The first table below looks at the demand for HSPA skills in IT jobs advertised for the Wales region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited HSPA 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
High Speed Packet Access (HSPA)
Rank 93 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing HSPA 2 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wales 0.161% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.778% - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Average salary - - -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year
-20.00% -9.09%
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%
HSPA
UK

HSPA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wales HSPA Jobs Demand Trend

HSPA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 3 (100.00%) C
1 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) C++
1 3 (100.00%) HTML
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) LDAP
1 3 (100.00%) Windows XP
1 3 (100.00%) Bluetooth
1 3 (100.00%) GPRS
1 3 (100.00%) UMTS
1 3 (100.00%) WAN
1 3 (100.00%) HTTP
1 3 (100.00%) SNMP
1 3 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 3 (100.00%) SSH
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Ajax
1 3 (100.00%) Degree
1 3 (100.00%) Mathematics
1 3 (100.00%) Physics
1 3 (100.00%) ZigBee
1 3 (100.00%) Multithreading
1 3 (100.00%) System Testing
1 3 (100.00%) JTAG
1 3 (100.00%) Atmel
1 3 (100.00%) Assembly Language
1 3 (100.00%) Firmware

HSPA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 3 (100.00%) HTML
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) Ajax
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) LDAP
1 3 (100.00%) Bluetooth
1 3 (100.00%) GPRS
1 3 (100.00%) UMTS
1 3 (100.00%) WAN
1 3 (100.00%) HTTP
1 3 (100.00%) SNMP
1 3 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 3 (100.00%) TELNET
1 3 (100.00%) Wireless
1 3 (100.00%) SSH
1 3 (100.00%) ZigBee
General
1 3 (100.00%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Development Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Firmware Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Software Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Software Development Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Firmware
1 3 (100.00%) Mathematics
1 3 (100.00%) Physics
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Multithreading
1 3 (100.00%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C
1 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) C++
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) Assembly Language
2 1 (33.33%) Embedded C
2 1 (33.33%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) JTAG
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Atmel