The first table below looks at the demand for NFC skills in IT jobs advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited NFC over the 3 months to 24 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 Scotland region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Near Field Communication (NFC)
Rank - - 157
Permanent jobs citing NFC 0 0 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland - - 0.057%
As % of the Communications & Networking category - - 0.433%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Average salary - - -
UK excluding London average salary £52,500 £45,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year
+16.66% -21.73%
All Communications & Networking
Scotland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
412 525 462
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 13.09% 15.20% 13.26%
Number of salaries quoted 217 339 324
Average salary £41,500 £35,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+18.57% -12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,000 £23,000 £21,600
10% offered a salary of more than £45,700 £77,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
NFC
UK

NFC
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland NFC Jobs Demand Trend

NFC
Salary Trend

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

Scotland NFC Salary Trend

NFC
Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland region citing NFC 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 NFC.

1 5 (100.00%) C
1 5 (100.00%) C++
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
1 5 (100.00%) Embedded C
1 5 (100.00%) Embedded C++
1 5 (100.00%) EPoS
1 5 (100.00%) EFTPOS
1 5 (100.00%) Middleware
1 5 (100.00%) Smartcard
1 5 (100.00%) Finance
1 5 (100.00%) Validation
1 5 (100.00%) Retail
1 5 (100.00%) Mobile Payment

NFC
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland region citing NFC 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 NFC. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (100.00%) Middleware
General
1 5 (100.00%) Finance
1 5 (100.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) EPoS
1 5 (100.00%) EFTPOS
1 5 (100.00%) Smartcard
1 5 (100.00%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) C
1 5 (100.00%) C++
1 5 (100.00%) Embedded C
1 5 (100.00%) Embedded C++