The first table below looks at the demand for Windows CE skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Windows CE over the 3 months to 22 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 Operating Systems category.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows CE (WinCE)
Rank 801 794 717
Rank change year-on-year
-7 -77
Permanent jobs citing Windows CE 63 106 153
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.058% 0.086% 0.125%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.213% 0.324% 0.502%
Number of salaries quoted 54 95 135
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,600 £32,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £37,500 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+6.66% +1.35%
All Operating Systems
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
29596 32754 30499
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 27.21% 26.71% 24.95%
Number of salaries quoted 24978 28107 25735
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £24,500
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%

Windows CE
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Windows CE within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Windows CE Jobs Demand Trend

Windows CE
Salary Trend

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

Windows CE Salary Trend

Windows CE
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Windows CE over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 within the UK.

Windows CE Salary Histogram

Windows CE
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows CE within the UK over the 3 months to 22 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 58 £40,750 +1.87%
East of England +16 20 £40,000 -
West Midlands -3 12 £47,000 +25.33%
Hertfordshire +14 9 £38,250 +2.00%
South West +3 9 £47,500 -
Bristol - 9 £47,500 -
London +47 6 £52,500 +23.52%
Yorkshire -13 6 £40,000 +21.21%
Essex - 6 £40,000 -
Chelmsford - 6 £40,000 -
Scotland +2 4 £38,500 +2.66%
Glasgow -16 4 £38,500 +2.66%
Cambridge +2 3 £40,000 -
Cambridgeshire 0 3 £40,000 -
South East -21 3 £42,500 +6.25%
Shropshire - 3 £30,000 -
Telford - 3 £30,000 -
Rickmansworth - 3 £36,500 -
Birmingham - 3 £41,500 -
Manchester -5 2 - -
North West -23 2 - -
Bolton - 2 - -
Norwich - 2 - -
Norfolk - 2 - -
Southampton +4 1 £42,500 -
Hampshire -1 1 £42,500 +6.91%
Berkshire -15 1 £47,500 +18.75%
West Sussex - 1 £33,500 -
Witham - 1 £40,000 -
St Albans - 1 £35,000 -

Windows CE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing Windows CE 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 Windows CE.

1 101 (100.00%) Windows
2 73 (72.28%) C#
3 58 (57.43%) .NET
4 56 (55.45%) SQL
5 50 (49.50%) C++
6 46 (45.54%) Windows Mobile
7 34 (33.66%) SQL Server
7 34 (33.66%) Web Services
7 34 (33.66%) Microsoft
8 32 (31.68%) OO
9 30 (29.70%) C
10 28 (27.72%) .NET Framework
11 27 (26.73%) Android
12 25 (24.75%) Visual Studio
12 25 (24.75%) Linux
13 22 (21.78%) Subversion
14 21 (20.79%) Agile Software Development
14 21 (20.79%) Embedded C++
15 19 (18.81%) XML
15 19 (18.81%) Degree
16 18 (17.82%) Mobile App
17 17 (16.83%) Front Office
17 17 (16.83%) Back Office
18 16 (15.84%) Java
18 16 (15.84%) Embedded C
19 15 (14.85%) OOP
19 15 (14.85%) ASP.NET
20 14 (13.86%) VSS/SourceSafe
20 14 (13.86%) Delphi
20 14 (13.86%) HTML

Windows CE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing Windows CE 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 Windows CE. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 58 (57.43%) .NET
2 34 (33.66%) Web Services
3 28 (27.72%) .NET Framework
4 19 (18.81%) XML
5 15 (14.85%) ASP.NET
6 14 (13.86%) HTML
6 14 (13.86%) WCF
7 10 (9.901%) MFC
8 9 (8.911%) CSS
9 8 (7.921%) ADO.NET
9 8 (7.921%) Silverlight
10 7 (6.931%) HTML5
10 7 (6.931%) ASP
11 6 (5.941%) jQuery
11 6 (5.941%) Ajax
12 5 (4.950%) RESTful
13 4 (3.960%) STL
13 4 (3.960%) WPF
14 3 (2.970%) ATL
15 2 (1.980%) OpenGL
Application Platforms
1 6 (5.941%) IIS
2 5 (4.950%) BizTalk Server
3 3 (2.970%) SharePoint
Applications
1 14 (13.86%) MS Excel
2 7 (6.931%) MS Office
3 1 (0.990%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.990%) 3ds Max
Communications & Networking
1 12 (11.88%) TCP/IP
2 8 (7.921%) Wireless
3 7 (6.931%) ZigBee
3 7 (6.931%) Bluetooth
3 7 (6.931%) GSM
3 7 (6.931%) Wi-Fi
4 6 (5.941%) Intranet
4 6 (5.941%) Internet
5 1 (0.990%) VoIP
5 1 (0.990%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.990%) FTP
5 1 (0.990%) IGMP
5 1 (0.990%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (33.66%) SQL Server
2 10 (9.901%) SQL Server 2005
3 7 (6.931%) Oracle OLAP
3 7 (6.931%) OLAP
3 7 (6.931%) OLTP
4 6 (5.941%) RDBMS
5 4 (3.960%) SQL Server 2012
6 2 (1.980%) SQL Server 2008
7 1 (0.990%) SQLite
7 1 (0.990%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 25 (24.75%) Visual Studio
2 22 (21.78%) Subversion
3 14 (13.86%) VSS/SourceSafe
4 12 (11.88%) JIRA
5 4 (3.960%) CruiseControl
5 4 (3.960%) Bugzilla
5 4 (3.960%) Hudson
6 1 (0.990%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (0.990%) Eclipse
General
1 17 (16.83%) Front Office
1 17 (16.83%) Back Office
2 9 (8.911%) Retail
3 6 (5.941%) Electronics
3 6 (5.941%) Telecoms
4 4 (3.960%) Automotive
5 3 (2.970%) Aerospace
5 3 (2.970%) Manufacturing
5 3 (2.970%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (1.980%) Advertising
6 2 (1.980%) Finance
6 2 (1.980%) Games
6 2 (1.980%) French Language
6 2 (1.980%) German Language
6 2 (1.980%) Italian Language
6 2 (1.980%) Japanese Language
7 1 (0.990%) Music
7 1 (0.990%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 61 (60.40%) Developer
2 31 (30.69%) Software Engineer
3 19 (18.81%) Mobile Developer
4 17 (16.83%) Software Developer
5 15 (14.85%) .NET Developer
6 13 (12.87%) Windows Mobile Developer
7 12 (11.88%) Senior Software Engineer
7 12 (11.88%) Senior Developer
8 11 (10.89%) Mobile Applications Developer
9 10 (9.901%) Senior .NET Developer
10 9 (8.911%) Embedded Software Engineer
10 9 (8.911%) Applications Developer
11 7 (6.931%) DBA
12 5 (4.950%) Administrator
13 3 (2.970%) C++ Software Engineer
14 2 (1.980%) Web Developer
14 2 (1.980%) C# Software Engineer
14 2 (1.980%) Senior Web Developer
14 2 (1.980%) Oracle DBA
14 2 (1.980%) Senior Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 18 (17.82%) Mobile App
2 12 (11.88%) Pocket PC
3 11 (10.89%) Computer Science
3 11 (10.89%) N-Tier
4 10 (9.901%) Device Driver
5 7 (6.931%) Visualisation
6 5 (4.950%) CAN bus
6 5 (4.950%) Client/Server
7 4 (3.960%) Embedded Systems
8 3 (2.970%) Mathematics
8 3 (2.970%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (2.970%) iPhone
8 3 (2.970%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.980%) Blackberry
9 2 (1.980%) iPad
10 1 (0.990%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
10 1 (0.990%) GPGPU
10 1 (0.990%) Video Conferencing
10 1 (0.990%) Mobile Computing
10 1 (0.990%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 101 (100.00%) Windows
2 46 (45.54%) Windows Mobile
3 27 (26.73%) Android
4 25 (24.75%) Linux
5 12 (11.88%) Apple iOS
5 12 (11.88%) Windows Phone
5 12 (11.88%) Windows 8
5 12 (11.88%) Windows Phone 8
6 7 (6.931%) Embedded Linux
6 7 (6.931%) ThreadX
6 7 (6.931%) VxWorks
7 3 (2.970%) UNIX
8 1 (0.990%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.990%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.990%) Windows XP
8 1 (0.990%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (31.68%) OO
2 21 (20.79%) Agile Software Development
3 15 (14.85%) OOP
4 13 (12.87%) Data Modelling
5 12 (11.88%) Scrum
6 8 (7.921%) Logistics
7 7 (6.931%) Systems Analysis
7 7 (6.931%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (6.931%) Multithreading
7 7 (6.931%) Business Intelligence
7 7 (6.931%) UML
7 7 (6.931%) Service Delivery
8 6 (5.941%) ETL
9 5 (4.950%) TDD
9 5 (4.950%) Service Management
10 4 (3.960%) MVC
10 4 (3.960%) Software Engineering
10 4 (3.960%) Unit Testing
10 4 (3.960%) Integration Testing
10 4 (3.960%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 73 (72.28%) C#
2 56 (55.45%) SQL
3 50 (49.50%) C++
4 30 (29.70%) C
5 21 (20.79%) Embedded C++
6 16 (15.84%) Java
6 16 (15.84%) Embedded C
7 14 (13.86%) Delphi
8 13 (12.87%) JavaScript
9 9 (8.911%) VB.NET
10 8 (7.921%) VB
11 7 (6.931%) VB6
11 7 (6.931%) Python
12 3 (2.970%) PHP
12 3 (2.970%) VC++
13 2 (1.980%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.990%) GLSL
14 1 (0.990%) PowerHouse
14 1 (0.990%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 19 (18.81%) Degree
2 3 (2.970%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (0.990%) HNC
3 1 (0.990%) Postgraduate
3 1 (0.990%) ISEB
System Software
1 1 (0.990%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 34 (33.66%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.931%) Oracle
3 6 (5.941%) Progress
4 3 (2.970%) Symbian
5 1 (0.990%) Apple
5 1 (0.990%) QNX
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
C++ Developer (Nottingham) A leading software development in the embedded platforms market are in need of hiring a mid-level C++ developer to work on a Windows CE...
Vertex Solutions
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum
Posted: 16 May 2013
Leicestershire, East Midlands
Desirables include:- - Familiarity with Real Time Operating Systems including Windows CE, and embedded Linux- Knowledge and experience of PC Applications development using Visual Studio/.NET If you have...
Computer Futures
Salary: £40000 - £45000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Bolton, Lancashire
Passionate and experienced Windows CE/Windows Mobile developer wanted to come and work on an interesting and challenging internal product... You will have developed several commercial applications on...
Appliance Online
Salary: Competitive Salary - Negotiable dependant on Experience
Posted: 29 April 2013
Oxfordshire, South East
As such, the successful candidate will have the following: degree educated in electronics engineering or computer science commercial experience in software development programming in C/ C++/Java embedded...
Progressive Recruitment
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
Bristol, South West
The -NET Applications Developer works closely with customers, business analysts, and team members to understand business requirements that drive the analysis and design of sound technical solutions- The -...
OPUS
Salary: GBP45000 to GBP50000 per annum + Benefits: Excellent benefits
Posted: 4 May 2013
Cambridge, East Anglia
Embedded Software Engineer, C++, RTOS, WinCE, ThreadX, interfacing, electronics, Cambridge, to £40k depending on experience.With this high-tech company who are world leaders in their field.Due...
ECM Selection Ltd
Salary: to £40k dep. on experience
Posted: 22 April 2013
West Midlands
Windows Mobile Application Developer - Mobile Apps : Pocket PC / Windows Mobile 5 / Mobile 6.5, C#.net, SQL Server experience - first project 6 months in Midlands - Midlands, London and...
Spargonet Consulting Plc
Salary: £50000 to £55000 per annum - Pension, Life and Medical Insurance
Posted: 20 May 2013
Quay House, Manchester, United Kingdom
Responsibilities: - Handle all software aspects of the design, development, and continuous improvement of state of the art professional digital audio systems for the live performance arena - Liaise with...
Music Group UK
Salary: Negotiable
Posted: 22 May 2013
Manchester, North West, United Kingdom
Responsibilities of the Software Engineer (C++ Software Engineer) : - Handle all software aspects of the design, development, and continuous improvement of state of the art professional digital audio systems...
Music Group UK
Salary: Negotiable
Posted: 22 May 2013
Bolton, Lancashire
We need a passionate tester to own and grow the testing function in a friendly and focussed development team with multiple technologies in play including Java, RPG, Android,...
Appliance Online
Salary: Competitive Salary - Negotiable dependant on Experience
Posted: 7 May 2013