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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Wireless Application Protocol (WAP)
Rank 134 149 -
Rank change year-on-year
+15 -
Permanent jobs citing WAP 6 1 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 0.243% 0.040% -
As % of the Application Development category 0.703% 0.093% -
Number of salaries quoted 6 1 0
Average salary £32,500 £40,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-18.75% -
UK excluding London average salary £37,375 £50,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
-25.25% +53.84%
All Application Development
Hertfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
853 1072 1145
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 34.60% 42.56% 33.95%
Number of salaries quoted 712 882 970
Average salary £42,000 £42,500 £42,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.17% +1.19%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £58,350 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
WAP
East of England

WAP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire WAP Salary Trend

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 Hertfordshire 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
Hemel Hempstead - 4 £32,500 -
WAP
East of England

WAP
Top 10 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 6 (100.00%) ITIL
1 6 (100.00%) WLAN
1 6 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
1 6 (100.00%) WEP
1 6 (100.00%) SSH
2 5 (83.33%) Wireless
3 4 (66.67%) Internet
3 4 (66.67%) ADSL
3 4 (66.67%) Incident Management
4 1 (16.67%) HTTP

WAP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire 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.

Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) WLAN
1 6 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
1 6 (100.00%) WEP
1 6 (100.00%) SSH
2 5 (83.33%) Wireless
3 4 (66.67%) Internet
3 4 (66.67%) ADSL
4 1 (16.67%) HTTP
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Incident Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Wireless Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Support Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Major Incident Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) ITIL
2 4 (66.67%) Incident Management