The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Firmware in IT jobs advertised for the Newbury region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Firmware over the 3 months to 17 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 Newbury region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Firmware
Rank 46 60 50
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -10
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 11 6 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Newbury 3.395% 1.183% 0.296%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.730% 4.688% 0.826%
Number of salaries quoted 10 6 1
Average salary £41,250 £33,750 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+22.22% -20.58%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Newbury
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
126 128 121
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Newbury 38.89% 25.25% 35.80%
Number of salaries quoted 120 113 96
Average salary £40,000 £35,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.28% -6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £26,000 £24,700
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £50,000 £51,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,815 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.96% +6.66%
Firmware
Berkshire

Firmware
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Newbury 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 Newbury region.

Newbury Firmware Salary Trend

Firmware
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Newbury 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 18 (100.00%) C
1 18 (100.00%) Embedded C
2 17 (94.44%) Embedded C++
2 17 (94.44%) Device Driver
2 17 (94.44%) Clustering
2 17 (94.44%) C++
2 17 (94.44%) Windows
2 17 (94.44%) Linux
2 17 (94.44%) Flash
2 17 (94.44%) FreeBSD
2 17 (94.44%) SAS
2 17 (94.44%) SNMP
2 17 (94.44%) SSL
2 17 (94.44%) FIX Protocol
2 17 (94.44%) iSCSI
2 17 (94.44%) Fibre Channel
2 17 (94.44%) Big Data
3 1 (5.556%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (5.556%) Degree
3 1 (5.556%) Electronics

Firmware
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Newbury 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 17 (94.44%) Flash
1 17 (94.44%) FIX Protocol
Application Platforms
1 17 (94.44%) SAS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (94.44%) SNMP
1 17 (94.44%) SSL
1 17 (94.44%) iSCSI
1 17 (94.44%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (94.44%) Big Data
General
1 1 (5.556%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 17 (94.44%) Software Engineer
1 17 (94.44%) Embedded Software Engineer
2 1 (5.556%) Team Leader
2 1 (5.556%) Electronics Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 17 (94.44%) Device Driver
1 17 (94.44%) Clustering
2 1 (5.556%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 17 (94.44%) Windows
1 17 (94.44%) Linux
1 17 (94.44%) FreeBSD
Programming Languages
1 18 (100.00%) C
1 18 (100.00%) Embedded C
2 17 (94.44%) Embedded C++
2 17 (94.44%) C++
Qualifications
1 1 (5.556%) Degree