The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Telecoms in IT jobs advertised for the Belfast region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Telecoms over the 3 months to 23 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 Belfast region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Telecommunications (Telecomms)
Rank 33 11 16
Rank change year-on-year
-22 +5
Permanent jobs citing Telecoms 10 32 21
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Belfast 4.115% 15.24% 10.99%
As % of the General category 9.901% 25.20% 19.81%
Number of salaries quoted 5 23 5
Average salary £40,000 £15,500 £34,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+158.06% -55.07%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £14,250 £26,900
10% offered a salary of more than £49,800 £15,500 £39,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- -2.43%
All of the General Category
Belfast
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
101 127 106
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Belfast 41.56% 60.48% 55.50%
Number of salaries quoted 72 69 57
Average salary £42,000 £16,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+162.50% -60.00%
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- +3.65%
Telecoms
County Antrim

Telecoms
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Belfast 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 Belfast region.

Belfast Telecoms Salary Trend

Telecoms
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Telecoms across the Belfast region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Belfast Telecoms Salary Histogram

Telecoms
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Belfast 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 19 (76.00%) C
2 13 (52.00%) UNIX
3 12 (48.00%) Finance
4 11 (44.00%) SQL
4 11 (44.00%) C++
5 10 (40.00%) Java
5 10 (40.00%) MVC
5 10 (40.00%) Degree
5 10 (40.00%) New Media
6 9 (36.00%) Spring MVC
6 9 (36.00%) Spring
6 9 (36.00%) J2EE
7 8 (32.00%) Linux
7 8 (32.00%) Embedded C
8 4 (16.00%) Python
9 3 (12.00%) Banking
9 3 (12.00%) Retail
10 2 (8.000%) Bash shell
10 2 (8.000%) Software Engineering
10 2 (8.000%) DTV
10 2 (8.000%) Project Management
10 2 (8.000%) Client/Server
10 2 (8.000%) Oracle
11 1 (4.000%) SQL Server
11 1 (4.000%) WebLogic
11 1 (4.000%) Visual Studio
11 1 (4.000%) ASP.NET
11 1 (4.000%) CSS
11 1 (4.000%) JSP
11 1 (4.000%) Servlets

Telecoms
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Belfast 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 9 (36.00%) Spring MVC
1 9 (36.00%) Spring
1 9 (36.00%) J2EE
2 1 (4.000%) ASP.NET
2 1 (4.000%) CSS
2 1 (4.000%) JSP
2 1 (4.000%) Servlets
2 1 (4.000%) Web Services
2 1 (4.000%) XML
2 1 (4.000%) HTML
2 1 (4.000%) .NET
2 1 (4.000%) Silverlight
2 1 (4.000%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 1 (4.000%) WebLogic
1 1 (4.000%) Apache
1 1 (4.000%) Tomcat
1 1 (4.000%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.000%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.000%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.000%) SQL Server
1 1 (4.000%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (4.000%) GIS
Development Applications
1 1 (4.000%) Visual Studio
1 1 (4.000%) LoadRunner
General
1 12 (48.00%) Finance
2 3 (12.00%) Banking
2 3 (12.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (24.00%) Junior
2 3 (12.00%) Programmer
2 3 (12.00%) C++ Programmer
2 3 (12.00%) C Programmer
2 3 (12.00%) Junior Programmer
2 3 (12.00%) Junior C Programmer
3 2 (8.000%) Graduate Software Engineer
3 2 (8.000%) C Software Engineer
3 2 (8.000%) C++ Software Engineer
3 2 (8.000%) Software Engineer
3 2 (8.000%) Graduate
4 1 (4.000%) Project Manager
4 1 (4.000%) Tester
4 1 (4.000%) Developer
4 1 (4.000%) Consultant
4 1 (4.000%) Senior Developer
4 1 (4.000%) Senior Microsoft Developer
4 1 (4.000%) Storage Specialist
4 1 (4.000%) Performance Tester
4 1 (4.000%) UNIX Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 10 (40.00%) New Media
2 2 (8.000%) DTV
2 2 (8.000%) Client/Server
3 1 (4.000%) CLARiiON
3 1 (4.000%) Symmetrix DMX
3 1 (4.000%) Open Source
3 1 (4.000%) SaaS
3 1 (4.000%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 13 (52.00%) UNIX
2 8 (32.00%) Linux
3 1 (4.000%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (40.00%) MVC
2 2 (8.000%) Software Engineering
2 2 (8.000%) Project Management
3 1 (4.000%) ITIL
3 1 (4.000%) PRINCE2
3 1 (4.000%) OO
3 1 (4.000%) SOA
3 1 (4.000%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (4.000%) TOGAF
3 1 (4.000%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (4.000%) Service Delivery
3 1 (4.000%) Change Management
3 1 (4.000%) Migration
3 1 (4.000%) Unit Testing
3 1 (4.000%) Time Management
3 1 (4.000%) Data Migration
3 1 (4.000%) Embedded Software Development
Programming Languages
1 19 (76.00%) C
2 11 (44.00%) SQL
2 11 (44.00%) C++
3 10 (40.00%) Java
4 8 (32.00%) Embedded C
5 4 (16.00%) Python
6 2 (8.000%) Bash shell
7 1 (4.000%) JavaScript
7 1 (4.000%) Perl
7 1 (4.000%) PHP
7 1 (4.000%) C#
Qualifications
1 10 (40.00%) Degree
2 1 (4.000%) PMP
2 1 (4.000%) PMI Certification
2 1 (4.000%) BC Cleared
2 1 (4.000%) CTC Cleared
2 1 (4.000%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (4.000%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 1 (4.000%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 2 (8.000%) Oracle
2 1 (4.000%) Cisco
2 1 (4.000%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.000%) HP
2 1 (4.000%) EMC
2 1 (4.000%) NetApp
2 1 (4.000%) StorageTek
2 1 (4.000%) Symantec
2 1 (4.000%) ESRI
2 1 (4.000%) Brocade
2 1 (4.000%) Fujitsu