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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Firmware
Rank 30 28 26
Rank change year-on-year
-2 -2
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 2 1 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wakefield 1.399% 1.000% 3.846%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.714% 2.703% 8.333%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 4
Average salary £35,000 £33,000 £33,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.06% -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Wakefield
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
35 37 48
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wakefield 24.48% 37.00% 46.15%
Number of salaries quoted 35 20 48
Average salary £32,500 £39,250 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-17.19% -1.87%
90% offered a salary of more than £21,500 £22,800 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £47,400 £40,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,815 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.96% +6.66%
Firmware
West Yorkshire

Firmware
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wakefield Firmware Jobs Demand Trend

Firmware
Salary Trend

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

Wakefield Firmware Salary Trend

Firmware
Top 11 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Wakefield region citing Firmware 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 Firmware.

1 4 (100.00%) C
1 4 (100.00%) C++
1 4 (100.00%) GPRS
1 4 (100.00%) GSM
1 4 (100.00%) Ethernet
1 4 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 4 (100.00%) Embedded C
1 4 (100.00%) 3G
1 4 (100.00%) Wireless
1 4 (100.00%) ZigBee
1 4 (100.00%) Atmel

Firmware
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) GPRS
1 4 (100.00%) GSM
1 4 (100.00%) Ethernet
1 4 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 4 (100.00%) 3G
1 4 (100.00%) Wireless
1 4 (100.00%) ZigBee
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Software Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) Firmware Engineer
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C
1 4 (100.00%) C++
1 4 (100.00%) Embedded C
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Atmel