The first table below looks at the demand for Windows Phone 8 skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Windows Phone 8 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 of the Operating Systems category.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows Phone 8 (WinPhone8, WP8)
Rank 816 895 -
Rank change year-on-year
+79 -
Permanent jobs citing Windows Phone 8 42 1 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.039% 0.001% -
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.144% 0.003% -
Number of salaries quoted 38 0 0
Average salary £52,500 - -
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 - -
All Operating Systems
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
29230 32182 30672
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 27.12% 26.61% 24.84%
Number of salaries quoted 24647 27625 25831
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 £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%

Windows Phone 8
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Windows Phone 8 within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Windows Phone 8 Jobs Demand Trend

Windows Phone 8
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Windows Phone 8 within the UK.

Windows Phone 8 Salary Trend

Windows Phone 8
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Windows Phone 8 over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 within the UK.

Windows Phone 8 Salary Histogram

Windows Phone 8
Top 24 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Phone 8 within the UK 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
England +71 39 £52,500 -
London - 20 £72,500 -
West Midlands - 11 £35,000 -
Coventry - 4 £35,000 -
South West - 4 £31,500 -
City of London - 3 £77,500 -
North West - 3 £80,000 -
Bristol - 2 £31,500 -
Cardiff - 2 £30,500 -
Liverpool - 2 £80,000 -
Leeds - 2 £47,500 -
Wolverhampton - 2 £22,500 -
Street - 2 £80,000 -
South Wales - 2 £30,500 -
Merseyside - 2 £80,000 -
Yorkshire - 2 £47,500 -
West Yorkshire - 2 £47,500 -
Somerset - 2 £80,000 -
Wales - 2 £30,500 -
East of England +3 1 - -
Cambridgeshire - 1 - -
Manchester - 1 - -
Cambridge - 1 - -
Birmingham - 1 £35,000 -

Windows Phone 8
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing Windows Phone 8 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 Phone 8.

1 80 (100.00%) Windows
1 80 (100.00%) Windows Phone
2 60 (75.00%) Android
3 59 (73.75%) C++
4 54 (67.50%) C#
5 51 (63.75%) .NET
6 42 (52.50%) Apple iOS
7 39 (48.75%) Web Services
8 36 (45.00%) Java
9 33 (41.25%) Scrum
10 27 (33.75%) Objective-C
10 27 (33.75%) SQL
11 26 (32.50%) iPhone
12 25 (31.25%) SQL Server
13 24 (30.00%) Windows 8
14 23 (28.75%) HTML5
14 23 (28.75%) Windows Phone 7
15 21 (26.25%) Mobile App
16 20 (25.00%) C
16 20 (25.00%) OOP
16 20 (25.00%) Blackberry
16 20 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
16 20 (25.00%) Windows Mobile
17 18 (22.50%) Web Development
17 18 (22.50%) E-Commerce
17 18 (22.50%) OO
17 18 (22.50%) Linux
17 18 (22.50%) CSS
17 18 (22.50%) WCF
18 17 (21.25%) Multithreading

Windows Phone 8
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing Windows Phone 8 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 Phone 8. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 51 (63.75%) .NET
2 39 (48.75%) Web Services
3 23 (28.75%) HTML5
4 18 (22.50%) CSS
4 18 (22.50%) WCF
5 17 (21.25%) XML
6 15 (18.75%) jQuery
6 15 (18.75%) CSS3
7 12 (15.00%) WPF
8 11 (13.75%) Silverlight
9 10 (12.50%) Qt
9 10 (12.50%) ASP.NET
10 9 (11.25%) HTML
10 9 (11.25%) XHTML
11 8 (10.00%) SOAP
11 8 (10.00%) RESTful
12 7 (8.750%) .NET Framework
13 6 (7.500%) Cocoa
13 6 (7.500%) JSP
13 6 (7.500%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 12 (15.00%) Amazon AWS
2 6 (7.500%) Apache
3 3 (3.750%) Windows Azure
4 2 (2.500%) IIS
4 2 (2.500%) SharePoint
4 2 (2.500%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (2.500%) CMS
4 2 (2.500%) Umbraco
4 2 (2.500%) Sitecore CMS
4 2 (2.500%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 2 (2.500%) Photoshop
1 2 (2.500%) MS Office
1 2 (2.500%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 13 (16.25%) Internet
2 11 (13.75%) HTTP
3 8 (10.00%) TCP/IP
4 7 (8.750%) NFC
5 6 (7.500%) Bluetooth
6 5 (6.250%) GPRS
6 5 (6.250%) GSM
6 5 (6.250%) UMTS
6 5 (6.250%) VoIP
6 5 (6.250%) WLAN
6 5 (6.250%) DVB
6 5 (6.250%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (31.25%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.500%) MySQL
3 1 (1.250%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 14 (17.50%) Subversion
2 12 (15.00%) Visual Studio
3 10 (12.50%) JIRA
4 4 (5.000%) Eclipse
4 4 (5.000%) Xcode
5 2 (2.500%) Maven
5 2 (2.500%) Git (software)
5 2 (2.500%) Mercurial
5 2 (2.500%) Hudson
5 2 (2.500%) MSBuild
5 2 (2.500%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.500%) JUnit
6 1 (1.250%) Moq
6 1 (1.250%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 9 (11.25%) Finance
1 9 (11.25%) Multimedia
2 6 (7.500%) Publishing
3 5 (6.250%) Electronics
4 1 (1.250%) Telecoms
4 1 (1.250%) Legal
4 1 (1.250%) Advertising
4 1 (1.250%) Retail
4 1 (1.250%) Music
Job Titles
1 56 (70.00%) Developer
2 25 (31.25%) Mobile Developer
3 18 (22.50%) C# Developer
4 15 (18.75%) Software Developer
5 13 (16.25%) Mobile Applications Developer
6 12 (15.00%) Windows Mobile Developer
7 10 (12.50%) Software Engineer
8 9 (11.25%) Applications Developer
9 8 (10.00%) Junior
9 8 (10.00%) Junior Developer
9 8 (10.00%) Junior C# Developer
10 5 (6.250%) Senior Software Engineer
10 5 (6.250%) .NET Developer
11 4 (5.000%) Web Developer
11 4 (5.000%) Senior Developer
11 4 (5.000%) Team Leader
11 4 (5.000%) Senior Software Developer
11 4 (5.000%) Technical Team Leader
11 4 (5.000%) .NET Web Developer
11 4 (5.000%) C# .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 26 (32.50%) iPhone
2 21 (26.25%) Mobile App
3 20 (25.00%) Blackberry
4 16 (20.00%) iPad
5 10 (12.50%) Pocket PC
6 6 (7.500%) Smartphone
6 6 (7.500%) Cryptography
7 5 (6.250%) Speech Recognition
7 5 (6.250%) MPEG
7 5 (6.250%) 3D Graphics
7 5 (6.250%) Device Driver
8 4 (5.000%) Computer Science
9 2 (2.500%) Java Card
9 2 (2.500%) Management Information System
9 2 (2.500%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (1.250%) Handset
10 1 (1.250%) Mathematics
10 1 (1.250%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 80 (100.00%) Windows
1 80 (100.00%) Windows Phone
2 60 (75.00%) Android
3 42 (52.50%) Apple iOS
4 24 (30.00%) Windows 8
5 23 (28.75%) Windows Phone 7
6 20 (25.00%) Windows Mobile
7 18 (22.50%) Linux
8 10 (12.50%) UNIX
8 10 (12.50%) Windows CE
9 7 (8.750%) Mac OS X
10 5 (6.250%) Nucleus RTOS
10 5 (6.250%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (41.25%) Scrum
2 20 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
2 20 (25.00%) OOP
3 18 (22.50%) OO
3 18 (22.50%) E-Commerce
3 18 (22.50%) Web Development
4 17 (21.25%) Multithreading
5 16 (20.00%) TDD
6 14 (17.50%) MVC
6 14 (17.50%) OOD
7 12 (15.00%) OOA/OOD
7 12 (15.00%) Kanban
7 12 (15.00%) BDD
8 9 (11.25%) SOA
9 5 (6.250%) Mobile Commerce
9 5 (6.250%) DRM
10 4 (5.000%) Continuous Integration
11 3 (3.750%) User Acceptance Testing
11 3 (3.750%) Unit Testing
11 3 (3.750%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 59 (73.75%) C++
2 54 (67.50%) C#
3 36 (45.00%) Java
4 27 (33.75%) SQL
4 27 (33.75%) Objective-C
5 20 (25.00%) C
6 10 (12.50%) Embedded C++
7 9 (11.25%) JavaScript
8 7 (8.750%) XAML
9 6 (7.500%) T-SQL
10 4 (5.000%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 9 (11.25%) Degree
2 1 (1.250%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.250%) QA
Vendors
1 13 (16.25%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.500%) Apple
3 5 (6.250%) QNX
4 2 (2.500%) Sitecore
5 1 (1.250%) Fujitsu
City, London
C++, Mobile, iOS, iPhone, iPad, Objective-C, Xcode, UIKit, BlackBerry, Android, Windows Phone, Multithreading, HTML5, JavaScript, Networking, Design Patterns, UNIX... The role comprises end-to-end, real-time...
Aston Carter
Salary: £65000 - £90000 per annum + benefits, bonus, perks, training
Posted: 14 May 2013
City, London
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Aston Carter
Salary: £60000 - £85000 per annum + benefits, bonus, perks, training
Posted: 16 May 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: 17 May 2013
City, London
The role will comprise end-to-end solutions for mobile devices (iOS, Android, Blackberry and Windows Phone 8 platforms) including development of the services that provide the data.
Bloomberg LP
Salary: Competitive benefits
Posted: 14 May 2013
City of London
The role will comprise end-to-end solutions for mobile devices (iOS, Android, Blackberry and Windows Phone 8 platforms) including development of the services that provide the data.
Bloomberg
Salary: Competitive benefits
Posted: 18 May 2013
Bristol, South West
Good knowledge of Java and object-orientated development. Knowledge of REST-based web services, XML and JSON data format... Experience in Web development technologies HTML, CSS, Javascript. Experience...
Salary: £28000 - £35000 per annum + bonus
Posted: 17 May 2013
Leeds, West Yorkshire
Location: Leeds Area, West Yorkshire A very exciting opportunity has arisen for a Developer, .NET Developer, C#, JavaScript, MVC, SQL Server 2008, Agile professional to join a leading...
Experis IT
Salary: £25000 - £30000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
Personal or commercial experience in Open Source Projects - Windows 8 experience - Windows Azure - Windows phone experience - Windows phone 8 experience This is a fantastic opportunity for a .NET...
D Tech Recruitment
Salary: From £30,000 to £45,000 per annum
Posted: 16 May 2013