The first table below looks at the demand for BREW skills in IT jobs advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited BREW over the 3 months to 22 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 London region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless (BREW)
Rank 597 640 609
Rank change year-on-year
+43 -31
Permanent jobs citing BREW 4 9 21
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 0.009% 0.017% 0.037%
As % of the Application Development category 0.023% 0.041% 0.093%
Number of salaries quoted 1 8 21
Average salary £70,000 £50,000 £70,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+40.00% -28.57%
UK excluding London average salary - £38,750 £40,000
% change year-on-year
- -3.12%
All Application Development
London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
17682 22215 22674
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 40.18% 40.79% 39.71%
Number of salaries quoted 15324 19788 19895
Average salary £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.26% -5.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £32,500 £33,500
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
BREW
England

BREW
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London BREW Jobs Demand Trend

BREW
Salary Trend

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

London BREW Salary Trend

BREW
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the London region citing BREW 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 BREW.

1 27 (90.00%) Java
1 27 (90.00%) iPhone
2 17 (56.67%) Android
2 17 (56.67%) J2ME
3 16 (53.33%) Blackberry
3 16 (53.33%) Windows
3 16 (53.33%) Windows Mobile
3 16 (53.33%) Mobile App
4 14 (46.67%) Mobile Banking
4 14 (46.67%) Symbian
4 14 (46.67%) Finance
4 14 (46.67%) Banking
5 13 (43.33%) Eclipse
5 13 (43.33%) Maven
5 13 (43.33%) Agile Software Development
5 13 (43.33%) MVC
5 13 (43.33%) Telecoms
5 13 (43.33%) Flash
5 13 (43.33%) OOP
5 13 (43.33%) OO
5 13 (43.33%) Ant
5 13 (43.33%) JUnit
5 13 (43.33%) REST
5 13 (43.33%) Git (software)
5 13 (43.33%) Java ME
5 13 (43.33%) Flash Lite
5 13 (43.33%) SQLite
6 12 (40.00%) JSON
6 12 (40.00%) WML
6 12 (40.00%) XHTML

BREW
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the London region citing BREW 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 BREW. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 17 (56.67%) J2ME
2 13 (43.33%) Flash
2 13 (43.33%) REST
2 13 (43.33%) Java ME
3 12 (40.00%) JSON
3 12 (40.00%) WML
3 12 (40.00%) XHTML
4 3 (10.00%) J2EE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (43.33%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 13 (43.33%) Eclipse
1 13 (43.33%) Maven
1 13 (43.33%) Ant
1 13 (43.33%) JUnit
1 13 (43.33%) Git (software)
General
1 14 (46.67%) Finance
1 14 (46.67%) Banking
2 13 (43.33%) Telecoms
3 3 (10.00%) Multimedia
3 3 (10.00%) Music
4 1 (3.333%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 14 (46.67%) Architect
1 14 (46.67%) Solutions Architect
2 13 (43.33%) Blackberry Developer
2 13 (43.33%) Developer
3 10 (33.33%) Technical Solutions Architect
3 10 (33.33%) Technical Architect
4 3 (10.00%) Chief Technology Officer
4 3 (10.00%) Technical Director
5 1 (3.333%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 27 (90.00%) iPhone
2 16 (53.33%) Blackberry
2 16 (53.33%) Mobile App
3 14 (46.67%) Mobile Banking
4 13 (43.33%) Flash Lite
5 3 (10.00%) Handset
5 3 (10.00%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 17 (56.67%) Android
2 16 (53.33%) Windows
2 16 (53.33%) Windows Mobile
3 3 (10.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (43.33%) Agile Software Development
1 13 (43.33%) MVC
1 13 (43.33%) OOP
1 13 (43.33%) OO
2 12 (40.00%) Data Modelling
2 12 (40.00%) Scrum
3 11 (36.67%) Technical Architecture
4 3 (10.00%) RUP
4 3 (10.00%) Waterfall
4 3 (10.00%) Mobile Application Development
5 1 (3.333%) Mobile Commerce
Programming Languages
1 27 (90.00%) Java
Vendors
1 14 (46.67%) Symbian