The first table below looks at the demand for SDH skills in IT jobs advertised for the Bristol region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SDH over the 3 months to 21 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 Bristol region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH)
Rank 116 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing SDH 6 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bristol 0.343% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.030% - -
Number of salaries quoted 6 0 0
Average salary £42,500 - -
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year
-23.00% +11.11%
All Communications & Networking
Bristol
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
198 258 351
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bristol 11.31% 14.76% 19.79%
Number of salaries quoted 159 219 259
Average salary £42,500 £37,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.86% +5.71%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,800 £26,500 £20,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
SDH
South West

SDH
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bristol 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 Bristol region.

Bristol SDH Salary Trend

SDH
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bristol 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 6 (100.00%) Internet
1 6 (100.00%) Ethernet
1 6 (100.00%) Telecoms
2 5 (83.33%) 2G
2 5 (83.33%) VMware
2 5 (83.33%) Clustering
2 5 (83.33%) Huawei
2 5 (83.33%) Load Balancing
2 5 (83.33%) Network Security
2 5 (83.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (83.33%) PowerShell
2 5 (83.33%) Windows Server 2008
2 5 (83.33%) Hyper-V
2 5 (83.33%) Windows 7
2 5 (83.33%) Xen
2 5 (83.33%) NGN
2 5 (83.33%) ZTE
2 5 (83.33%) Nokia Siemens Networks
2 5 (83.33%) Windows Server 2003
2 5 (83.33%) Firewall
2 5 (83.33%) IPsec
2 5 (83.33%) 3G
2 5 (83.33%) DWDM
2 5 (83.33%) MPLS
2 5 (83.33%) OSPF
2 5 (83.33%) BGP-4
2 5 (83.33%) DSL
2 5 (83.33%) Perl
2 5 (83.33%) SQL
2 5 (83.33%) SQL Server

SDH
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bristol 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.

Application Development
1 5 (83.33%) WSH
Application Platforms
1 5 (83.33%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) Internet
1 6 (100.00%) Ethernet
2 5 (83.33%) 2G
2 5 (83.33%) Network Security
2 5 (83.33%) NGN
2 5 (83.33%) Firewall
2 5 (83.33%) IPsec
2 5 (83.33%) 3G
2 5 (83.33%) DWDM
2 5 (83.33%) MPLS
2 5 (83.33%) OSPF
2 5 (83.33%) BGP-4
2 5 (83.33%) DSL
2 5 (83.33%) ATM
2 5 (83.33%) LAN
2 5 (83.33%) PSTN
2 5 (83.33%) WAN
2 5 (83.33%) VPN
2 5 (83.33%) DNS
2 5 (83.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (100.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (16.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Test Engineer
1 5 (83.33%) Systems Test Engineer
1 5 (83.33%) Cisco Engineer
1 5 (83.33%) Systems Administrator
1 5 (83.33%) Systems Engineer
1 5 (83.33%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Clustering
2 1 (16.67%) Firmware
2 1 (16.67%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Windows Server 2008
1 5 (83.33%) Windows 7
1 5 (83.33%) Windows Server 2003
1 5 (83.33%) Windows
1 5 (83.33%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Load Balancing
2 1 (16.67%) Project Management
2 1 (16.67%) Portfolio Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) PowerShell
1 5 (83.33%) Perl
1 5 (83.33%) SQL
1 5 (83.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (16.67%) APMP
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (83.33%) Hyper-V
1 5 (83.33%) Xen
1 5 (83.33%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) VMware
1 5 (83.33%) Huawei
1 5 (83.33%) ZTE
1 5 (83.33%) Nokia Siemens Networks
1 5 (83.33%) Cisco
1 5 (83.33%) Nortel
1 5 (83.33%) Juniper
1 5 (83.33%) Alcatel-Lucent
1 5 (83.33%) Siemens