The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Firmware in IT jobs advertised for the Guildford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Firmware 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 terms in our Miscellaneous category for the Guildford region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Firmware
Rank 74 80 -
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 11 2 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Guildford 1.226% 0.275% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.448% 0.725% -
Number of salaries quoted 3 2 0
Average salary £40,000 £41,250 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.03% -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Guildford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
319 276 106
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Guildford 35.56% 37.91% 22.84%
Number of salaries quoted 245 262 103
Average salary £38,500 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.66% +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £25,200 £23,900
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +6.66%
Firmware
Surrey

Firmware
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Firmware across the Guildford region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Guildford Firmware Jobs Demand Trend

Firmware
Salary Trend

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

Guildford Firmware Salary Trend

Firmware
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Guildford region citing Firmware 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 Firmware.

1 12 (63.16%) Degree
2 11 (57.89%) Security Cleared
2 11 (57.89%) Linux
3 8 (42.11%) C
3 8 (42.11%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
3 8 (42.11%) VHDL
3 8 (42.11%) Mathematics
3 8 (42.11%) Physics
4 7 (36.84%) Finance
5 6 (31.58%) Telecoms
5 6 (31.58%) VMware
5 6 (31.58%) C++
5 6 (31.58%) Signal Processing
6 5 (26.32%) Wireless
7 4 (21.05%) VoIP
7 4 (21.05%) Internet
7 4 (21.05%) Project Management
8 3 (15.79%) UNIX
8 3 (15.79%) SAN
8 3 (15.79%) TCP/IP
8 3 (15.79%) SLA
8 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
8 3 (15.79%) CCNA
8 3 (15.79%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (15.79%) MCSE
8 3 (15.79%) Apache
8 3 (15.79%) PhD
8 3 (15.79%) MS Exchange
8 3 (15.79%) Java

Firmware
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 3 (15.79%) JSP
1 3 (15.79%) SOAP
1 3 (15.79%) Ajax
1 3 (15.79%) LAMP
1 3 (15.79%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 3 (15.79%) Apache
1 3 (15.79%) MS Exchange
1 3 (15.79%) ActiveMQ
Communications & Networking
1 5 (26.32%) Wireless
2 4 (21.05%) VoIP
2 4 (21.05%) Internet
3 3 (15.79%) SAN
3 3 (15.79%) TCP/IP
3 3 (15.79%) VLAN
3 3 (15.79%) Firewall
3 3 (15.79%) Fibre Channel
3 3 (15.79%) NAS
3 3 (15.79%) iSCSI
4 1 (5.263%) DHCP
4 1 (5.263%) Ethernet
4 1 (5.263%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) LabVIEW
General
1 7 (36.84%) Finance
2 6 (31.58%) Telecoms
3 3 (15.79%) Automotive
4 1 (5.263%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) Hardware Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Developer
2 3 (15.79%) Web Developer
2 3 (15.79%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Electronics Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Systems Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Senior Systems Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Graduate
4 1 (5.263%) Technical Project Manager
4 1 (5.263%) Project Manager
4 1 (5.263%) Junior
4 1 (5.263%) Technical Support Engineer
4 1 (5.263%) Technical Engineer
4 1 (5.263%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 1 (5.263%) Technical Manager
4 1 (5.263%) Support Engineer
4 1 (5.263%) Technical Support
4 1 (5.263%) Junior Support Engineer
4 1 (5.263%) Graduate Hardware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (42.11%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
1 8 (42.11%) VHDL
1 8 (42.11%) Mathematics
1 8 (42.11%) Physics
2 3 (15.79%) Device Driver
2 3 (15.79%) Computer Science
3 1 (5.263%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 11 (57.89%) Linux
2 3 (15.79%) UNIX
2 3 (15.79%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (31.58%) Signal Processing
2 4 (21.05%) Project Management
3 3 (15.79%) Change Management
3 3 (15.79%) Image Processing
3 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Management
4 2 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (10.53%) Service Delivery
4 2 (10.53%) Strategic Planning
4 2 (10.53%) ITIL
5 1 (5.263%) Programme Management
5 1 (5.263%) Software Engineering
5 1 (5.263%) Capacity Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (42.11%) C
2 6 (31.58%) C++
3 3 (15.79%) Java
3 3 (15.79%) JavaScript
3 3 (15.79%) PHP
4 2 (10.53%) MATLAB
5 1 (5.263%) Embedded C
5 1 (5.263%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 12 (63.16%) Degree
2 11 (57.89%) Security Cleared
3 3 (15.79%) CCNA
3 3 (15.79%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (15.79%) MCSE
3 3 (15.79%) PhD
3 3 (15.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 3 (15.79%) DV Cleared
4 2 (10.53%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (15.79%) vSphere
1 3 (15.79%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (15.79%) Zenoss
Vendors
1 6 (31.58%) VMware
2 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.79%) Zend
3 2 (10.53%) Agilent
4 1 (5.263%) Avaya
Guildford
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Salary: to £55k + benefits
Posted: 9 May 2013
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Salary: £45000 - £60000 per annum + Benefits
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