The first table below looks at the demand for Broadband skills in IT jobs advertised for the Buckinghamshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Broadband over the 3 months to 23 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 Buckinghamshire region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Broadband
Rank 134 122 136
Rank change year-on-year
-12 +14
Permanent jobs citing Broadband 4 9 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 0.198% 0.469% 0.094%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.075% 2.027% 0.580%
Number of salaries quoted 3 8 0
Average salary £32,500 £46,250 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-29.72% -
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
All Communications & Networking
Buckinghamshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
372 444 345
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 18.38% 23.16% 16.17%
Number of salaries quoted 299 369 278
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £22,500 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
Broadband
South East

Broadband
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Buckinghamshire Broadband Jobs Demand Trend

Broadband
Salary Trend

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

Buckinghamshire Broadband Salary Trend

Broadband
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Broadband within the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
High Wycombe - 4 £32,500 -
Broadband
South East

Broadband
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Buckinghamshire region citing Broadband 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 Broadband.

1 6 (46.15%) VPN
2 5 (38.46%) DNS
2 5 (38.46%) SLA
2 5 (38.46%) MS Exchange
2 5 (38.46%) DHCP
2 5 (38.46%) Perl
2 5 (38.46%) MS Office
2 5 (38.46%) UNIX
2 5 (38.46%) Windows
2 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 5 (38.46%) TCP/IP
2 5 (38.46%) Active Directory
2 5 (38.46%) Shell Script
2 5 (38.46%) Firewall
2 5 (38.46%) Exchange Server 2003
2 5 (38.46%) Exchange Server 2007
2 5 (38.46%) Windows 7
3 4 (30.77%) YUM
3 4 (30.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (30.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (30.77%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 4 (30.77%) Veritas Storage Foundation
3 4 (30.77%) CCNA
3 4 (30.77%) VMware
3 4 (30.77%) Clustering
3 4 (30.77%) AWK
3 4 (30.77%) Change Management
3 4 (30.77%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (30.77%) Symantec
3 4 (30.77%) Mainframe

Broadband
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Buckinghamshire region citing Broadband 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 Broadband. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 5 (38.46%) MS Exchange
1 5 (38.46%) Exchange Server 2003
1 5 (38.46%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 5 (38.46%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 6 (46.15%) VPN
2 5 (38.46%) DNS
2 5 (38.46%) DHCP
2 5 (38.46%) TCP/IP
2 5 (38.46%) Firewall
3 4 (30.77%) SAN
4 3 (23.08%) BGP
4 3 (23.08%) L2TP
5 2 (15.38%) MPLS
6 1 (7.692%) SNMP
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) 2nd Line Support
1 5 (38.46%) Help Desk Support
2 4 (30.77%) UNIX Administrator
2 4 (30.77%) UNIX Systems Administrator
2 4 (30.77%) Administrator
2 4 (30.77%) Systems Administrator
3 3 (23.08%) Network Specialist
4 1 (7.692%) NOC Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Clustering
1 4 (30.77%) Mainframe
1 4 (30.77%) HACMP
2 2 (15.38%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (38.46%) UNIX
1 5 (38.46%) Windows
1 5 (38.46%) Windows 7
2 4 (30.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (30.77%) AIX
2 4 (30.77%) Solaris
2 4 (30.77%) Linux
2 4 (30.77%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (30.77%) Change Management
1 4 (30.77%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (23.08%) Incident Management
3 2 (15.38%) Supplier Management
3 2 (15.38%) Resource Management
3 2 (15.38%) Project Management
4 1 (7.692%) ITIL
4 1 (7.692%) Service Management
4 1 (7.692%) Network Management
4 1 (7.692%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) Perl
1 5 (38.46%) Shell Script
2 4 (30.77%) AWK
2 4 (30.77%) sed
3 1 (7.692%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) CCNA
1 4 (30.77%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (23.08%) JNCIA
3 1 (7.692%) CCSP
3 1 (7.692%) CCNP
3 1 (7.692%) CCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (38.46%) SLA
2 2 (15.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (38.46%) Active Directory
2 4 (30.77%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (30.77%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) YUM
1 4 (30.77%) Veritas Storage Foundation
1 4 (30.77%) Cobbler
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 4 (30.77%) VMware
2 4 (30.77%) Symantec
2 4 (30.77%) IBM
2 4 (30.77%) Sun
2 4 (30.77%) Veritas
2 4 (30.77%) Red Hat
2 4 (30.77%) Oracle
3 3 (23.08%) Cisco
4 2 (15.38%) Juniper