The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Telecoms in IT jobs advertised for the Bolton region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Telecoms over the 3 months to 20 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 terms in our General category for the Bolton region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Telecommunications (Telecomms)
Rank 35 - 21
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing Telecoms 2 0 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bolton 1.667% - 1.724%
As % of the General category 7.143% - 12.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
Average salary £45,000 - £24,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- -2.43%
All of the General Category
Bolton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
28 18 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bolton 23.33% 13.14% 13.79%
Number of salaries quoted 27 18 7
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £27,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +27.27%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,800 £21,600 £21,400
10% offered a salary of more than £39,800 £32,500 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- +3.65%
Telecoms
Manchester

Telecoms
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Telecoms across the Bolton region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

Bolton Telecoms Jobs Demand Trend

Telecoms
Salary Trend

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

Bolton Telecoms Salary Trend

Telecoms
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bolton region citing Telecoms 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 Telecoms.

1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (66.67%) Citrix
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) MS Exchange
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) CCNP
2 1 (33.33%) CCDP
2 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
2 1 (33.33%) XenApp
2 1 (33.33%) vSphere
2 1 (33.33%) Unified Communications
2 1 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (33.33%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (33.33%) Change Control
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco UCCX
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco CUCM
2 1 (33.33%) SAS
2 1 (33.33%) NFS
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) XML
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (33.33%) SAN
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (33.33%) Sophos
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (33.33%) Finance

Telecoms
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (33.33%) XML
Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) MS Exchange
2 1 (33.33%) SAS
2 1 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) SAN
1 1 (33.33%) iSCSI
1 1 (33.33%) Unified Communications
1 1 (33.33%) Fibre Channel
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Retail
1 1 (33.33%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Support Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) 3rd Line Support
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Voice Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
1 1 (33.33%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (33.33%) Asset Management
1 1 (33.33%) Supplier Management
1 1 (33.33%) Time Management
1 1 (33.33%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CCNP
1 1 (33.33%) CCDP
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (33.33%) CCVP
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) Citrix Presentation Server
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
2 1 (33.33%) XenApp
2 1 (33.33%) vSphere
2 1 (33.33%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco UCCX
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) Citrix
2 1 (33.33%) Sophos
2 1 (33.33%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Fujitsu
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco