

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Handset across the Glasgow region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

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Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Handset across the Glasgow region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Handset across the Glasgow region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Glasgow region citing Handset 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 Handset.

1 8 (100.00 %) Wireless 2 5 (62.50 %) 3D Graphics 2 5 (62.50 %) Games 2 5 (62.50 %) NetBeans 2 5 (62.50 %) MIDP 2 5 (62.50 %) UIQ 2 5 (62.50 %) Series 60 2 5 (62.50 %) JSR 184 2 5 (62.50 %) Java 2 5 (62.50 %) Ant 2 5 (62.50 %) XML 2 5 (62.50 %) UML 2 5 (62.50 %) OO 2 5 (62.50 %) J2ME 2 5 (62.50 %) Eclipse

2 5 (62.50 %) Symbian 2 5 (62.50 %) WAP 2 5 (62.50 %) HTTP 2 5 (62.50 %) SVG 2 5 (62.50 %) Motorola 2 5 (62.50 %) Nokia 2 5 (62.50 %) OpenGL 3 3 (37.50 %) Degree 3 3 (37.50 %) Telecoms 3 3 (37.50 %) Education 3 3 (37.50 %) Electric

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Glasgow region citing Handset 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 Handset. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 5 (62.50 %) XML 1 5 (62.50 %) J2ME 1 5 (62.50 %) WAP 1 5 (62.50 %) SVG 1 5 (62.50 %) OpenGL 1 5 (62.50 %) NetBeans 1 5 (62.50 %) MIDP 1 5 (62.50 %) UIQ 1 5 (62.50 %) Series 60 1 5 (62.50 %) JSR 184	Communications & Networking 1 8 (100.00 %) Wireless 2 5 (62.50 %) HTTP
Development Applications 1 5 (62.50 %) Ant 1 5 (62.50 %) Eclipse	General 1 5 (62.50 %) 3D Graphics 1 5 (62.50 %) Games 2 3 (37.50 %) Telecoms 2 3 (37.50 %) Education 2 3 (37.50 %) Electric
Job Titles 1 5 (62.50 %) Developer 2 1 (12.50 %) Senior Developer	Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (62.50 %) UML 1 5 (62.50 %) OO
Programming Languages 1 5 (62.50 %) Java	Qualifications 1 3 (37.50 %) Degree
Vendors 1 5 (62.50 %) Symbian 1 5 (62.50 %) Motorola 1 5 (62.50 %) Nokia