The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Handset in IT jobs advertised for the Oxfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Handset 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 terms in our Miscellaneous category for the Oxfordshire region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Handsets
Rank - - 104
Permanent jobs citing Handset 0 0 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxfordshire - - 0.063%
As % of the Miscellaneous category - - 0.211%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 1
Average salary - - £25,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £40,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-4.93% +1.25%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Oxfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
684 428 475
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 36.79% 29.14% 29.80%
Number of salaries quoted 589 373 435
Average salary £42,500 £37,500 £34,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+13.33% +8.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £25,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £60,000 £51,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +6.66%
Handset
South East

Handset
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxfordshire Handset Jobs Demand Trend

Handset
Salary Trend

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

Oxfordshire Handset Salary Trend

Handset
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxfordshire region citing Handset 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 Handset.

1 7 (100.00%) Music
1 7 (100.00%) Degree
2 6 (85.71%) Legal
2 6 (85.71%) Agile Software Development
3 5 (71.43%) HTTP
4 4 (57.14%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (42.86%) Android
5 3 (42.86%) Amazon AWS
5 3 (42.86%) Apple iOS
5 3 (42.86%) Mobile App
5 3 (42.86%) Web Services
5 3 (42.86%) MySQL
5 3 (42.86%) Linux
5 3 (42.86%) Automated Testing
6 2 (28.57%) Windows
6 2 (28.57%) Blackberry
6 2 (28.57%) Windows Phone
6 2 (28.57%) Route 53
6 2 (28.57%) Cucumber
6 2 (28.57%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (28.57%) CloudFront
6 2 (28.57%) nginx
6 2 (28.57%) RESTful
6 2 (28.57%) Amazon S3
6 2 (28.57%) Selenium
7 1 (14.29%) Use Case
7 1 (14.29%) Load Testing
7 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
7 1 (14.29%) QA
7 1 (14.29%) WebDriver

Handset
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 3 (42.86%) Web Services
2 2 (28.57%) RESTful
3 1 (14.29%) REST
3 1 (14.29%) CSS3
3 1 (14.29%) HTML5
3 1 (14.29%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 3 (42.86%) Amazon AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Route 53
2 2 (28.57%) CloudFront
2 2 (28.57%) nginx
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon S3
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) MySQL
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Cucumber
1 2 (28.57%) Selenium
2 1 (14.29%) WebDriver
2 1 (14.29%) Capybara
General
1 7 (100.00%) Music
2 6 (85.71%) Legal
3 1 (14.29%) Marketing
3 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Systems Administrator
2 2 (28.57%) Administrator
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Systems Administrator
2 2 (28.57%) Junior
2 2 (28.57%) Junior Systems Administrator
2 2 (28.57%) Mobile Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Front-End Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Front-End Web Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Mobile Applications Developer
3 1 (14.29%) QA Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Python Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Applications Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Web Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Mobile App
2 2 (28.57%) Blackberry
3 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
3 1 (14.29%) Economics
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Android
1 3 (42.86%) Apple iOS
1 3 (42.86%) Linux
2 2 (28.57%) Windows
2 2 (28.57%) Windows Phone
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Phone 8
3 1 (14.29%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (57.14%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (42.86%) Automated Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Use Case
4 1 (14.29%) Load Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Automation Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Project Management
4 1 (14.29%) OO
4 1 (14.29%) SOA
4 1 (14.29%) Web Development
4 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Python
1 1 (14.29%) Java
1 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA