The first table below looks at the demand for DSL skills in IT jobs advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited DSL over the 3 months to 24 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 Birmingham region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Digital Subscriber Line (DSL)
Rank 113 - 90
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing DSL 5 0 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.294% - 0.074%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.577% - 0.408%
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 1
Average salary £22,500 - £30,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £38,500 £34,500
% change year-on-year
-9.09% +11.59%
All Communications & Networking
Birmingham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
317 292 245
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 18.65% 19.70% 18.23%
Number of salaries quoted 255 255 222
Average salary £41,000 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+17.14% -
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £24,500 £22,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £57,500 £59,750
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
DSL
West Midlands

DSL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham DSL Jobs Demand Trend

DSL
Salary Trend

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

Birmingham DSL Salary Trend

DSL
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing DSL across the Birmingham region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Birmingham DSL Salary Histogram

DSL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham region citing DSL 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 DSL.

1 10 (100.00%) Cisco
1 10 (100.00%) LAN
2 9 (90.00%) WAN
2 9 (90.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 9 (90.00%) MPLS
2 9 (90.00%) Blackberry
2 9 (90.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 9 (90.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (90.00%) Active Directory
2 9 (90.00%) MS Office
2 9 (90.00%) Windows
2 9 (90.00%) MS Exchange
2 9 (90.00%) WSUS
2 9 (90.00%) Windows 7
2 9 (90.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 8 (80.00%) Problem Management
4 6 (60.00%) MS Excel
4 6 (60.00%) Citrix
5 4 (40.00%) VMware
5 4 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (20.00%) Capacity Management
6 2 (20.00%) Xen
6 2 (20.00%) Performance Management
7 1 (10.00%) Data Protection
7 1 (10.00%) Project Planning
7 1 (10.00%) OpenUP
7 1 (10.00%) Capacity Planning
7 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (10.00%) WLAN
7 1 (10.00%) Configuration Management

DSL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham region citing DSL 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 DSL. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 9 (90.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 9 (90.00%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 9 (90.00%) MS Office
2 6 (60.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 10 (100.00%) LAN
2 9 (90.00%) WAN
2 9 (90.00%) MPLS
3 1 (10.00%) WLAN
3 1 (10.00%) Broadband
3 1 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (10.00%) Wireless
General
1 1 (10.00%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Analyst
1 6 (60.00%) Support Analyst
2 4 (40.00%) Windows Support Analyst
3 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Team Leader
3 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Support Team Leader
3 3 (30.00%) Support Team Leader
3 3 (30.00%) Team Leader
4 2 (20.00%) Desktop Support
5 1 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) Desktop Support Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) Desktop Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 9 (90.00%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 9 (90.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 9 (90.00%) Windows
1 9 (90.00%) Windows 7
1 9 (90.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Problem Management
2 2 (20.00%) Capacity Management
2 2 (20.00%) Performance Management
3 1 (10.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (10.00%) Project Planning
3 1 (10.00%) OpenUP
3 1 (10.00%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (10.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (10.00%) Asset Management
3 1 (10.00%) Service Management
3 1 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
System Software
1 9 (90.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (20.00%) Xen
Systems Management
1 9 (90.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) Cisco
2 9 (90.00%) Microsoft
3 6 (60.00%) Citrix
4 4 (40.00%) VMware