Banbury GSM Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) skills within the Banbury region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited GSM over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM)
Location Avon Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bridgwater Bristol Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheshire Chester City of London Coventry Crawley Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Farnborough Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Hertfordshire Hungerford Ipswich Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds London Middlesex Midlands Newbury Norfolk North West Norwich Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Poole Reading Rugby Scotland Slough Somerset South East South West Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Swindon UK Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Woking Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	17	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching permanent IT job ads	5	0
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	55.56 %	0.000 %
Salaries quoted	5	0
Average minimum salary	£39,000	-
Average salary	£46,000	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum salary	£53,000	-
UK excluding London average salary	£41,257	£40,779
% change on same period last year	+1.17 %
Communications & Networking Banbury
Matching permanent IT job ads	9	3
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.006 %	0.001 %
Salaries quoted	9	2
Average minimum salary	£38,000	£28,500
Average salary	£44,143	£30,375
% change on same period last year	+45.32 %
Average maximum salary	£50,286	£32,250
UK excluding London average salary	£37,824	£38,320
% change on same period last year	-1.29 %
GSM Oxfordshire

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing GSM across the Banbury region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

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Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing GSM across the Banbury region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT jobs across the Banbury region citing GSM 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 GSM.

1 7 (87.50 %) TCP/IP 1 7 (87.50 %) GPRS 2 6 (75.00 %) Bluetooth 3 5 (62.50 %) Automotive 3 5 (62.50 %) UMTS 4 4 (50.00 %) Electronics 4 4 (50.00 %) Telecoms 4 4 (50.00 %) Windows 4 4 (50.00 %) Windows Mobile 5 3 (37.50 %) Device Driver 5 3 (37.50 %) UIQ 5 3 (37.50 %) Series 60 5 3 (37.50 %) OO 5 3 (37.50 %) PhD 5 3 (37.50 %) OOD

5 3 (37.50 %) C 5 3 (37.50 %) C# 5 3 (37.50 %) C++ 5 3 (37.50 %) Java 5 3 (37.50 %) .NET 5 3 (37.50 %) Windows CE 5 3 (37.50 %) Internet 5 3 (37.50 %) MATLAB 5 3 (37.50 %) French Language 5 3 (37.50 %) German Language 5 3 (37.50 %) Portuguese Language 6 2 (25.00 %) Integration Testing 6 2 (25.00 %) Test Scripting 6 2 (25.00 %) Manufacturing 6 2 (25.00 %) Software Testing

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT jobs across the Banbury region citing GSM 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 GSM. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 3 (37.50 %) UIQ 1 3 (37.50 %) Series 60 1 3 (37.50 %) .NET	Applications 1 3 (37.50 %) MATLAB
Communications & Networking 1 7 (87.50 %) TCP/IP 1 7 (87.50 %) GPRS 2 6 (75.00 %) Bluetooth 3 5 (62.50 %) UMTS 4 3 (37.50 %) Internet	General 1 5 (62.50 %) Automotive 2 4 (50.00 %) Electronics 2 4 (50.00 %) Telecoms 3 2 (25.00 %) Manufacturing
Job Titles 1 3 (37.50 %) Senior Test Engineer 1 3 (37.50 %) Test Engineer 1 3 (37.50 %) Senior Software Engineer 1 3 (37.50 %) Software Test Engineer 1 3 (37.50 %) Software Engineer 2 1 (12.50 %) Team Leader 2 1 (12.50 %) Technical Team Leader 2 1 (12.50 %) Test Manager	Miscellaneous 1 3 (37.50 %) Device Driver 1 3 (37.50 %) French Language 1 3 (37.50 %) German Language 1 3 (37.50 %) Portuguese Language 2 1 (12.50 %) Smartphone
Operating Systems 1 4 (50.00 %) Windows 1 4 (50.00 %) Windows Mobile 2 3 (37.50 %) Windows CE	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (37.50 %) OO 1 3 (37.50 %) OOD 2 2 (25.00 %) Integration Testing 2 2 (25.00 %) Test Scripting 2 2 (25.00 %) Software Testing 3 1 (12.50 %) Software Engineering 3 1 (12.50 %) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages 1 3 (37.50 %) C 1 3 (37.50 %) C# 1 3 (37.50 %) C++ 1 3 (37.50 %) Java	Qualifications 1 3 (37.50 %) PhD