The first table below looks at the demand for BREW 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 BREW 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 of the Application Development category for the North West region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless (BREW)
Rank - - -
Permanent jobs citing BREW 0 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West - - -
As % of the Application Development category - - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Average salary - - -
UK excluding London average salary - £38,750 £45,000
% change year-on-year
- -13.88%
All Application Development
North West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
3552 3484 3034
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 49.24% 49.17% 44.82%
Number of salaries quoted 3172 3157 2780
Average salary £34,000 £33,500 £34,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.49% -1.47%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £24,500 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
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 North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

North West 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 North West region.

North West BREW Salary Trend

BREW
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West 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 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%) Bluetooth
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%) Windows Mobile
1 5 (100.00%) Nucleus RTOS
1 5 (100.00%) NFC
1 5 (100.00%) Android

BREW
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West 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 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%) Qt
1 5 (100.00%) OpenAL
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) Bluetooth
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