The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Symbian products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Symbian 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 Vendors for the Manchester region.

The figures below represent the IT job market in general and are NOT representative of salaries within Symbian Ltd.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Symbian
Rank 188 173 147
Rank change year-on-year
-15 -26
Permanent jobs citing Symbian 1 3 29
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 0.024% 0.082% 0.744%
As % of the Vendors category 0.054% 0.183% 1.486%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 28
Average salary £30,000 - £35,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,500 £37,000
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +14.86%
All Vendors
Manchester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
1853 1640 1952
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 45.23% 45.04% 50.06%
Number of salaries quoted 1555 1402 1758
Average salary £37,500 £36,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.16% -4.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,500 £24,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Symbian
North West

Symbian
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Symbian across the Manchester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Manchester Symbian Jobs Demand Trend

Symbian
Salary Trend

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

Manchester Symbian Salary Trend

Symbian
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester region citing Symbian 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 Symbian.

1 4 (100.00%) C++
1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) Blackberry
2 3 (75.00%) Android
2 3 (75.00%) C#
3 2 (50.00%) C
3 2 (50.00%) Python
3 2 (50.00%) J2ME
3 2 (50.00%) Perl
3 2 (50.00%) Web Services
3 2 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (50.00%) Banking
3 2 (50.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (50.00%) Release Management
3 2 (50.00%) NFC
3 2 (50.00%) Java Card
3 2 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Integration Testing
3 2 (50.00%) System Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Apple iOS
3 2 (50.00%) Mobile App
3 2 (50.00%) Mobile Banking
4 1 (25.00%) HTML5
4 1 (25.00%) iPhone
4 1 (25.00%) Windows Mobile
4 1 (25.00%) JSON
4 1 (25.00%) XML
4 1 (25.00%) Windows
4 1 (25.00%) OO

Symbian
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester region citing Symbian 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 Symbian. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (50.00%) J2ME
1 2 (50.00%) Web Services
2 1 (25.00%) HTML5
2 1 (25.00%) JSON
2 1 (25.00%) XML
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) NFC
General
1 2 (50.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Junior Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Junior Java Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Mobile Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Junior
3 1 (25.00%) Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Blackberry
2 2 (50.00%) Java Card
2 2 (50.00%) Mobile App
2 2 (50.00%) Mobile Banking
3 1 (25.00%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Android
2 2 (50.00%) Apple iOS
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Mobile
3 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (50.00%) Release Management
1 2 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 2 (50.00%) Integration Testing
1 2 (50.00%) System Testing
2 1 (25.00%) OO
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C++
1 4 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (75.00%) C#
3 2 (50.00%) C
3 2 (50.00%) Python
3 2 (50.00%) Perl