The first table below looks at the demand for GSM skills in IT jobs advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited GSM over the 3 months to 22 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 Berkshire region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM)
Rank 168 110 161
Rank change year-on-year
-58 +51
Permanent jobs citing GSM 49 126 28
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.938% 2.013% 0.545%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.999% 7.356% 2.905%
Number of salaries quoted 30 119 24
Average salary £47,500 £37,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+28.37% -7.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £31,400 £30,000 £30,450
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £50,000 £40,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+23.45% +1.25%
All Communications & Networking
Berkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
1634 1713 964
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 31.29% 27.37% 18.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1243 1385 757
Average salary £40,000 £42,500 £42,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.88% +1.19%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,500 £30,000 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
GSM
South East

GSM
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing GSM across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Berkshire GSM Jobs Demand Trend

GSM
Salary Trend

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

Berkshire GSM Salary Trend

GSM
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing GSM across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Berkshire GSM Salary Histogram

GSM
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GSM within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Reading +5 22 £48,750 +50.00%
Bracknell -15 9 £34,000 -24.44%
Newbury -29 5 £32,500 -4.41%
GSM
South East

GSM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire 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 92 (76.03%) Telecoms
2 58 (47.93%) 3G
3 51 (42.15%) UMTS
4 48 (39.67%) LTE
5 46 (38.02%) Wireless
6 38 (31.40%) Windows
7 28 (23.14%) Degree
8 27 (22.31%) UNIX
9 26 (21.49%) 2G
10 25 (20.66%) Bluetooth
11 24 (19.83%) Linux
12 23 (19.01%) GPRS
12 23 (19.01%) Electronics
13 21 (17.36%) ISEB
14 20 (16.53%) 4G
15 18 (14.88%) ZigBee
15 18 (14.88%) Agile Software Development
15 18 (14.88%) Service Delivery
16 17 (14.05%) Wi-Fi
16 17 (14.05%) C++
16 17 (14.05%) .NET
17 16 (13.22%) Oracle
18 15 (12.40%) Microsoft
18 15 (12.40%) CDMA
18 15 (12.40%) VoIP
18 15 (12.40%) SS7
18 15 (12.40%) HSPA
19 14 (11.57%) WCDMA
19 14 (11.57%) 3GPP
19 14 (11.57%) C

GSM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire 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 17 (14.05%) .NET
2 11 (9.091%) Web Services
3 5 (4.132%) MFC
4 4 (3.306%) SOAP
5 3 (2.479%) X-Windows
5 3 (2.479%) REST
6 2 (1.653%) Qt
7 1 (0.826%) WinForms
7 1 (0.826%) ASP.NET
7 1 (0.826%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.826%) .NET Compact Framework
Applications
1 3 (2.479%) MS Excel
2 2 (1.653%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 58 (47.93%) 3G
2 51 (42.15%) UMTS
3 48 (39.67%) LTE
4 46 (38.02%) Wireless
5 26 (21.49%) 2G
6 25 (20.66%) Bluetooth
7 23 (19.01%) GPRS
8 20 (16.53%) 4G
9 18 (14.88%) ZigBee
10 17 (14.05%) Wi-Fi
11 15 (12.40%) CDMA
11 15 (12.40%) VoIP
11 15 (12.40%) SS7
11 15 (12.40%) HSPA
12 14 (11.57%) WCDMA
12 14 (11.57%) 3GPP
13 13 (10.74%) Radio Access Network
14 12 (9.917%) SGSN
14 12 (9.917%) HTTP
15 11 (9.091%) SIGTRAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (9.091%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.479%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 7 (5.785%) Visual Studio
1 7 (5.785%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (1.653%) ClearCase
General
1 92 (76.03%) Telecoms
2 23 (19.01%) Electronics
3 9 (7.438%) Advertising
3 9 (7.438%) Pharmaceutical
4 4 (3.306%) Finance
5 3 (2.479%) Marketing
6 2 (1.653%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.653%) Back Office
7 1 (0.826%) Czech Language
Job Titles
1 20 (16.53%) Software Engineer
2 17 (14.05%) Test Engineer
3 13 (10.74%) Customer Engineer
3 13 (10.74%) Project Engineer
4 11 (9.091%) Support Engineer
4 11 (9.091%) QA Engineer
5 10 (8.264%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 9 (7.438%) Network Engineer
7 8 (6.612%) Network Support
7 8 (6.612%) Network Support Engineer
8 7 (5.785%) Field Engineer
8 7 (5.785%) Principal Engineer
8 7 (5.785%) Core Network Engineer
8 7 (5.785%) Performance Engineer
9 6 (4.959%) Junior
10 5 (4.132%) RAN Engineer
11 4 (3.306%) Technical Manager
11 4 (3.306%) DSP Software Engineer
11 4 (3.306%) C Software Engineer
11 4 (3.306%) DSP Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.74%) Handset
1 13 (10.74%) Smartphone
2 11 (9.091%) Embedded Systems
3 10 (8.264%) Computer Science
4 7 (5.785%) Device Driver
5 6 (4.959%) Mobile Computing
5 6 (4.959%) Clustering
6 3 (2.479%) Firmware
6 3 (2.479%) N-Tier
7 1 (0.826%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.826%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 38 (31.40%) Windows
2 27 (22.31%) UNIX
3 24 (19.83%) Linux
4 11 (9.091%) Solaris
5 8 (6.612%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (5.785%) VxWorks
6 7 (5.785%) Windows CE
6 7 (5.785%) ThreadX
7 4 (3.306%) Windows Vista
8 3 (2.479%) Android
9 2 (1.653%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (14.88%) Agile Software Development
1 18 (14.88%) Service Delivery
2 13 (10.74%) Performance Testing
3 11 (9.091%) Regression Testing
3 11 (9.091%) Scrum
4 10 (8.264%) Test Management
5 9 (7.438%) Manual Testing
5 9 (7.438%) Network Design
6 7 (5.785%) Quality Management
6 7 (5.785%) Embedded Software Development
6 7 (5.785%) Logistics
6 7 (5.785%) Performance Management
6 7 (5.785%) Resource Management
7 6 (4.959%) Time Management
8 5 (4.132%) Capacity Planning
8 5 (4.132%) Software Engineering
8 5 (4.132%) Software Testing
9 4 (3.306%) Integration Testing
9 4 (3.306%) Problem Management
9 4 (3.306%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (14.05%) C++
2 14 (11.57%) C
2 14 (11.57%) C#
3 12 (9.917%) SQL
4 10 (8.264%) Embedded C
5 3 (2.479%) Assembly Language
5 3 (2.479%) Embedded C++
6 2 (1.653%) VC++
6 2 (1.653%) Java
7 1 (0.826%) Perl
7 1 (0.826%) Python
Qualifications
1 28 (23.14%) Degree
2 21 (17.36%) ISEB
3 10 (8.264%) ISTQB
4 2 (1.653%) HNC
4 2 (1.653%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.917%) QA
2 11 (9.091%) ISO 9001
3 9 (7.438%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (3.306%) NDS
Systems Management
1 2 (1.653%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 16 (13.22%) Oracle
2 15 (12.40%) Microsoft
3 10 (8.264%) Ericsson
4 9 (7.438%) Nokia
5 8 (6.612%) Huawei
5 8 (6.612%) Nokia Siemens Networks
5 8 (6.612%) Red Hat
5 8 (6.612%) Cisco
5 8 (6.612%) HP
6 6 (4.959%) Sun
7 5 (4.132%) Tektronix
8 4 (3.306%) Alcatel-Lucent
8 4 (3.306%) TIBCO
9 3 (2.479%) NEC
9 3 (2.479%) Veritas
9 3 (2.479%) EMC
9 3 (2.479%) Symbian
10 2 (1.653%) Business Objects
10 2 (1.653%) Mapinfo
11 1 (0.826%) BT
Reading, Berkshire
Junior Project Engineer - Handsets / Devices / Quality of Service / Drive Test / Field Test - Telecoms... Key Skills: Previous experience in field test / drive test / mobile handset testing would be advantageous.....
Prosper Consulting
Salary: From £18,000 to £25,000 per annum DOE + Excellent Corporate Package
Posted: 17 May 2013
Reading, Berkshire
UNIX (Linux and/or Solaris) administration. Demonstrated web and application-level experience with protocols such as HTTP/HTML, IMAP, SMTP, POP3, and MAPI... Experience with PERL or C/...
Henderson Scott
Salary: £42,000 per annum
Posted: 16 May 2013