The first table below looks at the demand for SS7 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 SS7 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
Signaling System No. 7 (SS7)
Rank 311 327 311
Rank change year-on-year
+16 -16
Permanent jobs citing SS7 2 6 16
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.017% 0.045% 0.105%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.094% 0.276% 0.866%
Number of salaries quoted 2 6 16
Average salary £60,000 £70,000 £43,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
-14.28% +60.00%
UK excluding London average salary £24,000 £28,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-15.78% -28.75%
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%
SS7
London

SS7
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing SS7 across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

City of London SS7 Jobs Demand Trend

SS7
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing SS7 across the City of London region.

City of London SS7 Salary Trend

SS7
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region citing SS7 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 SS7.

1 3 (100.00%) ATM
1 3 (100.00%) VoIP
1 3 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 3 (100.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) H.323
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (66.67%) Juniper
2 2 (66.67%) DWDM
2 2 (66.67%) MPLS
2 2 (66.67%) VPN
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco
2 2 (66.67%) CCNA
2 2 (66.67%) WAN
2 2 (66.67%) Ethernet
2 2 (66.67%) LAN
2 2 (66.67%) SDH
2 2 (66.67%) Mathematics
2 2 (66.67%) Physics
2 2 (66.67%) Video Conferencing
2 2 (66.67%) xDSL
2 2 (66.67%) WAN Optimisation
2 2 (66.67%) Network Design
2 2 (66.67%) Electronics
3 1 (33.33%) MS PowerPoint
3 1 (33.33%) Degree
3 1 (33.33%) Portuguese Language
3 1 (33.33%) Spanish Language
3 1 (33.33%) SIGTRAN
3 1 (33.33%) UMTS

SS7
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region citing SS7 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 SS7. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS PowerPoint
1 1 (33.33%) MS Office
1 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
1 1 (33.33%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) ATM
1 3 (100.00%) VoIP
1 3 (100.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (66.67%) H.323
2 2 (66.67%) DWDM
2 2 (66.67%) MPLS
2 2 (66.67%) VPN
2 2 (66.67%) WAN
2 2 (66.67%) Ethernet
2 2 (66.67%) LAN
2 2 (66.67%) SDH
2 2 (66.67%) xDSL
3 1 (33.33%) SIGTRAN
3 1 (33.33%) UMTS
3 1 (33.33%) CDMA
3 1 (33.33%) GPRS
3 1 (33.33%) GSM
3 1 (33.33%) ISDN
3 1 (33.33%) TCAP
3 1 (33.33%) ISUP
General
1 3 (100.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (66.67%) Electronics
3 1 (33.33%) Portuguese Language
3 1 (33.33%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Sales Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Account Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Account Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Mathematics
1 2 (66.67%) Physics
1 2 (66.67%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) UNIX
1 1 (33.33%) Solaris
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
1 2 (66.67%) WAN Optimisation
1 2 (66.67%) Network Design
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (66.67%) CCNA
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Juniper
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) HP