The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Telecoms in IT jobs advertised for the Aberdeen region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Telecoms 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 terms in our General category for the Aberdeen region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Telecommunications (Telecomms)
Rank 44 36 31
Rank change year-on-year
-8 -5
Permanent jobs citing Telecoms 4 12 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Aberdeen 1.153% 2.892% 3.089%
As % of the General category 5.063% 16.00% 18.60%
Number of salaries quoted 2 8 8
Average salary £28,750 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-28.12% -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- -2.43%
All of the General Category
Aberdeen
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
79 75 43
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Aberdeen 22.77% 18.07% 16.60%
Number of salaries quoted 64 44 36
Average salary £48,750 £58,500 £43,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-16.66% +34.48%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,300 £37,500 £29,000
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £65,000 £85,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- +3.65%
Telecoms
Scotland

Telecoms
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Telecoms across the Aberdeen region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

Aberdeen Telecoms Jobs Demand Trend

Telecoms
Salary Trend

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

Aberdeen Telecoms Salary Trend

Telecoms
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Telecoms across the Aberdeen region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Aberdeen Telecoms Salary Histogram

Telecoms
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Aberdeen region citing Telecoms 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 Telecoms.

1 3 (42.86%) Degree
2 2 (28.57%) Windows
2 2 (28.57%) Aerospace
2 2 (28.57%) LAN
2 2 (28.57%) Project Management
3 1 (14.29%) Service Management
3 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery
3 1 (14.29%) ITSM
3 1 (14.29%) Wireless
3 1 (14.29%) Back Office
3 1 (14.29%) Infragistics
3 1 (14.29%) Electronics
3 1 (14.29%) C#
3 1 (14.29%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) VB.NET
3 1 (14.29%) .NET
3 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
3 1 (14.29%) MS Office
3 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET
3 1 (14.29%) Web Services
3 1 (14.29%) ITIL
3 1 (14.29%) MCP
3 1 (14.29%) HND
3 1 (14.29%) WAN
3 1 (14.29%) VPN
3 1 (14.29%) SLA
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 1 (14.29%) CCNA

Telecoms
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
1 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET
1 1 (14.29%) Web Services
1 1 (14.29%) WinForms
1 1 (14.29%) WCF
1 1 (14.29%) WSE
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) MS Office
1 1 (14.29%) MS Excel
1 1 (14.29%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) LAN
2 1 (14.29%) WAN
2 1 (14.29%) VPN
2 1 (14.29%) SAN
2 1 (14.29%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
1 1 (14.29%) Data Mining
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Subversion
General
1 2 (28.57%) Aerospace
2 1 (14.29%) Back Office
2 1 (14.29%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 1 (14.29%) Developer
1 1 (14.29%) Analyst
1 1 (14.29%) Consultant
1 1 (14.29%) Systems Engineer
1 1 (14.29%) Senior Systems Engineer
1 1 (14.29%) Technical Consultant
1 1 (14.29%) Field Engineer
1 1 (14.29%) .NET Developer
1 1 (14.29%) Team Leader
1 1 (14.29%) Telecoms Engineer
1 1 (14.29%) Deskside Support
1 1 (14.29%) Network Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
1 1 (14.29%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Project Management
2 1 (14.29%) Service Management
2 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery
2 1 (14.29%) ITSM
2 1 (14.29%) Migration
2 1 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (14.29%) Asset Management
2 1 (14.29%) Information Management
2 1 (14.29%) Logistics
2 1 (14.29%) Requirements Analysis
2 1 (14.29%) Data Migration
2 1 (14.29%) 3D Modelling
2 1 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (14.29%) Demand Management
2 1 (14.29%) ITIL
2 1 (14.29%) OO
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) C#
1 1 (14.29%) Java
1 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
1 1 (14.29%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) MCP
2 1 (14.29%) HND
2 1 (14.29%) CCNA
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (14.29%) CNE
2 1 (14.29%) Novell Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 1 (14.29%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 1 (14.29%) Citrix
1 1 (14.29%) Symantec
1 1 (14.29%) Infragistics
1 1 (14.29%) VMware
1 1 (14.29%) DevExpress