The first table below looks at the demand for SDH skills in IT jobs advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SDH over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH)
Rank - 91 93
Permanent jobs citing SDH 0 1 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham - 0.069% 0.075%
As % of the Communications & Networking category - 0.348% 0.407%
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 1
Average salary - £45,000 £29,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +55.17%
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year
-18.94% +5.55%
All Communications & Networking
Birmingham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
314 287 246
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 18.74% 19.75% 18.50%
Number of salaries quoted 253 247 223
Average salary £41,000 £35,000 £36,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+17.14% -2.77%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £24,500 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
SDH
West Midlands

SDH
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham SDH Jobs Demand Trend

SDH
Salary Trend

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

Birmingham SDH Salary Trend

SDH
Top 12 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham region citing SDH 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 SDH.

1 2 (100.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) CCTV
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) PABX
2 1 (50.00%) C++
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) VB
2 1 (50.00%) ADSL
2 1 (50.00%) LAN
2 1 (50.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) Electronics

SDH
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham region citing SDH 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 SDH. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) ADSL
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
1 1 (50.00%) PABX
General
1 2 (100.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (50.00%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Project Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) CCTV
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C++
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree