The first table below looks at the demand for SDH skills in IT jobs advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SDH 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 City of London region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH)
Rank 287 309 316
Rank change year-on-year
+22 +7
Permanent jobs citing SDH 26 24 11
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.221% 0.181% 0.072%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.222% 1.103% 0.596%
Number of salaries quoted 25 23 11
Average salary £36,000 £52,500 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-31.42% +10.52%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £45,500 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £70,000 £67,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year
-23.00% +11.11%
All Communications & Networking
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
2128 2176 1847
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 18.13% 16.40% 12.17%
Number of salaries quoted 1894 1957 1688
Average salary £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
90% offered a salary of more than £32,521 £33,000 £31,500
10% offered a salary of more than £72,500 £75,000 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
SDH
London

SDH
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London SDH Salary Trend

SDH
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SDH across the City of London region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

City of London SDH Salary Histogram

SDH
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London 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 34 (79.07%) Telecoms
2 31 (72.09%) Ethernet
3 24 (55.81%) Cisco
4 23 (53.49%) MPLS
5 22 (51.16%) DWDM
6 20 (46.51%) BGP
7 19 (44.19%) SONET
8 17 (39.53%) TCP/IP
9 16 (37.21%) Internet
10 14 (32.56%) OSPF
10 14 (32.56%) Juniper
10 14 (32.56%) Huawei
10 14 (32.56%) VPLS
11 12 (27.91%) VPN
12 11 (25.58%) Cisco Certification
13 10 (23.26%) IPv6
13 10 (23.26%) WAN
13 10 (23.26%) VLAN
14 9 (20.93%) HSRP
14 9 (20.93%) CCNA
14 9 (20.93%) RSVP
15 7 (16.28%) LAN
16 6 (13.95%) DNS
16 6 (13.95%) CCNP
16 6 (13.95%) Service Delivery
16 6 (13.95%) Firewall
16 6 (13.95%) Finance
17 5 (11.63%) Network Design
17 5 (11.63%) VoIP
18 4 (9.302%) SLA

SDH
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London 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.

Applications
1 2 (4.651%) MS PowerPoint
2 1 (2.326%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 31 (72.09%) Ethernet
2 23 (53.49%) MPLS
3 22 (51.16%) DWDM
4 20 (46.51%) BGP
5 19 (44.19%) SONET
6 17 (39.53%) TCP/IP
7 16 (37.21%) Internet
8 14 (32.56%) OSPF
8 14 (32.56%) VPLS
9 12 (27.91%) VPN
10 10 (23.26%) IPv6
10 10 (23.26%) WAN
10 10 (23.26%) VLAN
11 9 (20.93%) HSRP
11 9 (20.93%) RSVP
12 7 (16.28%) LAN
13 6 (13.95%) DNS
13 6 (13.95%) Firewall
14 5 (11.63%) VoIP
15 3 (6.977%) ATM
General
1 34 (79.07%) Telecoms
2 6 (13.95%) Finance
3 3 (6.977%) Billing
4 2 (4.651%) German Language
4 2 (4.651%) Electronics
5 1 (2.326%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 13 (30.23%) Network Engineer
2 6 (13.95%) Provisioning Engineer
3 3 (6.977%) Transmission Engineer
4 2 (4.651%) Sales Engineer
4 2 (4.651%) Deployment Engineer
4 2 (4.651%) Project Engineer
4 2 (4.651%) Sales Manager
4 2 (4.651%) Support Manager
4 2 (4.651%) Design Engineer
4 2 (4.651%) Account Manager
5 1 (2.326%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.326%) Architect
5 1 (2.326%) Network Technician
5 1 (2.326%) Network Architect
5 1 (2.326%) Network Design Engineer
5 1 (2.326%) IP Engineer
5 1 (2.326%) Test Leader
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.651%) Video Conferencing
1 2 (4.651%) Mathematics
1 2 (4.651%) Physics
2 1 (2.326%) Equities
2 1 (2.326%) Derivative
2 1 (2.326%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.326%) UNIX
1 1 (2.326%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (13.95%) Service Delivery
2 5 (11.63%) Network Design
3 4 (9.302%) Project Management
4 3 (6.977%) Network Architecture
5 2 (4.651%) Product Management
5 2 (4.651%) Business Development
5 2 (4.651%) WAN Optimisation
5 2 (4.651%) Migration
5 2 (4.651%) Service Management
6 1 (2.326%) Integration Testing
6 1 (2.326%) Test Management
6 1 (2.326%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.326%) Java
1 1 (2.326%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (25.58%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (20.93%) CCNA
3 6 (13.95%) CCNP
4 3 (6.977%) JNCIE
5 2 (4.651%) JNCIP
5 2 (4.651%) Degree
5 2 (4.651%) CCIE
6 1 (2.326%) ISEB Practitioner
6 1 (2.326%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.302%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (2.326%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 24 (55.81%) Cisco
2 14 (32.56%) Juniper
2 14 (32.56%) Huawei
3 4 (9.302%) Nokia
4 3 (6.977%) CheckPoint
5 2 (4.651%) Alcatel-Lucent
5 2 (4.651%) Ericsson
5 2 (4.651%) Nortel
6 1 (2.326%) Oracle
6 1 (2.326%) HP
6 1 (2.326%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.326%) Riverbed
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