The first table below looks at the demand for UMTS skills in IT jobs advertised for the Bristol region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited UMTS over the 3 months to 22 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS)
Rank 118 110 104
Rank change year-on-year
-8 -6
Permanent jobs citing UMTS 3 7 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bristol 0.171% 0.397% 0.387%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.508% 2.652% 1.977%
Number of salaries quoted 2 6 1
Average salary £52,500 £40,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+31.25% +23.07%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
All Communications & Networking
Bristol
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
199 264 354
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bristol 11.37% 14.97% 19.55%
Number of salaries quoted 160 226 264
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 £28,200 £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%
UMTS
South West

UMTS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bristol UMTS Jobs Demand Trend

UMTS
Salary Trend

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

Bristol UMTS Salary Trend

UMTS
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bristol region citing UMTS 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 UMTS.

1 6 (100.00%) GSM
2 5 (83.33%) WCDMA
2 5 (83.33%) GPRS
2 5 (83.33%) Wireless
2 5 (83.33%) Degree
2 5 (83.33%) LTE
3 4 (66.67%) Software Engineering
3 4 (66.67%) 2G
3 4 (66.67%) 3G
3 4 (66.67%) C
4 3 (50.00%) Device Driver
5 1 (16.67%) WiMAX
5 1 (16.67%) Bluetooth
5 1 (16.67%) WLAN
5 1 (16.67%) Assembly Language
5 1 (16.67%) Agilent
5 1 (16.67%) Network Architecture
5 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
5 1 (16.67%) UWB
5 1 (16.67%) Erlang
5 1 (16.67%) System Testing

UMTS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bristol region citing UMTS 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 UMTS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) GSM
2 5 (83.33%) WCDMA
2 5 (83.33%) GPRS
2 5 (83.33%) Wireless
2 5 (83.33%) LTE
3 4 (66.67%) 2G
3 4 (66.67%) 3G
4 1 (16.67%) WiMAX
4 1 (16.67%) Bluetooth
4 1 (16.67%) WLAN
4 1 (16.67%) UWB
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Test Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Software Test Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) DSP Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) DSP Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Testing Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Device Driver
2 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) Network Architecture
2 1 (16.67%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) C
2 1 (16.67%) Assembly Language
2 1 (16.67%) Erlang
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Agilent
Bristol, Avon
Good understanding of wireless communication protocols such as Bluetooth, UWB, Wi-Fi, GSM or UMTS... Keywords: Test, Engineer, Software, WLAN PHY, DSP, Bluetooth, UWB, Wi-Fi, GSM, UMTS.
MJH Personnel Associates
Salary: Excellent + bens
Posted: 16 May 2013