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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Electronics
Rank 81 77 71
Rank change year-on-year
-4 -6
Permanent jobs citing Electronics 7 13 14
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in South Wales 0.667% 1.364% 1.561%
As % of the General category 2.682% 3.571% 3.390%
Number of salaries quoted 7 13 14
Average salary £30,000 £26,500 £34,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+13.20% -22.05%
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £35,500 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+8.45% -4.05%
All of the General Category
South Wales
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
261 364 413
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in South Wales 24.88% 38.20% 46.04%
Number of salaries quoted 233 327 395
Average salary £37,500 £35,250 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.38% -11.87%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,300 £26,500 £28,500
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £55,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- +3.65%
Electronics
Wales

Electronics
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Electronics across the South Wales region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

South Wales Electronics Jobs Demand Trend

Electronics
Salary Trend

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

South Wales Electronics Salary Trend

Electronics
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Electronics within the South Wales region over the 3 months to 17 May 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
Torfaen - 6 £30,000 -
Electronics
Wales

Electronics
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the South Wales region citing Electronics 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 Electronics.

1 15 (83.33%) HTML
1 15 (83.33%) Windows
1 15 (83.33%) TCP/IP
1 15 (83.33%) Ajax
2 14 (77.78%) Internet
2 14 (77.78%) Linux
2 14 (77.78%) CSS
2 14 (77.78%) JavaScript
2 14 (77.78%) ActionScript
2 14 (77.78%) Flash
2 14 (77.78%) HTML5
3 3 (16.67%) Degree
3 3 (16.67%) Mathematics
3 3 (16.67%) Physics
4 2 (11.11%) C++
4 2 (11.11%) Market Research
4 2 (11.11%) C
4 2 (11.11%) HNC
4 2 (11.11%) HND
4 2 (11.11%) B2B
4 2 (11.11%) Marketing
5 1 (5.556%) TELNET
5 1 (5.556%) Wireless
5 1 (5.556%) SSH
5 1 (5.556%) Software Engineering
5 1 (5.556%) Embedded C
5 1 (5.556%) Embedded C++
5 1 (5.556%) Assembly Language
5 1 (5.556%) Firmware
5 1 (5.556%) UML

Electronics
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the South Wales region citing Electronics 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 Electronics. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 15 (83.33%) HTML
1 15 (83.33%) Ajax
2 14 (77.78%) HTML5
2 14 (77.78%) CSS
2 14 (77.78%) Flash
3 1 (5.556%) .NET
Communications & Networking
1 15 (83.33%) TCP/IP
2 14 (77.78%) Internet
3 1 (5.556%) TELNET
3 1 (5.556%) Wireless
3 1 (5.556%) SSH
3 1 (5.556%) ZigBee
3 1 (5.556%) HSPA
3 1 (5.556%) LDAP
3 1 (5.556%) Bluetooth
3 1 (5.556%) GPRS
3 1 (5.556%) UMTS
3 1 (5.556%) WAN
3 1 (5.556%) HTTP
3 1 (5.556%) SNMP
General
1 2 (11.11%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 15 (83.33%) Software Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Sales Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Senior Sales Engineer
3 1 (5.556%) Firmware Engineer
3 1 (5.556%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 1 (5.556%) Development Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Mathematics
1 3 (16.67%) Physics
2 1 (5.556%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 15 (83.33%) Windows
2 14 (77.78%) Linux
3 1 (5.556%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (11.11%) B2B
1 2 (11.11%) Market Research
2 1 (5.556%) UML
2 1 (5.556%) Software Engineering
2 1 (5.556%) Multithreading
2 1 (5.556%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (77.78%) ActionScript
1 14 (77.78%) JavaScript
2 2 (11.11%) C
2 2 (11.11%) C++
3 1 (5.556%) Java
3 1 (5.556%) C#
3 1 (5.556%) Embedded C
3 1 (5.556%) Embedded C++
3 1 (5.556%) Assembly Language
3 1 (5.556%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) Degree
2 2 (11.11%) HNC
2 2 (11.11%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.556%) JTAG
Vendors
1 1 (5.556%) Atmel
1 1 (5.556%) Twitter