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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Kinect
Rank 860 889 -
Rank change year-on-year
+29 -
Permanent jobs citing Kinect 2 10 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.002% 0.008% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.006% 0.025% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 10 0
Average salary £50,000 £35,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+42.85% -
UK excluding London average salary - £30,500 -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
36050 39991 43024
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 33.36% 33.14% 34.58%
Number of salaries quoted 29589 33707 36075
Average salary £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -5.26%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,000 £28,500 £28,000
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £82,500 £75,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +6.66%

Kinect
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Kinect within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Kinect Jobs Demand Trend

Kinect
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Kinect within the UK.

Kinect Salary Trend

Kinect
Top 2 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kinect within the UK over the 3 months to 24 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
England +17 2 £50,000 +42.85%
London +46 1 £50,000 +42.85%

Kinect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing Kinect 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 Kinect.

1 5 (83.33%) C#
1 5 (83.33%) .NET
2 4 (66.67%) Windows
2 4 (66.67%) XAML
2 4 (66.67%) WPF
2 4 (66.67%) Silverlight
3 3 (50.00%) Degree
3 3 (50.00%) JSON
3 3 (50.00%) Expression Blend
3 3 (50.00%) Games
3 3 (50.00%) E-Commerce
3 3 (50.00%) Internet
3 3 (50.00%) Photoshop
3 3 (50.00%) Inversion of Control
3 3 (50.00%) MVVM
3 3 (50.00%) XML
4 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
5 1 (16.67%) Nokia
5 1 (16.67%) DirectX
5 1 (16.67%) SOA
5 1 (16.67%) CRM
5 1 (16.67%) CSS
5 1 (16.67%) Web Services
5 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
5 1 (16.67%) HTML
5 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 1 (16.67%) VB.NET
5 1 (16.67%) Objective-C
5 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) Dynamics NAV

Kinect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing Kinect 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 Kinect. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (83.33%) .NET
2 4 (66.67%) WPF
2 4 (66.67%) Silverlight
3 3 (50.00%) JSON
3 3 (50.00%) XML
4 1 (16.67%) DirectX
4 1 (16.67%) CSS
4 1 (16.67%) Web Services
4 1 (16.67%) HTML
4 1 (16.67%) XNA
4 1 (16.67%) jQuery
Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (16.67%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (16.67%) Dynamics AX
1 1 (16.67%) Dynamics GP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Expression Blend
General
1 3 (50.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) .NET Developer
2 1 (16.67%) C# Developer
2 1 (16.67%) C# .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Inversion of Control
2 1 (16.67%) Smartphone
2 1 (16.67%) Augmented Reality
2 1 (16.67%) iPhone
2 1 (16.67%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) E-Commerce
1 3 (50.00%) MVVM
2 1 (16.67%) SOA
2 1 (16.67%) CRM
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) C#
2 4 (66.67%) XAML
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) VB.NET
3 1 (16.67%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Nokia