The first table below looks at the demand for the Communications Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Communications Engineer in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised for the Birmingham region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Comms Engineer
Rank 111 - 88
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Communications Engineer 1 0 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.059% - 0.153%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.063% - 0.159%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
Average salary £45,000 - £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £50,000 £35,000 £28,500
% change year-on-year
+42.85% +22.80%
All Job Titles
Birmingham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1600 1436 1254
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 94.67% 96.12% 95.73%
Number of salaries quoted 1345 1287 1093
Average salary £42,000 £38,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+10.52% +1.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,500 £23,750
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Communications Engineer
West Midlands

Communications Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Communications Engineer across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Birmingham Communications Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Communications Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Birmingham Communications Engineer Salary Trend

Communications Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham region that cited Communications Engineer in their job title 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 with Communications Engineer in their job title.

1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) MCP
1 1 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) MCSE
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
1 1 (100.00%) MS Excel
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) PBX
1 1 (100.00%) VoIP
1 1 (100.00%) SMTP
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) MCITP
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Android

Communications Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham region that cited Communications Engineer in their job title 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 with Communications Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) Lync
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
1 1 (100.00%) PBX
1 1 (100.00%) VoIP
1 1 (100.00%) SMTP
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Asterisk PBX
1 1 (100.00%) Unified Communications
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) iPhone
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Android
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 7
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 8
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) MCP
1 1 (100.00%) MCSE
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (100.00%) MCITP
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft