The first table below looks at the demand for SDH skills in IT jobs advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SDH over the 3 months to 18 June 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH)
Rank 219 207 200
Rank change year-on-year
-12 -7
Permanent jobs citing SDH 1 16 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.019% 0.258% 0.186%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.063% 0.910% 0.930%
Number of salaries quoted 0 9 7
Average salary - £31,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -17.33%
UK excluding London average salary £40,500 £43,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year
-6.89% -8.42%
All Communications & Networking
Berkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
1579 1758 1075
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 29.55% 28.35% 20.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1202 1365 850
Average salary £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.88% -
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £31,000 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £60,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
SDH
South East

SDH
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire SDH Jobs Demand Trend

SDH
Salary Trend

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

Berkshire SDH Salary Trend

SDH
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SDH within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
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Job
Vacancies
Reading +1 1 - -
SDH
South East

SDH
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire region citing SDH 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 SDH.

1 24 (77.42%) Telecoms
2 20 (64.52%) DWDM
3 15 (48.39%) Ethernet
4 12 (38.71%) Cisco
5 11 (35.48%) Nortel
6 10 (32.26%) SQL
6 10 (32.26%) Oracle
6 10 (32.26%) UNIX
6 10 (32.26%) Linux
7 9 (29.03%) MPLS
8 8 (25.81%) Veritas
8 8 (25.81%) ATM
8 8 (25.81%) Solaris
8 8 (25.81%) SQL Server
8 8 (25.81%) Sybase
8 8 (25.81%) VPN
9 7 (22.58%) HP
9 7 (22.58%) Internet
10 6 (19.35%) Juniper
10 6 (19.35%) Service Delivery
11 5 (16.13%) 3G
11 5 (16.13%) Symantec
11 5 (16.13%) TCP/IP
12 4 (12.90%) Degree
12 4 (12.90%) LTE
12 4 (12.90%) WAN
12 4 (12.90%) SLA
12 4 (12.90%) C
12 4 (12.90%) LAN
12 4 (12.90%) Oracle Reports

SDH
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire region citing SDH 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 SDH. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (3.226%) COM
Application Platforms
1 1 (3.226%) SharePoint Foundation
Applications
1 1 (3.226%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 20 (64.52%) DWDM
2 15 (48.39%) Ethernet
3 9 (29.03%) MPLS
4 8 (25.81%) VPN
4 8 (25.81%) ATM
5 7 (22.58%) Internet
6 5 (16.13%) 3G
6 5 (16.13%) TCP/IP
7 4 (12.90%) 2G
7 4 (12.90%) LTE
7 4 (12.90%) LAN
7 4 (12.90%) WAN
8 3 (9.677%) 4G
8 3 (9.677%) 2.5G
9 2 (6.452%) Wireless
9 2 (6.452%) Frame Relay
9 2 (6.452%) SS7
9 2 (6.452%) Firewall
9 2 (6.452%) VLAN
9 2 (6.452%) NGN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (25.81%) SQL Server
2 4 (12.90%) Oracle Reports
General
1 24 (77.42%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (29.03%) Support Engineer
2 7 (22.58%) Transmission Engineer
3 6 (19.35%) Network Engineer
4 5 (16.13%) Microwave Engineer
5 4 (12.90%) Coordinator
6 3 (9.677%) Field Engineer
6 3 (9.677%) Network Support Engineer
6 3 (9.677%) Network Support
6 3 (9.677%) Transmission Planning Engineer
6 3 (9.677%) Operations Engineer
7 2 (6.452%) Project Coordinator
7 2 (6.452%) Analyst
7 2 (6.452%) Test Analyst
8 1 (3.226%) Account Manager
8 1 (3.226%) Technical Engineer
8 1 (3.226%) Network Analyst
8 1 (3.226%) Network Operations Engineer
8 1 (3.226%) Network Specialist
8 1 (3.226%) NOC Engineer
8 1 (3.226%) Strategy Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.226%) Economics
Operating Systems
1 10 (32.26%) UNIX
1 10 (32.26%) Linux
2 8 (25.81%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (19.35%) Service Delivery
2 4 (12.90%) Security Management
3 3 (9.677%) Migration
3 3 (9.677%) Network Planning
4 2 (6.452%) Incident Management
4 2 (6.452%) Integration Testing
4 2 (6.452%) Test Management
4 2 (6.452%) Network Management
4 2 (6.452%) Change Management
4 2 (6.452%) B2B
4 2 (6.452%) Network Design
5 1 (3.226%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (32.26%) SQL
2 4 (12.90%) C
3 2 (6.452%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (12.90%) Degree
2 3 (9.677%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (9.677%) CCNP
3 2 (6.452%) CCNA
3 2 (6.452%) ISEB
3 2 (6.452%) PhD
3 2 (6.452%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.452%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.226%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.90%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (6.452%) Netcool
1 2 (6.452%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 12 (38.71%) Cisco
2 11 (35.48%) Nortel
3 10 (32.26%) Oracle
4 8 (25.81%) Sybase
4 8 (25.81%) Veritas
5 7 (22.58%) HP
6 6 (19.35%) Juniper
7 5 (16.13%) Symantec
8 3 (9.677%) BT
8 3 (9.677%) Cramer
8 3 (9.677%) Ericsson
9 2 (6.452%) Alcatel-Lucent
9 2 (6.452%) Microsoft
9 2 (6.452%) Remedy
10 1 (3.226%) Huawei
10 1 (3.226%) Nokia Siemens Networks
10 1 (3.226%) Nokia
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