The first table below looks at the demand for Bluetooth skills in IT jobs advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Bluetooth 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 of the Communications & Networking category for the North West region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Bluetooth
Rank - - -
Permanent jobs citing Bluetooth 0 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West - - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category - - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Average salary - - -
UK excluding London average salary £47,500 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+18.75% +6.66%
All Communications & Networking
North West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
1188 1040 1022
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 16.66% 14.75% 14.89%
Number of salaries quoted 954 912 863
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +7.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £24,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £65,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
Bluetooth
England

Bluetooth
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Bluetooth across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

North West Bluetooth Jobs Demand Trend

Bluetooth
Salary Trend

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

North West Bluetooth Salary Trend

Bluetooth
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West region citing Bluetooth 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 Bluetooth.

1 5 (100.00%) C
1 5 (100.00%) C++
1 5 (100.00%) Java
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
1 5 (100.00%) Flash
1 5 (100.00%) J2ME
1 5 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 5 (100.00%) GPRS
1 5 (100.00%) GSM
1 5 (100.00%) MPEG
1 5 (100.00%) UMTS
1 5 (100.00%) VoIP
1 5 (100.00%) WLAN
1 5 (100.00%) SVG
1 5 (100.00%) OpenGL
1 5 (100.00%) Middleware
1 5 (100.00%) Mobile Commerce
1 5 (100.00%) DRM
1 5 (100.00%) DVB
1 5 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
1 5 (100.00%) Electronics
1 5 (100.00%) Device Driver
1 5 (100.00%) Multimedia
1 5 (100.00%) Speech Recognition
1 5 (100.00%) BREW
1 5 (100.00%) Windows Mobile
1 5 (100.00%) Nucleus RTOS
1 5 (100.00%) NFC
1 5 (100.00%) Android

Bluetooth
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West region citing Bluetooth 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 Bluetooth. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (100.00%) Flash
1 5 (100.00%) J2ME
1 5 (100.00%) SVG
1 5 (100.00%) OpenGL
1 5 (100.00%) Middleware
1 5 (100.00%) BREW
1 5 (100.00%) Qt
1 5 (100.00%) OpenAL
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) GPRS
1 5 (100.00%) GSM
1 5 (100.00%) UMTS
1 5 (100.00%) VoIP
1 5 (100.00%) WLAN
1 5 (100.00%) DVB
1 5 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
1 5 (100.00%) NFC
General
1 5 (100.00%) Electronics
1 5 (100.00%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Software Developer
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) MPEG
1 5 (100.00%) Device Driver
1 5 (100.00%) Speech Recognition
1 5 (100.00%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
1 5 (100.00%) Windows Mobile
1 5 (100.00%) Nucleus RTOS
1 5 (100.00%) Android
1 5 (100.00%) Windows 7
1 5 (100.00%) Windows Phone 7
1 5 (100.00%) Windows 8
1 5 (100.00%) Windows Phone 8
1 5 (100.00%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 5 (100.00%) Mobile Commerce
1 5 (100.00%) DRM
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) C
1 5 (100.00%) C++
1 5 (100.00%) Java