Berkshire Telecoms Jobs

This section looks at the prevalence of the term 'Telecoms' in IT jobs within the Berkshire region together with a comparison to our General terms category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Telecoms over the last 3 months to 13 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Telecommunications (Telecomms)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aldershot Altrincham Andover Aylesbury Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Berkshire Bicester Billingham Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Brackley Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckingham Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burnley Bury Bury St Edmunds Calne Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Carlisle Channel Islands Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chessington Chester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Coatbridge Cobham Conwy Corby County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Deeside Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorchester Dorking Dorset Droitwich Dundee Dunfermline Dunstable Durham Ealing East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Egham Ely England Epsom Esher Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fife Flintshire Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Great Yarmouth Guernsey Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Jersey Kent Kettering Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Leighton Buzzard Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Lothian Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Malmesbury Manchester Mansfield Marlow Melksham Merseyside Middlesex Middlewich Midlands Milton Keynes Monmouthshire Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton Abbot Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Osterley Oswestry Oxford Oxfordshire Pershore Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Prestatyn Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Rickmansworth Romford Romsey Rossendale Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Salford Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Asaph St Helens St Neots Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swindon Teesside Thame Thames Valley Tilbury Torfaen Torquay Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Bromwich West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Weston-super-Mare Wetherby Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Woodford Green Worcester Worcestershire Wycombe York Yorkshire	3 months to 13 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	13	3
Rank change on same period last year	-10
Matching permanent IT job ads	1130	2152
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.553 %	0.924 %
As % of the category below	23.89 %	34.31 %
Salaries quoted	764	1496
Average minimum salary	£41,988	£44,193
Average salary	£45,079	£47,473
% change on same period last year	-5.04 %
Average maximum salary	£48,169	£50,753
UK excluding London average salary	£42,144	£43,256
% change on same period last year	-2.57 %
General Berkshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	4731	6272
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	2.314 %	2.693 %
Salaries quoted	3717	4838
Average minimum salary	£39,930	£41,904
Average salary	£43,144	£45,249
% change on same period last year	-4.65 %
Average maximum salary	£46,359	£48,595
UK excluding London average salary	£40,645	£42,055
% change on same period last year	-3.35 %
Telecoms South East

Telecoms
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of permanent IT jobs ads citing Telecoms across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

Telecoms
Salary Trend

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

Telecoms
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Telecoms across the Berkshire region over the past 3 months.

Telecoms
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Telecoms within the Berkshire region over the past 3 months.

Rank	Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
1	Reading	-13	192	£42,329	-7.33 %
2	Slough	-3	104	£42,933	-8.30 %
3	Newbury	-2	62	£42,393	-3.12 %
4	Maidenhead	-10	51	£41,757	-8.43 %
5	Bracknell	-12	31	£43,238	-5.29 %
6	Windsor	+2	2	£47,500	+5.55 %
7	Wokingham	-26	1	£35,000	-9.48 %

Telecoms South East

Telecoms
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the Berkshire region citing Telecoms also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Telecoms.

1 278 (12.10 %) Unix 2 272 (11.84 %) SQL 3 252 (10.97 %) Cisco 4 243 (10.58 %) VoIP 5 240 (10.45 %) Oracle 6 232 (10.10 %) Finance 7 219 (9.534 %) Java 8 216 (9.404 %) Project Management 9 214 (9.316 %) Degree 10 189 (8.228 %) Marketing 11 181 (7.880 %) Windows 12 172 (7.488 %) WAN 13 171 (7.444 %) LAN 14 163 (7.096 %) Internet 15 160 (6.966 %) Billing

16 144 (6.269 %) 3G 16 144 (6.269 %) CRM 17 140 (6.095 %) MPLS 18 137 (5.964 %) Linux 18 137 (5.964 %) Microsoft 19 136 (5.921 %) BusinessObjects 19 136 (5.921 %) Business Objects 20 128 (5.572 %) Cisco Certification 21 122 (5.311 %) Business Intelligence 22 118 (5.137 %) C 23 115 (5.007 %) Datawarehouse 23 115 (5.007 %) IP Telephony 24 98 (4.266 %) Solaris 25 95 (4.136 %) J2EE 26 93 (4.049 %) Pensions

Telecoms
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the Berkshire region citing Telecoms also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Telecoms. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 95 (4.136 %) J2EE 2 76 (3.309 %) XML 3 65 (2.830 %) .NET 4 56 (2.438 %) SOAP 5 51 (2.220 %) WebServices 6 39 (1.698 %) WAP 7 34 (1.480 %) JSP 8 27 (1.175 %) Struts 9 26 (1.132 %) Hibernate 10 23 (1.001 %) HTML 11 22 (0.958 %) Servlets 12 21 (0.914 %) ASP.NET 13 19 (0.827 %) JDBC 13 19 (0.827 %) VXML 14 18 (0.784 %) Spring 15 16 (0.697 %) Middleware 16 15 (0.653 %) Apache Axis 17 13 (0.566 %) CSS 18 11 (0.479 %) EJB 18 11 (0.479 %) Apache Wicket	Application Platforms 1 80 (3.483 %) SAS 2 66 (2.873 %) WebLogic 3 43 (1.872 %) MS Exchange 4 28 (1.219 %) JBoss 4 28 (1.219 %) Apache 5 23 (1.001 %) Tomcat 6 22 (0.958 %) Exchange Server 2003 7 16 (0.697 %) WebLogic Portal 8 10 (0.435 %) Exchange Server 2000 9 9 (0.392 %) SharePoint 10 7 (0.305 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 11 6 (0.261 %) Lotus Domino 11 6 (0.261 %) Exchange Server 5.5 12 5 (0.218 %) SharePoint Server 2007 12 5 (0.218 %) IIS 12 5 (0.218 %) CMS 13 4 (0.174 %) Oracle Workflow 13 4 (0.174 %) Oracle Application Server 14 3 (0.131 %) MTS 15 2 (0.087 %) WebSphere Application Server
Applications 1 75 (3.265 %) MS Excel 2 70 (3.047 %) MS Office 3 66 (2.873 %) MS Visio 4 37 (1.611 %) MS Project 5 24 (1.045 %) MS PowerPoint 6 8 (0.348 %) Photoshop 7 3 (0.131 %) SPSS 8 2 (0.087 %) Acrobat 8 2 (0.087 %) MATLAB 8 2 (0.087 %) Adobe Illustrator 8 2 (0.087 %) InDesign 8 2 (0.087 %) CA Clarity 9 1 (0.044 %) QuarkXPress	Business Applications 1 16 (0.697 %) Oracle Applications 2 15 (0.653 %) Singl.eView 3 7 (0.305 %) Oracle 11i 4 3 (0.131 %) Oracle SCM 4 3 (0.131 %) Oracle ERP 5 2 (0.087 %) Microsoft CRM 5 2 (0.087 %) Great Plains 6 1 (0.044 %) Oracle HRMS 6 1 (0.044 %) Oracle iRecruitment 6 1 (0.044 %) Nortel Periphonics
Communications & Networking 1 243 (10.58 %) VoIP 2 172 (7.488 %) WAN 3 171 (7.444 %) LAN 4 163 (7.096 %) Internet 5 144 (6.269 %) 3G 6 140 (6.095 %) MPLS 7 115 (5.007 %) IP Telephony 8 83 (3.613 %) TCP/IP 9 82 (3.570 %) ISDN 10 80 (3.483 %) VPN 11 79 (3.439 %) Wireless 12 73 (3.178 %) GPRS 13 71 (3.091 %) UMTS 13 71 (3.091 %) BSS 14 60 (2.612 %) GSM 15 57 (2.481 %) Broadband 16 52 (2.264 %) Firewall 17 45 (1.959 %) PBX 18 44 (1.916 %) ATM 19 39 (1.698 %) H.323	Database & Business Intelligence 1 136 (5.921 %) BusinessObjects 2 115 (5.007 %) Datawarehouse 3 87 (3.788 %) SQL Server 4 59 (2.569 %) OLAP 5 47 (2.046 %) RDBMS 6 43 (1.872 %) Oracle OLAP 7 34 (1.480 %) ETL 8 31 (1.350 %) MySQL 9 22 (0.958 %) Oracle 8/8i 9 22 (0.958 %) Base SAS 10 21 (0.914 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 11 17 (0.740 %) SQL Server Integration Services 12 14 (0.609 %) DataStage 13 13 (0.566 %) Data Mining 14 12 (0.522 %) MS Access 15 11 (0.479 %) Informix 15 11 (0.479 %) GIS 16 10 (0.435 %) DTS 16 10 (0.435 %) Oracle Discoverer 17 8 (0.348 %) Oracle 10g
Development Applications 1 19 (0.827 %) Ant 2 17 (0.740 %) JUnit 3 15 (0.653 %) Subversion 4 13 (0.566 %) Eclipse 5 9 (0.392 %) TestDirector 6 6 (0.261 %) Flash 7 5 (0.218 %) ERwin 8 4 (0.174 %) LoadRunner 8 4 (0.174 %) Dreamweaver 8 4 (0.174 %) WinRunner 8 4 (0.174 %) Visual Studio 8 4 (0.174 %) PVCS 8 4 (0.174 %) Oracle Forms 9 2 (0.087 %) RequisitePro 9 2 (0.087 %) QuickTest Pro 9 2 (0.087 %) CruiseControl 9 2 (0.087 %) JIRA 10 1 (0.044 %) ClearCase	General 1 232 (10.10 %) Finance 2 189 (8.228 %) Marketing 3 160 (6.966 %) Billing 4 93 (4.049 %) Pensions 5 90 (3.918 %) Retail 6 60 (2.612 %) Health 7 54 (2.351 %) Government 8 35 (1.524 %) Multimedia 9 25 (1.088 %) Legal 10 19 (0.827 %) Manufacturing 10 19 (0.827 %) Insurance 11 18 (0.784 %) Electronics 12 17 (0.740 %) Education 12 17 (0.740 %) Games 13 16 (0.697 %) Auditing 14 15 (0.653 %) Local Government 15 14 (0.609 %) Music 16 12 (0.522 %) Back Office 17 9 (0.392 %) Electric 18 8 (0.348 %) Construction
Job Titles 1 280 (12.19 %) Analyst 2 215 (9.360 %) Consultant 3 166 (7.227 %) Developer 4 126 (5.485 %) Project Manager 5 121 (5.268 %) Architect 6 86 (3.744 %) Team Leader 7 79 (3.439 %) Sales Consultant 7 79 (3.439 %) Support Engineer 8 76 (3.309 %) Presales Consultant 9 64 (2.786 %) Network Engineer 10 59 (2.569 %) Business Analyst 11 57 (2.481 %) Technical Support 11 57 (2.481 %) Administrator 12 56 (2.438 %) Solutions Architect 13 53 (2.307 %) Technical Consultant 14 44 (1.916 %) Business Consultant 15 42 (1.828 %) Account Manager 16 39 (1.698 %) Test Analyst 16 39 (1.698 %) Development Manager 16 39 (1.698 %) Cisco Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 63 (2.743 %) Handset 2 52 (2.264 %) IVR 3 42 (1.828 %) Computer Science 4 40 (1.741 %) Mathematics 5 31 (1.350 %) PMI 6 27 (1.175 %) Statistics 7 23 (1.001 %) Blackberry 8 20 (0.871 %) Speech Recognition 9 16 (0.697 %) STB 10 15 (0.653 %) Thin Client 10 15 (0.653 %) Fat Client 11 14 (0.609 %) Device Driver 11 14 (0.609 %) IPTV 12 13 (0.566 %) Clustering 12 13 (0.566 %) Management Information System 12 13 (0.566 %) PDA 13 11 (0.479 %) German Language 14 10 (0.435 %) Client/Server 15 9 (0.392 %) Spanish Language 16 8 (0.348 %) NGOSS
Operating Systems 1 278 (12.10 %) Unix 2 181 (7.880 %) Windows 3 137 (5.964 %) Linux 4 98 (4.266 %) Solaris 5 39 (1.698 %) Windows NT 6 17 (0.740 %) Windows Server 2003 7 16 (0.697 %) SUSE 8 15 (0.653 %) Windows 2000 9 14 (0.609 %) Windows XP 10 10 (0.435 %) Fedora 11 6 (0.261 %) HPUX 12 5 (0.218 %) Mac OS X 12 5 (0.218 %) Tru64 13 4 (0.174 %) AIX 14 3 (0.131 %) VMS 14 3 (0.131 %) Windows Mobile 15 2 (0.087 %) Nucleus RTOS 15 2 (0.087 %) Embedded Linux 15 2 (0.087 %) ThreadX 15 2 (0.087 %) OS/2	Processes & Methodologies 1 216 (9.404 %) Project Management 2 144 (6.269 %) CRM 3 122 (5.311 %) Business Intelligence 4 88 (3.831 %) PRINCE2 5 81 (3.526 %) Business Development 6 75 (3.265 %) Data Analysis 7 71 (3.091 %) Change Management 8 67 (2.917 %) Business Analysis 9 66 (2.873 %) ITIL 9 66 (2.873 %) Data Modelling 10 53 (2.307 %) Risk Management 10 53 (2.307 %) Migration 11 51 (2.220 %) Network Design 12 50 (2.177 %) Project Planning 13 48 (2.090 %) Service Delivery 14 38 (1.654 %) Programme Management 14 38 (1.654 %) Six Sigma 15 37 (1.611 %) Test Scripting 16 35 (1.524 %) Configuration Management 17 27 (1.175 %) Software Engineering
Programming Languages 1 272 (11.84 %) SQL 2 219 (9.534 %) Java 3 118 (5.137 %) C 4 68 (2.960 %) C++ 4 68 (2.960 %) Shell Script 5 47 (2.046 %) Perl 6 45 (1.959 %) C# 7 34 (1.480 %) PHP 8 32 (1.393 %) PL/SQL 9 21 (0.914 %) SAS Macro 10 18 (0.784 %) VB 11 17 (0.740 %) Embedded C 12 9 (0.392 %) Korn 13 8 (0.348 %) JavaScript 14 6 (0.261 %) Python 15 5 (0.218 %) VBScript 15 5 (0.218 %) Delphi 16 3 (0.131 %) VBA 16 3 (0.131 %) VC++ 16 3 (0.131 %) Embedded C++	Qualifications 1 214 (9.316 %) Degree 2 128 (5.572 %) Cisco Certification 3 80 (3.483 %) CCNP 4 62 (2.699 %) CCNA 5 59 (2.569 %) Microsoft Certification 6 43 (1.872 %) MCSE 7 32 (1.393 %) PMI Certification 8 29 (1.263 %) ITIL Certification 9 27 (1.175 %) PRINCE2 Certification 10 24 (1.045 %) CCIP 10 24 (1.045 %) ISEB 11 19 (0.827 %) MCP 12 18 (0.784 %) CCIE 13 14 (0.609 %) CCDP 14 13 (0.566 %) Citrix Certification 15 11 (0.479 %) PMP 16 9 (0.392 %) CCEA 16 9 (0.392 %) ISTQB 17 8 (0.348 %) NVQ Level 3 17 8 (0.348 %) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 41 (1.785 %) SLA 2 38 (1.654 %) QA 3 35 (1.524 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 4 19 (0.827 %) ISO27001 5 16 (0.697 %) ISO9000 6 4 (0.174 %) ISO9001 7 3 (0.131 %) ISO17799 8 2 (0.087 %) RosettaNet 8 2 (0.087 %) BS7799 8 2 (0.087 %) ISO/IEC 20000 8 2 (0.087 %) PCI DSS 8 2 (0.087 %) COBIT 9 1 (0.044 %) WAI 9 1 (0.044 %) BS25999 9 1 (0.044 %) GAAP	System Software 1 53 (2.307 %) Active Directory 2 10 (0.435 %) NetBackup 3 4 (0.174 %) Terminal Services 3 4 (0.174 %) BlackBerry Internet Service 4 2 (0.087 %) Novell eDirectory 4 2 (0.087 %) AquaLogic 4 2 (0.087 %) Oracle RMAN 5 1 (0.044 %) Nmap 5 1 (0.044 %) WebInspect 5 1 (0.044 %) Oracle RAC 5 1 (0.044 %) NFS
Systems Management 1 18 (0.784 %) Netcool 2 14 (0.609 %) Netcool/Proviso 3 13 (0.566 %) CiscoWorks 4 12 (0.522 %) Legato 5 8 (0.348 %) EMC NetWorker 5 8 (0.348 %) OpenView 6 7 (0.305 %) Netcool/Webtop 6 7 (0.305 %) Netcool/OMNIbus 7 5 (0.218 %) Nagios 8 3 (0.131 %) MAILsweeper 9 2 (0.087 %) Unicenter 10 1 (0.044 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 10 1 (0.044 %) Nessus 10 1 (0.044 %) SCOM	Vendors 1 252 (10.97 %) Cisco 2 240 (10.45 %) Oracle 3 137 (5.964 %) Microsoft 4 136 (5.921 %) Business Objects 5 71 (3.091 %) Nortel 6 59 (2.569 %) Avaya 7 54 (2.351 %) Juniper 8 42 (1.828 %) Ericsson 9 34 (1.480 %) Teradata 10 33 (1.437 %) Cramer 11 32 (1.393 %) Alcatel 12 31 (1.350 %) IBM 13 27 (1.175 %) HP 14 23 (1.001 %) Siebel 14 23 (1.001 %) TIBCO 15 22 (0.958 %) Citrix 16 21 (0.914 %) Chordiant 17 20 (0.871 %) PeopleSoft 17 20 (0.871 %) EMC 17 20 (0.871 %) Remedy