The first table below looks at the demand for UMTS skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cambridgeshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited UMTS over the 3 months to 24 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS)
Rank 131 147 139
Rank change year-on-year
+16 -8
Permanent jobs citing UMTS 8 4 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 0.312% 0.139% 0.200%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.790% 0.762% 0.954%
Number of salaries quoted 7 2 6
Average salary £50,000 £40,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+25.00% -5.88%
90% offered a salary of more than £33,500 £32,000 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £48,000 £45,750
UK excluding London average salary £43,750 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -
All Communications & Networking
Cambridgeshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
447 525 629
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 17.41% 18.25% 20.99%
Number of salaries quoted 356 445 542
Average salary £37,500 £40,000 £37,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.25% +8.10%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £29,500
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
UMTS
East of England

UMTS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire UMTS Salary Trend

UMTS
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing UMTS across the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Cambridgeshire UMTS Salary Histogram

UMTS
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing UMTS within the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Cambridge +4 6 £50,000 +66.66%
Peterborough - 2 £33,500 -
UMTS
East of England

UMTS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 7 (77.78%) Wireless
1 7 (77.78%) LTE
2 6 (66.67%) Degree
2 6 (66.67%) C
2 6 (66.67%) GPRS
2 6 (66.67%) 3G
3 5 (55.56%) Embedded C
3 5 (55.56%) C++
4 4 (44.44%) GSM
4 4 (44.44%) WCDMA
4 4 (44.44%) Software Engineering
5 3 (33.33%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
5 3 (33.33%) Electronics
5 3 (33.33%) 2G
5 3 (33.33%) VHDL
5 3 (33.33%) Verilog
5 3 (33.33%) MATLAB
5 3 (33.33%) 3GPP
5 3 (33.33%) PhD
5 3 (33.33%) OFDM
5 3 (33.33%) MIMO
5 3 (33.33%) Digital Signal Processing
5 3 (33.33%) Signal Processing
5 3 (33.33%) SystemC
6 2 (22.22%) Mobile App
6 2 (22.22%) Test Automation
6 2 (22.22%) Windows 7
6 2 (22.22%) ZigBee
6 2 (22.22%) Test Management
6 2 (22.22%) Windows XP

UMTS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 7 (77.78%) Wireless
1 7 (77.78%) LTE
2 6 (66.67%) GPRS
2 6 (66.67%) 3G
3 4 (44.44%) GSM
3 4 (44.44%) WCDMA
4 3 (33.33%) 2G
4 3 (33.33%) 3GPP
4 3 (33.33%) OFDM
4 3 (33.33%) MIMO
5 2 (22.22%) ZigBee
6 1 (11.11%) WiMAX
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) LabVIEW
General
1 3 (33.33%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) DSP Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) FPGA Design Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Design Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Software Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) FPGA Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Senior FPGA Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Senior Design Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Test Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Software Test Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) DSP Software Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
1 3 (33.33%) VHDL
1 3 (33.33%) Verilog
1 3 (33.33%) SystemC
2 2 (22.22%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Windows 7
1 2 (22.22%) Windows XP
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Software Engineering
2 3 (33.33%) Digital Signal Processing
2 3 (33.33%) Signal Processing
3 2 (22.22%) Test Automation
3 2 (22.22%) Test Management
3 2 (22.22%) Regression Testing
3 2 (22.22%) Project Management
3 2 (22.22%) Validation
3 2 (22.22%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) C
2 5 (55.56%) Embedded C
2 5 (55.56%) C++
3 3 (33.33%) MATLAB
4 2 (22.22%) Python
5 1 (11.11%) Assembly Language
Qualifications
1 6 (66.67%) Degree
2 3 (33.33%) PhD
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Any of EUTRA/LTE/GRPS/EDGE/UMTS/HSPA, WIMAX, Wifi, DECT, BT, CDMA, ISDN, TCP/UDP/RCP/IP, Ethernet, ADSL, etc. - Experience of programming in C/C++/C#... -...
Blackberry
Salary: Competitive + Comprehensive Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013