The first table below looks at the demand for Windows Phone 8 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 Windows Phone 8 over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Operating Systems category for the North West region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows Phone 8 (WinPhone8, WP8)
Rank 241 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing Windows Phone 8 5 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 0.068% - -
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.262% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
Average salary £80,000 - -
UK excluding London average salary £52,500 £51,000 -
% change year-on-year
+2.94% -
All Operating Systems
North West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
1909 1981 1654
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 26.10% 27.06% 23.58%
Number of salaries quoted 1637 1726 1495
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 £22,500 £21,500
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Windows Phone 8
England

Windows Phone 8
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Windows Phone 8 across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

North West Windows Phone 8 Jobs Demand Trend

Windows Phone 8
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Windows Phone 8 across the North West region.

North West Windows Phone 8 Salary Trend

Windows Phone 8
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Phone 8 within the North West region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Merseyside - 3 £80,000 -
Manchester - 2 - -
Windows Phone 8
England

Windows Phone 8
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the North West region citing Windows Phone 8 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 Windows Phone 8.

1 10 (100.00%) Windows
1 10 (100.00%) Windows Phone
2 8 (80.00%) Android
2 8 (80.00%) C++
2 8 (80.00%) Java
3 7 (70.00%) Windows 8
4 5 (50.00%) iPhone
4 5 (50.00%) Qt
4 5 (50.00%) Windows 7
4 5 (50.00%) OpenAL
4 5 (50.00%) Windows Phone 7
4 5 (50.00%) Multimedia
4 5 (50.00%) Speech Recognition
4 5 (50.00%) BREW
4 5 (50.00%) Windows Mobile
4 5 (50.00%) Nucleus RTOS
4 5 (50.00%) Finance
4 5 (50.00%) Device Driver
4 5 (50.00%) NFC
4 5 (50.00%) Electronics
4 5 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
4 5 (50.00%) OpenGL
4 5 (50.00%) Middleware
4 5 (50.00%) Mobile Commerce
4 5 (50.00%) C
4 5 (50.00%) DRM
4 5 (50.00%) DVB
4 5 (50.00%) Linux
4 5 (50.00%) Flash
4 5 (50.00%) J2ME

Windows Phone 8
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the North West region citing Windows Phone 8 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 Windows Phone 8. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (50.00%) Qt
1 5 (50.00%) OpenAL
1 5 (50.00%) BREW
1 5 (50.00%) OpenGL
1 5 (50.00%) Middleware
1 5 (50.00%) Flash
1 5 (50.00%) J2ME
1 5 (50.00%) SVG
2 2 (20.00%) WinRT
2 2 (20.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 2 (20.00%) .NET Framework
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
2 2 (20.00%) WPF
2 2 (20.00%) Silverlight
2 2 (20.00%) jQuery
2 2 (20.00%) .NET
2 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 2 (20.00%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) NFC
1 5 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
1 5 (50.00%) DVB
1 5 (50.00%) Bluetooth
1 5 (50.00%) GPRS
1 5 (50.00%) GSM
1 5 (50.00%) UMTS
1 5 (50.00%) VoIP
1 5 (50.00%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server 2012
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Moq
1 2 (20.00%) Team Foundation Server
1 2 (20.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (50.00%) Multimedia
1 5 (50.00%) Finance
1 5 (50.00%) Electronics
2 2 (20.00%) Retail
2 2 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Developer
1 7 (70.00%) Software Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Software Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) iPhone
1 5 (50.00%) Speech Recognition
1 5 (50.00%) Device Driver
1 5 (50.00%) MPEG
2 3 (30.00%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Windows
1 10 (100.00%) Windows Phone
2 8 (80.00%) Android
3 7 (70.00%) Windows 8
4 5 (50.00%) Windows 7
4 5 (50.00%) Windows Phone 7
4 5 (50.00%) Windows Mobile
4 5 (50.00%) Nucleus RTOS
4 5 (50.00%) Linux
5 3 (30.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Mobile Commerce
1 5 (50.00%) DRM
1 5 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 3 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (30.00%) Electronic Trading
2 3 (30.00%) Analytics
2 3 (30.00%) Portfolio Management
3 2 (20.00%) Build Automation
3 2 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (20.00%) Scrum
3 2 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (20.00%) TDD
3 2 (20.00%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) C++
1 8 (80.00%) Java
2 5 (50.00%) C
3 2 (20.00%) XAML
3 2 (20.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Fujitsu
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
Runcorn, Cheshire
C#.Net - 3 to 4 years' experience... * SQL (T-SQL) - 2 years+ experience. * Microsoft Tools... * HTML... * Javascript / jQuery. * Telerik Controls. * Linq. * Web Services. * Windows Phone 8 / Android / iOS. * ...
D Tech Recruitment
Salary: From £20,000 to £33,000 per annum
Posted: 13 June 2013
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