The first table below looks at the demand for NFC skills in IT jobs advertised for the Wales region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited NFC 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
Near Field Communication (NFC)
Rank - - -
Permanent jobs citing NFC 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 £52,500 £45,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year
+16.66% -21.73%
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%
NFC
UK

NFC
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) WML
1 1 (100.00%) Ant
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) Flash
1 1 (100.00%) XHTML
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (100.00%) Blackberry
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Xcode
1 1 (100.00%) Objective-C
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Subversion
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) BREW
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Mobile
1 1 (100.00%) Java ME
1 1 (100.00%) Animation

NFC
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) WML
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) Flash
1 1 (100.00%) XHTML
1 1 (100.00%) BREW
1 1 (100.00%) Java ME
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) Google Maps API
1 1 (100.00%) Core Animation
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) UIKit
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Ant
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (100.00%) Xcode
1 1 (100.00%) Subversion
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
1 1 (100.00%) Git (software)
1 1 (100.00%) Mercurial
1 1 (100.00%) Hudson
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Blackberry Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Android Developer
1 1 (100.00%) iOS Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior iOS Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Blackberry
1 1 (100.00%) Animation
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Flash Lite
1 1 (100.00%) Java Card
1 1 (100.00%) iPhone
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Mobile
1 1 (100.00%) Android
1 1 (100.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Multithreading
1 1 (100.00%) Memory Management
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Objective-C
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google