The first table below looks at the demand for UMTS skills in IT jobs advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited UMTS over the 3 months to 19 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS)
Rank 196 151 187
Rank change year-on-year
-45 +36
Permanent jobs citing UMTS 12 76 20
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.226% 1.224% 0.371%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.776% 4.330% 1.842%
Number of salaries quoted 5 72 15
Average salary £42,500 £35,000 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+21.42% -30.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £31,600 £30,000 £45,000
10% offered a salary of more than £58,000 £47,500 £58,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+6.25% -
All Communications & Networking
Berkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
1547 1755 1086
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 29.14% 28.27% 20.16%
Number of salaries quoted 1173 1366 866
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 £30,000 £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%
UMTS
South East

UMTS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire UMTS Jobs Demand Trend

UMTS
Salary Trend

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

Berkshire UMTS Salary Trend

UMTS
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing UMTS across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Berkshire UMTS Salary Histogram

UMTS
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing UMTS within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 19 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Reading -16 3 £60,000 +84.61%
Bracknell -19 2 - -
Newbury -26 2 £31,750 -6.61% 1
Slough +5 1 £42,500 +6.25%
UMTS
South East

UMTS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire region citing UMTS 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 UMTS.

1 57 (91.94%) Telecoms
2 52 (83.87%) GSM
3 25 (40.32%) Windows
4 21 (33.87%) LTE
5 19 (30.65%) Oracle
6 18 (29.03%) Wireless
7 16 (25.81%) SS7
7 16 (25.81%) 3GPP
7 16 (25.81%) 3G
8 15 (24.19%) UNIX
8 15 (24.19%) Agile Software Development
9 12 (19.35%) SQL
9 12 (19.35%) GPRS
9 12 (19.35%) QA
10 11 (17.74%) GGSN
10 11 (17.74%) SGSN
10 11 (17.74%) ISEB
11 10 (16.13%) CDMA
11 10 (16.13%) Linux
11 10 (16.13%) Service Delivery
11 10 (16.13%) Scrum
11 10 (16.13%) Degree
11 10 (16.13%) MGW
12 9 (14.52%) Computer Science
12 9 (14.52%) ISTQB
12 9 (14.52%) Regression Testing
12 9 (14.52%) ATM
12 9 (14.52%) VoIP
13 8 (12.90%) Nokia
13 8 (12.90%) Wi-Fi

UMTS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire region citing UMTS 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 UMTS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (11.29%) .NET
2 3 (4.839%) X-Windows
3 2 (3.226%) HTML
4 1 (1.613%) WinForms
4 1 (1.613%) XHTML
4 1 (1.613%) SOAP
4 1 (1.613%) LINQ
4 1 (1.613%) WCF
4 1 (1.613%) WPF
4 1 (1.613%) JSON
Application Platforms
1 1 (1.613%) Apache
1 1 (1.613%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (1.613%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 52 (83.87%) GSM
2 21 (33.87%) LTE
3 18 (29.03%) Wireless
4 16 (25.81%) SS7
4 16 (25.81%) 3GPP
4 16 (25.81%) 3G
5 12 (19.35%) GPRS
6 11 (17.74%) GGSN
6 11 (17.74%) SGSN
7 10 (16.13%) CDMA
7 10 (16.13%) MGW
8 9 (14.52%) ATM
8 9 (14.52%) VoIP
9 8 (12.90%) Wi-Fi
10 7 (11.29%) WCDMA
11 5 (8.065%) MPLS
11 5 (8.065%) Firewall
11 5 (8.065%) VPN
11 5 (8.065%) WAN
11 5 (8.065%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.065%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (1.613%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (9.677%) Team Foundation Server
2 5 (8.065%) ClearCase
General
1 57 (91.94%) Telecoms
2 5 (8.065%) Finance
3 2 (3.226%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 12 (19.35%) Support Engineer
2 10 (16.13%) QA Engineer
3 9 (14.52%) Software Engineer
4 8 (12.90%) Network Engineer
4 8 (12.90%) Network Support Engineer
4 8 (12.90%) Network Support
5 7 (11.29%) Core Network Engineer
6 5 (8.065%) Senior Software Engineer
6 5 (8.065%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
6 5 (8.065%) 3G Engineer
6 5 (8.065%) Senior 3G Engineer
7 4 (6.452%) Technical Manager
7 4 (6.452%) Technical Project Manager
7 4 (6.452%) Project Manager
8 3 (4.839%) Software Developer
8 3 (4.839%) Systems Engineer
8 3 (4.839%) Developer
8 3 (4.839%) Test Engineer
9 2 (3.226%) Senior Technical Engineer
9 2 (3.226%) IP Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (14.52%) Computer Science
2 1 (1.613%) Mobile App
2 1 (1.613%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 25 (40.32%) Windows
2 15 (24.19%) UNIX
3 10 (16.13%) Linux
4 4 (6.452%) Windows Vista
5 3 (4.839%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (24.19%) Agile Software Development
2 10 (16.13%) Service Delivery
2 10 (16.13%) Scrum
3 9 (14.52%) Regression Testing
4 7 (11.29%) Manual Testing
5 6 (9.677%) Project Management
6 5 (8.065%) Configuration Management
6 5 (8.065%) OOD
7 4 (6.452%) Network Management
7 4 (6.452%) Problem Management
7 4 (6.452%) Integration Testing
8 3 (4.839%) Change Management
8 3 (4.839%) Load Balancing
8 3 (4.839%) Network Design
8 3 (4.839%) Network Architecture
9 2 (3.226%) Root Cause Analysis
9 2 (3.226%) Product Marketing
9 2 (3.226%) Test Management
10 1 (1.613%) Validation
10 1 (1.613%) Web Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (19.35%) SQL
2 6 (9.677%) C#
3 5 (8.065%) C++
4 4 (6.452%) Java
5 3 (4.839%) Perl
6 1 (1.613%) Python
6 1 (1.613%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.613%) PHP
6 1 (1.613%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (17.74%) ISEB
2 10 (16.13%) Degree
3 9 (14.52%) ISTQB
4 3 (4.839%) CCIE
4 3 (4.839%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (3.226%) CCDE
5 2 (3.226%) CCA
5 2 (3.226%) CCIP
6 1 (1.613%) CCSP
6 1 (1.613%) CCDP
6 1 (1.613%) HNC
6 1 (1.613%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (19.35%) QA
System Software
1 3 (4.839%) NDS
Systems Management
1 2 (3.226%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 19 (30.65%) Oracle
2 8 (12.90%) Nokia
3 6 (9.677%) Huawei
3 6 (9.677%) Microsoft
4 5 (8.065%) Cisco
4 5 (8.065%) Tektronix
5 4 (6.452%) Nokia Siemens Networks
6 3 (4.839%) Veritas
6 3 (4.839%) TIBCO
6 3 (4.839%) Alcatel-Lucent
6 3 (4.839%) Ericsson
7 2 (3.226%) HP
7 2 (3.226%) CheckPoint
8 1 (1.613%) Radware
8 1 (1.613%) Redback
8 1 (1.613%) BT
8 1 (1.613%) Juniper
8 1 (1.613%) Actix
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