Wales WAP Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) skills within the Wales region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WAP over the last 3 months to 21 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Wireless Application Protocol (WAP)
Location Altrincham Berkshire Blackpool Bracknell Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheshire City of London Derby Derbyshire Dorking Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Ipswich Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds London Manchester Middlesex Norfolk North West North Yorkshire Northwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Poole Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Scotland Slough South East South Wales South West Stevenage Suffolk Surrey Thames Valley UK Wales West Midlands West Yorkshire Windsor York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	92	99
Rank change on same period last year	+7
Matching permanent IT job ads	6	1
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	1.515 %	0.167 %
Salaries quoted	6	0
Average minimum salary	£29,167	-
Average salary	£40,042	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum salary	£50,917	-
UK excluding London average salary	£38,481	£37,680
% change on same period last year	+2.12 %
Application Development Wales
Matching permanent IT job ads	396	599
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.196 %	0.260 %
Salaries quoted	357	562
Average minimum salary	£27,210	£28,353
Average salary	£30,614	£32,123
% change on same period last year	-4.69 %
Average maximum salary	£34,017	£35,893
UK excluding London average salary	£35,984	£36,619
% change on same period last year	-1.73 %
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WAP
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of permanent IT jobs ads citing WAP across the Wales region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

WAP
Salary Trend

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

WAP
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing WAP across the Wales region over the past 3 months.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WAP within the Wales region over the past 3 months.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
South Wales	+3	6	£40,042	-

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WAP
Top 13 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the Wales region citing WAP also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing WAP.

1 3 (50.00 %) Perl 2 2 (33.33 %) C 2 2 (33.33 %) C++ 2 2 (33.33 %) XML 2 2 (33.33 %) Windows 2 2 (33.33 %) Linux 2 2 (33.33 %) Tomcat 2 2 (33.33 %) Eclipse 2 2 (33.33 %) Windows Mobile 3 1 (16.67 %) Process Management 3 1 (16.67 %) Advertising 3 1 (16.67 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 3 1 (16.67 %) MS Office

WAP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the Wales region citing WAP also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing WAP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2 (33.33 %) XML	Application Platforms 1 2 (33.33 %) Tomcat
Applications 1 1 (16.67 %) MS Office	Development Applications 1 2 (33.33 %) Eclipse
General 1 1 (16.67 %) Advertising	Job Titles 1 5 (83.33 %) Developer 2 3 (50.00 %) Perl Developer 3 2 (33.33 %) C Developer 3 2 (33.33 %) C++ Developer 4 1 (16.67 %) Content Editor
Operating Systems 1 2 (33.33 %) Windows 1 2 (33.33 %) Linux 1 2 (33.33 %) Windows Mobile	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (16.67 %) Process Management
Programming Languages 1 3 (50.00 %) Perl 2 2 (33.33 %) C 2 2 (33.33 %) C++	Systems Management 1 1 (16.67 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)