City of London GSM Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) skills within the City of London region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited GSM over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM)
Location Avon Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bridgwater Bristol Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Coventry Crawley Dunfermline East Midlands East of England Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Farnborough Farnham Fife Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds London Middlesex Midlands Newbury Newport Norfolk North West North Yorkshire Norwich Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Reading Rugby Scotland Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West Southampton Staines Stevenage Suffolk Surrey Swindon Thames Valley UK Wales Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Woking York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	332	323
Rank change on same period last year	-9
Matching permanent IT job ads	11	3
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.006 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	0.413 %	0.131 %
Salaries quoted	11	0
Average minimum salary	£50,091	-
Average salary	£53,068	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum salary	£56,045	-
UK excluding London average salary	£42,217	£42,639
% change on same period last year	-0.99 %
Communications & Networking City of London
Matching permanent IT job ads	2666	2285
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.543 %	0.983 %
Salaries quoted	2369	1751
Average minimum salary	£45,352	£45,327
Average salary	£48,985	£48,245
% change on same period last year	+1.53 %
Average maximum salary	£52,618	£51,162
UK excluding London average salary	£37,928	£38,940
% change on same period last year	-2.59 %
GSM London

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing GSM across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

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Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing GSM across the City of London region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing GSM across the City of London region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the City of London region citing GSM 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 GSM.

1 7 (50.00 %) LAN 2 6 (42.86 %) VoIP 2 6 (42.86 %) WAN 2 6 (42.86 %) TCP/IP 2 6 (42.86 %) Cisco 3 5 (35.71 %) 3G 3 5 (35.71 %) GPRS 4 4 (28.57 %) 2G 5 3 (21.43 %) Government 5 3 (21.43 %) Firewall 5 3 (21.43 %) Nortel 5 3 (21.43 %) GGSN 5 3 (21.43 %) SGSN 5 3 (21.43 %) System Testing 5 3 (21.43 %) SS7

5 3 (21.43 %) VMS 5 3 (21.43 %) SMS 5 3 (21.43 %) 3GPP 5 3 (21.43 %) UMTS 6 2 (14.29 %) Windows 6 2 (14.29 %) MPLS 6 2 (14.29 %) OSPF 6 2 (14.29 %) BGP 6 2 (14.29 %) Marketing 6 2 (14.29 %) Telecoms 6 2 (14.29 %) 2.5G 6 2 (14.29 %) Finance 6 2 (14.29 %) IP Telephony 7 1 (7.143 %) Series 60 7 1 (7.143 %) Wireless

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the City of London region citing GSM 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 GSM. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (7.143 %) Series 60	Applications 1 1 (7.143 %) MS Office
Communications & Networking 1 7 (50.00 %) LAN 2 6 (42.86 %) VoIP 2 6 (42.86 %) WAN 2 6 (42.86 %) TCP/IP 3 5 (35.71 %) 3G 3 5 (35.71 %) GPRS 4 4 (28.57 %) 2G 5 3 (21.43 %) SS7 5 3 (21.43 %) Firewall 5 3 (21.43 %) GGSN 5 3 (21.43 %) SGSN 5 3 (21.43 %) SMS 5 3 (21.43 %) 3GPP 5 3 (21.43 %) UMTS 6 2 (14.29 %) MPLS 6 2 (14.29 %) OSPF 6 2 (14.29 %) BGP 6 2 (14.29 %) 2.5G 6 2 (14.29 %) IP Telephony 7 1 (7.143 %) Wireless	General 1 3 (21.43 %) Government 2 2 (14.29 %) Marketing 2 2 (14.29 %) Telecoms 2 2 (14.29 %) Finance
Job Titles 1 3 (21.43 %) Network Consultant 1 3 (21.43 %) Consultant 1 3 (21.43 %) Support Engineer 2 2 (14.29 %) Architect 2 2 (14.29 %) Voice Engineer 3 1 (7.143 %) Software Engineer 3 1 (7.143 %) Analyst 3 1 (7.143 %) Service Analyst 3 1 (7.143 %) Senior Network Engineer 3 1 (7.143 %) Network Manager 3 1 (7.143 %) Symbian Software Engineer 3 1 (7.143 %) Senior Network Manager 3 1 (7.143 %) Network Engineer 3 1 (7.143 %) Senior Manager 3 1 (7.143 %) Support Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 1 (7.143 %) Client/Server
Operating Systems 1 3 (21.43 %) VMS 2 2 (14.29 %) Windows 3 1 (7.143 %) Linux 3 1 (7.143 %) Windows 2000 3 1 (7.143 %) Windows XP 3 1 (7.143 %) Windows Server 2003	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (21.43 %) System Testing 2 1 (7.143 %) ITIL 2 1 (7.143 %) Service Management 2 1 (7.143 %) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages 1 1 (7.143 %) C++	Qualifications 1 1 (7.143 %) CCNP 1 1 (7.143 %) CCNA 1 1 (7.143 %) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (7.143 %) SLA	Vendors 1 6 (42.86 %) Cisco 2 3 (21.43 %) Nortel 3 1 (7.143 %) Symbian 3 1 (7.143 %) Microsoft 3 1 (7.143 %) Intel