The first table below looks at the demand for SONET 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 SONET over the 3 months to 19 June 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Synchronous Optical Network (SONET)
Rank 313 322 -
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -
Permanent jobs citing SONET 10 1 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.083% 0.008% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.468% 0.047% -
Number of salaries quoted 10 1 0
Average salary £36,000 £37,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.00% -
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £43,500 £49,750
% change year-on-year
-17.24% -12.56%
All Communications & Networking
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
2136 2115 1926
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 17.79% 16.06% 12.20%
Number of salaries quoted 1900 1904 1762
Average salary £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £32,500 £31,500
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £77,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
SONET
London

SONET
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London SONET Jobs Demand Trend

SONET
Salary Trend

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

City of London SONET Salary Trend

SONET
Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region citing SONET 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 SONET.

1 20 (100.00%) SDH
1 20 (100.00%) Telecoms
2 18 (90.00%) Ethernet
3 12 (60.00%) Huawei
4 11 (55.00%) DWDM
5 10 (50.00%) Cisco
6 9 (45.00%) IPv6
6 9 (45.00%) Juniper
6 9 (45.00%) TCP/IP
6 9 (45.00%) MPLS
6 9 (45.00%) OSPF
6 9 (45.00%) BGP
6 9 (45.00%) RSVP
6 9 (45.00%) VLAN
6 9 (45.00%) VPLS
6 9 (45.00%) Internet
6 9 (45.00%) HSRP
7 3 (15.00%) Service Delivery
8 1 (5.000%) Back Office
8 1 (5.000%) SLA
8 1 (5.000%) Ericsson
8 1 (5.000%) Nokia
8 1 (5.000%) Nortel

SONET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region citing SONET 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 SONET. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 20 (100.00%) SDH
2 18 (90.00%) Ethernet
3 11 (55.00%) DWDM
4 9 (45.00%) IPv6
4 9 (45.00%) TCP/IP
4 9 (45.00%) MPLS
4 9 (45.00%) OSPF
4 9 (45.00%) BGP
4 9 (45.00%) RSVP
4 9 (45.00%) VLAN
4 9 (45.00%) VPLS
4 9 (45.00%) Internet
4 9 (45.00%) HSRP
General
1 20 (100.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (5.000%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Transmission Engineer
3 1 (5.000%) IP Engineer
3 1 (5.000%) Provisioning Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (15.00%) Service Delivery
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.000%) SLA
Vendors
1 12 (60.00%) Huawei
2 10 (50.00%) Cisco
3 9 (45.00%) Juniper
4 1 (5.000%) Ericsson
4 1 (5.000%) Nokia
4 1 (5.000%) Nortel
City of London
Strong technical experience of IP products with working knowledge of Ethernet/SDH/DWDM Products within a large Telecommunications Service Provider. Extensive knowledge of IP and working knowledge of...
Level 3 Communications
Salary: £25000 - £35000 per annum + competitive
Posted: 29 May 2013