The first table below looks at the demand for RFID skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited RFID 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.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID)
Rank 844 873 866
Rank change year-on-year
+29 -7
Permanent jobs citing RFID 18 26 15
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.017% 0.022% 0.012%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.086% 0.123% 0.076%
Number of salaries quoted 15 23 12
Average salary £45,000 £60,000 £60,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-25.00% -
90% offered a salary of more than £25,800 £29,000 £38,000
10% offered a salary of more than £66,500 £67,500 £62,250
UK excluding London average salary £57,500 £50,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year
+15.00% -16.66%
All Communications & Networking
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
20871 21174 19668
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 19.31% 17.54% 15.81%
Number of salaries quoted 16834 17640 16289
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,127 £27,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%

RFID
Jobs Demand Trend

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

RFID Jobs Demand Trend

RFID
Salary Trend

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

RFID Salary Trend

RFID
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing RFID over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 within the UK.

RFID Salary Histogram

RFID
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing RFID 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 +15 16 £45,000 -25.00%
South East +7 4 £26,000 -60.00%
London +40 3 £41,250 -34.00%
Hampshire - 3 £25,000 -
Basingstoke - 3 £25,000 -
South West -1 1 £45,000 -10.00%
Birmingham -19 1 £67,500 +22.72%
West Midlands -20 1 £67,500 +22.72%
Wiltshire - 1 £45,000 -
Buckinghamshire - 1 £42,500 -
Swindon - 1 £45,000 -
Buckingham - 1 £42,500 -

RFID
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 16 (38.10%) SAP
2 10 (23.81%) Retail
2 10 (23.81%) Logistics
3 9 (21.43%) Supply Chain Management
3 9 (21.43%) SAP SCM
3 9 (21.43%) Business Development
3 9 (21.43%) Windows
4 8 (19.05%) Wireless
5 6 (14.29%) Electronics
5 6 (14.29%) Project Management
5 6 (14.29%) Windows XP
5 6 (14.29%) TCP/IP
5 6 (14.29%) Windows 7
6 5 (11.90%) NFC
6 5 (11.90%) C++
7 4 (9.524%) GAP Analysis
7 4 (9.524%) PLM
7 4 (9.524%) Finance
7 4 (9.524%) Banking
7 4 (9.524%) Asset Management
7 4 (9.524%) Altiris
7 4 (9.524%) Degree
7 4 (9.524%) Dojo
7 4 (9.524%) JavaScript
7 4 (9.524%) Sybase
7 4 (9.524%) CSS
7 4 (9.524%) XML
7 4 (9.524%) E-Commerce
7 4 (9.524%) ERP
7 4 (9.524%) Middleware

RFID
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 4 (9.524%) Dojo
1 4 (9.524%) CSS
1 4 (9.524%) XML
1 4 (9.524%) Middleware
1 4 (9.524%) HTML5
1 4 (9.524%) CSS3
2 3 (7.143%) SAP TM
2 3 (7.143%) Web Services
3 2 (4.762%) .NET
3 2 (4.762%) J2EE
3 2 (4.762%) EDI
4 1 (2.381%) ASP
4 1 (2.381%) ASP.NET
4 1 (2.381%) MFC
4 1 (2.381%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 1 (2.381%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (7.143%) MS Excel
2 1 (2.381%) MS Office
2 1 (2.381%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (21.43%) SAP SCM
2 1 (2.381%) SAP MII
Communications & Networking
1 8 (19.05%) Wireless
2 6 (14.29%) TCP/IP
3 5 (11.90%) NFC
4 3 (7.143%) LTE
4 3 (7.143%) Bluetooth
4 3 (7.143%) SMS
4 3 (7.143%) WLAN
4 3 (7.143%) WCDMA
5 2 (4.762%) WAN
5 2 (4.762%) LAN
6 1 (2.381%) GSM
6 1 (2.381%) SMTP
6 1 (2.381%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.762%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (2.381%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.381%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (9.524%) PhoneGap
General
1 10 (23.81%) Retail
2 6 (14.29%) Electronics
3 4 (9.524%) Finance
3 4 (9.524%) Banking
4 3 (7.143%) Marketing
5 2 (4.762%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.381%) Legal
Job Titles
1 14 (33.33%) Consultant
2 9 (21.43%) SAP Consultant
3 7 (16.67%) Architect
3 7 (16.67%) Analyst
4 6 (14.29%) Supply Chain Consultant
4 6 (14.29%) Operations Analyst
5 5 (11.90%) Senior Consultant
6 4 (9.524%) Senior Architect
7 3 (7.143%) Managing Consultant
7 3 (7.143%) Principal Architect
7 3 (7.143%) Radio Engineer
8 2 (4.762%) Technical Consultant
8 2 (4.762%) Software Engineer
8 2 (4.762%) Senior Technical Consultant
8 2 (4.762%) SAP Logistics Consultant
9 1 (2.381%) Operations Engineer
9 1 (2.381%) Firmware Engineer
9 1 (2.381%) Automation Engineer
9 1 (2.381%) Head of IT
9 1 (2.381%) Senior Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.524%) Mobile App
1 4 (9.524%) Mobile Banking
2 3 (7.143%) Embedded Systems
2 3 (7.143%) CMDB
3 2 (4.762%) Device Driver
3 2 (4.762%) Life Science
3 2 (4.762%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.762%) Client/Server
3 2 (4.762%) Firmware
3 2 (4.762%) Smartcard
4 1 (2.381%) Reference Data
4 1 (2.381%) FMCG
4 1 (2.381%) CAN bus
4 1 (2.381%) Mobile Computing
4 1 (2.381%) Biometrics
4 1 (2.381%) EPoS
4 1 (2.381%) Robotics
4 1 (2.381%) Computer Science
4 1 (2.381%) PKI
4 1 (2.381%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 9 (21.43%) Windows
2 6 (14.29%) Windows XP
2 6 (14.29%) Windows 7
3 3 (7.143%) UNIX
4 2 (4.762%) Linux
5 1 (2.381%) Windows CE
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (23.81%) Logistics
2 9 (21.43%) Supply Chain Management
2 9 (21.43%) Business Development
3 6 (14.29%) Project Management
4 4 (9.524%) GAP Analysis
4 4 (9.524%) PLM
4 4 (9.524%) Asset Management
4 4 (9.524%) E-Commerce
4 4 (9.524%) ERP
5 3 (7.143%) Software Distribution
5 3 (7.143%) Service Management
5 3 (7.143%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (4.762%) Workflow
6 2 (4.762%) Network Planning
6 2 (4.762%) ITIL
6 2 (4.762%) Configuration Management
6 2 (4.762%) Data Protection
7 1 (2.381%) Risk Analysis
7 1 (2.381%) Release Management
7 1 (2.381%) SAP Implementation
Programming Languages
1 5 (11.90%) C++
2 4 (9.524%) JavaScript
3 3 (7.143%) SQL
3 3 (7.143%) C
4 2 (4.762%) C#
4 2 (4.762%) VB
4 2 (4.762%) Pascal
4 2 (4.762%) Assembly Language
5 1 (2.381%) Embedded C
5 1 (2.381%) Python
5 1 (2.381%) Delphi
5 1 (2.381%) T-SQL
5 1 (2.381%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (9.524%) Degree
2 3 (7.143%) SAP Certification
3 2 (4.762%) HNC
3 2 (4.762%) HND
4 1 (2.381%) CITP
4 1 (2.381%) MBCS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.381%) ISO/IEC 14443
1 1 (2.381%) RosettaNet
System Software
1 2 (4.762%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.381%) SAP ITS
Systems Management
1 4 (9.524%) SCCM
2 3 (7.143%) Tivoli
3 1 (2.381%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 16 (38.10%) SAP
2 4 (9.524%) Altiris
2 4 (9.524%) Sybase
2 4 (9.524%) Syclo
3 3 (7.143%) HP
3 3 (7.143%) CA
3 3 (7.143%) IBM
3 3 (7.143%) Microsoft
3 3 (7.143%) Oracle
4 2 (4.762%) FrontRange
5 1 (2.381%) Atmel
5 1 (2.381%) Cognizant
5 1 (2.381%) EMC
5 1 (2.381%) i2
5 1 (2.381%) PeopleSoft
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