Birmingham SDH Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH) skills within the Birmingham region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SDH over the last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH)
Location Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bristol Buckinghamshire Cheadle Cheltenham City of London Coventry Devon Docklands, London East of England Edinburgh Egham England Essex Glasgow Gloucestershire Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Ilkley Ipswich Leatherhead Leeds Livingston London Maidenhead Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes North West North Yorkshire Reading Rotherham Scotland Sheffield South East South West South Yorkshire Staffordshire Suffolk Surrey Thames Valley UK West Lothian West Midlands West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire York Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	127
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching permanent IT job ads	0	4
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.849 %
Salaries quoted	0	0
Average minimum salary	-	-
Average salary	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum salary	-	-
UK excluding London average salary	£37,499	£38,890
% change on same period last year	-3.57 %
Communications & Networking Birmingham
Matching permanent IT job ads	424	471
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.208 %	0.209 %
Salaries quoted	372	333
Average minimum salary	£34,510	£35,509
Average salary	£37,310	£37,413
% change on same period last year	-0.27 %
Average maximum salary	£40,110	£39,316
UK excluding London average salary	£37,693	£39,086
% change on same period last year	-3.56 %
SDH West Midlands

SDH
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of permanent IT jobs ads citing SDH across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

SDH
Salary Trend

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

SDH
Top 18 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the Birmingham region citing SDH 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 SDH.

1 11 (78.57 %) Linux 1 11 (78.57 %) VoIP 1 11 (78.57 %) SNMP 2 9 (64.29 %) Telecoms 3 8 (57.14 %) Tcl 3 8 (57.14 %) ClearQuest 3 8 (57.14 %) DSL 3 8 (57.14 %) Perl 3 8 (57.14 %) Unix 3 8 (57.14 %) ClearCase 4 7 (50.00 %) ATM 4 7 (50.00 %) ISDN 4 7 (50.00 %) Software Testing 5 4 (28.57 %) Ethernet 6 3 (21.43 %) DWDM

6 3 (21.43 %) Nortel 6 3 (21.43 %) Alcatel 6 3 (21.43 %) Ericsson

SDH
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the Birmingham region citing SDH 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 SDH. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking 1 11 (78.57 %) VoIP 1 11 (78.57 %) SNMP 2 8 (57.14 %) DSL 3 7 (50.00 %) ATM 3 7 (50.00 %) ISDN 4 4 (28.57 %) Ethernet 5 3 (21.43 %) DWDM	Development Applications 1 8 (57.14 %) ClearCase 1 8 (57.14 %) ClearQuest
General 1 9 (64.29 %) Telecoms	Job Titles 1 7 (50.00 %) Test Engineer 1 7 (50.00 %) Integration Engineer 2 4 (28.57 %) Software Architect 2 4 (28.57 %) Systems Architect 2 4 (28.57 %) Architect 3 3 (21.43 %) Network Engineer 4 2 (14.29 %) Test and Integration Engineer
Operating Systems 1 11 (78.57 %) Linux 2 8 (57.14 %) Unix	Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (50.00 %) Software Testing
Programming Languages 1 8 (57.14 %) Perl 1 8 (57.14 %) Tcl	Vendors 1 3 (21.43 %) Nortel 1 3 (21.43 %) Alcatel 1 3 (21.43 %) Ericsson