The first table below looks at the demand for 2G skills in IT jobs advertised for the Wales region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited 2G 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 Communications & Networking category for the Wales region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
2G
Rank - - -
Permanent jobs citing 2G 0 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wales - - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category - - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Average salary - - -
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year
-5.55% -
All Communications & Networking
Wales
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
257 240 129
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wales 20.63% 21.09% 12.39%
Number of salaries quoted 242 203 114
Average salary £32,500 £35,000 £36,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.14% -2.77%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,500 £24,800 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £50,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
2G
UK

2G
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing 2G across the Wales region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Wales 2G Jobs Demand Trend

2G
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing 2G across the Wales region.

Wales 2G Salary Trend

2G
Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Wales region citing 2G 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 2G.

1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) SOAP
1 3 (100.00%) Web Services
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) 3G
1 3 (100.00%) Blackberry
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
1 3 (100.00%) JIRA
1 3 (100.00%) Selenium
1 3 (100.00%) Android
1 3 (100.00%) iPhone
1 3 (100.00%) HP Quality Center
1 3 (100.00%) WebDriver
1 3 (100.00%) iPad
1 3 (100.00%) Apple iOS
1 3 (100.00%) soapUI
1 3 (100.00%) 4G
1 3 (100.00%) REST
1 3 (100.00%) Mobile App

2G
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Wales region citing 2G 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 2G. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (100.00%) SOAP
1 3 (100.00%) Web Services
1 3 (100.00%) soapUI
1 3 (100.00%) REST
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) 3G
1 3 (100.00%) 4G
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) JIRA
1 3 (100.00%) Selenium
1 3 (100.00%) WebDriver
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Tester
1 3 (100.00%) Applications Tester
1 3 (100.00%) Mobile Tester
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Blackberry
1 3 (100.00%) iPhone
1 3 (100.00%) iPad
1 3 (100.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Android
1 3 (100.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) HP Quality Center