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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Smart Metering
Rank - - -
Permanent jobs citing Smart Meter 0 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Stafford - - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category - - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Average salary - - -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £75,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year
-46.66% +36.36%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Stafford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
18 17 21
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Stafford 51.43% 34.00% 20.79%
Number of salaries quoted 14 10 21
Average salary £27,500 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-31.25% -
90% offered a salary of more than £16,000 £31,700 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £35,500 £50,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,815 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.96% +6.66%
Smart Meter
Staffordshire

Smart Meter
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Stafford Smart Meter Jobs Demand Trend

Smart Meter
Salary Trend

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

Stafford Smart Meter Salary Trend

Smart Meter
Top 8 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Stafford region citing Smart Meter 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 Smart Meter.

1 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) GPRS
1 1 (100.00%) GSM
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded C
1 1 (100.00%) Assembly Language
1 1 (100.00%) Firmware
1 1 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (100.00%) Electronics

Smart Meter
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Stafford region citing Smart Meter 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 Smart Meter. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) GPRS
1 1 (100.00%) GSM
1 1 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 1 (100.00%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Real Time Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Real Time Embedded Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Real Time Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Firmware
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded C
1 1 (100.00%) Assembly Language