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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Bluetooth
Rank 90 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing Bluetooth 2 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wales 0.162% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.806% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Average salary £36,000 - -
UK excluding London average salary £47,500 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+18.75% +6.66%
All Communications & Networking
Wales
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
248 245 115
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wales 20.08% 21.01% 11.02%
Number of salaries quoted 232 207 102
Average salary £32,500 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.14% -
90% offered a salary of more than £24,500 £24,000 £23,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £45,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
Bluetooth
UK

Bluetooth
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wales Bluetooth Jobs Demand Trend

Bluetooth
Salary Trend

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

Wales Bluetooth Salary Trend

Bluetooth
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Wales region citing Bluetooth 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 Bluetooth.

1 4 (100.00%) Assembly Language
1 4 (100.00%) Firmware
1 4 (100.00%) Electronics
1 4 (100.00%) Degree
2 3 (75.00%) Mathematics
2 3 (75.00%) Physics
2 3 (75.00%) ZigBee
2 3 (75.00%) Multithreading
2 3 (75.00%) System Testing
2 3 (75.00%) JTAG
2 3 (75.00%) HSPA
2 3 (75.00%) Atmel
2 3 (75.00%) TELNET
2 3 (75.00%) C
2 3 (75.00%) C#
2 3 (75.00%) C++
2 3 (75.00%) HTML
2 3 (75.00%) Java
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) .NET
2 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) LDAP
2 3 (75.00%) Windows XP
2 3 (75.00%) GPRS
2 3 (75.00%) UMTS
2 3 (75.00%) WAN
2 3 (75.00%) HTTP
2 3 (75.00%) SNMP
2 3 (75.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (75.00%) SSH

Bluetooth
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Wales region citing Bluetooth 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 Bluetooth. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (75.00%) HTML
1 3 (75.00%) .NET
1 3 (75.00%) Ajax
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) ZigBee
1 3 (75.00%) HSPA
1 3 (75.00%) TELNET
1 3 (75.00%) LDAP
1 3 (75.00%) GPRS
1 3 (75.00%) UMTS
1 3 (75.00%) WAN
1 3 (75.00%) HTTP
1 3 (75.00%) SNMP
1 3 (75.00%) TCP/IP
1 3 (75.00%) SSH
1 3 (75.00%) Wireless
2 1 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 4 (100.00%) Electronics
2 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (25.00%) Games
2 1 (25.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Development Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Firmware Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Software Development Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Electronics Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Firmware
2 3 (75.00%) Mathematics
2 3 (75.00%) Physics
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
1 3 (75.00%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Multithreading
1 3 (75.00%) System Testing
1 3 (75.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Assembly Language
2 3 (75.00%) C
2 3 (75.00%) C#
2 3 (75.00%) C++
2 3 (75.00%) Java
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) Embedded C
3 1 (25.00%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) JTAG
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Atmel